cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ideolectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: By confusing the prefix idio- with the unrelated but homophone ideo-.
Senses: examples: text: The picture thus encourages our drift into the idea that each of us has some sort of privileged access to the character of his own understanding of an expression ; each of us knows of an ideolectic pattern of use, for which there is a strong presumption, when sufficient evidence has accumulated, that it is shared communally.
ref: 1980, Crispin Wright, Wittgenstein on the foundations of mathematics, →ISBN, page 217:
text: But the interpretation of neologisms is manifold and there is much more cognitive linguistic space to navigate in, and meaning assignation may be different for each participant according to his/her own ideolectic semantic and phonetic networks.
ref: 1984, Marlene Dolitsky, Under the Tumtum Tree, →ISBN:
text: In such ideolectic transpositions the danger exists to forget that finally all talking about God remains figurative language not to be literalized and that, on the other side, in the descriptions of divine activities of the Hebrew Bible female features are not lacking.
ref: 1996, Magne Sæbø, Christianus Brekelmans, Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of idiolectic.
whisky seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whisky seats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whiskey seat.
whisky seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisky seat
whiskey seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskey seats
form: whisky seat
Senses: glosses: A seat at the end of a row in a theater, allowing the patron to leave (e.g. to go for a drink at the bar) without disturbing others by asking them to move.
whiskey seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskey seat
interspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interspects
form: interspecting
form: interspected
form: interspected
Etymology: From inter- + -spect.
Senses: examples: text: Also, we interspect certain admonitions and cautions concerning such fallacies of things, and errors in invention, as we meet with in our way.
ref: 1859, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England:
text: Studies conducted for women in urban poor have indicated that they interspect the weightage to work & home in a different way ie.^([sic]) house is the first priority.
ref: 1995, Women, Housing, and Human Settlements, page 367:
text: Class II: The second class of attack is called replay attack. In it an interspected biometric data is submitted to the feature extractor by passing the sensor.
ref: 2011, Archana Mantri, Suman Nandi Saraswati Kendra, Gaurav Kumar, High Performance Architecture and Grid Computing, →ISBN:
glosses: To examine or evaluate the relationships between.
examples: text: This chasm runs a great length, and is not only always green, but interspected with cataracts of falling water, the delightful murmurings of which add to the solemnity and solitude of the place.
ref: 1757, A compendium of a journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, pages 125–126:
text: In 1670 this plain, was by order of Colbert planted with trees, forming several walks interspected with grass plats.
ref: 1850 -, What I saw in Paris during Easter 1849:
text: ...while the commissioned officers wore their rank badges, of the same kind and size as they wear them nowadays on their shoulderflaps (one to four short golden stripes for the second lieutenant, the lieutenant, the captain and the commandant respectively, three golden stripes with two silver ones interspected between them for the lieutenant-colonel, five golden stripes for a full colonel, two stars equidistant from the cuff rim for a brigadier, ...
ref: 1975, Marcel Roubiçek, Echo of the Bugle:
glosses: To appear at intervals within
interspects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interspect
interspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interspect
interspected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interspect
whip pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip pans
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A type of pan shot in which the camera pans so quickly that the picture blurs into indistinct streaks, commonly used as a transition.
whip pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whip pan
PIVKAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIVKA
subaddressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subaddress
subaddressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subaddress
ensew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensews
form: ensewing
form: ensewed
form: ensewed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ensue.
ensews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensew
ensewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensew
ensewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensew
enactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktəɹi
Senses: glosses: Serving to enact something, such as a law.
Encaenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Encaenia
encalm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encalms
form: encalming
form: encalmed
form: encalmed
Etymology: From en- + calm.
Senses: glosses: To make calm; to calm down.
encalmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encalm
encalms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encalm
encalming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encalm
enjamb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enjambs
form: enjambing
form: enjambed
form: enjambed
Etymology: Borrowed from French enjamber.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: To carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause.
Related terms: enjambment
enjambs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enjamb
enjambing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enjamb
erepsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erepsin
ereptase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ereptases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of erepsin.
synonyms: word: erepsin
ereptases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ereptase
erethitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving a blushing or reddening.
escortage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escortages
Senses: glosses: The act of escorting somebody.
escortages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escortage
oestrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oestrum
estrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estrum
etiolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etiolin
eurhythmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurhythmies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eurythmy.
eurythermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurythermous
form: most eurythermous
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eurythermal.
synonyms: word: eurythermal
eurhythmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurhythmy
eventings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eventing
werewolfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more werewolfy
form: most werewolfy
Etymology: From werewolf + -y.
Senses: synonyms: werewolfish
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.
word family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word families
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the current study goes beyond previous wordlist development by contributing accompanying pedagogical lists containing word associations (i.e. collocations) and word families.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: language teaching
glosses: A set of etymologically related words consisting of a single word with its inflections and derivations, such as walk, walked, walks, walking, walkings, walker, walkers, walkies, walkable, walkathon.
word families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word family
evangelics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evangelic
exhaustivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhaustivity
homoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoforms
Etymology: From homo- + form.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One of two or more etymologically and semantically unrelated words with the same orthographical form (spelling), or phonetic form (pronunciation); a homonym, homograph, or homophone.
homoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoform
excitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: propensity to excite or stimulate
excitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excitances
Senses: glosses: propensity to excite or stimulate
excitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excitance
type-token ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type-token ratios
form: TTR
Senses: examples: text: We identify vocabulary richness by using a well-established measure of textual, lexical diversity (MTLD) which is often used in the field of automated essay grading. It takes into account the number of unique words but unlike the best-known measure of lexical diversity, the type-token ratio (TTR), it is not as sensitive to the difference in the length of the texts.
ref: 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 5:
qualifier: corpus linguistics
glosses: The ratio of the number of different words (types) occurring in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.
Related terms: type-token distinction
type-token ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type-token ratio
red horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: corned beef
firefloat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefloats
Etymology: From fire + float.
Senses: glosses: A fireboat.
firefloats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firefloat
fuguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fugue
intervehicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + vehicular.
Senses: examples: text: The other phase of the total program was concerned with the identification and evaluation of factors relative to intervehicular compatibility and effective crash energy control for car-to-car headon inpacts and is reported herein.
ref: 1971, Norman J. Deleys, Underride/override of Automobile Front Structures in Intervehicular Collisions:
text: Delay is not dependent on the length of the link, while other factors such as intervehicular and signal delays are accounted for.
ref: 2004, Der-Horng Lee, David E. Boyce, Urban and Regional Transportation Modeling, →ISBN:
text: The following discussion on intervehicular dynamics will therefore provide a space for these discussions which principally involve the professional driver's reality in a majority of non-rural freeway circumstances of navigating a fluid stream of vehicular traffic in which other vehicles can represent slowing obstructions to freeway-vacant ideal travel speed at best (such as in high-traffic situations), or lethal collisional objects at worst.
ref: 2015, Paul Maravelias, Advanced Highway Driving: Tactics for Safety and Optimization, →ISBN:
glosses: Between vehicles.
interhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interhouse
form: most interhouse
Etymology: From inter- + house.
Senses: examples: text: Legislatures, with a tradition of interhouse cooperation will have no trouble transferring that habit to the area of developing and implementing a set of security policies.
ref: 1972, James J. Heaphey, Legislative Security, page 44:
text: On Harris and NORC surveys, there were six demographics that were asked and coded in sufficiently similar fashions to permit interhouse comparisons: sex, age, education, family income, marital status, and religion.
ref: 1981, Measurement of Subjective Phenomena - Volume 3, page 158:
text: Furthermore, for reasons that will by now be obvious, interhouse relations represent a paradigm for the politics of agnation at large: any competition for influence or position among patrilateral kin is, in essence, a rivalry between houses produced by a shared ancestor and reproduced across the generations, and particular units, whether or not they take the initiative in such processes, are ultimately drawn into their purview (see chap. 2).
ref: 1986, John L. Comaroff, Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: Between houses.
quarender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarenders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarrender (“type of apple”).
quarenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarender
quarenden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarendens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarrender (“type of apple”).
quarendens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarenden
queerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queerities
Senses: glosses: Queerness; something odd or strange.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Queerness, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
queerities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queerity
qualming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of qualm
qualming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualmings
Senses: examples: text: […] qualmings of the conscience relating to the Nevis family. He had trouble pinpointing the source of the unease. It was not sympathy for Nevis himself.
ref: 2010, The American Society of Magazine Editors, The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 (page 440)
glosses: A qualm.
qualmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of qualm
red avadavat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red avadavats
Senses: glosses: An estrildid finch (Amandava amandava), of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird.
red avadavats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red avadavat
actorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actor + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The manner or habits of an actor.
roll cumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll cumuli
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of stratocumulus with parallel lines of dense cloud.
roll cumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roll cumulus
connubialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connubial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Marriage; married life.
coredeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coredeems
form: coredeeming
form: coredeemed
form: coredeemed
Etymology: From co- + redeem.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To redeem jointly.
coredeems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coredeem
coredeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coredeem
coredeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coredeem
coredeemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coredeemers
Etymology: From co- + redeemer.
Senses: glosses: One who coredeems.
coredemption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + redemption.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Joint redemption.
coredeemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coredeemer
coredemptrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊɹɪˈdɛm(p)tɹɪks/
Etymology: From co- + redemptrix.
Senses: examples: text: Mary's involvement in salvation was said to make her coredemptrix along with Christ.
ref: 2001, “Mariology”, in Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 736:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: coredemptress
glosses: A female coredeemer.
sialooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialooligosaccharides
Etymology: From sialo- + oligosaccharide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sialoligosaccharide.
sialooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sialooligosaccharide
sinergistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synergistic.
in my view
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: by one's lights
to one's mind
glosses: The way I see it.
Related terms: viewpoint
pops orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pops orchestras
Senses: examples: text: I was minding my own business, tending pampered animals at my veterinary clinic, and looking forward to joining friends at an alfresco performance of the local Pops orchestra that evening.
ref: 2001, Lori Stone, The Black Squall, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Steven was admittedly an unashamed romantic, but he thought the idea of naming the concerts should be consigned to the summertime pops orchestra.
ref: 2005, Robert Bartlett, The Salem Syndrome, Nelson Publishing&Marketing, →ISBN, page 111:
text: When you hear a jazz trio or pops orchestra play the music of a song you know—provided that it is played in more or less the way you are familiar with—the words come back to you unbidden.
ref: 2014, David Jenness, Donald Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950–2000, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An orchestra that plays popular music and show tunes as well as well-known classical works.
hedge creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hedge creepers
Senses: examples: text: Leander could no longer keep her, / Away she goes with this hedge-creeper.
ref: 1653, The Loves of Hero and Leander: A Mock Poem, London, page 12:
glosses: A thief who hides amongst hedges and robs travellers on the road.
hedge creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge creeper
kts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Altitude is lost while thrust is acting to accelerate the plane from the 70 kts A/S back to 100 kts and plane drops below G/S.
ref: 1975, Combat Crew:
text: The speed should remain close to 160 kts. Never let it get below 150 kts here.
ref: 2007, Peter D. Condon, Flying the Classic Learjet:
text: Suppose, for KBOS, aircraft with 90 kts or less final approach speed include all single engine general aviation aircraft and aircraft with 160 kts or greater final approach speed include all military fighter type aircraft.
ref: 2017, Federal Aviation Administration, ORDER JO 7110.110B Dependent Converging Instrument Approaches (DCIA) with Converging Runway Display Aid (CRDA):
glosses: plural of kt: knots
snakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antimicrobial peptides present in potato
snakins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakin
socioecologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socioecology
solcoseryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hemodialysate, made from calves blood, used as a wound-healing agent
hemodialysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemodialysates
Etymology: From hemo- + dialysate.
Senses: glosses: A material prepared via hemodialysis
hemodialysates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemodialysate
sortilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortilins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of membrane glycoproteins that regulate cardiovascular activity
sortilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sortilin
spliceform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spliceforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splice form.
spliceforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spliceform
splice form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splice forms
Senses: glosses: An isoform produced by alternative splicing of RNA transcripts
splice forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splice form
stabilographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to stabilograms or to stabilography
stabilography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The construction and interpretation of stabilograms
Related terms: stabilographic
stagwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stagwatches
form: stagwatching
form: stagwatched
form: stagwatched
Etymology: From stag tree, an old hollow-bearing tree favoured as a habitat by possums, gliders and other species + watch.
Senses: examples: text: Each of the 152 survey sites was stagwatched once and the number of observers used in the survey at each site was matched with the characteristics of that site so there was at least one and often two observers assigned to each hollow-bearing tree.
ref: 2006 July 28, DB Lindenmayer, “Patterns of co‐occurrence among arboreal marsupials in the forests of central Victoria, southeastern Australia”, in Australian Journal of Ecology, volume 22, number 3, page 340:
glosses: To observe the environment of nocturnal tree-dwelling animals as they move in and out of hollows.
Related terms: stagwatching
stagwatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stagwatch
stagwatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stagwatch
stagwatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The observation of nocturnal animals
steinernematid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steinernematids
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the family Steinernematidae
steinernematids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steinernematid
stepparental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a stepparent
steroleosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dehydrogenase, present in oil-bearing seeds, that binds sterols
subalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From sub- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: Beneath an alveolus
subcardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cardial.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subcardiac.
subcongenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcongenic
subcuticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcuticles
Etymology: From sub- + cuticle.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hypodermis.
synonyms: word: hypodermis
suberimidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suberimidates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of suberimidic acid
subhippocampal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hippocampal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath (or a part of) the hippocampus
subloci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublocus
supralumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + lumbar.
Senses: glosses: Situated above (or dorsal to) a lumbar region
swollenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swollenins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, in fungi of the genus Trichoderma, that is similar to the expansins found in plants
swollenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swollenin
sympathomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the medulla oblongata and the sympathetic nervous system
Derived terms: sympathomedullary pathway
telesupport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + support.
Senses: glosses: support (for a product etc.) by telephone
Related terms: telesupporter
telesupporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telesupporters
Etymology: From tele- + supporter.
Senses: glosses: A person who supplies telesupport
telesupporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telesupporter
tenuifolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenuifolins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of biologically-active terpenoids
tenuifolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenuifolin
tenuigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A steroidal compound, present in Polygala tenuifolia, that is used in Chinese medicine as an antioxidative and antiinflammatory agent
Synonyms: senegenin
tethythere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tethytheres
Senses: glosses: Any of the clade Tethytheria of mammals, including elephants, dugongs, and manatees.
Synonyms: tethytherian
tethytherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tethytherians
Senses: glosses: Any of the clade Tethytheria of mammals, including elephants, dugongs, and manatees.
Synonyms: tethythere
tethytherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tethytherian
tetraphyllidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraphyllideans
Senses: glosses: Any tapeworm of the order Tetraphyllidea
tetraphyllideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraphyllidean
thalamogeniculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thalamo- + geniculate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the thalamus and either of the geniculate nuclei
thermostabilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermostabilises
form: thermostabilising
form: thermostabilised
form: thermostabilised
Etymology: From thermo- + stabilise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thermostabilize.
Related terms: thermostabilisation
thermostabilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thermostabilise
thermostabilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thermostabilise
thermostabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermostabilizes
form: thermostabilizing
form: thermostabilized
form: thermostabilized
form: thermostabilise
Etymology: From thermo- + stabilize.
Senses: glosses: To stabilize thermally
Related terms: thermostabilization
thiolactonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiolactonases
Etymology: From thio- + lactonase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyses a thiolactone
thrombembolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thromboembolic.
Related terms: thrombembolism
thrombembolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombembolisms
Etymology: From thromb- + embolism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thromboembolism.
Related terms: thrombembolic
free module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free modules
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A module that has a basis. Equivalently, a module consisting of n-tuples of ring elements with no extra identities. (Then the number n is said to be its rank.) Equivalently, a direct sum whose summands are all the same ring. (The quantity of summands may be more than two.)
Hypernyms: projective module
Hyponyms: free abelian group
vector space
single-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having only one eye.
glosses: Devoted; unselfish.
sarcinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 12-methyltetradecanoic acid
sarcinaeform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcinaeform
form: most sarcinaeform
Senses: glosses: Resembling the Sarcina genus of bacteria.
herd immunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herd immunity
boulster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boulsters
form: boulstering
form: boulstered
form: boulstered
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bolster.
boulstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boulster
boulsters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boulster
boulstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boulster
crusy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cruisie.
crusie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cruisie (“oil-burning lamp”).
crusies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crusie
glosses: plural of crusy
square-pierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:square-pierced.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of a charge: perforated with a square opening so as to show the field.
repierce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repierces
form: repiercing
form: repierced
form: repierced
Etymology: From re- + pierce.
Senses: examples: text: I had to repierce my ears, since the original piercing began to heal up.
glosses: To pierce again.
repierces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repierce
repierced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repierce
repiercing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repierce
speed bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed bombs
Senses: glosses: A dose of the recreational drug speed wrapped in a cigarette paper and swallowed.
speed bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed bomb
registrar-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registrars-general
Senses: glosses: The director of the General Register Office.
registrars-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registrar-general
down east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Typically traced to 1817 nautical terminology referring to direction not location: in the warm months, the prevailing winds along the Atlantic coast of New England and Canada blow from the southwest, meaning ships sail downwind to go east.
Senses: glosses: Northeastern New England (particularly the easternmost section of the U.S. state of Maine) and Canada's Maritime provinces (sometimes including the Gaspé Peninsula and Newfoundland), an area that corresponds to the historical French territory of Acadia.
down east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * Typically traced to 1817 nautical terminology referring to direction not location: in the warm months, the prevailing winds along the Atlantic coast of New England and Canada blow from the southwest, meaning ships sail downwind to go east.
Senses: examples: text: Down East fiddling
glosses: Of the Maritimes, Maine or adjoining parts.
down east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: * Typically traced to 1817 nautical terminology referring to direction not location: in the warm months, the prevailing winds along the Atlantic coast of New England and Canada blow from the southwest, meaning ships sail downwind to go east.
Senses: glosses: In or into the Maritimes, Maine or adjoining parts.
Derived terms: Down Easter
down-easter
down-easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down-easters
Etymology: From down east + -er.
Senses: glosses: One living down east; a New Englander, especially an inhabitant of Maine or a Maritimer.
down-easters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down-easter
lobsterboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobsterboats
Etymology: From lobster + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat used for catching lobsters.
Hypernyms: fishing boat
lobsterboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobsterboat
AWL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AWOL (“absent without leave”).
Broussaisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Broussaisian
form: most Broussaisian
Etymology: From Broussais + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (1772–1838), French physician.
Cullenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cullenian
form: most Cullenian
Etymology: From Cullen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Cullen (1710–1790), Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist.
would you like to go out with me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to suggest dating someone.
lawn bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn bubbles
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon that occurs after heavy rains, where rainwater flows under a lawn's thatched grass root and rhizome layer, but is unable to drain further due to saturated soil underneath, creating a muddy water-filled cavity between the grass and the underlying dirt.
Synonyms: lawn blister
turf blister
grass boil
Related terms: blister
boil
birlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birler
lawn bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawn bubble
scarlet lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet lightnings
Senses: glosses: The plant Silene chalcedonica (syn. Lychnis chalcedonica), with bright red flowers.
scarlet lightnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlet lightning
catch me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Short for "you'd never catch me doing that" or similar.
Senses: examples: text: I wished at first to persuade him to give me lessons in the office, but could not succeed: “No, no, lad;” said he, “catch me going in there: I would just as soon venture into a nest of porcupines.”
ref: 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery:
glosses: There is not the remotest possibility of one carrying out the deed or action suggested.
jailwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From jail + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: And cooperation or no cooperation, if he knew what he was doing, he's headed jailwards.
ref: 2013, In a House of Lies:
glosses: Toward jail.
scaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”).
scaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaws
Etymology: From Middle English scogh, scough, from Old Norse skógr, from Proto-Germanic *skōgaz. Compare Faroese skógur, Icelandic skógur, Swedish skog.
Senses: glosses: A wood or forest; a shaw.
scaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaws
Senses: glosses: An elder tree.
scaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaw
skaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skaw
skin wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wool pulled from the skin of a dead sheep.
open order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military unit formed up so as to allow space between its ranks.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A naval formation in which ships are four cables'-length (2880 feet) apart.
incourager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incouragers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encourager.
incouragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incourager
mesokurtotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mesokurtic.
synonyms: word: mesokurtic
Odoacer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒdəʊˈeɪsə/
ipa: /ˌoʊdoʊˈeɪsər/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Odoacer.
Senses: glosses: Flavius Odoacer, the first king of Italy
begged to differ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begged to
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beg to differ
flog a dead pony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flogs a dead pony
form: flogging a dead pony
form: flogged a dead pony
form: flogged a dead pony
Senses: examples: text: […] much greater impact on actual practice when the topic wasn't flogging a dead pony (advocating a change already wide-spread) […]
ref: 1994 August 17, Lois-ellin Datta, A Matter of Consensus (Working Paper), Washington: US Dept. of Education, →OCLC, ERIC ED379290, page 15:
text: Now was not the time to lose her temper. He was baiting her, and going over the Brazil incident was like flogging a dead pony. She was tired and the pony was past caring.
ref: 2005, Sharron McClellan, The Midas Trap, New York: Silhouette Bombshell, →ISBN, page 23:
synonyms: beat a dead horse
flog a dead horse
glosses: To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.
bonus hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonus holes
Senses: examples: text: I do plan on keeping my tranny bonus hole [though]. That's staying"
ref: 2007, Merri Lisa Johnson, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in Box, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 163:
text: As Mark laid the towel down, Enis got behind him and brought shaky fingers towards Mark's bonus hole.
ref: 2017, Z.A. Tanis, A Welded Wave, Less Than Three Press, LLC, →ISBN, page 47:
text: “I don't have a vagina,” he explained, “I have a bonus hole. Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.
ref: 2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 112:
text: It took some time for you to get comfortable with me penetrating your bonus hole, but you seem much more comfortable and enjoy it now.
ref: 2018, Douglas Flemons, Shelley Green, Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy (Third Edition), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bonus, hole.
justificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of justificate
justificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of justificate
justificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of justificate
hydrolytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrolyte
earthist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthists
Senses: examples: text: Enormous amounts of background work had been done, much of it by earthists, who presented well-reasoned proposals to implement some of their agenda.
ref: 1994, John B. Cobb, Sustaining the Common Good:
text: Polls taken in the late 1990s indicate that 40 million United States citizens, up from roughly 10 million in the 1970s, might be called "earthists."
ref: 2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226:
text: Its time the 'earthists' grew up and faced reality.
ref: 2007 September 14, Bonzo, “Poppycock Coppock.”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):
glosses: A proponent of earthism.
examples: text: He moved forward, determinedly trampling on people's feet. "Make way for an earthist," he called out in a polite but ringing tone.
ref: 1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10:
text: We cannot protect the planet Mars against our enemies from the Earth if we permit these Earthists to flourish in our midst.
ref: 1970 -, William Whyte Watt, An American rhetoric, page 282:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An advocate for people who live on earth, as opposed to those on other planets.
examples: text: 'Young earthists' will complain I have skimped their case.
ref: 1987, Michael Pitman, Adam and evolution: a scientific critique of neo-Darwinism, →ISBN, page 238:
text: (It is as if Geography departments had been taken over by flat earthists, Biology by disciples of Lombroso, or Astronomy departments by the persecutors of Galileo).
ref: 1996, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Surviving the PC University: The Best of Heterodoxy, →ISBN, page 16:
text: If a way could be found of detecting the enemy vessels at a great distance, the hollow-earthists argued, it would enable the German navy to take action at once.
ref: 2010, Michael FitzGerald, Hitler's Occult War, page 77:
glosses: One who believes the earth has a specific property or history.
earthist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earthist
form: most earthist
Senses: examples: text: This is why theologian John Cobb, in what he calls the Earthist challenge, says somewhat startlingly: Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth...
ref: 2000, Norman C. Habel, Shirley Wurst, Earth Story in Genesis, →ISBN, page 11:
text: People with earthist sentiments are getting wind into their sails worldwide; they are likely to command enormous political power in coming decades — without, one hopes, evolving into bureaucracies.
ref: 2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226:
text: Proponents of an earthist perspective seek to reorient globalization away from individual profit-driven values toward a different set of moral norms by which supposed scientific and technological advances might be judged.
ref: 2006, Pamela Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters, Laura A. Stivers, Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to earthism.
earthists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthist
iconomachist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconomachists
Etymology: From iconomachy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes the worship of images or idols.
iconomachists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconomachist
iconologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From iconological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of iconology.
iconologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconologists
Etymology: From iconology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies iconology.
iconologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconologist
iconolatrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iconolatrous
form: most iconolatrous
Etymology: From iconolatry + -ous or icono- + -latrous.
Senses: glosses: Engaging in iconolatry; worshipping images.
tea stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea sticks
Senses: glosses: A stick cut from the Australian tea tree.
tea sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea stick
sledge chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledge chairs
Senses: glosses: A chair mounted on runners for ice.
sledge chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledge chair
pipe-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe-trees
Senses: glosses: The lilac.
pipe-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe-tree
pipe-and-slippers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pipe-and-slipper.
parapophysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the parapophysis.
collar-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The strain of travelling uphill, for a horse drawing a vehicle.
glosses: Laborious work; drudgery.
Related terms: donkey work
chrysaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrysalis + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a chrysalis.
Related terms: chrysalid
chrysaloid
chrysaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chrysaloid
form: most chrysaloid
Etymology: From chrysalis + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a chrysalis.
Related terms: chrysalid
chrysaline
chrysaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysaloids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chrysalis.
chrysaloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysaloid
therial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more therial
form: most therial
Senses: glosses: theriacal; medicinal
rhoeadic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥοιάς (rhoiás, “poppy”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from the poppy Papaver rhoeas.
Related terms: rhoeadine
rhoeadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhoeadines
form: rheadine
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥοιάς (rhoiás, “poppy”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of benzazepine alkaloids found in the poppy.
Derived terms: isorhoeadine
norrhoeadine
Related terms: rhoeadic acid
rhoeadines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhoeadine
coal brass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal brasses
Senses: glosses: The pyrites in the coal measures.
coal brasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coal brass
tussock grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussock grasses
form: tussac grass
Senses: glosses: Any grass that grows in tussocks.
glosses: Synonym of bunchgrass.
synonyms: word: bunchgrass
glosses: A large grass native to the Falkland Islands, Poa flabellata, and remarkable for forming great tufts.
Derived terms: word: blue tussock grass (Poa colensoi
taxonomic: Chionochloa flavescens
word: broad-leafed snow tussock grass
taxonomic: Poa poiformis
word: coast tussock grass
taxonomic: Poa labillardierei
word: common tussock grass
taxonomic: Festuca novaezelandiae
word: fescue tussock grass
taxonomic: Poa sieberiana
word: grey tussock grass
taxonomic: Festuca novaezelandiae
word: hard tussock grass
taxonomic: Poa intermedia
word: mountain tussock grass
taxonomic: Chionochloa rigida
word: narrow-leaved snow tussock grass
taxonomic: Arundo conspicua
word: plumed tussock grass
taxonomic: Chionochloa rubra
word: red tussock grass
taxonomic: Festuca littoralis
word: sand tussock grass
taxonomic: Poa cita
word: silver tussock grass
taxonomic: Chionochloa spp.
word: snow tussock grass
tussock grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussock grass
thallogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the thallogens.