cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
akinetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more akinetically
form: most akinetically
Etymology: From akinetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a akinetic manner; without motion.
bubble over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bubbles over
form: bubbling over
form: bubbled over
form: bubbled over
Senses: examples: text: She was bubbling over with laughter as she ran into the room.
text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: To be very enthusiastic, or highly excited.
bubbles over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bubble over
bubbling over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bubble over
bubbled over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bubble over
librator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: librators
Senses: glosses: Something that librates, or causes libration
vulnerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare vulnerate.
Senses: examples: text: Many writers, it seems to me erroneously, describe intracranial lesions situated at the pole of the cranial sphenoid opposite to the point of impact of the vulnerant body, as rather out of the ordinarily expected result […]
ref: 1906, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing a wound.
sagittas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagitta
baby duck syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbeɪbi dʌk ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
ipa: /ˌbeɪbi dʌk ˈsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
Etymology: From the tendency of newly hatched ducks or other birds to imprint on the first thing they see.
Senses: examples: text: Lotus 1-2-3 has become the spreadsheet package chosen by most people and is still widely used. This is sometimes called the "baby duck syndrome," meaning that once a person uses one certain spreadsheet and becomes familiar with it, he will not try another package even though it may be easier to use and better suited to his needs.
ref: 1991, Andrew W. Lai, “Graphical Decision Aids: Spreadsheets”, in Allen Kent, James G. Williams, editors, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, volume 8 (Geographic Information System to Hypertext), New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 82:
text: The tools go back on the shelf, mostly unused, for a number of reasons, not just the baby-duck syndrome.
ref: 1993, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, page 78, column 3:
text: The phenomenon of baby duck syndrome is well known – it's what happens when users judge new and upcoming systems by comparing them with the first system they learned. This means that users generally prefer systems similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems. […] This syndrome has substantial impact on user interface design. Developers must take into account previous user experiences to make users comfortable if they want these users to move or upgrade to their system. Baby duck syndrome can also make usability studies difficult as users familiar with a given system almost invariably describe deviations from it as confusing or problematic.
ref: 2005 March 2, Peter Seebach, “The Cranky User: Baby Duck Syndrome: Imprinting on Your First System Makes Change a Very Hard Thing”, in IBM developerWorks, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2012:
text: Most people acquainted with a personal computer system exhibit the baby duck syndrome. Ducklings (and birds generally) bond to the first caregiver they see, usually a parent duck. […] The same occurs with people who bond to one kind of computer system, say Windows or Mac, and become fixed on that system as the natural way that computers should be.
ref: 2013 April 22, Ted Herman, “General Landscape of Computing Languages”, in A Functional Start to Computing with Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Frankly speaking, baby duck syndrome is detrimental because users block themselves from trying new and better methods, even though the learning curve of the new tool is worth the climb.
ref: 2022, Chong Ho Alex Yu, “Cutting Edge Data Analytical Tools”, in Data Mining and Exploration: From Traditional Statistics to Modern Data Science (A Science Publishers Book), Boca Raton, Fla.; New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 47:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The tendency of computer users to think the system (software or usage paradigm) they originally started using is better than others.
film strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film strips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filmstrip.
manatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manati
algebrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algebrizations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of algebraization.
Related terms: algebrize
hyperpolarizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpolarizability
multistrangeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + strangeness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of being multistrange
multistrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + strange.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Composed of multiple strange quarks
nucleations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleation
orthomode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + mode.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: describing a transducer that use two orthogonally polarized microwave beams
supermodularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + modularity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being supermodular
magnificant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of magnificent.
translinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + linear.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a circuit that has an exponential (rather than linear) current-voltage relationship
aeromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + magnetic.
Senses: examples: text: East-trending lineaments, some as long as 400 miles, are clearly discernible on the aeromagnetic maps. These lineaments may be associated with large fractures in the earth's crust.
ref: 1967, United States Geological Survey, Geological Survey Research 1967: Chapter A [Geological Survey Professional Paper; 575-A], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office, →OCLC, page A145:
glosses: Of or pertaining to aeromagnetics
Derived terms: aeromagnetically
aeromagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + magnetics.
Senses: glosses: The study of atmospheric magnetism (mainly in thunderclouds)
peda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedas
form: pedha
Senses: glosses: A sweet made from khoa, sugar, and various flavourings.
peda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedum
relagate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of relegate.
big house, little house, back house, barn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: connected farm
glosses: A style of architecture in New England, consisting of a farmhouse and related buildings connected in a rambling fashion.
domet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domets
Senses: glosses: A kind of plain cloth with cotton warp and woolen weft.
barilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: barillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish barrilla.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several not closely related saltmarsh plants that were once burnt to obtain soda ash, such as Soda inermis.
glosses: The alkali produced from the plant, an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching.
examples: text: Good barilla usually contains, according to Dr. Ure's analysis, 20 per cent. of real alkali, associated with muriates and sulphates, chiefly of soda, some lime, and alumina, with very little sulphur.
ref: 1860, Andrew Ure, Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 252:
glosses: Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
Derived terms: barilla plant
copper barilla
chameli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamelis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चमेली (camelī).
Senses: glosses: jasmine (Jasminum)
clubrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubrushes
Etymology: From club + rush.
Senses: glosses: bulrush
cooldrink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooldrinks
Etymology: From cool + drink.
Senses: glosses: soft drink
condemnate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: condemnates
form: condemnating
form: condemnated
form: condemnated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin condemnātus, perfect passive participle of condemnō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of condemn.
Senses: glosses: To condemn.
deblur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈblɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: deblurs
form: deblurring
form: deblurred
form: deblurred
Etymology: From de- + blur.
Senses: glosses: To remove blurring from an image (and make it sharper)
disgorger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disgorgers
Etymology: From disgorge + -er.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A device used to remove a hook from the mouth of a fish
eye MD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye MDs
form: eye M.D.
Senses: glosses: An ophthalmologist.
Synonyms: eye doctor
neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
form: neither fish nor flesh
form: neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
Etymology: The three foods are metonyms for those things suitable to each of medieval society’s classes of people; fish represents the clergy, flesh represents commoners, whilst red herring represents paupers; the three classes are simplistically regarded as exhaustive.
Senses: examples: text: The work of Ude is intended for the higher ranks, and for people of fortune. We conceive the book and the cook to have been overrated. It is neither French nor English — neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. For the rest, Lord Sefton, who was too much of a mere glutton, would have perverted the taste of any cook, however good, who had been long in his service.
ref: 1844 April, Scott, “Rise and Progress of Culinary Literature and Cookery [running head]”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, American edition, volume XXXIII, New York, N.Y.: Published by Leonard Scott & Co. 112 Fulton-Street, page 110:
text: He had frequent fits of melancholy in which he declared that he was neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. His was neither an irresponsibly contemplative nature nor a sturdily practical one, and he was for ever looking in vain for the uses of the things that please and the charm of the things that sustain.
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: J. R. Osgood:
text: It is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl; or Neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. Not fish (food for the monk), not flesh (food for the people generally), nor yet red herring (food for paupers). Suitable to no class of people; fit for neither one thing nor another. ⁂ Fish comes first because in the Middle Ages the clergy took precedence of the laity. “She would be a betwixt-and-between ... . neither fish nor fowl.” — Mrs. Lynn Linton.
ref: [1898, E[benezer] Cobham Brewer, “Fish”, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that Have a Tale to Tell, new, revised, corrected, and enlarged edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Altemus Company [reproduced on Bartleby.com], →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2016:
glosses: Synonym of neither fish nor fowl (“not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options”).
synonyms: word: neither fish nor fowl
extra: not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options
eye MDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye M.D.s
Senses: glosses: plural of eye MD
eye M.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye M.D.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eye MD.
eye M.D.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye M.D. Alternative form of eye MDs.
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, but with fowl taking the place of good red herring.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).
resistlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪstləsli/
ipa: /ɹəˈzɪstləsli/
Etymology: From resistless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.
ref: 1879, John McElroy, chapter 76, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
text: Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun; / Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 178:
text: And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8:
text: She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers.
ref: 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 19, in The Lamp of Fate:
synonyms: irresistibly
unresistingly
glosses: In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.
MDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M.D.s
Senses: glosses: plural of MD
M.D.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MDs
Senses: glosses: plural of M.D.
dark chocolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark chocolate
locationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From locational + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being locational.
multiaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multiaxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multiaxial manner.
Synonyms: polyaxially
motor oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor oil
tenible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕʹnĭbl
ipa: /ˈtɛnɪbl/
Forms: form: more tenible
form: most tenible
Etymology: As if from a Latin *tenibilis, from teneō (“I hold, I retain”). Compare tenable, docible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being held; holdable.
glosses: Capable of retaining or holding in.
lock-step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lockstep.
deciduosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛsɪdʒʊˈɒsɪti/
Senses: examples: text: Deciduosity alone is not sufficient for surviving the winter.
ref: 1987, Vincent P. Gutschick, A Functional Biology of Crop Plants, page 106:
glosses: The state or condition of being deciduous; the quality of trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
Related terms: deciduous
deciduously
deciduousness
deciduousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊəsnəs/
Etymology: From deciduous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Worldwide, foliage deciduousness in angiosperms is believed to have arisen in tropical species as a response to periodic drought.
ref: 2010, Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests, page 59:
glosses: The state or condition of being deciduous; the quality of trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
Related terms: deciduosity
deciduous
deciduously
opinionative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opinionative
form: most opinionative
Senses: examples: text: The courts of the United States generally allow opinionative evidence concerning value.
ref: 1980, Wiley Daniel Rich, Legal Responsibilities and Rights of Public Accountants, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, being, or expressing opinion.
examples: text: They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
text: He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious.
ref: 1823, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 21, in Quentin Durward:
glosses: Opinionated.
raw_tags: of persons
Derived terms: opinionatively
opinionativeness
self-opinionative
unopinionative
synchroneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchroneities
Etymology: From synchrone + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity.
ref: 1979 April 13, Jocelyn Paine, “The partnership of artist and audience”, in Anchorage Daily News, retrieved 24 Aug 2010, page D1:
text: Variously generated temperature curves for different localities do not always exhibit clear synchroneities.
ref: 1985, Richard J. Chorley et al., Geomorphology, →ISBN, page 539:
text: This widespread synchroneity of climate anomalies suggests a relatively rapid global reorganization of the ocean–atmosphere system.
ref: 2004 December 9, Xianfeng Wang et al., “Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies”, in Nature, volume 432, retrieved 24 Aug 2010:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.
Synonyms: synchronicity
synchronization
simultaneousness
habitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitators
Etymology: From Latin habitātor.
Senses: examples: text: the longest day in Cancer is longer unto us than that in Capricorn unto the southern habitator
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dweller; an inhabitant.
gyrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gyrant
form: most gyrant
Senses: examples: text: gyrant bifurcation diagram
text: To a dim whirl of languor and delight, / I wound in gyrant orbits smooth and white[…]
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
glosses: gyrating
gyra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrae
Senses: glosses: The richly embroidered border of a robe.
medicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicators
Senses: glosses: Any medical appliance.
Derived terms: self-medicator
zelant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zelants
Senses: glosses: A zealot.
artabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artaba
formator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formators
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A symbol that indicates a relationship between designators.
examples: text: The second sign is related to the infused theological virtue of charity, because the formator has to discover by observation if a candidate takes joy in serving others, especially in small or difficult ways
ref: 2011, Basil Cole, Formation of Novices and Seminarians: Nine Signs of Steady Growth, Ignatius Press:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who trains novices or seminarians.
tranquiller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tranquil: more tranquil
antisynchronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-synchronization
Etymology: From anti- + synchronization.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The relationship between two oscillating systems that have the same absolute values at all times, but opposite signs
variator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variators
Senses: examples: text: If n₂ changes are stepless, such drives are called continuous variable speed drives or variators.
ref: 2012, Damir T. Jelaska, Gears and Gear Drives:
glosses: A device that can change the parameters of something.
cryosampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + sampling.
Senses: glosses: sampling at low temperatures
foodwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodweb
amices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amice
foodweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodwebs
Etymology: From food + web.
Senses: examples: text: In plant-dominated ecosystems the composition of the belowground foodweb shifts to a bacterial pathway when the source of organic matter is more labile, and to a fungal-dominated foodweb when the organic matter is more complex and recalcitrant.
ref: 2012, Diana H. Wall, “Global Change in a Low Diversity Terrestrial Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valleys”, in Alex D. Rogers, Nadine M. Johnston, Eugene J. Murphy, Andrew Clarke, editors, Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 53, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of food web.
hydrogravitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hydro-gravitational
Etymology: From hydro- + gravitational.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the interaction of gravity and the movement of fluids (such as astronomical plasmas)
monohydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + hydrated.
Senses: glosses: hydrated with a single molecule of water
pioneeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pioneeringly
form: most pioneeringly
Etymology: From pioneering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pioneering manner
quasicontinuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasicontinua
Etymology: From quasi- + continuum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A system that behaves as a continuum in most but not all respects.
quasidisorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quasi- + disorder.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of an apparently disordered system that has an underlying order.
undeterminacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeterminacies
Etymology: From un- + determinacy.
Senses: glosses: indeterminacy
canceller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canceler.
cusimanse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌku.səˈmæn.sə/
/-ˈmɑn-/
/-si/
Forms: form: cusimanses
form: kusimanse
form: kusimansel
Etymology: Probably from a native name in Liberia.
Senses: synonyms: dwarf mongoose
long-nosed mongoose
mangue
glosses: Any of several species of dwarf mongoose or small mongoose in the genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
Derived terms: Alexander's kusimanse
Angolan kusimanse
common kusimanse
flat-headed kusimanse
disguisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disguisements
Etymology: From disguise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: disguise (deceptive appearance)
divemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divemasters
form: DM
Etymology: From dive + master.
Senses: glosses: A person responsible for a group of underwater divers.
donkeyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkeymen
Etymology: From donkey + -man.
Senses: glosses: The person who operates a donkey engine.
examples: text: One of the stokers was disabled, the others had given in, the second engineer and the donkey-man were firing-up. The third engineer was standing by the steam-valve. The engines were being tended by hand.
ref: 1902 January–March, Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”, in George R. Halkett, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XXVI, London: Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, →OCLC, chapter IV, page 226, column 2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The person in charge of a ship's engine room.
dorsiflexor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsiflexors
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that causes dorsiflexion when it contracts
dragger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: draggers
Etymology: From drag + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that drags.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A trawler.
examples: text: On a raceway near Riverside, California, a dragger was fatally injured when his dragster went out of control […]
ref: 1962, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 235, page 10:
text: In 1960, Honolulu motorcycle racer (and Street Roadster dragger) Danny Ongais stepped up to the dragster ranks […]
ref: 2016, Scotty Gosson, Lost Drag Strips II: More Ghosts of Quarter-Miles Past, page 63:
synonyms: dragster
glosses: One who takes part in drag racing.
examples: text: So young speed enthusiasts can get high performance equipment for their "street draggers."
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 8, page 4149:
synonyms: dragster
glosses: A vehicle used in drag racing.
examples: text: Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
ref: 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92:
text: [A]t least, there were no dodgy whispers about him and that was a big plus in the tight-knit community of blaggers, draggers and carpet baggers of this corner of north-West London.
Sean was pretty pissed off that the car they had meant to use for that day's robbery was an old rust-bucket Volkswagen Golf.
ref: 2020, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Dirty Dozen:
glosses: A car thief.
Derived terms: dragger-down
footdragger
foot-dragger
heel-dragger
knuckle-dragger
knuckle dragger
tail dragger
taildragger
van-dragger
dustcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustcoats
form: dust coat
Etymology: From dust + coat.
Senses: glosses: A coat worn as protection from dust.
aratis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arati
aret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arets
form: aretting
form: aretted
form: aretted
form: arret
Etymology: From Old French areter, from à + reter, from Latin reputāre (“to count”).
Senses: glosses: To impute (something) as a fault to or upon someone.
arent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɹɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑɹɛnt/
Forms: form: more arent
form: most arent
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ārentem, the accusative singular form of ārēns (“drying, parching; withering”), the present participle of āreō (“to be dry or parched; to be dried up or withered”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to be dry; to dry; to burn; ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: The Lyon alſo is a ſignification of the ſunne, for the haires of his mane do reſemble the ſtreaming beames of the ſunne, and therefore this conſtellation is ſtiled vvith the ſame epithites that the Lyon and the Sun are, as heate-bearing, æſtiue, ardent, arent, calent, hot, flammant, burning, Herculean, mad, horrible, dreadfull, cruell, and terrible.
ref: 1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner]; Edward Topsell, “Of the Lyon”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 485:
synonyms: desiccating
exsiccating
glosses: Drying out, parching, withering.
arent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɹɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑɹɛnt/
Etymology: See aren't.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aren't.
novator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novators
Senses: examples: text: We need scarcely allude here to works of art: in the sphere of poetry and of fiction, generally, the decay is so universally admitted, now, that the boldest novators would not attempt to contradict it.
ref: 1864 October, The Journal of sacred literature:
text: France has enjoyed the sad privilege of witnessing twice in her history, at an interval of two or three centuries, a coup d'état directed against her institutions which novators have endeavoured to destroy and to blot out.
ref: 1879, The Dublin Review, volume 84, page 540:
glosses: An innovator.
endoglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + glossic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing an indigenous language that is the main or the official language of a region or country
Related terms: exoglossic
exoglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + glossic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing a non-indigenous language that is the main or the official language of a region or country
Related terms: exonormative
kremlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kremlin
vitiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitiators
Etymology: From vitiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: That which vitiates.
exequatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksɪˈkweɪtə/
Forms: form: exequaturs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin exequātur.
Senses: examples: text: I must briefly visit Sweden and if possible Paris. I hope to get the necessary exequatur this week for both […]
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 716:
glosses: An official authorization given by a government to a consul etc.
personator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)səˌneɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: personators
Etymology: From personate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: the personators of these actions
ref: 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei:
text: If a man be sitting, let him do so as a personator of the deceased; if he be standing, let him do so (reverently), as in sacrificing.
ref: 1855, James Legge (trans.), The Lî Kî (Book of Rites), page 62:
glosses: One who personates.
facety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facety
form: most facety
form: facey
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of facey (although it is attested slightly later) with epenthetic t; perhaps compare -ety, feisty, or Sranan Tongo fiésti (“dirty, nasty”) (19th century).
Senses: examples: text: My teachers, in the main, thought this was good, but in my parents' opinion I was just simply “facety,” or in plain English, rude or impertinent. Well, the discovery came about as a result of my being “facety” to Mavis.
ref: 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 2:
text: An’ here I am. Your dream problem child. A facety ghetto rude gyal grateful for your remarkable lack of judgeyness, an’ ready to be dazzled and inspired by your penetrating insight.
ref: 2022, Tom Wright, “Scene Two: Classroom”, in I Ain’t Dumb (Modern Plays), London; New York, N.Y.; Dublin: Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Playfully rude; feisty.
ligator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligators
Etymology: From ligate + -or.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument used for ligation, the placement or fastening of a ligature.
prosauropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈsɔɹɵpɑd/
Forms: form: prosauropods
Senses: examples: text: The longest trackway (23m) consists of 60cm long, four-toed footprints with one meter long strides in between and can probably be assigned to a prosauropod.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense.
prosauropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosauropod
favrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fabrile.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An iridescent form of Tiffany glass.
untraced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + traced.
Senses: glosses: Not having been traced.
felty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlti/
Forms: form: more felty
form: most felty
Etymology: From felt + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.
felty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlti/
Forms: form: felties
Senses: glosses: The fieldfare.
microcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcycle
nonshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shaking.
Senses: examples: text: Subarachnoid haemorrhage and extradural haematomas are less frequently encountered, being more typically an expression of direct, nonshaking trauma.
ref: 2006, Tommaso Scarabino, Emergency neuroradiology, page 386:
text: He grips with a brisk clench, makes masterly eye contact and tops it off with a light pat on the wrist from his nonshaking hand.
ref: 2007 April 28, Mark Leibovich, “‘Top Tier’ Candidate? Maybe Not, but Dodd Is Still Enjoying the Ride”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not shaking.
sanitorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanitoriums
form: sanitoria
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sanatorium.
sanitoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanitorium
sanitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanitorium
unpuzzlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpuzzlingly
form: most unpuzzlingly
Etymology: From unpuzzling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A matter of momentous-feeling non sequiturs, “208 East Broadway” is a mystery whose elements all seem unpuzzlingly inevitable.
ref: 2007 April 28, Jennifer Dunning, “There’s Something Here, Emanating From Nothing”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that is not puzzling.
antipolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipolitical
form: most antipolitical
Etymology: From anti- + political.
Senses: examples: text: I stuck to formulating and distributing antipolitical texts.
ref: 2007 April 29, Alan Riding, “My Crazy Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing politics.
Related terms: antipolitically
antipolitician
antipolitics
barehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bare + hand.
Senses: examples: text: Rivera retired the next three batters in order, with third baseman Alex Rodriguez contributing a nifty barehand pickup and throw on Julio Lugo’s roller.
ref: 2007 April 29, Pat Borzi, “Normalcy Returns: Rivera Gets First Save”, in New York Times:
glosses: With the hand bare; not wearing gloves etc.
cardplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From card + playing.
Senses: examples: text: It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.
ref: 2007 April 29, John Anderson, “Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip”, in New York Times:
glosses: The playing of card games.
fuseway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuseways
Etymology: From fuse + way.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of fused connectors in a fusebox
cardplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardplayers
Etymology: From card + player.
Senses: glosses: One who plays card games.
cardplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardplayer
endocarditides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocarditis
endocannibalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endocannibalistic
form: most endocannibalistic
Etymology: From endo- + cannibalistic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or pertaining to, endocannibalism.
fuseways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuseway
disparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disparent
form: most disparent
Senses: glosses: Varied in appearance, variegated
glosses: Disparate
glosses: Disappearing, vanishing
fire ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire ant
galluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gallowses, rare plural of gallows (“suspenders, braces.”).
Senses: glosses: Braces, suspenders for trousers.
deadbolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadbolt
deadbolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadbolt
deviators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deviator
geanticline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiːˈantɪklʌɪn/
Forms: form: geanticlines
Etymology: From geo- + anticline.
Senses: examples: text: As the geanticline rose upwards, nappes glided off like slicks from the back of an emerging whale.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 119:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large-scale anticline; a large upward lift in the earth's surface.
heirhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirheads
Etymology: Blend of heir + airhead
Senses: examples: text: St. Andrews — in case you're not up on such weighty matters — is the hoity-toity school where the heirhead they call Wills (ain't that cute) will soon begin studying for his history of art degree.
ref: 2000 November 14, Weekly World News, volume 22, number 8, page 12:
text: It would seem easy to write him off as another playboy who has managed to date his way to B-list stardom in the sketchy tradition of pampered heirheads like Paris Latsis, Brandon Davis and Stavros Niarchos.
ref: 2007 April 29, Lola Ogunnaike, “DJ AM: His Life, Times, Shoes”, in New York Times:
glosses: The foolish heir to a large fortune.
heirheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heirhead
probator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probators
Etymology: From Latin probātor.
Senses: examples: text: Warranted Officers, that are reckoned ancient experienced Men of the same Employments, some nominated, and appointed for Probators, as well as all from the Captains and Commissioners
ref: 1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:
glosses: An examiner; an approver.
topics: law
glosses: One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.
inswinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + swinging.
Senses: examples: text: Our old house had inswinging window casements.
text: The hosts opened the scoring on six minutes when defender Jose Boswinga directed the ball into his own net from Stephen Hunt's inswinging corner.
ref: 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: Swinging inward.
microdistiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdistillers
Etymology: From micro- + distiller.
Senses: examples: text: On a recent Monday, the two microdistillers introduced their latest offering at a party at the Four Seasons: Hudson Manhattan Rye, a 92-proof whiskey made with 100-percent rye ground at the Tuthilltown mill.
ref: 2007 April 29, Jonathan Miles, “The Real Manhattan”, in New York Times:
glosses: The person or company that operates a microdistillery.
microdistillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdistiller
mortarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mortar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Sites built by ancient civilizations whose construction techniques are not settled fact — like Stonehenge and the perfectly fitting but mortarless walls of the Inca at Machu Picchu, as well as the pyramids — are embraced as evidence that those civilizations had mystical powers.
ref: 2007 April 29, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “Touring the Spirit World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without mortar.
multibedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-bedroom
Etymology: From multi- + bedroom.
Senses: examples: text: The building will ultimately have a wide variety of apartment configurations, from high-ceilinged 588-square-foot studios to multibedroom penthouses with up to 4,638 square feet — as well as those town houses, on the west side, nearest to the water.
ref: 2007 April 29, Jeff Vandam, “Park Condos, but the Park Comes Later”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having more than one bedroom.
multibathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bathroom.
Senses: examples: text: A hytte (a cabin or hut) is now a large, multibathroom cabin, complete with all amenities. Telephone service has improved! It used to take years to get a phone installed.
ref: 2011, Anthony Ham, Lonely Planet Norway, page 39:
glosses: Having more than one bathroom.
noninnovative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noninnovative
form: most noninnovative
Etymology: From non- + innovative.
Senses: examples: text: The company even sent me a photograph of Spykes surrounded by other tiny liquor bottles with names like Blue 100 and 99 Bananas Schnapps to suggest just how thoroughly noninnovative this particular product is.
ref: 2007 April 29, Rob Walker, “Buzz Factor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not innovative.
gibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɪbʌs/
Forms: form: gibuses
Etymology: From the surname of its French inventor.
Senses: glosses: A collapsible top hat.
Related terms: crush hat
nonmessenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmessengers
Etymology: From non- + messenger.
Senses: examples: text: Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
ref: 2007 April 29, Jocko Weyland, “Unstoppable”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a messenger.
nonmessengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmessenger
messiahless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From messiah + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a messiah.
messiahlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more messiahlike
form: most messiahlike
Etymology: From messiah + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a messiah.
spectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spectant
form: most spectant
Etymology: From Latin spectans, present participle of spectare (“to look at”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Looking forward.
nonrecipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrecipients
Etymology: From non- + recipient.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a recipient.
nonrecipients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrecipient
nonreciprocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonreciprocal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not reciprocal.
pregentrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gentrified.
Senses: examples: text: So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s.
ref: 2007 April 29, Mireya Navarro, “A Lost New York as Seen From Way Out West”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to gentrification.
glassfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsfɪʃ
Forms: form: glassfishes
form: glassfish
Etymology: From glass + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several (not closely related) small fish that have almost transparent bodies, especially those of the genera Ambassis or Chanda.
springhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springhouses
form: spring house
Etymology: From spring + house.
Senses: examples: text: The very suggestion of a springhouse calls up recollections of quaint, low eaved "homey" farmhouses; the simple life of old-time country homes, and the solidity and picturesque simplicity of ancestral estates. The charm of this home accessory, that was once considered a necessity from an economic standpoint—when it stood for more convenient handling and better prices for the milk and butter of the farm—has come to be an important factor in the home building of to-day. […] The useful springhouse of the farm dairy is adorned with flowering vines and converted into the most decorative feature of the homestead; and even country churches delight in this additional attraction to their church property, where the country members quench their thirst after their long "ride to meeting."
ref: 1908, Phebe Westcott Humphreys, “Springhouses old and new”, in American Homes and Gardens, volume 5, pages 401–403:
text: When it was all over Mr. Sam came out to the spring-house to say good-by to me before he and Mrs. Sam left.
ref: 1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “I Have a Warning”, in Where There’s a Will, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 1:
text: At first light, around the time that the body of the kagan – a body that had already begun to manifest decidedly uncorpselike signs of movement – was being carried by an ill-assorted trio into a springhouse near a little-used gate of the Palace through which corpses and those who tended to them traditionally passed, the watch posted atop Qizl caught sight of a scattering of black seeds against the flickering gray of the southern horizon.
ref: 2007 April 29, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or root cellar).
springhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springhouse
thrifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrift + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Chiding himself for his incessant shopping, he explained that the playful Greek hunting scene that hangs above his mantel was unearthed during one of his frequent thrifting trips to upstate New York.
ref: 2007 April 29, Ruth La Ferla, “The Pack Rat Who Supplies the Scenic Illusion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Shopping for cheap items, as for example at a garage sale, flea market, or thrift shop.
thrifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From thrift + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of thrift
thuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thuggier
form: thuggiest
Etymology: From thug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “These are brutally thuggy people who don’t want to rule politically and have no strategy for winning a war,” Dr. Boothby said.
ref: 2007 April 29, Jeffrey Gettleman, “The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars”, in New York Times:
glosses: thuggish