cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frailer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frail: more frail
frailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frailers
Senses: glosses: One who plays a musical instrument by frailing.
frailest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of frail: most frail
testamur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testamurs
Etymology: From Latin testāmur (“we testify”).
Senses: examples: text: 1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation, Esmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, page 249,
Are the students, as part of the qualification for the degree, to be required to attend given courses of lectures, and to produce a testamur of attendance from the instructor, along with a testamur of proficiency from the examiner ?
text: It has already been mentioned that we are prepared to recommend the issue of a Secondary School Testamur to pupils who have to leave school before they are able to take the Secondary School Certificate[…].
ref: 1911, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Reports, volume 16, page 150:
text: 1961, US Department of Commerce, Report of the 46th National Conference on Weights and Measures, page 57,
Since then, 116 holders of the Institute′s Testamur have availed themselves of the exemption and 90 have subsequently secured the Board of Trade Certificate.
text: The names of successful candidates will be announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Society and published in Microbiology Australia. Each will be issued a testamur of fellowship bearing the Seal of the Society.
ref: 2000 May, Microbiology Australia, page 35:
text: Andrea was a bit disappointed that she wasn′t the first graduand to go up and get here^([sic]) testamur.
ref: 2008, James McNaught, Sinking Sand, Lulu, page 227:
glosses: A certificate of successful completion of an examination.
Related terms: testament
testimonial
bring in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings in
form: bringing in
form: brought in
form: brought in
Etymology: Analytic form of the earlier inbring.
Senses: examples: text: Could you bring in the groceries?
text: The country brings in raw materials from overseas.
text: The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 58:
text: Unlike South Heath, where the tunnel segments are made on site, the ones used here are made off-site and brought in by road.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
glosses: To move something indoors, or into an area.
glosses: To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation.
examples: text: I've brought him in on the plan.
glosses: To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation; to give (someone) a share or portion of something.
examples: text: BT shelled out almost £1bn for the Champions League over the same period, while the FA has just brought in around £820m over six seasons for the international rights to the FA Cup alone.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To earn money for a company or for the family.
glosses: To return a verdict in a court of law.
salineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saline + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1921, Matthew B. Kendrick, "Paving Material and Process of Making Same," Specification of Letters Patent, United States Patent Office, nbr. 1,371,032,
The improved surfacing material, by virtue of the well-known properties of salt incorporated therein, prevents the accumulation of ice or the solidification of moisture upon the pavement, the salineness of the sand in the composition or material having a tendency directly to dissolve or melt ice on the pavement.
glosses: Salinity.
raddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹædl̩d/
Forms: form: more raddled
form: most raddled
Senses: examples: text: In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
text: And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
ref: 2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Worn-out and broken-down.
Synonyms: weak
deteriorated
shuffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shuffly
form: most shuffly
Etymology: From shuffle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Moving with a shuffling motion.
glosses: Having a catchy rhythm that encourages shuffling of the feet.
glosses: In a state of disorder; messy; chaotic.
trismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin trismus, from Ancient Greek τρισμός (trismós, “a grinding, rasping, scream”), from Ancient Greek τρίζω (trízō).
Senses: glosses: The inability to open the mouth normally, typically as a result of disease.
Synonyms: lockjaw
Derived terms: trismus pseudocamptodactyly syndrome
metabolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolians
Etymology: From metabola + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
monogamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: monogamous
monogynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Monogynia + -an
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the Monogynia; monogynous.
groks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grok
grokking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grok
grokked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grok
ytf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Onomatopoeic abbreviation of "Why the fuck".
strategian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strategians
Etymology: From strategy and Latin stratēgia + -an.
Senses: qualifier: archaic or non-native speakers' English
glosses: A strategist.
Athenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Athena
symmetrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetrians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of symmetrician.
synonyms: word: symmetrician
pareo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː(ɹ)i.əʊ/
Forms: form: pareos
Etymology: From Tahitian pāreu.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough. […]”
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 51, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: “Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.”
[…]
“I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”
ref: 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:
glosses: A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
noradrenalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noradrenalins
Senses: examples: text: Nerve terminals buried deep in the tissue of the heart secrete their noradrenalin, and the heart lurches into accelerated pumping.
ref: 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of noradrenaline.
pyrocumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrocumuli
Etymology: From pyro- + cumulus.
Senses: topics: climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A dense cloud associated with fire or volcanic activity.
Hyponyms: pyrocumulonimbus
Related terms: flammagenitus
hellzapoppin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hellzapoppin
form: most hellzapoppin
form: hellzapoppin'
Senses: glosses: hectic, chaotic; extremely eventful, action-packed, exciting; ostentatious, flashy
ecopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-politics
Etymology: From eco- + politics.
Senses: glosses: political policy that is motivated by concerns for the environment
stutter gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stutter guns
Etymology: From its staccato sound when fired.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A machine gun, particularly the Thompson or similar.
girlcott
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɚl.kɒt/
ipa: /ˈɡɚ.əlˌkɔt/
Forms: form: girlcotts
form: girlcotting
form: girlcotted
form: girlcotted
Etymology: Alteration of boycott (as though it came from the word boy). Coined in 1968 by American track athlete Lacey O'Neal during the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, in the context of protests by male African-American athletes.
Senses: glosses: To boycott.
raw_tags: of women
girlcott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɚl.kɒt/
ipa: /ˈɡɚ.əlˌkɔt/
Forms: form: girlcotts
Etymology: Alteration of boycott (as though it came from the word boy). Coined in 1968 by American track athlete Lacey O'Neal during the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, in the context of protests by male African-American athletes.
Senses: glosses: A boycott led by women.
immunosurveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + surveillance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The continuous monitoring process of the immune system whereby abnormal cells are recognized and destroyed
Related terms: immunosurveillant
immunosurveyer
dicyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈsaɪənaɪd/
Forms: form: dicyanides
Etymology: From di- + cyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two cyanide ions or groups
Related terms: dicyano
dicyano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + cyano.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two cyano groups in a molecule
Derived terms: dicyanoethane
dicyanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cyanogen
dicyclopentadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicyclopentadienes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated tricyclic hydrocarbon 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-methano-1H-indene produced in the cracking of naphtha
Related terms: dicyclopentadienyl
dienyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dienynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having two alkene groups and one alkyne
diepoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + epoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two epoxy groups in a molecule
diethoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + ethoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two ethoxy groups in a molecule
diethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diethylenes
Etymology: From di- + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two ethylene groups in a molecule
Derived terms: word: diethylenediamine
alt: DEG
word: diethylene glycol
word: diethylenetriamine
word: diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid
Related terms: word: di-
word: diethenyl
word: diethyl
word: diethynyl
word: -ene
word: eth-
word: ethane
word: ethene
word: ethenyl
word: ethyl
word: ethylene
word: ethyne
word: ethynyl
word: monoethylene
alt: PE
word: polyethylene
word: triethylene
word: -yl
Chao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
homophone: chow
homophone: ciao
homophone: Chow
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: Zhao
Etymology: From Mandarin 趙／赵 (Zhào), Wade–Giles romanization: Chao⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Surveillance footage revealed that the victim, identified as Chao (趙), rode her scooter to Chang’s residence in Qianzhen District around 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. She was never seen leaving.
ref: 2025 February 7, Charlotte Lee, “Dismembered remains found in Kaohsiung canal”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2025, Society:
glosses: A surname from Chinese.
examples: text: Lu Pu-wei was a prosperous businessman in the large city of Han-tan in Chao, where he met a prince of Ch'in who was being kept as hostage in the capital.
ref: 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, “Changes in Social Stratification”, in Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
text: The same chapter says: "The majority of ancient authors did excellent practical work, but they were not employed. Kuan Chung and Yen Ying 晏嬰 were as great statesmen as writers, Shang Yang and Yu Ch'ing 虞卿 (51) [author Yu-shih ch'un-ch'iu 虞氏春秋, an official at the court of King Hsiao-ch'eng of Chao, 265-245 B.C.] were as active in literature as in administration." (52)
ref: 1977, Li Yu-ning, Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China, M. E. Sharpe, page xxxviii:
text: Late Shang ancillary capitals included Han-tan to the north, an area previously occupied by predynastic Shang culture and subsequently the capital of the state of Chao as well as crucial geostrategic location;³⁶ Chao-ko to the south and Shang-ch'iu, often said to have retained its importance throughout the dynasty as the original ritual center and the location of the oldest and thus most important ancestral temple.
ref: 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Zhao (state)
bloodclaat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌklɑːt/
Etymology: From Jamaican Creole bloodclaat (“blood cloth”).
Senses: glosses: holy shit, fuck, damn
diethynyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + ethynyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two ethynyl groups in a molecule
ethynyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethynyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical HC≡C- derived from acetylene.
Derived terms: diethynyl
ethisterone
ethynylation
etynodiol
lynestrenol
nilestriol
norethindrone
silylethynyl
intertitle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertitles
Etymology: From inter- + title.
Senses: examples: text: The film made frequent use of intertitles: every scene change was accompanied by text describing the new location.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:intertitle.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
synonyms: word: title card
word: leader
word: subtitle
glosses: A piece of static text inserted into the film to provide context or other information.
intertitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intertitles
form: intertitling
form: intertitled
form: intertitled
Etymology: From inter- + title.
Senses: glosses: To insert text into a film in this way.
consulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consulters
Etymology: From consult + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who consults, or asks counsel or information.
Related terms: consultant
consultor
foxhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxhound
calqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calque
physic fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physic finger
handicappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicapper
halos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halo
halos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of halo
haloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halo
haloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of halo
haloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halo
haloed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Encircled with a halo.
Derived terms: unhaloed
haloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halo
haltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halter
haltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halter
main building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main buildings
Senses: glosses: The most important building of a group of buildings (e.g. in a school/university).
hallucinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hallucinate
hallucinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hallucinate
hallucinogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallucinogenic
handstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handstand
handstands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handstand
hangouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangout
hammerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammering
handshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handshake
handshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handshakings
Senses: examples: text: A round of handshakings followed the introductions.
glosses: A greeting by clasping hands.
examples: text: I waited for the modems to finish their handshaking so I could start transferring the file.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for communications.
handshakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handshaking
hammerheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerhead
His Imperial Majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: Her Imperial Majesty
form: Your Imperial Majesty
Senses: glosses: he; him (in reference to a (male) emperor)
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
419
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 419s
Senses: examples: text: Above him, on the wall of the cybercafe, is a large yellow sign with black block letters that warns: “TO OUR CUSTOMERS – Tomsed Cyber Cafe now has an activity monitor software that monitors all activities of 419s including their mails in all our workstations. Therefore any customer caught with 419 job will be handed over to the police. BE WARNED!”
ref: 2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 26:
glosses: A 419 fraud; any of the various advance fee scams in which the scammer solicits up front payments promising large sums of money.
Related terms: 419 scam
419 scammer
419 fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 419 frauds
Etymology: The number 419 refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud.
Senses: synonyms: 419 scam
glosses: A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.
wikipedia: Nigerian Criminal Code
Related terms: english: slang term
translation: slang term
word: Yahoo boy
english: slang term for a victim of said fraud
translation: slang term for a victim of said fraud
word: mugu
word: Nigerian prince scam
english: Malaysian usage
translation: Malaysian usage
word: Macau scam
419 scam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 419 scams
Senses: glosses: A 419 fraud.
Derived terms: 419 scammer
pour-over will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pour-over wills
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A testamentary device wherein the writer of a will creates a trust (usually unfunded at that point), and decrees in the will that property in his estate at the time of his death shall be placed in the trust.
pour-over wills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pour-over will
musclewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musclewoods
Etymology: From muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) + wood.
Senses: glosses: Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Synonyms: American hornbeam
blue beech
ironwood
blue beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue beeches
Etymology: blue (from the color of the bark) + beech (from the smooth bark or the form of the leaves)
Senses: glosses: Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
Synonyms: American hornbeam
musclewood
ironwood
American hornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American hornbeams
Etymology: American + hornbeam (from the hardness of its wood)
Senses: glosses: Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Synonyms: sense: Carpinus caroliniana
word: blue beech
sense: Carpinus caroliniana
word: musclewood
sense: Carpinus caroliniana
word: ironwood
Vikings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪkɪŋs/
Senses: glosses: plural of Viking
catapulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catapult
catapulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catapult
stand on end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands on end
form: standing on end
form: stood on end
form: stood on end
Senses: examples: text: The horrifying tales he told made my hair stand on end.
glosses: To stand erect, bristle, especially from fear.
raw_tags: of hair
examples: text: At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...].
ref: 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:
glosses: To place on its end. (of an object)
Related terms: goosebump
on end
boy scout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy scouts
form: Boy Scout
form: boyscout
Senses: glosses: A male member of the Scout Movement.
examples: text: An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".
ref: 1982, The Economist, volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., page 24:
text: But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.
ref: 1987 October 2, Wall Street Journal,:
text: Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst.
ref: 2003, Roger F. S. Kaplan, Conservative socialism: the decline of radicalism and triumph of the Left in France, Transaction Publishers, page 91:
glosses: A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or unworldly.
Derived terms: boy scoutish
Related terms: altar boy
Methodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Methodisms
Etymology: From method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.
Senses: examples: text: Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
glosses: Any of several related movements.
Hypernyms: Protestantism
GHQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GHQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general headquarters.
glosses: Initialism of general health questionnaire.
marocchino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marocchinos
Etymology: From Italian marocchino, ellipsis of caffè marocchino, from its colour, as marocchino was a type of light brown leather (see Morocco leather) used in the 1930s to make hair bands.
Senses: examples: text: If you stray from the Venice-Verona region, the chances that people will recognize the concept of a macchiatone greatly diminish. In Milano, a marocchino is a somewhat similar drink.
ref: 2011, Alon Y. Halevy, The Infinite Emotions of Coffee, Macchiatone Communications, LLC, →ISBN, page 58:
text: She headed toward the beverage lounge. "Could you make me a cup of Marocchino while you're there?" Smedrick yelled after her.
ref: 2018, Kristie Lynn Higgins, Shades Of Gray #3: Cerberus Versus Pandora, 10th anniversary edition:
text: Italian Coffee Drinks / Including espresso, cappuccino, latte, macchiato, ristretto, marocchino & Americano
ref: 2019 November 24, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 93, number 115:
text: “Oh, I’d be delighted to stop by. It’s been days since I’ve had a good coffee. Do you do marocchinos?” “Sure, though it’s called a mocha here and in the States.” “I’m from Alba, in Italy. We love our marocchinos.”
ref: 2022, Alyn Troy, The Marocchino Sparrow: A Witch and Ghost Mystery (Mystic Brews; 9):
text: Many a business deal or legal tussle had been settled (or sometimes started) over excellent lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos, marocchinos, and shakeratos in dark corners of the colonial-era restaurant or on the terrace that enjoyed celebrated views of the Lowana River.
ref: 2022, Peter MacKenzie, The Needful: A Year in an International School in Africa, The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Kumquat changes its lineup of coffees monthly, including additions of restrained, calibrated coffee drinks. For February, the shop introduced a Valentine’s-themed concoction: the Ruby Marocchino espresso mixed with hot chocolate ganache and pineberry syrup.
ref: 2023 February 26, Bill Addison, “Wake up! Los Angeles is a coffee paradise”, in Los Angeles Times, page L10:
text: “We have an authentic Italian espresso machine that can make just about everything,” said Tiffany [Evans]. “We offer Italian Marocchino, Caffe’ Mocha, Caffe’ Latte’, Espressos, Cappuccinos and much more.”
ref: 2023 April 12, Marty Morgan, “‘Bar’ brings the ‘Juice’ to Newton”, in The Newton County Appeal, volume 114, number 37, page 2A:
glosses: A coffee drink made with a shot of espresso, cocoa powder and milk froth.
wikipedia: Morocco leather
difluoramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈflɔːɹəmiːn/
Forms: form: difluoramines
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The fluorine derivative of ammonia NHF₂
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -NF₂ or any compound containing this group
difluoroamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difluoroamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: difluoramine
difluoroamino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A difluoramine group substituted for another atom or group
difluorodiazene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difluorodiazenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two cis-trans isomers of the compound FN=NF
difluorocarbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difluorocarbenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical F₂C: used in organic synthesis
repens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repen
brunie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brunies
Etymology: Related to burn.
Senses: examples: text: While the lines were running to the bottom, seeking the fish far below, the men smoked or cut bait, and the younger ones took a surreptitious bite of a brunie, for skippers thought it a sign of softness if their men wanted food and drink too soon.
ref: 1997, Alexander Fenton, The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland, page 590:
glosses: A kind of scone made with flour or oatmeal.
brunies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunie
barries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barry
fondons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fondon
fondas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fonda
vides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vīdz
ipa: /vaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vide
refusant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refusants
Senses: glosses: One who refuses something.
refusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refusion
échappées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of échappée
glissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a serpent glissant
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Gliding horizontally in an undulant posture.
glisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliss
glisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gliss.
GRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GRCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gender recognition certificate.
glosses: Initialism of group representation constituency.
Related terms: gravel road cop
évolué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: évolués
Etymology: Borrowed from French évolué.
Senses: examples: text: With his clipped moustache, long, cultured features and neatly sober dress, Abbas was the essence of the westernised, middle-class Arab évolué – and so were the majority of his followers.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 40:
glosses: A native African (especially in a European colony) who has been educated on European principles or who has adopted European attitudes etc.
évolués
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of évolué
fies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fy
rompu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French rompu, past participle of rompre to break, Latin rumpō. See rupture.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: fracted
glosses: Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, etc.
plaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plaice (the fish).
plaise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plaises
form: plaising
form: plaised
form: plaised
Senses: examples: text: ‘Port, if you plaise,’ says Mr. Goldsmith, laughing.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of please.
plaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaise
plue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plues
Senses: examples: text: Twelve and a half pieces of trade goods brought in 416½ plues in beaver and an assortment of other peltry, in addition to over 370 plues in provisions. (A plue was the value of a full-sized beaver skin.)
ref: 2001, Lloyd Keith, North of Athabasca, page 47:
glosses: The value of a full-sized beaver skin.
plues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plue
illegalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: After contentious protests, gambling was illegalised by the legislature.
glosses: simple past and past participle of illegalise
Synonyms: outlawed
banned
Related terms: legalised
legalized
legal
illegal
hyperalgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˌæl.dʒiːzɪə/
Forms: form: hyperalgesias
Etymology: From hyper- + algesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increased sensitivity to pain, which in one form is caused by damage to nociceptors in the body's soft tissues.
Derived terms: antihyperalgesia
hyperalgesic
Related terms: algesia
analgesia
keep a close watch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps a close watch
form: keeping a close watch
form: kept a close watch
form: kept a close watch
Senses: examples: text: The prime minister asked the home secretary to keep a close watch on the flooding situation.
glosses: to pay careful attention to a situation or a thing, so that you can deal with any changes or problems.
Related terms: keep an eye on
phy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /faɪ/
Senses: examples: text: "The phy is doing me in", she says […]
ref: 1996, Fortnight, numbers 346-356, page 23:
text: Phy is much harder to come off than heroin.
ref: 2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin: A story of drug addiction, hope and triumph:
glosses: The drug physeptone.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: phy ed
European hornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European hornbeams
Senses: glosses: Carpinus betulus, a deciduous tree with hard wood native to many parts of Europe.
Synonyms: common hornbeam
common hornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common hornbeams
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Carpinus betulus; a deciduous tree with hard wood, native to many parts of Europe.
Synonyms: European hornbeam
wash away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes away
form: washing away
form: washed away
form: washed away
Senses: examples: text: Thousands were left homeless as the flood waters washed away the eastern part of the city.
text: The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track.
ref: 1956 October, “Summer Floods in Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
text: The price of deforestation over the centuries is that floodwater comes up so high at times that low bridges are liable to be washed away. On the Szechuan side, it is Hsiushan county. On the Kweichow side, the Sungtao Miao Autonomous County.
ref: 1973, Rewi Alley, “Some Hunan Journeys”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 27:
english: Travels in China, 1966-71
translation: Travels in China, 1966-71
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
text: Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21:
glosses: To eliminate or destroy by fast-moving water, such as a flood or a high sea.
examples: text: This latest piece of information, if true, will wash away all doubt.
text: Why would this shared history be so easily washed away? In her introduction, Colley directed us away from the notion that nations were characterised by cultural and ethnic homogeneity – of “blood and soil” – and towards Benedict Anderson’s definition of a nation as an “imagined community”
ref: 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To eliminate.
Derived terms: word: washaway
Related terms: wash down
wash off
wash out
wash up
high sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high seas
Etymology: From Middle English hey see, hey se, from Old English hēahsǣ (“the high sea, the deep”), equivalent to high + sea.
Senses: examples: text: The ship eventually broke in half in high sea and winds.
glosses: The sea when it is very rough due to strong winds and storms, such that the sea encroaches much further inland than is normal, often causing damage.
high sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English hey see, hey se, from Old English hēahsǣ (“the high sea, the deep”), equivalent to high + sea.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high seas (“open ocean”).
metron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metra
form: metrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron). Doublet of meter, metre, and mether.
Senses: glosses: metre (US: meter), poetic measure
glosses: sphere of influence
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A two-dimensional quantum of multidimensional space, a unit of measure in Heim theory.
third-degree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: in the third degree
form: 3rd degree
Senses: examples: text: The jury found him guilty of third-degree murder since he had only meant to beat the clown, not to kill him.
topics: law
glosses: At the third level of some system
The least severe level of felony, typically involving a lack of planning and/or the presence of various mitigating factors.
glosses: At the third level of some system
An extremely severe level of damage, typically involving major scarring and damage to subcutaneous tissue as well as the epidermis.
raw_tags: of burns
Coordinate terms: first-degree
second-degree
fourth-degree
Derived terms: third-degree burn
third-degree manslaughter
third-degree murder
third-degree relative
field hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field hands
Senses: examples: text: My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3.
ref: 1938 August 8, “Excitement in Jamaica”, in Time:
glosses: An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
Related terms: fieldwork
hired hand
ranchhand
flip chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flip charts
Senses: glosses: A large pad, usually supported on a stand, used for (typically handwritten) presentations.
flipchart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipcharts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flip chart.
poursuivant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poursuivants
Senses: examples: text: 1st Ret. Ay—do—push, friends, and then you ’ll push down me. / —What for? Does any hear a runner’s foot, / Or a steed’s trample, or a coach-wheel’s cry? / Is the Earl come or his least poursuivant? / But there ’s no breeding in a man of you / Save Gerard yonder: here ’s a half-place yet, / Old Gerard!
ref: 1843, Robert Browning, “A Blot in the ’Scutcheon. A Tragedy.”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, act I, scene I, pages 3–4:
glosses: Archaic form of pursuivant.
poursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poursuits
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pursuit.
applied ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of ethics that examines moral questions of right and wrong arising in specific areas of practical concern, as, for example, in medicine or business.
Related terms: business ethics
environmental ethics
medical ethics
tait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: tate
homophone: Tate
homophone: Tait
Forms: form: taits
Etymology: A borrowing into English of the Australian aboriginal name for the animal.
Senses: glosses: The honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus).
tairas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taira
relit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relight
liras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lira
lues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːiːz/
Etymology: From Latin lues (“plague”).
Senses: examples: text: And which in ravage the more loathsome evil is— / Their real lues, or our pseudo-syphilis?
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
text: There seemed to be no history of lues or any other family illness in the background.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1031:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
Derived terms: lues cerebri
lues venerea
luetic
luetin
lues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːiːz/
Etymology: See lue.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lue
rose window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose windows
Etymology: From the resemblance to the petals of a rose.
Senses: glosses: Any circular window, especially one of those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery.
Synonyms: Catherine wheel
marigold window
rose's-eye
rayonnant window
Related terms: wheel window
Akropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Akropolis
Senses: examples: text: The head-quarters of the other five squadrons of the latter corps are fixed at Argos. There are two companies of foot in Akrokorinth; a company of grenadiers, and one of pioneers in the Akropolis and Athens; […]
ref: 1834 September, “Greece”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, 1834, part III, number 70, London: […] [F]or Henry Colburn by R[ichard] Bentley; […], →OCLC, “Foreign Miscellany” section, page 80:
text: Emblematic of the new public consciousness, the religious focus in the city shifted from the Akropolis to the civic space, the agora.
ref: 1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Tyranny, Trials, and the Triumph of Kleisthenes”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1992 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 167:
text: From a sad memorial, the Akropolis was transformed into a splendid display of Athenian culture and power, a credit to the gods and the democratic city alike.
ref: 2005, Alexandra Villing, “The Akropolis in the history of Athens”, in Classical Athens (A Place in History), London: The British Museum Press, →ISBN, section 1 (The Akropolis: citadel and sanctuary), page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Acropolis.
Kanton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I extend also words of thanks to Neeti Komeri who supervised the census operation in the Line islands, and to Kairoronga who kindly agreed to enumerate people on Kanton island.
ref: 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance^(https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%20Population%20Census%20Report%20Volume%201(final%20211016).pdf), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019, page 2:
glosses: An island of Kiribati.
glosses: A village on Kanton, Kiribati.
Peloponnesus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Peloponnēsus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Peloponnese, a peninsula in Greece, particularly under Roman rule.
synonyms: word: Peloponnese
extra: a peninsula in Greece, particularly under Roman rule
atemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: more atemporal
form: most atemporal
Etymology: From a- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: The machinery, when activated, would create atemporal bubbles wherein nothing was affected by the flow of time.
text: The greatest music is atemporal.
glosses: Unaffected by time; timeless; permanent or unchanging.
Synonyms: timeless
eternal
Derived terms: atemporality
atemporally
Related terms: eternal now
arrière-pensées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrière-pensée
flivvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flivver
cornflour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːn.flaʊə/
homophone: cornflower
Forms: form: cornflours
Etymology: * corn + flour
Senses: synonyms: cornstarch
maizeflour
maizestarch
glosses: A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
synonyms: maizeflour
coordinate_terms: cornmeal
maizemeal
glosses: A flour for baking and cooking that is ground from corn (maize).
Derived terms: cornfloured
cornfloury
multiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌlˈtɪ.lə.kwənt/
Forms: form: more multiloquent
form: most multiloquent
Senses: glosses: Talkative.
Related terms: multiloquence
multiloquious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiloquious
form: most multiloquious
Senses: examples: 25 January, 1662, William Petty, epistle to the Right Honourable John Lord Roberts
Now having […] reduced several great confused Volumes into a few perspicuous Tables, and abridged such Observations as naturally flowed from them, into a few succinct Paragraphs, without any long Series of multiloquious Deductions, I have presumed to sacrifice these my small, but first publish'd, Labours unto your Lordship […]
glosses: Synonym of multiloquent.
synonyms: word: multiloquent
killing floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killing floors
Senses: glosses: that part of a slaughterhouse where the animals are killed and initial processing is carried out.