cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
until the cows come
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until the cows come home.
cups of tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup of tea
overhaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + haste.
Senses: examples: text: The mischief arising from the overhaste of both the bodies in question in stamping with their approving mark most questionable dogmas, without full inquiry first had, is palpably shown in the position which Mr. Atherton thinks himself entitled to hold in consequence. Nothing ought to pass current with those societies but what has the genuine ring of sound science.
ref: 1857, The Mechanics' Magazine, Robertson, Brooman, and Company, page 418:
text: Consciousness of power has not betrayed the author into the common fault of overhaste to execute ill-matured conceptions. He has evidently taken the trouble in the first place to possess himself with a clear understanding of his own purposes and of the method in which they were to be worked out; and then, having laid down his plan, he has steadily adhered to it. The result is a sound, symmetrical, and well finished piece of workmanship. In form it is an autobiography.
ref: 1859, The Spectator 1859-05-14: Volume 32, Issue 1611, The Spectator (1828) Limited, page 518:
text: Almost the only fact connected with his literary life which has come down to us is one which has been recorded, perhaps with jealousy, certainly with ill-temper, by his friend Ben Jonson — that he wrote with overhaste, and hardly ever erased a line, though it would have been better had he done so with many.
ref: 1865, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, William Shakespeare, Hurst and Blackett, page 8:
text: Touching the sophisms, even Aristotle, Rhet. setting forth of the truth, or of a patriot warning against wrong-doing and overhaste.
ref: 1877, Eduard Zeller, Oswald Joseph Reichel, Socrates and the Socratic Schools, Longmans, Green, and Company, pages 197-198:
text: According to one of these, a young native of Friburg, who had been engaged in the battle, keenly desirous of being the first to carry home tidings of the victory, ran — the whole way—a distance of ten or twelve miles—and with such overhaste that on his arrival at the marketplace he dropped with fatigue, and, barely able to shout that the Swiss were victorious, immediately expired.
ref: 1887, James Johonnot, The Great Events In History, American Book Company, pages 81-82:
glosses: Excessive, often undue haste.
rijsttafels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rijsttafel
well-rested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-rested
form: most well-rested
form: wellrested
Etymology: From well + rested. Compare Middle English ful restid (“well-rested”, literally “fully rested”).
Senses: glosses: Having had sufficient (or even more than enough) sleep or rest to function optimally during waking hours.
Gall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galls
Etymology: * As an English, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish surname, of Celtic origin, from Gall (“foreigner”). This is in turn from Latin Gallus, which has borrowings (many of which are surnames) in several European languages, such as Czech Havel, Polish Gawel.
* As a Hungarian surname, variant of Gál, itself from the Latin word.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
simple English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple Englishes
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see simple, English.
glosses: Constructed language created by Charles Kay Ogden which restricts itself to simple words and only contains a small number of words
glosses: Controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals
Synonyms: sense: artificial language by Ogden
word: Basic English
word: restricted code for aerospace
Related terms: sign language
half niece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half nieces
form: half-niece
Senses: glosses: Daughter of one's half brother or half sister.
dummy scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: An attacking move by two players resembling a scissors move but where the ball carrier only dummies the pass to his team-mate.
half-nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-nephews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half nephew.
half-niece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-nieces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half niece.
half-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-breaks
form: half break
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The situation where a player almost breaks the opposition defensive line but is stopped by the opposition.
make common cause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes common cause
form: making common cause
form: made common cause
form: made common cause
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French faire cause commune, first attested in the same period (1787).
Senses: examples: text: […] in a great community, the reformer has the voice and approbation of a majority to encourage him. In a very narrow circle he will have no part of the society, in which he lives, to support him against the rest. They will all make common cause against him, and sooner or later overcome his resolution, or break his heart.
ref: 1786, Philip Francis, Speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the 7th of March, 1786, London: J. Debrett, page 35:
text: They preferred endeavouring to alter the feelings of mankind on the particular points on which they were themselves heretical, rather than make common cause in defence of freedom, with heretics generally.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, London: John W. Parker & Son, Introductory, p. 18:
text: The factory girl, the shop girl, the college girl, the woman in the home, the woman active in public welfare, and the woman in society, as well as all the men in the nation, should make common cause of race improvement, and no far-reaching improvement is possible while young girls are allowed to exhaust their physical energy and jeopardize their moral integrity in occupations where the remuneration practically precludes a normal standard of life.
ref: 1910, Annie Marion MacLean, chapter 10, in Wage-Earning Women, New York: Macmillan, page 161:
text: We were both flawed, obvious victims of physical misfortune. You would think such people would make common cause, but it could just as often happen that they don’t. Each may be reminded by the other of something sooner forgotten.
ref: 2009, Alice Munro, “Face”, in Too Much Happiness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 145:
synonyms: join forces
team up
glosses: To cooperate, to enter into an alliance for a shared goal.
Related terms: anacoenosis
common cause
common ground
voddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒdi/
Forms: form: voddies
form: voddie
Etymology: From vod(ka) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'There's sure to be a fridge for keeping the beer cold.' 'I don't drink beer — it's fattening. Voddy and lime is my tipple.
ref: 1993, Anne Weale, Footprints in the Sand:
text: A man, only a few metres away, standing up in plain view, swigged on a bottle of voddy. Talk about careless! Egan couldn't believe his eyes.
ref: 2004, Catherine Bateson, The Air Dancer of Glass:
text: “Oh yeah, I owe you for a bottle of voddy by the way.” “Why?” he asked, screwing his face up in puzzlement.
ref: 2005, Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude:
text: True, we are fond of a voddie or nine, but we know how to handle our liquor, with the emphasis being on "handle".
ref: 2014 June 15, Will Self, The Guardian:
glosses: Vodka.
forsakenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forsaken + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But the look of utter forsakenness on her face […] is something I’ve never forgotten.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: The state or condition of being forsaken.
brattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bratty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bratty.
champagnelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more champagnelike
form: most champagnelike
Etymology: From champagne + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of champagne.
novellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more novellike
form: most novellike
Etymology: From novel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a novel (prose work).
judolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more judolike
form: most judolike
Etymology: From judo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of judo.
karatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more karatelike
form: most karatelike
Etymology: From karate + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of karate.
explosionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explosionlike
form: most explosionlike
Etymology: From explosion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an explosion.
jiltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪltɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of jilting
oompahs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oompah
oompahing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oompah
oompahed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oompah
nonhemodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hemodynamic.
Senses: glosses: Not hemodynamic.
ironable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iron + -able.
Senses: examples: text: She remembered Simiso ironing every ironable thing in sight — from clothes to sheets to tablecloths to sofacloths to curtains to towels to cotton underwear.
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 268:
glosses: Capable of being ironed.
nonmotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + motivated.
Senses: glosses: unmotivated
nonpaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paved.
Senses: glosses: unpaved
abysslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abysslike
form: most abysslike
Etymology: From abyss + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an abyss.
nondormitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dormitory.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a dormitory.
unentrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entrenched.
Senses: glosses: Not entrenched.
Synonyms: nonentrenched
nonaffectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + affectionate.
Senses: glosses: unaffectionate
videolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more videolike
form: most videolike
Etymology: From video + -like.
Senses: examples: videolike recollections of past events
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a video recording.
vacuumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacuumlike
form: most vacuumlike
Etymology: From vacuum + -like.
Senses: synonyms: word: vacant
word: void
word: empty
word: empty as a pauper's purse
word: empty as the tomb on Easter
word: clean
word: leer
word: toom
word: unfilled
word: vacant
word: vacuumlike
word: vacuous
word: void
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vacuum (empty space).
unlocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unlocalised
Etymology: From un- + localized.
Senses: glosses: Not localized.
Synonyms: nonlocalized
unbloodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bloodied.
Senses: glosses: Not bloodied.
unlovedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unloved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unloved.
unjudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + judging.
Senses: glosses: nonjudging
unjudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + judging.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unjudge
unjudgemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjudgemental
form: most unjudgemental
Etymology: From un- + judgemental.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unjudgmental.
unjudgmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjudgmental
form: most unjudgmental
form: unjudgemental
Etymology: From un- + judgmental.
Senses: glosses: Not judgmental.
clompy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clompy
form: most clompy
Etymology: From clomp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Pauline, nevertheless [...] did sing valiantly against the sound of a tinny school orchestra and clompy feet.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 95:
glosses: That makes clomps or clomping sounds.
glosses: Of a heavy kind that might make clomping noises; stompy.
raw_tags: of footwear
nonperceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perceptive.
Senses: glosses: unperceptive
unperceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perceiving.
Senses: glosses: Not perceiving; devoid of perception.
Synonyms: nonperceiving
nonperceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perceiving.
Senses: glosses: unperceiving
unperceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perceivable.
Senses: glosses: Not perceivable; imperceptible.
Derived terms: unperceivability
unperceivably
unproposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + proposed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been proposed.
lightsabre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightsabres
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of lightsaber.
lightsabres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightsabre
unbeloved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beloved.
Senses: glosses: Not beloved; unloved.
authorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authorly
form: most authorly
Etymology: From author + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an author.
Derived terms: unauthorly
intraocularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intraocular + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Inside or within the eye.
tonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈnɒmətɹi/
Forms: form: tonometries
Etymology: From tono- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of tension or pressure.
Derived terms: ophthalmotonometry
Related terms: tonometer
tonometric
tonometrist
tonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tonometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to tonometry.
balloonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balloon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a balloon or balloons.
authorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authorlike
form: most authorlike
Etymology: From author + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like an author; authorly.
autoscanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + scanning.
Senses: glosses: automatic scanning
scooterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scooterlike
form: most scooterlike
Etymology: From scooter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scooter (propelled land vehicle).
ontogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ontogeny
nonphylogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phylogenetic.
Senses: glosses: Not phylogenetic.
warm-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm-downs
Etymology: Formed as an opposite for warm-up.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cooldown#Noun
glosses: A set of exercises carried out after a fitness routine in order to return the body gradually to its normal state, analogous to the warm-up done before the routine.
warmdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmdown
jobseeking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From job + seeking.
Senses: synonyms: job hunting
job searching
glosses: A search for employment.
Related terms: jobseeker
jobseeking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From job + seeking.
Senses: examples: a jobseeking adult
glosses: In search of employment.
kikuyugrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kikuyugrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kikuyu grass.
kikuyugrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kikuyugrass
Kikuyu grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kikuyu grasses
form: kikuyugrass
form: kikuyu grass
Etymology: So named as it is native to the highland regions of East Africa where the Kikuyu people live.
Senses: examples: text: Bo pulled the Pajero off the road and parked on a patch of scuffed kikuyu grass in front of a small weatherboard house.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 64:
glosses: A tropical grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to Kenya and now a common lawn grass and invasive species elsewhere.
meterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without meter (musical or poetical measure); arhythmic.
examples: text: a meterless taxicab
glosses: Without a meter (measuring device).
Derived terms: meterlessness
poetryless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poetry + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without poetry.
Derived terms: poetrylessness
nonpoetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + poetry.
Senses: glosses: Writing that is not poetry.
gymlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gymlike
form: most gymlike
Etymology: From gym + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a gym (room or building for indoor sports).
gylanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gylany
gymslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymslips
Etymology: From gym + slip.
Senses: examples: text: I've seen this child in her gymslip and school blouse […]
ref: 1968, Alan Sharp, The wind shifts, page 203:
text: She'd swapped the print dress for a plain white blouse and brown gymslip.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Raban, Foreign Land: A Novel:
text: Boarders wore navy pleated skirts with white blouses; day girls had brown gymslips, cream blouses and beige jumpers. Lisle stockings could be a nuisance, as were hats and gloves.
ref: 2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16:
synonyms: tunic
glosses: A sleeveless tunic with a pleated skirt, most commonly seen as part of a girl's school uniform.
Derived terms: gymslip mum
gymslipped
gymslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymslip
nonmotivating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + motivating.
Senses: glosses: unmotivating
unmotivating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + motivating.
Senses: examples: an unmotivating teacher
glosses: Not motivating.
Synonyms: nonmotivating
Related terms: demotivating
unmournable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmournable
form: most unmournable
Etymology: From un- + mournable.
Senses: glosses: Not mournable; not capable of being mourned.
superdepartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdepartments
Etymology: From super- + department.
Senses: glosses: A large department comprising several smaller departments.
superdepartments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdepartment
unbashful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbashful
form: most unbashful
Etymology: From un- + bashful.
Senses: glosses: Not bashful.
Derived terms: unbashfully
unbashfulness
unbaroque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaroque
form: most unbaroque
Etymology: From un- + baroque.
Senses: glosses: Not baroque.
nonvocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vocabulary.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to vocabulary.
nonstretch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stretch.
Senses: glosses: That does not stretch.
raw_tags: of clothing or material
nonshowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + showy.
Senses: glosses: unshowy
workerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workerlike
form: most workerlike
Etymology: From worker + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a worker (especially a worker bee).
Kwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of languages spoken in the Niger and Congo regions.
Kwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 柯 (Koa) or Teochew 柯 (gua1).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tsoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
tsouris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Too much tsouris, that's what's wrong with me. I have more tsouris than I can handle.
ref: 1995, Jerome David Levin, Slings and Arrows: Narcissistic Injury and Its Treatment, →ISBN, page 291:
text: True enough, I was hardly cut from the same tsouris-burdened cloth as the antiheroic S. Levin, but certain correspondences made the novel warrant a close second read.
ref: 2001, Evelyn Gross Avery, The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud, →ISBN, page 87:
text: After all the tsouris our young souls went through. Your wife should thank me . . . I laid the groundwork.
ref: 2004, Playbill - Volumes 22-23, page 60:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
tszoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
tzuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
tsores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
vacuolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuolizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vacuolation.
vacuolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuolization
vacuolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvækjʊəˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuolation
IGCSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IGCSEs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of International General Certificate of Secondary Education; an internationally recognised qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; similar to the GCSE.
Related terms: GCSE
GCE
CSE
O-level
absorbtance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absorbtances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the radiant flux absorbed by a body to that incident upon it
Synonyms: absorptance
Related terms: absorbance
accustomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accustomizations
Etymology: From accustomize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act, or process of accustomizing to a new, or changed environment
accustomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accustomizes
form: accustomizing
form: accustomized
form: accustomized
form: accustomize
Senses: glosses: To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
Derived terms: accustomization
actinogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinograms
Etymology: From actino- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: The record produced by an actinograph
actinograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinographs
Etymology: From actino- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A recording actinometer.
home fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home fries
form: homefry
Senses: glosses: A piece of fried, sliced or diced potato, part of a basic potato dish often including tomatoes, onions or peppers.
Synonyms: cottage fry
cottage fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage fry
Senses: glosses: A basic potato dish made by pan- or skillet-frying diced, chunked, wedged or sliced potatoes.
Synonyms: cottage fried potatoes
home fries
longshorewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longshorewomen
Etymology: From longshore + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed to load and unload ships; a female longshoreman.
röstis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rösti
potato pancake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato pancakes
Senses: glosses: A shallow-fried pancake of grated potato and egg, often flavored with grated onion.
ventres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ventre
tecta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectum
longshorewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longshorewoman
disinheritances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinheritance
sclerose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skləˈɹəʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: scleroses
form: sclerosing
form: sclerosed
form: sclerosed
Etymology: Back-formation from sclerosed (adjective), which was back-formed from sclerosis. Compare also diagnose (verb).
Senses: glosses: To harden.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To undergo sclerosis.
actinon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinons
Etymology: Contraction of actinium emanation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Radon-219 (²¹⁹₈₆Rn; symbol An), an isotope of radon
glosses: Synonym of radon.
synonyms: word: radon
glosses: An actinide
Synonyms: word: actineon
word: actinium emanation
word: acton
word: akton
word: An
word: Ao
word: exactinio
word: radon-219
Hypernyms: sense: isotope of radon
word: radon
Coordinate terms: sense: isotope of radon
alt: radon-222
word: radon
sense: isotope of radon
alt: radon-220
word: thoron
actinons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinon
aeroballistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + ballistics.
Senses: glosses: The part of ballistics that deals with the interaction of high-speed projectiles with the atmosphere
grommeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grommet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The grommeted drop cloth didn't tear where it was tied down.
glosses: Having grommets.
bubblicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bubblicious
form: most bubblicious
Etymology: From bubble + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: Both San Francisco and New York saw steadier (and possibly less bubblicious) gains than the rest, he wrote.
ref: 2007 November 3, Dan Mitchell, “Let Us Pray for Wealth”, in New York Times:
text: Maybe she could figure out how to create a bubblicious economy like the one her husband presided over in the 1990s.
ref: 2008 April 22, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Hedge Fund Investing and Politics”, in New York Times:
text: It turns out that the world's ten tallest new buildings are like a worldwide pulse of bubblicious economic activity.
ref: 2011 April 5, Derek Thompson, “The Art of Bubbles: How Sotheby's Predicts the World Economy”, in The Atlantic:
text: Others are more wary. The Rabobank financial analyst Michael Every said earlier this year that he was gobsmacked by the “bubblicious stupidity” of the market.
ref: 2021 December 1, Mark Sweney, quoting Michael Every, “Scorsese producer to make first Hollywood movie funded by NFTs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a speculative bubble.
examples: text: bubblicious champagne
text: Although their milieu is rock, it's the sanitised, bubblicious punk-pop variety as purveyed by faux-ballsy, pseudo-snarly US "chicks" ever since Joan Jett declared that She Loved Rock'n'roll and nobody believed her.
ref: 2009 April 3, Paul Lester, “No 520: Done With Dolls”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: bubblesome
fizzy
glosses: Bubbly and delicious.
noncirculating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + circulating.
Senses: examples: text: The system, which integrates the catalogs for circulating and noncirculating materials and was designed to improve search functions, was introduced Monday morning.
ref: 2009 July 8, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Public Library’s Online Catalog Causes Delays in Troubled Debut”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not circulating.
slipcovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In photos, it looked charming in what Ms. Foxley describes as a fashionably shabby, slipcovered sort of way.
ref: 2009 July 9, Joyce Wadler, “Summer House Horrors: On a Private Lake in Maine, No One Can Hear You Scream”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a slipcover.
pinstriper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinstripers
Etymology: From pinstripe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who paints pinstripes.
pinstripers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinstriper
l.c.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: loc. cit.
form: l. c.
Etymology: Sense “in the place cited” from Latin loco citato.
Senses: glosses: in the place cited
l.c.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loc. cit.
form: l. c.
Etymology: Sense “in the place cited” from Latin loco citato.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of letter of credit.
glosses: Initialism of lower case.
airbornes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airborne
LCBO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
LCBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCBOs
Senses: glosses: A liquor store operated by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario
aeroduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroducts
Etymology: From aero- + duct.
Senses: glosses: A proposed form of ramjet that harnesses charged particles in the upper atmosphere
aeroducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroduct
aeroembolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroembolisms
Etymology: From aero- + embolism.
Senses: glosses: An embolism that results from the introduction, (or the formation under reduced pressure) of air bubbles in the blood.
Synonyms: air embolism
aeroembolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroembolism
aeroemphysema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + emphysema.
Senses: glosses: A form of emphysema that results from rapid decompression
Synonyms: decompression sickness
aeropause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeropauses
Etymology: From aero- + pause.
Senses: glosses: The region of the atmosphere above which it is not possible for aircraft to fly
aerophare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerophares
Etymology: From aero- + phare.
Senses: glosses: radio beacon
Synonyms: radiophare
aerophares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerophare
hasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haste
hastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haste
aeropulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeropulses
Etymology: From aero- + pulse.
Senses: glosses: pulsejet
aerosinusitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + sinusitis.
Senses: glosses: sinusitis as the result of a rapid change in barometric pressure
aerothermodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + thermodynamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aerothermodynamics
aerothermoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + thermo- + elasticity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the effects of thermodynamic heating and loading on elastic materials or structures.
afterburning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after- + burning.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The injection of extra fuel into a jet engine downstream of the turbines in order to achieve extra thrust.
Related terms: afterburner
aftercooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after- + cooling.
Senses: glosses: The cooling of a gas subsequent to compression
glosses: The cooling of a nuclear reactor subsequent to it being shut down.
Related terms: afterheat
afterheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterheats
Etymology: From after- + heat.
Senses: glosses: Residual useful heat obtained from a nuclear reactor during aftercooling
afterpart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterparts
Etymology: From after- + part.
Senses: glosses: A rear part
airblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airblasts
Etymology: From air + blast.
Senses: synonyms: windblast#Noun
hypernyms: blast#Noun
glosses: A sudden rush of air; often, such a blast in a confined space (such as a mine) right after a disturbance or explosion.
airbreather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbreathers
Etymology: From air + breather.
Senses: glosses: An airbreathing aircraft engine
glosses: An airbreathing animal
airgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airgaps
Etymology: From air + gap.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air gap.
airpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airpaths
Etymology: From air + path.
Senses: glosses: The path of a missile or aircraft through the air.
atta boy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attaboy.
atta girl
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of attagirl.
Related terms: atta boy
airscoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airscoops
form: air scoop
Etymology: From air + scoop.
Senses: glosses: A cowl shaped and positioned to draw air into the engine of a moving vehicle or aircraft
albedometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albedometers
Etymology: From albedo + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the albedo of a surface
allobar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allobars
Etymology: From allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any form of an element having a different isotopic composition to that of the natural element, and thus a different atomic weight.
examples: text: Highlighted in Alfred Henry's 1916 manual, Weather Forecasting in the United States, pressure-change charts have their own terminology, with allobar describing an area where the barometric pressure has changed by 0.1 inch or more in 12 hours[…]
ref: 1999, Mark Monmonier, Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather, page 82:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area where the atmospheric pressure changes.
jokebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jokebooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of joke book.
loosen the apron strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loosens the apron strings
form: loosening the apron strings
form: loosened the apron strings
form: loosened the apron strings
Senses: examples: text: They see how serious it is not to "loosen the apron strings"; how unfortunate it may be to talk about a child in his presence; how we must take people where...
ref: 1948, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Education Association of the United States. Dept. of Supervision and Curriculum Development, “Educational leadership”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 6, page 534:
glosses: To allow greater freedom (to someone); to relax control of (someone).
cyberspying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + spying.
Senses: glosses: cyberespionage
Eger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Heves County, Hungary.
down the banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn d̪ə bæŋks/
rhymes: -æŋks
Forms: form: down-the-banks
Etymology: Unknown. Probably of Irish origin.
five conjectural etymologies
* Notes & Queries, 3rd series, volume 1 (8 March 1862), page 189 posits a connection with "down the khud", supposedly used of a person falling down a precipice in the Himalayas.
* Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998) suggests falling off the raised bank of a bog into muddy water.
* Bernard Share (Slanguage, 1997) suggests a link to "The Banks of my own Lovely Lee", a Cork anthem nicknamed "De Banks".
See also:
* Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary (1985, →ISBN, page 571
* The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006, →ISBN, volume 1 A–I, page 646
Senses: examples: text: Independent woters ain't the chalk—and the K. Ns. has done it!— They've spiled the trade. Sam's done it—Amerikins has done it! Take 'em up for interfeerin' with other people's bisness. Give 'em down the banks; send em up ninety days; give em that,"—and he struck straight out at an imaginary head, with a force that sent him with a lurch across the sidewalk, up against the side of the buildings.
ref: 1855, Albany Register, "An Independent Voter" (reprinted in Supplement to the Connecticut Courant, volume 20, number 27, page 211)
text: In a time in Ireland when politicians and public representatives and others are getting down the banks (if you’ll pardon the pun), a special word of gratitude goes to TD John Browne and Enniscorthy Town Councillor Keith Doyle for their support.
ref: 2009 October 1, “Little Angel Davina’s massive legacy in €25,000 fundraiser”, in Wexford Echo:
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: a severe criticism, scolding, reprimand, or punishment
Synonyms: word: reprehend
sense: down the banks
word: a bollocking
sense: down the banks
word: a dressing-down
sense: down the banks
word: a tongue-lashing
sense: give someone down the banks
word: chew someone out
sense: give someone down the banks
word: eat the head off someone
down the banks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn d̪ə bæŋks/
rhymes: -æŋks
Forms: form: down-the-banks
Etymology: Unknown. Probably of Irish origin.
five conjectural etymologies
* Notes & Queries, 3rd series, volume 1 (8 March 1862), page 189 posits a connection with "down the khud", supposedly used of a person falling down a precipice in the Himalayas.
* Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998) suggests falling off the raised bank of a bog into muddy water.
* Bernard Share (Slanguage, 1997) suggests a link to "The Banks of my own Lovely Lee", a Cork anthem nicknamed "De Banks".
See also:
* Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary (1985, →ISBN, page 571
* The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006, →ISBN, volume 1 A–I, page 646
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Heberton Fitzjames was (and, if he has not gone 'down the banks,' is) a gentleman such as we frequently see at the watering-places; a leader of the select parties there congregated. […] I became acquainted with Fitzjames in my way of making new friends. I had professional engagements with him, and from the name of 'the plaintiff,' I concluded it grew out of a sporting debt. Ah, Heberton, in that you were nearly gone 'down the banks!'
ref: 1852 April, "Flavul", The Knickerbocker, volume 39, page 336, "Transcripts from the docket of a late Sheriff of New-York"
text: A independent woter ain't the cheese any longer. […] The Stars is out in all kinds o' weather, and if they shines on a feller when he's got half a dozen glasses on board, the Watch-us', Squire Cole, and ten days down the banks, is the word!
ref: 1855, Albany Register, "An Independent Voter" (reprinted in Supplement to the Connecticut Courant, volume 20, number 27, page 211)
glosses: in prison
prezygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + zygotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Preceding the zygotic period.
Related terms: postzygotic
amplidyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amplidynes
Etymology: From amplifier + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: A form of electromechanical amplifier in which an AC motor drives a DC generator
nerve net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve nets
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Simplistic and uncentralized nervous system of cnidarians.
nerve nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve net
anacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anacoustic
form: most anacoustic
Etymology: From an- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: anechoic, soundless
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the upper reaches of the atmosphere, and of space, in which the concentration of molecules is too small to support the propagation of sound
anoxaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anoxaemias
form: anoxæmia
form: anoxhæmia
form: anoxyhæmia
form: anoxhaemia
form: anoxemia
form: anoxhemia
Etymology: From an- (“lacking”) + oxy- (“oxygen”) + -aemia (“blood”).
Senses: examples: text: Anoxaemia [... is] a term introduced by Jourdanet to indicate the diminished quantity of oxygen contained in the blood of those living at high altitudes, where the tension of the oxygen in the surrounding air is considerably decreased.
ref: 1881, Henry Power, Leonard W. Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences (Based on Maye's Lexicon), volume I:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: hyperoxemia
glosses: Critical lack of oxygen in blood; severe hypoxaemia.
Derived terms: anoxaemic
Related terms: anoxia
hyperoxia
hypoxia
antapex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪpɛks
Forms: form: antapices
Etymology: From ant- + apex.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point opposite the solar apex
solar apex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar apexes
form: solar apices
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point to which the Sun appears to be moving with respect to the local stars
antidetonation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-detonation
Etymology: From anti- + detonation.
Senses: glosses: That suppresses detonation
antitorque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-torque
Etymology: From anti- + torque.
Senses: glosses: Describing the rotor on the tail of a helicopter that prevents the helicopter from spinning in a direction opposite to that of the main rotor blades
three-wheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: three-wheelers
Senses: glosses: A car, cycle or motorbike having three wheels.
glosses: An autorickshaw, tuk-tuk or trishaw having three wheels.
Related terms: three-wheel
loosen the purse strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loosens the purse strings
form: loosening the purse strings
form: loosened the purse strings
form: loosened the purse strings
form: loosen the pursestrings
form: loosen the purse-strings
Senses: examples: text: He thought the effect of this language from the Prime Minister had been to loosen the purse-strings of the Treasury.
ref: 1848, Parliament of Great Britain, “The Parliamentary debates”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 96, page cdlvii:
text: Proponents of the counterterrorism agenda might respond by being less inclined to loosen the purse strings than they would have been if offered a convincing...
ref: 2004, The 9/11 Commission report, final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (authorized edition), National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, page 358:
antonyms: tighten the purse strings
glosses: To increase spending or allow increased spending; to relax control of spending.
Related terms: disburse
hold the purse strings
loosen the apron strings
power of the purse
public purse
reimburse
tighten the purse strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tightens the purse strings
form: tightening the purse strings
form: tightened the purse strings
form: tightened the purse strings
form: tighten the purse-strings
form: tighten the pursestrings
Senses: examples: text: ...would have the opposite effect entirely, and would tighten the purse-strings of capitalists and the employers of...
ref: 1894, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary debates, page 710:
text: It's hard for upper management to tighten the purse strings on a project that promises to save money, boost productivity and enable employees to respond better and faster to changing competitive situations.
ref: 1989 July 24, editorial, “Companies still backing the efforts of net managers”, in Network World, volume 6, number 29, page 28:
glosses: To decrease spending or disallow increased spending; to increase control of spending.
Related terms: hold the purse strings
hold the purse strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds the purse strings
form: holding the purse strings
form: held the purse strings
form: held the purse strings
form: hold the pursestrings
form: hold the purse-strings
Senses: examples: text: The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the Purse-strings.
ref: 1787, James Madison, The writings of James Madison: comprising his public papers and his private correspondence..., page 158:
text: The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings.
ref: 1985, Jerome Hellmuth, Coping with parents, page 62:
glosses: To be in control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility.
Related terms: word: bursar
word: disburse
word: loosen the purse strings
word: power of the purse
word: public purse
word: reimburse
word: tighten the purse strings
english: shares a theme of control
translation: shares a theme of control
word: pull strings
screw-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw-offs
Senses: examples: text: You know, when a guy is a screw-off you got to discipline him.
ref: 1997, Robert W. Snyder, Transit talk: New York's bus and subway workers tell their stories, page 137:
text: I've always considered that a polite way of telling a parent that her child is a screw-off, a goofball of major talent.
ref: 1988, Ann Edwards Cannon, Cal Cameron by day, Spider-man by night, page 98:
glosses: Someone who often fails to do his or her work; someone known to goof off.
screw-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These were easy wines for everyday life, with screw-off caps so that you could pour two glasses and then close up the bottle for the next day.
ref: 2009, Ed McCarthy with Mary Ewing-Mulligan, California Wine For Dummies, page 14:
glosses: Able to be removed by unscrewing.
screw-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw-off
apneumatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + pneumat- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: atelectasis
apocynthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æpəʊˈsɪnθɪən/
Etymology: From apo- + Cynthian + -ion.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point in an orbit around the Moon that is most distant from that body.
Synonyms: apolune
aposelene
Related terms: apoapsis
ablutophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ablutio + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia involving sexual excitement from baths or showers.
apofocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apofocuses
Etymology: From apo- + focus.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: apocenter, apobaryon