cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chymist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chymists
Senses: examples: text: And indeed, when in the writings of Paracelſus I meet with ſuch Phantaſtick and Un-intelligible Diſcourſes as that Writer often puzzels and tyres his Reader with, father'd upon ſuch excellent Experiments, as though he ſeldom clearly teaches, I often find he knew ; me thinks the Chymiſts, in their ſearches after truth, are not unlike the Navigators of Solomons Tarſhiſh Fleet, who brought home from their long and tedious Voyages, not only Gold, and Silver, and Ivory, but Apes and Peacocks too ; For ſo the Writings of ſeveral (for I ſay not, all) of your Hermetick Philoſophers preſent us, together with divers Subſtantial and noble Experiments, Theories, which either like Peacocks feathers make a great ſhew, but are neither ſolid nor uſeful ; or elſe like Apes, if they have ſome appearance of being rational, are blemiſh'd with ſome abſurdity or other, that when they are Attentively conſider'd, makes them appear Ridiculous.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “THE CONCLUSION”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical, As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Diſcourſe relating to the ſame Subject, London: J. Caldwell, pages 429–430:
text: "Count, I have no physician, nor do I mean to have one. I paid more to those medical men at Brighton than is satisfactory to my conscience on reflection; but, as I took care of the prescription, I get my drugs from the chymists, and make them up at home."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: Chymists speak of imponderable substances, which is as impossible a conception as that of atoms.
ref: 1882, F. Max Müller, Lectures on the Science of Language, volume II, page 632:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chemist.
Angromainyus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ahriman
executability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksɪkjuːtəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From execute + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The executability of the file would depend on compatibility with the updated hardware.
text: The executability of his command would depend upon the remaining strength and stamina of the men.
glosses: The extent to which something may be executed.
cat stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat stretches
Senses: glosses: A stretch position, naturally and comfortably assumed by a limber feline or imitated by a human (notably as a gymnastic exercise), on all fours with the back maximally arched and pointing upwards.
tiger economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger economies
Etymology: Originally in reference to the "Four Asian Tigers" (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), from the importance of the tiger in Asian symbolism.
Senses: examples: text: As the levels of education improved, many South East Asian countries became tiger economies.
glosses: A place enjoying very fast economic growth.
economic growth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic growths
Senses: examples: text: As a result of inward investment, Eire enjoyed substantial economic growth.
text: The spending in and around local stations is creating micro-economies that are benefiting Great Britain's high streets, independent businesses and economic growth, both locally and on a national level.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The growth of the economic output of a country.
Venetian ceruse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its supposed origin in Venice.
Senses: glosses: A form of ceruse variously claimed to be pure white lead, equal parts white lead and barium sulfate, or white lead mixed with water and vinegar, used to whiten skin and dry sores before it was recognized to cause lead poisoning.
Synonyms: Venetian white
spirits of Saturn
economic output
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic outputs
Senses: examples: text: The economic output of all countries in the EU has increased considerably during the last three decades.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The value of goods and services produced in a country, region or other entity.
invisible export
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invisible exports
Senses: examples: text: Although physical imports exceeded exports, when invisible exports were accounted for the balance of payments was healthy.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Any export that does not have a tangible physical presence (e.g. expertise, insurance underwriting).
Related terms: invisible import
economic refugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic refugees
Senses: examples: text: Many people objected to the government allowing entry to so many economic refugees.
glosses: A person fleeing poverty rather than political persecution or the results of a natural disaster.
better light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Knowing the real reasons for his actions enabled her to view them in a better light.
glosses: A way of presenting or perceiving something such that it appears more favourably than by an alternative presentation or perception.
taxi rank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi ranks
Senses: examples: Getting off the train he made his way to the taxi rank.
synonyms: cab rank
glosses: An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers.
examples: Although she detested her client, the taxi rank system meant she had no choice but to take the case.
synonyms: cab-rank rule
glosses: The system whereby barristers must accept a brief if they are the first available when one comes up.
Synonyms: taxicab stand
cab stand
taxi stand
cab rank
hack stand
creakier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of creaky: more creaky
DSLR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DSLRs
Etymology: Initialism of digital single-lens reflex.
Senses: examples: text: Still images are captured at 14-megapixel resolution, which matches some high-end D.S.L.R. cameras, and the unit seems to do a good job of coping with a variety of lighting conditions.
ref: 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A digital single-lens reflex camera.
Coordinate terms: RF
P&S
PS
Related terms: SLR
ZLR
homo sapien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homo sapiens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Homo sapien.
antithalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æn.tɪˈθeɪ.li.ən/
Forms: form: more antithalian
form: most antithalian
Etymology: From anti- + thalian.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Toobad described her as being […] altogether as gloomy and antithalian a young lady as Mr Glowry himself could desire for the future mistress of Nightmare Abbey.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey:
text: an ascetic component that has caused many postrevolutionary societies, whatever their ideology, to become so unspeakably antithalian after the initial period of creative euphoria is over.
ref: 1990, Houchang E. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Opposed to fun or festivity.
green gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: electrum
glosses: An alloy of gold and silver, used in some jewellery, and having a greenish-yellow color.
glosses: A valuable agricultural crop.
bubble sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble sorts
Etymology: A metaphor, suggesting the way that elements gradually bubble to the top of the array after consecutive comparisons.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sorting algorithm in which pairs of neighboring values are compared and swapped into the right order if necessary in the innermost loop.
fall about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls about
form: falling about
form: fell about
form: fallen about
Senses: examples: Every time he performed the trick people would fall about laughing.
glosses: To laugh so much that one's entire body moves somewhat uncontrollably.
Synonyms: fall about the place
falls about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall about
falling about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall about
fell about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall about
cosy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosies up
form: cosying up
form: cosied up
form: cosied up
form: cozy up
Senses: examples: text: If you two are cold, you can cosy up by the fireplace.
glosses: To snuggle.
Derived terms: cosy up to
cosies up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosy up
cosying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosy up
cosied up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosy up
Gouda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊ̯də/
ipa: /ˈɡuːdə/
rhymes: -aʊdə
rhymes: -uːdə
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in South Holland province, Netherlands.
Gouda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊ̯də/
ipa: /ˈɡuːdə/
rhymes: -aʊdə
rhymes: -uːdə
Forms: form: Goudas
Senses: glosses: A yellow Dutch cheese made from cows' milk.
sign out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signs out
form: signing out
form: signed out
form: signed out
Senses: examples: text: He was the last person to sign out of the building that night.
text: After making the necessary edits, always sign out of the system.
synonyms: log off#Verb
log out#Verb
sign off#Verb
antonyms: log in#Verb
log on#Verb
sign in#Verb
sign on#Verb
glosses: To sign one's name as an indication that one is leaving some location; to take some action to indicate one is leaving a secured program or web page on a computer.
examples: text: If you want to take a book home from the library, you must sign it out.
text: To sign out a book, you must present your library card to the clerk.
glosses: To remove (something) and take (it) into one's possession, having registered or signed for it in some way as a record of possession and a promise to return it (e.g., by your signature or log-in credentials).
raw_tags: of library books
glosses: To signal.
glosses: To say something through sign language.
Derived terms: word: sign-out
word: signout
signs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sign out
signing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sign out
signed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sign out
signs in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sign in
signing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sign in
signed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sign in
signs on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sign on
signing on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Bedlington's old platform is being dismantled for replacement, while at the northern end, activity at Ashington continues to be focused on completion of the new car park and building the new train crew signing-on point.
ref: 2023 November 15, “Network News: Northumberland Line station progress”, in RAIL, number 996, page 16:
glosses: present participle and gerund of sign on
signed on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sign on
signs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sign off
signing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sign off
traffic sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic signs
Senses: examples: text: The traffic signs on motorways are particularly clear and well lit at night.
text: 2021, "New rules on major EU roads should improve infrastructure safety", ETSC
One omission is any language on getting roads ready for automated systems in transport. ETSC had called for provisions on ensuring that road markings, signs and infrastructure take into account the specific needs of e.g. traffic sign recognition and automated lane keeping systems.
glosses: A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.
road sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road signs
Senses: examples: text: The road signs on motorways are particularly clear and well lit at night.
text: The organization pointed out that for speed assistance systems to work accurately, there must be clear and visible road signs placed at regular intervals.
translation: This changes everything – the mandatory device in your car that won’t let you exceed the speed limit, Unión Rayo US, 24/09/2024
english: This changes everything – the mandatory device in your car that won’t let you exceed the speed limit, Unión Rayo US, 24/09/2024
glosses: A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.
Related terms: english: in urban areas
translation: in urban areas
word: street sign
word: traffic sign
pest control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "We have done some targeted pest control, and it has made a huge difference. It's a serious topic. We looked at why there were so many power trips at Ladbroke Grove. And it was an infestation of birds."
ref: 2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 28:
glosses: The regulation or management of a species defined as a pest.
glosses: A service that removes pests.
Related terms: pestology
exterminator
signs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sign up
signing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sign up
signed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sign up
jacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jacked up
form: most jacked up
form: jacked-up
Etymology: From jack (“raise with a jack”).
* “Wrecked, messed up” sense possibly an extension of the “under the influence of stimulants” sense
Senses: examples: text: Do you want to rotate the tires while we have the car jacked up?
glosses: Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
examples: text: He took us for a ride in his awesome new jacked up truck.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
examples: text: It's hard to make ends meet with the jacked up price of gas.
text: The new jacked up triple-barrel cannons helped turn the tide of the war.
glosses: Significantly increased or expanded.
examples: text: They were all jacked up on coke.
glosses: Under the influence of stimulants; high.
examples: text: 2002 July 15, Kevin Boyce, Loud Rock, CMJ New Music Report, page 13,
Late summer is going to be a fantastic time to be a metal fan and we′re more jacked-up about it than a truckload of nymphomaniacs let loose in a dildo factory.
text: The longer I ride my horse, the more jacked-up he gets. Why?
ref: 2010, Smokie Brannaman, Equiknowlogy 101, page 68:
text: To see everything that I have seen and to hear everything I heard in only a few minutes after kicking off made me even more excited and more jacked up to do this march.
ref: 2011, Wayne LaPointe, Jose Martinez, Radical, page 272:
glosses: Stimulated, excited.
examples: text: That jacked up refrigerator hasn't moved from that curb in months.
text: My elbow is all jacked up from playing tennis.
glosses: Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
examples: text: Dude, your girlfriend left you for your brother? That's jacked up.
glosses: Reprehensible; objectionable.
glosses: Bankrupt; insolvent; ruined; done for.
glosses: Absent, having quit, given up, or having abandoned one's post.
Synonyms: sense: wrecked, damaged
word: jacked
word: screwed up
word: messed up
word: fucked up
word: deteriorated
word: broken
word: wounded
sense: reprehensible, objectionable
word: screwed up
sense: reprehensible, objectionable
word: messed up
sense: reprehensible, objectionable
word: fucked up
jacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacked-up
Etymology: From jack (“raise with a jack”).
* “Wrecked, messed up” sense possibly an extension of the “under the influence of stimulants” sense
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jack up
cupellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kjuːpəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: cupellations
Etymology: From cupellate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act or an act of cupellating, the assaying of a precious metal in a cupel.
assaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assay
assaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assayings
Senses: examples: text: To these [compounds] belong native gold, alloys of gold and silver, and the argentiferous gold, or auriferous silver, obtained from the assayings of auriferous minerals and ores.
ref: 1854, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Sheridan Muspratt, The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products, and Other Metallic Combinations:
glosses: A trial by assay.
ombudsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ombudsman
potable gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From potable + gold. From being something drinkable that is like gold.
* (alchemy): from being an elixir that confers the untarnishability and eternity of gold to a person
Senses: examples: text: This tradition found its way to the West in the notion of ‘potable gold’ (aurum potabile), a medicine that, if drunk, would cure all manner of ills.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 60:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life on the drinker.
examples: text: The tincture of the gold known as Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold had a wide reputation in the eighteenth century as an aphrodisiac stimulant.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:
glosses: A preparation consisting of gold particles in oil and alcohol.
Synonyms: sense: drink conferring eternal life
word: elixir of life
Related terms: colloidal gold
purple of Cassius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Andreas Cassius, a glassmaker from Potsdam who first described its creation.
Senses: examples: text: Purple of Cassius was used not just by glassmakers but by porcelain manufacturers to make a fine red glaze.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 61:
glosses: A pigment formed from gold and tin salts, used in glassmaking.
debrines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debrine
debrining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debrine
debrined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debrine
belies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belie
scrutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrutabilities
Senses: glosses: The property of being scrutable; openness to inspection.
contestability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contest + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the popularity of the sitting candidate, the contestability of the seat was poor.
glosses: The property of being contestable or debatable.
Derived terms: incontestability
what do I know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Maybe girl grasshoppers find long legs attractive in boy grasshoppers, but what do I know?
coordinate_terms: what do you know
you don't know what you're talking about#Phrase
glosses: Implies that a statement is based on a guess or assumption rather than on knowledge or evidence.
Related terms: how should I know
how would I know
I don't know
I know
know-nothing
IANAL
high tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high tackles
Senses: examples: text: The game was never going to be won by how good a team attacks, though, but with defence. When captain Kolisi was sin-binned for a high tackle, the Boks could've easily capitulated.
ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A dangerous form of tackling in which a player tackles above the shoulders.
high tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high tackle
dump tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dump tackles
Senses: qualifier: rugby union; rugby league; rugby union; rugby league
glosses: A legal form of tackling when the player wraps their arms around the ball carrier's thighs and lifts them a short distance in the air before forcibly driving them to the ground.
Synonyms: spear tackle
dump tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dump tackle
akoasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈækəʊˌæzəm/
Forms: form: akoasms
form: acoasm
Senses: glosses: An auditory hallucination
Derived terms: akoasmic
akoasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akoasm
spear tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spear tackle
agomphious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγόμφιος (agómphios, “without molars”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γομφίος (gomphíos, “molar”), from γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”)) + -ious.
Senses: glosses: toothless
affabulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affabulations
Senses: examples: text: A crucial fact is that, my work advancing, what I'll find rising in priority isn't its initial point of application but its ongoing articulation for, if you think of it, communication (I might almost say 'communion') is ubiquitous, a signal coursing from this individual to that, from so-and-so to such-and-such, a two-way traffic in an idiom of transitivity or narrativity, fiction or imagination, affabulation or approbation, saga or song.
ref: 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
glosses: The moral of a fable.
affabulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affabulation
agerasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡ.əˈɹeɪ.ʒə/
rhymes: -eɪʒə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγηρασία (agērasía, “eternal youth”). Compare gero-, athanasy.
Senses: glosses: An outward appearance more youthful than one's true age.
Related terms: permayouth
puer aeternus
aerugo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iːˈɹuːɡoʊ/
/ɪˈɹuːɡoʊ/
/aɪˈɹuːɡoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aerūgō, from aes (“copper, bronze, brass”).
Senses: glosses: Metallic rust, particularly of brass or copper; verdigris; patina.
blood bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood bins
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A temporary substitution for a visibly-bleeding player who must leave the field of play for first aid treatment.
Synonyms: blood replacement
blood bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood bin
blood replacements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood replacement
ablepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblɛp.si.ə/
Forms: form: ablepsy
form: ablepsis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀβλεψία (ablepsía, “blindness”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βλέπω (blépō, “see”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of sight; blindness.
acyanoblepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- not, cyan blue, and ablepsia blindness.
Senses: glosses: Inability to see the colour blue.
aduncity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin aduncitās (“hookedness”), from aduncus + -itās. By surface analysis, adunc + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Crookedness, curvaceousness, hookedness.
Related terms: adunc
aduncate
aduncous
advenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advenient
form: most advenient
Etymology: From the present participle of Latin advenīre.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, being thus divided from truth in themselves, they are yet farther removed by advenient deception.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
glosses: Caused by outside forces; coming from without; external, additional.
Derived terms: superadvenient
awm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aam.
awms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awm
nippitatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪpɪˈtɑːtəm/
Forms: form: nippitatums
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps compare nipperkin.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly she wheels around on Boyles. ‘You, flattop – 'ow 'bout a snootful o' nippitatum, eh? Eh?’
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 283:
glosses: Strong beer or ale (or occasionally some other alcoholic drink).
zumology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of zymology
lamprophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăm-prŏf'-ə-nē
ipa: /læmˈpɹɑf.ə.ni/
ipa: /læmˈpɹɒf.ə.ni/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λαμπρόφωνος (lampróphōnos, “clear-voiced”). By surface analysis, Ancient Greek λαμπρός (lamprós, “clear, distinct”) + -phony.
Senses: glosses: loudness and clarity of enunciation
Derived terms: lamprophonic
inaniloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈneɪnɪˌləʊkwənt/
ipa: /ɪˈneɪnɪˌloʊkwənt/
Forms: form: more inaniloquent
form: most inaniloquent
Etymology: From Latin inānis (“empty, hollow, void; vain; worthless; foolish, inane”) + loquī (from loquor (“to say, speak, tell, talk”)); compare ināniloquium (“nonsense; vain talking”).
Senses: glosses: Tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous.
Synonyms: english: chiefly found in dictionaries
translation: chiefly found in dictionaries
word: inaniloquous
anonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anonym
salinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælɪnaɪz/
Forms: form: salinizes
form: salinizing
form: salinized
form: salinized
form: salinise
Etymology: From saline + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Salinized drinking water probably is the best insurance that the men will take the salt during the working hours of the day. A study from the Inland Steel Company⁵⁶, in which a section of steel workers, 3,000 men, were given salinized drinking water, 0·1 per cent., showed good results as compared with the control group.
ref: 1920, Henry Asbury Christian & James Mackenzie, The Oxford Medicine, volume 4, part 3, p21 (Oxford University Press, American branch)
text: 2. Place the pipets in a drying oven at 180°C. Inject 100 μL of tributylchlorosilane (TBCS) through a port in the top of the oven, and leave to salinize for 30 min. Allow the fumes to disperse, before removing the pipets. Caution: TBCS is harmful, and this procedure should be carried out in a fume hood. Take other precautions as local safety rules require.
ref: 1995, Heddwyn Jones, Plant Gene Transfer and Expression Protocols, Humana Press, →ISBN, page 328, →ISBN:
text: The success of Tamarix relates to its ability, as a phreatophyte, to grow rapidly under mesophytic riparian conditions, but then, as a deciduous salt-pumping shrub, to salinize the floodplain ecosystems which it invades.
ref: 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, Jay Ennis Anderson, Russell K. Monson, Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Springer, →ISBN, page 225, →ISBN:
text: Soil erosion is only one of many serious threats to farmland. Much of the twentieth century’s gains in crop production was due to irrigation. But irrigation can also salinize soils. Because most irrigation occurs in parched regions, the abundant sunlight of dry climates evaporates much of the water away, leaving salts behind.
ref: 2004, Dr Michael Mayerfeld Bell & Michael S. Carolan, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (Second Edition), p14 (Pine Forge Press (SAGE Publications); →ISBN (10) (13))
glosses: to become or render salty
Related terms: desalinize
saline
salinization
salinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salinize
salinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salinize
splain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splains
form: splaining
form: splained
form: splained
form: 'splain
Etymology: Aphetic form of explain.
Senses: examples: text: "Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness."
ref: 1881, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus:
text: "Why, Lor' bless you, I never knew nothing about the rights of them things till you splained them to me yesterday, boss."
ref: 1905, R. F. Foster, “In Self Defence”, in The Bookman, volume 21:
text: "Den," he confided, "I 'splained to de release man 'bout lookin' fur a settin'-down job, an' he jes' sorta motioned to de do'."
ref: 1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 195:
glosses: Aphetic form of explain.
splain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splains
form: splaining
form: splained
form: splained
form: 'splain
Etymology: Partly from the preceding sense, partly from -splain (after mansplaining).
Senses: examples: text: Those who splain may have the intent of helping the situation, but the actual impact of their actions can feel condescending or insulting.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Brown, How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Creating Trust, Cooperation, and Community across Differences, Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: To condescendingly explain something, often extensively, especially to someone that knows more about it; for example, to mansplain, whitesplain, etc.
salinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salinized
form: most salinized
Senses: glosses: Made salty
salinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salinize
welp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlp/
ipa: [wɛlp̚]
rhymes: -ɛlp
homophone: whelp (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whelp
Etymology: Representing well pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yep, yup, nope, and ope.
Senses: examples: text: “Nuclear power is a dual-use technology. It can be weaponized.” Welp. “It is sort of what we anticipated, that there would be a Three Mile Island moment around data sharing that would rock the research community,” Lazer says.
ref: 2018 March 25, Adam Rogers, “The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted in 2007”, in Wired:
text: Ah, jeez. Oh boy. Yikes. It seems the human culmination of American liberalism lost to a senile (alleged!) rapist game show host. Welp. Pobody’s nerfect, as the old saying goes.
ref: 2019 October 15, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, “Libs”, in The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Well. Typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.
salinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salinises
form: salinising
form: salinised
form: salinised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of salinize.
omens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omen
omens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of omen
simplifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of simplify
simplifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of simplify
nonhazardous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-hazardous
Etymology: From non- + hazardous.
Senses: glosses: Not hazardous; safe.
nongovernmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From non- + governmental.
Senses: examples: text: When a fishing boat of Huangqi township of Fujian's Lianjiang county, which was engaged in nongovernmental trade, was having a transaction with a Matzu trader near the waters of Matzu island on the afternoon of 23 April, the troops garrisoned in Matzu opened fire at them, killing one and injuring two.
ref: 1995 May 2 [1995 April 28], “Matzu Troops Fire at Fishermen, Killing One”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 95-084, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, translation of original by Zhou Xiang (0719 5046) [周翔], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 2:
text: To the contrary, compared to the Pew Research Center respondents who either worked for government or lived in a household with someone who did, those who worked for nongovernmental employers under contracts and grants were usually the most distrusting of all.
ref: 2010, Paul C. Light, The True Size of Government, page 79:
text: The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021.
ref: 2024 December 30, Associated Press, “The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women”, in CNN:
glosses: Not governmental; not derived from a government; civilian.
Derived terms: english: nongovernmental organization
translation: nongovernmental organization
word: NGO
word: nongovernmentally
nonskid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + skid.
Senses: examples: nonskid tires
glosses: Having a surface designed to prevent or reduce skidding; not able to skid or be skidded upon.
Synonyms: nonslip
nonslip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + slip.
Senses: glosses: Having a surface designed to prevent or reduce slipping; not able to slip or be slipped upon.
Synonyms: nonskid
doop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dop (“cup in which diamond is cut”).
bifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bifidus (“divided in two”), from bi- (“two”) + -fidus, combining form of findere (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: bifurcated, bipartite, bilobar, bilobular, split, forked
text: bifid tongue
translation: split tongue
english: split tongue
coordinate_terms: trifid
quadrifid
quinquefid
sexfid
sexifid
octofid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
multifid
multifidous
glosses: Cleft; divided into two principal or main parts, such as two lobes.
Derived terms: bifid cipher
bifidly
subbifid
blood group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood groups
Senses: glosses: A blood type.
straw mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw mushrooms
Senses: glosses: A small, edible mushroom used primarily in the cuisines of East and Southeast Asia, Volvariella volvacea.
echogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more echogenic
form: most echogenic
Etymology: From echo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing any inner part of the body that reflects sound waves and thus produces echos that may be detected using ultrasound scanners.
Derived terms: anechogenic
nonechogenic
Related terms: echogenicity
hyperechogenic
hyperechogenicity
hypoechogenic
hypoechogenicity
five-spice powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-spice powders
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 五香粉 (wǔxiāngfěn).
Senses: glosses: A ground mixture of five varieties of spice used in Chinese, East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. One common mixture contains star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seeds.
Bevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicisation of Welsh ab Ifan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
Derived terms: Bevan circle
Bevanism
Bevanite
Bevan point
NPK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the chemical symbols for each element, hence K being used for potassium (formerly known as kalium).
Senses: glosses: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium (or Potash)
combatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of combat
flat-bottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flat-bottomed
form: most flat-bottomed
form: flat-bottom
form: flatbottomed
form: flat bottomed
Senses: examples: a flat-bottomed bowl
glosses: Having a flat bottom.
protyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊtaɪl/
Forms: form: protyles
form: prothyl
form: prothyle
form: protyl
Etymology: From proto- + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “timber, material”).
Senses: examples: text: Two principles are postulated, according to which the elements have probably been evolved: (1) the ontogenic principle, involving the formation of the primary members of the different groups by direct condensation of protyl; (2) the phytogenetic principle, by which the higher members of the groups are developed from the lower by a process of integration.
ref: 1918, E. H. R., Abstract of Curt Schmidt, "The Periodic System and Genesis of the Elements", in Journal of the Chemical Society, vol. 114, part 2, 1918, p. 305–306
text: Dumas wondered whether the fundamental building blocks of atoms might be some smaller division of the hydrogen atom: a half, say, or a quarter. This basic substance became known as ‘protyle’.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 73:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.
Related terms: pantogen
subatomic particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subatomic particle
corner shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner shops
Senses: examples: text: After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.
ref: 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 123:
glosses: A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of everyday items and is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.
Synonyms: word: mini-mart
word: newsagent
sense: American English
word: convenience store
sense: American English
word: c-store
sense: American English
english: genericized trademark
translation: genericized trademark
word: 7-Eleven
word: corner store
word: convenience store
word: variety store
word: dépanneur
word: corner store
word: milk bar
word: dairy
word: superette
word: minimarket
Rhesus factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhesus factors
form: Rh factor
Etymology: The antigen was discovered in connection with a research of rhesus monkeys.
Senses: glosses: An antigen of the Rhesus system; understood unless otherwise specified to refer to Rhesus factor D (RhD), which appears on the surface of the red blood cells of most (85%) humans. An incompatibility between the Rh-blood types of a mother and her baby may cause serious disease for the baby.
Related terms: Rhesus negative
Rhesus positive
mid-twentieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + twentieth.
Senses: examples: Since the mid-twentieth century, the exchange of Orders has become less personal and more formal and diplomatic. http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4872.asp
glosses: Usually used before century to indicate the middle part of the 20th century. The term is often used to refer to the events that occurred in the second third of the twentieth century (1934–1967). However, in architecture, preservation, and real estate, it is commonly used to refer to the period from after World War II to the mid-1970s.
Synonyms: mid-20th
bhunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhunders
Senses: glosses: A rhesus macaque.
U-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more U-shaped
form: most U-shaped
Senses: examples: http://www.nps.gov/archive/olym/uv.htm,
After the ice melts away, the valley appears U-shaped.
glosses: Shaped like the letter U; bent such that the two ends are parallel.
examples: a U-shaped valley
glosses: Having a cross-section similar in appearance to a broad U.
Synonyms: hyoid
Derived terms: U-shaped recession
U-shaped valley
U-shapedness
U-shapedly
Related terms: A-shaped - B-shaped - C-shaped - D-shaped - E-shaped - F-shaped - G-shaped - H-shaped - I-shaped - J-shaped - K-shaped - L-shaped - M-shaped - N-shaped - O-shaped - P-shaped - Q-shaped - R-shaped - S-shaped - T-shaped - U-shaped - V-shaped - W-shaped - X-shaped - Y-shaped - Z-shaped
two-wheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having two wheels; birotate.
aphorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aphorises
form: aphorising
form: aphorised
form: aphorised
form: aphorize
Senses: examples: text: At the drop of a hat, he would aphorise an experience into a few memorable words.
glosses: To create an aphorism from.
glosses: To use aphorisms.
Derived terms: aphoriser
assonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assonates
form: assonating
form: assonated
form: assonated
Etymology: From Latin assonō, from ad (“to, towards”) + sonō (“I sound, resound”).
Senses: examples: text: Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: To correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds.
aphorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aphorizes
form: aphorizing
form: aphorized
form: aphorized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aphorise.
antigene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigenes
Etymology: From anti- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An oligonucleotide that attaches to a specific gene and suppresses its action.
tent embassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tent embassies
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Jens Brøsted, Jens Dahl (editors), Native Power: The Quest for Autonomy and Nationhood of Indigenous Peoples, Scandinavian University Press, page 55,
Outstanding examples of this genre of moral opposition are the tent embassies erected at different times in Washington, Canberra, Ottawa, Oslo and other capital cities.
text: Māori started to demand that the Treaty be honoured. The rise of Nga TamaToa (the young warriors), tent embassies in Parliament grounds, and other forms of protest pushed the agenda.
ref: 2003, Janine Hayward, Local Government and the Treaty of Waitangi, Oxford University Press, page 25:
text: In Australia and New Zealand tent embassies were set up inside the grounds of their respective Parliaments; in Hawai′i, the island of Kaho′olawe was occupied by activists protesting against its use by the us Navy for bombing practice.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Sissons, First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures, UK: Reaktion Books, page 72:
text: It took many attention-grabbing forms: freedom rides, land marches, tent embassies, blockades, sieges, stand-offs, demonstrations, lobbying, denunciations, and funereal silences, even filibustering.
ref: 2011, P. G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights, Oxford University Press, page 61:
glosses: A semipermanent encampment set up as the focal point of a protest, particularly with regard to the rights of indigenous people.
bespeckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespeckles
form: bespeckling
form: bespeckled
form: bespeckled
Etymology: From be- + speckle.
Senses: examples: text: Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.
glosses: To add speckles.
give it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives it up
form: giving it up
form: gave it up
form: given it up
Senses: examples: text: “Ladies and gentleman, give it up for the next First Lady of New York City!”
ref: 2013, Bill de Blasio’s Victory Speech, New York Times, retrieved 27 Apr 2014:
glosses: To welcome onto a stage by cheering or applauding.
raw_tags: followed by for
examples: text: My husband thinks it's 'cause they're all raised Catholic and their girls don't give it up easily, except for the prostitutes.
ref: 2009, Willy Vlautin, Northline:
coordinate_terms: give in
give up
give way
glosses: To agree to sexual intercourse, especially if reluctantly.
glosses: To hand over or relinquish; to explain something or tell a secret.
arborise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arborises
form: arborising
form: arborised
form: arborised
form: arborize
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The nerve fibre arborises into multiple branches.
text: Either in the spinal medulla or in the brain stem the axons end by arborising round nerve-cells and the impulses which they convey are transferred to these upper neurones.
ref: 1915, T. B. Johnston, chapter 1, in Medical Applied Anatomy,, London: A. and C. Black, page 4:
text: A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.
ref: 1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, New York: Macmillan, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 433:
glosses: To develop a tree-like appearance.
examples: text: Tall, wide shrubs take up a huge amount of space in a small garden, so remove the lower limbs to provide more space underneath. […] When you “arborize” the shrub by limbing it up, you’ll discover an elegant, multi-trunked structure […]
ref: 2008, Jen Weaverling, editor, Creative Flower Gardening, Minnetonka, MN: National Home Gardening Club, page 128:
text: His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, New York: Norton:
glosses: To cause (something) to develop a tree-like appearance.
examples: text: The imitation neurones I am composed of agitate their dendrites like mad ganglia that arborize the system as the cell bodies dance along the axis cylinder within the fibres of the foot that isn’t there […]
ref: 1967, Christine Brooke-Rose, “The Foot”, in Susan Williams, Richard Glyn Jones, editors, The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, London: Penguin, published 1996, page 187:
text: The vessels penetrate the clavipectoral fascia […]. They then arborize the underside of the pectoralis major.
ref: 1991, Donald G. McQuarrie, “Techniques of Resection and Reconstruction for Tongue and Mouth Cancer”, in John S. Najarian, John P. Delaney, editors, Progress in Cancer Surgery, St. Louis: Mosby, page 254:
glosses: To penetrate or fill (an area) with a tree-like structure.
Derived terms: arborization