cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hierolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hiero- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: Luther's obstinate adherence to the ubiquity the Body of Christ and his or rather its real presence in and with the bread was a sad furtherance to the advocates of Popish idolatry and hierolatry.
ref: 1853, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 825:
glosses: The worship of saints
diethylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A clear, hygroscopic, odorless liquid, which is described by the chemical structural formula HO-CH₂-CH₂-O-CH₂-CH₂-OH. It is toxic to humans and other animals.
Synonyms: DEG
Related terms: alt: EG
word: ethylene glycol
english: PEG
translation: PEG
word: polyethylene glycol
alt: TEG
word: triethylene glycol
coiffeuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coiffeuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French coiffeuse.
Senses: glosses: A female hairdresser
Coordinate terms: coiffeur
do-it-yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do it yourself.
do it yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.
ref: 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 640:
glosses: The practice of doing home improvements and maintenance oneself, rather than employing a professional.
examples: text: The relationship between punk's do-it-yourself philosophy and the music industry, along with fashion suppliers, […]
ref: 2020, Matt Grimes, Mike Dines, Punk Now!!: Contemporary Perspectives on Punk:
glosses: The habit or approach of doing something for oneself, rather than for example buying a prepared product.
Synonyms: DIY
Derived terms: do-it-yourselfer
do-it-yourselfism
do-it-yourselfness
do-it-yourself-ness
Related terms: do-it-yourself
help yourself
self-build
self-help
self-serve
do-it-yourselfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-it-yourselfers
Etymology: From do it yourself + -er.
Senses: examples: text: During the past year or so, numerous new books have been published which can be helpful to do‐it‐yourselfers and home craftsmen, as well as to those readers on the lookout for new ideas and money‐saving suggestions on how to improve and maintain their homes and apartments.
ref: 1974 December 29, Bernard Gladstone, “New Books for Do‐It‐Yourselfers”, in The New York Times:
text: Since the store's opening last November, do-it-yourselfers in the Washington area have been coming to Brookstone for tools and gadgets they have not been able to find anywhere else.
ref: 1981 April 4, “THRIVING ON DO-IT YOURSELFERS”, in The New York Times:
text: And it does seem that everything at the company is moving faster these days. Mr. Nardelli, who calls himself the "consummate do-it-yourselfer," has spent the last seven months installing management systems that Home Depot had never before imagined, and pressing the fast-forward button on ones it had just begun to consider.
ref: 2001 July 29, Claudia H. Deutsch, “A Do-It-Yourselfer Takes On Home Depot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A practitioner of do it yourself.
dot-matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That functions by use of a dot matrix
double-check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-checks
form: double-checking
form: double-checked
form: double-checked
Senses: examples: text: And you have to be careful. If you don't book your parking in double-quick time, you risk a fine, so always double-check that your payment has gone through. Some operators don't even send you an email or text to say you've paid.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of double check.
double-jointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌbl̩ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪd/
ipa: /ˌdʌbəlˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪd/
ipa: [-ɾɪd]
rhymes: -ɔɪntɪd
Forms: form: more double-jointed
form: most double-jointed
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From double (adjective) + jointed (adjective), from the fact that a body part of a person with the condition appears to have two joints bending in different directions.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more joints (usually those of the fingers, arms, or legs) able to bend more than is normal; possessing hypermobility of one or more joints.
Derived terms: double-jointedness
double-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double knit.
double knit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double knits
Senses: examples: text: The men drive pick-up trucks and wear baseball caps to cover their bald spots. The women drive pick-up trucks and seem more at ease in double-knits than dyke chic.
ref: 1979 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Polyester Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 16:
glosses: A knitted fabric consisting of a double thickness, made on a machine with two sets of needles.
double-reed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a double reed.
double reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double reeds
form: double-reed
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pair of reeds, in any of several wind instruments, that are joined together and vibrate together.
examples: text: To me, the bassoon is the greatest of the double reeds.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrument using a double reed.
downbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnbiːt/
Forms: form: downbeats
Etymology: From down + beat.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke).
Related terms: afterbeat
offbeat
backbeat
downbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnbiːt/
ipa: /daʊnˈbiːt/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnbiːt/
Forms: form: more downbeat
form: most downbeat
Etymology: Earlier downbeaten, from the phrasal verb beat down
Senses: examples: text: He sounded downbeat when asked about his future plans.
glosses: Sad or pessimistic.
examples: text: She carried herself with a quiet downbeat grace.
glosses: Cautiously optimistic.
down-home
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down-home
form: most down-home
form: downhome
form: down home
Senses: examples: text: Just as Mr. Clinton began a comeback with a down-home plea for forgiveness, Mrs. Clinton now seems determined to prove, perhaps to the point of overcompensation, that she will not repeat the mistakes that plagued her 2008 campaign.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.
Synonyms: countrified
folksy
homespun
just folks
drop-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-offs
form: dropoff
Etymology: Deverbal from drop off.
Senses: glosses: A sudden downward slope or cliff.
glosses: A sudden downward slope or cliff.
The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.
examples: text: There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.
synonyms: falloff
step-off
glosses: A decrease; especially, a sudden one.
examples: text: Starting tomorrow, they'd do dropoffs and pickups instead of leaving their vehicles unguarded.
ref: 2014, K. G. MacGregor, Anyone But You:
glosses: A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
examples: text: Fifty car parking spaces, a drop-off point, five spaces for blue badge holders and lighting masts are all included in the plan, as is cycle parking on the station forecourt and ticket vending machines.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:
synonyms: set-down
setting-down
glosses: A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.
examples: text: These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.
ref: 2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 1:
glosses: A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.
examples: text: We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?
glosses: A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.
Related terms: drop off
hand-off
handover
dry-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having shed tears.
glosses: Not made sad (by something); emotionally unaffected.
Related terms: dry eye
judicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judicators
Senses: glosses: One who acts as a judge.
giudecca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giudeccas
form: giudecche
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian giudecca.
Senses: examples: text: There are not a great many Jews in Sicily, though Syracuse and Trapani have their Giudeccas.
ref: 1907, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Sicily, the New Winter Resort: An Encyclopaedia of Sicily, page 206:
glosses: A Jewish ghetto in an Italian city.
Giudecca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛkə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Giudecca, from giudecca (“Jewish ghetto”), from Medieval Latin iudeca, from Latin iūdaica, feminine form of iūdaicus (“Judaic, Jewish”), ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “Judah”). Doublet of Judaica and Judecca.
Despite the name, there is no evidence of any ancient Jewish settlements on the island.
Senses: glosses: A long island in the Venetian Lagoon separated from the main part of the city by a wide canal.
stemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemmata
form: stemmas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).
Senses: examples: text: Where so few dates are known, an authoritative stemma is out of the question
ref: 1941, Sterling Dow, “A Family of Sculptors from Tyre”, in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →DOI, page 359:
glosses: A family tree or recorded genealogy.
glosses: In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
glosses: One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.
Related terms: stemma codicum
stemmatics
fall short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔl ʃoɹt/
ipa: /foːl ʃoːt/
Forms: form: falls short
form: falling short
form: fell short
form: fallen short
Senses: examples: text: I did my best, but fell far short of the score cutoff.
text: Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimes fell far short of present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.
ref: 1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, page 216:
text: They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.
ref: 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
text: But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that being falls short of itself.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245c:
glosses: To be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient.
Derived terms: shortfall
Related terms: come up short
shortcoming
fall short to
pulgada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulgadas
Etymology: From Spanish pulgada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicata, from Latin pollicaris (“of or related to a thumb”), from pollex (“thumb”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”). Doublet of polegada.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 2.3 cm
Synonyms: word: Spanish inch
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: inch
Coordinate terms: punto (1⁄144 pulgada)
linea (1⁄12 pulgada)
dedo (3⁄4 pulgada)
coto (4+1⁄2 pulgadas)
sesma (6 pulgadas)
palmo (9 pulgadas)
pie (12 pulgadas)
codo (18 pulgadas)
vara (36 pulgadas)
hang onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs onto
form: hanging onto
form: hung onto
form: hung onto
Senses: examples: text: They hang onto all these kinds of thing, and insist that only what offers contact and touch is a thing that is.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 246b:
glosses: to keep
fnc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of forum non conveniens.
coordinate_terms: f
fn
func
funct
glosses: Abbreviation of function.
forum non conveniens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin forum+non+conveniens (“inappropriate forum”)
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A doctrine of law holding that a court should decline to hear a case if another court—especially one in a foreign jurisdiction—would provide a more appropriate forum for the parties and evidence.
Derived terms: fnc
santos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santo
fireworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireworms
Etymology: From fire + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of any of several tortricid moths (family Tortricidae).
glosses: The larva of any of several tortricid moths (family Tortricidae).
The larva of a small tortricid moth that feeds on cranberry leaves, giving the plant a burnt look; the cranberry worm.
glosses: The bearded fireworm, Hermodice carunculata, a species of polychaete in family Amphinomidae, which may cause pain if touched.
glosses: The golden fireworm, Chloeia flava, a species of polychaete.
chartering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of charter
unforested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Patagonia is a vast, mostly unforested area in the south of Argentina.
glosses: Not covered with forest.
unforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unforest
Related terms: deforested
almas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alma
almas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian алма́з (almáz, “diamond”).
Senses: glosses: caviar from the albino beluga
watter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watters
Etymology: From watt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The original cost of the 100-watter is approximately 15 cents, while the 2 60-watters will cost about 26 cents, and the 6 25-watters will cost about 60 cents. That’s one saving. To operate the 100-watter for 1,000 hours in a community where electricity costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour would cost $4.00. The cost of operating the 2 60-watters would be $5.00, while the cost of operating the 6 25-watters would be $6.00.
ref: 1940 November 15, Consumers’ Guide, volume VII, number 4, page 13, column 3:
text: The small, mushroom-shaped bulb is a new 300-watter recently put on the market by Westinghouse for about $1.25.
ref: 1950 October, Popular Science, page 225, column 2:
text: In 1927 Bridge built station KTAP, another 10-watter on 1140 kilocycles.
ref: 1998, Morton Richard Schroeder, Texas Signs On: The Early Days of Radio and Television, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Malcolm’s tighter, punchier rhythm tone is consistent with the use of any of these big 100-watters (a Marshall Super Bass would be particularly bold in this department), and this was clearly another key ingredient—partnered with his Filter’Tron-loaded Gretsch—in the unparalleled chunk of the AC/DC rhythm assault. While Angus also often records through the 100-watters, he has been known to use any of a range of several JTM45s, a JTM50, and a later JMP50 in the studio (the former with KT66s, the latter two amps with EL34s).
ref: 2010, Phil Sutcliffe, AC/DC: High-Voltage Rock ’n’ Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History, Voyageur Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 23, column 1:
glosses: Something that uses the specified amount of watts.
watters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watter
self-deceit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + deceit.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-deception.
synonyms: word: self-deception
self-denying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-denying
form: most self-denying
Etymology: From self- + denying.
Senses: synonyms: word: self-sacrificing
word: abstemious
word: self-abnegatory
word: self-denying
word: self-flagellatory
word: self-sacrificing
glosses: Without concern for one's own advantage; selfless or self-sacrificing.
self-deprecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-depreciation
Etymology: From self- + deprecation.
Senses: qualifier: Originally proscribed
glosses: The disparagement of one's own self.
Related terms: self-deprecating
self-mockery
preflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preflops
Etymology: From pre- + flop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-flop.
preflop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + flop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-flop.
preflop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + flop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-flop.
self-destructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-destructive
form: most self-destructive
Etymology: From self- + destructive.
Senses: examples: text: Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model. Only by maintaining very high numbers of livestock could the flow of fee-paying deerstalkers armed with rifles be ensured, but because of the rising cost of gamekeepers and estate upkeep, Glenfeshie’s sporting operations were still making a loss.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Causing injury to oneself or harm to one's interests.
self-determination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlfdɪˌtɜː(ɹ)mɪˈneɪʃən/
Etymology: From self- + determination.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ability or human right to make one's own decisions without interference from others
examples: text: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The political independence of a people
qualifier: international law
glosses: self-determination of peoples: the collective right to determine its own destiny in the international order, to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development, the right to establish a state
Related terms: territorial integrity
self-determined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-determined
form: most self-determined
form: selfdetermined
Etymology: From self- + determined.
Senses: glosses: Marked by self-determination.
freeroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freerolls
Etymology: From free + roll.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A poker tournament with no entry fee.
examples: text: We both had straights, but Jill had a flush draw: she was on a freeroll.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A situation where a player is guaranteed a tie but can still win.
freeroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freerolls
form: freerolling
form: freerolled
form: freerolled
Etymology: From free + roll.
Senses: examples: text: We both had straights, but Jill had a flush draw: she was freerolling me.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To be in a position where one is guaranteed a tie, but one can also win.
self-fulfillment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-fulfillments
Etymology: From self- + fulfillment.
Senses: glosses: Personal fulfillment or satisfaction.
freerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeroll
freerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freeroll
freerolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeroll
freerolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freeroll
self-imposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + imposed.
Senses: glosses: Voluntarily imposed upon oneself.
self-knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlfˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/
enpr: nŏl′ij
ipa: /ˌsɛlfˈnɑl.ɪdʒ/
Etymology: From self- + knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: A girl's love is half poetry, an unconscious preference till startled into self-knowledge. Isabella had been grateful for Mr. Glentworth's kindness—struck with his cultivated mind, and impressed with his distinguished appearance; so were all her sisters; but she alone was timid in expressing that admiration; in her alone had they inspired that feeling, which, shy, vague, and tender, is love.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: Knowledge or insight into one's own character, abilities, feelings, or motivations; self-understanding.
self-pitying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-pitying
form: most self-pitying
Etymology: From self- + pitying.
Senses: examples: text: Yet The Smiths' hopelessness has also turned listeners off. Their music seems at times too self-indulgent and self-pitying to be taken seriously.
ref: 1986 August 9, Gerardo Maria Cabrera, “The Smiths Turn to Subtle Self-Parody”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
synonyms: maudlin
sorry for oneself
glosses: Pitying oneself; marked by self-pity.
Related terms: self-pity
self-preservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛlfˌpɹɛzɜˈɹ.veɪ.ʃən/
Etymology: From self- + preservation.
Senses: examples: text: I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
text: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: The instinctive behaviour that protects oneself from harm.
self-protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + protection.
Senses: glosses: self-defence
self-realization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-realizations
Etymology: From self- + realization.
Senses: examples: text: We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.
ref: 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
glosses: The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
glosses: The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
examples: 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an
Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.
glosses: A realization about oneself.
self-regulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + regulation.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: willpower
synonyms: self-command
self-control
self-discipline
self-mastery
antonyms: undisciplinedness
coordinate_terms: self-awareness
self-criticism
glosses: The regulation by a person of their own behaviour without external control, governance, or monitoring.
examples: Near-synonyms: self-governance; autonomy
coordinate_terms: sovereignty
glosses: The regulation by an organization of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
examples: Near-synonym: automation
glosses: The regulation by a device or machine of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
self-regulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: That regulates without external control or monitoring
Related terms: self-regulation
self-seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-seekers
form: selfseeker
Etymology: From self- + seeker.
Senses: examples: text: 'They are all self-seekers - every one.'
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 232:
glosses: A self-seeking person.
self-seeking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-seeking
form: most self-seeking
Etymology: From self- + seeking.
Senses: glosses: Mindful of, or promoting, only one's own interests.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: That searches for a target automatically.
raw_tags: of a missile
self-seeking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + seeking.
Senses: glosses: The selfish promotion of one's own interests.
Frenchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenchy
self-starting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + starting.
Senses: glosses: That starts by itself.
raw_tags: of a machine
glosses: Energetic and resourceful.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: self-starter
self-support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + support.
Senses: glosses: The capacity of independent support; self-sufficiency.
examples: text: The self-sale of a destitute person for self-support or support of family.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1079:
glosses: The act or means of supporting oneself financially; livelihood
self-supporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-supporting
form: most self-supporting
Etymology: From self- + supporting.
Senses: examples: text: With a self-supporting body and without separate underframe, this design offers scope for improved sound insulation; [...].
ref: 1963 August, “British Railways in 1962—The Annual Report”, in Modern Railways, pages 119–120:
glosses: Characterized by self-support.
self-will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.
Senses: examples: text: This Marian principle indicates that women ought to divest themselves of self-will in order to be obedient to the word of God as articulated by male spokesmen.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
glosses: The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
Related terms: self-willed
self-willedly
self-willedness
balconies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balcony
foemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He fell where the Cherubim encamp, / With his face to the flying foemen.
ref: 1908, James Ryder Randall, “Placide Bossier”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 44:
text: Who were these foemen, who had taken with them to the house of the dead ten, or as some reports said, as many as twenty for every one of their own fallen?
ref: 2005, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (Historical Fiction), Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of foeman
foeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊmən/
Forms: form: foemen
Etymology: From Middle English foman (“an enemy, devil, demon”), from Old English fāhman (“enemy”), equivalent to foe + man.
Senses: examples: text: a snaggy Oke, which he had torne / Out of his mothers bowelles, and it made / His mortall mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayde.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: With a vicious lunge the elephant swerved to the right to dispose of this temerarious foeman who dared intervene between himself and his intended victim; but he had not reckoned on the lightning quickness that could galvanize those steel muscles into action so marvelously swift as to baffle even a keener eyesight than Tantor’s.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
text: King Hygelac of the Geats had been struck down by one might swipe of the foemen, the Frisians.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
text: I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal . . . and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Daenerys [Targaryen]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, pages 482–483:
text: Who were these foemen, who had taken with them to the house of the dead ten, or as some reports said, as many as twenty for every one of their own fallen?
ref: 2005, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (Historical Fiction), Random House, →ISBN:
text: Exhaustively knowledgeable about the science of cognition, and a foeman who gives as good as he gets (if not better) in the nature-versus-nurture culture wars, Pinker seemed the perfect foil for some of my ideas about the IQ test.
ref: 2009 August 14, Mark Dery, “Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 10 Feb 2012:
glosses: An enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon.
Derived terms: foemanship
misdeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdeed
remitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remit
lagerphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagerphones
Etymology: From lager + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: 1991, Experimental Musical Instruments, Volumes 7-8, page 19,
In Dunsan Makavejev′s film “The Coca-Cola Kid” (1984) the country band (Conways Carnival) performing “Waltzing Matilda” includes a lagerphone player who, in addition to hitting the stick against the ground strikes it with a stick swung in mock-bowing fashion.
text: 2003, John Shepherd et al. (editors), “Lagerphone”, entry in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume II: Performance and Production, page 379,
In its modern form the lagerphone is of Australian origin and is a percussive instrument that produces a rhythmic effect similar to that of the tambourine.
text: Our three piece band consisted of Robyn on lagerphone, me on guitar and a Norwegian guitar player called Tore Nielsen.
ref: 2011, Chris Buch, Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid′s Journey to the Sunshine State, page 227:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: boozaphone
mendoza
mendozer
monkey stick
Murrumbidgee river rattler
ugly stick
glosses: A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument.
odours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odour
destroyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destroyer
ringworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringworm
votaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of votary
silvered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silvered
form: most silvered
Senses: glosses: Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
examples: text: Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Hoary with age; silver-haired.
Derived terms: half-silvered mirror
silvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silver
leans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lean
leans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: examples: text: If you don't use your flight instruments when flying in cloud, you can easily get the leans and enter a fatal graveyard spiral.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes themselves to be in a bank when they are actually wings-level, or vice-versa, often resulting in spatial disorientation and loss of control of the aircraft.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: plural of lean
tin dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin dogs
Etymology: From tin + dog.
Senses: examples: 2005 October 30, Bruce Simpson, interviewed on Landline, Australian Broadcasting Commission, transcript,
I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving.
glosses: A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.
examples: 1993, Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust, autobiography.
glosses: Alternative form of tinned dog, a disparaging term for canned meat.
fondest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fond: most fond
didymo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Didymosphenia geminata.
Senses: synonyms: rock snot
glosses: A species of diatom, Didymosphenia geminata, best known as widely invasive algae.
rock snot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: didymo
glosses: The species of diatom, Didymosphenia geminata, best known as widely invasive algae.
nosiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosinesses
Etymology: From nosy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being nosy.
nosily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nosily
form: most nosily
Etymology: From nosy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a nosy manner.
newspaperman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)uspeɪpəɹˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈn(j)uzpeɪpəɹˌmæn/
Forms: form: newspapermen
Etymology: From newspaper + -man. Compare paperboy.
Senses: glosses: A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
newspapermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newspaperman
neutralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjuːtɹəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌnuːtɹəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: neutralizations
form: neutralisation
Etymology: Borrowed from French neutralisation. By surface analysis, neutral + -ization or neutralize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of neutralizing.
Derived terms: bioneutralization
deneutralization
immunoneutralization
microneutralization
neutralization number
overneutralization
reneutralization
seroneutralization
underneutralization
neutralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutralization
tricorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricorders
Etymology: The name of such a device in Star Trek, from tri- (referring to its three input keys, which by default cover geological, meteorological, and biological functions) + (re)corder
Senses: examples: text: PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND TRICORDERS
ref: 1999-2003, Matt Groening, opening title screen from the start, in Futurama, FOX Television Network:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional futuristic handheld device used for scanning, which may be specialized for medical, technical, or other purposes.
glosses: A real-world advanced handheld medical scanner.
draw out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws out
form: drawing out
form: drew out
form: drawn out
Senses: examples: text: It seems the boss tries to draw out these meetings for as long as possible just to punish us.
glosses: To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend.
examples: text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
glosses: To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
examples: text: They used raw meat to draw the beast out of the cave.
glosses: To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place.
examples: text: She's really a neat person if you just take the time to draw her out.
glosses: To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
examples: text: Jill had a flush on the turn, but Jimmy drew out by completing a full house on the river.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
examples: text: That the Scots Army drew out upon a March, and the English Army drew out to attend them, but could not engage them, by reason of a Bog and great Ditch between the two Armies, only they discharged their great Guns at one another, […]
ref: 1732, Memorials of the English Affairs:
glosses: To leave the place (of an army), etc.
draws out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw out
drawing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw out
drew out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of draw out
drawn out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drawn out
form: most drawn out
Senses: examples: text: Graduation speeches are always so long and drawn out.
synonyms: prolonged
protracted
glosses: Extended; made to last longer than necessary.
drawn out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of draw out
reverse implied odds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The odds offered by the amount one stands to lose in future betting when one has the worst hand against the amount one stands to win when one has the best hand.
Related terms: implied odds
Antarctican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Antarctic + -an.
Senses: examples: text: ...West Antarctican part of Gondwanaland are very informative.
ref: 1859, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, Governor-General of India, page 119
text: By studying the modern trends of international affairs it may be very easily understood that the Antarctican shores are gradually becoming important naval bases.
ref: a. 1951, The Modern Review, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, page 383:
text: This fascinating view of Mendez-Correa may not seem too incredible, as actually the Antarctican shores might have possessed warm regions...
ref: 1951 May, The Modern Review, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, page 384:
text: Nevertheless, the possibility of trans-Antarctican airways between South America and Australasia seems a much more remote possibility
ref: 1957, Kenneth Royston Sealy, The Geography of Air Transport, Hutchinson University Library, page 93:
text: At various times he was President of the American Polar Society, the Association of American Geographers and the Antarctican Society.
ref: 1959, Polar Record, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University Press, page 858
text: Did it belong to South America or to Antarctica? Where was the junction or separation of the Andean and Antarctican mountain systems?
ref: 1965, Richard S. Lewis, “A Continent for Science”, in The Antarctic Adventure, Viking press, page 118:
text: ...no way to hold on, trapped on an antarctican icefloat.
ref: 1991, Kathryn Thompson, “Close Your Eyes and Think of Dublin”, in Portrait of a Girl, FC2, →ISBN, page 173:
text: From South America, marsupials dispersed into an Antarctican continent that was considerably warmer than at present and, unaccompanied by placentals, reached Australia during the early Eocene, about 50 million years ago.
ref: 2000, Monroe W. Strickberger, Evolution, Jones & Bartlett,, →ISBN, page 454:
synonyms: Antarctic
glosses: Antarctic; of or pertaining to Antarctica.
Antarctican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antarcticans
Etymology: From Antarctic + -an.
Senses: examples: text: ...customs which the Antarcticans might have. How he wished he had made the trip alone, and need not share with Adam the scientific triumphs to come!
Of course she was—the daughter of Morrison, Hull’s companion who had befriended and protected him against the Antarcticans.
ref: 1935, Edison Marshall, Dian of the Lost Land, H. C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., pages 53 and 62
text: Had the US Navy icebreakers been unable to rescue them from the ice in early 1948 her child might have been the first native-born Antarctican.
ref: 1956, Walter Sullivan, Quest for a Continent, McGraw-Hill, page 273:
text: Gonneville departed this enchanted land...taking with him...an “Indian” prince called Essomeric. The land was not, of course, the southern continent, and Essomeric was not an Antarctican. De Gonneville had probably been to southern Brazil.
ref: 2001, Kieran Mulvaney, At the Ends of the Earth: History of the Polar Regions, Island Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Recall the exercise at the end of the previous chapter, and imagine that you discover just one Antarctican, and you measure his or her body temperature. If you know the population mean for Antarcticans (perhaps it is 98.6°F), then you have one piece of information about variability.
ref: 2004, R. Brooke Lea, Barry H. Cohen, Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:
text: Part of the reason is that there is an indigenous tradition of consuming seals in the north for subsistence, whereas sealing in the south was done almost exclusively for commercial reasons, there being no native Antarcticans.
ref: 2006, William L. Fox, Driving to Mars, Shoemaker & Hoard, →ISBN, page 227:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A native of Antarctica.
examples: text: ...the easy-going good nature and “she’s right, mate,” attitude of the genuine Australian is a simple but practical outlook which could well be copied by many future Antarcticans.
ref: 1956, Antarctic, New Zealand Antarctic Society:
text: We were not the only Antarcticans flying early this 1958-59 season. Soviet scientists across the icecap were planning an over-snow traverse toward the South Pole and wanted to survey the route by air.
ref: 1959, The National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Society, page 541:
text: The Antarcticans sense that life must be asserted here. It cannot draw back before these wastes, but must subdue them if only to demonstrate its viability.
ref: 1965, Richard S. Lewis, “A Continent for Science”, in The Antarctic Adventure, Viking Press, page 258:
text: I’m an Antarctican; I can sleep on the ground.
ref: 1987, Michael Parfit, South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent, Collier Books, →ISBN, page 273:
text: You should also have little trouble finding some glacier ice for your whiskey; many Antarcticans enjoy sipping their Scotch on very old rocks!
ref: 2005, Jeff Rubin et al., Antarctica, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: One who has spent time in Antarctica, especially a scientist or researcher.
dunderfunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandyfunk
form: dundy funk
form: dundy-funk
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: ship's biscuit broken up, mixed with molasses etc. and baked
scintillometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintillometers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that measures fluctuations in the Earth’s atmosphere.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A scintillation counter.
Johanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling variant of Joanne.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew occasionally used in English.
sultani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultanis
Senses: glosses: An infrequently minted coin and former currency unit in Ottoman Tunisia, at one point worth 80 nasris.
roccella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roccellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of lichens of genus Roccella, especially Rocella tinctoria from which litmus is extracted.
animalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animalistic
form: most animalistic
Etymology: From animal + -istic.
Senses: synonyms: animal-like
glosses: In the manner of and/or resembling an animal;
synonyms: bestial
glosses: In the behaviour of an animal savage; untamed.
glosses: Of or pertaining to animalism.
Derived terms: animalistically
Cefalù
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Palermo, Sicily.
lost for words
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lost for words
form: most lost for words
Senses: examples: text: When I saw the gift, I was lost for words.
glosses: Speechless from surprise, shock, or confusion.
Synonyms: at a loss for words
nonplussed
Related terms: words fail someone
confused
in something's way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The tent was unfortunately in the moose's way.
text: The mountains were in the railroad's way.
glosses: Obstructing, blocking, or impeding the movement or line of sight of something.
Synonyms: word: in one's way
word: in someone's way
word: in the way of
Sicanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sicanian
form: most Sicanian
Etymology: From Sicani + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sicani
Sicanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sicani + -an.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Sicani
Sicano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sicani
Senses: glosses: A member of the Sicani
Sicani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ancient people of Sicily and parts of Italy.