cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alcoholizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alcoholize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be alcoholized.
alcoholmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcoholometric.
touch-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From touch + -free.
Senses: examples: text: Ford said the underlying enabler would be digital ticketing, claiming that passengers will want touch-free travel.
ref: 2021 March 10, “Network News: Understanding passengers' needs is key to recovery”, in RAIL, number 926, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of touchfree.
alcoholophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alcohol + -o- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A pathological craving for alcohol; alcoholism.
alef null
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aleph-null.
synonyms: word: aleph-null
alepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alepots
Etymology: From ale + pot.
Senses: glosses: A drinking-vessel in which ale is served.
alepots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alepot
algolagny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of algolagnia.
algometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of algometry.
alikewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: likewise; in the same manner
Shabbat elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shabbat elevators
form: Sabbath elevator
form: Shabbos elevator
form: shabbat elevator
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish law requiring Jews to abstain from operating electrical switches on Shabbat.
allanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allanite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mineral allanite.
Tooze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toozes
Etymology: Patronymic form, from the surname Tough, Tow and Towe, all from Old English toh (“tough”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Sabbath elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabbath elevators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shabbat elevator.
Shabbos elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shabbos elevators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shabbat elevator.
region-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From region + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: It is also working with local partners on a region-wide 'tap and cap' smart ticketing system for public transport, which will allow passengers to travel and pay for journeys on buses, trams and trains via a credit card, smartphone or travel pass.
ref: 2021 March 10, Sarah Tooze, “Network News: Use data and technology to refresh transport strategy”, in RAIL, number 926, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of regionwide.
Tchou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Three thousand years back in the Babylonian, Syrian, and Egyptian histories brings us to a period where their records are fragmentary and involved in great obscurity. In the history of China, it brings us to the Tchou dynasty, where the events of Chinese history "begin to be more trustworthy."
ref: 1889, Charles Taze Russell, The Time Is At Hand, Allegheny, PA: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, published 1907, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhou.
macrauchene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrauchenes
Senses: glosses: A member of family Macraucheniidae of extinct South American ungulates.
macrauchenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrauchene
macrochoanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrochoanites
Senses: glosses: A fossil nautiloid of the family Macrochoanites
Derived terms: macrochoanitic
macrochoanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrochoanite
McQuilkens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McQuilken
McQueens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McQueen
macrochoanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the macrochoanites
macrocosmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + cosmical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macrocosmic.
mollyguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollyguards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of molly-guard.
Randersons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Randerson
user-worked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A near-miss between a Greater Anglia Class 755 and two cars on a user-worked level crossing near Wroxham is being investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).
ref: 2021 March 10, “RAIB investigates near-miss at user-worked crossing”, in RAIL, number 926, page 18:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of a level crossing, one where a railway crosses a right of way such as a road on private land, a footpath or a bridleway. Any gates or barriers provided often need to be operated manually, with some crossings requiring users to telephone a signaller to check that it is safe to cross.
Toozes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tooze
McQuarys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McQuary
argumenteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of argument
Barthomley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7652).
fold one's arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: folds one's arms
form: folding one's arms
form: folded one's arms
form: folded one's arms
Senses: examples: text: They stepped to the sidewalk, looked in an around. Nick folded his arms.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 34, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 171:
glosses: Synonym of cross one's arms.
synonyms: word: cross one's arms
PUDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PUDOs
Senses: examples: text: Among many different delivery methods in e-commerce, the most common are: courier, post, pick-up drop-off (PUDO) and parcel lockers.
ref: 2018, Andrzej Sieminski, Adrianna Kozierkiewicz, Manuel Nunez, Quang Thuy Ha, Modern Approaches for Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Springer, page 307:
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of pick-up and drop-off.
Wincham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6775).
well, to be sure
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “My dear, I never saw him.”
“And I never saw him !” returned Ada.
Well, to be sure!
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
text: […]words that were quickly interrupted by a murmur of dismay at finding the room in total darkness. "Well to be sure! The lamp must have gone out!" she exclaimed,
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
Synonyms: word: well, I never
sense: well
word: I'll be
word: wow
HVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊ
Forms: form: HVOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hydrogenated vegetable oil or hydro-treated vegetable oil (“a biofuel”).
Coordinate terms: sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: B100
sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: B20
sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: B5
sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: biodiesel
sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: HEFA
sense: hydrogenated vegetable oil
word: HVO100
daedalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from Daedalian.
Senses: examples: text: A curious collection of devices, mechanisms, and other daedalia.
text: "As another example, machines are epic, but automatons belong to romance. In Book V, Talus is a romance marvel, like all such daedalia; but in the allegory he has some of the functions and significance of an epic siege-engine."
ref: 1976, James Nohrnberg, The Analogy of The Faerie Queene, Princeton University Press, page 23:
glosses: Miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature
Shabbat elevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shabbat elevator
Sabbath elevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabbath elevator
Shabbos elevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shabbos elevator
hot patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot patches
form: hot-patch
form: hotpatch
Senses: examples: text: The use of hot patches allows the server to be kept fully up-to-date without any reboot-induced downtime.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A patch (software fix) which is applied to a system while it is running, without the need to reboot the system to complete the patching process.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A repair for cracks and potholes in a paved surface involving filling them with hot, molten asphalt concrete.
Coordinate terms: cold patch
hot patch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot patches
form: hot patching
form: hot patched
form: hot patched
form: hot-patch
form: hotpatch
Senses: examples: text: Hot patching requires that the operating system be specifically designed or modified to allow running processes - potentially including those forming part of the core of the operating system itself - to be modified on-the-fly without crashing the system.
text: Hot patching is easiest in the summer, when the asphalt is easier to keep hot during the application process.
glosses: To install a hot patch (of either sense).
hot patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot patch
hot patches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hot patch
hot patching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot patch
hot patched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot patch
hot-patch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-patches
form: hot-patching
form: hot-patched
form: hot-patched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot patch.
hot-patches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hot-patch
hot-patching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot-patch
hot-patched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot-patch
sold like hot cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sell like hot cakes
sells like hot cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sell like hot cakes
selling like hot cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sell like hot cakes
misfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
/mɪsˈfɪɡjʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡə(ɹ)/
/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misfigures
Etymology: From mis- + figure.
Senses: examples: text: All the uncertainties and misfigures of plans like this profit the agents and the companies, never the insured.
ref: 1889, Travelers' Record - Volumes 25-26:
text: There are misprints and misfigures and misnames in it.
ref: 1910, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division First Department, page 256:
text: The machine cannot reason; the machine cannot know emotion; it is a mere receptacle of facts and misfigures.
ref: 1959, American Journal of Correction, page 32:
glosses: An incorrect figure.
examples: text: Should the element be misfigured, then these aberrations would be combined with the actual misfigure.
ref: 1983 August 23, Gregory C. Dente, “Separating misalignment from misfigure in interferograms on off - axis aspheres”, in Precision Surface Metrology, page 188:
text: Compensation for optical surface misfigure was provided by a phase conjugating mirror to construct a phase conjugated transmitter subsystem.
ref: 1989, Bernard David Seery, Optomechanical Design of Laser Transmitters and Receivers, page 255:
text: In most systems, the optical misfigure can be at least partially corrected by focussing at one wavelength.
ref: 1990, Russell A. Chipman, Polarization Considerations for Optical Systems II, page 320:
text: For primitive it may seem, this test is exquisitely sensitive to surface misfigure, and will immediately reveal errors that may escape the most modern metrology.
ref: 2006, Renaud Foy, Françoise Claude Foy, Optics in Astrophysics, page 30:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The misfigured portion of an optical surface, or the presence of such a portion.
misfigures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfigure
misfigures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfigure
misfiguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfigure
misfigured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfigure
misfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɪlm/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɪlm/
Forms: form: misfilms
form: misfilming
form: misfilmed
form: misfilmed
Etymology: From mis- + film.
Senses: examples: text: But you must record those documents very precisely indeed, because if you happen to misfilm one of those documents, effectively it's lost for all time, because the chances of actually getting back to it must be considered almost nil.
ref: 1979, Records Management, page 30:
text: III also believes that some kind of factor should have been applied in evaluating REI's benchmark results to account for possible paper jams just as III was penalized for costs associated with manually reprocessing individually misfilmed documents.
ref: 1979, United States. General Accounting Office, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, page 649:
text: The filming here appears to be consistent in terms of polarity and resolution and is typically up to Harvester's high filming standards for archival materials with no repeat filming to make up for previously misfilmed items.
ref: 1989, Microform Review - Volume 18, page 117:
glosses: To make an error when microfilming documents.
examples: text: Paul Dehn pulled no punches when he talked about 'Misfilming Shakespeare' on May 29th. He was vehement in his dislike of Orson Welles's versions of Macbeth and Othello.
ref: 1958, Books - Issues 315-326, page 146:
text: Filmmakers, who know they can't take their films back ( “I misfilmed?” ) , routinely spend six months editing until they have revised a film into the precise form that they want it to take.
ref: 1985, Eugene Hammond, Informative Writing, page 159:
glosses: To make a poor cinematic adaptation of
misfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɪlm/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɪlm/
Forms: form: misfilms
Etymology: From mis- + film.
Senses: examples: text: Although rotary cameras are quicker than flat beds, microfilm bureaux often choose to use the latter. This is because preparation time is less; it is not necessary to mend all tears, nor to remove all staples, and there is less chance of misfilms.
ref: 1996, Business Archives - Issues 71-74, page 38:
glosses: An error that occurs when microfilming.
misfilms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfilm
misfilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfilm
misfilming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfilm
misfilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfilm
hot spare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot spares
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the six hard drives making up the primary RAID array, the server has three hot spares ready to automatically take over for any failed drives in the array.
glosses: A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use.
hot spares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot spare
hottest under the collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hot under the collar: most hot under the collar
hotter under the collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hot under the collar: more hot under the collar
had the hots for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the hots for
having the hots for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the hots for
has the hots for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the hots for
misfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: misfilters
form: misfiltering
form: misfiltered
form: misfiltered
Etymology: From mis- + filter.
Senses: examples: text: You have to listen and view objectively in order not to misfilter the interviewee's responses.
ref: 1962, Benjamin Balinsky, The Selection Interview: Essentials for Management, page 8:
text: Like the misguided fear among evolutionists that the Badwin Effect commits the sin of Lamarckism, and Darwin's own precipitous flight from Catastrophism, the indiscriminate rejection of anything that smacks of behaviorism by the "thoroughly modern mentalists" (Fodor 1980) is an instance of misfiltered memes.
ref: 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, page 403:
text: We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.
ref: 2002, Leon Katz, Classical Monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw, page xx:
text: For example, elevated levels of protein in urine suggest that the kidneys are misfiltering and removing some proteins that the body needs.
ref: 2004, Robert M. Kaplan, “Behavior As the central Outcome in Health Care”, in William D. Marelich, Dr Jeff S Erger, editors, The Social Psychology of Health: Essays and Readings, page 79:
text: As cataloged in grisly empirical detail in [ 22 ] , packet filters can also record packets more than once (with different timestamps for the different copies), reorder the sequencing of packets (again, the timestamps do not reveal the reordering), fail to report dropped packets, falsely report dropped packets when in fact no drops occurred, and misfilter ( making incorrect decisions on which packets match the filter).
ref: 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, page 265:
text: The onslaught of spam is a problem that can be nuanced and ever-changing, so it's a tricky one for AI, but on the other hand, most of us are willing to put up with the occasional misfiltered message if it means our inboxes are mostly clear.
ref: 2019, Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You:
glosses: To filter incorrectly.
misfilters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfilter
misfiltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfilter
misfiltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfilter
Hexthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5602).
mistaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistap
mistaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistap
mistapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistap
mistapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistap
temporal dead zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal dead zone
hots up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hot up
hotted up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot up
hotting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot up
anamorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an anamorphic manner
rehumidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehumidifies
form: rehumidifying
form: rehumidified
form: rehumidified
Etymology: From re- + humidify.
Senses: glosses: To humidify again.
Related terms: rehumidification
rehumidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehumidifications
Senses: glosses: The process of rehumidifying.
rehumidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehumidify
rehumidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehumidify
rehumidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehumidify
rehumidifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehumidification
IOPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The image was highly offensive, and the officer now has a case to answer for misconduct for potentially breaching standards of professional behavior for conduct and authority, respect and courtesy,” the IOPC said in the statement, adding the officer will face a misconduct meeting to answer the allegations.
ref: 2021 October 22, Sharon Braithwaite and Kara Fox, “Five UK police officers shared violent sexual images in relation to Sarah Everard’s murder, police watchdog says”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Independent Office for Police Conduct.
bivied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bivy
bivying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bivy
Rough Wooing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rough Wooing
Senses: glosses: Part of the 16th-century wars between Scotland and England, during which an attempt was made to force Scotland to agree to a marriage alliance between Mary, Queen of Scots, and the English heir apparent Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
longanisas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longanisa
reband
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebands
form: rebanding
form: rebanded
form: rebanded
Etymology: From re- + band.
Senses: examples: text: If a home decreases in value because part of it is demolished, it may be rebanded immediately.
ref: 2006, Richard Miller Bird, François Vaillancourt, Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism, page 203:
glosses: To assign to a different tax band.
examples: text: Crouching low, Larry waited for the return of the bird in need of rebanding.
ref: 2001, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Elements of Language: Practice Tests, page 37:
glosses: To replace a band on.
stainedglass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stained + glass.
Senses: examples: text: The stainedglass windows were dark with night and the candlelight was soft and wavy and Nick sat with his hands folded in his lap.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 35, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 176:
glosses: Made of stained glass.
rebanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reband
rebands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reband
rebanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reband
rebanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebandings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is rebanded.
second-gear valuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-gear valuations
Etymology: From the notion that the agent not only is doing a drive-by evaluation but also is not even necessarily doing it slowly: second gear rather than first gear (low gear).
Senses: glosses: The assignment of a property to a tax band by an estate agent who evaluates the property while driving past it.
Related terms: cursory
second-gear valuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-gear valuation
APTU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APTUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of anti-poll tax union.
APTUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APTU
polemoney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poll tax imposed in Scotland by the Edinburgh parliament in 1693, 1695, and 1698.
barbecueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barbecue
barbequeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barbeque
bambooes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,
We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.
glosses: plural of bamboo
barbacued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barbacue
barbacuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barbacue
barbacueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barbacue
shig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shigs
Senses: glosses: A shilling.
shig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shigs
form: shigging
form: shigged
form: shigged
Senses: glosses: At a competitive barbecuing event, to visit a rival's barbecue area in order to snoop on their cooking techniques.
shigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shig
shigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shig
shigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shig
shigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shig
hold still
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds still
form: holding still
form: held still
form: held still
Senses: examples: text: He expected a stomp or a fist against the table but instead she held still and he thought he noticed her shoulders moving up and down in slight huffs.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 35, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 178:
glosses: To not move; to remain stationary.
Related terms: hold firm
câbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: câbis
Senses: glosses: In the Ottoman Empire, one who collected taxes or revenues.
Truteau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Truteaus
Etymology: From French Truteau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Trudau
Trudaux
Trudeau
Trudeaux
Trutau
Trutaux
Truteaux
appropry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊpɹi/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊpɹi/
Forms: form: appropries
form: approprying
form: appropried
form: appropried
Etymology: From Middle English appropren, approprien, from Anglo-Norman approprier, from Latin appropriō; compare appropriate.
Senses: examples: text: And forasmoche as al the religiouse men , to whoos places many good benefices be appropried,[…]
ref: a. 1532, William Warham, “Letter CXXXV”, in Henry Sweet, editor, Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Third Series […] , London: Richard Bentley, published 1846, page 30:
text: […] now therfoꝛ ſyth his māhead is a creature, it cābnot haue this gloꝛy onely whiche is appꝛopꝛied to the Godhead.
ref: 1573 [1530], William Tyndall, “The Supper of the Lord”, in The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and R. Barnes […] , London: Iohn Daye, page 461:
text: Foꝛ aſmuch then in a Chapter appꝛopꝛied to the ſame purpoſe, I have alreadie pꝛoued by all the auncient Authoꝛs[…]
ref: 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XXXI, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] , London: Robert Robinſon, page 330:
glosses: To appropriate (for); to set apart.
approprying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appropry
appropried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appropry
cleaner-upperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleaner-upperer
awkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːknəs/
ipa: /ˈɔknəs/
ipa: /ˈɑknəs/
Etymology: From awk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […]but the ſkilfull can woꝛke much vpon little, and by his cunning ouercome the awkneſſe of his ſtuffe:
ref: 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XXXII, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] , London: Robert Robinſon, page 512:
text: So much flesh as is left in a saint, so much awkness and unwillingness to come to God's foot[…]
ref: 1655, William Gurnall, “The Saint Must Be Always Ready for Trials”, in The Christian in Complete Armour […] , volume I, London: Blackie and Son, published 1865, page 566:
text: The Great Enemies of all Good, Fleſh, Satan, and World, do of all other things, moſt oppose Meditation which ſhowes that there is much Good in it. Fleſh, by Awkness, Giddiness; World, by Diſtractions[…]
ref: 1664, Cotton Mather, Eccleſiaſtes: The life of the Reverend and Excellent Jonathan Mitchel […] , Boston: B. Green and John Allen, page 105:
glosses: wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude).
macrodomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a macrodome
macrolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + linguistics.
Senses: antonyms: microlinguistics
glosses: The study of language (rather than individual languages).
Related terms: macrolinguist
macrolinguistic
macrolinguistical
macrolinguistically
macromerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macromerites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any rock whose grains are large enough to be visible to the naked eye
Related terms: macromeritic
macromeritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of a macromerite
macromyelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macromyelons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of medulla oblongata.
synonyms: word: medulla oblongata
macrosomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosomites
Senses: glosses: A region of an embryonic insect prior to the formation of metameres
macrosomites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrosomite
macrosporange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosporanges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of megasporangium.
synonyms: word: megasporangium
macrothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrotheres
Senses: glosses: A member of genus Macrotherium (syn. of Chalicotherium)
micrandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That produces dwarf male plants
microbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microbial.
microchemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From micro- + chemically.
Senses: glosses: In a microchemical manner; with regard to microchemistry
preludiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preludium
micrococcologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrococcologists
Senses: glosses: A bacteriologist whose speciality is micrococci
micrococcologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micrococcologist
præludium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præludia
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of preludium.
microcook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microcooks
form: microcooking
form: microcooked
form: microcooked
Etymology: From micro- + cook.
Senses: glosses: To microwave
microcosmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microcosmic.
microcosmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + cosmology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of microcosms
microcythaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcythaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microcythemia.
microcythaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcythaemia
microencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characterised by microencephaly
microencephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microencephalic.
microgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to microgenia
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Suitable for use with a microphone (and thus for broadcasting)
raw_tags: of a voice
microgranitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microgranitic.
microlepidopterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlepidopterists
Senses: glosses: A lepidopterist whose speciality is microlepidopterans.
microlepidopterists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlepidopterist
microlighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlighters
Etymology: microlight + -er
Senses: glosses: A person who flies a microlight aircraft.
micromaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: micromaniacs
Senses: glosses: A person affected by micromania
micrometeor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrometeors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of micrometeoroid.
synonyms: word: micrometeoroid
micromodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + modelling.
Senses: glosses: The construction of micromodels
microoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: micro-operative
Etymology: From micro- + operative.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or implemented by means of microoperations
microperthitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + perthitic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of microperthite
microprogrammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + programmable.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being microprogrammed
microproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That may be used in a microwave oven without damage
micropropagate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micropropagates
form: micropropagating
form: micropropagated
form: micropropagated
Etymology: From micro- + propagate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To propagate by means of micropropagation
micropsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micropsia.
micropublish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micropublishes
form: micropublishing
form: micropublished
form: micropublished
Etymology: From micro- + publish.
Senses: glosses: To produce microform publications.
glosses: To publish on a small scale, or for a niche audience.
Related terms: micropublisher
micropulverization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropulverizations
Etymology: From micro- + pulverization.
Senses: glosses: The action or the result of micropulverizing
microradiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microradiograms
Senses: glosses: An image produced by microradiography
Related terms: microradiograph
microrespirometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + respirometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microrespirometry
glosses: Produced by means of a microrespirometer
microrespirometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + respirometry.
Senses: glosses: respirometry by means of a microrespirometer
Related terms: microrespirometric
microsaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the microsaurs
microscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microscreens
Etymology: From micro- + screen.
Senses: glosses: A screen (filter) that has a very fine mesh
microsiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsiphons
Etymology: From micro- + siphon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small siphon
microsociety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsocieties
Etymology: From micro- + society.
Senses: glosses: A very small social grouping of people
microstylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + stylous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a very short style
Ciszewski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ciszewskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ciszewski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Bulson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bulsons
Etymology: Unexplained, but most probably a patronymic surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
microzoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microzoa
Bulsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulson
Ciszewskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ciszewski
microzoarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzoarians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of microzoon.
synonyms: word: microzoon
microzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microzoan.
micrurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to micrurgy
Cabriales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cabrialeses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cabriales. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Carawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carawans
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Polish Karawan, from karawan (“hearse”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Carawans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carawan
mictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪkt.ɪk/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to mixis.
Derived terms: amictic
dimictic
holomictic
meromictic
monomictic
polymictic
Cabrialeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cabriales
picoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: piciform
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of woodpeckers
Related terms: picid
Picidae
Piciformes
Picinae
open rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open rates
Senses: examples: text: You calculate your open rate by using your non-bounce rate instead of the total e-mails sent because your open rate indicates the strength of your e-mail's identity and content apart from the strength of your deliverability.
ref: 2011, John Arnold, E-Mail Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: business
marketing
coordinate_terms: click-through rate
glosses: A measure used by marketers as an indication of how many people "view" or "open" the electronic mail they send out.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A similar measure applied to conventional advertising mail.
Camaj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Camaj. This surname is mostly found in Montenegro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Albanian.
Hunnewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hunnewells
Etymology: Variant of Honeywell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States, all are named after H. H. Hunnewell:
A minor city in Sumner County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States, all are named after H. H. Hunnewell:
An unincorporated community in Greenup County, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States, all are named after H. H. Hunnewell:
A minor city in Shelby County, Missouri.
Hunnewells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hunnewell
Jencks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jenckses
Etymology: Variant of Jenks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Esker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eskers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Esker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Eskers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Esker
Jenckses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jencks
Greenslade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Greenslades
Etymology: Topographic surname, from Middle English grene (“green”) + slade (“valley, dale”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Greenslades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Greenslade
Fraunces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fraunces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fraunce
glosses: plural of Fraunce
Obsolete form of Frances.
Related terms: Fraunce
Frauncis
Godden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goddens
Etymology: Variant of Godin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Margolies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Margolieses
Etymology: Variant of Margulies.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
unprodigal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prodigal.
Senses: glosses: Not prodigal.
Margolieses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Margolies
Goddens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Godden
briarwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briarwood
briar-root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briar-roots
form: briarroot
Senses: glosses: The root of the briar (Erica arborea).
glosses: The wood of this root used to make tobacco pipes.
briar-roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briar-root
pine-moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine-mosses
Senses: examples: text: "You must then make yourself a wig of pine-moss and go up to the king's palace, which is close by; there you must ask for service."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 221:
glosses: Any species of moss that grows on pine trees.
pine-mosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pine-moss
McJunkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McJunkins
form: McJunkins
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Seancín.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Banales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Banaleses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bañales.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Makris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makrises
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Μακρής (Makrís).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
glosses: Former name of Ikaria.
Makrises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Makris
HTPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HTP
Banaleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Banales
wedding shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: wedding shirts
Senses: examples: text: "I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out; and I have made a vow that I will not take any other woman for a wife than the one who is able to do that; if she cannot do that, she is not worth having," said the prince.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240:
glosses: An especially fine shirt worn at a wedding, by either bride or groom.
wedding shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding shirt
Nalty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naltys
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Nulty.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Auden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A community in Unorganized Thunder Bay District, north-western Ontario, Canada.
picoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoideans
Senses: glosses: Any woodpecker of the genus Picoides.
Related terms: picoideous
picoideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoidean
picoideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the picoideans
picotah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picotahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picota.
picotahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picotah
slum dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slum dwellers
Senses: examples: text: In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of slumdweller.
picoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: decorated with picots
picoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of picot
picral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picrals
Senses: glosses: A solution of picric acid in alcohol, used for etching
slum dwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slum dweller
macrognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macrognathic.
macrolensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The refraction / focusing of light by the gravitational field of a galaxy or cluster, as opposed to that caused by a single star
co-direct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-directs
form: co-directing
form: co-directed
form: co-directed
Etymology: From co- + direct.
Senses: examples: text: In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of codirect.
Related terms: co-direction
co-director
Herrens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Herren
co-directed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-direct
Thorneycroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thorneycrofts
Etymology: Variant of Thornycroft.
Senses: glosses: A surname.