cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
muffle furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffle furnaces
Senses: glosses: A small electric furnace or kiln, loaded from the front.
glosses: A furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and the products of combustion, including gases and flying ash.
Related terms: semimuffle furnace
Wamba Wamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wamba-Wamba
form: Wemba-Wemba
form: Wemba Wemba
form: Wembawemba
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wemba-Wemba.
Wemba Wemba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wamba Wamba
form: Wamba-Wamba
form: Wemba-Wemba
form: Wembawemba
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wemba-Wemba.
psithurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪθjʊəˌɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: psithyrism (US)
Etymology: An adaptation of the Ancient Greek ψιθύρισμα (psithúrisma) or ψιθυρισμός (psithurismós), from ψιθυρίζω (psithurízō, “I whisper”), from ψίθυρος (psíthuros, “whispering, slanderous”).
Senses: glosses: The sound of rustling leaves or wind in the trees.
grammatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grăʹmətĭst
ipa: /ˈɡɹæmətɪst/
Forms: form: grammatists
Etymology: From French grammatiste, from the Medieval Latin grammatista, from the Ancient Greek γραμματιστής (grammatistḗs), from γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).
Senses: examples: text: 1907 (Mar.), L. F. Anderson, "A Study of the Prototypes of the Modern Non-professional School among the Greeksand the Romans", The Pedagogical Seminary, 14(1): 1-38.
The grammatist, apparently, taught literature in so far as it was read while the citharist taught the poetry which was usually sung.
text: The Athenian child's school education began with the study of letters under the grammatist.
ref: 1909, Lewis Flint Anderson, History of Common School Education, page 12:
glosses: A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
glosses: A grammarian.
Derived terms: grammatistical
Related terms: grammar
grammarian
grammatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatist
manatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manatuses
Senses: examples: text: The Doctor and lieutenant said they had heard of the manatus, but didn't know what it was exactly. As for the boys, they had never even heard the name.
ref: 1882, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Young Nimrods Around the World (page 156)
glosses: Synonym of manatee.
synonyms: word: manatee
Timmermann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timmermanns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Timmermann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Drachenfutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Drachenfutter (“dragon fodder”).
Senses: examples: text: Without Drachenfutter the divorce rate would be far higher than it is now! :)
ref: 1998 September 27, Rich G., “ok”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet):
text: Invest in some Drachenfutter* as well, then. . . . *You'll know the principle even if you don't know the term. It's 'dragon fodder', what errant German husbands give their wives when they've been up to something she'll disapprove of.
ref: 2005 April 16, Roger Whitehead, uk.rec.photo.misc (Usenet):
text: From what she had heard of relations between the Propaganda Minister and his wife over the past summer, Magda must have received Drachenfutter by the kilo, but it was having little effect.
ref: 2014, Jane Thynne, A War of Flowers, →ISBN:
glosses: A gift given to placate someone, especially a spouse, who is angry at the giver.
are you OK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː juː əʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: [ɑ̟ː ju̟ː əʊˈkʰeɪ]
ipa: /ɑɹ juː oʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: [ɑ̟ɹ ju̟ː oʊˈkʰeɪ]
Senses: glosses: Asking if the listener is OK (e.g. not hurt).
Related terms: RUOK
machinimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinimists
Etymology: From machinima + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: machinimator
glosses: A person who creates machinima.
æquinoctial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hooke saw that there was “a necessary motion or tendency of the lower parts of the air near the earth, from the polar parts towards the æquinoctial, and consequently of the higher parts of the air from the æquinoctial parts towards the polar, and consequently a kind of circulation of the body of the air.”
ref: 1835, The Nautical Magazine, volume IV, page 532:
glosses: Obsolete form of equinoctial.
æquinoctial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquinoctials
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of equinoctial.
æquinoctials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquinoctial
quæstionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of questionary.
wooly bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooly bears
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolly bear.
wooly bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooly bear
wooly worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooly worms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolly worm.
wooly worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooly worm
trailbaston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailbastons
Senses: glosses: A type of court, during the reign of Edward I, that put down violent opposition to the crown
carucage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəkɪdʒ/
Forms: form: carucages
Etymology: From Late Latin carrucagium, from carruca (“plough”); compare tillage.
Senses: glosses: A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England.
glosses: The act of ploughing.
Related terms: carucate
sociodicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociodicies
Etymology: By analogy with theodicy. See socio-.
Senses: glosses: A justification (or similar discourse) of the nature of a particular society
re-expressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-express
re-expresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-express
re-expressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-express
intercrural sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A non-penetrative form of sex in which the penis is stimulated between a partner's thighs.
Synonyms: interfemoral sex
thighing
URT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: URTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ultrasound reflection tomography.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of unified rear triangle.
nacrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nacrites
Etymology: From French nacre (“mother-of-pearl”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic aluminium silicate clay that is a polymorph of kaolinite
nadiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪ.dɪɹəl/
Etymology: From nadir + -al.
Senses: examples: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 25,
[…] since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual. Its transcendental aspirations—still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell—were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet.
glosses: Of, pertaining to or situated at a nadir.
Nanni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nannis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Nanni.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
narcodollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcodollars
Etymology: From narco- + dollar.
Senses: glosses: Money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking.
Coordinate terms: agridollars
ecodollars
petrodollars
narcotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcotines
Senses: glosses: An alkaloid found in opium
Synonyms: noscapine
Derived terms: narcotinic
suppawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈpɔːn/
Etymology: Probably from Massachusett/Narragansett saupan (“softened by water”) (whence also "samp").
Senses: examples: text: First of all came the Van Brummels, who inhabit the pleasant borders of the Bronx: these were short fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk-breeches, and were renowned for feats of the trencher; they were the first inventors of suppawn, or mush and milk.
ref: 1809, Knickerbocker's History of New York, Washington Irving, Book VI, Chapter V:
text: 1829 July—October, The Westminster Review, Volume XI,
In the shape of porridge the corn is called suppawn: Mr. Cobbett informs us, with the amusing particularity of a happy egotist, of the manner in which he feeds his family upon suppawn, and other substantial meats ; […] .
text: Corn was roasted or boiled on the ear ; soaked or boiled in lye and hulls removed, the whole kernels were served; it was eaten with milk as hominy, samp, or suppawn. Ground into meal, it appeared in a variety of forms, as porridge, hasty pudding, pone, and later as Indian pudding, which was cooked with molasses and was a favorite dish.
ref: 1948, Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Peacham: The Story of a Vermont Hill Town, pages 68–69:
glosses: A porridge made from cornmeal; hasty pudding; mush.
functional roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of functional root
poecilogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Diversity amongst germ cells of an organism.
hydroecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrœcia
form: hydrœcium
Senses: glosses: A sac attached onto a nectocalyx or swimming bell of specific types of oceanic hydrozoa.
hydrœcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrœcium
logopœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logopœic
form: most logopœic
Senses: examples: text: His state of mind was not so much mythopœic as logopœic.
ref: 1906, Paul Elmer More, Shelburne Essays, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, pages 231–232:
glosses: Obsolete form of logopoeic.
logopoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logopoeic
form: most logopoeic
form: logopœic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to logopoeia.
prosopopœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosopopœic
form: most prosopopœic
Senses: examples: text: The Wisdom which is the theme of the Book of the Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David king of Israel, might be regarded merely as a poetic and prosopopœic representation of the attribute of Divine wisdom, were it not that the revelation in the Gospel of the “Logos” of God as the Only‐begotten Son, Who was made man and became our Redeemer, has given a new force and reality to the personification, now that Christ has been manifested to man.
ref: 1883, Henry Cotterill, chapter V, in Does Science aid Faith in regard to Creation?, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 57–58:
glosses: Obsolete form of prosopopoeic.
cœnœcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœnœcia
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of coenoecium.
cœnœcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cœnœcium
junction transistors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junction transistor
junction detectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junction detector
judge advocates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judge advocate
cold working
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The working of a metal (e.g., hammering, forging, rolling, swaging) at low temperatures, such as room temperature rather than furnace temperature; it often serves to strengthen a metal.
Related terms: cold roll
cold rolling
cold work
work hardening
what's your job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Inquires about the subject's current occupation.
Related terms: what do you do?
what do you do for a living?
where do you work?
periscii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants of the polar regions, whose shadows, during part of the summer, make a complete revolution.
Related terms: periscian
RUOK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of are you OK.
what is your job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what's your job.
LJBF
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪd͡ʒ.bɪf/
Forms: form: LJBFs
form: LJBFing
form: LJBFed
form: LJBFed
Etymology: Initialism of let's just be friends, as opposed to being lovers.
Senses: examples: text: I just got LJBFed.
glosses: To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship.
Related terms: friend zone
schmendrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃmɛndɹɪk/
Forms: form: schmendricks
form: schmendrik
form: shmendrick
form: shmendrik
Etymology: From Yiddish שמענדריק (shmendrik), from the name of a character in the operetta Shmendrik, oder di komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik, or The Comical Wedding; שמענדריק, אָדער, די קאָמישע חתונה) by Avrom Goldfaden.
Senses: examples: text: Some schmendrick from downstairs asked if you could turn down your stereo.
glosses: A stupid person; a fool; a nincompoop.
wikipedia: Avrom Goldfaden
Related terms: schlemiel
schmuck
brittlegills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brittlegill
APOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APODs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Astronomy Picture of the Day.
wago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wago
Etymology: From Japanese 和語.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese word of native Japanese origin, not a loanword from outside Japan.
Aram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɹəm/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əm/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɚ.əm/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.əm/
Etymology: From Latin Aram, from Biblical Hebrew אֲרַם (ʾăram).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Aramea
glosses: A historical region mentioned in early cuneiforms and in the Bible, located in modern Syria as well as parts of Iraq, Lebanon and southeastern Turkey; inhabited by Arameans.
Derived terms: Arama-
Aramaic
Aramaism
Aramaist
Aramaization
Aramaize
Aramea
Aramean
Arameanism
Arameanness
Arameo-
Arameogram
Arameophone
Aramism
naumachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkiə
Forms: form: naumachias
form: naumachiae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin naumachia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ναυμαχία (naumakhía). Compare naumachy.
Senses: examples: text: BEFORE he went to feed with owls and bats
Nebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream,
Worse than an Hus'if's when she thinks her cream
Made a Naumachia for mice and rats.
ref: 1816, John Keats, Sonnet - Before he went to feed with owls and bats, Wordsworth Editions, published 1994, page 270:
glosses: The recreation of a sea battle staged for entertainment.
examples: text: Our clerical guide did not fail us, but took us to see some ancient architectural remains, water tanks, a naumachia and other ruins of a similar sort.
ref: 1962, WH Auden; Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 286:
glosses: The location where such recreated sea battles took place; a building featuring an artificial body of water.
least common multiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: least common multiples
Senses: examples: text: 120 is the least common multiple of 60, 8 and 15.
text: The LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE is the smallest number, which can be measured by each of two, or more divisors.
[…]
Since 0 is the least multiple of every number, it must be the least common multiple of any, or of all numbers. It is, however, excluded by common consent in finding the least common multiples of numbers, because as such, 0 has no practical value.
ref: 1859, David Henry Cruttenden, The Objective Or Synthetic Arithmetic, J. M. Bradstreet & Son, page 261:
text: The least common multiple (LCM) is the smallest common multiple of two or more factors.[…]The least common multiple is used to determine the appropriate denominator for adding unlike fractions. In adding unlike fractions, it is important to find the lowest common denominator of the fractions. This is exactly the same thing as finding the least common multiple of the denominators.
ref: 2000, Robert W. Smith, Math Challenges, Grades 4-6, Teacher Created Resources, page 75:
text: It is sometimes necessary to determine the smallest common nonzero multiple of two or more whole numbers. We call this nonzero multiple the least common multiple. In our work with fractions, there will be problems where it will be necessary to find the least common multiple of some numbers, usually the denominators of fractions.
ref: 2007, Jerome Kaufmann, Karen Schwitters, Algebra for College Students, 8th edition, Thomson Learning, page 820:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The smallest positive integer which is divisible by (equivalently, is an integer multiple of) each of a specified finite set of integers.
Synonyms: topics: number-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: lowest common multiple
topics: number-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: smallest common multiple
topics: number-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: lcm
Coordinate terms: greatest common divisor
Related terms: least common denominator
lowest common denominator
navalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navalisms
Etymology: From naval + -ism.
Senses: glosses: naval militarism
scrabblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrabbling
podzol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podzols
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian подзо́л (podzól), consisting of под (pod) "under" and зола́ (zolá) "ash".
Senses: examples: text: During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.
ref: 2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:
glosses: The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests.
Derived terms: podzolic
podzolisation
Related terms: podzolize
podzolization
podzols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podzol
podzolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: podzolizes
form: podzolizing
form: podzolized
form: podzolized
Etymology: From podzol + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Spruce strongly podzolizes the top horizons of carbonate soils.
ref: 1970, American Chemical Society, Chemical abstracts: Volume 72:
glosses: To transform into podzol.
examples: text: The compensating factor, of course, is the unusually sandy, quartzose parent material which podzolizes with great ease.
ref: 1998, Richard T. T. Forman, Pine Barrens: ecosystem and landscape, page 66:
glosses: To become podzol.
podzolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of podzolize
podzolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of podzolize
podzolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of podzolize
podzolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podzolizations
Etymology: From podzol + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase.
ref: 1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:
glosses: The process of podzolizing.
podzolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podzolization
Scrabblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scrabbler
disinfectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disinfect + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.
ref: 2007, Wallace Peters, Geoffrey Pasvol, Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology, page 22:
glosses: disinfection
resterilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resterilizations
Etymology: From re- + sterilization.
Senses: glosses: The process of resterilizing.
resterilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resterilization
keyplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyplates
Etymology: From key + plate.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The plate that prints the detail in an image.
glosses: A plate mounted to a door and containing the keyhole.
keyplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyplate
home-along
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “[…]And what did the lady say then?”
“I can't mind. Please, Master Reddleman, may I go home-along now?”
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
glosses: To one's home; homeward.
gluck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: glucks
form: glucking
form: glucked
form: glucked
Etymology: Imitative; compare glug.
Senses: examples: text: But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.
ref: 1900, J. H. Crawford, The autobiography of a tramp:
text: The little phial glucked out its precious contents.
ref: 1904, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind:
text: Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that the eldest of my brothers, he who became lame, is called Bakbuk because when he tattles he makes a glucking noise like water coming out of a jar.
ref: 1990, E. P. Mathers, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, page 235:
text: The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily[…]
ref: 2008, Neil Munro, John Splendid, page 183:
glosses: To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
glucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gluck
glucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gluck
glucagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucagon
deboss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: debosses
form: debossing
form: debossed
form: debossed
Etymology: From de- + boss.
Senses: glosses: To mark or decorate with an indented design or symbol.
Related terms: emboss
debossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deboss
debossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deboss
debosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deboss
embossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embossing
deboronations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deboronation
fauvistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fauvistic
form: most fauvistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the art style of fauvism.
vorticistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vorticistic
form: most vorticistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the art style of vorticism.
vorticist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vorticist
form: most vorticist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vorticism.
vorticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorticists
Senses: glosses: An artist who used this style.
vorticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorticist
vortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vortical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible that fluid may circulate in a region either vortically or non-vortically.
ref: 1945, Alexander Hopkins McDannald, editor, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 14, page 567:
text: 1990, David A. Clarke, An Overview of Computational MHD Jets and Their Comparisons with Recent High Resolution Radio Images, R. Beck, P. P. Kronberg, R. Wielebinski, Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 140, page 406,
This results when a small region, whose magnetic field is grossly amplified by vortically induced shear, is spun about the symmetry axis.
text: In terms of literacy growth, it is a solution that is vortically self-propagating and self-defeating, for it is a solution that denies students the very language, information, and modes of thought that they need most in order to move up and on.
ref: 2009, Marilyn Jager Adams, “8: The Challenge of Advanced Texts: The Interdepenednce of Reading and Learning”, in Elfrieda H. Hiebert, editor, Reading More, Reading Better, page 182:
glosses: In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.
vorticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorticisms
Etymology: From vortex + -ism, attributed to Ezra Pound.
Senses: examples: text: Much noise has been made by Vorticism, Futurism, Cubism, Vertiginism.
ref: 1919 March 30, “The Dadas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, incorporating elements of cubism and futurism.
wikipedia: Ezra Pound
Related terms: vortex
vorticist
vorticistic
hew out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hews out
form: hewing out
form: hewed out
form: hewn out
Senses: glosses: carve out, or cut out a form, or to make something hollow by using heavy cutting tools such as an axe.
anticonceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonceptual
form: most anticonceptual
Etymology: From anti- + conceptual.
Senses: glosses: Opposing conceptualism.
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
Etymology: Variant of smooch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smooch (“kiss”).
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
form: smouching
form: smouched
form: smouched
Etymology: Variant of smooch.
Senses: examples: text: For what kissing and bussing, what Smouching and slabbering one of another, what filthie groping and uncleane handling is not practiced in those dancings
ref: 1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses:
glosses: Alternative form of smooch (“kiss”).
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
Etymology: Probably a variant of smutch.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose an artist, after having completed such a picture, in a moment of intoxication, goes into his studio, takes his brush, dips it into black paint, and applies it thereto. Only one smouch and the work of months is destroyed!
ref: 1866, Henry Ward Beecher, 595 Pulpit Pungencies, page 263:
text: […]and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder.
ref: 1896, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 93, page 618:
glosses: Alternative form of smutch (“a stain or smudge”).
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
form: smouching
form: smouched
form: smouched
Etymology: Probably a variant of smutch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smutch (“to stain or smudge”).
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
form: smouching
form: smouched
form: smouched
Etymology: Perhaps compare mooch.
Senses: examples: text: […]So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives."
"Smouch three," he says; "we want one to make a saw out of."
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 366:
glosses: To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
smouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smuːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smouches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smous.
smouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smouch
smouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smouch
smouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smouch
smouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smouch
threadjacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threadjackers
Etymology: Blend of thread + hijacker
Senses: glosses: One who takes over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.
Related terms: threadjacking
threadjackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threadjacker
unbefriended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbefriended
form: most unbefriended
Etymology: From un- + befriended.
Senses: examples: text: I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's dinner.
ref: [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. II. Showing What was Born of the Great Idea.”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: But the Lord of Men allowed me to behold
an ancient sword shining on the wall -
for he often helps the unbefriended -
a weapon made for giants, there for the wielding.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:
glosses: Not befriended; lacking friends.
Related terms: unbefriending
cigarette pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The narrow leg portions are likened to the cylindrical shape of a cigarette.
Senses: glosses: Pants (trousers) with a snug fit through the legs, ending in a small leg opening.
Synonyms: drainpipes
skinnies
dreamwrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreamwrapt
form: most dreamwrapt
Etymology: From dream + wrapt.
Senses: examples: text: The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: Beneath the marble canopy, any time between daybreak and moonrise, you will find kneeling figures dreamwrapt in adoration of their beloved Virgen del Pilar.
ref: 1914, John Ernest Crawford Flitch, An idler in Spain: the record of a Goya pilgrimage:
glosses: Absorbed in dreams.
lovelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovelights
Etymology: From love + light.
Senses: examples: text: Her hands folded tightly together across her brow, she looked the very embodiment of reverent expectation, and the blushing roses on her cheeks, the lovelight in her eyes seemed to deepen for an instant, and then pale slightly[…]
ref: 1903, L. P. Gratacap, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, page 85:
text: Her face was suffused with the glory of love's transfiguration: the red light of the sunset had not been more obvious in her eyes than was now the lovelight that replaced it.
ref: 1909?, Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life (page 89)
glosses: A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
unsecularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + secularized.
Senses: glosses: Not secularized.
Related terms: unsecularization
Lupercalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːpə(ɹ)ˈkeɪliə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Etymology: From Latin Lupercalia.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman pastoral festival observed in mid-February to avert evil spirits and purify the city.
Looney Tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Looney Tunes
form: most Looney Tunes
Senses: examples: text: Although almost certainly suffering from manic states and perhaps from a form of manic-depressive illness, Dad could not be effectively diagnosed. He was what people might describe as either crazy as a bedbug, totally Looney Tunes, three sandwiches shy of a picnic, or an abusive manipulator.
ref: 1998, Tonya Flynt-Vega, Ted Schwarz, Hustled: my journey from fear to faith, page 227:
glosses: Alternative form of looney tunes.
alethetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alethetic
form: most alethetic
Etymology: From a- + lethetic.
Senses: glosses: Not lethetic, reflecting reality, often indirectly, as in allegory.
marine stinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine stingers
Senses: glosses: Any venomous box jellyfish.
malagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malagans
form: malangan
form: malanggan
Senses: glosses: A large, intricate traditional ceremony of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea.
malagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malagan
malangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malangans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malagan.
malanggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malanggans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malagan.
malanggans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malanggan
malangans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malangan
mineral spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pour a solvent such as paint thinner, mineral spirits, or a liquid sandpaper product in a metal can or enamel bowl. Wear protective gloves.
ref: 2004, Mickey Baskett, Fabulous Painted Furniture, page 13:
glosses: white spirit
white spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mineral spirits
mineral turpentine
petroleum spirits
turpentine substitute
glosses: A transparent liquid derived from paraffin, used as a solvent in painting and decorating.
Stoddard solvent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After an Atlanta dry cleaner, W. J. Stoddard, involved in its development.
Senses: glosses: white spirit
Stoddard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a standard bearer.
Derived terms: Stoddard County
Stoddard solvent
MVVM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: MVC
MVP
glosses: Initialism of Model–View–ViewModel.
Related terms: MVC
slip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips out
form: slipping out
form: slipped out
form: slipped out
Senses: synonyms: take French leave
glosses: To leave quietly and unnoticed.
glosses: To go out for a brief moment; to pop out.
examples: text: I was talking to Jim, about Paul and Ethel, when it just slipped out about their possible divorce. I’m sorry.
glosses: To be said or revealed by accident.
glosses: Of an object: to work loose and slide out of proper position.
Derived terms: word: slipout
ownself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From own + self.
Senses: examples: text: You may be ashamed of your ownself, to disturb People at this Time of Night.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: “Tea Cake ain't been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself.”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper, published 2013, page 3:
text: Did you paint this your ownself?
ref: 2016, John Chan, Singlish Notebook:
glosses: (One's) self; used with a preceding possessive adjective to form a pronominal phrase.
forepassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + passed.
Senses: glosses: That has previously passed; past, bygone
Synonyms: foregone
historical
past
wunt
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of won't.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wouldn't.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of want.
diapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diapophyses
Etymology: From dia- + apophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The dorsal transverse process of a vertebra
Derived terms: diapophyseal
diapophysial
diapophysical
paradiapophysis
zygodiapophysis
thawt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of thought.
whoes
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: examples: text: out of whoes eies there gushed streames of teares
ref: a. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Aeneid book 2
glosses: Obsolete spelling of whose.
weele
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of we'll.
multispeciality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + speciality.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multispecialty.
predecessoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predecessoresses
Etymology: From predecessor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female predecessor.
predecessoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predecessoress
diapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diapophysis
miogeocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miogeoclines
Etymology: Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.
Senses: glosses: An area of sedimentation that occurs along the passive margin of a continent.
Derived terms: miogeoclinal
miogeoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miogeocline
noncrustal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crustal.
Senses: glosses: Not crustal.
torsionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From torsional + -ly.
Senses: examples: torsionally flexible structural elements
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, torsion.
pacifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pacifical
form: most pacifical
Senses: examples: text: Franklin set out to test Mr. Oswald's pacifical temperament, and his diplomatic acumen, by raising again the subject of Canada.
ref: 1974, Lloyd C. Gardner, William L. O'Neill, Looking backward: a reintroduction to American history:
glosses: Alternative form of pacific.
Derived terms: letters pacifical
pacifical letters
brothership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brother + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being brothers; brotherhood.
hold against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds against
form: holding against
form: held against
form: held against
Senses: examples: text: He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then.
text: Gedeon Van Rompay had the dubious distinction of being the only Site employee personally hired by Edwin Falkirk, former All Sections Chief and perennial piece of human trash. Lillian had found it easy not to hold this against the man, but only because there were so many other odious things about him to choose from. He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent. Just about the only metric on which she rated Van Rompay higher than Falkirk was transphobia; the big man made no distinction between varieties of womanhood, feeling superior to all of them equally.
ref: 2023 September 16, HarryBlank, “Borrowing Trouble”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024:
glosses: To think less of (someone) for (something they have done).
microcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcode
microcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microcode
unalchemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalchemical
form: most unalchemical
Etymology: From un- + alchemical.
Senses: glosses: Not alchemical.
yasak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yasaks
form: iasak
form: yasaq
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ясак (jasak), from Turkic.
Senses: glosses: An in-kind tribute in Imperial Russia exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia, usually in fur.
Ursuline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ursulines
Senses: glosses: One of a Roman Catholic female religious order whose patron saint is Saint Ursula.
Ursulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ursuline
fundamental forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamental force
fused sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fused sentence
futtocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futtock
Neandertal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neandertals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Neanderthal.
Neandertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Neandertal ancestors
glosses: Alternative spelling of Neanderthal.
nephralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephralgias
Etymology: From nephr- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: Neuralgia (i.e. pain) of the kidneys.
Derived terms: nephralgic
breakies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakie
start out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts out
form: starting out
form: started out
form: started out
Senses: glosses: To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
examples: text: I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.
ref: 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102
glosses: To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.
examples: text: He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
text: It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.
ref: 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:
glosses: To begin.
negativize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: negativizes
form: negativizing
form: negativized
form: negativized
Etymology: From negative + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible to negativize dame and say dame zya nai 'it isn't no-good', to deny dame' da; but you can not negativize ikenai, so that instead of *ikenaku nai you will say wa'ruku nai 'it isn't bad'.
ref: 2004, Samuel Elmo Martin, A reference grammar of Japanese, page 80:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make negative.
Related terms: negate
negativization
negativizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negativize
negativizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of negativize
negativized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negativize
negativizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negativization
defrizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɹɪz/
Forms: form: defrizzes
form: defrizzing
form: defrizzed
form: defrizzed
Etymology: From de- + frizz.
Senses: examples: text: He's defrizzed my hair and penciled it in as flowing curls, pared down my weight, added several inches to my height and given my outfit a designer edge.
ref: 2003, Jacqueline Wilson, Girls Out Late:
glosses: To remove the frizz from (hair).
defrizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defrizz
defrizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defrizz
defrizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defrizz
noncurly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + curly.
Senses: glosses: Not curly.
uncurly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more uncurly
form: most uncurly
Etymology: From un- + curly.
Senses: glosses: Not curly.
curlest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: curl + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of curl
curleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: curl + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curl
disafforests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disafforest
disafforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disafforest
disafforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disafforest
kamishimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上下 (“upper and lower”).
Senses: glosses: the haori and hakama as a set; especially, one using a sleeveless haori with flared shoulders worn by certain samurai during the Edo Period.
antisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisexual
form: most antisexual
Etymology: From anti- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: But as the Church through the centuries grew in power and scope - with its monks and their mutilations and asceticisms, and its celibate clergy, and its absolute refusal to recognize the sexual meaning of its own acclaimed symbols (like the Cross, the three fingers of Benediction, the Fleur de Lys and so forth) - it more and more consistently defined itself as anti-sexual in its outlook, and stood out in that way in marked contrast to the earlier Nature-religions.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 181:
text: As more and more heterosexual Americans become aware of homosexuals as human beings instead of archetypes of evil, antisexual society once again needs to find a new class of perverts loathsome enough to serve as the vehicles for the general suppression of sexual deviance.
ref: 2001, Russell Kick, You are being lied to:
glosses: Opposing or disapproving of sexual intercourse.
examples: text: Among this group are the solanacei alkaloids, that have a decided anti-sexual tendency. Such plants and similar anaphrodisiacs were often used, especially in the Middle Ages, to promote asceticism and, in the case of monks, to diminish fleshly desires.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11:
glosses: Suppressing or reducing sexual desire; anaphrodisiac.
Derived terms: antisexualist
antisexuality
antisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisexuals
Etymology: From anti- + sexual.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:antisexual.
glosses: One who is opposed to sex or to (teaching, researching, expressing, etc) sexuality.
Related terms: celibacy
antisextets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisextet
antitriplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitriplet
antitrinitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitrinitarian
antisleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: In answer to his inquiry about the nature of the problem, the Major indicated that Ward had been working irregular hours at the installation and had been sleeping very little, keeping himself awake with coffee and antisleep pills.
ref: 1973, Norman D. Sundberg, Leona Elizabeth Tyler, Julian R. Taplin, Clinical psychology; expanding horizons:
glosses: Countering sleep.