cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
razorback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪzɚˌbæk/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪzəˌbæk/
Forms: form: razorbacks
Etymology: From razor + back.
Senses: glosses: A feral pig.
glosses: The rorqual or finback whale.
Synonyms: sense: pig
word: scissorbill
Related terms: razor-backed
razorback sucker
racerback
peh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Sense 2
ipa: /peː/
Forms: form: pehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).
glosses: Alternative form of pie.
rawboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɔːboʊnd/
Etymology: From raw + boned.
Senses: examples: text: Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.
ref: 1710 October 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter IV.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XIV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 208:
text: […] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
ravishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ravishing
form: most ravishing
Senses: examples: text: Every time I get into a conversation with this ravishing girl, I want it to last forever.
text: Richard DeLongpre: Who did this to you?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Possibly the most ravishing gal I've ever seen.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
glosses: Extremely beautiful
Derived terms: ravishingly
ravishingness
ravishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ravish
ravishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravishings
Senses: glosses: An act of ravishment.
chang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changs
form: çeng
Etymology: From Persian چنگ (čang).
Senses: qualifier: often italicized
glosses: A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
Related terms: kee chang
Keen-chang
Pyeong-chang
Wu-chang
ravings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raving Usual form.
ravishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravishments
Etymology: From ravish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly touched at its conclusion.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: ecstasy
glosses: seizure by force
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: rape
ravager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravagers
Etymology: From ravage + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ravages.
flunky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunkies
Senses: synonyms: yes man
lackey
glosses: A person who always agrees with their superior or employer.
glosses: One performing menial or miscellaneous duties.
glosses: Alternative form of flunkey.
Derived terms: flunkydom
flunkyish
flunkyism
Related terms: gofer
factotum
fledgeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fledgelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fledgling.
flanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flank
flattening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flatten
flattening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flattenings
Senses: glosses: The act, or the result of making something flat or flatter
examples: text: The Earth is a sphere that has flattenings at the poles.
glosses: A flattened part of something
Derived terms: breast flattening
curve flattening
frequents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frequent
glowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glower
Derived terms: gloweringly
glowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glowerings
Senses: examples: text: But after much whispering, cross looks from Caroline and Jane, warning glowerings from John, Sam was not chosen. He was left unselected and Mrs Firth told Sam sharply to go into Adam's team 'to make even numbers'.
ref: 2001, Roger J. Green, Cuckoos, page 60:
glosses: The act of giving a glower.
glowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glower
glowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glower
hitchhiked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hitchhike
pathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathogen
oxymorons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxymoron
racewalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From race + walking.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at least one foot must be on the ground at all time (or else they would be running).
Synonyms: speedwalking
racewalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From race + walking.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of racewalk
racewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: racewalks
form: racewalking
form: racewalked
form: racewalked
Etymology: From race + walk.
Senses: glosses: To participate in the sport of racewalking.
apotheoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apotheosis
apotheoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apotheose
appreciatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appreciatory
form: most appreciatory
Senses: glosses: Showing appreciation; appreciative.
Derived terms: appreciatorily
aridity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aridities
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin āriditās (“dryness”); equivalent to arid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.
Synonyms: aridness
Derived terms: hyperaridity
semiaridity
subaridity
patrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patteran.
hyporeactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyporeactive
form: most hyporeactive
Etymology: From hypo- + reactive.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or showing abnormally low sensitivity to stimuli.
Derived terms: hyporeactivity
Rosh Hashanah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑʃ(h)əˈʃɑnə/
ipa: /ˌɹɒʃ həˈʃɑːnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: Rosh Hashana
Etymology: From Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה (rosh hashaná, literally “head of the year”). Compare Yiddish ראָש־השנה (ròsh-(h)ashóne).
Senses: examples: text: Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period during which Jews enter into self-examination and repentance, known as the Ten Days of Awe, which conclude on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During this time, God, in a sense, withdraws His presence in order to create a hunger in the hearts of His people so that they will abandon all else in pursuit of Him.
ref: 2015, Rod Parsley, God's End-Time Calendar, Charisma House, →ISBN, page 107:
text: The past two days we have celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
ref: 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 216:
glosses: The Jewish holiday marking the start of the liturgical year, taking place on the first two days of Tishrei, 163 days after the first day of Passover.
Synonyms: sense: Jewish holiday
word: Jewish New Year
sense: Jewish holiday
word: Feast of Trumpets
sense: Jewish holiday
word: Yom Teruah
Related terms: sense: Jewish holiday
word: shana tova
Rosh Hashanah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑʃ(h)əˈʃɑnə/
ipa: /ˌɹɒʃ həˈʃɑːnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: Rosh Hashanahs
form: Rosh Hashana
Etymology: From Hebrew רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה (rosh hashaná, literally “head of the year”). Compare Yiddish ראָש־השנה (ròsh-(h)ashóne).
Senses: glosses: A specific occurrence of this holiday.
philtre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philtres
Senses: examples: text: […] Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!
ref: 1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus, translation of original by Tibullus:
text: What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?
ref: 1909, Charles Baudelaire, “The Irreparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Poems and Baudelaire Flowers:
text: Old witches in the cities and country-side throve upon the sale of death spells and love philtres. They also made a trade of abortificants, and frequently practised the whiles of the procuress.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 65:
text: In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:
glosses: Alternative spelling of philter (“kind of potion”).
philtre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: philtres
form: philtring
form: philtred
form: philtred
Senses: examples: text: The friendship of the men he took amiably and modestly, though no man was his superior of all the king's men in strength or skill. The friendship of the women he let go by him, also very modestly but always with decision. There were many that longed to knock at the door of his heart and enter in, and there were some that showed their longing, most notably of all the beautiful Esclaramonde of Bayonne, whom most men worshipped for her dark, imperious loveliness, and whom all the women, her rivals, hated for a witch, and upbraided beneath their breaths for her skill in philtres.
ref: 1905, Justin Huntly McCarthy, The Dryad,:
glosses: Alternative spelling of philter.
Rosh Chodesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rashei Chodashim
form: Roshei Chodashim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ראש חודש.
Senses: glosses: A minor holiday marking the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar.
Tishrei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tishri
form: Tisri
form: Tizri
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תִּשְׁרֵי (tishré, tishréi, “Tishrei”).
Senses: glosses: The first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Elul and before Cheshvan.
Synonyms: Ethanim
Cheshvan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chesvan
form: Heshvan
form: Hesvan
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חשוון.
Senses: glosses: The second month of the civil year and the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tishrei and before Kislev.
Kislev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כסלו.
Senses: glosses: The third month of the civil year and the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Cheshvan and before Tevet.
Tevet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tebet
form: Tebeth
Senses: glosses: The fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Kislev and before Shevat.
Shevat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Senses: glosses: The fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tevet and before Adar.
Nisan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːˈsɑːn/
ipa: /ˈnɪsən/
rhymes: -ɑːn
rhymes: -ɪsən
ipa: /ˈnaɪsæn/
Etymology: From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán).
Senses: examples: text: Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 346:
glosses: The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.
Iyar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִיָּר.
Senses: glosses: The eighth month of the civil year and the second month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Nisan and before Sivan.
Sivan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סיוון (siván).
Senses: glosses: The ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz.
Tammuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Hebrew תַּמּוּז, from a Sumerian god's name (see [[#Etymology_2]]).
Senses: glosses: The tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av.
Tammuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thammuz
Etymology: From Sumerian 𒌉𒍣 (DUMU.ZID, “the true son”).
Senses: glosses: A Sumerian god of food and vegetation.
pâtisserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pâtisseries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patisserie.
boucherie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boucheries
Etymology: From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie.
Senses: examples: text: It is not unusual for guests to contribute side dishes at a boucherie or cochon de lait, or to bring beer, or to donate money to help pay for a sack of crawfish. The participants in a boucherie work hard for hours at various tasks,[…]
ref: 1992, C. Paige Gutierrez, Cajun Foodways, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 118:
text: She'd been chopping ribs at a boucherie, when they killed a whole pig with Lanier, who raised hogs on the other side of the river. A lightning strike startled her, and the ax took off part of that finger. Grady's finger.
ref: 2012 March 13, Susan Straight, Take One Candle Light a Room: A Novel, Anchor, →ISBN, page 128:
text: At a boucherie, animals are slaughtered and readied for sale—and for Cajuns, a day of boucherie is an art form and family affair. This mirrors Acadian life. Every part of the pig is preserved, cooked, or turned into sausages;[…]
ref: 2020 April 14, Melissa M. Martin, Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou, Artisan, →ISBN:
text: In Félines (a river, a waterfall, a church—altitude, 3,000 feet; population, 1,612), we bought charcuterie at a boucherie. The village had two. Few places celebrated the pig more than the Ardèche, Daniel explained.
ref: 2020 May 5, Bill Buford, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking, Vintage, →ISBN:
glosses: A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig.
examples: text: Grace Damas had worked at a boucherie. The killer used a chef's saw, knew something about anatomy. Tanguay dissected animals. Maybe there was a link. I looked for the name of the boucherie but couldn't find it.
ref: 2020 February 25, Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead: A Novel, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 461:
glosses: A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork.
mouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouches
Etymology: From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.
Senses: examples: text: They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
ref: 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
text: The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.
ref: 1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:
text: In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
ref: 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:
text: LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.
ref: 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
glosses: Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.
barr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barrs
form: barring
form: barred
form: barred
Etymology: From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).
Senses: examples: text: He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles[…]
ref: 1737, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
glosses: To make the sound of an elephant.
barr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrs
Etymology: See bar.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bar.
barr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barrs
form: barring
form: barred
form: barred
Etymology: See bar.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bar.
sophister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophisters
Etymology: From Middle English shophister, sofister, sofistre, sophister, sophistre, sovyster, from Anglo-Norman sofistre, a variant of Old French sofiste, sophiste.
Senses: examples: text: A subtle traitor needs no sophister.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: […] I wil not be afraid to saie vnto a Pope or Cardinall in this plight, be of good comfort, we haue to doe with a mercifull God; rather to make the best of a little which we hold well, and not with a captious sophister, which gathereth the worst out of everie thing, wherein wee erre.
ref: 1612, Richard Hooker, A Learned Discourse of Iustification, Workes, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrowne, Oxford, page 62:
text: 1783, David Hume (ascribed), Essays on Suicide, and the Immortality of the Soul, London: M. Smith, Letter 114, p. 74,
The same sophisters make it a question whether life can ever be an evil? but when we consider the multitude of errors, torments, and vices, with which it abounds, one would rather be inclined to doubt whether it can ever be a blessing.
text: I remember when you were a boy you wished to make your fine new whip a present to old aunt Peggy, merely because she admired it; and now, with like unreflecting and unappropriate liberality, you would resign your beloved to a smoke-dried young sophister, who cares not one of the hairs which it is his occupation to split for all the daughters of Eve.
ref: 1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter 13”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 295:
text: Burke said the age of the economist was also the age of the sophister.
ref: 1973, William D. Grampp, “Classical Economics and Its Moral Critics”, in History of Political Economy, volume 5, pages 359–374:
glosses: A sophist.
examples: text: In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally called Junior Sophisters and Senior Sophisters. The term is also used at Oxford and Dublin.
ref: 1851, Benjamin Homer Hall, College Words and Customs, Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett, page 287:
qualifier: universities
glosses: A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.
Derived terms: soph
sophistress
sophistry
deadwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛd.wʊd/
Forms: form: deadwoods
Etymology: From dead + wood.
Senses: glosses: Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
glosses: People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
glosses: Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
examples: text: The defendant […] sustained the injuries at Swatzell's switch, by getting his arm caught between the deadwoods of two freight cars […]
ref: 1808, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 42, page 1066:
glosses: Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
qualifier: rummy
glosses: Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Cards that have been discarded.
Synonyms: sense: woody debris
word: deadfall
alabamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Alabama + -ine, after a discredited claim of discovery by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Senses: glosses: Former name for the chemical element astatine.
Related terms: Ab
frequentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɹɪˈkwɛntətɪv/
Forms: form: freq.
Etymology: From Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentativus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”). Morphologically as if frequent + -ative. Akin to frequent.
Senses: examples: text: "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Serving to express repetition of an action.
Derived terms: frequentative aspect
frequentatively
frequentativeness
nonfrequentative
frequentative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɹɪˈkwɛntətɪv/
Forms: form: frequentatives
form: freq.
Etymology: From Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentativus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”). Morphologically as if frequent + -ative. Akin to frequent.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
Synonyms: iterative
Related terms: -er
-le
perilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɪl.ə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: perillas
Etymology: From translingual Perilla (genus name).
Senses: examples: text: The smell of burnt flesh, which the perilla seeds couldn't wholly mask, pricked my nose.
ref: 2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 42:
glosses: An East Asian herb with flavorful leaves used in cooking and as a garnish, Perilla frutescens. Also grown for the seeds, which contain an edible and industrially-useful oil.
Synonyms: english: purple-leaved variety
translation: purple-leaved variety
word: beefsteak plant
word: shiso
Derived terms: perillaldehyde
perillyl
-ine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-aɪn/
/-iːn/
/-ɪn~-ən/
Etymology: From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.
Senses: examples: asinine, marine, bovine, cervine
glosses: Of or pertaining to.
examples: Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine
glosses: Used to form demonyms.
examples: amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.
examples: australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera
examples: text: glass + -ine → glassine
glosses: Commercial materials.
Related terms: -in
-ine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-aɪn/
/-iːn/
/-ɪn~-ən/
Etymology: From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus.
Senses: examples: text: hero + -ine → heroine
text: speaker + -ine → speakerine
text: Paul + -ine → Pauline
glosses: Used to form feminine nouns.
examples: text: Clement + -ine → Clementine
text: landgrave + -ine → landgravine
glosses: Used to form female given names or names of titles.
Synonyms: -a
-ess
-ette
-ress
she-
-trix
-ine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-aɪn/
/-iːn/
/-ɪn~-ən/
Etymology: Variant of -en.
Senses: examples: text: cow + -ine → kine
text: sow + -ine → swine
glosses: Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.
-ine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-aɪn/
/-iːn/
/-ɪn~-ən/
Etymology: From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: cardueline, velociraptorine
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies
commissioned officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commissioned officers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An officer who derives authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, holds a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position.
enure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enures
form: enuring
form: enured
form: enured
Etymology: From en- + ure. Variant form of inure.
Senses: glosses: To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
examples: text: All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit.
ref: 1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3428 on 29:6
text: The position of the individual as a subject of international law has often been obscured by the failure to observe the distinction between the recognition, in an international instrument of rights enuring to the benefit of the individual and the enforceability of these rights at his instance.
ref: 1995, Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It, page 53:
topics: law
glosses: To take effect, to be operative; used with to.
Derived terms: enurement
Golgi body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Golgi bodies
Senses: glosses: The Golgi apparatus
pimp slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹpĭmp slăp
ipa: /ˈpɪmp slæp/
Forms: form: pimp slaps
form: pimp-slap
Senses: examples: text: These silent greetings were often returned in spades, accompanied by the angry rejoinder “Nigger, what the fuck you looking at?” and a pimp slap that echoed in my eyes for a week.
ref: 2001, Paul Beatty, The White Boy Shuffle, Picador, page 53
text: […] Respect for your / Elders was lost right then— / In the pistol whippings, the pimp slaps, cold / Beatdowns and in-home invasions and / [page break] / Mass killings we read about in / The newspapers and on the “Action / News” and on all the subway trains / Fleeing the cities you inhabited.
ref: 2002, Reginald Sinclair Lewis, "The Black Klan Killers", in Inside My Head, iUniverse, pages 10–11
text: Oh thanks a lot mother yucker, and I don’t recall telling you to elaborate,I said tell me why the yuck I’m getting an “F” without me taking a test. ¶ That’s what I recall saying,but I did not say this to him. He may have given me a pimp slap.
ref: 2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, Trafford Publishing, page 132
text: But don’t worry Bro / I’ll get them all back... / I’m coming with a backhanded pimp slap and a fully loaded gat!
ref: 2006, Gloria P. Glover, "Where You At Big Brother?", in Glendoria’s Creations: Poems from the Heart, AuthorHouse, page 52
text: For additional quotations, see pimp-slap.
text: The act of using the Pimp Slap mentioned in the above article to kill/damage an NPC or vehicle.
ref: 2007-2008, Saints Row I&II
glosses: A powerful slap to the face.
Synonyms: sense: slap to the face
word: bitch slap
pimp slap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹpĭmp slăp
ipa: /ˈpɪmp slæp/
Forms: form: pimp slaps
form: pimp slapping
form: pimp slapped
form: pimp slapped
form: pimp-slap
Senses: examples: text: […] That’s what really got me pissed. I admit it. I pimp slapped her a couple times. […]
ref: 2001, Johnnie L. Mitchell, 88 Ways to Die, iUniverse, page 27
text: “Hey, Indian.” Mr. Marcus, my next-door neighbor, smiled, with the gold caps in the front of his mouth shining. I felt like pimp slapping the shit out of him. How many times do I have to tell him my damn name is not Indian? I hope he’s not coming to borrow any sugar, because I’ma tell him no.
ref: 2005, Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker, "Whatever It Takes", in Kiss the Year Goodbye, Pocket Books, page 21
text: […] just when I am feeling my most smug, the hand of God reaches down and pimp slaps me into reality.
ref: 2006, Brandelyn N. Castine, Spoken Silence: Life in 4 Parts, self-published, page 169
glosses: Alternative spelling of pimp-slap
love feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love feasts
Etymology: From love + feast, partial calque of Latin agape and Koine Greek ἀγάπη (agápē).
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: agape
glosses: A symbolic communal meal held by early Christians in commemoration of the eucharist.
examples: text: He then invited me to a love-feast at his chapel that evening.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 10, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A religious service held by Moravians, Methodists and some other group, in imitation of such gatherings, characterised by partaking in a simple meal.
glosses: Any banquet or gathering to promote goodwill among the participants.
for kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well you tried it just for once, found it alright for kicks, but now you found it's a habit that sticks, and you're an orgasm addict, you're an orgasm addict.
ref: 1977, Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict:
text: Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now / I been feeling it since 1966, now / Might be over now, but I feel it still
ref: 2017, Portugal. The Man, John Hill, Asa Taccone, Freddie Gorman, Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, “Feel It Still”, in Woodstock, performed by Portugal. The Man, track 4:
synonyms: for fun
for the lulz
for the craic
glosses: In order to obtain pleasure or excitement.
brotherly love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisterly love
Senses: glosses: Synonym of agape.
synonyms: word: agape
examples: text: Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 15, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter XVIII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kindly and lenient attitude towards others.
sisterly love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Feminine variant of brotherly love.
ampere-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampere-hours
Etymology: established 1880-85, from ampere + hour.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs.
Derived terms: word: Ah
word: amp-hr
word: amp. hr.
amp-hr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amp-hrs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ampere-hour.
amp. hr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amp-hr (“ampere-hour”).
Qezel Ozan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large river in northwestern Iran. It originates from the mountains of Kurdistan and discharges to the Caspian Sea.
shalom aleichem
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪxəm/
ipa: /ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪkəm/
ipa: /ˌʃɔləm əˈleɪkəm/
ipa: /ˌʃoʊləm-/
ipa: /-əˈleɪxəm/
other: /ʃəˈloʊm-/
other: /ʃɑˈloʊm-/
rhymes: -eɪkəm
Etymology: From Hebrew שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (shalóm 'aleikhém, “peace be upon you”). Doublet of salaam alaikum.
Senses: glosses: A greeting said on meeting someone, especially when the two people meeting have not met in some time.
Related terms: salaam alaikum
Shabbat shalom
bamboo partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo partridges
Senses: glosses: Any of several spurred partridges, of the genus Bambusicola, that inhabit China.
Derived terms: Chinese bamboo partridge
mountain bamboo partridge
hill partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill partridges
Senses: glosses: Any partridge of the genus Arborophila, of which numerous species inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Derived terms: word: Annam hill partridge
word: Bornean hill partridge
word: brown-breasted hill partridge
word: chestnut-bellied partridge
word: chestnut-breasted hill partridge
word: chestnut-headed hill partridge
word: chestnut-necklaced hill partridge
word: collared hill partridge
word: common hill partridge
alt: Tropicoperdix chloropus
word: green-legged hill partridge
word: grey-breasted hill partridge
word: Hainan hill partridge
word: orange-necked hill partridge
word: red-billed hill partridge
word: rufous-throated hill partridge
word: Sichuan hill partridge
word: Taiwan hill partridge
word: white-cheeked hill partridge
Golgi apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Italian biologist and physician Camillo Golgi.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Golgi complex
Golgi body
Golgi
glosses: A network of membranes in the cytoplasm of those animal cells that produce secretions.
facies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/
rhymes: -eɪʃiiːz
rhymes: -eɪʃiːz
Forms: form: facies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.
Senses: examples: text: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: General appearance.
examples: text: costive facies
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
Derived terms: asymmetric crying facies
facies Hippocratica
Williams elfin facies syndrome
facies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃiz/
rhymes: -eɪʃiiːz
rhymes: -eɪʃiːz
Etymology: From facie + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of facie
rhapsodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhapsodical
form: most rhapsodical
Senses: examples: text: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
glosses: Rhapsodic.
rheostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē′ə-stăt
enpr: rē′ō-stăt
ipa: /ˈɹiː.ə.stat/
note: conservative
ipa: /-stæt/
ipa: /-əʊ̯-/
ipa: /ˈɹi.ə.stæt/
ipa: /-oʊ̯-/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.ə.stæt/
ipa: /-əʉ̯-/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.ə.stɛt/
ipa: /-ɐʉ̯-/
ipa: /ˈɹi.ə.stat/
ipa: /-o-/
ipa: /ˈɾiː.o.sʈaʈ/
ipa: /-oː-/
rhymes: -ɹiːəstat
rhymes: -ɹiːəʊstat
Forms: form: rheostats
Etymology: From rheo- + -stat.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
technology
glosses: An electrical resistor, with two terminals, whose resistance is continuously variable by moving a knob or slider.
wikipedia: Charles Wheatstone
Derived terms: rheostatic
Related terms: potentiometer
rhetorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English retorycally; equivalent to rhetorical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bronx councilmember Rev. Wendell Foster rhetorically asked city council president Andrew Stein if he could cast two votes, being of "divided mind."
ref: 1986 April 5, Bruce-Michael Gelbert, “NYC Grants Rights Bill to Lesbians, Gay Men”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: In a rhetorical manner.
glosses: With reference to rhetoric.
rheumatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rheumatically
form: most rheumatically
Etymology: From rheumatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: `Trew ter Gord may He blind me eternally, I see her I tell yew, lyin' dead on the floor,' he vociferated, trembling rheumatically in the desire to carry conviction.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: In a rheumatic manner.
rhythmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rhythmically
form: most rhythmically
Etymology: From rhythmical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her hips swayed rhythmically.
glosses: In a rhythmical manner.
examples: text: These songs are rhythmically complex.
text: If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
ref: 1976, Records in Review, page 407:
glosses: With reference to rhythm.
rhythmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪð.mɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɪð.mɪ.kl̩/
Forms: form: more rhythmical
form: most rhythmical
Etymology: From rhythmic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […]
ref: 1993, Miklós Boskovits, The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270, volume 1, page 33:
glosses: rhythmic
rhetorician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: rhetoricians
form: rhetoritian
Etymology: From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Themistocles was a rhetorician.
text: As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
ref: 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
text: In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
ref: 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
glosses: An expert or student of rhetoric.
glosses: An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Related terms: rhetor
rhetoric
rheumatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rheumatoid
form: most rheumatoid
Etymology: From rheumat(ism) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Rheumatoid sufferers have such pain and discomfort every day of their lives that they live eternally in high hopes of something effective turning up.
ref: 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:
text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
ref: 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Presenting analogies with rheumatism.
Derived terms: pseudorheumatoid
rheumatoid arthritis
rheumatoid factor
rheumatoid nodule
rheumatoid pleuritis
rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
rheumatoid spondylitis
rheumatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheumatoids
Etymology: From rheumat(ism) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The highly significant findings with regard to hurt feelings suggests that the hypothesis that rheumatoids learn to hide their hurt feelings [7] and are reticent about expressing their dissatisfactions [4] may be correct.
ref: 1965 December, Sidney Cobb, Stanislav V. Kasl, Edith Chen, Roger Christenfeld, “Some psychological and social characteristics of patients hospitalized for rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, and duodenal ulcer”, in Journal of Chronic Diseases, volume 18, number 12, →DOI, page 1269:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person with rheumatoid arthritis.
rhymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhymers
form: rimer
Etymology: From Middle English rymare, from Old English rīmere (“a compouter, reckoner, calculator”), equivalent to rhyme + -er. Cognate with Dutch rijmer, German Reimer, Danish rimer, Swedish rimmare, Icelandic rímari. More at rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A minstrel.
glosses: One who makes, composes, or recites rhymes or simple poems.
rhymester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rhymesters
Etymology: From rhyme + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: [...] “Whether vanity is the cause of our becoming rhymesters or not,” answered Harley, “it is a pretty certain effect of it. [...]
ref: 1771, Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, London: Cassell, published 1886, page 117:
glosses: A rhymer; a poetaster
en face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French en face.
Senses: examples: text: Botticelli's “Portrait of a Young Man” is his only known en face portrait.
glosses: facing forward
examples: text: The missa was printed in the original Latin with the English translation en face.
glosses: across from; opposite
bimetal strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimetal strips
form: bi-metal strip
Senses: glosses: A circuit breaker or thermostat consisting of two metals fused together.
bus trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus traps
Senses: synonyms: word: car trap
english: in the UK
translation: in the UK
glosses: A construction or device placed on a road that only allows (public transport) buses, and no other vehicles with smaller gauge, to pass.
Related terms: bus lane
RBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RBTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of random breath test (of a motorist, employee, etc.)
motorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorists
Etymology: From motor + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.
ref: 1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13:
text: In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.
ref: 2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021:
synonyms: word: driver
word: ;
word: autoist
word: automobilist
word: motorman
hypernyms: operator
coordinate_terms: backseat driver
glosses: One who drives a motor vehicle.
Derived terms: nonmotorist
Sunday motorist
motorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorist
bi-metal strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bi-metal strips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bimetal strip.
bimetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bi-metal
Etymology: From bi- + metal.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of two metals.
Derived terms: bimetal strip
bimetallic
bimetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimetals
form: bi-metal
Etymology: From bi- + metal.
Senses: examples: text: Thermostatic Bimetals: Thermostatic bimetals are laminated composites using materials with a pronounced difference in thermal expansion'. Therefore, thermostatic bimetals change their shape whenever ambient temperature changes.
ref: 2013 October 22, T W Duerig, K N Melton, D Stöckel, Engineering Aspects of Shape Memory Alloys, Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 211:
text: The application of bimetals synthesized with the combination of another secondary metal such as Ni, Pd, or Pt [comprise of a high reduction potential than ZVI; ZVI, −0.44 V; Ni,−0.257 V; Pd, 0.915 V; or Pt, 1.188 V; Arning and Minteer[…]
ref: 2020 June 29, Manish Kumar, Daniel D. Snow, Ryo Honda, Santanu Mukherjee, Contaminants in Drinking and Wastewater Sources: Challenges and Reigning Technologies, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 274:
text: The bimetals can be used in forms such as the deflection of a straight strip, the rotation of spirals or helices and the snap action of dished discs. Applications include temperature indicators, thermostatic controls, energy regulators,[…]
ref: 2002 September 27, M. A. Laughton, D.F. Warne, Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, Newnes, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An object consisting of two metals.
inviter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inviters
Etymology: From invite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: While the buyer of such an item wants a sui generis gift to impress a weekend-in-the-Hamptons inviter, how about sending that sum to the Fresh Air Fund in the hosts’ name so a child can enjoy country life, too?
ref: 2009 July 30, “For a Real Connection”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who invites.
Derived terms: invitress
window-shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying.
Derived terms: window-shop