cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
play-act
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: play-acts
form: play-acting
form: play-acted
form: play-acted
form: playact
Senses: glosses: To perform on stage; to act in a play.
examples: text: Kelly’s involvement made it a song not only about fame, but also about alleged sex across creepy power differentials. This wasn’t really even subtext: Gaga and Kelly playacted an Oval Office affair at the American Music Awards.
ref: 2019 January 11, Spencer Kornhaber, “Lady Gaga’s R. Kelly Apology Is a Reminder That Abuse Isn’t Provocative”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To play (a scene, role etc.); to act out.
examples: text: The most Trump can imagine selling is himself, and what that self is is merely a hologram, a weightless shape. He play-acts at being a businessman. He play-acts at being a president. The only thing that’s authentic about him is his comic-book worldview, one divided between heroes and villains, us and them.
ref: 2020 August 24, Jennifer Senior, “Let the Culture Wars Begin. Again.”, in The New York Times:
text: Abby, watching Harper give the closeted performance that she’s been giving her whole life, sees a side of her that she doesn’t like — the one who play-acts and denies herself almost too well.
ref: 2020 November 20, Owen Gleiberman, “‘Happiest Season’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis in a Christmas Rom-Com That Earns Its Emotion”, in Variety:
text: Little girls aren’t taught to play-act at being queen. They play-act at being princesses, which is a much gauzier, more romantic kind of role.
ref: 2022 September 8, Monica Hesse, “Queen Elizabeth II did her job”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To engage in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.
examples: text: If the devil’s advocate playacts disagreement with you for the sake of strengthening your argument, the concern troll is his mirror image, a person who pretends to agree with you in order to undermine you.
ref: 2018 April 3, Nitsuh Abebe, “Why Have We Soured on the ‘Devil’s Advocate’?”, in The New York Times:
text: Asked after the match if Djokovic had been play-acting the symptoms of cramp, Murray replied “I don't know. I would hope that that wouldn't be the case. But, yeah, if it was cramp, that's a tough thing to recover from and play as well as he did at the end.”
ref: 2020 September 6, Simon Briggs, “Novak Djokovic possesses a volcanic intensity but sometimes that fire shows itself in unflattering ways”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: To make a pretence of; to feign or simulate.
Related terms: play-acting
play-actor
play-actress
tongman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongmen
Etymology: From tong + -man.
Senses: synonyms: tonger
tongsman
tongster
glosses: A member of a criminal tong.
tongster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongsters
Etymology: From tong + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A tongman.
tonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongers
Etymology: From tong + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tongman.
tongsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongster
tongmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongman
tongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonger
tonked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tonk
tonking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tonk
Callipolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Callipolis, from Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis, “City of Beauty”). Doublet of Kallipolis, Gallipoli, and Gelibolu.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kallipolis in its various senses.
synonyms: word: Kallipolis
extra: in its various senses
JAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JAM
tommied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tommy
tommying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tommy
tompon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tompons
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tampon.
tompons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tompon
tokos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toko
tochered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tocher
tochering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tocher
toeplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toeplates
Etymology: From toe + plate.
Senses: glosses: A metal plate used to strengthen the front portion of the sole of a shoe.
toeplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toeplate
nanoemulsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + emulsifying.
Senses: glosses: That forms a nanoemulsion
noncharacterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + characterized.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uncharacterized.
synonyms: word: uncharacterized
nontedious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tedious.
Senses: glosses: not tedious
subsalicylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsalicylate
pink bismuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bismuth subsalicylate
pentalenene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triquinane sesquiterpene related to pentalenic acid
bismuth subsalicylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪz.məθ ˌsʌb.səˈlɪs.ɪˌleɪt/
Forms: form: pink bismuth
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antacid medication C₇H₅BiO₄ (trademark Pepto-Bismol) taken orally to relieve diarrhea, nausea, and indigestion.
triquinane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triquinanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of tricyclic compounds composed of three angularly-fused cyclopentane rings
triquinanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triquinane
victimologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of victimology.
subsalicylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsalicylates
Etymology: From sub- + salicylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metal salicylate in which the metal atom is bonded to both the hydroxyl and the carboxylic acid group of salicylic acid
Derived terms: bismuth subsalicylate
toad-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toad grass
form: toadgrass
Senses: glosses: Toad rush (Juncus bufonius).
titubancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin titubantia.
Senses: glosses: stammering in speech
Related terms: titubant
you wish, jellyfish
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you wish.
synonyms: word: you wish
Related terms: you later alligator
yagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈjæɡə/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yaggers
Senses: glosses: A fishing boat used to catch herring.
yagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈjæɡə/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yaggers
Etymology: From Dutch jager (“huntsman”).
Senses: glosses: A peddler or vagrant.
yaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yagger
Euro-nationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Euro-nationalist
form: most Euro-nationalist
form: Euronationalist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to European nationalism.
Euro-nationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro-nationalists
form: Euronationalist
Senses: glosses: A supporter of European nationalism.
crowfootgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: yardgrass (Eleusine indica)
nonstocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stocked.
Senses: glosses: Not stocked.
steely-spined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steely-spined
form: most steely-spined
Senses: glosses: Having a hard, strong, and determined mindset / mentality.
Synonyms: steely-eyed
steely-nerved
diehard
hardcore
tough as nails
Basingstoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Basingstokers
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
Basingstokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Basingstoker
yealm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yealms
Senses: examples: text: After the leaves had been removed, as many turnips were thrown together as would lie upon a circle four yards in diameter: yealms of wheat-straw were made, similar to such as are used for thatching, but longer, thicker, and formed with less precision: four tall stakes were then driven into the earth, each a yard from the heap, so as to form a square, each side of which would measure six yards. Two courses of yealms were next placed on the earth, so as to enclose the quadrangle indicated by the stakes; […]
ref: 1822 April 27, John Cowley, William Staines, “L.—On Preserving Turnips, &c. during the Winter.”, in Thomas Gill, editor, The Technical Repository, Containing Practical Information on Subjects Connected with Discoveries and Improvements in the Useful Arts, volume III, London: Printed by R. Watts, for the proprietors; published by T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 253:
text: Another useful implement of Mr. Williams' is his Patent Horse-rake. […] [A] ball working with the leverage of a handle keeps the teeth at their work, and is connected with the bar running underneath by a spring, and cannot lose the yealm.
ref: 1852 December 11, “The Smithfield Club Show—Agricultural Implements”, in R[ichard] A[rchibald] Brooman, editors, The Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume LVII, number 1531, London: Robertson, Brooman, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 467, column 1:
text: The carts take them [mangold or mangelwurzel] to the place for graving, and the whole is so regulated that all are kept going. The grave is usually set out about eight or nine feet in width, and the slant upwards finishes in a point at about five to six feet in height. Straw or stubble is drawn out in "haulms" or "yealms" as for thatching, and with these the grave is securely thatched and made safe by spits of earth being thrown upon the sides.
ref: 1866, “a practical farmer” [pseudonym], “The Harvesting of the Mangold Crop”, in The British Farmer’s Magazine, volume XL (New Series), number CXXI, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], →OCLC, page 499, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of yelm.
yealm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yealms
form: yealming
form: yealmed
form: yealmed
Senses: examples: text: MAYNARD, Robert, engineer,[…]—"Improvements in portable chaff-cutting machinery." Apparatus for straightening or "yealming" the straw, and additional means for bringing the straw forward to the knives.
ref: 1875 March 10, Office of the Commissioners of Patents, Chronological and Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents Granted, Containing the Abridgements of Provisional and Complete Specifications Delivered from March 4 to March 10, 1875, London: […] George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, […] [f]or Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, published 5 November 1875, →OCLC, page 187:
text: We must now call attention to a patent yealming machine by Mr. [Robert] Maynard, and when attached to his combined chaff engine was one of the most attractive novelties in the Agricultural Hall. In using it, a man pitches the hay or straw on to an elevating endless rake, which draws up the material to the yealming apparatus which straightens it for the knife of the chaff-cutter. It is a well-known fact that unless the straw is properly yealmed by hand before it goes into the feeding box a large portion of it goes in sideways and passes out of the engine as cavings. Maynard's mechanical yealming machine does the work better and more regularly than is done by hand, so that there is a gain apart from the great saving of manual labour, consequently the general advantage is immense, because farmers see the practical benefit of the combination.
ref: 1884 January 17, “Home Farm: New and Improved Agricultural Machinery”, in Robert Hogg, editor, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer. A Chronicle of Country Pursuits and Country Life, including Bee-keeping, volume VIII (Third Series), London: [Robert Hogg], →OCLC, page 34, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of yelm.
yealmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yealm
yealming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yealm
yealms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yealm
yealms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yealm
yesty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yesty
form: most yesty
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yeasty (“foamy, frothy”).
celebrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The work of a celebrant.
chapel of rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapels of rest
Senses: glosses: An undertaker's room where the body of the deceased is kept prior to burial or disposal.
chapels of rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapel of rest
Vijay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vijays
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi विजय (vijay).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
grandstand finish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandstand finishes
Senses: examples: text: Could we be in for a grandstand finish? Lewis Hamilton isn't hitting the mark Mercedes have requested, with his lap a 1:46.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A very close ending to a sports match, race or competition.
textbook case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textbook cases
Senses: synonyms: textbook example
glosses: A real-life case that matches a theory perfectly, a perfect example.
textbook cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textbook case
Marmitegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Marmite + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: The day “Marmitegate” dominated the front pages of British newspapers, the company reported a 3.2 percent rise in quarterly sales - with a 0.4 percent drop in the number of goods sold comfortably offset by a 3.6 percent increase in prices.
ref: 2016 October 20, Martinne Geller, “Unilever's 'Marmitegate' shows strain on consumer industry”, in Reuters UK:
text: In his first comments since last month’s “Marmitegate” stand-off, Dave Lewis said consumers should not be asked to pay “inflated prices” due to fluctuations in currencies, such as the post-referendum slump in the pound.
ref: 2016 November 17, “Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound”, in The Guardian:
text: The chief executive of Unilever, the consumer goods giant at the centre of Marmitegate, said Britain should “get used to” price rises triggered by a slump in the pound after the Brexit vote.
ref: 2017 January 26, Zlata Rodionova, “Brexit: Unilever boss says Britain should 'get used to' price rises after slump of pound sterling”, in The Independent:
text: Sainsbury’s and Asda are preparing a joint assault on the grocery industry’s biggest suppliers if their blockbuster merger is approved, in a move that will revive memories of the Marmitegate price row between Tesco and Unilever.
ref: 2018 December 15, “Sainsbury's and ASDA plan joint assault on suppliers”, in Telegraph:
glosses: A controversy in 2016 which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets.
sneaker wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaker waves
Senses: glosses: A disproportionately large coastal wave that can sometimes appear in a wave train without warning.
mesotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesotherapy
mesotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesotherapists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of mesotherapy.
mesotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːtɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to mesotherapy.
mesotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesotherapist
sneaker waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneaker wave
wastecoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastecoats
Senses: examples: text: The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of waistcoat.
wastecoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastecoat
sneaker male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaker males
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A male that pretends to be a female in order to get close to a female for mating.
sneaker males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneaker male
electroswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electro swing.
electro swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroswing
Senses: glosses: A music genre combining vintage or modern swing and jazz influences with house music and hip-hop.
chandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chandals
Etymology: From Hindi चांडाल (cāṇḍāl).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chandala.
confessionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confessional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: That, in consequence of this, the task is conceived of in too limited a fashion, is made clear at the first glance, but the limitation arises only from the confessionality of this theology.
ref: 1884, Julius Ferdinand Raebiger, Encyclopaedia of Theology:
text: Confessionality is the foundation for the Lutheran concept of confessional fellowship (Bekenntnisgemeinschaft). By confessionality is meant the expression of Christian faith in a particular church tradition or denomination of Christianity. For Lutheran churches, the doctrinal basis for this particularity is found in the Bible, in Christian creeds and in the Lutheran confessional documents of the sixteenth century.
ref: 2008, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology:
glosses: The degree or quality of being confessional.
Related terms: confessionalism
asmoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + smoulder.
Senses: glosses: smouldering
asperged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asperge
asperging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asperge
aspicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspick
assegaai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assegaais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assegai.
assegaais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assegaai
assoilze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assoilzes
form: assoilzing
form: assoilzed
form: assoilzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assoilzie.
assoilzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assoilze
assoilzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assoilze
assoilzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assoilze
assoilzieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assoilzie
astatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astatine
assuetudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assuetude
semiurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French sémiurgie, a term coined in the 1970's in works about mass-media.
Senses: examples: text: It is the same: any shock, any blow, any impact, all the metallurgy of the accident can be read in the semiurgy of the body — neither an anatomy nor a physiology, but a semiurgy of contusions, scars, mutilations, wounds that are so many new sexual organs opened in the body.
ref: 1994, Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, →ISBN, page 112:
text: In Baudrillard's scheme, the referential world of the commodity — needs, use value, and labor — was only a historical passageway for a radical semiurgy that aims at the liquidation of society and the real, their displacement through structural codes and signs. Radical semiurgy -- that is, the proliferation and dissemination of signs, -- constitutes a new source of abstract power that lies not in the commodity nor in the organization of the economy but in the autonomous development of the sign, whose genealogy Baudrillard traced in his studies of simulations.
ref: 1997, Steven Best, Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Turn, →ISBN, page 100:
text: For some postmodernists, semiurgy alone is not enough; it must be radicalized by an act of adjectival one-upmanship whose effect on the concept is pejorative.
ref: 2002, Gary Genosko, McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion, →ISBN, page 64:
text: In this postmodern society saturated by the dissemination of media messages and semiurgy, the apathetic masses have become 'a sullen silent majority' in which all meaning, messages and solicitations implode as they become bored and indifferent to the constant messages and attempts to slicit them to work, vote, buy, consume or register an opinion.
ref: 2006, Nik Farrell Fox, The New Sartre, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: The production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.
Derived terms: semiurgic
semiurgically
ill-willer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ill-willers
Etymology: Possibly a calque of Latin malevolēns from male (“ill”) + volēns (“(one) wishing”). By surface analysis, ill will + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These are the wordes (worthie Prince) wherewith you have pricked forwardes the violence of my malicious ill willers […]
ref: 1598, Robert Tofte, “A most excellent patheticall, and passionate Letter of Duke D’Epernoun, Minion, unto Henry the third, King of France and Polonia”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, Alba, The Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover, published 1880, page 136:
text: 1628, Francis Fletcher et al., The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, London: Nicholas Bourne, 1652, p. 30,
Proofs were required and alleadged, so many, and so evident, that the Gentleman himself, stricken with remorse of his inconsiderate and unkind dealing, acknowledged himself to have deserved death, yea many deaths; for that he conspired, not only the overthrow of the action, but of the principall Actor also, who was not a stranger or ill-willer, but a deare and true friend unto him […]
text: 1736, Benjamin Franklin, Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736, in The Prefaces, Proverbs and Poems of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889, p. 58,
These ill-willers of mine, despited at the great reputation I gain’d by exactly predicting another man’s death, have endeavoured to deprive me of it all at once in the most effectual manner, by reporting that I myself was never alive.
text: [Y]our ill-willers may, according to the custom of such persons, impute motives for your journey, whereof, although we know and believe you to be as clear as ourselves, yet natheless their words may find credence in places where the belief in them may much prejudice you […]
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: […] Sirs, this knave arrow likes me not. But it importeth rather to take counsel. Who should this be? Bethink you, Bennet. Of so many black ill-willers, which should he be that doth so hardily outface us?
ref: 1883 June 30 – October 20, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Prologue”, in The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1888, →OCLC:
synonyms: evil willer
antonyms: good willer
well-willer
well-wisher
glosses: One who harbours ill will.
ill-willers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ill-willer
aquatinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquatinters
Etymology: From aquatint + -er.
Senses: glosses: An artist who makes aquatints.
aquatinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquatinter
apriorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apriority
semiurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semiurgy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Baudrillard (1981, 185f.) describes the transition from a metallurgic society, defined as a society of production, to a semiurgic order characterized by the proliferation of signs, simulacra, and images.
ref: 1991, Henry A. Giroux, Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Baudrillard's semiurgic culture is thus infused with simulated codes and models that actually produce the reality which they purport to represent (Seidman, 1994).
ref: 2000, Jay J. Coakley, Eric Dunning, Handbook of Sports Studies, →ISBN, page 128:
text: "Semiurgic indeterminacy" means the impossibility of deciding whether the meanings of drama should be classified as signification or as reference: signification being that semiurgic or sign-working process (normally recognized as dominant in literature) in which the signifier is prior in operation to the signified, which latter itself always has the character of a sign, not that of a somehow nonsignifying reality; reference being that process (normally thought of as characterizing daily experience) in which the sign responds to a prior "referent," which has, at least relatively, the character of preexisting reality.
ref: 2005, Benjamin Bennett, All Theater is Revolutionary Theater, →ISBN, page 45:
text: The dictionary entry, as a semiurgic genre, is an important form of semiotic discourse that comprehensively describes a verbal sign as a unity of the signifier, the signified, and the context/usage.
ref: 2012, Mikhail Epstein, Igor E. Klyukanov, The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Pertaining to semiurgy; involving the creation of new meanings through the production of signifiers.
appayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appay
appays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appay
appaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appay
apostatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apostatise
apostatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apostatise
apostatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apostatise
apotropaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apotropaically
form: most apotropaically
Senses: glosses: In an apotropaic manner.
semiurgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiurgic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her art semiurgically alloys emblematic Western artifacts with evocative settings, resonating the dominant commercial aesthetic of the age.
ref: 1992, Timothy W. Luke, Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions, →ISBN:
text: Panic is the psychological mood of postmodernity understood semiurgically.
ref: 2002, Gary Genosko, McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Cold media work "semiurgically": that is to say, what is represented could have or acquire meaning, but is as yet an enigma.
ref: 2004, Arjen Mulder, Understanding Media Theory: Language, Image, Sound, Behavior, →ISBN:
glosses: In a semiurgic manner.
amrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amrita.
ampassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampassies
Senses: glosses: ampersand
ampassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampassy
amidogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidogen
ambergrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambergris
ambassages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambassage
alterabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alterability
alpinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpinism
aglus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aglu
aerobomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobombs
Etymology: From aero- + bomb.
Senses: examples: text: Extracting aerobomb's aerodynamic drag coefficient curve C_(df) from 3-dimensional theodolite film data is formulated as an optimal tracking control problem (OTCP), where the C_(df) the control function and the flight testing data are the desired trajectories.
ref: 1999, Yangquan Chen, Extracting aerobomb's aerodynamic drag coefficient curve from theodolite data via iterative learning 1:
glosses: A bomb dropped from an aircraft.
aerobombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobomb
acolyths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acolyth
abrays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abray
abrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abray
abraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abray
aborigens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aborigen
attainabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attainability
tragic heroine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragic heroines
Senses: topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A heroine who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes her downfall; a female tragic hero.
Related terms: tragic hero
tragic heroines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragic heroine
osteomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From osteo- + muscular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bone and muscle
hydnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydnoids
Senses: glosses: One of a group of fungi that have basidiocarps producing spores on tooth- or spine-like projections.
Synonyms: tooth fungus
hydnoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydnoid
tooth fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth fungi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hydnoid.
synonyms: word: hydnoid
tooth fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooth fungus
photocorrosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + corrosion.
Senses: glosses: corrosion by the action of light
Related terms: photocorrosive
preanalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preanalysed
form: pre-analyzed
Etymology: From pre- + analyzed.
Senses: glosses: analyzed in advance
pyridylazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridylazos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric univalent azo radicals derived from pyridine, C₅H₄N-N==N-, having the azo group in the 2-, 3- or 4- position
quasireversible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + reversible.
Senses: topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Apparently reversible
Related terms: quasireversibility
Sibuyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines.
Derived terms: Sibuyan Sea
autofocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + focal.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Having or relating to an autofocus feature.
aeromycology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From aero- + mycology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the dispersal of fungal spores in the air.
Derived terms: aeromycological
mycotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycotechnologies
Etymology: From myco- + technology.
Senses: glosses: biotechnology using fungi
aeromycological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + mycological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aeromycology.
roboreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roboreous
form: most roboreous
Etymology: From Latin roboreus, from robur (“oak”).
Senses: examples: text: A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous fires of his corporeal existence, which are, proverbially, the combined product of vigorous digestion […]
ref: 1854 June 24, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 20, page 327:
text: Isogogically we would announce our roboreous proclivities for linguistic exungulation.
ref: 1901, The Journal of Commercial Education - Volume 18, page 15:
text: In two cases coming under our observation, in the dissecting room, of where one upper jaw had been removed years previously, the elongated and tartar-invested teeth on the side of the mandible corresponding to the removed maxilla were in striking contrast to the roboreous, shining teeth of the opposite side.
ref: 1902, William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley, Regional Anatomy of the Head and Neck, page 51:
glosses: Sturdy, robust, as an oak tree.
philautia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɪˈlɔː.ti.ə/
Etymology: Loan from Greek φίλαυτοι, nominative of φίλαυτος, a compound of phil- + auto-
Senses: examples: text: Zwingli distinguished the origin of human sin with its Greek name, philautia. Philautia promotes the self over all others, both brother and father, neighbor and God. It is the wish for "things to be better for us than for others."
ref: 2003, Lee Palmer Wandel, Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich, page 65:
text: There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way. In Plato's Laws we first encounter the saying, apparently traditional, that "every man is naturally his own friend." This idea was to provide Aristotle with a developed theory of friendship.
ref: 2006, Oliver O'Donovan, The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine:
glosses: Self-love, self-conceit
Related terms: φίλαυτος on the Greek Wiktionary
mungaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌnˈdʒɑː.ɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mangiare (“to eat”). Doublet of mangarie.
Senses: glosses: food
massymore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæ.sɪ.mɔː/
Forms: form: massymores
Etymology: Probably from Spanish mazmorra (“dungeon”) (Portuguese masmorra). Doublet of mattamore.
Senses: examples: text: “Seize her and drag her to the Massymore!—To the deepest dungeon with the sorceress, whose master, the Devil, could alone have inspired her with boldness enough to insult the mother of Douglas in his own castle.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter V², in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: The dungeon of a castle.
yock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: yocks
form: yok
Senses: glosses: A laugh, especially a loud or hearty one.
yock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: yocks
form: yocking
form: yocked
form: yocked
form: yok
Senses: glosses: To laugh, especially loudly or uproariously
gammoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammoners
Etymology: From gammon + -er.
Senses: glosses: A thief's accomplice who distracts the victim while the thief steals.
perhapser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perhapsers
Senses: examples: text: So he meets his client, this governing director I have described, secure in his panoply of power, and he meets him not as a professional man, not as a business man, not as a man even of artistic attainment, but as a “perhapser,” partly an artist and partly a professional man, and with no tradition, no background, probably no reputation to sustain him―nothing but his native wit.
ref: 2013, Gilbert Russell, Planning Advertisements, page 21:
glosses: A person who says perhaps in regard to a particular issue.
peisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.zənt/
/ˈpeɪ.sənt/
Forms: form: more peisant
form: most peisant
Etymology: From Middle French pesant (“heavy, massive”).
Senses: glosses: Heavy, massive, forcible
sinoauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From sino- + auricular.
Senses: examples: text: Six instances of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia are reported, which show variations of the ventricular complexes transitional in shape to sinoauricular beats.
ref: 1952 October, William Dressler, Hugo Roesler, “The occurrence in paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia of ventricular complexes transitional in shape to sinoauricular beats: A diagnostic aid”, in American heart journal, volume 44, number 4:
text: The influence of stretch due to increased intraluminal pressure on the formation and conduction of electrical impulse was studied electrocardiographically in 12 isolated sinoauricular chambers of frog hearts perfused with frogs' Ringer.
ref: 1957, C.L. Pathak, “Effect of stretch on formation and conduction of electrical impulses in the isolated sinoauricular chamber of frog's heart”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 192, numbers 111-113:
text: The influence of changes of imposed rhythm and/or crushing of the sinoauricular node on the total cholinesterase activity and excitability cycle of the ventricular muscle has been investigated.
ref: 1963, Bohdan Lewartowski, “Functional changes in ventricular muscle after crushing the sinoauricular node”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 204, numbers 458-460:
text: On the assumption that different parts of the original tube underwent development at different rates, the auricles and ventricles of the adult heart could be viewed as highly developed cavities which had bulged out from the original tube, while the remnant of that tube could be recognized in the undeveloped fibers of the sinus, the sinoauricular ring, the auricular partition, and the auriculo-ventricular ring.
ref: 2015, Gerald L. Geison, Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of sinoatrial.
synonyms: word: sinoatrial
sino-auricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The incidence of sino-auricular block became less and less frequent in this animal within the next half hour.
ref: 1955, Bruno Kisch, Experimental Medicine and Surgery - Volume 13, page 202:
text: Located in the posterior wall of the right auricle just below the opening of the superior vena cava, the sino-auricular node (SA node) is a small crescentic node of specialized muscle of about 3 mm in width and 1 cm in length.
ref: 2007, P. K. Gupta, Genetics Classical To Modern, →ISBN, page 5-72:
text: Sino-auricular block is a rare form in which the spread of the stimulus from the sino-auricular node to the auricular muscle is inhibited by influences the nature of which is unknown except that it occasionally occurs under treatment by digitalis.
ref: 2014, Arthur H. Douthwaite, French's Index of Differential Diagnosis, →ISBN, page 655:
glosses: Alternative form of sinoauricular.
wallowsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wallowsome
form: most wallowsome
Etymology: From wallow + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Though the man was 'a thick, gorged, bloated monstrosity, rotund, wallowsome and flat footed', people in England, the Sydney Bulletin said, had believed in him with a profound and childlike faith.
ref: 2004, David McKie, Jabez:
text: The numerous bulging clouds hid it behind their wallowsome masses.
ref: 2005, Michael B. George, Mystic Kingdoms:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wallowing
soft-peddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of soft-pedal.
soft peddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soft peddles
form: soft peddling
form: soft peddled
form: soft peddled
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of soft-pedal.
songsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more songsome
form: most songsome
Etymology: From song + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Ah I my heart, / Lift up your voice; take songsome part, / And swell the chorus grand.
ref: 1889, Travelers' Record - Volumes 25-26
text: And when you've got this silver piece, Just order up a stein— Got to with songsome black-bird pies— The frosty stein for mine!
ref: 1907, Puck, volume 62:
text: "Aye," said John Hampden quickly, "but he is secret and apart. Does not Robert Hedge cut as fair a stone? Is he not friendly to all? Does he not play the tambor and sing as gay and songsome as a lark?"
ref: 1952, Lorna Doone Beers, The Book of Hugh Flower:
glosses: Characterised or marked by song(s) or singing
meganovel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meganovels
Etymology: From mega- + novel.
Senses: glosses: An extremely large novel.
Hypernyms: megabook
meganovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meganovel
airsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airsome
form: most airsome
Etymology: From air + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “A bit airsome, sir.” Airsome, indeed! The tired old ship, unable to advance in the teeth of such frenzy, “ burned down” for the night; which is to say, stopped and reduced steam. Her boilers needed cleaning, too, and behold the opportunity.
ref: 1969, George Allan England, The greatest hunt in the world:
text: New Venice was nothing close to hot or even warm, but outside was certainly airsome, and the atmosphere was as solid as a hall of mirrors.
ref: 2010, Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorarama:
glosses: Characterised or marked by air, especially bracingly cold air; windy; stormy
abraxases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abraxas
accustomation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming accustomed to something; habituation.
aconitines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aconitine
acquiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquirals
Senses: glosses: The process of acquiring something; acquisition.
acquirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquiral
acriflavines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acriflavine
actiniae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinia
acyclovirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acyclovir
actinomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to actinomycetes.
adaptivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adaptivity
foregrounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregrounders
Etymology: From foreground + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He got involved with J. P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt who were both foregrounders of the liberal conservation policies in America at that time, and the Indian was seen as a salvageable conservation project within that context […]
ref: 1975, Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill, Cantrill's Filmnotes, numbers 21-32, page 64:
glosses: One who brings something to the foreground.
foregrounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foregrounder
admirabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of admirability
between you and me and these four walls
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of between you and me.
synonyms: word: between you and me
adorabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adorability
adrenergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: adrenergically mediated atrial fibrillation
glosses: By means of, or in terms of, adrenaline or epinephrine.
adwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adward
adwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adward
Aepyornises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aepyornis
debaptize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debaptizes
form: debaptizing
form: debaptized
form: debaptized
form: debaptise
Etymology: From de- + baptize.
Senses: examples: text: New street names cannot cause confusion with existing streets, nor is it any longer permitted to debaptize parts of streets in order to give them new names […]
ref: 1999, Mary Blume, A French Affair: The Paris Beat, 1965-1998, page 25:
glosses: To undo the baptism of.
examples: text: The volkisch leanings were therefore, for example, to debaptize the Christian festivals and consecrate them instead to the gods of the Teutons, who constituted the Volksgeist, the “heritage from the ancestors” or the genius of the race.
ref: 2004, Eric Michaud, The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, tr. from French by Janet Lloyd, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Fargue had persuaded Jarry to ‘debaptize’ him from the more explicit original title, Caméleo, ‘Leo’ being too obviously related to ‘Léon’.
ref: 2010, Jill Fell, Alfred Jarry, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: To rename or to remove a name from.
Related terms: debaptism
debaptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debaptize
debaptizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debaptize
debaptizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debaptize
aerobusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerobus
aerostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hot-air balloon flight
aerospaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerospace
orotone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orotones
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic print on glass, decorated with gold leaf or coloured with a gold pigment.
orotones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orotone
Euro-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euro-American
Euroamericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroamerican
affixial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an affix.