cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweetness and light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌswiːtnəs n̩ ˈlaɪt/
ipa: /ˌswitnəs n̩ ˈlaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: First used by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in “A Full and True Account of the Battel Fought Last Friday, between the Antient and the Modern Books in St. James’s Library”, known as “The Battle of the Books”, which was originally published in A Tale of a Tub (1704): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: The Difference is, that inſtead of Dirt and Poiſon, we have rather choſe to fill our Hives with Honey and Wax, thus furniſhing Mankind with the two Nobleſt of Things, which are Sweetneſs and Light.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “A Full and True Account of the Battel Fought Last Friday, between the Antient and the Modern Books in St. James’s Library”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], published 1705, →OCLC, page 251:
text: Sorrow and disillusionment racked William Mulliner like a physical pain. That his friends inside there, in spite of the fact that he had been all sweetness and light and had not done a thing to them, should have thrown him out into the hard street was the saddest thing he had ever heard of; and for some minutes he sat there, weeping silently.
ref: 1927 April 9, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Story of William”, in Meet Mr. Mulliner, London: Herbert Jenkins […], published 27 September 1927, →OCLC, page 186:
text: The working relationship between Amtrak and the contracting railroads, and the Government for that matter, is not, and has never been all sweetness and light, and many railroads still find the passenger train to be a hindrance to the beloved freight.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 164:
text: So it transpired, though not everything at Garmisch was sweetness and light. The leader of the British team, Arnold Lunn, the "father of alpine ski racing" and a British public school amateur to the core, was a conservative Catholic who disliked the "professionalism" of National Socialist sport.
ref: 2003, Richard Holt, “Great Britain: The Amateur Tradition”, in Arnd Krüger, William [J.] Murray, editors, The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Mailing lists are not all sweetness and light, though. Joining a mailing list is a little complex. It requires people to know how to join, sign up with an email address, respond to the mail, and know where to send messages.
ref: 2009 August, Jono Bacon, “Communicating Clearly”, in Andy Oram, Simon St. Laurent, editors, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 72:
qualifier: often in the negative or ironic
glosses: That which is good, pleasant, pure, etc.
wikipedia: A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
The Battle of the Books
Related terms: sunshine and rainbows
scytalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scytale + -one, from Latin scytale, from Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetralone derivative involved in certain redox reactions.
sadfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadfucks
Etymology: From sad + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: listen, sadfuck, your message gives your age as about 12 years old. Justifying a torrent of rather pathetic abuse by a supposedly politically correct standpoint is not only cliched but damages the image of the people you purportedly represent.
ref: 1995, Count Zero, “CONSERVANAZIS (o 2/2”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
text: Perverts, sadfucks, tourists, minor celebs, sports stars, lawyers, politicians, out-of-town business men and nobodies who'd saved up for six months, SweetHearts had the lot - drunken boys of all ages and professions.
ref: 2006, Jo-Ann Goodwin, Sweet gum:
glosses: A contemptible or pathetic person; a loser.
sadfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadfuck
sadgurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadguru
satgurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satguru
Taswegians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Taswegian
eobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eobiont
hypersalinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersalinities
Etymology: From hyper- + salinity.
Senses: glosses: Abnormally high salinity.
saltmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From salt + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of salt.
Related terms: saltmaker
saltern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːltə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: salterns
Etymology: From Old English sealtærn, from sealt (“salt”) + ærn (“place, building”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands.
glosses: A modern saltworks.
salterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltern
CO$
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Church of Scientology
Sargonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sargonids
Etymology: From Sargon + -id.
Senses: glosses: A member of the ancient civilisation ruled by Sargon of Akkad.
Sargonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sargonid
saprophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saprophages
Etymology: From sapro- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: A detritivore.
glosses: A degenerate person; a wastrel.
Derived terms: saprophagan
Related terms: saprophagous
saprophagy
saprophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saprophage
auxanography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐξάνειν (auxánein, “to grow”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the effects of changes in environment on the growth of microorganisms.
Related terms: auxanogram
auxanogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxanograms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐξάνειν (auxánein, “to grow”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A culture of microorganisms used in auxanography.
auxanograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxanogram
nonauxetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + auxetic.
Senses: glosses: Not auxetic.
nonauxin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + auxin.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Not of or pertaining to auxin.
Kez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Senses: examples: text: She grabbed Kerry by the shoulders. Kez was still screaming. Vicki shook her. “Kerry, it's not real,” she whispered.
ref: 2003, Sue Simpson, Keepers of the Quantum: Lizard's Leap Two:
text: She doesn't like the way he orders Kerry around either. 'Kez'll make ya one,' he'd said automatically when Madeline said she'd love a nice cup of tea.
ref: 2004, Margaret Metz, Live by the Bottle:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Kerry.
intrigoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrigo
luffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luffas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loofah.
luffas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luffa
unthrifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unthriftier
form: unthriftiest
Etymology: From Middle English unthrifty. By surface analysis, un + thrifty.
Senses: glosses: Not thrifty: wasteful, extravagant; unproductive.
scarecrowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarecrowish
form: most scarecrowish
Etymology: From scarecrow + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scarecrow.
scarecrowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarecrowlike
form: most scarecrowlike
Etymology: From scarecrow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scarecrow.
enginery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/
Forms: form: engineries
form: enginrie
Etymology: From engine + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Training his devilish enginery.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
examples: text: [B]ehold / Not diſtant far with heavie pace the Foe / Approaching groſs and huge; in hollow Cube / Training his deviliſh Enginrie, impal'd / On every ſide with ſhaddowing Squadrons Deep, / To hide the fraud.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
examples: text: To play some image on the gaping crowd,
Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose,
Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome
ref: a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey:
text: 'Mid that hush of soul
Music from viewless harps shall visit thee,
Such as thou never heard'st amid the din
Of earth's coarse enginery, by toil and care
Urged on, without reprieve.
ref: 1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Evening Thoughts, page 67:
glosses: Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
engineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enginery
vehemency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vehemencies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vehementia.
Senses: examples: text: Preachers know that the emotion which surpriseth them whilst they are in their earnest speech doth animate them towards belief, and that being angrie we more violently give our selves to defend our proposition, emprint it in our selves, and embrace the same with more vehemencie and approbation than we did being in our temperate and reposed sense.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The truth of my Third Accuſation is confeſt, but the guilt, not acknovvledged; ſince that vvhich excites men to endleſs bavvlings, and altercations; Schiſms, Hereſies and Rebellions, by the vehemencies of Diſpute, is it ſeems vvith our Author no more noxious and criminal, then the Sun that ſtirrs men up to their vvork in the morning, by the importunity of it's beams.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, “Scire/i tuum nihil est: Or, The Authors Defence of the Vanity of Dogmatizing; against the Exceptions of the Learned Tho. Albius [i.e., Thomas White] in His Late Sciri”, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: Vehemence.
vehemencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vehemency
vehemences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vehemence
undiscerned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + discerned.
Senses: glosses: That has not been discerned.
retroflect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retroflects
form: retroflecting
form: retroflected
form: retroflected
Senses: glosses: To turn or redirect back at itself.
Related terms: reflect
retroflexion
retroflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retroflect
retroflects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retroflect
retroflected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retroflect
lincrusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lincrustas
Senses: examples: text: The walls of the room were done in lincrusta, painted a glossy chocolate brown.
ref: 2006, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Virago Press, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Lincrusta.
Lincrusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Marketing coinage of the 1870s, probably from linseed and crust.
Senses: synonyms: Lincrusta-Walton
glosses: A wallcovering made from a paste of gelled linseed oil and woodflour spread on heavy canvas and embossed with a pattern.
woodflour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodflours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wood flour.
woodflours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodflour
wood flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood flours
form: woodflour
Senses: glosses: Finely pulverized wood with a sand-like consistency.
Coordinate terms: excelsior
sawdust
woodchips
woodmeal
woodshavings
woodwool
wood wool
mesmerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesmerist
mesmerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesmerism
ghostship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostships
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ghost ship.
ghostships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostship
antiabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + abuse.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering abuse.
at worst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at the worst
Senses: examples: text: It looks like rain, but let's go out anyway. At worst, we'll only get wet.
glosses: If the worst possible alternative happens (especially in an otherwise positive situation).
unfastidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfastidious
form: most unfastidious
Etymology: From un- + fastidious.
Senses: synonyms: nonfastidious
glosses: Not fastidious.
Derived terms: unfastidiously
unfastidiousness
unfastidiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfastidious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfastidious.
unfastidiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfastidiously
form: most unfastidiously
Etymology: From unfastidious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He crawled unfastidiously to the next bunker furthest from the sea, descended its face, and disturbed an old ewe.
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co.:
glosses: In an unfastidious manner.
suspecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspecters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suspector.
suspecters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspecter
suspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspectors
form: suspecter
Etymology: From suspect + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who suspects.
suspectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspector
unsackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsackable
form: most unsackable
Etymology: From un- + sackable.
Senses: examples: text: For Alan Jones to win a GPS rugby premiership in his maiden year would have made him heroic as well as unsackable. And he almost did it.
ref: 2007, Chris Masters, Jonestown: the power and the myth of Alan Jones:
glosses: Impossible to sack (expel from one's job).
Synonyms: unfirable
uffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭf'ĭsh
ipa: /ˈʌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more uffish
form: most uffish
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll. From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."
Senses: examples: text: And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!
ref: 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)
text: The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
text: Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.
ref: 1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:
glosses: grumpy, ill-tempered
gruffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more gruffish
form: most gruffish
Etymology: From gruff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He answered the telephone in a gruffish voice.
glosses: Somewhat gruff.
unsilent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + silent.
Senses: glosses: Not silent.
silenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silenceable
form: most silenceable
Etymology: From silence + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being silenced.
indefectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈfɛktɪbəl/
Forms: form: more indefectible
form: most indefectible
Etymology: From in- + defect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to resist defect or failure, permanent, lasting.
synonyms: flawless
glosses: Without flaw or defect, perfect.
Derived terms: indefectibly
inclinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inclinable
form: most inclinable
Etymology: From incline + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an inclinable desk
antonyms: uninclinable
glosses: Capable of being inclined or tilted.
examples: text: He seemed inclinable to peace, if we negotiated skilfully.
text: [T]hey [Parliament] ſeemed inclinable to abate the renunciation of the Covenant, the aſſent and conſent to the diſpenſing vvith Ceremonyes, the reforming the Biſhops Courts, the taking avvay of Pluralityes, the rectifying of Excommunications, the puniſhing of ſcandalous Clergymen, and ſeverall things of this nature, […]
ref: 1668 March 27 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Andrew Marvell, “[Andrew Marvell’s Letters to the Corporation of Hull.] Letter LXV. Mr. Anthony Lambert, Mayor.”, in The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq.: Poetical, Controversial, and Political, […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, and sold by [James] Dodsley, […], published 1776, →OCLC, page 98:
antonyms: uninclinable
glosses: Capable of being inclined, or given a tendency.
Derived terms: inclinableness
uninclinable
defectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛktɪbəl/
Forms: form: more defectible
form: most defectible
Etymology: From defect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: deficient; imperfect
Derived terms: defectibility
semidiurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + diurnal.
Senses: glosses: Twice daily (usually of tides).
glosses: Accomplished in half a day.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Flying in twilight.
tenendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenendums
Etymology: From Latin tenendum.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: tenendas
glosses: The clause in a deed wherein the tenure of the land is defined and limited.
tenendas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of tenendum.
synonyms: word: tenendum
asylum seekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asylum seeker
arsenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arsenated
form: most arsenated
Senses: glosses: Treated, mixed or reacted with arsenic or an arsenate
biphenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biphenylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formed from two benzene rings joined by two adjacent single bonds; any derivative of this compound
bipyridinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipyridiniums
Etymology: From bipyridine + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent cation derived from bipyridine
bushtucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bush tucker.
decavanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkəˈvænədeɪt/
Forms: form: decavanadates
Etymology: From deca- + vanadate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex oxyanion of vanadium, V₁₀O₂₈⁶⁻, composed of ten vanadate octahedra; any salt containing this anion
decavanadates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decavanadate
dendrimersome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrimersomes
Etymology: From dendrimer + -some.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A self-assembled structure, resembling a simple biological cell, consisting of a bilayer of dendrimers
dicoronene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicoronenes
Etymology: From di- + coronene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of two coronene residues joined by a single bond
North Australia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short-lived colony (1846-1847) formed by combining what are now the regions of Queensland and the Northern Territory.
glosses: A short-lived territory (1927–1931) consisting of the northern part of what is now the Northern Territory.
eluotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
chromatography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the power of a mobile phase to elute materials from a given stationary phase
feedstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedstreams
form: feed stream
Etymology: From feed + stream.
Senses: glosses: A fluid feedstock.
feedstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedstream
flibanserin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contains -anserin (“serotonin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that may be used to treat decreased libido in women
fundamentalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fundamentalistic
form: most fundamentalistic
Etymology: From fundamental + -istic or fundamentalist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Fundamentalist.
Derived terms: fundamentalistically
furosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound formed by the hydrolysis of Amadori compounds in food; its level in processed foods is a measure of heat treatment
Amadori compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amadori compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of derivatives of aminodeoxysugars formed in food as part of the Maillard reactions
Related terms: Amadori rearrangement
halichondrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halichondrins
Etymology: From translingual Halichondria + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of macrocyclic polyethers initially isolated from sponges of the genus Halichondria
Derived terms: homohalichondrin
norhalichondrin
hexaazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + azide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyazide having six azide units
polyazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyazides
Etymology: From poly- + azide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having multiple azide groups; they are exceptionally explosive
hydroseeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + seeding.
Senses: glosses: A method of seeding (used especially with grass) that uses a slurry of seed in water
mercaptobenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mercaptan and benzoic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a mercaptobenzoic acid or its derivatives
mercaptobenzoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptobenzoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric carboxylic acids related to hydroxybenzoic acids by replacing the hydroxy group with a thiol
buryal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buryals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of burial.
buryals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buryal
coachlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coachlike
form: most coachlike
Etymology: From coach + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a coach (traditional horse-drawn vehicle).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a coach (sports trainer).
coachless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coach + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a coach (vehicle).
glosses: Without a coach (trainer or tutor).
overfloweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: overflow + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overflow
garbages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of garbage
garbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In market areas the commercial people provides necessary incentives to the municipal sweepers to keep the area clean of garbages. The problem is the "disposal" of the garbage.
ref: 1980, Calcutta Municipal Gazette, volume 98, page 1787:
text: It is a common observation that garbages are scattered around the slums. The respondents complained that the municipal sweepers seldom bother to collect the accumulated garbages from around the slums.
ref: 1994, Najmir Nur Begum, Centre for Family Services, Low-income families of metropolitan Dhaka, page 98:
glosses: Garbage; waste; refuse.
Eurodeputy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurodeputies
Etymology: From Euro- + deputy.
Senses: glosses: An MEP (Member of the European Parliament).
Eurodeputies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurodeputy
jail-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jail-bird
gaol-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaol-birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gaolbird.
gaol-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaol-bird
first-footing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of first footing.
fakest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fake: most fake
emvowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emvowel
emvowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emvowel
elurophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ailurophobia.
aelurophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aelurophobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophobe.
aelurophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aelurophobe
td
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: one day I'll shut up about our szn but not td...look how cute🥹💙
ref: 2023 May 6, @nylaanastasiaa, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
text: I know hundreds of millions of ppl tail my plays everyday^([sic]) & I only got 69 likes (nice) on my recap of 9-1 winning days & 5 sweeps in 7 days so making ya'll work for it td 🤝🏽
ref: 2023 June 22, @__LordPenguin, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
text: forgot I had a 2-3 page essay due td .. I'm gonna kms
ref: 2023 September 18, @jackiemendozuh, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
text: i just fasted for three days and broke it td, is it normal for my stomach to hurt like hell? 😭😭i feel like i'm boutta puke
ref: 2023 September 22, @edtwtus3r, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
glosses: Abbreviation of today.
td
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of table data (standard cells that contains data, no table headers).
Related terms: th
Socinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Socinian
panmixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin panmixis, from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “every, all”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Panmixia.
practical joker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practical jokers
Etymology: From practical joke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with the boyish smile. But they realize he needs to be different now, much harder and deaf to distractions, or else his country might not survive.
ref: December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
glosses: Someone who instigates practical jokes; a prankster.
practical jokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practical joker
triangulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triangulable
form: most triangulable
Senses: glosses: Capable of being triangulated
controlledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From controlled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The degree to which something is controlled
substratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substratifications
Etymology: From sub- + stratification.
Senses: glosses: A comparatively lower stratification
substratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substratification
khaddars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khaddar
butylparaben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butyl + paraben.
Senses: glosses: A paraben, the butyl ester of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, used as an antifungal preservative in cosmetics.
injectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more injectively
form: most injectively
Etymology: From injective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to injection; in an injective manner
fontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fontal
form: most fontal
Etymology: From font + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or from a spring or fountain.
glosses: Of or relating to a font (used in baptisms).
glosses: Of, relating to, or being a source for something.
Derived terms: fontally
lampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampases
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A type of luxury fabric with a background weft.
lampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampass
form: lampers
Etymology: From French lampas.
Senses: glosses: An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the palate immediately behind the foreteeth in a horse.
zenzizenzic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zenzizenzics
form: zenzi zenzick
Etymology: Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.
Senses: examples: text: Take the Zenzizenzike Number of the last Quotient Figure, and with the 3 numbers last above-mentioned, add them (duely placed one nearer than another to the Right Hand) into one total Gnonom, and subtract the same from the given Number : And if the number have more Pricks than 2, the work in the second, third, fourth and fifth Directions is to be repeated.
ref: 1701, Samuel Jeake, A compleat body of arithmetic, in four books, T. Newborough, page 200:
text: While this is the least accurate of the four approximations discussed here, it has the charm that the numerator is the zenzizenzic of 4 […]
ref: 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, page 253:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zenzizenzic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.
ingestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingestors
Senses: glosses: One who or that which ingests.
kbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kbars
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of kilobar.
Mahal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Dhivehi language
dif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪf
Forms: form: difs
Senses: examples: text: What's the dif? You won't have to pay it.
ref: 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:
glosses: Alternative form of diff (“difference”).
khoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khowa
form: khoya
Etymology: From Hindi खोआ (khoā)/खोया (khoyā).
Senses: glosses: A South Asian dairy product made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating.
khoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of concrete, of broken brick, lime, etc., used for floors and terrace roofs.
petrocortyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrocortynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cytotoxic polyacetylenes extracted from marine sponges of the family Petrosiidae
phlogistonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlogistonists
Etymology: From phlogiston + -ist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An early chemist who studied the presumed material phlogiston.
photoacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoacids
Etymology: From photo- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound converted into a strong acid by photolysis.
photoacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoacid
polyazides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyazide
repositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repositors
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument used to reposition a displaced organ
tetraazidomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The exceptionally explosive compound C(N₃)₄
undercited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercited
form: most undercited
Etymology: From under- + cited.
Senses: glosses: Having fewer citations that would be expected
Related terms: word: undercitation
english: produced using plagiarism; adjective (past participle)
translation: produced using plagiarism; adjective (past participle)
word: plagiarized
amplexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛksəs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin amplexus (“embrace”).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we came upon a pair of Panamanian robber frogs locked in amplexus—the amphibian version of sex.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
text: In the middle, just below the surface, a male and a female were locked in amplexus, a coupling that can last for days as the male waits to fertilise the eggs when they are laid.
ref: 2018 March 29, Ed Douglas, “Country diary: tantric embraces and nuptial pads – the secrets of frog sex revealed”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: amplection//amplexion
amplexation
glosses: A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In vernation, the situation where two sides of one leaf overlap the two sides of the one above it.
Related terms: amplect
amplection
amplexion
amplex
amplexation
amplexus reservatus
brittlestar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brittlestars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brittle star.
broadacre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broad + acre.
Senses: examples: text: Higher prices for most major broadacre commodities, including wheat, wool and beef, contributed to a large increase in profits for the majority of Australia′s broadacre farms in 2001-02.
ref: 2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book, Australia, page 423:
text: The survey covers broadacre agriculture across all of Australia (see Figure 20.1), but excludes small and hobby farms.
ref: 2010, Roberto Benedetti, Federica Piersimoni, Marco Bee, Agricultural Survey Methods, page 232:
text: Broadacre organic farmers − farmers of sheep, beef and cereals − of the inland and the semiarid interior were particularly active in adapting organic production methods to Australian conditions.
ref: 2011, Rebecca Jones, Green Harvest: A History of Organic Farming and Gardening in Australia, page 17:
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or suitable for large-scale farming.
broadax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadaxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of broadaxe.
broadaxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadaxes
form: broadax
Etymology: From broad + axe.
Senses: glosses: A large axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon and also used for hewing timber.
Mlle.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mlles.
Senses: examples: text: The Ravel company, which then included Gabriel, Antoine, Dominique, Jerome, Francois, Jean, (aged 8 years) Leon Javelli, Eugene Fenelon, (orchestra leader) Mme. Eugene Fenelon, Mme. Jerome, and Mlles. Elizabeth and Adele, commenced on the 12th, with the pantomime of “Vol-au-Vent,” feats of agility and rope-dancing, and alternated with the dramatic company throughout the season.
ref: 1867, Joseph N[orton] Ireland, Records of the New York Stage, from 1750 to 1860, volume II, New York, N.Y.: T. H. Morrell, […], page 256:
text: The general and his wife, two sisters of the general—Mlles. Alexandra and Eudoxia—two sisters of the general’s wife—Mlles. Marie and Pauline—occupied the second story with a young orphan niece, Helen Avatov; […]
ref: 1906, Ivan Strannik [pseudonym; Anna Aníchkova], The Shadow of the House, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 3:
text: She even sent one of these from France during the summer of 1913 when Mlle. Louise Bertraine, who taught French at St Christopher’s, took Enid for a memorable holiday to her home in Annecy.
ref: 1974, Barbara Stoney, Enid Blyton: The Biography, The History Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of Mlle.
Mlles.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mlle.
rossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosser
miscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɒpi/
Forms: form: miscopies
Etymology: From mis- + copy.
Senses: glosses: An imperfect copy.
miscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɒpi/
Forms: form: miscopies
form: miscopying
form: miscopied
form: miscopied
Etymology: From mis- + copy.
Senses: glosses: To copy incorrectly; to copy with mistakes.
miscopying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscopyings
Senses: examples: text: The rectifying ſuch Miſentries, or Miſcopyings, are not Amendments of Faults in a Record, (for that faulty miſtaken Entry is not really the Record) but making true Entries of the Record.
ref: 1702 December 6 (Gregorian calendar), Mr. Broderick, quotee, “The Tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell, and John Spurr, […]”, in A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; […], volume 4, London: […] Timothy Goodwin, […], published 1719, →OCLC, page 681, column 1:
text: It is no reaſonable Objection to God’s revealed Religion, that Men differ about the Number of Books, that they receive for canonical, or apocryphal, or that there are Obliterations, or Miſcopyings, or Miſtranſlations, in ſome Things in them, or that above thirty Books are mentioned in the holy Scriptures that are loſt; […]
ref: 1749, “The Summary”, in An Essay on Atheism and Deism: or, Deism Prov’d to Be Worse than Atheism; […], London: […] H[enry] Carpenter, […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: Just occasionally there are muddles or miscopyings by the scribes (there were two working on the manuscript), where the obviously correct reading, such as supplying a missing negative or changing a name, is confirmed by [William] Caxton.
ref: 1998, Helen Cooper, “Note on the Text”, in Thomas Malory, edited by Helen Cooper, Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xxiii:
text: The “Babylonian” recension of Tg. Lam. was, then, taken to the Yemen, where it was faithfully copied. In the process of transmission there it underwent minor modification, in addition to the usual hazards of miscopying, and in some mss the text was augmented by secondary expansions.
ref: 2007, Philip S. Alexander, “The Language of Targum Lamentations”, in The Targum of Lamentations […] (The Aramaic Bible; 17B), Collegeville, Minn.: A Michael Glazier Book, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 14:
glosses: The act of something being miscopied.
miscopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscopy
miscopied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscopy
miscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscopy
miscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscopy
epitheliod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpəˈθili.əd/
Senses: glosses: Resembling epithelium.
CQC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of close quarters combat.
Related terms: sense: close quarters combat
word: CQB
sense: close quarters combat
word: CQBW
CQC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Care Quality Commission.
fringey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fringier
form: fringiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fringy.
fringe-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fringier
form: fringiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fringy.
solebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solebars
form: sole-bar
Etymology: From sole + bar.
Senses: examples: text: The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
text: The shuttle locomotive body is a conventional stress-skin monocoque structure, with longitudinal members at solebar and cantrail levels.
ref: 1995, Roger Ford, “Locomotives”, in Colin J. Kirkland, editor, Engineering the Channel Tunnel, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, Rolling stock, page 178:
text: The bolster to solebar weld on one side, and the weld between the solebar and the front headstock on the other side had broken completely.
ref: 2001, A.P.Brights, N. Kirk, S. Manteghi and P.J. Murrell, edited by Brain S. Neale, Forensic engineering: the investigation of failures, Thomas Telford, →ISBN, Ladbroke Grove crashworthiness accident investigation, page 16:
text: [...] the original Chalice built coaches have a deep solebar, while the Keef coaches were much shallower.
ref: 2001, Peter Scott, A History of the Butlin's Railways: The Story of Billy Butlin's Amusement Park and Holiday Camp Miniature Railways, Including Other Associated Railways and Transport Systems, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Sometimes the door also cuts off main structural components such as the solebar or cantrail.
ref: 2005, Jan Prockat, Developing large structural parts for railway application using a fibre reinforced polymer design, Univerlagtuberlin, →ISBN, Lightweight Design, page 44:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: One of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor.
Synonyms: word: side sill
Related terms: cantrail
solebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solebar
clapper talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of Chinese narrative singing accompanied by a pair of clappers.
tuah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -uːə
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: glosses: The sound of spitting.
Derived terms: hawk tuah
becak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: becak
Etymology: From Indonesian becak, from Hokkien 馬車 /马车 (bé-chhia).
Senses: glosses: A cycle rickshaw.
Related terms: bajaj
overcorrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcorrections
Etymology: From over- + correction.
Senses: examples: text: The statement follows criticism that it depicted specific white figures (like the US Founding Fathers) or groups like Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color, possibly as an overcorrection to long-standing racial bias problems in AI.
ref: 2024 February 21, Adi Robertson, “Google apologizes for “missing the mark” after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis”, in The Verge:
antonyms: undercorrection
glosses: The correction of something to an excessive degree, usually resulting in an error in the opposite direction.
Related terms: hypercorrection
overcorrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcorrection
unbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbɹɛd/
Etymology: From un- + bred.
Senses: glosses: Untaught or untrained.
glosses: Not born.
glosses: Not well-bred; ill-bred.
unbred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbɹɛd/
Etymology: From un- + bred.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbreed
difs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dif
Church of Scientology
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of Scientology
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the largest organisation promoting Scientology.
Related terms: Free Zone
input/output
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The flow of information to and from human users or other client systems.
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: I/O
Hungaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋˈɡɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /hʌŋˈɡɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Hungaria. Doublet of Hungary.
Senses: examples: text: From Rome did Pope Innocent the fourth ſend Ambaſſadors, by entreaties to preuent their armes, when as they had already ouer-runne (beſides thoſe countries which ſtill beare their name) Ruſsia, Polonia, Sleſia, Morauia, Hungaria, euen as farre as Austria.
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 335:
glosses: Hungary
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively small asteroid orbiting in the inner asteroid belt.
figures out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of figure out
figuring out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurings out
Senses: examples: text: The new email system takes some figuring out, but you'll soon notice the improvements.
glosses: Reasoning, logic.
figuring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of figure out
figured out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of figure out