cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
technofreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technofreaks
Etymology: From techno- + freak.
Senses: glosses: A person obsessed with technology, especially computers.
glosses: An avid fan of techno music.
techno music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technomusic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of techno (“electronic music genre”).
synonyms: word: techno
extra: electronic music genre
tellurise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tellurises
form: tellurising
form: tellurised
form: tellurised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tellurize.
Kellan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
cup final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup finals
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final of a cup competition.
draftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drafty: most drafty
draftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drafty: more drafty
one-trick ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-trick pony
one-hit wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-hit wonder
merry company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merry companies
Senses: examples: text: The continued interest of the Utrecht School in such merry companies is found as late as 1644 in Bronchorst's Merry Party also in Brunswick.
ref: 2012, Jay Richard Judson, Gerrit Van Honthorst: A Discussion of his Position in Dutch Art:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks and music.
merry companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merry company
hardyheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardyhead
blaasops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaasop
Americaniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanisers
Etymology: From Americanise + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, Americanises.
Americanisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americaniser
sulphasalazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphasalazines
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sulfasalazine.
sulphur candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ændəl
Forms: form: sulphur candles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfur candle.
woundsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woundsome
form: most woundsome
Etymology: From wound + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And now grim and woundsome grew the battle, for the Demons mightily withstood the onset of the Witches, […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 72, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: You still have your doubts don't you? She sighed. What proof can I give you that Im telling the truth? What can I say that will convince you? And then her eyes lit up. I know, she said. When you were very little, you sustained a woundsome sort of hunting accident.
ref: 2000, Michael Jan Friedman, A Call to Darkness:
text: Then they leapt up on to the house, and fell to unroofing it. Arnbiorn took his weapons, and warded himself from the inside of the house. He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.
ref: 2010, Mark Ludwig Stinson, The Saga Hoard - Volume 1: Icelandic Sagas:
text: He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.
ref: 2011, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings
glosses: Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
Synonyms: scatheful
scathely
draftproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more draftproof
form: most draftproof
Etymology: From draft + -proof.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of draughtproof.
draftproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draftproofs
form: draftproofing
form: draftproofed
form: draftproofed
Etymology: From draft + -proof.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of draughtproof.
warthoglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warthoglets
Etymology: From warthog + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A baby warthog.
double major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double majors
form: double-major
Senses: examples: text: I'm working on a double major in biology and education so I can teach middle school science classes after I graduate.
glosses: Two main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
examples: text: Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.
glosses: A student at a college or university concentrating on two given areas of study.
double-major
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-majors
form: double-majoring
form: double-majored
form: double-majored
form: double major
Senses: examples: text: If I double-major in anthropology and neuroscience, I will barely have enough time to sleep.
glosses: to concentrate on two particular areas of study as a student in a college or university
draftproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From draftproof + -ing.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of draughtproofing.
draftproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draftproof
'tweenbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'tweenbrains
form: betweenbrain
form: tweenbrain
Etymology: From 'tween + brain.
Senses: examples: text: Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.
ref: 1931, Medicine: Tweenbrain & Stomach:
text: The brainstem constituents include the medulla oblongata, pons varolii, midbrain, and tweenbrain.
ref: 2007, Robb S. Rehberg, Sports Emergency Care: A Team Approach:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.
Synonyms: diencephalon
Meronyms: thalamus
hypothalamus
epithalamus
prethalamus
subthalamus
pretectum
Gentleman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gentlemans
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
T-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-form
tweenlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'tweenlight
form: 'tween-light
Etymology: From Old English twēonlēoht (“twilight”, literally “double-/doubtful-/uncertain-light”). The alternative spellings are due to a misassociation with between, erroneously interpreting tweenlight as if it were a shortening of between-light.
Senses: examples: text: Faith, sir, she says that Fergus has had an outforce lying in the hills yonder these three days, and waits an opportunity of surprising the fort — that they had moved down this tweenlight, and were sweeping along by the glens two hours ago; [...]
ref: 1832, H. Coates, The water queen, or, The mermaid of loch Lene, and other tales:
text: All this I understood as in a mist dimly, or 'tweenlight; yet I felt a movement of some sort upon the horizon of intellectual attainment, [...]
ref: 1847, John William Parry, The Yeoman Philosophising on His Poverty:
text: Afterwards he strode round the village in the sweet evening 'tweenlight.
ref: 1898, F. Barnard, Sketch: An Illustrated Miscellany of Art, Music, the Drama, Society and the Belles Lettres, Volume 22:
text: Through morning and into evening, the war resumed, mounted with shouting and cursing and singing of martial airs, bluster, batting, torn hair, and flying spittle, until the ceil dimmed to brown and welcome tweenlight tell over the breathless, bruised combatants.
ref: 2009, Greg Bear, City at the End of Time:
text: It was not yet dusk,but the 'tween-light was blurring the outline of all things, when they came at last, two or maybe three miles down river, to the ford of a stream brawling down from the high chalk, and saw through the smoke-soft screen of willows and alders the gleam of a firelit doorway reflected in the glossy darkness of a mill leat.
ref: 2013, Rosemary Sutcliff, Knight's Fee:
glosses: The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
misassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: misassociations
form: mis-association
Etymology: From mis- + association.
Senses: examples: text: The last point we wish to address is the misassociation of waveforms, or cycle skipping.
ref: 2001, Frode Ringdal, Brian L.N. Kennett, Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty:
glosses: A false, misleading, or incorrect association.
Related terms: misassociate
misassociations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misassociation
mis-association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mis-associations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misassociation.
mis-associations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mis-association
gyrostabiliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrostabilisers
Etymology: From gyro- + stabiliser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
blatherskate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatherskates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blatherskite.
double-majoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-major
forestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestones
Etymology: From fore- + stone.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of cast-iron which lies across the hearth with its ends resting between the keystones, and which can be moved toward the front or back of the hearth as required. It is a part of the small rectangular furnace called the "ore-hearth," used in the smelting of lead.
forestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestone
venture capitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venture capitalist
forespeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forespeeds
form: forespeeding
form: foresped
form: foresped
form: forespeeded
form: forespeeded
Etymology: From fore- + speed.
Senses: examples: text: A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped.
ref: 1837, George Turberville, James Maidment, Giovanni Boccaccio, Tragical Tales: And Other Poems - Page 345:
text: Thus he spake; but now there sounded Through the night the holy bell That to Lord's Day matins gather'd Every monk from every cell. Eager at the sound, Columba In the way foresped the rest, And before the altar kneeling Pray'd with hands on holy breast.
ref: 1896, John Stuart Blackie, Archibald Stodart Walker, The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie - Page 191:
text: "And come he early, come he late," She saith, "it will undo me; The sharp fore-speeded shaft of fate Already quivers through me."
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, A Parody Anthology - Page 119:
glosses: To outrun; outspeed.
foresped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forespeed
dogedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogedoms
Etymology: From doge + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of doge (chief magistrate).
dogedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogedom
forespeeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forespeech
dogeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogeships
Etymology: From doge + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of doge (chief magistrate).
dogeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogeship
forespurrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forespurrer
safetied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of safety
safetied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He looked at his guys; nervous and fingering their safetied weapons. One of them hunched over and vomited
ref: 2014, The Twilight of Liberty, page 205:
text: Others had unloaded and permanently safetied weapons on their arms. Thanks to nanobot enhancements, others were now extraordinarily powerful
ref: 2015, The Beam: Season 3, page 517:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: On which the safety mechanism is engaged.
safetying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of safety
Björkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Björkian
form: most Björkian
Senses: examples: text: Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of "Army Of Me" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns "Hyperballad" into a stately 3-D chess game.
ref: 1997, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 43, page 12:
text: Here Native Tongues beats gird good-golly-Miss-Mali feminism, cameos from the Roots and This Kid Named Miles, pygmy flute-scat, and flurries of drum'n'bass-driven Björkian ecstasy.
ref: 2000, SPIN, volume 16, number 1, page 126:
glosses: Of or relating to Björk (Björk Guðmundsdóttir, born 1965), Icelandic singer-songwriter known for her eclectic and innovative style.
forespur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forespurs
Etymology: From fore- + spur.
Senses: examples: text: The tibial comb or forespur, on the front pair of legs, has about 65 teeth, stiff and elastic, and is deftly fitted into the tarsus opposite, which has about 45 coarser teeth.
ref: 1914, Joshua Hughes Paul, Out of doors in the west:
text: The main joint at his forespur kept slipping each time he tried to unfold it. Nilrasha stifled a sob. "I'm sorry, Ru. But it doesn't matter. Your wings are uncased." She began to lick his wounds. By hooking the wing tip in a crack on the balcony and ...
ref: 2007, E. E. Knight, Dragon Outcast - Page 246:
text: Finally, species living on (d) hard soils have long spur—like apical extensions of the protibiae and well—developed forespurs, which often exhibit a lot of wear.
ref: 2010, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel, John F. Lawrence, Volume 2: Morphology and Systematics:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A spur positioned at the fore, or facing forward.
forespurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forespur
freeconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of free + economics
Senses: examples: text: Much attention has been devoted to the concept of freeconomics, most notably the recent book by Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson entitled, "Free: The future of a radical price." Most consumer-level cloud offerings would be labeled a "freemium", which is a free version that is supported by a paid, premium version.
ref: 2010, Khaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Magued Iskander, Technological Developments in Networking, Education, and Automation, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Isn't the concept of freeconomics founded on the power of a zero price? Unfortunately, freeconomics does not insulate entrepreneurs from the path that is inherent to any new business: a fragile endeavor with limited financial resources, crowded markets, and the need to get one's idea out so that it becomes widely known.
ref: 2011, Nicolas Pujol, The Mind Share Market: The Power of an Alternative Currency, →ISBN:
text: Well, today more and more Web companies are using digital technology and the principles of freeconomics to make profits by giving something away free of charge.
ref: 2014, Irvin Tucker, Survey of Economics, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: A business model in which a product is offered free of charge and supported by sales of a premium version.
Synonyms: freemium
freemiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freemium
ironic errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironic error
foresnaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresnaffles
form: foresnaffling
form: foresnaffled
form: foresnaffled
Etymology: From fore- + snaffle.
Senses: examples: text: Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]
ref: 1844, The Gentleman's Magazine, volumes 176-177, page 606:
glosses: To restrain; prohibit.
Synonyms: withstrain
prohibit
foresketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresketches
Etymology: From fore- + sketch.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A first or tentative sketch; a study.
foreshewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshewers
Etymology: From foreshew + -er.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of foreshower.
foreshewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshewer
foreshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshaft
forelearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forelearns
form: forelearning
form: forelearnt
form: forelearnt
form: forelearned
form: forelearned
Etymology: From fore- + learn.
Senses: examples: text: Broder too, one of the Danish warriors at that battle, is represented as having consulted augury to forelearn the fate of the day.
ref: 1830, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, page 278:
text: But ere our metal cleave An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn The winds and varying temper of the sky, The lineal tilth and habits of the spot, What every region yields, and what denies. Here blithelier springs the corn, and here the grape, […]
ref: 2005, Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics - Page 36:
text: […] he entered into this agony and alteration of spirit, and that by this visitation, he forelearned what was the almighty will and pleasure of God, whose express charge he followed. By these subtle illusions and protestations, he not only seduced […]
ref: 2014, Christopher Marlowe, Mathew R. Martin, Tamburlaine the Great: Part One and Part Two - Page 303:
glosses: To learn beforehand or in advance.
forelearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + learn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: An important feature of the original edition of Leaves of Grass was his emphasis on the unaccountable emergence of his poems without forelearning or art.
ref: 2011, Paul R. Fleischman, Cultivating Inner Peace:
glosses: Learning beforehand or in advance.
forelearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fore- + learn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forelearn
forelove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreloves
form: foreloving
form: foreloved
form: foreloved
Etymology: From fore- + love.
Senses: examples: text: To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.
ref: 2009, Greg Ogden, Discipleship Essentials:
text: Others, whom God did not choose to forelove and ordain to be saved, were deliberately passed over, and were therefore doomed to destruction; based entirely on God's mysterious, secret will.
ref: 2012, Ron Craig, Are Christians Just Saved Sinners? - Page 125:
text: [...] that these people never had covenantal relations with him; the Good Shepherd did not know them as his sheep, and they did not know him (John 10:14). Thus, to foreknow is to forelove.
ref: 2015, Sam Storms, Kept for Jesus:
glosses: To love beforehand or in advance.
forelove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + love.
Senses: examples: text: Calvinists generally claim that in these instances God's foreknowledge should be understood as His “forelove.”
ref: 2008, Brad J. Waggoner, E. Ray Clendenen, Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue - Page 211:
glosses: Love in advance.
SID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛs aɪ diː/
Forms: form: SIDs
Senses: examples: text: If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
ref: 2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: Abbreviation of security identifier.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Sound Interface Device, a sound chip used in some early computers.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of standard instrument departure.
SID
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɛs aɪ diː/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: once a day, such as for the administration of medication. From Latin semel in die.
SIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SID
Züricher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zürichers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zuricher.
vedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: vedges
form: vedging
form: vedged
form: vedged
Etymology: Alternative spelling of veg (“to be vegetative”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of veg (to be vegetative).
counter-espionage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + espionage.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterespionage.
aperspectival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aperspectival
form: most aperspectival
Etymology: From a- + perspectival.
Senses: examples: text: But as you begin to take all the different perspectives into account, it gets very dizzifying, very aperspectival, very disorienting.
ref: 2007, Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything, page 289:
glosses: Lacking perspective
counter-intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + intelligence.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterintelligence.
counter-offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-offers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counteroffer.
Tarsus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Tarsus, from Ancient Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós), ultimately from Hittite Tarsa.
Senses: glosses: A city in Mersin Province in southeastern Turkey, an important center of Cilicia since antiquity.
Synonyms: sense: historical names
word: Tarsa
sense: historical names
word: Tarsos
sense: historical names
word: Antioch
sense: historical names
word: Antioch on the Cydnus
sense: historical names
word: Juliopolis
Pastagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pasta + -gate.
Senses: glosses: The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’
unchecked exception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unchecked exceptions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An exception that is not declared in the signature of a method, but results in an abort with a stack trace.
Hypernyms: exception
unchecked exceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unchecked exception
Judeophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judeophobes
form: judeophobe
Etymology: From Judeo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who fears or hates the Jews.
Related terms: Judeophobia
Judeophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judeophobe
judeophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judeophobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Judeophobe.
fly biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly biscuit
hypnodelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of hypnotic + psychedelic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a form of therapy combining hypnotic suggestion and the use of psychedelic drugs.
sad panda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sad pandas
Etymology: From "Sexual Harassment Panda", a 1999 episode of the animated comedy series South Park.
Senses: glosses: An unhappy or disappointed person.
wikipedia: Sexual Harassment Panda
sad pandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sad panda
semiloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiloops
Etymology: From semi- + loop.
Senses: synonyms: lollipop
lasso
glosses: A hiking route involving a loop and partial retracing of one's earlier steps.
Related terms: hemiloop
semiloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiloop
dead fly biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead fly biscuits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fly biscuit.
synonyms: word: fly biscuit
squashed fly biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squashed fly biscuits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fly biscuit.
synonyms: word: fly biscuit
dead fly biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead fly biscuit
squashed fly biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squashed fly biscuit
Anglo-Saxonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglo-Saxonism
predicands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predicand
blue light disco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue light discos
Etymology: Referring to the blue lights on police vehicles.
Senses: glosses: A disco or similar event run by the police for young people, used as a drug- and alcohol-free event and to foster community relations.
-lytic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Used in adjectives relating to nouns with the suffix -lysis.
Ley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Ley Hill
Ley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Ley.
Senses: synonyms: Leyen
glosses: A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
-static
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: used in adjectives relating to nouns with the suffix -stasis
-stasis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From stasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: slowing down, stopping.
Related terms: -static
eggceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eggceptional
form: most eggceptional
form: egg-ceptional
Etymology: Blend of egg + exceptional.
Senses: examples: text: In the contest, food service operators have the opportunity to win a $2,000 first prize, $1,000 second prize and $500 third prize in both commercial and non-commercial divisions for their "eggceptional" egg entrees.
ref: 1990, The Poultry Times, volume 37, page 40:
text: A veteran executive of such eggceptional breakfast-oriented chains as The Good Egg and First Watch, […]
ref: 1994 June 15, Steve Weiss, “It's a marvelous morning for a Moondance”, in Restaurants & Institutions:
text: An 'eggceptional' Easter Egg Hunt takes place around the Dock on April 23 and 24, from 1pm-3pm.
ref: 2011 April 19, “A Cracking Time for the Kids”, in Liverpool Echo:
synonyms: eggcellent
eggstraordinary
glosses: Exceptional, when referring to eggs or Easter.
mantisfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantisflies
Etymology: From mantis + fly.
Senses: synonyms: mantidfly
glosses: Any species of insects in the family Mantispidae, which have heads and front legs looking like those of the praying mantis.
mantisflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantisfly
owlfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owlflies
Etymology: From owl + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Ascalaphidae.
Synonyms: ascalaphid
owlflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owlfly
stammtisch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stammtischs
form: stammtisches
Etymology: From German Stammtisch.
Senses: examples: text: There are concerts and stammtisches and even a seminar on International affairs; and on the whole I think it will be better for him here than we had hoped.
ref: 2005, David C. Cassidy, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, page 144 (quoting someone)
text: The stammtisches are often filled with high- ranking political figures and the most famous names of Germany's entertainment industry (Bavarian Radio and TV network headquarters [are] nearby).
ref: 2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, →ISBN, page 47:
text: On a more informal level, one will find in many bars and restaurants a stammtisch, a table reserved for groups of regular customers. What's significant about the stammtisch is that the stammtisch sign on it invokes a whole set of social norms and judgments involving whether one's party is “regular” enough to claim it.
ref: 2009, Brian E. Fogarty, Fascism: Why Not Here?, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: A table in a bar etc. reserved for a group of regulars taking part in social discussion and beer drinking; a "regulars' table".
progenitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progenitrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prōgenitrīx. By surface analysis, progenitor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female progenitor, a foremother, any of a person's direct female ancestors (ancestresses).
Synonyms: ancestress
foremother
Coordinate terms: progenitor
progenitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progenitrix
steal someone's thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steals someone's thunder
form: stealing someone's thunder
form: stole someone's thunder
form: stolen someone's thunder
Etymology: Based on a 1704 quote of John Dennis, a literary critic and playwright, who invented a novel method for creating a sound effect for thunder. The play in which he first introduced this method flopped. When the next play shown in the theatre, Macbeth, used his technique for simulating thunder, Dennis was reported in the press as jumping up and crying "How these rascals use me! They will not have my play, yet steal my thunder."
Senses: examples: text: There are several upstarts, who, without the genius to invent a style, have been copying yours, and trying to steal your thunder.
ref: 1855, Jno. E. Vought, “Editor's Table (letters)”, in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine Volume 46, page 101:
text: It also serves to give someone else an opportunity to steal your thunder if he considers there is any amount of thunder in it.
ref: 1898, Boot and Shoe Recorder - Volume 33:
text: The sense of accomplishment is yours to enjoy, and nobody can steal your thunder. Even I couldn't take credit for your weight loss under my own plan, because you're the one who will do the accomplishing.
ref: 2001, Holly Bergeim, The Customized No No-Nos Weight Loss Plan, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: To appropriate someone's ideas or information, typically in order to look better at that person's expense.
examples: text: Can Your Competition Steal Your Thunder? Make sure that your competitors can't undermine your statement.
ref: 2005, Walter McDowell, Alan Batten, Branding TV: Principles and Practices, →ISBN, page 116:
text: I'm in no way, hoping for any such disasters to take place. Nevertheless, I know that they will and I shamefully admit I didn't want those events to steal my thunder. Literally, I want to finish, publish, market, and distribute this book around the world first.
ref: 2011, Chuck Thompson, What Should You Do Before the Tribulation Age of 42, →ISBN, page xxxix:
text: Rather than stealing their thunder, that strategy has served only to make them look to more and more voters like an increasingly viable and legitimate option.
ref: 2024 January 14, Tim Bale, “Europe is marching to the right. Can Keir Starmer carry the centre-left torch?”, in The Observer:
glosses: To detract from someone's accomplishments or glory; to undermine.
Synonyms: upstage
steals one's thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steal one's thunder
stolen one's thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of steal one's thunder
takes a joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a joke
taking a joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a joke
took a joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a joke
taken a joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a joke
time bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time banks
form: timebank
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to the Time Bank launched there in 2000, patients can now be prescribed if appropriate - not just with the usual pharmacological armoury - but with a friendly visit once a week, or a lift to the shops, or small repairs at home.
ref: 2000, Edgar S. Cahn, No More Throw-away People, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: A system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.
examples: text: In British Columbia, where an employee requests it in writing, and employer may establish a time bank for the employee and credit overtime wages to the time bank instead of paying them to the employee.
ref: 2005, Theo Anne Opie, HR for Controllers:
glosses: A system in which an employer keeps track of overtime hours that can later be redeemed as either money or as time off with pay.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player's allotment of additional time in online poker games.
Related terms: time banking
time banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time bank
time banking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timebanking
form: time-banking
Senses: examples: text: In the USA, the birthplace of time banking, services exchanged in these networks are tax exempt by ruling of the Internal revenue Service.
ref: 2014, Sarah Harper, Kate Hamblin, International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy, →ISBN:
glosses: The use of a time bank.
frontfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frontfires
form: frontfiring
form: frontfired
form: frontfired
Etymology: From front + fire, coined as an opposite for backfire (and not usually seen without it).
Senses: examples: text: Talking of backfire, frontfire or whatever, John Carroll can give it both barrels, and simultaneously.
ref: 2002 August 18, Liam Griffin, “For the championship’s sake, it must be Tipp”, in Sunday Tribune (Dublin, Ireland):
text: I want to discuss that false psychic you paid to bring Heather messages from the dead. It was a thoughtful idea, but one that backfired and then, ultimately, in its own way, frontfired, giving Heather more hope than you’d imagine.
ref: 2003, Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!, →ISBN:
text: I realized that speaking up now might backfire on me later, but there was a slim chance it could frontfire, too.
ref: 2010, Steve Pavlina, Personal Development for Smart People, →ISBN, page vi:
glosses: To have the intended effect.
frontfires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frontfire
frontfiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frontfire
frontfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frontfire
double majors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double major
double-majors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-major
double-majored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-major
gnasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnast
gnasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnast
gnasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gnast
aeolianitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeolianitic
form: most aeolianitic
Etymology: From aeolianite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to aeolianite.
kurkar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurkars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כורכר / כֻּרְכָּר (kurkár).
Senses: glosses: A kind of calcareous sandstone, common in Israel.
kurkars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kurkar
crossbeddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbedding
crossbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + bedded.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in a crossbedding.
Jamnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yavne (ancient city in Israel)
Derived terms: Jamnian
Jamnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jamnian
form: most Jamnian
Etymology: From Jamnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient city of Jamnia.
Jamnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamnians
Etymology: From Jamnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Jamnia.
Jamnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamnian
Hexaplar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hexapla + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a Hexapla.
replanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replanter
undervoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undervote
undervoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undervote
overvoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overvoters
Etymology: From overvote + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overvotes.
undervoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undervoters
Etymology: From undervote + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who undervotes.
overvoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overvoter
undervoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undervoter
Wachowskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wachowskian
form: most Wachowskian
Etymology: From Wachowski + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to The Wachowskis, a pair of American film directors.
happy bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy bunny
squizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squizzles
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of squirt + drizzle; or from a diminutive of squeeze, equivalent to squeeze + -le (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Daddy settled down to be a diabetic with no more comment than in an occasional letter: "I started my day as usual with a squizzle of insulin."
ref: 1952, Virginia Douglas Dawson, Betty Douglas Wilson, The Shape of Sunday: An Intimate Biography of Lloyd C. Douglas:
text: Then you take a fistful of it and squeeze it, and if it holds the shape of your hand it's short enough. Add just a squizzle of cold water, only enough to hold it together.
ref: 2006, Rose Whitney Smith, Blueberry Chowder:
text: The ringing tone ceased and I heard Annie's voice through a squizzle of interference.
ref: 2011, Nicholas Royle, Regicide:
text: Another unique characteristic was their habit of putting a “squizzle,” a squeeze of lime in their morning coffee.
ref: 2015, Marjorie Tallman, Dictionary of American Folklore:
glosses: A small amount of liquid, etc.; a squirt.
squizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squizzles
form: squizzling
form: squizzled
form: squizzled
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of squirt + drizzle; or from a diminutive of squeeze, equivalent to squeeze + -le (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: To squirt out.
glosses: To cry easily.
squizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squizzles
form: squizzling
form: squizzled
form: squizzled
Etymology: Apparently from squeeze + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare English dialectal quizzle (“to suffocate”). More at squeeze.
Senses: glosses: To choke; throttle.
Related terms: squizzen
squizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squizzle
recam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recams
form: recamming
form: recammed
form: recammed
Etymology: From re- + cam.
Senses: examples: text: Having “wondered if maybe we could alter the camera position in our demos to make them more movie-like to watch”, Bailey used Remaic to create a new recammed version of the speedrun.
ref: 2007, Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell, Videogames and Art, page 71:
text: For Marino (2004), the development of recamming tools and the subsequent dissociation of camera and POV in postproduction, marks the 'defining moment' for Machinima.
ref: 2008, James Newman, Playing with Videogames, page 146:
text: Replays captured as demo movies have been circulated as skills demonstrations, as recordings of significant competitive events (i.e., Thresh's defeat of Billox at Quakedelica in 1998, circulated as a recammed highlight reel) […]
ref: 2011, Henry Lowood, Michael Nitsche, The Machinima Reader, page 7:
topics: video-games
glosses: To recreate (a recording of gameplay in a three-dimensional playfield) with different camera positioning and movement from the original camera that followed the player's viewpoint.
recam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recams
Etymology: From re- + cam.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A recreated gameplay recording of this kind.
recamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recam
recammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recam
recams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recam
orutu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A one-stringed African fiddle, played especially by the Luo people.
Nosema-disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nosema-diseases
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nosema-disease.
glosses: Alternative form of nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”).
Nosema disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nosema diseases
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nosema disease.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”).
RPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Retail Price Index.
nonrepaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Etymology: From non- + repaid.
Senses: glosses: Not repaid.
raw_tags: of a loan etc.
nonrepaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repaying.
Senses: examples: text: Notice that these premia would exist even in a world of risk-neutral lenders if there were identifiable classes of nonrepaying borrowers.
ref: 1986, Michael P. Claudon, World Debt Crisis: International Lending on Trial, page 184:
glosses: Not making repayments.
interfiber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fiber.
Senses: examples: interfiber bonding
an interfiber distance
glosses: Between fibers.
Boston cream pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston cream pie
rose apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose apples
Senses: glosses: Angophora costata, a common woodland and forest tree of Eastern Australia.
glosses: Any of various Syzygium species or their fruit, especially:
Syzygium aqueum, the watery rose apple.
glosses: Any of various Syzygium species or their fruit, especially:
Syzygium jambos, the jambu fruit.
glosses: Any of various Syzygium species or their fruit, especially:
Syzygium malaccense, the Malay rose apple.
glosses: Any of various Syzygium species or their fruit, especially:
Syzygium samarangense, the Semarang rose-apple or wax jambu.
rose apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose apple
pulicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulicose
form: most pulicose
Senses: examples: text: Exhibiting from the first a pulicose, or flea-bite appearance. The flea-bite spots preceded by reddish, rounded, and nettle-sting wheals […]
ref: 1829, John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper, The study of medicine, volume 3, page 444:
glosses: Alternative form of pulicous.
Yavne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yavneh
form: Javne
form: Javneh
form: Jamnia
form: Iamnia
form: Yibna
Etymology: Hebrew יַבְנֶה
Senses: glosses: A city in the Central District, Israel.
Synonyms: Jamnia
Yavneh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yavne (city in Israel)
squizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squizzle
squizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squizzle
nosema disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosema diseases
form: Nosema-disease
form: Nosema disease
Etymology: 1909, translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”) + disease; a calque of German Nosemaseuche, coined from Nosema + Seuche (“epidemic, pestilence”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
examples: text: Nosema Disease of the Honeybee¶ (Microsporidiosis, or Nosemosis, of the Honeybee)¶ Nosema disease of the honeybee, Apis mellifera Linn., is caused by Nosema apis Zander, a microsporidian parasite of the intestinal epithelium of adult bees.
ref: 1949, Edward A. Steinhaus, Principles of insect pathology, New York: McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 602:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
qualifier: honey bees
glosses: An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by microsporidian parasites, such as Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae.
Synonyms: sense: disease of insects
word: microsporidiosis
sense: disease of insects
word: nosemosis
sense: disease of honey bees
word: Isle of Wight disease
sense: disease of honey bees
word: nosemosis
lymphoreticulosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lympho- + reticulosis.
Senses: glosses: reticulosis of the lymph nodes
Derived terms: inoculation lymphoreticulosis
bleugh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bleurgh.
univocous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of univocal.
unilinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unilinear + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a unilinear fashion.
unilinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unilinear.
pimola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimolas
Senses: examples: text: ...put three pieces of pimola on top and a row of chopped olives around outside.
ref: 1915, Monticola Club cook book, page 25:
text: ...on top of which place a pimola or ball of cream cheese.
ref: 1921, Harriet Schuyler Nelson, Fruits and Their Cookery, page 89:
text: ...squeeze and twist a piece of lemon peel over the top and serve with a pimola or an olive.
ref: 2007, David Wondrich, Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar, page 261:
glosses: An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.
argotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From argot + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or belonging to argot.
pimolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimola