cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
take a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a pew
form: taking a pew
form: took a pew
form: taken a pew
form: pull up a pew
Senses: examples: text: There are many ways of inviting a person to seat himself. The genial ‘take a pew’ of one's equal inspires confidence. The raucous ‘sit down in front’ of the frenzied pit, when you stand up to get a better view of the stage, is not so pleasant.
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in A Prefect's Uncle:
text: "Oh!" he said, looking round him with his chin a little in the air, "am I intruding, Turl?" . . .
"Not at all, Berryman—take a pew!"
ref: 1904, John Galsworthy, chapter 18, in The Island Pharisees:
text: "Come in," he said cheerily. "I'm delighted to see you. Take a pew."
ref: 1919, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in Moon and Sixpence:
text: "Come in. Come in. Take a pew. Cigarette?"
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 1, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
glosses: To take a seat; to sit down.
phallocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faˈlɒkɹəsi/
ipa: /fəˈlɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: phallocracies
Etymology: From phallo- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, despite its political patriarchy, Athens cannot be considered—horrid word—a phallocracy.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: A society or government of, or dominated by, men.
Synonyms: word: penisocracy
Related terms: phallocrat
phallocratic
phallocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallocracy
domino theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the domino theory
Etymology: An allusion to a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of domino effect.
synonyms: word: domino effect
sex addict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex addicts
Senses: glosses: A person addicted to (watching or taking part in) sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse.
Related terms: horndog
multiple exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple exposures
form: multiple-exposure
Senses: examples: text: ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.
ref: 1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011)
text: [W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.
ref: 2008 February 18, Dave Johnson, “How to Make Multiple Exposures”, in PC World, retrieved 11 Aug 2011:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.
examples: text: Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.
ref: 1948 September 26, Jacob Deschin, “Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact”, in New York Times, page X13:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The process of producing such a photograph.
Related terms: double exposure
time exposure
multiple-exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple-exposures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multiple exposure.
D-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key des \major des' es' f' ges' aes' bes' c des2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A major key with the notes D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C, the key signature of which has five flats.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with the notes D♭, F, and A♭.
D-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a piece, song, or scale that has a D-flat major key.
D major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key d \major d' e' fis' g' a' b' cis d2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with the notes D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯, the key signature of which has two sharps.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of D.
E major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key e \major e' fis' gis' a' b' cis dis e2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with the notes E, F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D♯, the key signature of which has four sharps.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of E.
F major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key f \major f' g' a' bes' c d e f2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with the notes F, G, A, B♭, C, D, E, the key signature of which has one flat.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of F.
G major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key g \major g' a' b' c d e fis g2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, F♯, the key signature of which has one sharp.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of G.
glosses: A video editing technique where audio is repitched across the intervals of a major chord and the colors are inverted, creating a distorted and cacophonous effect.
Coordinate terms: vibrato
double exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double exposures
form: double-exposure
Senses: examples: text: "The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.
ref: 1922 April 9, “Cameraman Talks Double Exposure”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011, page III-38:
text: A double exposure from the 1960's seems to make explicit some of the implications of Cunningham's own early plant studies. In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.
ref: 1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light twice, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter two times, thereby generating a picture consisting of two superimposed images.
examples: text: I've used double exposures to capture ghosts on film, to photograph two of me playing ping pong, and to capture a time-lapse shot of a birthday cake new and half-eaten in the same frame.
ref: 2004 April 13, Dave Johnson, “Digital Focus: Double-Exposure Tricks”, in PC World, retrieved 11 Aug 2011:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The process of producing such a photograph.
Related terms: multiple exposure
time exposure
double-exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-exposures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double exposure.
bace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baces
Etymology: From dialectal English (compare Old Scots bais, base (“to beat soundly”)), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish bas (“a beating, flogging”), Swedish basa (“to beat, flog”), Danish bask (“a lash, blow”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, flap”). Cognate with Scots baiss (“to beat, drub”). More at bash, box.
Senses: glosses: A blow; a drubbing.
bace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of base.
bace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bace
form: most bace
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of base.
bace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baces
form: bacing
form: baced
form: baced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of base.
time-exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-exposures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time exposure.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lao People's Democratic Republic
form: LPDR
form: Lao PDR
Senses: glosses: Official name of Laos: a country in Southeast Asia.
lay of the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I did not know the exact route, but steered by the lay of the land, as I do in Boston.
ref: 1857, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 1, in Canoeing In The Wilderness:
text: He noted well the locality, the trees, and the lay of the land.
ref: 1910, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 9, in The Riflemen of the Ohio:
text: Because he knew the lay of the land, he could run faster in the darkness than his pursuer.
ref: 1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in Jimmie Higgins […], Pasadena, Calif.: Upton Sinclair, →OCLC:
glosses: The physical characteristics of the terrain or surrounding natural environment.
examples: text: I'll feel the pulse of my friends and yours, and when we get the lay of the land, the affair can be accomplished much more easily.
ref: 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 17, in The Marrow of Tradition:
text: "Now look here, Mary," he said, "I've been expecting you. I warn you before you begin that I cannot sanction your marriage to a Protestant."
"Oh, but I'm going to convart him!" cried Mary so quickly that the priest laughed harder than ever.
"So that's the lay of the land!" he chuckled. "Well, if you'll guarantee that, I'll give in."
ref: 1907, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 11, in At the Foot of the Rainbow:
text: She saw the boy's glance, she shifted her knees impatiently and her little face grew sullen. Hale smiled inwardly, for he thought he could already see the lay of the land, and he wondered that, at such an age, such fierceness could be.
ref: 1908, John Fox Jr., chapter 4, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:
text: Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land.
ref: 1983 July 22, Janet Maslin, “‘Liquid Sky,’ High Fashion and a U.F.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: McCain: I want to see what the lay of the land is after the November elections.
ref: 2002 March 29, Douglas Waller, “McCain: After Finance Reform, What?”, in Time:
glosses: The trends, feelings, intentions, and other factors influencing a strategic, political, or social situation.
Synonyms: lie of the land
lie of the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lay of the land
playfeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playfeers
form: playpheer
form: playphere
Etymology: From Middle English playfere, equivalent to play + feer.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he was wont to call him her deare ſonne,
Her little play-feere, and her pretty Bun: […]
ref: 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “[Elegies upon Sundry Occasions.]”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 250:
glosses: A playfellow; a playmate.
playock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playocks
Etymology: From play + -ock. Cognate with Scots playok (“toy”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I would therefore like if you will lend her a note, and ye may put half-a-crown in the hand of each of the poor weans for a playock, — for she's a proud spirit, and will bear much before she complain.
ref: 1936, John Galt, David Storrar Meldrum, William Roughead, The Works of John Galt:
glosses: A plaything; a toy.
playstow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playstows
form: pleystow
form: plestor
form: Plaistow
Etymology: From Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw, pleġestōw (“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”), equivalent to play + stow (“place”).
Senses: glosses: A place for play; playground.
Wubi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 五筆／五笔 (wǔbǐ, “five strokes”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese text input method based on the structure of characters rather than their pronunciation.
zookers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Shortened from gadswookers, Godsookers; compare gadzooks.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Zookers, lass, I never envy these young fellows their rides and scampers, unless when you come across me.’
ref: 1817, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, section VIII:
glosses: An expression of mild annoyance, surprise etc.
impetrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impetrate
impetrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impetrate
impetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impetrate
femme couverte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feme covert.
femes coverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feme covert
ton of refrigeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tons of refrigeration
Senses: glosses: A unit of power chiefly applied to the cooling capacity of a refrigerator, freezer, or air conditioner, equal to 12,000 British thermal units (Btu) per hour (200 Btu per minute); it denotes the amount of heat required to melt one short ton of ice in 24 hours.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ton, of, refrigeration.
Related terms: english: a unit of energy: power times time
translation: a unit of energy: power times time
word: ton of TNT
pis aller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːzˈaleɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French pis-aller.
Senses: examples: text: Soh! she would secure me as a pis aller, I suppose, in case Mr Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her!
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 274–275:
text: Love, in fact, having in this modern world-movement been denied, and its natural manifestations affected with a sense of guilt and of sin, has really languished and ceased to play its natural part in life; and a vast number of people - both men and women, finding themselves barred or derailed from the main object of existence, have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making' or 'social advancement' or something equally futile, as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 189:
text: To tell the truth the Army seems the likeliest pis aller – though I am not very militant.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 411:
text: Mungo is on his feet, lurching with the boat, dipping into the bright tatters of his shirt for the smooth ivory grip of his secret weapon, his pis aller, the gleaming silver-plated pistol Johnson had pressed on him with a parting benediction.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 425:
glosses: A last resort.
elbow chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elbow chair
camogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmoʊɡi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish camógaíocht.
Senses: examples: text: Camogie resembles hurling, although the field is smaller (110 meters by 68 meters), the stick, or caman, is smaller than a hurley, and the ball is also lighter than the sliothar.
ref: 2003, Robert Crego, Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A women's stick-and-ball sport from Ireland, almost identical to hurling.
Derived terms: camogie stick
Related terms: caman
handpass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handpasses
Etymology: From hand + pass.
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football
glosses: A pass made by holding the ball in one hand, and hitting it with the other hand.
Derived terms: underground handpass
handpass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handpasses
form: handpassing
form: handpassed
form: handpassed
Etymology: From hand + pass.
Senses: glosses: To make a pass of this kind.
Melania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After a four-week absence from Washington, first lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Saturday for an annual dinner and reception with the nation’s governors.
ref: 2025 February 23, Betsy Klein, “Melania Trump returns to Washington after four-week absence”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
melanodermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melanoderma.
pettishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtɪʃnəs/
Forms: form: pettishnesses
Etymology: From pettish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The sense that she was observed, or, more properly speaking, that she was watched by my looks, seemed to give Diana a mixture of embarrassment, pain, and pettishness.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: The state of being pettish; peevishness, irritability.
melanuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanurias
Etymology: From melano- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The excretion of urine of an abnormally dark colour, caused by the presence of melanin or other pigments or by the action of phenol, creosote, resorcin, and other coal-tar derivatives.
Derived terms: melanuric
melanurin
MCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Marylebone Cricket Club (the former governing body of cricket).
glosses: Initialism of Metropolitan Correctional Center.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Monitored Command Code
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of MC Championship.
MCC
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Twelve hundred (1200) in Roman numerals.
jargonelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɑːɡəˈnɛl/
Forms: form: jargonelles
Etymology: From French jargonelle, diminutive of jargon.
Senses: examples: text: A jargonell pear-tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet, and flower-plot of a rood in extent, in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; […] announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern extremity, extends to her meanest inhabitants.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 92:
text: She craves for fruit,—she has a constant fever on her; but jargonelle pears will do as well as anything, and there are quantities of them in the market.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 27, in North and South:
glosses: A variety of pear.
jargonelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jargonelle
aiblins
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.blɪnz/
Forms: form: ablins
form: ablings
Etymology: From able + -lings.
Senses: examples: text: I'll no say but she may aiblins hae been his Honour's, Squire Thorncliff's, in her day, but she's mine now.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Perhaps, maybe.
propanedioate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propanedioates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: malonate
propanedioates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propanedioate
methylmalonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylmalonates
Etymology: From methylmalonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of methylmalonic acid.
methylmalonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylmalonate
methylmalonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + malonic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dicarboxylic acid, a C-methylated derivative of malonic acid, HOOCCH(CH3)COOH , that is involved in the Krebs cycle
Related terms: methylmalonate
methylmalonyl
malonic acid
hyperammonaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperammonaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperammonemia.
hyperammonaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperammonaemia
hyperammonemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperammonemia
hyperarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperarcs
Etymology: From hyper- + arc.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A directed edge in a hypergraph.
enthrallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enthraller
Kilner jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kilner jars
Etymology: After its inventor John Kilner.
Senses: glosses: A rubber-sealed screwtop jar used to store food.
keypath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keypaths
Etymology: From key + path.
Senses: examples: text: The Microsoft Excel workbook Keypath.xls has a list of all the keypath files and registry values associated with Office XP features and components.
ref: 2001, Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit, page 196:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A path to a file or other component that is critical to the installation of a given program.
keypaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keypath
Laocoön
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /leɪˈɒkɵ.ɒn/
/leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn/
/leɪˈɒkəˌwɒn/
Forms: form: Laocoon
form: Laokoon
Etymology: From Latin Lāocoōn, from Ancient Greek Λᾱοκόων (Lāokóōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Apollo, depending on the author), whose rules he had defied (or whom he had otherwise offended), who tried to warn his fellow citizens against the Trojan horse. He was killed for this, along with his two sons, by giant snakes sent by Minerva (or Poseidon, or Apollo).
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Argonaut, son of Porthaon.
lifestreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + streaming.
Senses: glosses: The keeping of a lifestream.
nonvortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vortical.
Senses: glosses: Not vortical.
lifeskills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifeskill
kruptadia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρυπτάδια (kruptádia), neuter plural form of κρυπτάδιος (kruptádios, “secret”).
Senses: examples: text: We may also assume that the kruptadia, still in manuscript, which Nashe wrote for the delight of the young rufflers of the Court and for the filling of his own very ill-garnished pockets, will not be printed.
ref: 1904, Notes and Queries, volume CIX, page 105:
text: the word “pornography” [...] is, I am aware, not altogether a satisfactory term, but it seems to me better than the ones usually used. The D.N.B., for example, offers the quaint “Kruptadia,” which is clearly impossible.
ref: 1966, Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians:
text: This is a curious book about far more "curious and uncommon books"; kruptadia, forbidden erotic literature "of an incandescent kind".
ref: 2001 June 15, Lord Biggs, Times Higher Education:
glosses: Erotica.
brachioradialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachio- + radialis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that flexes the forearm at the elbow.
bloody show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The passage of a small amount of blood or blood-tinged mucus through the vagina near the end of pregnancy.
comagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + magmatic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Derived from the same magma.
raw_tags: of rocks
ijolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ijolites
Etymology: Derived from the first syllable of the Finnish words Ii-vaara, Iijoki, etc., common as geographical names in Finland (ultimately reflecting Proto-Samic *ijë (“night”)), and Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “a stone”).
Senses: glosses: A rare igneous rock consisting essentially of nepheline and augite.
ijolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ijolite
jacupirangite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacupirangites
Etymology: From Jacupiranga + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a melanocratic series of igneous rocks of varying composition, the characteristic minerals being purple titanaugite, nepheline, and magnetite or titanoferrite.
jacupirangites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacupirangite
larvikite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larvikites
Etymology: From Larvik + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A variety of monzonite with small crystals of feldspar.
Derived terms: larvikitic
larvikites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larvikite
circummur'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circummure
chestguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chestguards
form: chest guard
Etymology: From chest + guard.
Senses: examples: text: Available in 5 colors: red. black, white, blue and silver Shin guards, shin/instep guards and chestguards also available. Headguard $35.95 ea.
ref: 2004 July, Black Belt, volume 42, number 7, page 3:
text: Black leather braces, chain-mail chest guards, and oval and circular shields are the clothing of choice for these women. Firelight flashes off of broadswords and deadly knives.
ref: 2007, Michelle Skye, Goddess Alive!: Inviting Celtic & Norse Goddesses Into Your Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
text: The poet may assume that except when he specifies that warriors had byrnies, we are to accept that they wore only leathern chestguards.
ref: 2016, Jennifer R. Davis, Michael McCormick, The Long Morning of Medieval Europe:
text: Often, I left a bruise: the blade's tip ricocheting off chestguards onto skin. Just as often, I would feel yellow blooms of ache where the girl I thought was beautiful had pierced my heart. Hours later, I would transform.
ref: 2019, Mary Jean Chan, Flèche:
glosses: A piece of fabric, padding, or armor to protect the chest, as in some sports.
chestguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestguard
Cleggmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Clegg + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Before the debate the Daily Telegraph, a Conservative-leaning newspaper, had tried to prick the Cleggmania bubble by running a story alleging that Clegg had received payments from party donors directly into his private bank account.
ref: 2010, John Bartle, Nicholas Allen, Britain at the Polls 2010, page 192:
text: Cleggmania briefly hit Orpington but we need to call our voters and tell them to stick to the blue corner[…]
ref: 2011, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Enthusiasm for British Liberal Democrat politician Nick Clegg.
claim shanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claim shanties
Senses: glosses: A house hastily built on a piece of land in order to legalize a claim to the land.
crash cymbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash cymbals
Senses: glosses: A cymbal that produces a loud, sharp crash, used for occasional accents.
crash gearbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash gearboxes
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A transmission with a sliding mesh, used in older vehicles; gear changes are often accompanied by loud noises.
Synonyms: crash box
currency war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency wars
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The competition between countries in order to achieve a relatively low exchange rate for their home currencies, so as to assist their domestic industry.
Related terms: debasement
deflation
devaluation
inflation
protectionism
purchasing power
purchasing power parity
revaluation
trade war
half forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half forwards
form: half-forward
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football; Gaelic football; hurling; Australian rules football; Gaelic football; hurling
glosses: An attacking player who plays between the midfielders and forwards.
corner forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner forwards
form: corner-forward
Senses: qualifier: Gaelic football; hurling; Gaelic football; hurling
glosses: A forward who plays on either sides of the centre forwards.
neocembrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + cembrene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Cembrene A, a natural monocyclic diterpene isolated from corals of the genus Nephthea.
circlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circlip
Garrisonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæɹɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɡæɹɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Garrisonian
form: most Garrisonian
Etymology: From Garrison + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
Derived terms: Garrisonianism
Garrisonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæɹɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɡæɹɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Garrisonians
Etymology: From Garrison + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of William Lloyd Garrison's ideas.
square ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A pass played square (not forward or backward, i.e. sideways)
qualifier: Gaelic football; hurling; Gaelic football; hurling
glosses: A foul where a player on the attacking team enters the opposing team's small square inside the penalty area before the ball does.
ophiocarpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A protoberberine alkaloid.
mecambridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A protoberberine alkaloid.
hydrastine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hydrastis canadensis (“the taxonomic name of goldenseal”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural alkaloid present in goldenseal.
Related terms: hydrastinine
actinidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Actinidia polygama, taxonomic name of silver vine, in which it is present, + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyridine derivative that is attractive to cats.
amurensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonol, the tert-amyl alcohol derivative of kaempferol 7-O-glucoside.
arecoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arecolines
Etymology: < taxonomic name Areca
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid natural product found in the areca nut, the fruit of the areca palm (Areca catechu).
myricitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The 3-O-rhamnoside of myricetin, used by several beetle species in their communication system.
rhamnosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnoside
mitragynine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Mitragyna + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid found in kratom (Mitragyna speciosa).
backwaterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backwaterish
form: most backwaterish
Etymology: From backwater + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […]this politically benign and economically backwaterish space[…]
ref: 2002, Adrian Franklin, Nature and social theory:
glosses: Like a backwater; remote.
hulky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hulkier
form: hulkiest
Etymology: From hulk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I want to go first and have a round with that hulky fellow who turned to challenge me. It would be a good lesson for him.’
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book VI, chapter 56:
text: After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.
ref: 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in New York Times:
glosses: Large; hulking.
imperativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperativists
Etymology: From imperative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of imperativism.
imperativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperativist
jollof rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The food arrived: jollof rice for him and fried rice for her.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 181:
synonyms: jollof
glosses: A West African dish of rice, tomatoes, onions, and seasonings.
Hoppin' John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A popular black-eyed pea dish mentioned in the narratives was Hoppin' John, a common and popular dish among slaves, especially east of the Mississippi (Taylor 1982). The one-pot meal of Hoppin' John is of African origin (Singleton 1991; Thurman 2000; Zanger 2003).
ref: 2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Thus, Hoppin' John is the South Carolina cousin to New Orleans's red beans and rice, Jamaica's peas and rice, Puerto Rico's arroz con gandules, and Cuba's moros y cristianos.
ref: 2013, Adrian Miller, Soul Food, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 118:
coordinate_terms: peas and rice
qualifier: North Carolina; South Carolina; North Carolina; South Carolina
glosses: A dish of rice and beans in the Southern United States, based on traditional West African dishes.
puckout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puckouts
Senses: qualifier: hurling
glosses: A free hit by the goalkeeper after the sliotar has gone behind the goal.
nondistressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + distressed.
Senses: examples: text: The first was that out-of-area appraisers “didn’t understand the local values”; the second was that they were choosing comparable properties from a pool of foreclosed homes  not exactly indicative of what nondistressed properties might be worth.
ref: 2009 August 23, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Appraisals as Deal Scuttlers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not distressed.
midgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɪdʒi
Forms: form: midgies
form: midgy
form: midgey
Etymology: From midge + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”).
synonyms: word: midge
extra: small biting fly
midgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɪdʒi
Forms: form: midgies
Etymology: From a corruption of midden + -y. Perhaps influenced by midge (“a haunt of midges”).
Senses: examples: text: They did not have good clothes and were midgie-rakers. Their das done that, they just raked yer midgie and got yer old rubbish.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 32:
text: Just after dawn. It's the best time. For raking the midgies. When it's light enough to see but there's no one around.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 39:
glosses: A dump, midden; trash bin.
midgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midgie
glosses: plural of midgy
predestinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predestinarian
Croker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Croke + -er; the stadium was named in honour of Archbishop Thomas Croke.
Senses: glosses: Croke Park, the largest stadium of Ireland, home of the Gaelic games.
pseudodemocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodemocracies
form: pseudo-democracy
Etymology: From pseudo- + democracy.
Senses: examples: text: It has long been an article of faith that these pseudodemocracies are inherently unstable.
ref: 2009 March 22, Kenneth Roth, “Ballots and Bullets”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A government that holds elections but restricts civil liberties.
Derived terms: pseudodemocrat
pseudodemocratic
pseudodemocratically
pseudodemocratization
pseudodemocratize
pseudodemocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodemocracy
pseudodemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudodemocratic
form: most pseudodemocratic
Etymology: From pseudo- + democratic.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to pseudodemocracy.
sociologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sociologizes
form: sociologizing
form: sociologized
form: sociologized
Etymology: From sociology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: After all the sociologizing about family tradition, geography, religion, economic status, blue and red states, and clan influence, perhaps Gilbert and Sullivan came closest: “I often think it’s comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal / That’s born into the world alive / Is either a little Liberal / Or else a little Conservative!”
ref: 2009 March 22, Gary Hart, “Just Another Word”, in New York Times:
glosses: To bring into the realm of sociology.
sociologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sociologize
sociologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sociologize
sociologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sociologize
Gaelic games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The traditional sports played in Ireland: Gaelic football (known in Ireland as football), hurling, camogie, Gaelic handball and rounders.
unhit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Etymology: From un- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: But the right-hand squad only wounded the unhit man at the next volley.
ref: 2002, Mark Nesbitt, 35 days to Gettysburg, page 65:
glosses: Not having been hit.
unhit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: unhits
form: unhitting
form: unhit
form: unhit
Etymology: From un- + hit.
Senses: examples: text: Her appetite was nonexistent, but then, so was the contents of her cupboards. She had a dull headache that could have been from her injury or from not eating. Unhitting herself wasn’t a possibility, so a trip down the street to the corner store was in order.
ref: 2005, Kelsey Roberts, Chasing Secrets, Toronto: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: To undo the act of hitting something.
superattractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superattractive
form: most superattractive
Etymology: From super- + attractive.
Senses: examples: text: The couple met after they were hired at a new club called Mo Pitkin’s in the East Village in September 2005. Mr. Sherman was the manager, and after first noticing her he said he quickly inquired, “Who is the superattractive woman behind the bar?”
ref: 2009 March 22, “Kristen Kirkland and Bill Sherman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly attractive.
Gaelic handball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport played in Ireland in which two or four players hit a ball against a wall with their hands.
Synonyms: sense: in Ireland
word: handball
warungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warung
antitoll
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitoll
form: most antitoll
Etymology: From anti- + toll.
Senses: examples: text: Kelvin Ruiz, 19, lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, in the district of another antitoll senator, Hiram Monserrate. Mr. Ruiz, who hopes to become a policeman, attends school at John Jay College in Manhattan and works at a gift shop in Rockefeller Center.
ref: 2009 March 23, William Neuman, “N.Y. Drivers’ Unexpected Allies: Transit Riders”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing the imposition of a toll.
overclassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + classification.
Senses: examples: text: According to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Steve Driehaus, Democrat of Ohio, there were 362,000 F.O.I.A. requests last year, and almost a third of them still remain to be processed because of overclassification.
ref: 2009 March 23, “They Can’t Tell You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive classification.
antigag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gag.
Senses: glosses: Preventing gagging.
lathework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lathe + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture “broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes,” the old sewing machine “whose plastic had gone yellow.”
ref: 2009 March 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Land of Promise, Home of the Bedeviled and Bewildered”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work produced on a lathe.
nonpharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pharmacy.
Senses: examples: text: The company said same-store prescription revenue grew 2.9 percent, and nonpharmacy, or front-end, sales fell 1.2 percent.
ref: 2009 March 24, The Associated Press, “Profit Falls at Walgreen, but It Tops Estimates”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a pharmacy.
nonpharmacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pharmacological.
Senses: glosses: Not pharmacological.
end line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end lines
Senses: glosses: The line at which something ends
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: hurling; Gaelic football; hurling; Gaelic football
glosses: In various goal-based sports, the boundary line, running across the goal.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: out of bounds line under the basket
Related terms: english: so-called in other sports
translation: so-called in other sports
word: goal line
word: finish line
word: start line
overdribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdribbles
form: overdribbling
form: overdribbled
form: overdribbled
Etymology: From over- + dribble.
Senses: examples: text: The series would end with Magic overdribbling the Lakers into a Game 7 defeat in Boston, where Bird’s triumph over Johnson was illuminated like a darkened Garden full of victory cigars.
ref: 2009 March 24, Harvey Araton, “For Duke Star, Family Lore in Boston”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dribble the ball excessively.
overdribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdribble
overdribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdribble
overdribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdribble
semicatatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + catatonic.
Senses: examples: text: When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams.
ref: 2009 March 24, Ben Brantley, “Swimming Across the Rough Sea of History”, in The New York Times:
text: On the two plane rides home I watch three “Bridget Jones” movies in a semi-catatonic state. I feel numb when we step into our apartment.
ref: 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a state partially resembling catatonia.
compromise rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: international rules football
Related terms: composite rules
airheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From airheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In another recurring bit that looks as if it would be funny under other circumstances, two technology-infatuated chatterboxes try to outdo each other in airheadedness.
ref: 2009 March 25, Neil Genzlinger, “Small Troupe Offering Big Screens, Big Noise”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being airheaded.
compartmentalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compartmentalizers
Etymology: From compartmentalize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps McDaniels learned something as Belichick, the master compartmentalizer, kept those controversies from undermining the New England Patriots .
ref: 2009 March 25, Judy Battista, “Broncos’ Coach Says Cutler Is His Starter”, in The New York Times:
text: Athletes are brilliant compartmentalizers. You push away pain and instead focus on how much you want it. You push away how much you miss your family because you are always so focused on your dream. When abuse happens, athletes are so good at pushing it away.
ref: 2023 March 25, Talya Minsberg, “In Her New Book, Kara Goucher Keeps Running Accountable”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who compartmentalizes.
compartmentalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compartmentalizer
compartmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compartmentation
conservational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conservation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The volunteers were thanked for their conservational efforts in tidying up the park.
glosses: Of or pertaining to conservation.
glosses: conversational
Derived terms: conservationally
nonconservational
crownless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crown + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Geoffrey Rush, crownless, in his dressing room at the theater.
ref: 2009 March 25, Patrick Healy, “Re-enter Ionesco: Broadway Awaits”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a crown.
Derived terms: crownlessness
Related terms: crown
crownest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: crown + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of crown
drowneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drown + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drown
drownest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drown + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of drown