cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
call for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls for
form: calling for
form: called for
form: called for
Senses: examples: text: I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
glosses: To shout out in order to summon (a person).
examples: text: We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
glosses: To ask for in a loud voice.
examples: text: The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
text: In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: In fact, he had called for the execution of Yun Chich'ung and Kwon Sangyon in 1791.
ref: 2017 May 31, Don Baker, Franklin Rausch, Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea, page 93:
glosses: To request, demand.
examples: text: This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
text: This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a "counter-revolutionary clique" was on the loose.
ref: 2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation, page 165:
text: I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.
ref: 2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love:
glosses: To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate
examples: text: I'll call for you just after midday.
glosses: To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
examples: The forecast calls for rain.
glosses: To anticipate, predict.
Derived terms: uncalled-for
Blog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blog
Etymology: Coined by the Liverpool Science Fiction Society in 1955 at the Cytricon convention held in the George Hotel, Kettering, Northamptonshire. It was used as the fake sponsor of an audio play and fake advertisements were placed around the hotel; an actual drink was later served at the hotel bar after customers asked for it.
Senses: examples: text: Drink Blog!
ref: 1955, Liverpool Science Fiction Society, advertisement hung by hotel bar
text: "Why, we've got the greatest defense of all, right here," said the Lion. "We can all drink a little Blog, and hoaxes won't affect us. After all, Blog cures everything, from gafia to snake-bites."
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Witch”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
text: The waitress sized me up and evidently my aura met with her approval because she came over, smiled the smile of professional waitresses and left a mimeographed drink list. I had no time to be surprised by the list, which included selections such as Xeno, Blog, Grog, Nuclear Fizzes, "Smoooooth" Jack Daniels, India Pale Ale and Bheer (Home Brew 25¢ extra) because it was at this point that my old friend Ichabod wandered up.
ref: 1981 November, Rich Brown, “Up Here in the Dream Nickle”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 7, page 9:
text: That doesn't explain why I haven't seen anyone objectionably drunk at Minicons over the past five or six years. There's generally kegs of three or more different and excellent micro-brewery beers in the consuite, along with Blog (which is alcoholic by definition, when unmodified), and other alcoholic drinks are available at a dozen or more of the open room parties.
ref: 1997 February 23, Don Fitch, “Fan Drinking (Was Re: The Death of the SF Bestseller?...)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <19970223083900.DAA05871@ladder02.news.aol.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A cocktail or punch served at science fiction conventions. Ingredients vary for different conventions.
Coordinate terms: crottled greep
Mallen streak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mallen streaks
Etymology: Coined by Catherine Cookson in her Mallen trilogy, a series of books about a family named Mallen who all shared this trait.
Senses: glosses: A streak of unusually coloured hair, typically white, which grows amidst normally colored hair.
Related terms: poliosis
Mallen streaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mallen streak
great-grandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-grandparent
great-great-grandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-great-grandparent
postconflict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + conflict.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after a conflict
postarrest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + arrest.
Senses: glosses: After an arrest.
zálesíites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zálesíite
palmipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmipedes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palmiped.
ulvöspinels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulvöspinel
ingénues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingénue
rantings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Loud and angry comments that continue for a long time.
speechmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechmakers
Etymology: From speech + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a speech.
speechmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speechmaker
overeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overeaters
Etymology: From overeat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The great myth about overeaters is, "They could lose weight if they really wanted to."
ref: 1990, Doug Peterson, H. Winfield Tutte, Fearfully and Wonderfully Weird:
glosses: One who eats too much; particularly one who does so regularly.
overeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overeater
paellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paella
vine leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vine leaves
Senses: glosses: The leaf of a grapevine, especially one used in cooking to make dolmades etc
sea-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-dog
sea dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea dog
doneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donenesses
Etymology: From done + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.
ref: 2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Unlike meat cookery, in which doneness is specified by customer order and determined by temperature, ...
ref: 2010, Lou Sackett, Jaclyn Pestka, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Garde Manger: A Comprehensive Guide to Cold Food Preparation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 91:
text: In this section we look at how to test doneness of baked goods using three methods: observation, touch tests, and internal temperature.
ref: 2011, McFadden Layton, Linda Larsen, Gluten-Free Baking For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: The extent to which a food has been cooked.
examples: text: You can use a metaphor as a loose form of doneness testing. In one workshop, we used a bull's-eye. I created a poster with a bull's-eye showing concentric circles with the label "100%" in the center.
ref: 2002, Ellen Gottesdiener, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs:
text: EVR is intended to give you objective evidence of partial doneness, something that will allow you to draw—and believe in—a picture like this: There will still be a period early in the project when progress is supported only by faith.
ref: 2013, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, page 125:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The property of being finished; completion.
donenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doneness
yoghurty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yoghurty
form: most yoghurty
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yogurty.
yogurty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yogurty
form: most yogurty
Etymology: From yogurt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's chicken baked with a yogurt covering, but it doesn't seem very yogurty. It's all right. I tell him it's very good.
ref: 1997, Maureen F McHugh, China Mountain Zhang:
text: Two rubbery arms hung from the yogurty folds of his sagging neck and, though these limbs appeared useless, Beyschlag used them to propel himself forward […]
ref: 2004, Brittney Ryan, Laurel Long, The Legend of Holly Claus:
text: I was reminded of the yogurty unguent that Varvara, my final croupier, used to entomb herself in, nightly, toward the end; it changed the color of her teeth […]
ref: 2007, Martin Amis, House of Meetings:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of yogurt.
knock-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-ups
form: knockup
Etymology: Deverbal from knock up.
Senses: examples: text: In the way of friendly knockups I played at times with both the Renshaws and Lawford, but at that time there is no doubt that they were better than I was.
ref: 1932, American Lawn Tennis, volume 26, page 72:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A short practice session before a tennis match.
examples: text: One of those unadorned late-fifties hillside knockups posing as intentionally contemporary but really the product of a tight construction budget.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Monster, page 47:
glosses: Something constructed shoddily or hastily.
examples: text: When will we wake up? I see young girls pregnant and young boys adding up their “knock-ups” like a scorecard at a mob gambling venue.
ref: 2016, Veronica Valles, Back To The Center, page 54:
glosses: A pregnancy.
Related terms: knock up
snowmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowmakers
Etymology: Blend of snow + maker
Senses: glosses: A device for creating snow.
snowmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowmaker
unpresidential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpresidential
form: most unpresidential
Etymology: From un- + presidential.
Senses: glosses: Inappropriate for a president.
absorptiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˌzɔːp.ʃɪˈɒ.mɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /əbˌsɔːp.ʃɪˈɒ.mɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /æbˌsɔɹp.ʃiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
ipa: /æbˌzɔɹp.ʃiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
ipa: /əbˌzɔɹp.ʃiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
ipa: /æbˌsɔɹp.tiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
ipa: /æbˌzɔɹp.tiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
ipa: /əbˌzɔɹp.tiˈɑm.ə.dɚ/
Forms: form: absorptiometers
Etymology: From absorption + -meter (“measure”).
Senses: glosses: An instrument that computes the absorption rate by measuring the pressure of the gas; a colorimeter for liquids.
glosses: An instrument used to measure the amount of radiation or light absorbed.
absorptiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorptiometer
texter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: texters
Etymology: From text + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.
ref: 2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: One who texts; one who sends text messages.
glosses: A marker; a felt-tip pen.
Synonyms: word: text messager
word: SMSer
texters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of texter
spectroheliokinematograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectroheliokinematographs
Etymology: From spectro- + helio- + kinematograph.
Senses: glosses: A scientific apparatus of the 1930s consisting of a spectrohelioscope and early video camera, used to monitor events on the surface of the Sun.
spectroheliokinematographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectroheliokinematograph
scarfwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From scarf + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The JEWEL is likewise worn pendent from a light blue riband scarfwise over the right shoulder.
ref: 1854, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry:
text: […] a coarsely knit white cardigan and a black turban whose broadened tails could be arranged around her neck scarfwise.
ref: 1992, Norman Rush, Mating:
glosses: In the manner of a scarf.
unijugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + jugate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one pair of leaflets.
raw_tags: of a pinnate leaf
fluoridationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoridationists
Etymology: From fluoridation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
fluoridationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoridationist
bagsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagful
sacksful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sackful
deejaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deejay
deejayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deejay
undecayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decayed.
Senses: glosses: Not having decayed.
Synonyms: intact
uncorrupted
unperished
whole
chacma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chacmas
Senses: examples: text: The chacmas live in companies in the kopjes, whence they descend to forage […]
ref: 1908, H N Hutchinson, Charles John Cornish, The Standard Library of Natural History:
text: We sat quietly on the far side of the water as the chacmas treated us to a scene featuring a near-complete life cycle of activity.
ref: 2006, Marty Essen, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet:
glosses: A species of baboon from Southern Africa, Papio ursinus.
Synonyms: sense: Papio ursinus
word: Cape baboon
sense: Papio ursinus
word: chacma baboon
chacmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacma
amakwerekwere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kwerekwere
green crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green crab
shore crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shore crab
izimbizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbizo
kings of six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king of six
fagaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Fagaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the family Fagaceae of beeches and similar trees.
CD players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CD player
cock-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-up
cockup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockups
Etymology: A deverbal from cock up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cock-up.
cockup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockups
Senses: glosses: A hat or cap worn turned up in front.
glosses: A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer).
Synonyms: sense: Lates calcarifer
word: barramundi
sense: Lates calcarifer
word: begti
cockups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockup
inconclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconclusivenesses
Etymology: From inconclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being inconclusive.
inconclusivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconclusiveness
unthreatened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + threatened.
Senses: glosses: Not threatened; safe.
chandeliered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chandelier + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a chandelier.
technophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technophobic
form: most technophobic
Etymology: From techno- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with technophobia.
superdatabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdatabases
Etymology: From super- + database.
Senses: examples: text: 1998, IEEE, 1998 Index to IEEE Publications
A technological and infrastructural challenge: a superdatabase for accessing all electronically published science and technology articles at once...
text: Every 30 databases are grouped into a superdatabase.
ref: 1999, Susan Gauch, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Knowledge:
text: But in his strongest criticism yet of the superdatabase, Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, who has firsthand experience of working with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, told the Guardian such assurances would prove worthless in the long run […] The home secretary postponed the introduction of legislation to set up the superdatabase in October and instead said she would publish a consultation paper in the new year setting out the proposal and the safeguards needed to protect civil liberties.
ref: 2008 December 31, Alan Travis, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Private firm may track all email and calls”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2018:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large or composite database.
superdatabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdatabase
unsustainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsustainabilities
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unsustainable.
unsustainabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsustainability
magickal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magickal
form: most magickal
form: magyckal
Etymology: From magick + -al.
Senses: examples: text: You must decide for yourself whether a new, additional name will help or hinder your magickal growth.
ref: 1990, “Amber K”, in True Magick: A Beginner's Guide:
text: What magickal techniques do you use that work well for you?
ref: 2002, Joyce Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-centered Religions:
text: You can even use it as a seal on your magickal correspondence.
ref: 2003, Denise Zimmermann, Katherine Gleason, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft:
glosses: Involving, or pertaining to, magick (in modern occultism).
Derived terms: magickally
plasterwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæstɚˌwɝk/
Forms: form: plasterworks
Etymology: From plaster + work.
Senses: glosses: Architectural work executed in plaster.
daubings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daubing
sympathisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathiser
looky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʊki
Forms: form: lookee
form: lookie
Etymology: None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzell’s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.
According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875–80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here) …”.
Senses: examples: text: Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
text: 1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q6MEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=lookee&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQfgUfjxD4akyQH174CgCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=lookee&f=false
"… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"
text: "Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"
ref: 1936, The American Mercury:
text: The old man is cackling. "Looky here, looky here." He's got four little bright coins on his outstretched trembling hand.
ref: 1989, Elizabeth Jolley, The Travelling Entertainer:
glosses: Look.
Related terms: looky-loo
lookit
professionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: professionalises
form: professionalising
form: professionalised
form: professionalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of professionalize.
professionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of professionalise
professionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of professionalise
professionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of professionalise
swordsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔː(ɹ)dsmɪθ/
Forms: form: swordsmiths
Etymology: From sword + smith.
Senses: synonyms: swordmaker
glosses: A maker of swords.
Hypernyms: smith
bladesmith
weaponsmith
Derived terms: swordsmithing
swordsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordsmith
tranquilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tranquilises
form: tranquilising
form: tranquilised
form: tranquilised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranquilize.
tranquilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tranquilise
tranquilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tranquilise
tranquilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tranquilise
uninfluential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninfluential
form: most uninfluential
Etymology: From un- + influential.
Senses: examples: text: The most miserable of their species: depressed, doubtful, obscure; or involved in petty quarrels, and petty persecutions; often unappreciated, utterly uninfluential, beggars, flatterers of men, unworthy of their recognition.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Poet’s Midnight”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: Not influential; lacking influence.
craneflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranefly.
unmetered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metered.
Senses: glosses: Not metered, not charged on a meter (as Internet bandwidth).
prævented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prævent
prævents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prævent
præventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prævent
kerbside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerbsides
Etymology: From kerb + side.
Senses: examples: text: Kerbside Parking: This kind of parking becomes invalid as soon as the efficient use of road space is required. Street side parking contributes to accidents...
ref: 1964, Paul Ritter, Planning for Man and Motor:
text: In the province of Ontario, the first kerbside recycling program was introduced in 1983. By 1987, programs were operating in 41 communities.
ref: 2005, Luis F Diaz, George M Savage, Linda L Eggerth, Larry Rosenberg, Solid Waste Management:
text: He closed the boot, walked round to the kerbside and bent to peer into the car's interior, his face pressed to the passenger window, his hands shading his eyes to kill the reflection.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 244:
glosses: The side of the road, along which a kerb runs.
Synonyms: word: curbside
kerbsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerbside
rightwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From right + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Rightward; towards the right.
leftwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From left + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
ref: 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
glosses: Leftward; towards the left.
apoliticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoliticisms
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Apolitical behaviour.
apoliticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoliticism
timelord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timelords
Etymology: From time + lord. From "Time Lord", the term for a member of a specific race of time travellers from the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.
Senses: examples: text: A renegade timelord from the future who liked to meddle with history? If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days.
ref: 1999, Thomas Slemen, Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People:
text: ...a kind of timelord who rewrites himself as he passes across timezones and geographical locations, often within the same sentence.
ref: 2001, Simon Ward, Negotiating Positions:
text: ...a mind that could fly to all points in the cosmos seemingly at will, able to slip between time, across the ages like some omnipotent, hip hop timelord.
ref: 2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise:
text: Not doing a timelord, ping ponging back and forth through time.
ref: 2007, Carmel McConnell, The Happiness Plan:
glosses: A person who has mastered time travel.
timelords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timelord
clifftop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clifftops
Etymology: From cliff + top.
Senses: examples: text: Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
text: They pitched the dragon
over the cliff-top, let tide's flow
and backwash take the treasure-minder.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 98:
text: At Berwick I had the privilege of joining Driver Ross Clark for my favourite clifftop run south through Northumberland, to Newcastle.
ref: 2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: The top of a cliff.
clifftops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clifftop
supercasino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercasinos
Etymology: From super- + casino.
Senses: examples: text: No tourist need feel self-conscious about entering a sumptuous supercasino only to play a lowly nickel slot machine...
ref: 1968, Jacques Noir, Casino Holiday:
text: What the area needed, the council would maintain, was a supercasino, professionally run.
ref: 2000, Barry Tighe, Casino: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose:
text: In June 1990 the Excalibur was the next supercasino to open on the Strip. It had a thousand more rooms than the Mirage...
ref: 2004, Susan Marg, Las Vegas Weddings:
glosses: A very large casino.
supercasinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercasino
steelmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelmakers
form: steel-maker
Etymology: From steel + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who works with steel.
examples: text: The steelmakers also entered into a national security agreement with the US government, the statement said. […] But US Steel has declined sharply since its heyday. It is no longer even the largest US steelmaker, with only 14,000 US employees — 11,000 of whom are USW members.
ref: 2025 June 13, Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore, “US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership”, in CNN Business:
text: Nippon Steel has finalized its deal to buy 100% of US Steel, the iconic steelmaker that was once the world’s most valuable company and a cornerstone of American industrial might.
ref: 2025 June 18, Chris Isidore, “US Steel, once America’s biggest company, is now under foreign ownership”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A company that produces steel.
steelmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelmaker
hurtlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hurtlingly
form: most hurtlingly
Etymology: From hurtling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hurtling manner; very rapidly.
curriculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curriculum
dancey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dancey
form: most dancey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dancy.
brass instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brass instrument
pedestrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedestrianisms
Etymology: From pedestrian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Going on foot; walking.
glosses: A form of competitive walking of the nineteenth century, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.
glosses: Something that is pedestrian, or banal; a commonplace.
doubletalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From double + talk, possibly written as one word in homage to George Orwell's Newspeak (as with doublespeak).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double talk.
porcelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porcelain
porcelains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of porcelain
professionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌfɛʃn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: professionalizations
form: professionalisation
Etymology: From professionalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Their relative success formalized the idea of law enforcement for payment, and helped accelerate the professionalization of policing.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 64:
glosses: The act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.
professionalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professionalisations
Etymology: From professional + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of professionalization.
syndicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndicators
Etymology: From syndicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, syndicates.
syndicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndicator
paprica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papricas
Senses: glosses: Dated form of paprika.
alkalinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alkalinises
form: alkalinising
form: alkalinised
form: alkalinised
Etymology: From alkaline + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alkalinize.
alkalinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alkalinise
alkalinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alkalinise
alkalinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alkalinise
anoraked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anorak + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever things were getting on top of me over the year to come - the birds not showing, the distances too vast, the weather and the fatigue too overwhelming - I would think back to that anoraked figure quivering with derision and use the image of his smirking mug to keep going, determined that one day I would bump into him and quietly say, `I did it.'
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131:
glosses: Wearing an anorak.
journalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more journalistically
form: most journalistically
Etymology: From journalistic + -ally (“adverb”).
Senses: glosses: In a journalistic manner or context.
overspill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overspills
Etymology: From over- + spill.
Senses: examples: text: New towns were constructed to accommodate overspill from established cities.
text: It is known that means of using this end of the former NLR and Broad Street station to take an overspill of traffic from Liverpool Street have been under backroom study for some time.
ref: 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
glosses: That which spills over.
Derived terms: overspill estate
overspill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overspills
form: overspilling
form: overspilled
form: overspilled
form: overspilt
form: overspilt
Etymology: From over- + spill.
Senses: examples: text: Further, Coventry's prosperity and rapid growth was threatening that it as well as Birmingham would require to overspill its boundaries.
ref: 2002, Urlan Wannop, Regional Imperative: Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, page 93:
text: Calandra added more, until the oil threatened to overspill her palm.
ref: 2004, Delilah Devlin, Pirate's Desire, page 202:
glosses: To spill over, to overflow, to spill out of.
coshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosh
chillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilli
glosses: plural of chilly
dagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dago
compartmentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compartmentalize
compartmentalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compartmentalises
form: compartmentalising
form: compartmentalised
form: compartmentalised
Etymology: From compartmental + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of compartmentalize.
Derived terms: compartmentalisation
decompartmentalise
subcompartmentalise
compartmentalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compartmentalise
compartmentalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compartmentalise
compartmentalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes).
ref: 2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 34:
glosses: simple past and past participle of compartmentalise
hostelries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostelry
glosses: plural of hostelrie
life belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life belt
lifebelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifebelts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of life belt.
lifebelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifebelt
pinboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinboards
Etymology: From pin + board.
Senses: glosses: A notice board to which items can be pinned.
Related terms: pinboarding
pinboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinboards
form: pinboarding
form: pinboarded
form: pinboarded
Etymology: From pin + board.
Senses: glosses: To attach to a pinboard.
pinboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinboard
relaunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relaunch
relaunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaunch
relaunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relaunch
relaunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaunchings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent launching.
pogoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pogo
pogoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pogo
syrupiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syrupy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being syrupy.
coöccurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coöccurrences
Senses: examples: text: Gerhard Rohlfs, HGIS (3 vols., Bern: A. Francke, 1949–54), II, 282f. (= § 523), stressed the frequent coöccurrence of prefixation and choice of the -ire class endings in de-adjectival verbs (aggrandire, imbruttire, ribrunire — with which apparire, obviously, has little if anything in common) and tried to place the wavering in pres. ind. appaio ~ apparisco, etc. in a broader context (aborro ~ aborrisco, applaudo ~ applaudisco, etc.).
ref: 1987: Günter Holtus and Johannes Kramer [Hg.], Romania et Slavia Adriatica: Festschrift für Žarko Muljačić, page 403 (Buske Verlag; ISBN 978‒3‒87118‒849‒7)
glosses: Dated spelling of co-occurrence.
co-occurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-occurrences
form: cooccurrence
form: coöccurrence
Senses: glosses: The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.
glosses: An instance of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; coexistence or coincidence.
Derived terms: co-occurrence network
Related terms: coinstantiation
intersection
overlap
cooccurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooccurrences
Etymology: From co- + occurrence.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-occurrence.
coöccurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coöccurrence
co-occurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooccurrences
form: coöccurrences
Senses: glosses: plural of co-occurrence
cooccurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-occurrences
form: coöccurrences
Senses: glosses: plural of cooccurrence
unsuddenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuddenly
form: most unsuddenly
Etymology: From unsudden + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not suddenly; happening slowly and with plenty of warning; in an unsudden manner.
unsudden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsʌdn/
rhymes: -ʌdən
Forms: form: more unsudden
form: most unsudden
Etymology: From un- + sudden.
Senses: glosses: Happening slowly and with plenty of warning; not sudden.
Derived terms: unsuddenly
overhit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhits
form: overhitting
form: overhit
form: overhit
Etymology: From over- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: The golfer overhit his shot onto the green, and it rolled into the bunker.
text: Kane did more than anyone to provoke the crowd’s dissent with his overhit passes and misdirected shots.
ref: 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To hit too far or too hard.
segmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡˈmɛn.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɛɡ.mɛn.tɪŋ/
ipa: /sɛɡˈmɛn.tɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of segment
red kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red kites
Senses: glosses: A predator bird of the kite (Accipitridae) family, Milvus milvus.
piadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian piadine.
Senses: glosses: plural of piadina
great-great-grandchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-grandchildren
form: great great grandchild
Etymology: From great- + great- + grandchild.
Senses: glosses: A child of a great-grandchild, a grandchild of a grandchild and a great-grandchild of a child.
Hyponyms: great-great-granddaughter
great-great-grandson
Related terms: great-great-grandfather
great-great-grandmother
great-great-grandparent
third cousin
great-great-grandson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-grandsons
form: great great grandson
Etymology: From great- + great- + grandson.
Senses: glosses: The son of one's great-grandchild.
Hypernyms: great-great-grandchild
Coordinate terms: great-great-granddaughter
great-great-granddaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-granddaughters
form: great great granddaughter
Etymology: From great- + great-granddaughter.
Senses: glosses: The daughter of one's great-grandchild.
Hypernyms: great-great-grandchild
Coordinate terms: great-great-grandson
look off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks off
form: looking off
form: looked off
form: looked off
Senses: examples: text: She can look a man on or look him off, either way. I wouldn't have thought any woman could look him off, I'd think she'd need a hatpin or a red-hot poker
ref: 1957, Rex Stout, If Death Ever Slept, page 40:
glosses: To put off by one's facial expression
examples: text: I went back to pass, tried to look off the safety, turned and fired it out to Jack. It didn't work. The safety closed on the ball and knocked it down.
ref: 2004, Danny Wuerffel with Steve Spurrier and Mike Bianchi, Danny Wuerffel's Tales from the Gator Swamp, page 24:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To mislead by directing one's apparent attention away from one's true object of intent.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To look in a way different than the intended direction of play in order to confuse the opposing team.
psalmodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psalmody + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This is but natural, for the practice of psalmodic chant is directly and indirectly interlaced with all the rich associations of the ecclesiastical calendar.
ref: 1984, Eric Werner, The Sacred Bridge, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., page 72:
glosses: Relating to psalmody.
skippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more skippable
form: most skippable
Etymology: From skip + -able.
Senses: examples: skippable content at the start of a DVD
glosses: Capable of being skipped.
glosses: Not worth watching or doing; missable.
street team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street teams
Senses: examples: text: Companies can check the effectiveness of a street team by watching sales in the team's neighborhood. The team that doesn't get results won't get work.
ref: 2000, William Shaw, Westside: Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A., page 35:
text: Urban brands are hiring what they call "street teams" to go into ethnic communities, where there is a vital market, and target the underprivileged.
ref: 2005, Donny Deutsch with Peter Knobler, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within, page 157:
text: 2008, Annie Zaleski, "Resolution No. '09", Riverfront Times, volume 33, number 1, January 1–7, 2009, page 37,
Get a street team who can handle online promotion and flyering.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A marketing team that operates in less structured settings to promote a product or brand.
Synonyms: huckster
Burhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic بُرْهَان (burhān, “proof”), an epithet of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
street teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street team
flyered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flyer
flyering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of distributing flyers (leaflets).
flyering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flyer
hangin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hanging.
narcotrafficker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcotraffickers
Etymology: From narco- + trafficker.
Senses: glosses: One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
Related terms: narcotrafficking
narcotraffickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcotrafficker
wide receivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wide receiver
wideout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wideouts
Etymology: From wide + out.
Senses: examples: text: After plucking Courtland Sutton in the second round last year, the Denver Broncos needed to complement him with another receiver, preferably one who can stretch the field now that Pro Bowl wideout Emmanuel Sanders has left for New Orleans.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
glosses: A wide receiver.
wideouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wideout
unescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unescape
unescaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unescape
unescaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unescape
unescaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an unescaped text character
glosses: Not escaped.
grippingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grippingly
form: most grippingly
Etymology: From gripping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gripping manner.
rivetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rivetingly
form: most rivetingly
Etymology: From riveting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a riveting manner.
cyberchondriacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberchondriac
undeluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deluded.
Senses: examples: text: There is an undeluded quality about the Beowulf poet's sense of the world that gives his lines immense emotional credibility[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvii:
glosses: Not deluded.
storeworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storeworkers
Etymology: From store + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person who works in a store.
storeworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storeworker
provokingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From provoking + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being provoking.
angiogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiogenesis
angiopoietin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiopoietins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A protein growth factor that promotes angiogenesis.
angiopoietins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiopoietin
antiobesity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-obesity
Etymology: From anti- + obesity.
Senses: examples: text: antiobesity medication
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: antifat
antiobese
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Serving to counter obesity.
raw_tags: of a drug
examples: text: antiobesity bias
synonyms: antifat
glosses: Fatphobia; (attributive) fatphobic.
raw_tags: of a person's biases
Related terms: sense: medical
word: antidiabetes
sense: medical
word: antidiabetic
paleoethnobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoethnobotany
form: palæoethnobotany
Etymology: From paleo- + ethnobotany.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of plant remains from archaeological sites.
Synonyms: archaeobotany
archaeobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archæobotany
Etymology: From archaeo- + botany.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Paleoethnobotany.