cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nightmarishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nightmarish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nightmarish.
nightmarelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nightmarelike
form: most nightmarelike
Etymology: From nightmare + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nightmare; nightmarish.
nightclubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nightclubby
form: most nightclubby
Etymology: From nightclub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The place had a nightclubby atmosphere.
glosses: Resembling or suggesting a nightclub.
bookclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookclubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of book club.
bookclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookclub
book club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book clubs
form: bookclub
Senses: synonyms: reading group
book group
book discussion group
book society
glosses: A group of people who meet to discuss the books they have been reading.
synonyms: book sales club
glosses: A commercial organization offering subscribers a selection of books from a catalogue.
Lemurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lemurian
form: most Lemurian
Etymology: From Lemuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mythical Lemuria.
glosses: Relating to the Ancient Roman festival of Lemuria.
Lemurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lemurians
Etymology: From Lemuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the mythical Lemuria.
Lemurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lemurian
unskewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + skewed.
Senses: glosses: Not skewed.
Synonyms: nonskewed
nonskewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + skewed.
Senses: glosses: unskewed
ghost at the feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghosts at the feast
Etymology: After Banquo in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606); Macbeth murders Banquo, whose mutilated body subsequently appears at a feast as a ghost, unseen by all but Macbeth.
Senses: glosses: A presence that mars one's enjoyment by causing guilt or reviving unwelcome memories.
Synonyms: spectre at the feast
follow one's bliss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows one's bliss
form: following one's bliss
form: followed one's bliss
form: followed one's bliss
Etymology: Coined (as follow your bliss) by American mythologist Joseph John Campbell (1904–1987).
Senses: glosses: To use the awareness of what causes one to experience rapture as a guide for determining what constitutes authentic and proper living.
ethicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethic + -less.
Senses: examples: text: They believe that people, rather than being dominated by what critics of capitalism described as ethicless self-interest and gain, should be characterized by a strong sense of "brotherly love" in their day-to-day relations.
ref: 1976, Martin Abraham Abrahamsen, Cooperative business enterprise:
text: The tools themselves are ethicless just as a scalpel can be used to heal or to harm. People have ethics.
ref: 2005, Christopher Howard, Turning passions into profits: three steps to wealth and power:
glosses: Without ethics.
Derived terms: ethiclessness
sombrest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sombre: most sombre
millikelvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millikelvins
Etymology: From milli- + kelvin.
Senses: examples: text: ILT's device cools samples to several millikelvins, cold enough to freeze helium.
ref: 1997 June 20, Richard Stone, “Space Research Centers Search for New Frontier”, in Science, volume 276, number 5320, →DOI:
text: This zero-bias maximum disappears as temperature is raised above several hundred millikelvin, in agreement with theory ( 8 ): Because V sd is equal to the separation between the Fermi levels of the two leads, finite V sd splits the Kondo resonance into two peaks.
ref: 1998 July 24, Takeshi Inoshita, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots”, in Science, volume 281, number 5376, →DOI, pages 526–527:
glosses: One thousandth of a kelvin
Synonyms: mK
Derived terms: submillikelvin
millikelvin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milli- + kelvin.
Senses: examples: text: The temperatures required for producing a crystalline solid out of such a "one-component plasma" (3) are in the millikelvin range.
ref: 1998 January 30, John Schiffer, “PHYSICS: Sparse Crystals”, in Science, volume 279, number 5351, →DOI, pages 675–676:
text: These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers.
ref: 2001 January 12, A. Yu. Kasumov et al., “Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in DNA”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI, pages 280–282:
glosses: Of or relating to the temperature range at which temperatures are expressed in millikelvins
nuncheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuncheons
form: nonchion
form: noonchine
form: nunchion
Etymology: From Middle English nonshench, noneschench, nonechenche (“slight refreshment, usually taken in the afternoon”), from none (“noon”) + shench, schenche (“draught, cup”), equivalent to noon + shink (“to pour out, serve”). More at shink, skink.
Senses: examples: text: They used to break their fast, and nonchion [translating collation] between meals, and all summer-time had men that sold snowe up and down the streets, wherewith they refreshed their wines, of whom some were so daintie that all winter long they used to put snow into their wine, not deeming it cold enough. (I.49)
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: "Yes---I left London this morning at eight o'clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of my chaise since that time, procured me a noonchine at Marlborough."
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.
ref: 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters:
text: Lurgashall, on the road to Northchapel, is a pleasant village, with a green, and a church unique among Sussex churches by virtue of a curious wooden gallery or cloister, said to have been built as a shelter for parishioners from a distance, who would eat their nuncheon there.
ref: 1921, E.V. Lucas, Highways & Byways in Sussex:
text: “Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have nuncheon with her.”
ref: 1981, Mary A. Garratt, The Duchess of Asherwood, Dell, →ISBN, page 485:
glosses: A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
Related terms: luncheon
torshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Iranian Persian ترشی (torsh, “pickle”).
Senses: examples: text: She greets every table with a plate of torshi, or pickled vegetables, including riotous mixes of olives, hot peppers, and beets; tiny puckering lemons; or the spectacular makdous, an eggplant pickle, mixed with walnuts and paprika.
ref: 2005 March 4, Mike Sula, “Home Cooking From Halfway Around the World”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A mixture of pickled vegetables used in the cuisine of the Balkans and Middle East
somberer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of somber: more somber
somberest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of somber: most somber
fanfaronades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanfaronade
fanfaronades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fanfaronade
dormer-windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dormer-window
newslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newslike
form: most newslike
Etymology: From news + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This accounts for the newslike freshness of his writings. Proof of its quality lies in the fact that some of his things can still be read today.
ref: 1972, Agnes Domandi Langdon, Modern German literature:
text: Such newslike spots had been done occasionally before, beginning when television news became a major source of information for voters...
ref: 1992, Edwin Diamond, Stephen Bates, The spot: the rise of political advertising on television:
text: The newslike format is supposed to suggest we're getting something valuable, like insight into real life events. Of course, this isn't news...
ref: 2001, David Walsh, Kristin Parker, Monica Walsh, Dr. Dave's Cyberhood:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of news or a news broadcast.
heptaparallelohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptaparallelohedra
Etymology: From hepta- + parallelohedron.
Senses: glosses: cuboctahedron
heptaparallelohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptaparallelohedron
cantellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantellations
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: rectification
glosses: An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each edge and each vertex.
Derived terms: bicantellation
runcicantellation
Related terms: cantellate
cantellated
canterburies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canterbury
preliteracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + literacy.
Senses: glosses: The period before literacy, when a person or culture has not yet learned to read and write.
spinniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spinny: most spinny
spinnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spinny: more spinny
spinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinlike
form: most spinlike
Etymology: From spin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A spinlike variable was introduced.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Resembling subatomic spin.
double cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double creams
Senses: glosses: A relatively thick cream suitable for pouring, whipping and piping.
Related terms: heavy cream
single cream
whipping cream
salmiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Salmiak, from Latin sal ammoniacum. Doublet of sal ammoniac.
Senses: glosses: ammonium chloride
paction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pactions
Senses: examples: text: Instead of this, we have the tranquil declaration that they heartily desire the welfare of Hellas, and that they will make no paction with the enemy, if they can avoid the so doing.
ref: 1876, George William Cox, A general history of Greece, page 215:
glosses: A pact, an agreement.
Derived terms: pactional
paction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pactions
form: pactioning
form: pactioned
form: pactioned
Senses: examples: text: It would be usury, in the construction of law, to take from a necessitous debtor a bond for ₤. 100 for the loan of 800 marks, though the ordinary interest be pactioned for the sum borrowed;
ref: 1811, The Decisions of the Court of Session:
text: ...but if they were infants who were not capable of pactioning and entring into terms, then the mother's alimenting them, and not declaring quo animo she did it, prejudges her not, but she may thereafter crave the same.
ref: 1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, William Maxwell Morison, Supplement to the Dictionary of the decisions of the Court of Session:
text: But Bruno was burned as a heretic in 1600 and the German Faust story of 1587 shows Doctor Faustus as a godless rebel, seeking things he should not delve into, aspiring to powers and to knowledge not meant for him, pactioning with the devil and condemned to Hell.
ref: 1973, Eugen Weber, A Modern History of Europe, page 368:
glosses: To form a pact; to make a binding agreement.
weekdaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From weekday + -ly, by analogy with daily.
Senses: examples: text: This applies even to the festivals, because it is a “weekdaily habit” which disregards their sanctity; see Rashi, Betza 25a.
ref: 1975, Immanuel Jakobovits, Jewish Medical Ethics: A Comparative and Historical Study of the Jewish Religious Attitude to Medicine and Its Practice, 2nd edition, Bloch Publishing Company, page 329:
text: The travel activity of residents of Center City and Cottage District neighborhoods results in significantly lower average weekdaily carbon emission than the regionwide averages.
ref: 2002, Roger Gorham, "Comparative Neighborhood Travel Analysis: An Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Planning and Travel Behavior", chapter 11 of Hani S. Mahmassani (editor), In Perpetual Motion: Travel Behavior Research Opportunities and Application Challenges, Elsevier Science Ltd, page 252
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or occurring on weekdays; especially, occurring on every weekday.
weekdaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From weekday + -ly, by analogy with daily.
Senses: examples: text: The carrier started operations last May with Embraer Brasilias and serves Amsterdam four times weekdaily, under a code share agreement with KLM, and London Stansted three times weekdaily.
ref: 1992, in Airports International, Volume 34, Seven Kings Publications Ltd., page 24
glosses: On each weekday.
castor sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castor sugars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caster sugar.
contemnor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemnors
Etymology: From contemn + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A party who commits or is held in contempt of court.
examples: text: It is up to the Committee of Privileges to determine... the degree of culpability of the contemnor.
ref: 2023 June 15, Privileges Committee, “Matter Referred on 21 April 2022”, in Privileges Committee Report from the UK House of Commons, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023:
topics: government
parliamentary-procedure
glosses: A party who commits or is held in contempt of Parliament.
contemnors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contemnor
paczkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paczki
whipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From whip + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a whip (instrument for beating).
examples: text: […] spectacle of Conservative Euro-rebels delighting in their disgrace and flaunting their whipless condition, rather than being sad and ashamed of what has happened.
ref: Hansard, 24 Feb 1995
topics: government
politics
glosses: Having been deprived of party membership as a disciplinary measure, or having relinquished membership, and often not voting to support party policy.
raw_tags: of an MP
glosses: Without whipped cream.
raw_tags: of coffee
glosses: Concealed, with no visible aerial.
raw_tags: of an antenna
glosses: Designed so as to avoid a lashing rebound.
livelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of livelock
livelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unable to proceed because of livelock.
woolsorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolsorters
Etymology: From wool + sorter.
Senses: hypernyms: worker#Noun
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person#Noun
glosses: A worker, usually a farmworker, responsible for sorting wool into coarser and finer grades.
Derived terms: woolsorter's disease
woolsorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolsorter
woolsorter's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anthrax.
synonyms: word: anthrax
anthraxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthraxlike
form: most anthraxlike
Etymology: From anthrax + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of anthrax.
plasmodiophorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmodiophorids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Phytomyxea (but sometimes excluding Phagomyxa), a group of protists that are parasites of plants.
plasmodiophorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmodiophorid
soilborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soil + borne.
Senses: examples: soilborne bacteria
glosses: Transported by means of soil.
hyperuricaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperuricaemia
hyperuricemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperuricemia
hyperuricaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperuricaemic
form: most hyperuricaemic
Etymology: From hyperuricaemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperuricemic.
hyperuricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hyperuricaemic
Etymology: From hyperuricemia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Affected by, or pertaining to, hyperuricemia
Derived terms: antihyperuricemic
hyperuricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperuricemics
form: hyperuricaemic
Etymology: From hyperuricemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Such a patient
unemployments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unemployment
protistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protist + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: protistan
glosses: Of or pertaining to protists.
nonprotesting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + protesting.
Senses: examples: a nonprotesting mental patient
glosses: unprotesting; compliant, willing
examples: text: Even some of the nonprotesting students were arrested.
glosses: Not involved in a political protest.
HGPRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HGPRTs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First clinically characterized by medical student Michael Lesch and his mentor, pediatrician William Nyhan, who published their findings in 1964.
Senses: glosses: A rare inherited genetic disorder, caused by a deficiency of HGPRT, in which uric acid builds up in all body fluids.
blowtube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowtubes
Etymology: From blow + tube.
Senses: glosses: A blowpipe (used in metallurgy, etc.).
glosses: A blowgun.
blowtubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowtube
rethread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rethreads
form: rethreading
form: rethreaded
form: rethreaded
Etymology: From re- + thread.
Senses: examples: text: He rethreaded the needle and resumed sewing.
text: When isolating portions of the piping that have been damaged by fire or explosion damage, it may be necessary to cut, rethread, and cap individual pipes.
ref: 2001, National Fire Protection Association, National Fire Codes (volume 12? 14?)
glosses: To thread again (in various senses).
rethreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rethread
rethreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rethread
rethreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rethreadings
Senses: examples: text: Bodkins therefore needed to be carried since repairs or rethreadings were necessary on the numerous tying devices.
ref: 2011, Faye Strumpf, Limoges Porcelain Boxes: A Complete Guide, page 140:
glosses: The process of threading something again.
rethreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethread
put the plug in the jug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the plug in the jug
form: putting the plug in the jug
form: put the plug in the jug
form: put the plug in the jug
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: synonyms: put in the pin
glosses: To cease drinking alcohol; to become teetotal.
nonhyperglycemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hyperglycemic.
Senses: glosses: Not hyperglycemic.
nonaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aerobic.
Senses: examples: nonaerobic exercise
glosses: Not aerobic.
Related terms: anaerobic
noncertificate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + certificate.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a certificate.
laughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughter
walletlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more walletlike
form: most walletlike
Etymology: From wallet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a wallet.
winners' rostrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winners' rostrums
Senses: glosses: A platform with three height levels on which the three most successful sports competitors stand when receiving medals.
winners' rostrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winners' rostrum
unmascaraed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mascaraed.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing mascara.
nonplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + planktonic.
Senses: glosses: Not planktonic.
nonphenomenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phenomenological.
Senses: glosses: Not phenomenological.
Derived terms: nonphenomenologically
nonperceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perceptual.
Senses: glosses: Not perceptual.
nonfloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + floral.
Senses: glosses: Not floral.
unflowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflowery
form: most unflowery
Etymology: From un- + flowery.
Senses: glosses: Not flowery; simple, direct, and possibly austere.
raw_tags: of speech or writing
examples: an unflowery dress
glosses: Not bearing a flowery motif.
nonnested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nested.
Senses: glosses: unnested
nonnumismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + numismatic.
Senses: glosses: Not numismatic.
nonrationed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rationed.
Senses: glosses: unrationed
nonpunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + punctual.
Senses: glosses: Not punctual.
nonprovocative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + provocative.
Senses: glosses: Not provocative.
qʷi·qʷi·diččaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qʷi·qʷi·diččaq
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Makah qʷi·qʷi·diččaq.
Senses: examples: text: The seven languages of the Wakashan family (qʷi·qʷi·diččaq, diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, nuučaan̓uɬ, ‘Uik̓ ala, Híɫzaqvḷa, X̄a’islak̓ ala-X̄enaksialak̓ ala, and Kwak̕wala) are spoken in the Pacific Northwest Coast from qʷi·qʷi·diččaq territory on the Olympic Peninsula extending north across Vancouver Island to Híɫzaqvḷa and X̄a’islak̓ ala territories bordering Tsimshian lands.
ref: 2024, T̕łat̕łaḵuł Patricia Rosborough and Daisy Rosenblum, “Wakashan Languages”, in Carmen Dagostino , Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice, editors, The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, volume 2, page 1013:
glosses: Makah
éminence grises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of éminence grise
fairweather friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairweather friend
vaniloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaniloquent
form: most vaniloquent
Etymology: From Latin vaniloquens.
Senses: examples: text: The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud.
ref: 1910, Gustavus Myers, History of the great American fortunes:
text: Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous.
ref: 1977, Willy Peremans, Historiographia antiqua:
glosses: Talking in a vain or foolish way
Related terms: vaniloquence
prolifigate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prolifigate
form: most prolifigate
Etymology: Likely influenced by the spelling of the more common term prolific which refers to abundance in general, while profligate refers to an abundance of wastefulness.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of profligate.
detext
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detexts
form: detexting
form: detexted
form: detexted
Etymology: From de- + text.
Senses: examples: text: The search for partial text parallels is helpful in order to detext interchangeable substitutions.
ref: 1988, Peter Masson, editor, Indiana 11, page 14:
glosses: To extract or remove from a text
Related terms: detect
safety belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety belt
incog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incog
form: most incog
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: text: 1846, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, "Forgotten Flowers", Voice of Flowers, page 64.
Though we travel'd incog. yet we trembled with fear,
For the accents of strangers fell hoarse on our ear.
text: But his general aspect and manner were so suggestive of an education and career incongruous with his naval function that when not actively engaged in it he looked like a man of high quality, social and moral, who for reasons of his own was keeping incog.
ref: 1985, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, page 343
glosses: Incognito.
incog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incog
form: most incog
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: text: What—my old Guardian—what[!] turn inquisitor and take evidence incog.—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
text: Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog!
Ye cam to Paradise incog,
An’ play’d on man a cursed brogue,
(Black be your fa’!)
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil:
glosses: Incognito.
incog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incogs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: text: “Just as we arose from the table some county judges came in and the incog was off.”
ref: 2009 April 5, Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway”, in New York Times:
glosses: Incognito.
climbs the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of climb the walls
climbed the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of climb the walls
half nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half nephews
form: half-nephew
Senses: glosses: son of one's half brother or half sister
Wenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A municipality in Olpe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Related terms: Wendens Ambo
email client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: email clients
Senses: glosses: A computer program used to manage email.
Synonyms: email reader
email reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: email readers
Senses: glosses: A computer program used to manage email.
Synonyms: email client
information overload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Popularized by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970).
Senses: examples: text: One of the men who has pioneered in information studies, Dr. James G. Miller, director of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, states flatly that “Glutting a person with more information than he can process may . . . lead to disturbance.” He suggests, in fact, that information overload may be related to various forms of mental illness.
ref: 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Some news executives attribute this youthful apathy to information overload and the explosion of media options.
ref: 1990 March 9, Richard Zoglin, “The Tuned-out Generation”, in Time:
text: But it's often hard to discern the forest for the archaeological trees, partly because archaeology is now so specialized, and also because all of us suffer from information overload about the past dumped on us by the Web, newspapers, TV specials, and all the apparatus of modern global communications.
ref: 2006, Brian Fagan, “The Next 50 Years”, in Archaeology, vol. 59:5:
synonyms: infobesity
infoglut
infoxication
glosses: The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results.
wikipedia: Alvin Toffler
Future Shock
Related terms: information fatigue
information fatigue syndrome
infostress
infotrash
sensory overload
apractic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to apraxia
Synonyms: apraxic
white spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white space
neck-gable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛkˌɡeɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: neck-gables
Senses: glosses: a type of gable in vogue between the 17th and the 18th centuries in the Netherlands with a rectangular body (resembling a neck, hence the name) in place of the usual triangular shape found with a regular gable
neck-gables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neck-gable
Cypriotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cypriote
mother of all
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: mother of all —
Etymology: Calque of Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm, “mother (of)”). Popularized and given its current sense by Saddam Hussein's claim that the impending Gulf War would be the أُمّ المَعَارِك (ʔumm al-maʕārik, “mother of (all) battles”), though mother had long been used in somewhat similar senses in English, and other familial terms are used with the same meaning, like granddaddy (of all traffic jams) and father (of all battles).
Senses: examples: text: (etc)
text: Near-synonym: Big One
text: Driving to a dinner engagement, a Parisian woman gets stuck in the mother of all traffic jams, offers a ride to a handsome pedestrian, and enters a fleeting affair that catches both of them by surprise.
ref: 2003 December 26, “2003 Movie Guide”, in Christian Science Monitor:
text: Five mail-order ice creams. Four pregnant women. Welcome to the mother of all taste tests.
ref: 2006, Jean Chatzky, “Get the Scoop”, in Money, vol. 35.8:
text: “[Donald Trump's tariff proposal] is a prescription for the mother of all stagflations,” Larry Summers, Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, told Bloomberg TV back in June.
ref: 2024 October 30, Laurent Belsie, “Surprisingly, Wall Street doesn’t seem to care who gets elected. So far, at least.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: father
granddaddy
grandmammy
glosses: Used before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of (its kind); the most epic example of (its kind).
wikipedia: Saddam Hussein
Derived terms: Mother of all Bombs
Mother of all Budgets
Related terms: mother
directable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more directable
form: most directable
Etymology: From direct + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be directed.
Derived terms: undirectable
Related terms: directability
Korotkoff method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Nikolai Korotkov.
Senses: glosses: a non-invasive auscultatory technique for determining both systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels
wikipedia: Nikolai Korotkov
Related terms: Kortokoff sign
Kortokoff sound
Kortokoff test
read someone's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads someone's mind
form: reading someone's mind
form: read someone's mind
form: read someone's mind
Senses: glosses: To guess or deduce what someone is thinking.
Derived terms: read minds
Related terms: have one's head read
éminences grises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of éminence grise
Kang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 강(姜) (Gang), Mandarin 康 (Kāng) or Hokkien 江 (Kang).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from Korean.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Chinese.
glosses: A surname.
Alternative form of Kangabam surname of Meitei origin
glosses: A surname.
Alternative form of Kangjam surname of Meitei origin
glosses: A surname.
Alternative form of Kangujam surname of Meitei origin
behind the eightball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of behind the eight-ball.
behind the 8-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of behind the eight-ball.
gambes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambe
jerk offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerk off
chinguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinguards
Etymology: From chin + guard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chin guard.
Related terms: faceguard
chinguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinguard
rogues' gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogues' galleries
form: rogue gallery
Etymology: From rogue + gallery. Popularized by American detectives Allan Pinkerton and Thomas F. Byrnes.
Senses: examples: text: When the policemen arrest a man . . . if there is good reason to suspect him, they take his picture before they let him go. . . . Then they put the picture up in the rogues' gallery among the others, where everybody who comes there can see it.
ref: 1866, "Readings for the Young: The Rogues' Gallery," in The Christian Treasury, Johnstone, Hunter & Co. (Edinburgh), pp. 322-323
text: "Recognize these people?" Dutch asked, pointing to the rogues' gallery.
I nodded. "All of 'em. Cutthroats to the man."
ref: 1984, William Diehl, Hooligans, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.
examples: text: By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.
ref: 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
text: The old staple of every demonstration: gully gully may shor hai, Congress Party chor hai—the cry goes up in every alley, Congress Party is a 'rogues' gallery—was very much in evidence.
ref: 1997, Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey, →ISBN, page 325:
text: For more than a decade, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, masterminded a vast, clandestine and hugely profitable enterprise whose mission boiled down to this: selling to a rogues' gallery of nations the technology and equipment to make nuclear weapons.
ref: 2006 February 6, “The Man Who Sold the Bomb”, in Time:
glosses: Any group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.
Related terms: murderers' row
rogues gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rogues' gallery.
rogue gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogue galleries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rogues' gallery.
rogue's gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogue's galleries
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rogues' gallery.
nuncheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuncheon
railbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railbanks
Etymology: From rail + bank.
Senses: examples: text: This 200-mile long stretch of railbank property has four encampments of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
ref: 1990, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies, Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for, page 590:
glosses: An embankment adjacent to a railroad track.
railbank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: railbanks
form: railbanking
form: railbanked
form: railbanked
Etymology: From rail + bank.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he municipal government moved ahead with plans to railbank the 5-mile segment between Astoria and Tongue Point under the guidelines of the National Trail Systems Act.
ref: 2004, Joseph P. Schwieterman, When the Railroad Leaves Town, page 223:
glosses: To convert an out-of-use railroad track into a trail for public use.
railbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railbank
railbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of railbank
railbanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Federal legislation regarding railbanking provides for interim public use of the corridor, allowing the establishment of recreational trails.
ref: 2001, Charles A. Flink, Kristine Olka, Robert M. Searns, Trails for the Twenty-First Century, page 183:
glosses: present participle and gerund of railbank
railbanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of railbank
keeps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep on
keeping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep on
kept on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep on
fundamental particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamental particle
fadista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadistas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese fadista.
Senses: examples: text: […]in recent years pomo fadistas have mixed it with everything from pop to chamber music.
ref: 2000 July 14, Peter Margasak, “Misia”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A fado singer.
lateral raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral raises
Senses: examples: text: You'd never dream of doing just bench presses to build a massive chest, or only lateral raises to build up your shoulders, so you'll surely limit your overall leg development if you restrict your hamstring training to leg curls.
ref: 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A shoulder exercise in which the arm is raised and lowered against resistance – such as through use of a dumbbell, cable, or resistance band –, isolating the deltoids.
Synonyms: sense: shoulder exercise
word: shoulder fly
sense: shoulder exercise
word: shoulder flye
sense: shoulder exercise
word: side raise
Derived terms: bent-over lateral raise
lateral raises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateral raise
Romanian deadlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanian deadlifts
Etymology: Named so in homage to Romanian weightlifter Nicolae Vlad.
Senses: examples: text: Powerful hip extension is essential if you hope to squat heavier, jump higher or run faster, making it essential to train the hams using focused hip-extension exercises (like the romanian deadlift).
ref: 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A form of deadlift in which the body is bent at the hips and the knees are not bent.
wikipedia: Nicolae Vlad
Related terms: deadlift
Romanian deadlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanian deadlift
gym rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gym rat
psittacines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtəsaɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of psittacine
sobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒbi/
Forms: form: sobbier
form: sobbiest
Etymology: From sob (“cry”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake.
ref: 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham:
text: Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.
ref: 1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy:
glosses: Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps).
examples: text: a sobby sound
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sob.
sobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒbi/
Forms: form: sobbier
form: sobbiest
Etymology: From sob (“soak”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one.
ref: 1882, Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865:
text: The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]
ref: 1887, Thomas Nelson Page, “No Haid Pawn”, in In Ole Virginia; Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 180–181:
text: The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher.
ref: 1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground:
glosses: That has been sobbed (soaked); saturated with moisture.
all one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: all the same, monolithic, of a kind, of a piece, cut from the same cloth
text: But what care I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.
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 i]:
text: Near or distant, blood or water, it's all one.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Martin Chuzzlewit:
text: And sometimes he had some preliminary information to help him, and sometimes he had not. And it was all one, really. It was about as useful as information trying to convey the locality and intentions of a cloud.
ref: 1917, Joseph Conrad, The Tale:
glosses: A matter of indifference; a matter involving a distinction without a difference; a matter having no importance or consequence.
Related terms: same difference
thumbboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌm.bɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈθʌm.bɔːd/
Forms: form: thumbboards
form: thumboard
Etymology: Blend of thumb + keyboard. By surface analysis, thumb + board.
Senses: glosses: A small keyboard designed to be operated with the thumbs, as on smartphones.
Synonyms: thumb keyboard
Coordinate terms: keypad
cespitose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cespitose
form: most cespitose
form: caespitose
form: caespitous
Etymology: Latin caespes (“turf”).
Senses: examples: text: A cespitose or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting.
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: tufty; growing in tufts.
Derived terms: cespitosely
garcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garcon
verrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verrines
Etymology: Borrowed from French verrine.
Senses: glosses: Any savory or sweet food served in a small glass, typically in France.
glosses: The small glass in which such food is served.
verrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verrine
revarnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revarnishes
form: revarnishing
form: revarnished
form: revarnished
Etymology: From re- + varnish.
Senses: examples: text: The bench in the garden needs to be revarnished.
glosses: To varnish again, a further time.
revarnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revarnish
revarnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revarnish
revarnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revarnish
abelianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abelianisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of abelianization.
abelianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abelianizations
form: abelianisation
Etymology: From abelian + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A homomorphism that transforms a group into an abelian group.
antifield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-field
Etymology: From anti- + field.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Opposed to a field
antifield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifields
form: anti-field
Etymology: From anti- + field.
Senses: glosses: A field that is opposed to another
brightenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brightening
coordinatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinatizations
Etymology: From coordinate + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The application of coordinates to a system
Related terms: coordinatize
dielectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dielectrons
Etymology: From di- + electron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A combination of two electrons
electropulsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electropulsations
Etymology: From electro- + pulsation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of pulses of electricity to individual cells in order to make its membrane temporarily permeable
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The application of this technique to aid drug delivery
fluctuational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluctuational
form: most fluctuational
Etymology: From fluctuation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s)
formulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formulisms
Etymology: From formula + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An over-reliance on, or adherence to formulae
Related terms: formulist
formulistic
geometrodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geometrodynamics
Synonyms: geometrodynamic
geometrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geometry + -o- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several reformulations of general relativity that attempt to describe spacetime and associated phenomena completely in terms of geometry.
lagrangian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lagrangian
form: most lagrangian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lagrangian.
lagrangian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagrangians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lagrangian.
modelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mode-locked.
mode-locked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a laser in which several modes of oscillation are synchronized so as to generate a strong, short pulse of light.
Related terms: mode locking