cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manumise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manumises
form: manumising
form: manumised
form: manumised
form: manumize
Senses: examples: text: […] it were a charytable dede to euery noble man […] to manumise them that be bonde and to make them free of body and blode
ref: 1523, John Fitzherbert, chapter 13, in The Book of Surveying and Improvements, London: Richard Pynson:
text: 1612, John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice, London: George Norton, “A sicke Mindes Potion for all in Tribulation in Body,” p. 134,
from death, made free; / And, manumiz’d from this Worlds mortall woes
text: Our Dear departed Brother lies in State; / His Heels ſtretch'd out, and pointing to the Gate: / And Slaves, novv manumis'd, on their dead Maſter vvait.
ref: 1693, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 40, lines 208–210:
text: Neither is it uncommon for the men slaves to purchase and manumize their wives, and vice versa, the wives their husbands.
ref: 1812, Robert Southey, Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Volume 1, section 160, pp. 321-322:
glosses: To manumit.
manumises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manumise
manumising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manumise
manumised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manumise
manuscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manuscribes
form: manuscribing
form: manuscribed
form: manuscribed
Senses: glosses: To write by hand.
Related terms: manuscript
manuscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manuscribe
manuscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manuscribe
manuscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manuscribe
mappery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From map + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 205:
glosses: cartography
mappist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mappists
Etymology: From map + -ist.
Senses: glosses: cartographer
mappists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mappist
amphibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: Describing insects that initially live in water but live on land as adults
markable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
Forms: form: more markable
form: most markable
Etymology: From mark + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being marked.
examples: text: he would strike them ere that day Twelve-moneth with some markable punishment
ref: 1605, Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum:
glosses: remarkable
Derived terms: unmarkable
stylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stylike
form: most stylike
Etymology: From sty + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Bell too faced stylike quarters and a frightening proprietress.
ref: 1996, Suzanne L Bunkers, Cynthia Anne Huff, Inscribing the daily: critical essays on women's diaries:
glosses: Resembling a sty.
cybernavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + navigation.
Senses: examples: text: One can deride the playful, game-like character of cybernavigation, the illusion of the virtual world.
ref: 2000, Rem Koolhaas, et al: Mutations:
text: At the same time, the console cowboy's cybernavigation is based on the idea of physical and mental absorption into channels (those of the matrix)...
ref: 2000, Dani Cavallaro, Cyberpunk and cyberculture: science fiction and the work of William Gibson:
text: The show's visual design transforms the act of television viewing into that of cybernavigation and exploits TV's analog signal to offer a digital experience...
ref: 2004, Lynn Spigel, Jan Olsson, Television after TV: essays on a medium in transition:
glosses: Navigation through cyberspace or the Internet.
nipplelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nipplelike
form: most nipplelike
Etymology: From nipple + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nipple.
unstylishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unstylish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unstylish.
Synonyms: unfashionableness
unfashionableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfashionable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unfashionable.
Synonyms: unstylishness
unrecalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recalled.
Senses: glosses: Not recalled: unremembered, forgotten.
examples: text: Any unrecalled hazardous products continue to pose a risk to the public.
glosses: Not recalled: left deployed or distributed.
scalpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scalp + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the scalp.
go for the gold ring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for the gold ring
form: going for the gold ring
form: went for the gold ring
form: gone for the gold ring
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go for the gold.
blaxploitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blaxploitative
form: most blaxploitative
Etymology: From blaxploitation + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to blaxploitation.
spiral staircases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiral staircase
martialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: martializes
form: martializing
form: martialized
form: martialized
Etymology: From martial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render martial; to equip for war.
martializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of martialize
martializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of martialize
martialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of martialize
masculinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more masculinely
form: most masculinely
Etymology: From masculine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a masculine manner.
masculineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From masculine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being masculine.
Synonyms: manlikeness
masculinity
feminineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femininenesses
Etymology: From feminine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being feminine.
Synonyms: femininity
felt-tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felt-tip
felt-tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of felt-tip
felt-tipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of felt-tip
mbuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mbugas
Senses: glosses: A heavy dark clay soil found in parts of Africa.
glosses: A seasonal swamp in East Africa.
Related terms: dambo
mass hysteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California.
ref: 1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:
text: However, these make no mention of mass hysteria or give any suggestion that hysteria may affect multiple individuals at one time in a special situation.
ref: 1974 December, Lewis D. Polk, “Mass Hysteria in an Elementary School”, in Clinical Pediatrics, volume 13, number 12, →DOI, page 1013:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously.
atamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ataman
watamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wataman
wataman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watamans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ataman.
otaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otamans
Etymology: From Ukrainian ота́ман (otáman).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ataman.
vataman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatamans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ataman.
otamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otaman
vatamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vataman
sociopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sociopsychological
form: most sociopsychological
Etymology: From socio- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to social psychology.
mass spectrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass spectrographs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A mass spectrometer
mass spectrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass spectrograph
master sergeants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master sergeant
stresslessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stressless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being stressless.
Synonyms: unstressedness
undelimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + delimited.
Senses: glosses: Not delimited.
tabia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabias
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Alternative form of tabiya.
master-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masters-at-arms
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
Then he was telling us the master at arms comes along with a long cane and he draws out and he flogs the bloody backside off of the poor lad till he yells meila murder.
glosses: A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship.
qualifier: Army
glosses: A commissioned officer responsible for overseeing all fitness training in subordinate units.
glosses: A petty officer responsible for law enforcement, antiterrorism, force protection, and expeditionary warfare.
glosses: An officer in a fraternal or similar organization charged with maintaining order.
Related terms: Jaunty
masters-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master-at-arms
master chief petty officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master chief petty officers
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above senior chief petty officer.
Related terms: alt: CPO
word: chief petty officer
alt: PO
word: petty officer
sep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seps
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sepal.
master chief petty officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master chief petty officer
caz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caz
form: most caz
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cazh.
senior chief petty officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior chief petty officers
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above chief petty officer and below master chief petty officer.
Related terms: alt: CPO
word: chief petty officer
alt: PO
word: petty officer
senior chief petty officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senior chief petty officer
petty officer first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty officers first class
Senses: glosses: A warrant officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above petty officer second class and below chief petty officer second class.
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer second class and below chief petty officer.
Related terms: alt: PO
word: petty officer
petty officers first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty officer first class
petty officer second class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty officers second class
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above master seaman and below petty officer first class.
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer third class and below petty officer first class.
Related terms: alt: PO
word: petty officer
petty officers second class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty officer second class
petty officer third class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty officers third class
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above seaman and below petty officer second class.
Related terms: alt: PO
word: petty officer
petty officers third class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty officer third class
seaman apprentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamen apprentice
form: seaman apprentices
Senses: glosses: An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above seaman recruit and below seaman.
testbench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testbenches
Etymology: From test + bench.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of test bench.
seamen apprentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaman apprentice
seaman recruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamen recruit
form: seaman recruits
Senses: glosses: An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below seaman apprentice.
seamen recruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaman recruit
mkeka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mkekas
Etymology: From Swahili mkeka.
Senses: examples: text: Some African Americans use handmade, African mkekas. Some people weave their own mkekas at home. The mkeka is a very important symbol of Kwanzaa because all of the other holiday symbols rest upon it.
ref: 2005, Christine Webster, How to Draw Kwanzaa Symbols, page 6:
glosses: The decorative mat on which ceremonial symbols are laid out during Kwanzaa celebrations.
unasleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + asleep.
Senses: glosses: Not asleep; awake.
plotwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plot + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of plot (storyline).
plotwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plot + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of plot (storyline).
duplicitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duplicitous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being duplicitous.
Synonyms: deceit
deceitfulness
duplicity
dupondii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dupondius
master seaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master seamen
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above leading seaman and below petty officer second class.
master seamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master seaman
leading seaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading seamen
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy, ranking above able seaman and below petty officer.
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above able seaman and below master seaman.
leading seamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leading seaman
lexicogrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lexico- + grammatically.
Senses: glosses: In a lexicogrammatical way.
chief petty officer second class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief petty officers second class
Senses: glosses: A warrant officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above petty officer first class and below chief petty officer first class.
uninterchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + interchangeable.
Senses: glosses: Not interchangeable.
Synonyms: noninterchangeable
unwizened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wizened.
Senses: glosses: Not wizened.
unwomanliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwomanly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unwomanly.
Synonyms: unladylikeness
chief petty officer first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief petty officers first class
Senses: glosses: A warrant officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above chief petty officer second class.
chief petty officers second class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief petty officer second class
chief petty officers first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief petty officer first class
darcys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darcy
darcies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darcy
two solitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First used by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and applied to Canadian society in the title of a 1945 novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t may be pleaded that scholastic philosophy as it exists in Quebec has neither influenced, nor been influenced by, the development of modern philosophy elsewhere throughout the country during the last hundred years. Philosophically, Canada is a land of "two solitudes."
ref: 1951, John A. Irving, “Philosophical Trends in Canada Between 1850 and 1950”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 12, number 2, page 224:
text: Montreal, where French and English have not merged but coexist in ‘two solitudes,’ has Latin flair but British solidity.
ref: 1976, J. Wreford Watson, “Review: The Development of the Canadian City”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 142, number 3, page 509:
text: In tracing the development of the discipline in twentieth century Canada, it became evident that demography had progressed through a number of periods. The years to 1950 represented a period of parallel and fairly independent growth in English-speaking and French-speaking regions, with little contact and communication; it is best described as a period of "one science, two solitudes."
ref: 2001, Sylvia T. Wargon, “Connections: Demography and Sociology in Twentieth Century Canada”, in The Canadian Journal of Sociology, volume 26, number 3, page 317:
qualifier: social criticism
glosses: The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion.
munges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of munge
odas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oda
poljes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polje
gunia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunias
Etymology: From Swahili gunia, from Omani Arabic قُوْنِيَّة (gūniyya). Doublet of gunny.
Senses: examples: text: The girls mentioned a difference in access to work based on gender. One girl said, "A boy takes his gunia (bag) and goes in front of the shops so that he is given used and waste papers and cartons to sell and get some money while a street girl can stay the whole day without even getting something to eat.[…]
ref: 2000 March 30, Philip L. Kilbride, Collette A. Suda, Enos Njeru, Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A sack.
capillaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillaires
Etymology: From French capillaire (“maidenhair”).
Senses: glosses: A syrup prepared from the maidenhair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
glosses: Any simple syrup flavoured with orange flowers.
anglo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Anglo-.
trivial functional dependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivial functional dependencies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself.
Related terms: english: on Wikipedia
translation: on Wikipedia
word: Database normalization
functional dependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional dependencies
Senses: glosses: Given a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y⊆R, a constraint X→Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.
Anglian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Angles (Germanic people).
glosses: Of or pertaining to East Anglia.
Anglian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglians
Etymology: From Anglia + -n.
Senses: glosses: An Angle (member of a Germanic people).
Anglian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Anglia + -n.
Senses: glosses: An Old English dialect from Mercia or Northumbria.
antelucan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, occurring in, or relating to the postmidnight.
examples: text: [I]n the lonely antelucan hour, when grey shades, material and mental, are so very grey.
ref: 1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in The Woodlanders, London: Macmillan:
glosses: Before dawn.
glosses: At night, especially of early Christian assemblies held in secret.
recoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈkɔɪn/
Forms: form: recoins
form: recoining
form: recoined
form: recoined
Etymology: From re- + coin.
Senses: glosses: To coin (money, or an expression) again.
unconnectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + connectable.
Senses: glosses: Not connectable; that cannot be connected.
multiarchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + architecture.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving more than one architecture.
glulam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glulams
Etymology: Blend of glued + laminated.
Senses: glosses: Glued laminated timber: a structural timber product composed of several layers of dimensioned lumber glued together.
glosses: A beam of this material.
glulams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glulam
JPEGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JPEG
JPEGs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of JPEG
bima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: bimas
form: bema
form: bimah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew בִּימָה (bîmâ). Doublet of bema.
Senses: synonyms: en
almemar
almemor
glosses: The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.
nauther
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːðə/
Etymology: From Old English nauþer, nawþer, from na + hwæþer.
Senses: glosses: Neither.
nauther
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːðə/
Forms: form: more nauther
form: most nauther
Etymology: From Old English nauþer, nawþer, from na + hwæþer.
Senses: glosses: Neither.
cross one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses one's heart
form: crossing one's heart
form: crossed one's heart
form: crossed one's heart
Etymology: From cross (“to make the sign of the cross”).
Senses: glosses: To attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, one's, heart.
Derived terms: cross my heart and hope to die
sign of the cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signs of the cross
form: sign of the Cross
Etymology: A calque translation of Latin signum crucis.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A gesture of the hand moving over the front of one's body in the shape of a cross made as part of ritual or to invoke divine protection.
Related terms: cross oneself
ambisextrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.biˈsɛk.stɹəs/
ipa: /ˌæm.bɪˈsɛk.stɹəs/
rhymes: -ɛkstɹəs
Forms: form: more ambisextrous
form: most ambisextrous
Etymology: Blend of ambidextrous + sex.
Senses: examples: text: His hips were jaunty,
And his gestures too dextrous.
A versatile lad!
He was ambisextrous.
ref: 1928, Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party (poem), Pascal Covici, Inc., page 33:
text: Ivor was ambisextrous and loved women physically, too.
ref: 1978, Fabia Drake, Blind Fortune, Kimber, →ISBN, →OL, page 94:
text: “One of those what?” “You know, ambisextrous.” “Let's just say Faith loves beauty, whatever its form.”
ref: 2003 July 6, Gerard Gormley, If This Is Insanity, Count Me In, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 143:
text: She had numerous heterosexual affairs but considered herself “ambisextrous.”
ref: 2007 May 1, Keith Stern, “Tallulah Bankhead”, in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders, Lulu, →ISBN, →OL:
synonyms: word: bi
word: AC/DC
word: ambisextrous
word: curious
word: flexible
word: Kinsey 3
word: open-minded
word: switch-hitting
word: versatile
glosses: Bisexual.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: “Yatakang?” said the purser of the express, an elegant young biv-type sporting ambisextrous shoulder-long bangs.
ref: 1968, John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, New York: Doubleday, →OL:
text: The embryogenesis of such male-directed stromal cells remains a puzzle, and it can be only theorized that it represents masculine differentiation of the mesenchyme derived from the embryonic “ambisextrous” primitive gonads.
ref: 1984, Stanley Leonard Robbins with Ramzi S. Cotran and Vinay Kumar, Pathologic Basis of Disease, 3rd edition, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, →OL, page 1154:
text: Throughout the text the terms ‘he’, ‘him’, ‘his’, should be taken to be ‘ambisextrous’ and to refer to ‘him’ and ‘her’.
ref: 2003 May 22, Denis Gill with Niall O'Brien, Paediatric Clinical Examinations Made Easy, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: Epicene; androgynous.
examples: text: One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]
ref: 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), page 171
text: “So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”
ref: 1921 November 19, Richard Matthews Hallet, “The Canyon of the Fools”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 194, number 2, page 55:
text: My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.
ref: a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281
glosses: Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements.
warrant officer class 2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrant officers class 2
form: warrant officer 2
Senses: glosses: NATO rank OR-8 in all British armed services.
qualifier: Army
glosses: A warrant officer in the British Army ranking above staff sergeant and below warrant officer class 1; company sergeant major
qualifier: Marines
glosses: A warrant officer in the Royal Marines ranking above colour sergeant and below warrant officer class 1.
glosses: A warrant officer in the Royal Navy ranking above chief petty officer and below warrant officer class 1.
qualifier: Army
glosses: A warrant officer in the Australian Army, ranking above sergeant and below warrant officer class 1.
warrant officers class 2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warrant officer class 2
warrant officer class 1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrant officers class 1
Senses: qualifier: Army
glosses: A warrant officer in the Australian Army, ranking above warrant officer class 2 and below regimental sergeant major.
qualifier: Army; Marines; Army; Marines
glosses: A warrant officer in the British Army, Royal Marines, and Royal Navy, ranking above warrant officer class 2. In the army the rank held by a regimental sergeant major.
in this day and age
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In this day and age, our understanding of, well, everything is molded far more by social media than any Socratic questioning.
ref: 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club:
synonyms: nowadays
glosses: In the current era of history.
warrant officers class 1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warrant officer class 1
sergeants first class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeant first class
hypermetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + metric.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to any syllables that are in a line beyond what the meter calls for.
glosses: Larger than normally measured.
Synonyms: hypermetrical
Related terms: hypermeter
hypometric
hypermeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermeters
Etymology: From hyper- + meter.
Senses: glosses: A hypercatalectic line, i.e. with two syllables beyond the metrum.
glosses: A period with a redundant syllable.
Derived terms: hypermetric
hypermetrical
verbalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəːb(ə)lɪst/
ipa: /ˈvɚbəlist/
Forms: form: verbalists
Etymology: From verbal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who possesses verbal or oratorical skill.
glosses: One who favours words or the wording of something over its meaning or the idea behind it.
Synonyms: sense: one who favors words or the wording of something over its meaning
word: wordster
Derived terms: verbalistic
foredo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foredoes
form: foredoing
form: foredid
form: foredone
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fordo.
foredoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foredo
foredoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foredo
foredid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of foredo
foredone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of foredo
iffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more iffily
form: most iffily
Etymology: From iffy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an iffy manner.
helicopter bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helicopter buckets
Senses: synonyms: Bambi bucket
helibucket
monsoon bucket
glosses: A bucket, often collapsible, which is suspended from a helicopter performing firefighting operations and is used for lifting and dumping water or fire retardant chemicals.
balance of probabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balances of probabilities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that a dispute be decided in favor of the party whose claims are more likely to be true.
Synonyms: preponderance of the evidence
Coordinate terms: clear and convincing evidence
beyond a reasonable doubt
probable cause
inside address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside addresses
Senses: glosses: The delivery address of an addressee, written on the page of a letter.
inside addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside address
frame-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame-up
Croation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Croatian.
Croation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Croatian.
chemigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemigations
Etymology: Blend of chemical + irrigation
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The application of a pesticide or fertilizer through an irrigation system.
commodity exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commodity exchanges
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
finance
lifestyle
glosses: An organization operating under a set of bylaws aimed at promoting trade in one or more commodities by providing services and rules for the conduct of trade.
commodity exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commodity exchange
jizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jizz
jizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of jizz
jizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jizz
countervailing duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countervailing duties
Senses: hypernyms: duty#Noun
tariff#Noun
glosses: A duty levied on an imported article to offset the unfair price advantage it holds due to a subsidy paid to producers or exporters by the government of the exporting country if such imports cause or threaten injury to a domestic industry.
hypernyms: duty#Noun
tariff#Noun
glosses: A duty or surtax levied on an imported article to offset an excise or inland revenue tax placed upon articles of the same class manufactured domestically.
Related terms: dumping
countervailing duties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countervailing duty
beyond reasonable doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beyond a reasonable doubt.
export subsidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: export subsidies
Senses: glosses: A direct or indirect compensation provided by government to private commercial firms to promote exports of domestic products.
export subsidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of export subsidy
Aferdita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Orthographic simplification of Albanian Afërdita. Doublet of Aphrodite.
Senses: glosses: An English spelling of an Albanian female given name, equivalent to English Aphrodite.
thrust load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrust loads
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A force that is applied along a bearing's axis.
Related terms: axial load
palm trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm tree
farmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmaceuticals
Etymology: Blend of farm + pharmaceutical
Senses: examples: text: Of course industry assures us that biotech's "farmaceuticals" would never be allowed to grow in proximity to related plants and wild relatives, and that measures will be taken to mitigate the spread of transgenes from pharma crops and biofortified plants.
ref: 2002 Spring, ETC Group, “Genetic Pollution in Mexico's Center of Maize Diversity”, in Backgrounder, volume 8, number 2, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2008, page 3:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A medically valuable compound produced from modified agricultural crops or animals (usually through biotechnology).
farmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of farm + pharmaceutical
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to farmaceuticals.
farmaceuticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmaceutical
farmer's markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of farmers' markets.
Buckley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkli/
Forms: form: Buckleys
Etymology: From Old English bucca (“he-goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to buck + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburban area of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9015).
glosses: A placename:
A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2864).
glosses: A placename:
A locality in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
examples: text: Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).
ref: 2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Buckleyesque
Buckley rule
Buckley's
Buckley's and none
Buckley's chance
Buckley's hope
Buckley syndrome
Buckley Wells
fed cattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even though the empirical analysis used here cannot formally test which of several possible factors is the cause of any asymmetry, it is important to establish theoretical reasons to expect spatial price adjustments for fed cattle to be asymmetric.
ref: 1989 December, DeeVon Bailey, B. Wade Brorsen, “Price Asymmetry in Spatial Fed Cattle Markets”, in Western Journal of Agricultrual Economics, volume 8, number 2, page 246:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Cattle leaving a feedlot, after fattening on a concentrated ration, that are ready to be sold to a packinghouse for slaughter.
isn't it so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: right?
glosses: Isn't it true?
glosses: Isn't it that way?
free trade areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free trade area
futures contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futures contract
ocean ranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For example, Anderson (1985a) models the interactions between ocean ranching (the hatching and release of smolts of anadromous fish, such as coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), which migrate into ocean waters and later return to be harvested) and commercial fishing.
ref: 2003, Porter Hoagland et al., “The Optimal Allocation of Ocean Space: Aquaculture and Wild-Harvest Fisheries”, in Marine Resource Economics, volume 18, page 132:
glosses: A type of aquaculture, used mainly in culturing Pacific salmon, wherein juvenile fish are hatched and reared, released to mature in the open ocean, and caught when they return as adults to spawn.
organic farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another problem was that some organism groups have been studied more frequently than other because they are very relevant to organic farming, for example natural enemies of pests, such as carabids, and vascular plants (21% and 35% of studies regarding species richness, respectively).
ref: 2005 March 14, Janne Bengtsson et al., “The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta-analysis”, in Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 42, number 2, →DOI, page 246:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs and on a broadly defined philosophy of farming that puts value on ecological harmony, resource efficiency, and non-intensive animal husbandry practices.
Related terms: organic matter
sinicisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sinicization.
faith-healer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faith-healers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faith healer.
japanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: japanises
form: japanising
form: japanised
form: japanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of japanize.
russification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Russification.
lunar modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunar module
Asturia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Asturia’s former margraviate Castilia became a realm itself, annexed all Asturia in 1037, and turned it into a titular principality as Castilia’s (and later Spain’s) royal primogeniture in 1388.
glosses: Asturias: A former kingdom existing from c. 718 to 924 CE, in modern northwest Spain and Portugal
glosses: Asturias
Derived terms: Asturian
Related terms: Asturias
'phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'phone
'phones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 'phone
creatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creatural
form: most creatural
Etymology: From creature + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a creature.
glosses: Being a creature, created.
whaddayasay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From whaddaya + say.
Senses: glosses: What do you say? What is your opinion?
foot kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot kisses
Senses: examples: text: A foot kiss leaves no shred of doubt about the pecking order.
text: At the formal introduction, that is when the bride and bridegroom were brought together, K. did not offer her husband a foot kiss, and oh, what a murmur did that not produce amongst the family, […]
ref: 1992, Kartini (Raden Adjeng), Letters from Kartini: An Indonesian Feminist, 1900-1904 (page 480)
glosses: A reverential kiss on the footwear of the pope or other revered figure.
Ecbatana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈbætənə/
Etymology: From Latin Ecbatana, from Ancient Greek Ἐκβάτανα (Ekbátana), from Old Iranian; see Old Persian 𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 (Hangmatāna) for more. Doublet of Hamadan.
Senses: glosses: The ancient capital of Media, in modern-day Iran, and subsequently a royal residence of Persian and Parthian kings.
Related terms: Hamadan
rgds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of regards.
unrelocatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + relocatable.
Senses: glosses: Not relocatable.
concludent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concludent
form: most concludent
Senses: glosses: Conclusive; decisive.
glosses: Convincing.
Derived terms: inconcludent
unconcludent
ingenerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English ingenerable, from Medieval Latin ingenerābilis.
Senses: glosses: incapable of being generated or created.
Derived terms: ingenerably
unpassible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpassible
form: most unpassible
Etymology: From un- + passible.
Senses: glosses: Unpassable.
glosses: Impassible.
brandwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brandwashes
form: brandwashing
form: brandwashed
form: brandwashed
Etymology: Blend of brand + whitewash
Senses: glosses: To alter a brand in an attempt to improve negative public perception of the brand or company.
brandwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandwashes
Etymology: Blend of brand + whitewash
Senses: glosses: An alteration of this kind.
indues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indue
induing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indue
indued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indue
predominion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predominions
Etymology: From pre- + dominion.
Senses: glosses: predominance; prevalence; superior influence or power.
encreases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encrease
encreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encrease
encreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
 But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.
ref: 1590, George Peele, His golden locks time hath to silver turned:
glosses: present participle and gerund of encrease
Derived terms: encreasingly
encreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encrease
prefinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prefinite
form: most prefinite
Senses: examples: text: Euen ſo do I thinke them no trewe Chryſtian men that do not reioyce with the Angels of heauen for the deliuerie of theſe owre brootherne, owre fleſſhe, and owre bones, from the handes of owre commune enemie the oulde ſerpente who hath ſo longe had them in hys poſſeſſion, vntyll the fulneſſe of the gentyles be accomplyſſhed accordynge to the time prefinite by hym, who vnto the yeare after his incarnation. M. CCCC. lxxxxii. hath ſuffered the greate ſerpente of the ſea Leuiathan, to haue ſuche dominion in the Ocean […]
ref: 1555, Richard Eden, “Rycharde Eden to the Reader”, in Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC:
glosses: Predetermined.
VTVL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of vertical takeoff and vertical landing.
Coordinate terms: VTHL
HTVL
HTHL
HVTL
VHTL
V/HTL
H/VTL
Related terms: CATOBAR
CTOL
HTOL
STOBAR
STOL
STOVL
SVTOL
S/VTOL
V/STOL
VSTOL
VTOL
VTOSL
rocket
JATO
RATO
ZLTO
ZLL
L-system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: L-systems
Etymology: Introduced in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer, Hungarian theoretical biologist and botanist.
Senses: glosses: A parallel rewriting system; a rewriting system in which as many rewrite rules as possible are applied at each step.
Synonyms: Lindenmayer system
Related terms: formal grammar
interminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/
Forms: form: more interminate
form: most interminate
Etymology: From in- + terminate.
Senses: examples: text: Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:
synonyms: interminated
glosses: Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.