cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
winching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winchings
Senses: examples: text: For instance, repeated shaking can be hazardous—gusty winds uproot trees at speeds well below those of steady winds and at forces lower than those predicted by experimental winchings.
ref: 2013, Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World, 2nd edition:
glosses: The application of a winch.
winched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of winch
barology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəɹˈɒlədʒi/
Etymology: From baro- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: We have seen enough of the difficulties of hydrodynamics to understand that the part of dynamical barology which relates to fluids must still be very imperfect.
ref: 1858, Auguste Comte, Positive Philosophy, page 211:
text: Barology, or the science which embraces all the phenomena of terrestrial gravitation, is regarded as the purest of all the branches of physics, and therefore stands at the head of the category after astronomy.
ref: 1913, Lester Frank Ward, Dynamic Sociology, page 114:
text: Thus it would seem that in barology, anything that went beyond mere barometer readings to the interpretation of these readings should be considered a hypothesis.
ref: 2018, Warren Schmaus, Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science of gravity or weight.
examples: text: The barology is realised through the subtle agogic placement of beats and bars relative to each other in the hierarchy of the pypermeter; in other words, some beats sound late and some early; and some bars sound early and some late.
ref: 2022, Graham J. McPhail, Knowledge and Music Education:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A method of analyzing music according to hypermeter, deriving a structure of strong and weak bars and then phrases.
Derived terms: barologist
ingenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ingenuity
minus signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minus sign
lojbanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lojbanizes
form: lojbanizing
form: lojbanized
form: lojbanized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lojbanize.
there are two sides to every question
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: there are two sides to every story
glosses: One should not make a judgement until one hears the other side.
Related terms: half-truth
half the story
the half of it
hear both sides
both sidesism
stuntwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuntwomen
Etymology: From stunt + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who performs stunts.
Synonyms: stunt performer
Hypernyms: sense: Hypernyms of stuntwoman
word: stuntperson
sense: Hypernyms of stuntwoman
word: woman
Related terms: stunt double
stuntman
muckworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckworms
Etymology: From muck + worm.
Senses: glosses: A larva living in mud or manure.
examples: text: Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence:
text: We have painted one Money-Lender — not the mere sordid muckworm of a century ago, but the man-eater of the present day.
ref: 1840, Douglas William Jerrold, “The Money-Lender”, in The Writings of Douglas Jerrold, published 1853, page 279:
text: Perhaps it is far too expensive for a notorious muckworm like you! I, however, am more generous.
ref: 1993, Marlene Suson, The Lily and the Hawk, page 158:
glosses: Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.
adustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adustions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adustiō.
Senses: examples: text: But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 21:23–25, page 222:
text: it must be by aduſtion or putting it into a fame
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
text: Even while disputing the model, Gendron and Wiseman, both prominent medical authors and practitioners, grudgingly admitted that adustion had become the predominant theory on the generation of cancers.
ref: 2015, Alanna Skuse, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England:
text: In Heywood's hands, this became though by her complection, her constitution might seeme to be cold, yet her noble actions declared that choler had the predominance in her, even to adustion, her eyes were sparkling sharpe and piercing, her tongue shrill and harsh, as her person was tall and great...'
ref: 2018, Martha Vandrei, Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain, page 62:
glosses: The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
examples: text: some use to apply this to the fat, but in our time it is all out of use, and seeing yet the pains of the hip do rather fall into the thighs, shins, and legs, then ascend up into the Arms and shoulders, Aetius and Cornarius say, that this adustion for the hips was used in the ancient time divers ways, and some on this manner, holding the burning dung in a pair of tongs unto the leg of that side where the pain lyeth, untill the adustion be felt in the hip, and this course used Discorides.
ref: 1607, Edward Topsell, History of Four Footed Beasts:
text: Albucasis adviseth that neither incision nor adustion is to be made in the Neck or Throat; because of the many Vessels, as Arteries, Nerves and Veins, there every where planted;
ref: 1703, John Brown, The Surgeon's Assistant, page 88:
text: The second reason is, the want of some approved and methodised treatise, defining the diseases which would exclusively require the actual cautery, the diagnosis or pathological state of others which might require its application, with comparative statements of the best mode of adustion of materials with which it should be effected;[…]
ref: 1818, Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository, page 166:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Cauterization.
instaban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instabans
form: instabanning
form: instabanned
form: instabanned
Etymology: From insta- + ban.
Senses: glosses: To ban without hesitation.
instaban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instabans
Etymology: From insta- + ban.
Senses: examples: text: Next up in confusing Instabans...
ref: 2015 July 28, Elizabeth Denton, “Instagram Banned #Goddess and People Are Seriously Upset”, in Seventeen Magazine:
text: Instabans will spread.
ref: 2019 January 4, “Healthy holidays and a sunscreen rethink: top five travel trends for 2019”, in The Guardian:
text: You'll no longer catch an instaban for giving your PSN ID a potentially offensive name, as Sony plans to check each case individually.
ref: 2019 April 15, “Sony ends auto-bans for offensive PSN IDs – changes them automatically instead”, in Metro:
glosses: An immediate ban.
instaure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instaures
form: instauring
form: instaured
form: instaured
Etymology: See instaurate.
Senses: examples: text: their moysture into thousand formes
Of sprouting buddes; all things that show or breath
Are now instaur'd, saving my wretched brest
ref: 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To renew or renovate; to instaurate.
opsimaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opsimath
opsimathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒpˈsɪməθi/
Etymology: From opsimath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His opsimathy meant that he was over 60 before he entered college, and over 70 before he earned his doctorate.
glosses: Learning or education that occurs late in life.
Related terms: opsimath
integrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integrase
bronchial tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchial tubes
Senses: glosses: A bronchus
interpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpole
interpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpoles
Etymology: From inter- + pole.
Senses: examples: text: Both types, however, were without interpoles and had sleeve bearings which required constant attention for lubrication.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:
text: During the same 29 min. the rise in temperature of the interpole windings of the main generator was 30° C.
ref: 1960 May, “Testing a Brush Type "2" diesel locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 304:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An auxiliary pole of a commutator placed between the main poles to increase its efficiency.
dress down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dresses down
form: dressing down
form: dressed down
form: dressed down
Etymology: From analogy with dress up.
Senses: examples: text: One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jonathan Mahon-Heap, quoting Hugo, 29, former analyst, “‘One guy brandished a whip’ – bankers on Industry’s rampant sex, drugs and bullying culture”, in The Guardian:
text: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies.
ref: 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To scold.
glosses: To wear casual or informal clothes.
examples: text: Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc.
Related terms: dress-down day
dress-down Friday
dress up
drop ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop ceilings
Senses: glosses: A dropped ceiling
drudgework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drudge + work.
Senses: glosses: Drudgery.
egg case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg cases
Senses: examples: text: A sand saucer is formed from egg cases.
synonyms: egg capsule
glosses: A protective capsule that contains the eggs of some insects and molluscs
examples: text: A mermaid's purse is a type of egg case.
glosses: The leathery egg of certain marine animals such as sharks and skate
end of the road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This match proved to be the end of Norwich City's road to Wembley.
ref: 1959 May, B. Perren, “Norwich City comes up for the Cup”, in Trains Illustrated, page 270:
text: Don't say it's the end of the road / Remember the flowers I sent / I need you, babe / To put through the shredder / In front of my friends
ref: 1979, “Don't Leave Me Now”, in Roger Waters (lyrics), The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:
text: Alone once more in the dark, the long-suffering king has finally reached the end of his road. He lifts a shaking hand in the air and murmurs “my love,” perhaps envisioning the long-dead Aemma waiting beyond the veil. And with a single tear from his remaining eye, he’s gone.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
synonyms: end of the line
glosses: A conclusion, termination or ending (of a process); death.
fly by the seat of one's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies by the seat of one's pants
form: flying by the seat of one's pants
form: flew by the seat of one's pants
form: flown by the seat of one's pants
Senses: examples: text: Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet . . . a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants.
ref: 1955 February 21, “Planes for Pleasure”, in Time:
glosses: To pilot an aircraft without the aid of instruments and without a flight plan, using only instinct, visual observation, and practical judgment.
examples: text: “Unlike Obama and his methodical process, McCain was flying by the seat of his pants,” the authors observe.
ref: 2010 January 14, Jacob Heilbrunn, “Election Confidential”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Jun 2011:
synonyms: play by ear
make it up as one goes along
wing it
glosses: To use one's judgment, initiative, and perceptions as events unfold in order to improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan or without the desirable data inputs to decision making.
Related terms: in flight
on the fly
pantser
pantsing
seat-of-the-pants
gallery forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallery forests
Senses: synonyms: gallery
glosses: riparian woodland; a dense forest of mature trees, without understory, that lines both banks of a river in an otherwise treeless region
gamebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamebirds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of game bird.
gilding the lily
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gild the lily
intestinal fortitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: guts (courage)
Related terms: testicular fortitude
coresidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coresidences
Etymology: From co- + residence.
Senses: examples: text: The question of coresidence is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).
ref: 1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon, Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 42–3:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
intitules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intitule
intitule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intitules
form: intituling
form: intituled
form: intituled
Etymology: Compare French intituler. See entitle.
Senses: examples: 1689, John Selden, Table Talk, London: E. Smith, Section 141 “Trinity,” p. 142,
The second Person is made of a piece of Bread by the Papist, the Third Person is made of his own Frenzy, Malice, Ignorance and Folly, by the Roundhead. To all these the Spirit is intituled. One the Baker makes, the other the Cobbler; and betwixt these two, I think the First Person is sufficiently abused.
1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,
[…] in some Fables I find such singular proportion between the similitude and the thing signified; and such apt and clear coherence in the very Structure of them, and propriety of the Names wherewith the Persons or Actors in them are inscribed and intituled […]
glosses: To entitle; to give a title to.
dissonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dɪsəneɪt
ipa: /dɪsəneɪt/
Forms: form: dissonates
form: dissonating
form: dissonated
form: dissonated
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To be dissonant.
glosses: To cause dissonance (in all senses).
cry someone a river
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries someone a river
form: crying someone a river
form: cried someone a river
form: cried someone a river
Etymology: Probably from the song Cry Me a River (1953).
Senses: examples: text: It is rather shaming to be quite so wet over nothing in particular, but at least Fielding does it too. He cries gallons over slow-motion bits at the ends of films, especially Gladiator, and begins to worship Roman values, then Italian footballers kissing in slo-mo to the strains of Nessun Dorma. Sniffle, sniffle. And QPR being relegated in 1996. He can cry you a river over that one, and over a darling little clump of daffodils growing by the traffic island.
ref: 2008 March 4, Michele Hanson, “I cry over anything lately”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To weep profusely or excessively in the presence of another person.
examples: text: Port Authority Transit should cry me a river. Before raising fares it should cut an unnecessary expense.
ref: 1968 October 3, A. B. Geraci, “Letter to Editor: PAT Should End Its Free Passes”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 20 Oct 2008, page 16:
glosses: To try to obtain the sympathy of another person by complaining or sniveling.
Related terms: build a bridge and get over it
Crimea river
crocodile tear
crocodile tears
crying game
suctorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌkˈtɔːɹɪən/
Forms: form: suctorians
Etymology: From translingual Suctoria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: If the tentacles are touched, the ‘prey’ is instantly paralysed, and the contents of its body are sucked down the tentacle into the body of the suctorian, reducing the prey to a shrivelled husk in a matter of minutes.
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 11:
glosses: A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
Hypernyms: phyllopharyngean
ciliophoran
alveolate
protist
eukaryote
microbe
suctorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suctorian
cytostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytostomes
Etymology: From cyto- + -stome.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cellular organelle found only in certain protozoa; it is specialized for phagocytosis, and usually has the form of a microtubule-supported funnel or groove.
Synonyms: cell mouth
Derived terms: cytostomal
Related terms: cytosome
wishbone flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wishbone flower
beach-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach-head
proveably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proveably
form: most proveably
Etymology: From proveable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of provably.
keeled over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keel over
parasailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasailors
Etymology: From parasail + -or or para- + sailor.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of parasail; one who parasails.
parasailors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasailor
dwaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwale
dropped ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropped ceilings
Senses: glosses: A secondary ceiling, suspended from above, used to conceal wiring, plumbing and ducts
Synonyms: ceiling tiles
drop ceiling
drop-in ceiling
drop-out ceiling
false ceiling
grid ceiling
hung ceiling
suspended ceiling
T-bar ceiling
upper respiratory tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper respiratory tracts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract consisting of the nose, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract consisting of the nose, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx and trachea.
Related terms: upper airway
lower respiratory tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lower respiratory tracts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract consisting of trachea, bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli.
Related terms: lower airway
IEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IEOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of informal eating out: the sector of the food industry where one can buy food without the need to book a table.
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: Initialism of initial exchange offering.
cedrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedrates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cedrat (“citron tree and fruit”).
upper airway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper airways
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of respiratory tract consisting of nose, oral cavity, pharynx.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of respiratory tract consisting of nose, oral cavity, pharynx and epiglottis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of respiratory tract consisting of nose, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx.
Derived terms: upper airway cough syndrome
Related terms: upper respiratory tract
lower airway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lower airways
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract starting at the trachea and ending at the bronchioles.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract starting at the trachea and ending at alveoli.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the respiratory tract starting at the larynx and ending at the alveoli.
Related terms: lower respiratory tract
brasswind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasswinds
Etymology: From brass + wind.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Brass.
verted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vert
variad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variads
Etymology: From vary + -ad.
Senses: glosses: a subform of a phylogenetic stock or species
oneupmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of one-upmanship.
unces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unce
ultimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultima
cibaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cibarium
foresightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foresightful
form: most foresightful
Etymology: From foresight + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent
Derived terms: foresightfully
foresightfulness
peritrich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritrichs
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ciliate protozoan of the subclass Peritrichia.
Hyponyms: sessilid
mobilid
Derived terms: peritrichous
Related terms: spirotrich
hadiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadith
haptophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haptophyte
peritrichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritrich
handywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handywomen
form: handiwoman
Etymology: From handy + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who does small tasks and odd jobs.
glosses: An uncertified midwife; a woman who attends at childbirths but who lacks a medical qualification.
handywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handywoman
headstrongness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From headstrong + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
homophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophobe
nurturance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəːtʃəɹəns/
Forms: form: nurturances
Etymology: From nurture + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The provision of physical and emotional care.
examples: text: The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer, liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.
ref: 1991 February 4, David Lafontaine, Patrick Ward, “Why Our Future Is In The GOP”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 5:
glosses: The act of supporting, fostering.
nundinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nundinal
form: most nundinal
Etymology: From Latin nundinalis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a nundine
nundinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nundinals
Etymology: From Latin nundinalis.
Senses: examples: text: These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine.
ref: 1823, Encyclopaedia Britannica: Volume 15, page 99:
glosses: A nundinal letter.
nundine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌndʌɪn/
ipa: /ˈnənˌdaɪn/
Forms: form: nundines
form: nundines
Etymology: From Latin nundinae (“ninth-days”), a clipped form of nundinae feriae (“ninth-day festivals”), from its observance every eighth day (9 counting inclusively) and from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals.
Senses: glosses: A market or fair held every eight days, particularly (historical) in Roman contexts.
glosses: Any recurring eight-day period; an eight-day 'week'.
Derived terms: nundinal
nucleocapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleocapsids
Etymology: From nucleo- + capsid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The core structure of a virus, consisting of nucleic acid surrounded by a coat of protein
Kırklareli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɝkləˈɹɛli/
Forms: form: Kirklareli
Senses: glosses: A province in northwestern European Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.
glosses: A district of Kırklareli Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Kırklareli district and Kırklareli Province, Turkey.
nonuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˈjuːs/
Forms: form: nonuses
form: non-use
Etymology: From non- + use.
Senses: examples: text: Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 771:
glosses: The failure to make use of something.
nondenominationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, non + denominationalism, or, by surface analysis, nondenominational + ism.
Senses: synonyms: nonsectarianism
antonyms: denominationalism
sectarianism
coordinate_terms: ecumenism
ecumenicism
ecumenicalism
glosses: Nondenominational religious belief.
nominal ledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominal ledgers
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A general ledger.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A ledger that is not a personal ledger or a real ledger, for example, a revenue or expense ledger.
general ledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general ledgers
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: nominal ledger
coordinate_terms: personal ledger
real ledger
glosses: The central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements.
nidifugous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nidifugous
form: most nidifugous
Etymology: From Latin nīdus (“nest”) and fugiō (“I flee, escape”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
antonyms: nidicolous
glosses: That leaves the nest shortly after hatching.
Related terms: niche
nidation
nidate
nidatory
annidation
nide
nidicolous
nidify
nidificate
nidulate
nidulation
nidulant
nidus
nidal
pilonidal
nyas
eyas
nye
neurotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotropic
form: most neurotropic
form: neurotropical
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to neurotropism.
Derived terms: neurotropical
neurotropically
Related terms: neurotropism
neurotropy
neurotrophic
neurotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An affinity for nervous tissue
Related terms: neurotropic
neontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + onto- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Ontology comprises the study both of beings actually existing, and the study of ancient beings and of their fossil remains—neontology and palaeontology.
ref: 1861 July 6, “Flourens on the Unity and Fixity of Species”, in British Medical Journal:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
hyponyms: neobotany
neozoology
glosses: The study of organisms living in the current era, as opposed to organisms that are extinct.
Coordinate terms: paleontology
Related terms: neontologic
neontological
neontologist
near vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to see clearly an image that is relatively close (about 10 to 13 inches)
Related terms: distance vision
distance vision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: near vision
hypernyms: vision
eyesight
glosses: The ability to see clearly an image that is relatively far away (greater than about 36 inches).
Related terms: corrective lenses
eye chart
farseeing
farsightedness
myopia
nearsightedness
ophthalmologist
ophthalmology
optician
optometrist
optometry
remote viewing
telescopy
television
purchasing agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purchasing agents
Senses: examples: text: Subjoined is a statement from the purchasing agent at New-York, with a schedule giving the name, tonnage, price demanded, and cost actually paid of every vessel that has been bought by him.
ref: 1861 December 4, “Report of the Secretary of the Navy”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Oct 2008:
text: Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has . . . forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids.
ref: 1960 April 4, “Nettled Nickel-Nipper”, in Time:
text: The newspaper claims to have “confirmed” that Humayun Khan’s family import-export business, Pakland Corp., was a purchasing agent for Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
ref: 2004 May 25, Khalid Hasan, “Pakistan mired in another nuclear scandal”, in Daily Times, retrieved 21 Oct 2008:
glosses: A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.
Synonyms: buyer
affixative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affixatives
Senses: topics: art
arts
qualifier: antiquities
glosses: A preservative, usually an adhesive transparent fluid, used to protect the surface of a drawing from abrasion or similar damage.
Related terms: varnish
urethane
laminate
paint
spilt milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spilled milk
Senses: examples: text: It is not only lost, but in its spilling stains and spoils gown or carpet, and should it fall upon the bare ground, can add nothing to the producing powers of the earth; it is always just spilt milk, and not worth crying over.
ref: 1897, Harper's Bazaar - Volume 30, Issues 27-52, Hearst Corporation, page 892:
text: Even looking back is foolish—that's just spilt milk. You've got just two possibilities: stop dead in your tracks, or go on.
ref: 1950, Nancy Wilson Ross, I, My Ancestor, Random House, page 389:
text: One might wish that Bruckner had stood up absolutely to these well-meaning, unscrupulous, and not impressively talented students of his, but that would mean entirely remodeling his personality — and thus, surely, his music. In any event, it is a matter now of spilt milk.
ref: 1995, Michael Steinberg, The Symphony: A Listener's Guide, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 98:
text: I don't know. We'll probably never discover it. Let it go. It's just spilt milk. All water under the bridge.
ref: 1997, Carol Dawson, Meeting the Minotaur, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Something that cannot be undone.
Related terms: cry over spilt milk
point of no return
the die is cast
there's no point crying over spilt milk
provine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvaɪn/
Forms: form: provines
form: provining
form: provined
form: provined
Etymology: From French provigner, from provin (“a set, layer of a plant”), Old French provain, from Latin propago, propaginis, akin to propagare (“to propagate”). See propagate and prune.
Senses: examples: text: Do not provine, but fill up all places which have become vacant by two-year plants from the nursery
ref: 1872, John Louis William Thudichum, August Dupré, A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine:
glosses: To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.
stoop and roop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: stump and rump
Senses: glosses: Completely.
sinking ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinking ships
Senses: examples: text: He said that […] Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world.
ref: 1910, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 2, in When a Man Marries:
text: […]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.
ref: 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage), page 255:
text: My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working. […] And now the men say it's a sinking ship, and it's time they all got out.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: [T]he only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty. […] The government is a sinking ship.
ref: 2012 May 30, Haitham Maleh, “Opinion: A Peace Plan in Name Only”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2012:
synonyms: lost cause
glosses: Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster.
Derived terms: like rats from a sinking ship
hydrokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrokinetics
glosses: Of or pertaining to the kinetic energy of moving fluids
Derived terms: hydrokinetically
hydrokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + kinetics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics concerned with the movement of fluids
Related terms: hydrokinetic
soft mutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft mutation
ski slopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski slope
carry the can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries the can
form: carrying the can
form: carried the can
form: carried the can
Senses: examples: text: For Vajpayee, who is keen that he alone does not carry the can for his unwieldy alliance, it is a tough decision.
ref: 1998 April 25, Arati R. Jerath, "18 partners hunt for one voice," Indian Express (Bombay) (retrieved 21 Oct 2008)
text: You could reasonably argue that Brown himself should carry the can for much of the regulatory failure of the banks.
ref: 2008 October 16, Adrian Hamilton, “Comment: I wouldn't get too carried away by success if I were Brown”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 21 Oct 2008:
text: They're not going to play the patsy where they carry the can for all the woes caused by a tanking in oil prices that's already happened.
ref: 2015 June 17, Rick Bell, “Alberta NDP government chooses not to kick province's oil industry when it's down”, in Calgary Sun, Canada, retrieved 25 Sep 2015:
glosses: To take responsibility, especially in a challenging situation.
Synonyms: take the rap
Related terms: carry the mail
kick at the can
kick the can down the road
bell the cat
take one for the team
simonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simonist
push the boat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes the boat out
form: pushing the boat out
form: pushed the boat out
form: pushed the boat out
Senses: glosses: To do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.
Related terms: push the envelope
throw money away
chin wag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chin wags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chinwag.
chin-wag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chin-wags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chinwag.
piss poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piss poor
form: most piss poor
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piss-poor.
oceanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oceanlike
form: most oceanlike
Etymology: From ocean + -like.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an ocean in vastness or composition.
handcraftsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcraftsmanships
Etymology: From handcraftsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or lifestyle of being a handcraftsman.
newspaperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newspaperish
form: most newspaperish
Etymology: From newspaper + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a newspaper.
glosses: Overly professionalist; palpably mechanical in execution.
glosses: Prone to using cliché phrases.
Related terms: newspaper
newspaperishness
physiocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪzɪəkɹat/
Forms: form: physiocrats
Etymology: From French physiocrate, corresponding to physio- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: The Physiocrats espoused a professional service ethic and, in the interests of societal welfare, sought to establish laws of political economy and social relations.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Greta Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 219:
text: Smith spent some time in Paris and got to know the physiocrats personally, notably François Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.
ref: 2019, Leo Damrosch, The Club, Yale, published 2020, page 319:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws.
Derived terms: physiocratism
Related terms: physiocracy
Manichean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manicheans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manichaean.
Manichean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The question is the same if inverted in a Manichean form: how can Voldemort and his wicked forces have such power and yet be unable to destroy a mild-mannered and rather disorganized schoolboy?
ref: 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Manichaean.
adopt out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adopts out
form: adopting out
form: adopted out
form: adopted out
Senses: glosses: To expel a child from a family by placing them for adoption; to put a child up for adoption privately, without going through an adoption agency.
examples: text: The Chinese girl was adopted out to the United States.
glosses: To send a son or daughter away to live in another country. (Used with to).
glosses: To send a child to be adopted by family of a different culture and ethnicity.
fix someone's wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fixes someone's wagon
form: fixing someone's wagon
form: fixed someone's wagon
form: fixed someone's wagon
Etymology: From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.
Senses: examples: text: When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.
ref: 1946 July 24, John Dreibinger, “Yank Errors Help Browns Win, 8 to 2”, in New York Times, page 31:
text: According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. […] "He was going to fix their wagon good," said Mr Breeden.
ref: 2004 February 19, Simon English, “Black 'threatened to sue every one of his directors'”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 21 Oct 2008:
glosses: To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
Synonyms: take someone down a peg
teach someone a lesson
zuzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zuza
zuza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zuzas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zuz (“ancient Hebrew coin”).
maternity leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternity leaves
Senses: examples: text: My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.
text: I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.
ref: 2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:
hypernyms: parental leave
coordinate_terms: paternity leave
glosses: A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.
Derived terms: furternity leave
mat leave
parental leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parental leaves
Senses: examples: text: Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.
synonyms: family leave
glosses: A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.
Related terms: maternity leave
paternity leave
vaurien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vauriens
Etymology: Borrowed from French vaurien; used by Isaac D'Israeli for the name of the eponymous character of his 1797 novel Vaurien: or Sketches of the Times.
Senses: examples: text: Quarantine, a disagreeable thing at all times, was rendered perfectly disgusting by the manner in which the spoglia was conducted, the vermin, and the disobliging conduct of the director, who was a regular “vaurien.”
ref: 1841, William Jesse, Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health, Volume 1, James Madden & Co., page 62:
glosses: A good-for-nothing; a scoundrel.
wikipedia: Isaac D'Israeli
bajada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajadas
form: bahada
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bajada.
Senses: glosses: In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
lens blank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lens blanks
Senses: glosses: A rough, opaque piece of glass of suitable size, design and composition for use, when ground and polished, as a multifocal lens for use in a pair of eyeglasses.
lens blanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lens blank
Welsh rarebit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh rarebits
Etymology: Corruption of Welsh rabbit. First attested by Francis Grose in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785; he erroneously marked Welsh rabbit as a corruption (inverting the historical order); this idea may have originated with him, or been widespread at the time.
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.
Synonyms: rarebit
Welsh rabbit
Derived terms: buck rarebit
Related terms: rinktum ditty
bottlenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒtəlnəʊz/
Forms: form: bottlenoses
Etymology: From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.
Senses: glosses: bottlenose dolphin.
glosses: bottlenose whale.
glosses: bottlenose skate.
examples: text: I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), K A Applegate, The Message:
text: The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries.
ref: 2014 June 9, “Utah Toddler Killed By Dolphin In San Francisco”, in The Count:
text: Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks."
ref: 2019, Jay P Newcomb, Visigothic: The Legendary Journeys:
text: A dolphin might be thinking of ripping your heart out, or poking you to death with its bottlenose, the way it might do to a shark, but since it’s always smiling, you think it’s your friend.
ref: 2016 September 24, “‘Challenger’ chronicles a son’s journey through mental illness”, in Statesman:
glosses: The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.
bottlenose whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlenose whales
Senses: glosses: Any whale of the two species in genus Hyperoodon, both with characteristic bottle-shaped noses.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hyperoodon ampullatus
word: northern bottlenose whale
taxonomic: Hyperoodon planifrons
word: southern bottlenose whale
northern bottlenose whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern bottlenose whales
Senses: glosses: A bottlenose whale of species Hyperoodon ampullatus, endemic to the North Atlantic.
Related terms: taxonomic: Hyperoodon planifrons
word: southern bottlenose whale
southern bottlenose whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern bottlenose whales
Senses: glosses: Any of species Hyperoodon planifrons of bottlenose whales, found in the southern oceans.
Related terms: taxonomic: Hyperoodon ampullatus
word: northern bottlenose whale
ray-finned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rayfinned
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of the Actinopterygii taxonomic class, all having in common lepidotrichia (a kind of fin made of webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines).
sportsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔɹtspɝsən/
ipa: /spoɹtspɝsən/
ipa: /spɔːtspɜːsən/
ipa: /spɔətspɜːsən/
ipa: /spɔːspɜːsən/
Forms: form: sportspersons
form: sportspeople
Etymology: From sports + person.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.
Hypernyms: person
Hyponyms: sportsman
sportswoman
Derived terms: sportspersonship
whitethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitethroats
Etymology: From white + throat; so-called because the male of the species has a white throat.
Senses: glosses: Sylvia communis, a species of typical warbler.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sylvia communis
alt: syn. Curruca communis
word: common whitethroat
taxonomic: Sylvia minula
word: desert whitethroat
taxonomic: Sylvia cinerea
word: garden whitethroat
taxonomic: Sylvia communis
word: greater whitethroat
taxonomic: Sylvia althaea
word: Hume's whitethroat
taxonomic: Sylvia curruca
alt: syn. Curruca curruca
word: lesser whitethroat
big-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-headed
form: most big-headed
Senses: glosses: Arrogant, having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, headed.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Caranx ignobilis
word: big-headed jack
taxonomic: Batrachocottus baicalensis
word: big-headed sculpin
word: big-headed rice rat
taxonomic: Platysternon megacephalum
word: big-headed turtle
word: big-headedness
Related terms: big head
bighead