cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lichenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lichenlike
form: most lichenlike
Etymology: From lichen + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of lichen.
funguslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funguslike
form: most funguslike
Etymology: From fungus + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fungus.
nonspongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spongy.
Senses: glosses: Not spongy.
nonsterilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sterilizable.
Senses: glosses: Not sterilizable.
spatulalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spatulalike
form: most spatulalike
Etymology: From spatula + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is a way of describing it: "horse-ear" refers to the elongated, spatulalike shape of the sepals.
ref: 1986, Leon McKusick, What to Do About AIDS, page 97:
glosses: Resembling a spatula.
Synonyms: spatuloid
nonsterilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sterilized.
Senses: glosses: unsterilized
armylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armylike
form: most armylike
Etymology: From army + -like.
Senses: examples: an armylike hierarchy
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an army.
nonphilanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + philanthropic.
Senses: examples: text: Amazingly, the study indicates that only three nonphilanthropic factors significantly influenced the respondents...
ref: 2003, Robert A Esperti, Giving: philanthropy for everyone:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to philanthropy.
unShakespearean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unShakespearean
form: most unShakespearean
Etymology: From un- + Shakespearean.
Senses: glosses: Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.
Norway spruce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norway spruces
Senses: glosses: A species of spruce native to Europe and naturalized in temperate northeastern North America, Picea abies.
Synonyms: European spruce
nonhydroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hydroelectric.
Senses: glosses: Not hydroelectric.
nonpolymorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + polymorphic.
Senses: glosses: Not polymorphic.
nondefinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + definable.
Senses: glosses: undefinable
snickeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snickeringly
form: most snickeringly
Etymology: From snickering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snickering manner.
nonloopback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + loopback.
Senses: examples: text: To eliminate the problem, use the server's nonloopback IP address as the target; this causes the FTP server to originate data connections from that address.
ref: 2005, Daniel J Barrett, Richard E Silverman, Robert G Byrnes, SSH, the secure shell: the definitive guide:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a loopback mechanism.
nonaddressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + addressed.
Senses: glosses: unaddressed
round characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round character
tempestivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tempestivities
Etymology: From tempestive + -ity, from Latin tempestīvitās, from tempestīvus (“timely”), from tempestās (“time, season”), from tempus (“time”).
Senses: examples: text: This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.
ref: 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time:
glosses: timeliness
examples: text: The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.
ref: 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:
glosses: A time period of a particular character.
Synonyms: sense: timeliness
word: opportuneness
word: seasonability
word: timeliness
Related terms: tempestive
tempestively
Lojbanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lojbanists
Etymology: From Lojban + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Though the Lojban-speaking community is so widely diffused that the opportunity for conversation does not arise frequently, the number of Lojbanists who can sustain a conversation in the language certainly ranges beyond what can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and is steadily increasing.
ref: 2025 October 14 (last accessed), “Chapter 1. Questions and Answers on Lojban”, in lojban.org:
glosses: A specialist or speaker of Lojban.
Coordinate terms: Esperantist
Idist
Klingonist
Tokiponist
Volapükist
Lojbanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lojbanist
moral fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral fibers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moral fibre.
banded mongoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded mongooses
form: banded mongoose
Senses: glosses: A mongoose of the species Mungos mungo, commonly found in the central and eastern parts of Africa.
Synonyms: sense: mongoose in Africa
word: zebra mongoose
bargelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargello
go to the ends of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the ends of the earth
form: going to the ends of the earth
form: went to the ends of the earth
form: gone to the ends of the earth
Senses: examples: text: I'd go to the ends of the earth to be with him.
glosses: To do everything possible to achieve something.
Synonyms: go to the ends of the world
bend over backwards
go to great lengths
move heaven and earth
Related terms: follow someone to the ends of the earth
Baruc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barucs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
orchestrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestrions
Etymology: From German Orchestrion, from Orchester (“orchestra”) + -ion (compare Akkordion (“accordion”)). Developed by the German composer, organist, teacher and theorist Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: orchestrina
glosses: A mechanical multiple musical instrument designed to sound like an orchestra or band.
wikipedia: Georg Joseph Vogler
long jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long jumper
triple jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple jumper
noninvestigatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + investigatory.
Senses: glosses: Not investigatory.
shadowboxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadowboxers
Etymology: From shadow + boxer.
Senses: glosses: One who shadowboxes.
red-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more red-faced
form: most red-faced
form: redfaced
Senses: examples: text: I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
text: A red-faced bird with a striking white head and underside, and black-and-white wings and tail, the Palmnut Vulture lives in tropical forested areas of Africa, often by lakes, rivers, and seashores.
ref: 2004, Robin Chittenden, Birds of Prey of the World, page 31:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.
examples: A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room.
glosses: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
embarrassed
examples: Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you.
glosses: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
inebriate
examples: The customer gave a red-faced account of the argument with the waiter.
glosses: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
angry
examples: "I can't for the life of me think where I left the tickets!", she cried out, red-faced.
glosses: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
flustered
examples: He collapsed, red-faced from the effort, against the door jamb.
glosses: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
exhausted
toy shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toy shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toyshop.
bust one's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts one's ass
form: busting one's ass
form: busted one's ass
form: busted one's ass
form: bust one's ass
form: bust one's ass
form: bust one's arse
Senses: synonyms: bust one's butt
bust one's chops
glosses: To work very hard, to put in a great amount of effort.
Related terms: bust ass
bust someone's ass
aulacogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aulacogens
Senses: examples: text: The Barnett Shale originated as a normal marine shelf deposit on the southwestern fIank of the subsiding Southern Oklahoma aulacogen...
ref: 1980, Robert L. Bates, Julia A. Jackson, editors, Glossary of Geology, Falls Church, Virginia: American Geological Institute:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tectonic trough on a craton that is formed as the failed arm of a triple-rift junction.
dick all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Come in, come in. Have a drink. Have several. There's dick all else to do!”
ref: 2006, John Ringo, Princess of Wands:
glosses: Nothing at all, or very little.
Synonyms: nothing
snowperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowpersons
form: snowpeople
Etymology: From snow + person.
Senses: examples: text: For a snowperson, fashion is all in the accessories.
ref: 2009 February 4, Jess Cartner-Morley, “What fashionable snowmen are wearing in 2009”, in The Guardian:
text: You might think of first inversion triads as looking like a snowperson whose feet have been moved above their head [...]
ref: 2021 July 1, Chelsey Hamm, Samuel Brady, Open Music Theory, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023, Inversion and Figured Bass:
glosses: Snow sculpted into a human figure, a snow figure: a snowman or snowwoman.
Synonyms: snow figure
Derived terms: abominable snowperson
Related terms: ☃
snowlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowladies
Etymology: From snow + lady.
Senses: examples: text: An abundance of bikini wearing suggests that the modern snowlady has been much influenced by Lady Gaga, pop singer of the moment, who garnered a blizzard of media attention last month for undertaking a promotional blitz of London dressed in knickers, sunglasses and little else.
ref: 2009 February 4, Jess Cartner-Morley, “What fashionable snowmen are wearing in 2009”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A female snowman.
Synonyms: snowwoman
snowladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowlady
aulacogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aulacogen
under water
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Learning to Breathe I've been learning to breathe under water . Don't laugh . The flood level has already risen overhead and is still rising . It doesn't leave much time . Of course , I'm not the only one to be submerged.[…]
ref: 2006, Gael Turnbull, There are Words: Collected Poems, Shearsman Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: Alternative form of underwater.
raw_tags: as predicate adjective or adverb
phone up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phones up
form: phoning up
form: phoned up
form: phoned up
Senses: examples: text: ‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena.
ref: 1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: To phone; to contact by telephone.
examples: text: "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: To order by telephone.
Synonyms: call
give a ring
phone
ring
set fire to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets fire to
form: setting fire to
form: set fire to
form: set fire to
form: setten fire to
form: set fire unto
form: set fire in
form: set fire on
form: set fire upon
form: set fire of
form: set fire by
form: set fire into
Senses: examples: text: They set fire to the house.
text: A freight train became completely derailed, blocking the tunnel entrance, and six of the wagons rolled down the mountainside, demolishing and setting fire on their way to a guard house, in which three soldiers were killed.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Serious Swiss Derailment”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
synonyms: set light
set on fire
torch
glosses: To cause (something) to be on fire; to set (something) alight.
examples: text: As soon as the new CEO arrived, he started setting fire to the old way of doing things.
glosses: To destroy or dismantle (something).
examples: text: All it took was one word to set fire to the crowd.
synonyms: set on fire
glosses: To stir up intense emotion or action in (something).
and crap
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of and shit.
synonyms: word: and shit
tracklement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracklements
Etymology: Coined in its current sense by the English cookery writer Dorothy Hartley in her book Food in England in 1954, but probably derived from a similar dialect word with variant spellings (e.g. tranklement, tanchiment) used before that date across North and Central England and meaning "ornaments, trinkets; bits of things".
Senses: examples: text: preserves, conserves and homemade tracklements are sold at
ref: 1992, Simon Scott with Nancy Scott, Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands, 1993-1994, page 140:
text: nestled together in a cunning arrangement, ornamented by the tracklements she had labored to obtain for her friends
ref: 2004, Katharine Weber, The Little Women, page 159:
text: The content of these stores, as well as wine, would mostly be preserved foodstuffs and tracklements.
ref: 2006, Janet MacDonald, Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era, page 128:
glosses: A savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
conspue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conspues
form: conspuing
form: conspued
form: conspued
Senses: glosses: To boo; to shout down.
conspues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conspue
disputative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disputative
form: most disputative
Etymology: From Latin disputativus (“pertaining to a dispute”).
Senses: glosses: Tending to dispute.
Derived terms: disputatively
disputativeness
Related terms: dispute
disputable
disputant
disputation
disputatious
Javascript
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ‘bot makes this easier; scraping the NFL livescores page with some nifty Javascript, it tracks each game live for potential first-time scores; the most recent as of writing being the Chiefs beating the Texans 51-31. Not only that, but the ‘bot estimates the most likely possible scorigami scores of games in progress, keeping fans on tenterhooks until the final whistle is blown. Or is it a siren in NFL? Inquiring minds need to know.
ref: 2020 January 22, Lewin Day, “Scorigami Bot Charts NFL History In The Making”, in Hackaday:
glosses: Nonstandard form of JavaScript.
make into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes into
form: making into
form: made into
form: made into
Senses: examples: text: Basic training will make you into a man.
text: The potion made him into a toad.
text: I'll make a dry academic discipline into a living subject.
text: A disused theatre newly made into a school.
glosses: To cause (the first object) to become (the second object); to change or transform.
Synonyms: make
turn into
tempestivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempestivity
standard languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard language
TWDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of the whole damn thing.
Christmasly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Christmasly
form: most Christmasly
Etymology: From Christmas + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Christmassy manner.
power slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power slides
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
qualifier: driving
glosses: The act of sliding with the wheels being driven.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: The act of pushing the skateboard sideways.
glosses: The act of sliding on one's knees, often in celebration.
glosses: In roller skating, a method of stopping rapidly, often ending with a transition.
pozzuolana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pozzuolanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pozzolana.
prawn cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prawn crackers
Senses: synonyms: word: krupuk
word: prawn chip
word: prawn crisp
word: shrimp cracker
word: shrimp chip
glosses: A light, deep-fried snack made from shrimp and starch, popular in East Asian cuisine.
preop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-op
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-op.
preop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preops
form: pre-op
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-op.
postop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post-op.
postop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post-op.
press on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses on
form: pressing on
form: pressed on
form: pressed on
Senses: examples: text: British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
text: And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To persist, to continue to advance.
Synonyms: press ahead
pretty up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pretties up
form: prettying up
form: prettied up
form: prettied up
Senses: examples: text: Company will be here soon, so I'm going to go now and pretty up.
synonyms: prettify
glosses: To make pretty.
print out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of printout.
print out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prints out
form: printing out
form: printed out
form: printed out
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: to print (a computer document)
processer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: processor
Forms: form: processers
Etymology: From process + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who processes
regardless of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: He smoked cigars regardless of the consequences.
synonyms: word: irrespective of
word: despite
word: for all
word: irrespective of
word: maugre
word: notwithstanding
word: regardless of
word: in spite of
word: without considering
word: without regard for
glosses: without attention to; without regard for
Related terms: despite
immeritorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭmĕrĭtôʹrĭəs
ipa: /ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/
Forms: form: more immeritorious
form: most immeritorious
Etymology: im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius
Senses: examples: text: Their acceptance indeed, as a formula, may show a willing and tractable spirit, and they may to that extent have a value : but such acceptance differs of course from belief in being admittedly a voluntary act, and not a mere immeritorious and reluctant yielding to the brute weight of evidence.
ref: 1883, Mind, volume 8, B. Blackwell, page 24:
text: As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time.
ref: 2004: Damien Géradin, Modernisation and Enlargement: Two Major Challenges for EC Competition Law, page 137 (Intersentia; →ISBN, 9050954324)
glosses: Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
Derived terms: immeritoriously
Related terms: urls: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50112479
word: “†immeriˈtorious
urls: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50112479
word: a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
urls: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50112479
word: second edition (1989)
Russifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Russify
Russifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Russify
Russified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Russify
Tanzanion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name.
Senses: glosses: Synthetic forsterite of an intense purple-blue colour, simulating that of tanzanite.
Ashtarak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Աշտարակ (Aštarak).
Senses: glosses: The administrative center of the Aragatsotn region in Armenia, located 20 km northwest of Yerevan.
how do I get to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: how do I get to ...
Senses: glosses: Please show me/tell me the best way to reach ...
daedally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdəli/
Forms: form: more daedally
form: most daedally
Etymology: From daedal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a daedal manner
clasp knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clasp knives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clasp-knife.
abbrev.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbrevs.
form: abbr
form: abbr.
form: abbrev
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abbreviation.
tenniswomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenniswoman
-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -women
form: -man
Etymology: From Middle English -woman, from the noun woman.
Senses: examples: horsewoman, sportswoman
glosses: A woman who is an expert in an area.
examples: committeewoman, newswoman, policewoman
glosses: A woman who is employed or holds a position in an area.
examples: bogeywoman, superwoman
glosses: A woman who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
examples: Scotswoman, Norsewoman
glosses: A woman of a particular nationality.
Hypernyms: -person
Spanish Influenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Spanish influenza.
purulent bronchitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Spanish influenza
heliotrope cyanosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A bluish colouration of the skin that is a symptom of Spanish influenza
crossman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossmen
Etymology: From cross + -man; perhaps related to on the cross (“dishonestly”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a house in Cherry street, not far from Catherine Market […]. A little to the north of its door stands an old-time tree; and for many a year it has been known to the “crossmen” and “knucks” of the town as “Jack Circle's watering place” and “fence.”
ref: 1848, Ned Buntline, The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life, Part 1, New York: Benford & Co., page 33:
glosses: A thief, forger, or other criminal.
sidewalk cafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidewalk cafes
form: sidewalk café
Senses: glosses: An outdoor portion of a restaurant, coffeehouse or cafe.
Synonyms: cafe terrace
café terrace
patio
terrace
pavement cafe
pavement café
Coordinate terms: streatery
psychologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychologue
sapro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: sapr-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαπρός (saprós, “putrid”).
Senses: glosses: putrid, rotten matter
transgenre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + genre.
Senses: examples: text: He returned to Japan with redoubled determination to convert the new Sogetsu Kaikan into a transgenre center for new expressive forms where artists could interact across the entire creative spectrum.
ref: 2006, Thomas R. H. Havens, Radicals And Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Cross-genre.
idiolatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiolatry
idioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idioblasts
Etymology: From idio- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An isolated specialised cell found in the midst of an otherwise homogeneous group of cells in plant tissue.
Related terms: idioblastic
idioblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idioblast
engrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹiːv/
Forms: form: engrieves
form: engrieving
form: engrieved
form: engrieved
Etymology: From en- + grieve.
Senses: examples: text: If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church:
text: Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.
ref: 1834, Francis Bacon, edited by Basil Montagu, The Works Of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England:
text: 1998, Annabel M. Patterson (editor), The trial of Nicholas Throckmorton (apparently derived from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577),
I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.
synonyms: word: distress
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: plague
word: atray
word: cag
word: distress
word: engrieve
word: grame
word: harass
word: harrow
word: harry
word: torment
word: trouble
word: vex
word: rend
word: wring
glosses: To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
examples: text: Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: grieven
word: mourn
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To grieve.
engrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engrieve
engrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engrieve
engrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engrieve
engrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engrieved
form: most engrieved
Senses: examples: text: my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Hurt, grieved, pained.
tracklements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracklement
collective bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Beatrice Webb in 1891.
Senses: examples: text: Educators in a Washington state school district went on strike Friday because the teachers’ union and the Ridgefield School District (RSD) remain at loggerheads following months of collective bargaining negotiations.
ref: 2022 September 9, Paradise Afshar, “Washington state school district goes on strike”, in CNN:
glosses: A method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.
Derived terms: collective-bargaining agreement
scato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “dung, feces”).
Senses: glosses: excrement
Derived terms: scatophagy
becher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish בעכער (bekher, “goblet”). Doublet of beaker and pitcher.
Senses: glosses: A kiddush cup
platers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plater
armour plating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: armour plate
glosses: Heavy plate steel, or other strong plate metal, installed to create armour on a structure or vehicle.
electroplater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroplaters
Etymology: From electroplate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who uses electroplating techniques to apply a thin layer of metal on the surface of another metal.
electroplaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroplater
drop off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops off the radar
form: dropping off the radar
form: dropped off the radar
form: dropped off the radar
Senses: examples: text: Not long after that, the band seemed to drop off the radar entirely, leading many to assume that they had broken up...
ref: 2003, Daniel Bukszpan, Ronnie James Dio, The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal:
text: So why have users stuck with the site when so many other search engines have dropped off the radar? Well, they're not logging on just for the search engine.
ref: 2006, Laurie Pasiuk, Vault Guide to the Top Internet Industry Employers:
text: 5 December 2009, Toronto Star - One-hit wonders make a musical smash
Greenbaum didn't dramatically drop off the radar as soon as that song peaked, but kept slogging away for five years with diminishing returns...
synonyms: drop off the map
fall off the radar
glosses: To vanish or fall into obscurity; to become forgotten or ignored.
Related terms: off the radar
under the radar
clifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪfti/
Forms: form: more clifty
form: most clifty
Etymology: From clift + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Down the clifty gorge – its walls of solid sandstone, cloven to the bare heart of the range by the fierce momentum of the waters – the bounding river came.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 3:
glosses: Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
bentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bento
Related terms: benthos
benzile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benzoin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish crystalline substance, C₆H₅.CO.CO.C₆H₅, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
Derived terms: benzilic
furile
benzedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trade name for the first pharmaceutical (racemic) amphetamine (1932), derived from benzyl-methyl carbinamine.
Senses: examples: text: […]who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down[…]
ref: 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no make-up and stringy hair, on a diet of coffee and benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honours did, until they finished their thesis.
ref: 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber, page 118:
glosses: The racemic mixture of amphetamine (dl-amphetamine).
Derived terms: benny
unfilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɪlɪəl/
Forms: form: more unfilial
form: most unfilial
Etymology: From un- + filial.
Senses: antonyms: filial
glosses: Not befitting or proper for a son.
SOCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOCBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of state-owned commercial bank.
subject case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subject cases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of subjective case.
synonyms: word: subjective case
subject cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subject case
on the one hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on one hand
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, it was quite a good bargain, but on the other hand, do we really need a second car?
text: 1950, Bertrand Russell, acceptance speech for Nobel Prize in Literature
I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.
text: The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: From one point of view.
Coordinate terms: word: on the other hand
english: fanspeak slang
translation: fanspeak slang
word: on the gripping hand
schmoozefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmoozefests
form: schmooze-fest
Etymology: From schmooze + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Last week, as Nestlé's top man, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, enjoyed the schmoozefest in Davos, activists Baby Milk Action held a conference nearby to unveil a document that claims Nestlé haven't quite played straight with Clooney.
ref: 2009 February 6, Hugh Muir, “Diary”, in The Guardian:
text: The investment bank sponsors the annual schmoozefest and “summer camp for billionaires” for the same reason that companies give away their luxury products in Oscars gift baskets[…]
ref: 2021 July 12, Hamilton Nolan, “What happens at Sun Valley, the secret gathering of unelected billionaire Kings?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A social gathering organised so that people working in the non-profit charity sector can get together.
schmoozefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmoozefest
for one thing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to introduce the first item in a possible sequence
Synonyms: sense: introducing first item
word: for a start
sense: introducing first item
word: for one
Coordinate terms: sense: introducing first item
word: for another thing
for another thing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: There are three reasons why I don't want to dance with you. To start with, my feet hurt. For another thing, you can't dance. And lastly, I detest you stench.
glosses: Used to introduce an additional item in a possible sequence
Coordinate terms: for one thing
gutter press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutter presses
Senses: glosses: The sensationalist tabloid newspapers in general.
Synonyms: yellow press
Climategate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From climate + -gate, popularized by climate change denialist James Delingpole.
Senses: examples: text: Over the Copenhagen climate conference lies the shadow of “Climategate,” emails and documents hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England.
ref: 2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post:
text: And that raises a critical question: did Climategate play a role in this failure to act? Some observers believe it did and, as an illustration, point to the fate of the Copenhagen climate summit[…]which took place only a few weeks after the leaking of the CRU’s emails.
ref: 2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian:
text: The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.
ref: 2021 June 9, “University of East Anglia 'Climategate' scandal to be turned into film”, in BBC News:
glosses: A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained information about climate change research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England.
wikipedia: James Delingpole
Related terms: -gate
Denialgate
watergate
take something as read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes something as read
form: taking something as read
form: took something as read
form: taken something as read
Senses: examples: text: We can take your resignation as read, can we?
text: Any one wish to see it? No? Then we will take it as read. I know that in such a matter, my patrons, my word is enough for you.
ref: 1901, H. Rider Haggard, Pearl-Maiden:
synonyms: take something as granted
glosses: To assume that everyone agrees that something is correct.
that clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: that clauses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A clause in a sentence that is introduced by the word that.
that clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of that clause
we-uns
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːənz/
Forms: form: we'uns
form: we'ins
Etymology: From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.
Senses: examples: text: “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 16:
text: ‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: We.
examples: text: Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]
ref: 1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62:
text: But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.
ref: 1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293:
glosses: Us. (Compare us'uns.)
Related terms: you-uns
they-uns
organ transplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ transplant
interjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interjective
form: most interjective
Etymology: From interject + -ive.
Senses: glosses: interjectional
Derived terms: interjectively
interjectiveness
presidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪdɪ.əl/
Forms: form: more presidial
form: most presidial
form: præsidial
Etymology: From Middle French presidial, from Latin praesidialis, variant of praesidalis, from praeses (“provincial governor”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
examples: text: the doorway was vacant save for a large brindled cur that stood upon the threshold, wagging his tail and watching the scene with a suave, indulgent, presidial gaze, as if he were the patron of the ball.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 22:
glosses: Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential.
examples: text: There are three presidial castles in this city.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Sir T. H. Knight”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having or relating to a garrison.
Synonyms: sense: having or relating to a garrison
word: presidiary
cockshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockshots
Etymology: From cock + shot.
Senses: glosses: A photograph of one's penis.
mortiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more mortiferous
form: most mortiferous
Etymology: From Latin mortifer + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Breton recruits were notorious for suffering from la nostalgie – a mortiferous form of homesickness.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140:
glosses: Causing spiritual death.
glosses: Causing physical death; deadly, fatal, lethal.
Derived terms: mortiferously
mortiferousness
up one's own ass
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: up one's own arse
Senses: examples: text: 16 February 2003, The Times - Motor Racing: Coulthard’s driving passion
[David Coulthard on Michael Schumacher] Considering the success and money he's earned, it'd be easy for him to disappear so far up his own arse, but he hasn't; there's something down-to-earth there
text: It's nice to be able to look back on the thing, because I was so up my own ass at the time about everything that it was hard to enjoy all the craziness...
ref: 9 December 2003 The Advocate (magazine) No. 904
text: 19 February 2006 Sunday People - EXCLUSIVE: ON ME WEB CAM, SON!
Just like Leslie Grantham who also slagged off his costars, Forgeham blasted Zoe as "egotistical" and said she was "full of herself...and up her own ass"
glosses: Having an excessively high opinion of oneself, excessively preoccupied with one's own affairs, or lost in self-regarding abstraction.
Synonyms: up oneself
secondary color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary colors
form: secondary colour
Senses: examples: Orange (red + yellow), Green (yellow + blue), and Violet/Purple (blue + red) are secondary colors.
coordinate_terms: primary colour
tertiary color
glosses: Any of three colors derived from mixing two primary colors.
pub-crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub-crawls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pub crawl.
pub-crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pub-crawls
form: pub-crawling
form: pub-crawled
form: pub-crawled
Senses: glosses: to visit, and drink in, numerous pubs or bars in succession.
puckster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pucksters
Etymology: From puck + -ster.
Senses: glosses: An ice hockey player.
unhair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhairs
form: unhairing
form: unhaired
form: unhaired
Etymology: From un- + hair.
Senses: examples: text: The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.
ref: 1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:
text: They found that such a practice produced what was termed a "mellow" lime; the mellower the lime the more rapidly it unhaired the skin.
ref: 1924, Tanners' Council of America. Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Reports and Papers, volume 2, page 520:
glosses: To remove hair from (something), especially from hide.
examples: text: If the skin is soaked in an amine solution before being placed in the lime it unhairs at a faster rate, however, than if soaked in plain water, as shown in Table VII.
ref: 1927, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, page 361:
glosses: To become free from hair.
Derived terms: unhairer
pull in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls in
form: pulling in
form: pulled in
form: pulled in
Senses: examples: text: After falling out of the boat, the crew pulled him in.
glosses: To pull something, so that it comes inside.
examples: text: A car just pulled in our driveway.
glosses: To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot.
raw_tags: of a vehicle or driver
examples: text: Quick! The train's pulling in.
text: The herd mentality appears strong at Cardiff. When the train pulls in, the majority of folk jam themselves into the car straight in front of them, while I walk to the back unit to share the rear car with just two other people.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:
glosses: To approach a station; to arrive at a station.
raw_tags: of a train or bus
examples: text: She was pulled in for questioning.
glosses: To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something.
examples: text: He pulls in a lot of money.
glosses: To earn [money].
examples: text: pull in the main sheet
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope.
Derived terms: pull in one's horns
seminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + native.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly native.
shit-ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-tons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shitton.
run wild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs wild
form: running wild
form: ran wild
form: run wild
Senses: glosses: To go unchecked, to be out of control.
glosses: To run consecutively.
raw_tags: of prison sentences
Synonyms: run rampant
antennule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɛnjuːl/
Forms: form: antennules
Etymology: From antenna + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small antenna.
Derived terms: antennular
antennulate
antennuliform
antennular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɛnjʊlə/
Etymology: From antennule + -ar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to antennules or an antennule.
push in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes in
form: pushing in
form: pushed in
form: pushed in
Senses: examples: text: Don't push in! Go to the back of the queue!
synonyms: cut in
push one's way in
jump the queue
jump queue
glosses: To jump the queue, especially in a forceful manner.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, in.
Related terms: queue-jumper
push in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push ins
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A zoom in which the camera physically moves towards the subject