cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mesiodistal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + distal.
Senses: examples: text: However, Afrotarsius displays lower molars with much more acute cusps, a more protruding shelf-like paraconid, a metaconid opposite to the protoconid, a mesiodistal cristid obliqua, a strong labial cingulum, and a more distal entoconid.
ref: 1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the mesial and distal surfaces of a tooth
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the description of languages with a four-way distinction for demonstratives, refers to a demonstrative which indicates something near neither the speaker nor the addressee, but not too far off from either one.
Derived terms: mesiodistally
Related terms: mesioproximal
mesiodistally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesiodistal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The maxillary central incisor crown is relatively broad mesiodistally in proportion to its height (Fig. 2 ).
ref: 1999 August 27, Steve Ward et al., “Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya”, in Science, volume 285, number 5432, →DOI, pages 1382–1386:
glosses: relating to the mesiodistal side of a tooth
metaconid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaconids
Etymology: From meta- + conid.
Senses: examples: text: Two upper incisors vertically implanted with I 1 slightly larger than I 2 (judging from the remaining roots), strong vertical upper and lower canine with rounded crown sections, reduced and single-rooted P 2, P 3 as large as P 4, simple with their crown obliquely orientated and high protoconid, M 1 with low paraconid, metaconid widely separated from protoconid, and buccodistally projecting hypoconulid.
ref: 1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mesiolingual cusp of a lower molar tooth.
he-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-asses
Etymology: From Middle English hee assis pl; equivalent to he- + ass.
Senses: glosses: A male ass, male donkey.
Synonyms: jack
jackass
male ass
male donkey
Coordinate terms: female ass
female donkey
jenny
jenny-ass
she-ass
un-Einsteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Einsteinian
form: most un-Einsteinian
Etymology: From un- + Einsteinian.
Senses: examples: text: Note that to put it this way is precisely not to argue that Cubist space was "based on" Riemann's; that would amount to suggesting, in a perfectly un-Einsteinian fashion, that Cubism accepted Riemannian space as its apriori and then went on to represent it illusionistically.
ref: 2010, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Spring/Autumn 2010
text: The particles may not be un-Einsteinian, but they remain weirdly fascinating all the same.
ref: 2012 June 8, “Back to the future”, in The Economist:
glosses: Not in accordance with the theories of physics as laid out by Albert Einstein.
examples: text: As I prepared to put into action my un-Einsteinian plot, I grabbed the string to untie my drawers and yank them down.
ref: 2011, Mark Elswick, Padman:
glosses: Unlike Albert Einstein; unintelligent.
he-asses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-ass
undelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undelights
Etymology: From un- + delight.
Senses: examples: text: Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night,
Where friends, clasped close in lingering undelight,
Weep at the thought of parting. Matrons, ay,
ref: 1907, Virgil, The Æneid (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor), J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
synonyms: word: discontent
word: dissatisfaction
word: misery
word: sorrow
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
examples: text: Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.
ref: 1931, Esther Frayne Hayes, At Home in China, W. Neale, published 1931, page 82:
synonyms: word: hardship
word: sorrow
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: Something unpleasant or displeasing.
undelights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undelight
gingivostomatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gingivo- + stomatitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the gingiva (and related mucous membranes)
aid worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aid workers
Senses: examples: text: When American and British special forces freed four aid workers on June 2nd in Afghanistan, it was celebrated as an act of heroism.
ref: 2012 June 9, ‘Buying safety’, The Economist:
glosses: Someone who works for a charitable organisation devoted to helping others, especially one who works internationally or in conflict zones.
hyperaccumulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + accumulating.
Senses: glosses: Causing, or undergoing hyperaccumulation
lautite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lauta + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed arsenide and sulfide of copper from Lauta near Marienberg, Saxony
Judeo-Islamo-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Judeo- + Islamo- + Christian.
Senses: examples: text: Receiving a Merina blessing is not just the receipt of supernatural benediction, as it is in the Judeo-Islamo-Christian tradition, it is something which materially transforms inwardly, as though it were a kind of internal coral.
ref: 1987, Göran Aijmer, editor, Symbolic Textures: Studies in Cultural Meaning, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, →ISBN, →OL, page 25:
text: Because the Middle East is the cradle of the Judeo-Islamo-Christian paradigm, the sectarian milieu, as John Wansbrough put it in a fundamental book on the semantic structure of religions,24 has remained relevant worldwide.
ref: 1990, Chibli Mallat, “Islamic Family Law: Variations on State Identity and Community Rights”, in Chibli Mallat, Jane Frances Connors, editors, Islamic Family Law, Brill, →ISBN, →OL, pages 5–6:
text: Whereas the Classical West was Judeo-Islamo-Christian and Greco-Arab, we have been led to believe that it was only Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian.
ref: 2008, “Friendship Above All”, in Teresa Lavender Fagin, transl., Islam & the West: A Conversation With Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, translation of original by Mustapha Chérif, →ISBN, →OL, page xxi:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Synonyms: Judeo-Christian-Islamic
Related terms: Judeo-Christian
Abrahamic
Chrislam
unsuspect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuspect
form: most unsuspect
Etymology: From un- + suspect.
Senses: examples: text: […] A pilgrim travels unsuspect, for who dare rob a holy man? and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them."
ref: 1921, John Buchan, chapter 3, in The Path of the King:
glosses: Unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.
examples: text: […] Thy honour, hitherto unsuspect, will be known to have been but a shew, and shouldst thou seek thy defence in lying excuses, if any such may be fashioned, the accursed scholar, who knows all thy doings, will not suffer it.
ref: 1903, Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg, The Decameron, Volume II, page 218:
glosses: Not suspect; trustworthy or reliable.
examples: text: For unsuspect, some dim forbidding
Rose within him and knockt at his heart
ref: 1913, Maurice Hewlett, "Gnatho", in Helen Redeemed and Other Poems, Macmillan and Co., Limited (1913), page 189
glosses: Unforeseen.
macrocrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocrystals
Etymology: From macro- + crystal.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large crystal
Related terms: macrocrystalline
be good for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is good for
form: being good for
form: was good for
form: been good for
Senses: qualifier: This entry is a translation hub.
glosses: To be fit, to be useful.
melanoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanodermas
form: melanodermata
Etymology: From melano- + -derma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An unusual darkening of the skin.
Derived terms: melanodermic
mesdemet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian msdmt, where the vowels are uncertain; they are added on the basis of the conventional Egyptological pronunciation. Compare Coptic ⲥⲧⲏⲙ (stēm).
Senses: glosses: A pigment made from stibnite and/or galena, once used in Egypt as an eye cosmetic.
wikipedia: Egyptological pronunciation
metallotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metallotolerant
form: most metallotolerant
Etymology: From metallo- + tolerant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to tolerate a high concentration of metal ions in its environment.
metallotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallotolerants
Etymology: From metallo- + tolerant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any extremophile that is able to tolerate a high concentration of metal ions in its environment.
oxoanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxoanions
Etymology: From oxo- + anion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion derived from an oxoacid
Derived terms: oxoanionic
polyoxoanion
oxoanions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxoanion
oxynitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxynitrates
Etymology: From oxy- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed oxide and nitrate
unconcocted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcocted
form: most unconcocted
Etymology: From un- + concocted.
Senses: examples: text: It may arise also from the stomach being overloaded with unconcocted aliment, or from a suppressed or diminished secretion of the salivary liquors in the mouth, which may arise from fever, spasm, or affections of the mind; […]
ref: 1804, Thomas Garnett, Popular Lectures on Zoonomia, or the Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease:
glosses: undigested
examples: text: A weight of wine lies heavy on my head,
The unconcocted follies of last night.
ref: 1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil, act IV:
glosses: crude
meltem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meltemi.
meltemi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from Greek μελτέμι (meltémi), from Turkish meltem
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strong, dry, northerly, seasonal wind in the Aegean sea; etesian wind.
Tamanduateí
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil.
tintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tintless
form: most tintless
Etymology: From tint + -less.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
ref: 1849, Richard Henry Bonnycastle, chapter IX, in Canada and the Canadians, Henry Colburn:
text: How, with the tintless pallor of her skin and the classic straightness of her lineaments, she managed to look sensual, I don't know.
ref: 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter X, in The Professor:
text: It can be tinted to the taste of the purchaser; but, as a rule, a tintless crystal is preferred.
ref: 1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, Truber & Co, page 195:
glosses: Having no tint; colourless.
neo-Darwinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + Darwinism.
Senses: examples: text: Now his ideas have been neatly combined with those of Gregor Mendel, and the overall narrative – known as ‘neo-Darwinism’ – seems complete.
ref: 2012 June, Colin Tudge, “Selectioneering”, in Literary Journal:
glosses: The modern synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection with the modern genetic understanding of heredity.
sublacune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These preliminary experiments indicate that echo-sounding equipment may be of considerable use in the study of sublacune geology.
ref: 1961, Edward Gick Richardson, Sound: A Physical Text-Book, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd, published 1961, page 328:
glosses: Located or occurring under the surface of a lake.
Synonyms: sublacustric
sublacustrine
Cayor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former kingdom in West Africa.
twimmolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twimmolations
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + immolation.
Senses: examples: text: No, Weiner is not the first person to be taken down by twimmolation, nor will he be the last.
ref: 2011 December 7, Allie Townsend, “The Top 10 Everything of 2011”, in Time:
glosses: Public censure brought upon someone by an offensive or otherwise inadvisable Twitter post.
twimmolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twimmolation
pommades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pommade
gheada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /heɪˈɑːdə/
/xeɪ-/
/ɡeɪ-/
Etymology: From Galician gheada.
Senses: examples: text: This variety is a non-standard phonological register characterized by gheada [heáða], that is, the fricativization and devoicing of the voiced velar stop: /ɡ/ -> [ɣ] (other variants are [x], [h]; for a review of the phenomenon see for example Alvarez Cáccamo 1989b:261-65).
ref: 1990, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, v.16, page 6
text: In contrast to the phenomena of open and close vowels, the presence or absence of the gheada is still one of the most prominent phonetic features of present-day Galician.
ref: 2007, Jaine Beswick, Regional Nationalism in Spain: Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia, Multilingual Matters, page 141:
text: In addition to these feelings of inappropriateness, there are two features of the local dialects that still seem to be stigmatized among my informants: the gheada and the Galician pitch pattern.
ref: 2008, Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Jason Rothman, Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads With Other Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 75:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: the lenition of the voiced velar stop in the Galician language.
foresmack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + smack (“taste”). Cognate with Dutch voorsmaak (“foretaste”), German Vorgeschmack (“foretaste”), Swedish försmak (“foretaste”).
Senses: examples: text: I know well thou wast foretasting my praise, as I returned to our study with a lively foresmack of thy biscuit.
ref: 1893, James Vila Blake, More than kin:
text: "I have a guardian's right, at least, thou wanton, to strip thee bare and flog thy back and butt till such foresmack of hell has chastened thee."
ref: 1976, Poul Anderson, A midsummer tempest:
glosses: A foretaste; a taste or sampling of things to come.
tweetdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tweet (“a Twitter post”) + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Not surprisingly, the tweetdom interpreted Burnside's comment as linking the Catholic Abbott with the paedophile scandal in sections of the Catholic Church.
ref: 2011 October 4, Gerard Henderson, “Sectarian rant against Abbott is full of holes, despite QC's excitement”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: The world of Twitter; Twitter users collectively.
Synonyms: tweetosphere
Twittersphere
Twitterverse
overwait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
enpr: ō'vər-wātʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
enpr: ōʹvər-wāt
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: overwaits
form: overwaiting
form: overwaited
form: overwaited
Etymology: From over- + wait.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't waste any time getting to sleep, and the orderly didn't overwait his time, either. I miscalculated on the moon and the depth of our chasm. I expected the moon to appear some time before midnight, but she didn't.
ref: 1915, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, The Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
text: I'm convinced we behave like this because most of us overwait for times of respite, and then we try to cram a month's peace into two weeks of hectic vacationing.
ref: 2000, Jeff Walling, Daring to Dance With God:
glosses: To wait for an excessive amount of time; wait beyond the time allowed or expected; wait too long.
overwait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
enpr: ō'vər-wātʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
enpr: ōʹvər-wāt
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Etymology: From over- + wait.
Senses: examples: text: But they have objected that this word oppresse is incertain; for he may be oppressed with overwait, or hunger and cold.
ref: 1912, The English reports:
glosses: The period of time one overwaits; an excessive duration of waiting; delay.
pedogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + geological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the geology of soil and till.
thumboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumboards
Senses: examples: text: While the thumboard of choice for executives tends to be the Blackberry^([sic]) mobile email device […] for the rest of the world (and for many of the kids in your neighborhood), it's the cell phone and SMS.
ref: 2006, Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, & Tara Calishain, Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thumbboard.
thumboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumboard
raticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raticide
raygrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raygrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ray grass.
repigmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + pigmentation.
Senses: glosses: The recovery of pigmentation after its loss.
umbeschew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbeschews
form: umbeschewing
form: umbeschewed
form: umbeschewed
form: umbechew
form: umschew
form: umchew
Etymology: From umbe- + eschew.
Senses: glosses: To avoid; shun.
glosses: To get away; escape.
roxarsone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The compound 4-hydroxy-3-nitrobenzenearsonic acid once used as an additive in chicken feed
wolfkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wolf + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, the war will spread, and wolfkind will be no more.
ref: 2009, Dorothy Hearst, Promise of the Wolves: A Novel:
glosses: The entirety of wolves; all wolves collectively as a group.
thumbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thumbable
form: most thumbable
Etymology: From thumb + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The backlit monochrome screen is easy to see, and we found the thumbable keyboard easier to type on than earlier BlackBerry models.
ref: 2003 August 5, Richard V. Dragan, “Improved BlackBerry Delivers End-to-End Messaging”, in PC Magazine:
glosses: Capable of being handled, manipulated, or operated with a thumb or thumbs.
examples: text: It is for these things that we give the "Diary" a place of honor among thumbable volumes on our shelves.
ref: 1905 February 25, H. W. Boynton, “Little Burney”, in The New York Times:
text: Only London's finest collection of comfortable, thumbable antiquarian books, I thought, as I watched him sink into a chair near the empty fireplace.
ref: 2001, Julie Kaewert, Unsigned: A Booklover's Mystery, Bantam Books, page 13:
glosses: Compellingly readable or easy to thumb through.
raw_tags: of a book
aitu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪtuː/
Forms: form: aitus
form: aitu
Etymology: Borrowed from a Polynesian language, from Proto-Polynesian *qaitu.
Senses: glosses: A ghost or spirit, often malevolent, in Polynesian mythology.
solubilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of solubilization.
stockages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockage
boundance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Used from around 1400 to the 1500's.
* The missing a was dropped intentionally because of the mistaken notion that it was an indefinite article.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of abundance.
habundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habundant
form: most habundant
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abundant.
zodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodis
Etymology: Related to zodiac.
Senses: examples: text: […] an exozodiacal dust disk with 3 zodis of material has been added. […] Measuring exozodiacal dust to levels of 1 to 10 zodi in the habitable zones of nearby stars is critical […]
ref: 2011, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Space Studies Board, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Program Prioritization Panels, Science Frontiers Panels, Panel Reportsâ¬"New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Academies Press, page 294
text: "... reaching levels below 1 zodi for stars within 10 pc."
ref: 2012, Issues in Astronomy and Astrophysics: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN:
text: […] for a wide range in exozodiacal background levels (epsilon = 1-100 times the local zodi brightness) and overall prevalence […]
ref: 2013, Issues in Astronomy and Astrophysics: 2013 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN, page 95:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of zodiacal dust, equal to the amount of interplanetary dust in the inner solar system, which absorbs light and re-radiates it with a luminosity about 10⁻⁷ that of the sun.
aulete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːliːt/
Forms: form: auletes
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek αὐλητής (aulētḗs), from αὐλέω (auléō, “I play the flute”), from αὐλός (aulós, “flute”).
Senses: glosses: An aulos player.
glosses: Synonym of flautist.
synonyms: word: flautist
auletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aulete
trimethylarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trimethyl + arsine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound (CH₃)₃As
trivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trivalent
bemirror
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemirrors
form: bemirroring
form: bemirrored
form: bemirrored
Etymology: From be- + mirror.
Senses: glosses: To image or show as in a mirror.
Derived terms: bemirrorment
bemix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemixes
form: bemixing
form: bemixed
form: bemixed
Etymology: From be- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: Following a brief visit to Mannheim in January 1777 Lessing, with a heavy heart, abandoned any plans to 'bemix' with its theatre.
ref: 1997, Georg Knepler, David Blake, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart:
glosses: To mix around or about; mingle.
besow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈsəʊ/
Forms: form: besows
form: besowing
form: besowed
form: besown
form: besowed
Etymology: From Middle English besowen, bisawen, from Old English besāwan (“to sow, sow about”); equivalent to be- + sow. Cognate with Middle High German besǣjen (“to besow”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] is to miss for him all the advantage our civilization is prepared to besow upon his childhood.
ref: 1898, International Association of Factory Inspectors, Annual convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors:
glosses: To sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant.
beshield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːld
Forms: form: beshields
form: beshielding
form: beshielded
form: beshielded
Etymology: From Middle English bischilden, from Old English besċyldian, besċieldian (“to shield, defend”); equivalent to be- + shield.
Senses: examples: text: Beshield thee with thy troops; find out at will Fresh instruments of war, and unknown gear; For thou shalt not scape death from this my hand, O slayer of the dames, so brave and grand.
ref: 1876, Torquato Tasso, The Jerusalem delivered of Yorquato Tasso:
text: […]that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee.
ref: 2004, Robert Thornton, The Prose Life of Alexander:
text: Of course I was frightened — frightened of being struck, or beshamed, during the next tone-show — so cast about for someone to beshield me.
ref: 2006, Percy Grainger, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger:
glosses: To shield around or about; protect; defend.
examples: text: Our bearers now began to call themselves Natal Kafirs, fearing to say they were Zulus before the young Amaswazi warriors, beplumed, beshielded, bespeared, perched about here and there in picturesque unconsciousness of their picturesqueness.
ref: 1872, The Net:
glosses: To provide or outfit with a shield.
bespin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespins
form: bespinning
form: bespun
form: bespun
Etymology: From be- + spin. Cognate with German bespinnen (“to spin over”).
Senses: examples: text: Here we still have much of the same authority of great texts bespun and sometimes swamped with glosses and notes, of lecturing that approximates dictation, and grammar which still remains, though dictionaries have come.
ref: 1916, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, Journal of genetic psychology:
glosses: To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over.
stoichiometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stoichiometric.
bewallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewallows
form: bewallowing
form: bewallowed
form: bewallowed
Etymology: From Middle English biwalwien, from Old English bewealwian (“to wallow, wallow around”), equivalent to be- + wallow.
Senses: examples: text: We saw paths and narrow beds, trampled and bewallowed, in the mud of the marshes now and then, which were made by the alligators; then, after long stretches of cane-brake and of marsh and willows, we came upon the beauty of Gum Swamp.
ref: 1886, Harper's magazine:
glosses: To wallow around or about; wallow all over.
syllogiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllogisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syllogizer.
bebang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebangs
form: bebanging
form: bebanged
form: bebanged
Etymology: From be- + bang.
Senses: glosses: To bang about.
bebang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebangs
form: bebanging
form: bebanged
form: bebanged
Etymology: From be- + bang (“forelock”).
Senses: glosses: To give bangs to; style in bangs.
Derived terms: bebanged
cosmetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosmetic.
dendritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dendritic.
dendroarcheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dendroarchaeology.
sycophantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sycophantical
form: most sycophantical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós) + -al. By surface analysis, sycophant + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sycophantic.
virulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virulencies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of virulence.
virulencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virulency
urgh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eurgh.
tim-whiskey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tim-whiskeys
form: tim-whiskies
form: tim whiskey
form: tim-whisky
form: tim whisky
Etymology: From tim + whiskey, from whisk + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: 1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225,
With Two Act Pieces what machines agree?
Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis,
Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.
text: It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.
ref: 1824, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in Saint Ronan's Well, volume 2, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 6:
text: 1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43,
It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey, that is to say no difference at all.
glosses: Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse.
synonyms: word: whiskey
extra: a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse
tim-whiskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tim-whiskey
glosses: plural of tim-whisky
swiftering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swifter
swiftered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swifter
sea lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea lemons
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of nudibranchs of the family Dorididae, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
glosses: Ximenia americana, a tree of the tropics, bearing a fruit used for food.
sea lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea lemon
canon bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canon bits
Etymology: From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).
Senses: examples: text: […] A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
canon bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canon bit
numismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of numismatic.
decomposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decomposite
siluridan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siluridans
Etymology: Silurid + -an
Senses: glosses: silurid.
siluridans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siluridan
impenitents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impenitent
megalonyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalonyxes
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An extinct ground sloth of the genus Megalonyx.
megalonyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalonyx
redundances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redundance
undermix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermixes
form: undermixing
form: undermixed
form: undermixed
Etymology: From under- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: It is better to undermix than overmix. If you undermix, the floury spots will probably moisten up in baking.
ref: 2006, Nicolette M. Dumke, The ultimate food allergy cookbook and survival guide:
glosses: To not mix enough; fail to mix adequately or thoroughly.
longitudinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longitudinal
heliometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: heliometric observations
glosses: Of, relating to, or using, a heliometer
examples: text: heliometric studies
glosses: Related to heliometry.
Derived terms: heliometrically
heliometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: heliometric
twigil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twigils
Etymology: Blend of twin + sigil
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: Perl language
glosses: A character prepended to a variable name to indicate its scope.
twigils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twigil
buryingplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buryingplaces
Etymology: From burying + place.
Senses: examples: text: I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace [translating קֶבֶר (kéver)] with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:4:
glosses: The place where a dead person is buried.
benifit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of benefit.
benifit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of benefit.
buryingplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buryingplace
penalty units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty unit
potbrownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potbrownies
Senses: examples: text: We are tied on never smoking a cigarette, but I trump him in drug taking because I had a really intense potbrownie experience.
ref: 2012, Joel Stein, Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pot brownie.
pizza box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza boxes
Senses: glosses: A box designed for carrying pizzas.
examples: text: Compact "pizza box" personal computers with integrated components are more desirable since they occupy less precious and scarce desktop real estate.
ref: 1991 March 12, William F. Zachmann, “A Case of Computer Design”, in PC Magazine:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wide, flat, square style of computer chassis, similar in shape to a pizza delivery box.
shoe box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoebox.
pot brownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot brownies
form: potbrownie
Senses: examples: text: Niles Crane: Just take a look. Ah, yes, thick and gooey. Ganja in its purest form.
Roz Doyle: It's a pot brownie, you idiot.
ref: 2003, December 9, Christopher Lloyd, "High Holidays", episode 11-11 of Frasier, 00:09:03-00:09:13
glosses: A brownie laced with marijuana, eaten for its psychoactive effects.
Related terms: hash brownie
pot brownies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot brownie
potbrownies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potbrownie
Punic Wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punic War
pizza boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza box
Cirenaike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cirenaike
form: most Cirenaike
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Cyrenaic.
over-old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈəʊld/
Forms: form: more over-old
form: most over-old
Etymology: From Old English ofereald, corresponding to over- + old. Cognate with Dutch overoud, German überalt.
Senses: examples: text: And one Attalus in Seneca saith, the remembrance of our last friends is as pleasing to us, as bitternesse in wine that is over old[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: My body over-old for deeds begrudged such government.
ref: 1875, Virgil, translated by William Morris, Aeneid, section VIII:
glosses: Too old.
ointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oint
ointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oint
intersuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intersucks
form: intersucking
form: intersucked
form: intersucked
Etymology: From inter- + suck.
Senses: glosses: Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
examples: text: And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To suck mutually.
intersuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + suck.
Senses: examples: text: Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.
ref: 2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, page 149:
glosses: Between sucks.
intersucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intersuck
joke around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jokes around
form: joking around
form: joked around
form: joked around
Senses: glosses: (procrastinate, fool around, behave immaturely): bowdlerization of fuck around
glosses: To kid, prank, joke.
synonyms: joke
fool around
kid
glosses: To say something that is not meant to be taken seriously.
subgenitalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + genitalia.
Senses: glosses: Something posterior to or beneath the genitals
Related terms: subgenital
vexillologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vexillology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vexillology.
Synonyms: vexillological
NuSTAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.
snoop around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snoops around
form: snooping around
form: snooped around
form: snooped around
Senses: examples: text: She's been snooping around asking questions.
glosses: To snoop.
muddy the waters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muddies the waters
form: muddying the waters
form: muddied the waters
form: muddied the waters
Senses: examples: text: He insisted that the Basque separatist group Eta remained the main line of investigation, and suggested the tape may have been an attempt to muddy the waters.
ref: 2004 March 12, Giles Tremlett, “The clues that point towards al-Qaida”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Thank you for having me on,” Banks began. The one statement he made that sounded genuinely credible. It’s not often that someone accused of electoral fraud gets to muddy the waters on live television ahead of a possible criminal investigation.
ref: 2018 November 4, John Crace, “Marr founders on the Rocks of Arron Banks's muddy waters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: "Some applications will fail. ORR does not need strong-arm tactics from DfT muddying the waters."
ref: 2025 July 9, David Stubbings, “Network News: Open access row: DfT accused of "strong-arm tactics"”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 6:
related: word: muddy the water
glosses: To make something unclear and difficult to understand.
technoplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoplegics
Etymology: From techno- + -plegic, implying paralysis by technology.
Senses: examples: text: The technoplegics among you will probably spew your usual twaddle about how Cuba will be a democracy before these advancements hit the street.
ref: 2000 March 4, Peckhammer [username], “Do Harleys have a future in a digital world?”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):
glosses: A person who freezes up psychologically when confronted with new technology or resists technological advance.
technoplegics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoplegic
LPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of loss prevention officer.
LPO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of London Philharmonic Orchestra.
FDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of frequency-division multiplexing.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of fat in dry matter: a measure of the fat content of cheese.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of fused deposition modeling: a type of additive manufacturing.
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: CDM
HDM
DM
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Abbreviation of fuzzy dark matter.
FDM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Free Download Manager.
digital-to-analog converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital-to-analog converters
form: D-A
form: D2A
form: DAC
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: analog-to-digital converter
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that converts a finite resolution digital signal to an infinite resolution analog signal.
digital-to-analog converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital-to-analog converter
telefelony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telefelonies
Etymology: From tele- + felony.
Senses: examples: text: "We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year.
ref: 1984 August 10, “Big Cable-Theft Crackdown Promised”, in Miami Herald:
glosses: Criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.
telefelonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telefelony
tour guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tour guides
form: tourguide
Senses: examples: text: Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines.
ref: 2009, P[eter] W[arren] Singer, “Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators”, in Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Government licensed tour guides would take the groups through the site.
ref: 2016, David M. Mannes, “Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Pyramid of the Sun”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 8, page 97:
synonyms: tourist guide
touristic guide
glosses: One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.
examples: text: I opened my Bible at the first chapter of the Gospel according to St Mark and as I read, it was as if I were reading a tour guide of my own home district.
ref: 1998, John Knape, “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – 1958”, in Satanic Mills to Galilee, Bishop Auckland, Durham: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Using a Tour Guide / Another handy feature you can try when familiarizing yourself with Internet content are the guides provided by Netscape.
ref: 1999, Shelley O’Hara, “Navigating Like a Pro: Netscape Navigator”, in Surf the Net the Lazy Way (Macmillan Lifestyle Guides; The Lazy Way), New York, N.Y.: Alpha Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Browsing Tips), page 26:
text: You can learn about the places to visit by seeing a tour presentation or by reading a tour guide. A good guide or presentation will have both pictures and text. Computer software can be used to make tour guides and presentations.
ref: 2001, “Unit 4: Publishing and Presenting”, in Teacher’s Answer, editor, Computer Literacy (Pacemaker), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Globe Fearon, →ISBN, page 241:
text: Michelle lounged in the passenger seat reading a tour guide she’d picked up in the hotel confectionary story before they’d checked out.
ref: 2016, David M. Mannes, “Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina”, in The Tunguska Encounter: A Damien Wynter Majic-12 Adventure, Solstice Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 15, page 160:
glosses: Synonym of travel guide.
synonyms: word: travel guide
Related terms: tour group
transwestite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transwestites
Etymology: Blend of transvestite + west.
Senses: examples: text: With a tip of the brim of her black cowboy hat, Sam greets her friend. Tonight, Sam's a sweet transwestite in jeans and a black gabardine shirt with front patch pockets and pearl white snaps.
ref: 2007, Nairne Holtz, The Skin Beneath, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: A person who is not a cowboy but dresses in Western-style clothing or costumes.
Synonyms: Urban Cowboy
transwestites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transwestite
Ispir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: İspir
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Erzurum Province, in eastern Turkey.
İspir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ispir.
diiodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diiodines
Etymology: From di- + iodine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The normal diatomic form of iodine (I₂)
glosses: Two iodine atoms in a molecule
desulfhydrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulfhydrases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of the elements of hydrogen sulfide from a compound
glutathioselenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of glutathione that is involved in the metabolism of selenium
tenpercentery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenpercenteries
Etymology: From ten + percent + -ery, from the traditional 10% commission which agents collect from whatever amount their clients earn.
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-five years ago, a clutch of agents left the William Morris Agency to form CAA, forever changing the way tenpercenteries conduct business.
ref: 2000 June 13, Dan Cox, Claude Brodesser, “Seismic steps for H'w'd reps”, in Variety:
glosses: A talent agency.
tenpercenteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenpercentery
dunnarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunnart