cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
haymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: haymakers
Etymology: From Middle English heymakere; equivalent to hay + maker.
Senses: examples: text: A long rank of haymakers—men and women—proceeded with their rakes, the white shirt-sleeves, straw bonnets, and ruddy faces, radiant in the bath of sunshine.
ref: 1853, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 7, in The Heir of Redclyffe:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
examples: text: The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw.
ref: 1997 January 20, George Church, “Newt's Day of Deliverance”, in Time:
glosses: A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.
examples: text: The real potential haymaker for the industry is a proposal, now gaining support in Congress, that would tax the profits private equity reaps on selling companies not at the low cap gains rate, but at the regular income tax rate.
ref: 2007 June 18, Shawn Tully, “Private equity: End of the golden age?”, in CNNMoney.com, retrieved 10 Sep 2008:
glosses: Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
Johnny Canuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Johnny Canucks
Etymology: 1869, Johnny + Canuck, a character in political cartoons.
Senses: glosses: A Canadian.
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A Canadian soldier.
glosses: A personification of Canada.
Synonyms: Jack Canuck
Related terms: John Bull
Uncle Sam
etho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethics
examples: ethogram; ethospecies
glosses: Relating to essential character and behavior patterns.
canoeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canoemen
Etymology: From canoe + -man.
Senses: glosses: A voyageur.
glosses: A canoeist.
canoemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canoeman
French Canadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French Canadian
Canadian French
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Design on Lequesne, supposing all to have been honest that produced it, could have taken it's Rise from nothing but want of Knowledge in common Geography: No Eye that follows the Course in the Map, which is always taken by the Canadian French from Quebec to Fort Lequesne, but must be necessarily convinced that the taking Niagara would have answered all the Purposes of possessing that and Lequesne.
ref: 1755, John Shebbeare, A Letter to the People of England: On the Present Situation and Conduct of National Affairs, volume 1, page 42:
glosses: French Canadians, collectively.
Canadian French
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Canadian French
form: most Canadian French
Senses: glosses: French Canadian.
Canadian French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Canuck
glosses: The French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada.
French Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French Canadians
Senses: glosses: A Canadian whose first language is French.
French Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The French language as spoken in Canada, Canadian French.
French Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of French-Canadian.
French-Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more French-Canadian
form: most French-Canadian
form: French Canadian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Francophone Canadians or French Canada.
glosses: Of or relating to Canadians of French ancestry or descent.
cook book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cook books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cookbook.
cookery book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookery books
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cookbook.
synonyms: word: cookbook
Related terms: cookbookery
in the future
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps humans will live on Mars in the future.
text: 7 messages to people 500 years in the future.
text: A short time away in the future.
synonyms: later on
someday
glosses: At a future time, at some point in the future.
examples: text: Please put the toilet seat down in the future.
synonyms: as of now
going forward
henceforwards
hereafter
glosses: From now on.
in the past
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
parasceve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasceves
Senses: examples: text: There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
ref: John 19:42, Vulgate
glosses: Alternative form of Parasceve.
these days
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.
text: However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Currently, at present.
Synonyms: nowadays
Derived terms: is that what the kids are calling it these days?
one of these days
perfecter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perfect + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of perfect: more perfect
perfecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfecters
Etymology: From perfect + -er.
Senses: examples: text: fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
ref: 1980, Various authors, HEBREWS 12:2, The Holy Bible, New International Version:
glosses: A person who perfects something
conjee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of congee (“the food”).
coralligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coral + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Producing coral
Synonyms: coralliferous
coralligerous
Derived terms: precoralligenous
coralliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From coral + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Producing coral
Synonyms: coralligerous
coralligenous
coralligerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From coral + -gerous.
Senses: glosses: Producing coral
Synonyms: coralligenous
coralliferous
predestinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈdɛstɪneɪt/
ipa: /pɹiːˈdɛstɪnət/
Forms: form: predestinates
form: predestinating
form: predestinated
form: predestinated
Etymology: From Middle English predestinate, from Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre. By surface analysis, pre- + destinate.
Senses: examples: text: Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 8:29:
text: Boys possessing any mental or moral force to give them a tendency, then predestinate their careers; or, if under supervision, take the impress that is given them: not often to cast it off, and seldom to cast it off altogether.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: To predestine.
predestinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈdɛstɪneɪt/
ipa: /pɹiːˈdɛstɪnət/
Etymology: From Middle English predestinate, from Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre. By surface analysis, pre- + destinate.
Senses: examples: text: God keep your ladyship still in that mind; so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: There once was a man who said, “Damn!
It is borne in upon me I am
 An engine that moves
 In predestinate grooves,
I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.”
ref: 1905, Maurice Evan Hare, “Limerick”, in Susan Ratcliffe, editor, Oxford Essential Quotations, sixth edition, Oxford University Press, published 2018, →ISBN:
glosses: Predestined, preordained.
Derived terms: predestinately
logocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logocentric
form: most logocentric
Etymology: From logo- + centric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to logocentrism
Derived terms: logocentricity
phallogocentric
zerbert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: zerberts
Etymology: Coined as part of Bill Cosby’s stand up act. It gained adoption when it was broadcast in an episode of The Cosby Show in 1986, where it was spelled ZRBTT.
Senses: glosses: The sound made when someone places the mouth against skin and blows, imitative of the sound of flatulence.
wikipedia: The Cosby Show
Synonyms: raspberry
va banque
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French (je) va (la) banque, a call used in the 18th century in games like Rouge et Noir and Faro to announce that one was betting as much money as the bank had, to either win or lose that amount.
Senses: examples: text: Sämisch was critical of this move, saying Black was now playing va banque. However, as was often the case in games between these players, Richter looks for ways to complicate things for Sämisch by adding to his clock problems.
ref: 2018 October 5, Alan McGowan, Kurt Richter: A Chess Biography with 499 Games, McFarland, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Now he went va banque, risking the failure of the negotiations. Eden proposed to sign only a mutual military assistance agreement for twenty years and not to mention political questions or questions connected to borders at all.
ref: 2020 December 15, Eero Medijainen, Weaving the Iron Curtain, the Allies, and the Baltic States, 1939–1944: Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Caricatures, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: All or nothing, all in, for broke; riskily putting everything on the line to either win it all or lose it all.
wikipedia: Faro (banking game)
Trente et Quarante
coralliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coral + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of coral.
corallaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coral + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics or qualities of coral.
coralloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coral + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or form of coral.
Synonyms: coralloidal
Derived terms: heterocoralloid
precoralloid
coralloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coralloids
Etymology: From coral + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A small node of calcite, aragonite or gypsum that forms on surfaces in caves, especially limestone caves.
Synonyms: cave popcorn
Hypernyms: speleothem
coralloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or form of coral.
Synonyms: coralloid
corally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coral + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or form of coral.
glosses: Containing coral
coralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coralizes
form: coralizing
form: coralized
form: coralized
form: coralise
Etymology: From coral + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become coral.
counsellee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counsellees
Etymology: From counsel + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who receives counselling
Related terms: counsellor
pressure washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure washers
form: pressurewasher
form: pressure-washer
Senses: synonyms: power washer
glosses: A mechanical device that uses a pump to generate a high-pressure stream of water (up to 5000 PSI - residential/commercial and up to 70000 PSI for commercial/industrial uses) to clean surfaces.
Derived terms: pressurewash
b/d
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: b/d
Senses: glosses: Initialism of barrels per day.
kobolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kobold
Peregrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Saint's name from Latin Peregrinus, from peregrinus (“foreigner”).
Senses: examples: text: Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. / "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - / Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" / "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.
ref: 1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127:
qualifier: rather rare
glosses: A male given name from Latin; and of mostly British usage.
wood-chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-chips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woodchip.
wood chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood chips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woodchip.
countercountermeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercountermeasures
form: counter-countermeasure
Etymology: From counter- + countermeasure.
Senses: glosses: A method of stopping the effects of a suspected countermeasure.
ingrain wallpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingrain wallpapers
Senses: examples: text: Here, just as in their showrooms which were decorated in a minimalist fashion with monochromatic ingrain wallpaper, Rodes and Knoll pushed for strictly modernist design in postwar Germany.
ref: 2019, Jan L. Logemann, Engineered to Sell: European Émigrés and the Making of Consumer Capitalism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: A type of wallpaper consisting of two layers of paper with wood fibre in between.
Synonyms: woodchip wallpaper
woodchip
myn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mine.
myn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mean.
myn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mean.
myn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.
Senses: examples: text: Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged.
Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.
ref: 1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, →ISBN, page 41:
text: […] the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.
ref: 2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54:
text: I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.
ref: 2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative spelling of men (plural of man)
Related terms: mxn
Kathie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spelling variant of the female name Kathy.
Kathi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 20th-century variant of Kathy, diminutive of the female given name Katherine and related names.
woodchip wallpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchip wallpapers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ingrain wallpaper.
synonyms: word: ingrain wallpaper
autonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtənɪm/
ipa: /ˈɔdn̩ɪm/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈɑdn̩ɪm/
Forms: form: autonyms
Etymology: From auto- (“self”) + -onym (“name”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: type variety
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.
examples: text: Deutsche is the autonym of the people known in English as Germans.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: endonym
selfname
antonyms: exonym
xenonym
glosses: A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
examples: text: As a general principle, the heading of the main entry of the book should be in the form in which the book itself is published; that is, if it is published under an autonym let the autonym be given, if under a pseudonym, then let the pseudonym be given, and if the book be anonymous, then let the fact be stated.
ref: 1900, Mr. Barnwell, “Cataloging Roundtable”, in Library Journal, page 157:
synonyms: orthonym
alethonym
antonyms: pseudonym
;
allonym
;
alias
;
pen name
nom de plume
nom de clavier
nom de Web
;
stage name
;
nom de guerre
glosses: The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
antonyms: allonym
glosses: A work published under the author's true name.
Related terms: autonymic
autonymically
autonymous
autonymously
autonymy
demonym
ethnonym
glossonym
autoglossonym
stean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: steans
Etymology: From Middle English stene (“waterpot”), from Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a stean, a pot of stone or earth”) and Old English stǣne (“pitcher, jug”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainijā, from Proto-Germanic *stainijǭ (“stonen vessel, crucible”). Cognate with Old High German steinna (“pot, saucepan”). Doublet of stein.
Senses: glosses: A vessel made of clay or stone; a pot of stone or earth.
Derived terms: stean-pot
stean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: steans
form: steaning
form: steaned
form: steaned
form: steen
form: steyn
Etymology: From Middle English stenen, from Old English stǣnan (“to stone, cast stones at; adorn with precious stones”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainijan, from Proto-Germanic *stainijaną (“to adorn with stones”), *stainōną (“to throw stones at”). Cognate with Old High German steinen (“to adorn with stones”), Old High German steinōn (“to throw stones”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (stainjan, “to throw stones at”).
Senses: glosses: To pelt with stones; throw stones at; stone.
examples: to stean a well
glosses: To fit with stones; mend, line, pave, etc. with stones.
stean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: steans
form: steen
form: steyn
Etymology: From Middle English stenen, from Old English stǣnan (“to stone, cast stones at; adorn with precious stones”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainijan, from Proto-Germanic *stainijaną (“to adorn with stones”), *stainōną (“to throw stones at”). Cognate with Old High German steinen (“to adorn with stones”), Old High German steinōn (“to throw stones”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (stainjan, “to throw stones at”).
Senses: glosses: A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
stean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: steans
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English stan, stane (“stone”); thus a dialectal form of stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone.
glosses: A large box of stones used for pressing cheese; a cheese-press.
Emery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: Amery
form: Amory
form: Emory
Etymology: From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) (compare *ammōną) + Old High German rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Old High German Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, today often transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s usage, also associated with the mineral emery.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Graham County, Arizona.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Macon County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Dover Township, Fulton County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Hanson County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Emery County, Utah.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Synonym of Humbermede, Toronto, Canada.
synonyms: word: Humbermede
word: Toronto
word: Canada
Derived terms: Emerson
Emery County
Emery Down
Emery's rule
Related terms: Amalaric
Amalia
Amalric
Amelia
America
Emory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic, variant of Emery.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Rains County, Texas, United States.
banty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænti
Senses: examples: text: He strutted like a banty rooster.
glosses: bantam (small, but aggressive)
banty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænti
Forms: form: banties
Senses: glosses: A bantam.
sgudal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic sgudal.
Senses: qualifier: Nova Scotia
glosses: garbage
Emmerich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emmerichs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Emmerich am Rhein
wurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurds
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of word.
biorepositories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biorepository
biorepository
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biorepositories
Etymology: From bio- + repository.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a long-term storage and conservation facility for biological specimens
biospecimen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biospecimens
Etymology: From bio- + specimen.
Senses: glosses: A specimen of biological material, such as urine, blood, tissue, cells, DNA, RNA, and protein, to be stored in a biorepository for future research
divergently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more divergently
form: most divergently
Etymology: From divergent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a divergent manner
ectopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ectopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ectopic manner
footprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From footprint + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques for the identification of a member of a class of things, based on some distinguishing feature.
examples: text: We review and summarise those studies that holistically assess the impact of human activities, in the sense that impacts are not restricted to the home, city, or territory of the individuals, but instead are counted irrespective of where they occur. Such an assessment perspective is usually referred to as consumption-based accounting, or footprinting.
ref: 2020 June 19, Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen, Lorenz T. Keyßer, Julia K. Steinberger, “Scientists’ warning on affluence”, in Nature Communications, volume 11, number 3107, →DOI:
glosses: An assessment of the ecological impact of human activities.
Related terms: fingerprinting
hypermutator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermutators
Etymology: From hyper- + mutator.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any agent that causes hypermutation
inosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inosines
Etymology: From ἰνός (inós), genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, muscle”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside formed from hypoxanthine attached to a ribose
Derived terms: deoxyinosine
didanosine
dideoxyinosine
inosine pranobex
inosinic
inosinome
polyinosine
Related terms: alt: a nucleobase replaceable by inosine
word: guanine
mislocalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislocalizes
form: mislocalizing
form: mislocalized
form: mislocalized
Etymology: From mis- + localize.
Senses: glosses: To localize incorrectly.
polysomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polysome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a polysome.
Derived terms: intrapolysomal
nonpolysomal
polysomally
postpolysomal
subpolysomal
preformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːfɔːˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: preformations
form: praeformation
Etymology: From pre- + formation.
Senses: glosses: Prior formation.
examples: text: Preformation, as even Aristotle spotted, merely postpones the problem, for how did the homunculus get its shape?
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 174:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and just increase in size (as opposed to epigenesis).
riboswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riboswitch
synaptogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synaptogenic
form: most synaptogenic
Etymology: From synapto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to synaptogenesis
synaptogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synapto- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process leading to the formation of synapses
Derived terms: neosynaptogenesis
milk replacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk replacers
Senses: glosses: Liquid nutrition having nutritional qualities comparable to mother's milk that is given to young animals when mother's milk is not available.
Coordinate terms: english: the analogue for human babies
translation: the analogue for human babies
word: baby formula
Related terms: bottlefeeding
milk substitute
milk substitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk substitutes
Senses: glosses: Liquid that replaces milk (usually and especially cow's milk) in a diet or a recipe (for adults).
Hyponyms: plant milks
Coordinate terms: english: baby formula; liquid that replaces milk for baby humans or animals
translation: baby formula; liquid that replaces milk for baby humans or animals
word: infant formula and milk replacer
word: egg substitutes
word: meat substitutes
english: ingredients in recipes
translation: ingredients in recipes
word: sugar substitutes
onesey-twosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onesey-twosey
form: most onesey-twosey
Senses: glosses: Involving very small quantities
metadatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadata
Etymology: From meta- + datum.
Senses: examples: text: The timezone metadatum of the date field can be used to guess the location of the user.
glosses: One piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.
coordinate term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinate terms
Senses: examples: text: The words oak, maple, spruce, and linden are coordinate terms beneath the hypernym of tree.
text: The terms HDA, LAMP, MDA, NASBA, RPA, SDA, and TMA are coordinate terms beneath the hypernymic term isothermal nucleic acid amplification test.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: cohyponym
co-hyponym
hypernyms: term
;
word
coordinate_terms: synonym
;
antonym
;
comeronym
;
hypernym
hyperonym
;
hyponym
;
near-synonym
parasynonym
plesionym
;
instance
example
;
glosses: A term (word or noun phrase) that shares a hypernym (or hypernymic noun phrase) with another: that is, one that names another type (kind) within the same class.
Related terms: Wiktionary:Semantic relations § Coordinate term
coordinate terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinate term
tulpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌlpə/
/ˈtuːlpə/
Forms: form: tulpa
form: tulpas
form: tulpae
raw_tags: in sense 2
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་པ (sprul pa, “emanation, magical creation”), equivalent to a calque of Sanskrit निर्मित (nirmita, “build”) or निर्माण (nirmāṇa, “build”).
Senses: examples: text: When the year was up, the tulpa began growing. It lost its fear of its master and began taking on new forms of its own. It ceased to run errands ....
ref: 1966, Nikos Kazantzakis, England: A Travel Journal, page 110:
topics: Buddhism
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
glosses: A type of thought-form regarded as capable of independent action, with a persistent personality and identity; a kind of modern imaginary friend.
Derived terms: tulpamancy
Anthropos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos).
Senses: topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The primordial man/humanity.
nominant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominants
Senses: glosses: A nominative noun
oxhide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxhides
Etymology: From ox + hide.
Senses: glosses: The skin (hide) of an ox.
examples: text: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: Leather made from the hide of an ox.
Derived terms: oxhide ingot
Related terms: cowhide
nominor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominors
Etymology: See nominate and -or.
Senses: examples: text: […] your lordship was pleased to say several things about my fitness in other respects for public business, and about the terms of connexion, in such a case, between a nominor and a nominee.
ref: 1842, Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review:
glosses: A nominator.
imageboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imageboards
form: image board
Etymology: Compound of image + board.
Senses: examples: text: An imageboard is a type of posting board centered around the posting of images. A very famous imageboard is 4chan.org.
ref: 2014, Jessica L. Beyer, Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: The concept for Anonymous began when American-run imageboard 4chan, a website created in 2003 for sharing images with accompanying comments, followed in the footsteps of the Japanese imageboard 2channel by allowing an anti-signup system where comment posters could remain anonymous.
ref: 2018, Barney Warf, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, SAGE, →ISBN:
synonyms: chan#Etymology_2
glosses: A type of message board that revolves around the posting of images, with optional associated text, often characterized by the near lack of moderation and by the freedom to discuss any topic.
interactive whiteboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interactive whiteboards
Senses: glosses: A large interactive display system that may interact with an audience response system, and which replaces and extends a blackboard or whiteboard.
irrumatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While fellatio is a widely recognised form of sexual behaviour, irrumatio is not universally seen as a positive sexual act.
ref: 1990, James Noel Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of irrumation.
tribbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribadism (+ -ing).
Senses: examples: text: Ninety minutes earlier, Vicki was sprawled in bed, lips dry, nipples sore, and chest still heaving after an hour of kissing, fondling, tribbing, tonguing, and the commission of other acts of passionate love-making.
ref: 2009, Herb Schultz, Architect's Rendition, page 150:
text: She loved tribbing and knew that this was going to be a great experience.
ref: 2011, Reggie Chesterfield, Hot and Dirty Wives, page 41:
text: This “All Teen Edition” is another tribute to “tribbing,” aka “hot lesbo scissor sex.” Naturally beautiful girls like Riley Reid and Raven Rockette play “scissor sister” until they both cream their panties. Katie St. Ives gobbles up Chrissy Nova, and Lia Lor gets lost in the muff of Chloe Foster. Tia Cyrus closes the film by tribbing out on Jodi Taylor's slippery vaggieburger.
ref: 2016 August, “5-Star Fuck Reviews”, in Club (Pornography), Paramus, NJ: Club Publications, Inc, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69?:
glosses: Vulva-to-vulva sexual intercourse with legs intertwined.
tribbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tribadism (+ -ing).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trib
Related terms: tribadism
damaged goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Return the damaged goods to the warehouse for a free replacement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damaged, goods.
glosses: A person who has an unresolved conflict of emotions after a traumatic event.
glosses: A person who is no longer fit for purpose, especially an unmarried woman who is no longer a virgin.
Related terms: basket case
emotional cripple
Anglocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglocentric
form: most Anglocentric
form: anglocentric
Etymology: From Anglo- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The historian is criticized for being too Anglocentric.
glosses: Focused on England or the people and culture of England.
Related terms: Anglocentrism
latch on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: latches on
form: latching on
form: latched on
form: latched on
Senses: examples: text: "She'll latch on quick when she remembers. It'll impress the customers. And open up the American market."
ref: 2006, Ariana Franklin, City of Shadows, page 68:
glosses: To grasp firmly; to become attached to.
gratz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A respelled shortening of congrats.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, gratz on leveling!
glosses: Congratulations, congrats.
pluriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluriform
form: most pluriform
Etymology: From pluri- + -form.
Senses: glosses: Multiform.
Synonyms: protean
polymorphic
Derived terms: pluriformity
talking heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking head
arcade game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcade games
Senses: examples: text: Luckily for fans, these arcade games (as the good old classic titles are now called) used to have rather simple mechanics, and most players could learn to play them, despite their poor or non-existent knowledge of English.
ref: 2014, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games:
topics: video-games
glosses: A coin-operated video game or amusement device.
examples: text: ‘They’re Twitch Games,’ he grinned, ‘arcade games. An adventure game is one where you use your mind; if you can type, you can play an adventure. If you require anything other than that, you’ve got a twitch game — an arcade game — where your skill of movement is more important than your thinking. […]
ref: 1985, Scott Adams, quoted in Graeme Kidd, Great Scott!, in Crash issue 15
text: It's not an arcade game—there is no crack of the bat or roar of the crowd or even much in the way of a screen display—but for the true fan, there is the excitement of mathematically structured matchups of real current and past teams with a more-than-passing resemblance to real-life outcomes.
ref: 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 14, page 51:
topics: video-games
glosses: A game for a computer or console that shares traits of coin-operated video games, such as short levels, simple and intuitive controls, and rapidly increasing difficulty.
Derived terms: simcade
Related terms: penny arcade
pinball
coin-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coin-op
arcade games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcade game
fit for purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fit for purpose
form: most fit for purpose
Senses: examples: text: But what ScotRail has now is a superb train that is fit for purpose. Turbostars were OK, certainly one of the best of the late 1990s glut of new designs. But were they really a good travel experience for 180 miles from Glasgow to Inverness? No, they were not (and I speak from experience). These HSTs offer a much better train for such a journey.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 55:
glosses: Appropriate, and of a necessary standard, for its intended use.
Synonyms: acceptable
suitable
up to standard
naming rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The right to name a piece of property, either tangible property or an event, usually granted in exchange for financial considerations.
shazaam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: and before you can say "Shazaam!" he is translated into Sgt. Moffatt of the Laguna Hills security force.
ref: 1968, Michael T. Malloy, The Art of Retirement, page 74:
text: Suddenly, you find yourself worrying about the strength of the dollar versus the euro and — shazaam — you switch from parasympathetic to sympathetic far faster than you wanted.
ref: 2004, Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, page 125:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shazam.
shazam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈzæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: shazaam
Etymology: Apparently coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.
Senses: examples: text: The Tahitian kids had ridden out most of their lives, and they were busy riding in on their surf mats and belly boards. But when they met the out part, shazam!
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
text: My parents lived in the Last Naïf Age: the last ‘good war’, atoms for peace, and parental philosophy that said children should do and say exactly what we do and say, and Shazam! You'll be us.
ref: 2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 91:
text: So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.
ref: 2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:
synonyms: abracadabra
alakazam
hocus-pocus
presto chango
presto
voila
ta-da
glosses: Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.
shazam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈzæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: shazams
form: shazamming
form: shazammed
form: shazammed
form: shazaam
Etymology: Apparently coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.
Senses: glosses: To identify the artist or the name of a song using the Shazam application.
ninja loot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ninja loots
form: ninja looting
form: ninja looted
form: ninja looted
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: To unfairly loot the corpse of a fallen enemy before other members of the party can divvy the spoils.
Related terms: ninja looter
loot whore
bind on pickup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Describing an item that becomes bound to the player that loots it. The player cannot transfer it to another player; they may only sell it to an in-game vendor or discard it, destroying the item. Used mainly on quest MacGuffins and rare drops. Compare to bind on equip.
bind on pickup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binds on pickup
form: binding on pickup
form: bound on pickup
form: bound on pickup
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: To become permanently associated with a player character upon being picked up.
raw_tags: of a piece of equipment
bind on equip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Describing a piece of equipment (armor, weapons, accessories) that becomes bound to a player character when equipped by them. The player may sell/trade/give it to another character so long as they have not used it. After use, the player may only sell it to an in-game vendor or discard it, destroying the item. Used mainly on quest rewards and moderate to rare drops. Compare to bind on pickup.
bind on equip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binds on equip
form: binding on equip
form: bound on equip
form: bound on equip
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: To become permanently associated with a player character upon being equipped.
raw_tags: of a piece of equipment
reclinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reclinate
form: most reclinate
Etymology: From Latin reclīnātus, past participle of reclīnāre (“to bend or lean back”).
Senses: examples: text: reclinate bristles
text: reclinate leaves
text: reclinate setae
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: bent downward, so that the point is lower than the base.
quizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quiz
ptochology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πτωχός (ptōkhós, “beggar, poor”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of poverty,
Derived terms: ptochologist
ptochologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptochologists
Etymology: From ptochology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who specialises in ptochology
bosselated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bosselated
form: most bosselated
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Marked or covered with many bosses (protuberances)
pubarche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pjuːˈbɑː(ɹ)ki/
Etymology: From Latin pubes (“pubic”) + -arche (“beginning”).
Senses: examples: text: Premature adrenarche should be distinguished from premature pubarche (early onset of sexual hair) even though adrenarche commonly causes pubarche.
ref: 2004, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Erica A. Eugster, Pediatric Endocrinology: Mechanisms, Manifestations, and Management, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 319:
coordinate_terms: adrenarche
menarche
glosses: The first appearance of pubic hair in a child.
pubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pubbish
form: most pubbish
Etymology: From pub + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pub.
Synonyms: publike
pubby
multi-user dungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-user dungeons
Senses: topics: computer-games
games
glosses: A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing. MUDs are a precursor to the massively multiplayer online game.
Synonyms: MUD
puberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pubertal.
synonyms: word: pubertal
save slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: save slots
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: One of a set of programmer-determined slots (such as files or memory addresses) for creating a saved game.
cartridge ejector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartridge ejectors
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mechanism to eject a cartridge from its housing or cartridge drive, often operating on a simple mechanical principle.
pubiotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pubiotomies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of symphysiotomy.
synonyms: word: symphysiotomy
puffinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffinets
Senses: glosses: The black guillemot
puffinry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffinries
Etymology: From puffin + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A colony of puffins.
puftaloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pʌftəˈluːn/
Forms: form: puftaloons
Senses: examples: text: It seems that puftaloons are particular to Australia, where, traditionally, they are eaten hot with golden syrup or treacle. Puftaloons are a type of scone dough fried in plenty of hot dripping or a light vegetable oil.
ref: 1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, published 2009, page 484:
text: And the puftaloons that he would make! He′d mix up a batter and put them in the frying-pan. Puftaloons are just like scones, only they′re fried in the pan instead of baked in the oven, because we always had plenty of dripping. Puftaloons and syrup! We used to love them. That was a treat!
ref: 2002, Marion Houldsworth, Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s, published 2012, page 4:
text: Returning to the kitchen she puts the kettle on for the hot water bottle, and takes some cold puftaloons from the icebox, placing them on the stove to warm for a few minutes while she writes a short note on a piece of quarto paper.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 423:
glosses: A fried scone-like fritter originally from Australia.
fritterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fritterers
Etymology: From fritter + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who fritters.
fandub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfændʌb/
Forms: form: fandubs
Etymology: Blend of fan + dub.
Senses: glosses: A foreign language film or television show that has been dubbed into the local language by fans, amateurs or enthusiasts rather than by professional actors and actresses.
examples: text: The fandub Evangelion: ReDeath is shown every year at Fanime.
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.
Synonyms: fandubbing
fandub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfændʌb/
Forms: form: fandubs
form: fandubbing
form: fandubbed
form: fandubbed
Etymology: Blend of fan + dub.
Senses: glosses: To overdub (a video) as a fan activity, translating the foreign language into the local language.
Coordinate terms: scanlation
scanlate
Derived terms: fandubber
Related terms: fanslation
fansub
pulpotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpotomies
Etymology: From pulp + -otomy.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical removal of part of the dental pulp
Related terms: pulpectomy
pulpectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pulpectomies
Etymology: From pulp + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical removal of all of the dental pulp.
Related terms: pulpectomize
pulpotomy
punchball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punchballs
Etymology: From punch + ball.
Senses: glosses: A simplified version of the sport of baseball, where players use their fists as a bat and a softer ball.
glosses: The soft ball used in this sport.
punji stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punji sticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of punji.
synonyms: word: punji