cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mantrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantraps
form: man-trap
form: man trap
Etymology: From man + trap.
Senses: examples: text: The space had been cleared of landmines and mantraps.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 319:
glosses: A mechanical device for catching trespassers.
glosses: A small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens, used to restrict access.
examples: text: "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Wal, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap."
ref: 1858, Tom Taylor, Our American Cousin:
text: If anything, she was worse since she had enough money to implement her desires. They were merely in the trade for business reasons. No—Eloise would be something to steer clear of. Alexander was right. She was a mantrap.
ref: 2011, J. F. Bone, The Lani People:
glosses: A woman who is dangerously seductive to men.
Synonyms: sense: dangerously seductive woman
word: vamp
mantric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mantric
form: most mantric
Etymology: From mantra + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, mantra.
mantua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantuas
Etymology: From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy.
Senses: glosses: An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
examples: text: Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […]
ref: 1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary:
glosses: A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
glosses: A woman's cloak or mantle.
examples: text: Her dress was extremely elegant, but had an appearance of foreign fashion, as if both the lady and her mantua-maker were of 'a far countree’.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:
glosses: A woman's gown.
Derived terms: mantuamaker
mantuamaking
mantuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantua
Mantuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mantuan
form: most Mantuan
Etymology: From Mantua + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or from, Mantua
Mantuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mantuans
Etymology: From Mantua + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Mantua.
Mantuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mantua + -an.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Lombard spoken around Mantua.
Derived terms: Mantuanesque
amisulpride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ami(no)- + sul(fonyl) + -pride (“sulpiride derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A selective dopamine antagonist that is used as an antipsychotic drug.
amodiaquine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From -quine (“quinoline derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An aminoquinoline compound, related to chloroquine, used as an antimalarial and anti-inflammatory agent.
anastomotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anastomotic
form: most anastomotic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to anastomosis
Derived terms: nonanastomotic
perianastomotic
par yields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of par yield
pre-packaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pre-packaged
form: most pre-packaged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prepackaged.
Cherkessk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia.
Related terms: alt: Карачаево-Черкессия
word: Karachay-Cherkessia
peel strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peel strengths
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The average load per unit width required to separate a flexible member from a rigid member or another flexible member.
picture framing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪktʃə ˌfɹeɪmɪŋ/
Forms: form: picture framings
Etymology: From picture + framing, after picture frame.
Senses: glosses: The materials needed to construct a picture frame.
glosses: The act of setting a painting, photograph etc. in a frame.
examples: text: When ridges occur along both longitudinal and transverse joints, outlining the insulation boards, the pattern formed is known as "picture framing"
ref: 1989, H.L. Simmons, Repairing And Extending Weather Barriers, page 97:
text: The staggered grid pattern is sometimes called "picture framing," a phenomenon generally limited to smooth-surfaced membranes with asbestos felts
ref: 1996, Charles William Griffin, R. L. Fricklas, Manual of low-slope roof systems, page 258:
text: When they also appear above the transverse insulation-board joints, the pattern is called picture framing
ref: 2006, C.W. Griffin, Richard Fricklas, Manual of Low-Slope Roof Systems: Fourth Edition:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A square or rectangular pattern of ridges in a roof membrane or covering over insulation or deck joints.
whore paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whore's paint.
polyisobutylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyisobutylenes
Etymology: From poly- + isobutylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer composed of isobutylene monomers
polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: organic chemical compound having more than two reactive isocyanate groups; component A in spray polyurethane foam.
PMDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate.
magot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magots
Etymology: From French magot.
Senses: examples: text: The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.
ref: 1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 31, page 16:
glosses: The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory, of a grotesque form
magots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magot
peragrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peragrates
form: peragrating
form: peragrated
form: peragrated
Etymology: From Latin peragratus (“wandered through”), past participle of peragro (“I wander”). See peregrine, peregrinate.
Senses: glosses: To travel around or through.
laserworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laserwort
polyisobutylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyisobutylene
pop rivet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop rivets
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A pin with a relatively small but expandable head.
coix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊ.ɪks/
ipa: /ˈkɔɪks/
Forms: form: coixes
Etymology: From New Latin coix, from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).
Senses: glosses: An East Asian grass (Coix lacryma-jobi), sometimes harvested as a cereal.
Derived terms: coixseed
refamiliarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + familiarization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of refamiliarizing.
refamiliarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + familiarisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of refamiliarization.
Job's tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: adlay
adlay millet
coix seed
gromwell grass
tear grass
glosses: A tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the species Coix lacryma-jobi (family Poaceae), native to southeast Asia.
jeanswear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jeans + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Jeans and other clothes made from denim.
positive drainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: the drainage condition in which consideration has been made during design for all loading deflections of the deck and additional roof slope has been provided to ensure drainage within 48 hours following rainfall during conditions conducive to drying.
ungrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grooved.
Senses: glosses: Without a groove or grooves.
Synonyms: grooveless
positive side waterproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive side waterproofings
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An application where the waterproofing systems and source of hydrostatic pressure are on the same side of the structural element.
hypnobirthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypno- + birthing.
Senses: glosses: The use of hypnotherapy to ease the process of childbirth.
chavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chavenders
Etymology: Compare chevin.
Senses: glosses: A chub (fish).
pot life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot lives
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The period of time a reacting composition remains suitable for its intended processing after mixing with reaction-initiating agents.
sneezewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneezeworts
Etymology: From sneeze + wort. Compare German Nieswurz (“hellebore”), Dutch nieskruid (“hellebore”).
Senses: synonyms: bastard pellitory
fair-maid-of-France
goosetongue
sneezeweed
white tansy
wild pellitory
glosses: A hardy flowering plant of species Achillea ptarmica, poisonous to cattle, sheep and horses, but with various herbal applications in humans.
Derived terms: sneezewort yarrow
sneezeworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneezewort
pot lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot life
press brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press brakes
Senses: glosses: A machine used in cold-forming sheet metal or strips of metal into desired profiles.
Synonyms: brake press
Coordinate terms: stamping press
die press
press die
Related terms: drop press
hydraulic press
lime rickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lime rickeys
Senses: glosses: any one of a number of different drinks containing lime juice as a primary ingredient
trilith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triliths
Etymology: From tri- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A trilithon.
pre-tin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-tins
form: pre-tinning
form: pre-tinned
form: pre-tinned
Etymology: From pre- + tin.
Senses: glosses: To coat (a metal) with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it.
triliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilith
must weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: must weights
Senses: glosses: A measure of the amount of sugar in grape juice.
naringin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No interaction occurs between naringin and pectin and, therefore, grapefruit peel extract is not very turbid. The high naringin content of grapefruit peel extract often results in precipitation of naringin crystals in the concentrate.
ref: 1996, R. Cohn, A.L. Cohn, “8: The by-products of fruit processing”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editors, Fruit Processing, page 200:
text: UV-C irradiation alters the levels of the flavanone naringin and the polymethoxyflavone tangeretin in the peel of Citrus aurantium fruits and this, in turn, reduces the growth of Penicillium digitatum on irradiated fruits.
ref: 2009, Vincenzo Lattanzio, Paul A. Kroon, Stéphane Quideau, Dieter Treutter, “Chapter 1: Plant Phenolics - Secondary Metabolites with Diverse Functions”, in Fouad Daayf, Vincenzo Lattanzio, editors, Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research, page 17:
text: Naringin is the main cause of bitterness in some citrus fruits and is converted into naringenin in the body.
ref: 2013, Kimberly Mueller, Josh Hingst, The Athlete's Guide to Sports Supplements, unnumbered page:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The major flavonoid glycoside in grapefruit, giving the fruit its bitter taste, which is metabolized to the flavanone naringenin in humans.
Derived terms: isonaringin
naringinase
Related terms: naringenin
quercitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A glycoside formed from the flavonoid quercetin and the deoxy sugar rhamnose, a constituent of quercitron dye.
proportioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proportioners
Etymology: From proportion + -er.
Senses: glosses: A basic pumping unit consisting of two positive displacement pumps designed to dispense two components at a precisely controlled ratio.
flourlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flourlike
form: most flourlike
Etymology: From flour + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling flour.
Synonyms: floury
gangliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gangly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being gangly.
Synonyms: lankiness
tallness
hesitancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesitancy
homiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of homey: most homey
protection course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protection courses
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A sacrificial material used to shield a waterproofing material from damaging external forces.
donut holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donut hole
paradisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈdɪziæk/
Forms: form: more paradisiac
form: most paradisiac
Etymology: From Latin paradīsiacus.
Senses: examples: text: the Paradisiac - State of Infant Nature
ref: 1692, Thomas Burnet, Archæologiæ Philosophicæ:
text: September 13, 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Mrs Blount
a paradisiacal scene
text: Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiac vision which only impelled them
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: the paradisiac beauty and simplicity of tropic humanity
ref: 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: paradisiacal
glosses: Of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful.
Derived terms: paradisiacally
paradisiacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paradisiacally
form: most paradisiacally
Etymology: From paradisiac + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a paradisiac way.
swelteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swelteringly
form: most swelteringly
Etymology: From sweltering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sweltering way.
dinarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dinarization
Etymology: From Dinaric + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The development of a supposed Dinaric race by intermixing.
dinarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dinarization
Etymology: From dinar + -ization; compare dollarization.
Senses: glosses: The adoption of the dinar as currency.
Dinarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dinarization.
raggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡ.əl/
rhymes: -æɡəl
homophone: wraggle
Forms: form: raggles
Etymology: From rag + -le.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A groove or slot, often cut in a masonry wall or other vertical surface, for inserting an inset flashing component such as a reglet.
glosses: A ragged piece.
raggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡ.əl/
rhymes: -æɡəl
homophone: wraggle
Forms: form: raggles
form: raggling
form: raggled
form: raggled
Etymology: From rag + -le.
Senses: glosses: To notch irregularly.
Derived terms: raggle-taggle
black letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black letter
blackletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackletter
cheeseboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheesebox
pragmatique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pragmatique
form: most pragmatique
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pragmatic.
creosoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creosote
creosoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creosote
defats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defat
demits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demit
demitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demit
demitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demit
deprioritizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deprioritize
deprioritizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deprioritize
deprioritized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprioritize
derezzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derezz
derez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derezes
form: derezzes
form: derezing
form: derezzing
form: derezed
form: derezed
form: derezzed
form: derezzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of derezz.
derezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derez
derezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derez
dimplier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dimply: more dimply
dimpliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dimply: most dimply
dudesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudess
dwarfesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarfess
ealdormen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ealdorman
furiosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furioso
em-dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of em-dash
emdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emdash
enhalos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhalo
enhaloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enhalo
enhaloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enhalo
eulogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulogist
cajuela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cajuelas
Etymology: From Spanish cajuela.
Senses: glosses: A large container for gathering coffee cherries in Central America.
glosses: The amount that this container can hold, typically 17 liters (4.5 gallons).
fairyflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairyfly
fiftysomethings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiftysomething
fingerpricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerprick
cajuelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cajuela
funning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fun
funs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fun
funned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fun
færies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of færie
heptathlons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptathlon
fractionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractional
adornos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adorno
tarada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taradas
Senses: glosses: An Iraqi war canoe.
taradas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarada
Scotch whisky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch whiskies
Senses: synonyms: Scotch
glosses: Whisky distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley.
Scotch whiskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch whisky
hemipelvectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemipelvectomy
Filistin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Falasteen.
remonetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remonetizes
form: remonetizing
form: remonetized
form: remonetized
form: remonetise
Etymology: From re- + monetize.
Senses: glosses: To monetize again.
Derived terms: remonetization
remonetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remonetize
remonetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remonetize
remonetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remonetize
remonetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remonetisations
Etymology: From re- + monetisation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of remonetization.
remonetisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remonetisation
renaturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renaturalizations
form: renaturalisation
Etymology: From re- + naturalization.
Senses: glosses: The act of renaturalizing.
The act of granting citizenship again to a former citizen.
examples: text: From this point of view, this research discusses the integration of damaged riverine systems into socio-economic and ecological systems in urban areas through renaturalization processes with a focus on providing mutual benefits for both nature and mankind and supporting sustainability and integrity of each system.
ref: 2017, Meltem Delibas, Azime Tezer, “'Stream Daylighting' as an approach for the renaturalization of riverine systems in urban areas: Istanbul-Ayamama Stream case”, in Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, volume 17, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The act of renaturalizing.
The act of restoring the natural environment in an area.
Related terms: renaturalize
renaturalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renaturalization
nose-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose-picks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A stall trick performed on a ramp, quarter-pipe or similar structure, in which the skater lands on the front truck and nose of the board against the coping (edge).
nose-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nose-picks
form: nose-picking
form: nose-picked
form: nose-picked
Senses: examples: text: Children should not nose-pick.
glosses: To pick one's nose.
Related terms: nose-picker
nose-picking
rhinotillexomania
nose-picker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose-pickers
form: nosepicker
Senses: synonyms: rhinotillexomaniac
glosses: One who picks their nose.
glosses: One who removes dirt or debris off of the front end of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle (referred to as the nose).
Related terms: nose-pick
nose-picking
nose-pickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose-picker
codexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.
ref: 1770, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, A journey from London to Genoa, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France, page 62:
text: To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person
ref: 1898, Bella Duffy, The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca) with Genoa, page 335:
text: The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content
ref: 1909, George Philip Krapp, Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use, page 26:
text: Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.
ref: 1996, Gregory Maguire with Douglas Smith, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, page 266:
text: We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.
ref: 2008, Brother Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, page 96:
text: But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.
ref: 2009 April 3, Edward Rothstein, “The Cosmos, Surveyed”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of codex
streetside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From street + -side.
Senses: examples: text: “Topshop is not as cheap as H & M, but it is fantastic visually and the store looks fun,” said Fern Penn, a SoHo retailer who, driven back by the streetside chaos, said she would return after the initial hubbub had died down.
ref: 2009 April 3, Guy Trebay, “From High Street to SoHo, a Club Ethos”, in New York Times:
text: Cheng had to pull the building back to be able to plant trees close to the property line, because of the maze of utility lines at streetside.
ref: 2009 April 4, Donna Laporte, “Architect hopes to bring West Coast feel to Toronto”, in Toronto Star:
text: In Japan, automobile owners must obtain a shako shomei sho, or “garage certificate,” showing that they have secured a place to store the vehicle overnight at their residence or in a parking garage; leaving it streetside is not an option. The expense and hassle of that requirement acts as a deterrent to car ownership, and an inducement to travel by other modes like transit or a bicycle.
ref: 2022 September 6, David Zipper, “How Japan Won its ‘Traffic War’”, in Bloomberg Terminal:
glosses: Alongside or near a street.
slicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slicing
fallopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fallopian.
challengeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more challengeable
form: most challengeable
form: challengable
Etymology: From Middle English chalengeable; equivalent to challenge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It follows, Justice Ginsburg wrote, that “if a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for cause, the loss of a peremptory challenge due to a state court’s good-faith error is not a matter of federal constitutional concern.”
ref: 2009 April 1, Adam Liptak, “Justices Limit the Reach of Apology to Hawaiians”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be challenged or disputed.
Derived terms: unchallengeable
anaemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anaemically
form: most anaemically
Etymology: From anaemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anemically.
autocues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocue
discomfortingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discomfortingly
form: most discomfortingly
Etymology: From discomforting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discomforting manner
fightbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fightback
strimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strim
strim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: strims
form: strimming
form: strimmed
form: strimmed
Etymology: Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Videos showed a badger entering a sett less than two metres from where the contractors had been using petrol hedge-trimmers to strim brambles, the resident said.
ref: 2023 January 22, Jane Dalton, “Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
glosses: To cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.
strimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪmə/
ipa: /ˈstɹɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: strimmers
Etymology: Blend of string + trimmer, originally a trademark in the United Kingdom.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: word: edge trimmer
word: line trimmer
word: weed eater
word: weed whacker
word: weed whip
word: whipper snipper
word: string trimmer
extra: (“a powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc., without damaging other objects”).
glosses: Synonym of string trimmer (“a powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc., without damaging other objects”).
Derived terms: strim
enslaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enslavers
Etymology: From enslave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What indignation in her mind
Against enslavers of mankind!
Base kings, and ministers of state,
Eternal objects of her hate!
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, visiting me in my sickness:
text: And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.
ref: 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who enslaves.
enslavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enslaver
outmuscling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmuscle
outmuscles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmuscle
sandpapery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sandpapery
form: most sandpapery
Etymology: From sandpaper + -y.
Senses: examples: text: TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 278:
text: A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.
ref: 2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
text: This name sounds pretty cool though. You like the way it rolls off your sandpapery tongue.
ref: 2011,, Kazerad, Enter name, in: Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), March 12 2011
glosses: Resembling sandpaper.
prophylactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prophylactically
form: most prophylactically
Etymology: From prophylactic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “I can’t imagine that you would be treating people prophylactically yet,” said Dr. Timothy J. Gardner, the president of the American Heart Association .
ref: 2009 March 30, Pam Belluck, “Cholesterol Drugs May Cut Risk of Clots”, in New York Times:
glosses: Preventively.
floodway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodways
Etymology: From flood + way.
Senses: examples: text: Since 2005 the governments of Manitoba and Canada have spent $665 million to double the capacity of the floodway and to reinforce bridges, control gates and dikes.
ref: 2009 March 30, Kirk Johnson, “Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo”, in New York Times:
glosses: An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
floodways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodway
dragstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragstrips
form: drag strip
Etymology: From drag + strip.
Senses: glosses: A paved straight racetrack used for automotive drag racing.
examples: text: Point guard Danielle Robinson led Oklahoma with 23 points worth of dragstrip basketball.
ref: 2009 April 1, Jeré Longman, “Oklahoma Women’s Success Attracts Fans and Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any place for high-speed competitive activity.
dragstrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragstrip
storeowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storeowners
Etymology: From store + owner.
Senses: examples: text: Then she is consumed by anxiety when she hears from a storeowner about a nearby bombing that killed four people while she was sleeping.
ref: 2008 June 13, Ken Johnson, “An Avant-Gardist’s Sparse Stories, in Film and Fragments”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who owns a store (or shop); a shopowner.
storeowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storeowner
overachievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overachievements
Etymology: From over- + achievement.
Senses: glosses: A greater than anticipated achievement.
overachievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overachievement
breakfasts in bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfast in bed
breakfasts in bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breakfast in bed
extraconstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraconstitutional
form: most extraconstitutional
Etymology: From extra- + constitutional.
Senses: glosses: Beyond what is accommodated for in a constitution.
Derived terms: extraconstitutionally
microbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbuses
form: microbusses
Etymology: From micro- + bus.
Senses: examples: text: Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A station wagon shaped like a small bus.
microbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbus
polytonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑliˈtoʊnəl/
ipa: /ˌpɒliˈtəʊnəl/
Etymology: From poly- + tonal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That uses two or more tonalities simultaneously.
Derived terms: polytonally
Related terms: polytonalist
polytonality
unitonal
celebreality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebrealities
Etymology: Blend of celebrity + reality.
Senses: glosses: A television programme about the real life of a celebrity.
celebrealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celebreality
shutter speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutter speeds
Senses: examples: text: Shutter speeds are usually measured in seconds or fractions of a second, and are typically arranged in a sequence that includes 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 and 1/500.
ref: 1993 November 21, Charles Hagen, “CAMERA: For Film Exposure, Timing Is the Key”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Apr 2009:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The duration of time for which the shutter of a camera remains open when exposing photographic film or other photosensitive material to light for the purpose of recording an image.
screw cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw caps
form: screwcap
Senses: examples: text: Four-year-old Anna surprised her parents when she unscrewed the screw cap and poured herself a glass of milk, like an old pro.
synonyms: screw top
hypernyms: cap#Noun
top#Noun
closure#Noun
glosses: The cap of a container, especially a bottle or jar, which screws onto the threaded lip of the container.
examples: text: Corks remain prevalent, but nowadays the wine industry also offers plenty of screw caps, too, for occasions that warrant them or customers who prefer them.
text: When you buy the wine tonight, pick up some screw caps in addition to whichever corked bottles you buy.
synonyms: screw top
glosses: The style of closure that has such a cap; a container that has such a cap.
screw caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw cap
stop down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops down
form: stopping down
form: stopped down
form: stopped down
Senses: examples: text: The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did.
ref: 1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 71:
text: To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.
ref: 2002 December 12, “Images from a blurred world”, in The Economist, retrieved 03 Apr 2009:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.
cap screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cap screws
Senses: hypernyms: screw#Noun
<
fastener#Noun
<
hardware#Noun
glosses: A screw that has a cap which is intended to rest against the side of the outermost material being screwed together when the screw has been screwed in to its maximum extent.
Related terms: screw cap
cap screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap screw
screw top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw tops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of screw cap.
synonyms: word: screw cap
cosiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosinesses
form: coziness
Etymology: From cosy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cosy.
Hyponyms: hygge
Gemütlichkeit
manual alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manual alphabets
Senses: synonyms: hand alphabet
glosses: An alphabet, or a representation of a written alphabet, in which letters are represented by positions of the hand and fingers.
Related terms: finger alphabet
sign language
manualette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manualettes
Etymology: From manual + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small manual.
manuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin manuārius.
Senses: examples: text: manuary trades
text: And as on the one side the Cochin-Chinois haue no wrought Stuffes nor Manufactures, because they doe not apply themselues to Manuary trades, by reason of that idlenesse into which their plenty hath plunged them: and that on the other side they are easily inueigled with the curiosities comming from other places[…]such as Combes, Needles, Bracelets, Beades of glasse to hang in their eares, and such other trifles and womanish curiosities.
ref: 1633, Christoforo Borri, translated by Robert Ashley, Cochin-China:
glosses: Manual; involving (skills using) the hands.
manuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin manuārius.
Senses: examples: text: The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally, what partition sooner is the subdiuident. Marchandize containeth vnder it all those which liue any way by buying or selling: Manuarie those whose handyworke is their ware, and labour their liuing.
ref: 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions vvherin those primitiue circumstances be examined, which are necessarie for the training vp of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie, page 198:
text: That there was a short go in his first draught seemes not very probable, for what likenesse is there betweene go and sed that his Manuary or printer should take the one for the other?
ref: 1615, Edward Hoby, A curry-combe for a coxe-combe. Or Purgatories knell, page 79:
text: I ask how we can make sense of the dissonance between two things: one, [Ben] Jonson's own non-aristocratic background and two, his own social ambition and disdain for laborers. […]the Parnassus plays describe him as the "merriest bricklayer" who ever put pen to paper. If his evident disdain for manuaries and commoners is any indication, the socially and poetically ambitious Jonson would have no doubt bristled at this description[…]
ref: 2018, By Laurie Ellinghausen, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667, Taylor & Francis:
glosses: A craftsman, artificer.
manubial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnu.bi.əl/
ipa: /məˈnjuː.bi.əl/
Etymology: From Latin manubialis from manubiae (“money obtained from the sale of booty, plunder”).
Senses: examples: text: Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore,
The hall’s bright bedeckment of beauty?
ref: 1824, T. Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard, “The Sevi-Lan-Gwy”, in Welsh Minstrelsy, London: John and H. L. Hunt, page 170:
text: 1825, James Elmes, General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts, London: Thomas Tegg, under the entry COLUMN,
[…] the manubial column was ornamented with trophies and spoils taken from the enemy;
text: The luncheon formed a portion of the manubial stores left behind during the precipitate flight of Sunday, and consisted of preserved tripe—a very delicate dish, reader, I assure you.
ref: 1862, Samuel Phillips Day, chapter 2, in Down South; or, An Englishman’s Experience at the Seat of the American War,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 67:
text: Perhaps a more significant change can be discerned in the financing of temples and such activities as celebratory games. In the great days of expansion these had been (very often) financed from conquest, they were manubial, derived from spoil or imported wealth.
ref: 1982, Alan Wardman, chapter 4, in Religion and Statecraft among the Romans, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 100:
text: […] the triumphal route […] was tightly packed with manubial temples, one directly upon the next, each permanently evoking a specific general’s victory.
ref: 2006, Katherine E. Welch, “Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic”, in Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, editors, A Companion to the Roman Republic, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, page 502:
synonyms: looted
plundered
glosses: Taken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).
manubiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin manubiārius.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the spoils of war.
manubrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the manubrium
glosses: Shaped like a handle
Derived terms: submanubrial
manucode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manucodes
Etymology: From Javanese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds of paradise in the genus Manucodia.
Derived terms: crinkle-collared manucode
curl-crested manucode
glossy-mantled manucode
Jobi manucode
trumpet manucode
manucodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manucode
manuductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuductors
Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + ductor (“leader”).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The chief novice in an order.
Related terms: manuduce
manuduct
manuductory
manufactural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manufacture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to manufacture.
manufacturess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manufacturesses
Etymology: From manufacture + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female manufacturer.
Synonyms: makeress
manuhiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori manuhiri.
Senses: glosses: The visitors at a pohiri.
hepatomegalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hepatomegaly.
pōhiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pohiri
form: powhiri
form: pōwhiri
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pōhiri or pōwhiri (“to beckon; to welcome”) from whiri (“to wave; to whisk; to plait; a fan”).
Senses: glosses: A Maori welcoming ceremony involving speeches, dancing, and singing.
Related terms: hongi
karanga
manuhiri
mihi
tangat
wero
pohiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pohiris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pōhiri.
seaspray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seasprays
Etymology: From sea + spray.
Senses: examples: text: A sheep that's been hanging on deck, curing in the seaspray, is roasted over an open fire.
ref: 2009 April 4, Sam Wollaston, “Sam Wollaston on last night's TV: Top Dogs (BBC2)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The water thrown into the air when waves break on the shore.
wikipedia: sea spray
aimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aimer
aesthenosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aesthenospheres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of asthenosphere.
featherlight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of feather-light.
red, white and blue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Forget not the boys of Kilmichael, those brave lads so gallant and true.
Who fought 'neath the green flag of Erin, and conquered the red, white and blue.
ref: p. 1920, The Boys of Kilmichael (Irish Song, author unknown)
glosses: The flag of the United Kingdom.
examples: text: Thy banners make tyranny tremble, When borne by the red, white and blue.
ref: 1843, David T. Shaw, “Columbia – the Gem of the Ocean”, Lee & Walker, page 5
glosses: The flag of the United States of America.
examples: text: The Fourteenth of July was declared the national holiday and a new flag, the tricolor, the red, white, and blue, was adopted in place of the old white banner of the Bourbons, studded with the fleur-de-lis.
ref: 1917, Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution ad Napoleon, Henry Holt, page 120
glosses: The flag of France.
examples: text: Many houses now were showing flags, and the red, white and blue was a jubilation in the morning sun.
ref: 2010, Cornelia Fuykschot, Hunger in Holland, Publisher, page 144
glosses: The flag of the Netherlands.
examples: 2013, Catherine Merridale, Red Fortress, Penguin, page 228:
Lit in the national colours of red, blue and white.
glosses: The flag of Russia.