cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
web design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Web Design Style Guide: How to Create a Smash Hit Web Site
ref: 1996, Ruffin Prevost, The Web Design Style Guide: How to Create a Smash Hit Web Site, title:
text: Still others are firms already established in other creative sectors, which offer Web design services to their clients as part of their portfolio of services.
ref: 2000, Birgitte Andersen, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy, page 72:
text: As relatively new as responsive web design is to us designers, it's even newer and often completely unfamiliar to our clients, which means we need to take every opportunity to weave in the concept.
ref: 2015, Dan Rose, Responsive Web Design with Adobe Photoshop, page 85:
glosses: The trade of a web designer; the creation of web pages, especially in terms of layout and presentation rather than functionality.
Hypernyms: design
Hyponyms: english: responsive web design
translation: responsive web design
word: responsive design
cactus cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæk.təs kæt/
Forms: form: cactus cats
Senses: glosses: A bobcat-like creature in North American folklore, said to be covered in spines like a porcupine and to slash cacti at night to release their juices.
squonks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squonk
hoop snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop snakes
Senses: glosses: A mythical creature of the United States and Australia, a snake that grasps its tail in its jaws and thereby rolls after its prey like a wheel.
glosses: Snakes of genus Farancia, chiefly of the southeastern U.S.:
Farancia abacura (horn snake, mud snake)
glosses: Snakes of genus Farancia, chiefly of the southeastern U.S.:
Farancia erytrogramma (rainbow snake)
Related terms: joint snake
ouroboros
hoop snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop snake
ready salted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From early crisps that, having previously been shipped with a separate twist of salt, were later salted in advance.
Senses: glosses: Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring.
raw_tags: of crisps
Synonyms: word: original
word: plain
dinosauric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dinosaur + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Dinosaurian.
dinosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinosaurian
cat ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat lady
multilanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + language.
Senses: synonyms: multilingual
multilinguistic
glosses: of or pertaining to multiple languages
teakettler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teakettlers
Etymology: From teakettle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A creature in North American folklore, said to resemble a small stubby-legged dog with the ears of a cat, whose cry resembles a boiling teakettle.
unserialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + serialized.
Senses: glosses: Not serialized.
anoxically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anoxic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anoxic way; without oxygen.
blue hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue holes
Senses: glosses: A submarine cave or sinkhole, a roughly circular, steep-walled depression that is typically anoxic below a certain depth.
blue holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue hole
bioluminescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bioluminescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bioluminescent way.
Related terms: bioluminescence
bioluminesce
luminescently
biofluorescently
sigbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigbins
form: sigben
Etymology: From Cebuano sigbin.
Senses: glosses: A creature of Philippine mythology, resembling a hornless goat, said to come out at night to suck the blood of victims from their shadows.
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A cryptid resembling a kangaroo or a deer.
sigben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigbens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sigbin.
smilodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smilodons
Etymology: From the genus name Smilodon.
Senses: examples: text: From the sound of the smilodon’s roar, I knew he was far off.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: Any member of the extinct genus Smilodon, the saber-toothed tigers.
smilodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smilodon
smirkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smirkingly
form: most smirkingly
Etymology: From smirking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a smirking manner.
multiwindow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + window.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving or permitting multiple windows at the same time.
Synonyms: multiwindows
grammaticalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammaticalize
grammaticalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammaticalize
grammaticalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammaticalize
reanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reanalysis
reanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reanalyse
wolpertinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolpertingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wolpertinger.
Senses: examples: text: The wolpertinger roams the mountains and forests of the Bavarian Alps.
ref: 1995, Greg N Carlson, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, The generic book:
text: ...fall into the same category as Germany's wolpertingers, which we have seen on our visits to that country.
ref: 2004, Bill Cannon, Texas: Land of Legend and Lore:
text: We can however think of hypothetical worlds w' that contain wolpertingers and/or unicorns […]
ref: 2006, Regine Eckardt, Meaning change in grammaticalization:
glosses: A fictional creature said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria, having various incongruous features such as wings, antlers, and fangs.
wolpertingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolpertinger
waitoreke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waitoreke
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori. The etymology is disputed. The first syllable is probably from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *wai (“water”), from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wai, from Proto-Polynesian *wai, from Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ. Maori toreke (“be left behind, forsaken”) can be found in dictionaries.
Senses: glosses: A cryptid of New Zealand, said variously to be a mammal resembling an otter, platypus or beaver, and to live in rivers.
damselfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damselfish
whaddayawant
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From whaddaya + want.
Senses: glosses: What do you want?
sirrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirrushes
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A fantastical creature depicted on the reconstructed Ishtar Gate of Babylon, a scaly dragon with hind legs like an eagle's talons and feline forelegs.
sirrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirrush
rainily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rainily
form: most rainily
Etymology: From rainy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rainy way.
waitressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waitressy
form: most waitressy
Etymology: From waitress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She wore a waitressy dress.
glosses: Of or pertaining to waitresses.
Synonyms: waitresslike
side dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side dish
sexlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexlike
form: most sexlike
Etymology: From sex + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Because many drugs produce a sexlike pleasure, there is a close relationship between drug taking and sex. Both sexual and drug-induced sensations command attention and condition the brain to seek repetition of the experience.
ref: 1977, Hardin B. Jones, Helen C. Jones, Sensual Drugs: Deprivation and Rehabilitation of the Mind, page 111:
text: Some bacteria occasionally have a sexlike process, or conjugation […]
ref: 1993, Robert Wesson, Beyond natural selection:
glosses: Resembling sex or some aspect of it.
Related terms: unsexlike
wintersweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintersweets
Etymology: From winter + sweet.
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Chimonanthus.
wintersweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wintersweet
saithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪð/
ipa: /seɪθ/
rhymes: -eɪð
rhymes: -eɪθ
Forms: form: saithes
Etymology: From Old Norse seiðr; compare Norwegian sei and Swedish and Danish sej.
Senses: glosses: The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens).
zapodids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zapodid
tapeless workflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapeless workflows
Senses: glosses: Avoidance of use of magnetic tapes in the full process of video production from camera recording and editing to postproduction.
zetetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zetetically
form: most zetetically
Etymology: From zetetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: It would be somewhat too long a work for this place Zetetically to examine, and positively to prove, what particular kind of motion it is that must be the efficient of Light […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section IX:
glosses: In a zetetic way; by means of investigation.
zestless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zestless
form: most zestless
Etymology: From zest + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1792, Robert Sadler, Wanley Penson, or The Melancholy Man, London: C. & G. Kearsley, Volume 3, p. 252,
There are moments, indeed, in which I could be pleased to repay even a zestless joke with a smile, and, to feed the cheerfulness of a companion, rummage my own recollection for a mirthful incident; but, alas! ’tis not so now—My soul is too much absorbed in its own gloomy ruminations, to be drawn forth by its accustomed urbanity […]
text: 1865, Charles Heavysege, Jephthah’s Daughter, Montreal: Dawson Brothers, IV, (unpaginated),
[…] So he passes
To second childhood; but, as quickening gases,
Being fled, leave zestless a once cheering draught,
We grow not merry though the Dotard laughed.
text: As he descended the stairs he felt calmer, readier to do battle with the forces arrayed against him; and that made him feel a little warm towards the weak healthy boy who never did battle at all, but just drank and debauched himself in a bored, zestless way.
ref: 1941, James Hilton, Random Harvest, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., Part Four, p. 249:
text: c. 1956, Martin Luther King Jr., sermon delivered at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott, cited in Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulder, CO: Blue Mountain Press, p. 81,
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.
glosses: Lacking zest; passionless, unenthusiastic.
Derived terms: zestlessly
zestlessness
zestlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zestlessly
form: most zestlessly
Etymology: From zestless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Shrimps That Crawl in Chesapeake Bay, Served Up Fresh Here Every Day," he rhymed zestlessly from old habit.
ref: 1945, Henry Morton Robinson, The Perfect Round:
glosses: In a zestless way.
zestlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zestless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But now, pondering all this during these weeks of his despondency he grew frightened at his own zestlessness, and he did not even care to eat so much as he had, and when he found his appetite for food waning he was frightened lest he die too soon, and he said to himself that he must rid himself of some of his troubles.
ref: 1932, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 15, in Sons, Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, published 1997, page 149:
glosses: The state or condition of being zestless; lack of passion or enthusiasm.
zillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of a zillion.
Zip disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zip disks
form: Zip disc
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A disk of the kind that can be read and written by a Zip drive.
collinses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collins
Collinses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Collins
glossless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gloss + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking gloss (a shiny surface).
Derived terms: glosslessness
Saïs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.ɪs/
rhymes: -eɪɪs
Senses: glosses: A city in ancient Egypt.
Related terms: Saite
Zip disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zip disk
Zip drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zip drive
xenarthrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenarthran
yabbying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yabby
yabbied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yabby
gastrinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrinomas
form: gastrinomata
Etymology: From gastrin + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A tumour that secretes gastrin.
gastrinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrinoma
gastrinomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrinoma
zoneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zone + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In this style of defense he is the one zoneless player, being able to cross into either of the zones as he is needed.
ref: 1983, Robert Pollock, “Tactics”, in Soccer for Juniors, New York: Scribner, page 109:
text: 1988, Aniko Varpalotai, “Ringette: The Sport for Girls,” Orbit, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Volume 19, No. 3, October 1988, p. 10,
[…] ringette players are agitating for zoneless play which would make the game faster and more demanding.
glosses: Without zones; unzoned.
examples: text: Clos’d was her eye, and from her heaving breast
In careless folds loose flow’d her zoneless vest;
ref: 1749, William Mason, Isis: An Elegy, London: R. Dodsley, page 7:
text: Thou art not known where pleasure is adored,
That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist
And wand’ring eyes, still leaning on the arm
Of novelty, her fickle frail support;
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 94:
glosses: Without a belt or girdle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking bands or rings (particularly with reference to fungi).
zonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: zonalities
Etymology: From zonal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being zonal.
zonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonality
zoogeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zoogeographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a zoogeographical way.
zootheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoötheism
Etymology: From zoo- + theism.
Senses: glosses: Animal worship; zoolatry.
nonquadratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quadratic.
Senses: glosses: Not quadratic.
Derived terms: nonquadratically
lusca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of Mollusca, a phylum containing octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods.
Senses: examples: text: The lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish.
ref: 1970, National Geographic:
text: For the same lusca had attacked his boat only a few weeks later.
ref: 1999, Robert Forrest Burgess, The Cave Divers:
text: […] the half-dragon, half-octopus Lusca, which whirlpools its victims to a watery death.
ref: 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Amy C Balfour, Paul Clammer, Michael Grosberg, Caribbean Islands:
glosses: A folkloric sea monster of the Caribbean resembling a giant octopus/squid, or giant cuttlefish; or shark-headed cephalopod-tentacle armed creature (sharktopus).
cuttlefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuttlefish
chitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiton
chitinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chitinlike
form: most chitinlike
Etymology: From chitin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling chitin or some aspect of it.
togalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more togalike
form: most togalike
Etymology: From toga + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toga.
chinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chinlike
form: most chinlike
Etymology: From chin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chin.
knucklelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knucklelike
form: most knucklelike
Etymology: From knuckle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a knuckle.
Synonyms: knuckly
knuckly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: knucklier
form: knuckliest
Etymology: From knuckle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a rock-face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Knucklelike.
examples: text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Having prominent knuckles.
drainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drainlike
form: most drainlike
form: drain-like
Etymology: From drain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a drain.
brainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brainlike
form: most brainlike
Etymology: From brain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brain.
sinklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinklike
form: most sinklike
Etymology: From sink + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sink.
Eve's pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the Biblical Eve, who transgressed by eating an apple.
Senses: glosses: A pudding made from apples and Victoria sponge cake mixture.
Mondayized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mondayised.
Mondayized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mondayize
autoload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoloads
form: autoloading
form: autoloaded
form: autoloaded
Etymology: From auto- + load.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To load (data or storage media) automatically.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To load (firearms or artillery) automatically.
Related terms: word: autoloader
word: autoloading
autoloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoload
autoloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoload
autoloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The capability of loading and linking portions of a program from mass storage automatically when needed.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
antonyms: handloading#Noun
glosses: The act or process of loading automatically, as done by an autoloader.
autoloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoload
mundanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundane
diwani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diwanis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dewani.
toonophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toonophiles
Etymology: From toon + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Some toonophiles are furry lifestylers. Not all lifestylers are toonophiles.
ref: 1999, David Cooke, “Something that need to be asked”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
glosses: A person who is physically attracted to cartoon characters.
Related terms: toonophilia
schediaphilia
toonophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toonophile
gadiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Gadiformes
gadiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish.
fuckingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fucking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That whole pack of academically defunct eternally matriculated and fuckingly overpaid nuts and what are they saying?
ref: 1971, Paul Zindel, And Miss Reardon drinks a little:
text: I have this connection in New York, he gets the most fuckingly beautiful Stickley pieces. Expensive.
ref: 2002, Nina Vida, The End of Marriage:
text: All that swirl of events and factors led to one fuckingly cool decade, didn't it, my brothers and oh my sisters?
ref: 2003, Jeff Tamarkin, Jann Wenner, Paul Kantner, Got a revolution!:
glosses: Fucking, extremely (as an intensifier).
tree rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree rats
form: tree-rat
form: treerat
Etymology: From tree + rat.
Senses: glosses: Any of very many diverse rodents
glosses: A squirrel.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mesembriomys gouldii
word: black-footed tree rat
taxonomic: Thallomys nigricauda
word: black-tailed tree rat
taxonomic: Niviventer langbianis
word: dark-tailed tree rat
taxonomic: Chiromyscus chiropus
word: Fea's tree rat
taxonomic: Papagomys armandvillei
word: Flores giant tree rat
taxonomic: Toromys grandis
word: giant tree rat
taxonomic: Mesembriomys macrurus
word: golden-backed tree rat
taxonomic: Lenothrix canus
word: gray tree rat
taxonomic: Xenuromys barbatus
word: mimic tree-rat
taxonomic: Callistomys pictus
word: painted tree rat
taxonomic: Santamartamys rufodorsalis
word: red crested tree rat
taxonomic: Diplomys labilis
word: rufous tree rat
taxonomic: Diplothrix legata
word: Ryukyus Islands tree rat
taxonomic: Kadarsanomys sodyi
word: Sody's tree rat
taxonomic: Lonchothrix emiliae
word: tuft-tailed spiny tree rat
chinalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chinalike
form: most chinalike
Etymology: From china + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling china (the ceramic or porcelain material) or some aspect of it.
unwantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wantable.
Senses: glosses: Not wantable; that cannot be wanted.
Synonyms: undesirable
restripe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restripes
form: restriping
form: restriped
form: restriped
Etymology: From re- + stripe.
Senses: glosses: To mark with stripes again or differently.
examples: When a business, State or local government agency, or other covered entity restripes a parking lot, it must provide accessible parking spaces as required by the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. ADA Design Guide 1 - Restriping Parking Lots
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To change the space markings in a parking lot.
examples: text: The work includes furnishing all labor, material, equipment, transportation, supervision, and management necessary for restriping road centerlines, edgelines, stop/yield bars, crosswalks and incidental related work.
ref: 1996, Unknown, “Z -- RESTRIPE VARIOUS ROADS AND CROSSWALKS AT THE NAVAL AIR STATION, LEMOORE, CALIFORNIA”, in cbd.procurements (Usenet):
glosses: To change the lane markings or other markings on a road, runway or other path; to repaint existing pavement traffic markings.
examples: text: In most cases, reduced application performance is preferable to the alternative of stopping applications entirely to move or restripe data.
ref: 2001, Richard Barker, Paul Massiglia, Storage area network essentials, page 213:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: RAID
glosses: To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.
examples: text: In Prussia eight General Commissions exist for settling land on an economic basis either by the subdivision of large estates, by restriping, or by the occupation and improvement of waste lands.
ref: 1921, Gerald Francis Keatinge, Agricultural Progress in Western India, page 227:
text: general arrangements being made for commassation or restriping of land as in many European countries and in Japan we can hardly tell.
ref: 1917, Harold Hart Mann with Dattatraya Lakshman Sahasrabuddhe, Narayan Vinayak Kanitkar, Vinayak Atmaram Tamhane, et al., Land and labour in a Deccan village, page 154:
glosses: To redivide (land).
special warranty deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special warranty deeds
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed of title to real property by which the grantor warrants that he is not personally responsible for any title defects, but making no warranties or representations as to the quality of the title in other respects.
special warranty deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special warranty deed
title defect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title defects
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A problem with the chain of title to a parcel of real property that exposes the putative owner of the property to a potential legal dispute over the ownership of the property.
title defects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of title defect
chain of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chains of title
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of real property, a series of documents recorded in the appropriate government repository which establish the passage of a parcel of property from owner to owner, ideally back to the first owner to reduce the property to private ownership.
chains of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain of title
chains of custody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain of custody
judicial notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of evidence, the power of a court to deem the burden of proof to be established as to a particular fact without the introduction of evidence, because the fact is one that is a matter of common knowledge, or is readily demonstrated by reference to sources of unquestionable authority.
wikipedia: Interpretation Act 1978
English covenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of real property, a set of six traditional covenants of title made by the seller of a parcel of land to the buyer of that parcel.
Related terms: covenant of seisin
covenant of the right to convey
covenant against encumbrances
covenant for quiet enjoyment
covenant of warranty
covenant for further assurances
covenant of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covenants of title
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of real property, a guarantee made by the seller of a parcel of land to the buyer of that parcel regarding the legal status of the title.
covenants of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covenant of title
anaglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.əˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From anaglyph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anaglyphs.
Derived terms: coelanaglyphic
anaglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.əˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: anaglyphics
Etymology: From anaglyph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Work with chased or embossed relief.
amyotonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amyotonias
Etymology: From a- + myotonia.
Senses: glosses: Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus, especially when congenital.
Angora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angoras
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of angora.
Angora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Ankara.
huhu beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huhu beetles
Etymology: From Maori huhu, which specifically refers to the larval form, from Proto-Polynesian *fufu.
Senses: examples: text: Last night, a huhu beetle tapped on the window.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 338:
synonyms: huhu
glosses: A longhorn beetle, Prionoplus reticularis, of the Cerambycidae family; the largest endemic beetle found in New Zealand.
Related terms: haircutter
skidrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skidrow
inchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inchis
Senses: glosses: The takay nut tree (Caryodendron orinocense).
Related terms: sacha inchi
plutocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plutocratically
form: most plutocratically
Etymology: From plutocratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a plutocratic way.
pourpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊəˌpɔɪnt/
ipa: /ˈpuː(ə)-/
ipa: /ˈpɔː-/
ipa: /-ˌpwænt/
ipa: /ˈpʊ(ə)ɹˌpɔɪnt/
ipa: /ˈpuɹ-/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹ-/
ipa: /-ˌpwænt/
Forms: form: pourpoints
Etymology: From Middle English purpoynt, from Anglo-Norman purpoint, alteration of perpoint, from Late Latin perpunctum, from per- + punctum (“pierced”). The modern spelling is influenced by French pourpoint.
Senses: examples: 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
coordinate_terms: aketon
gambeson
haustement
glosses: A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
glosses: A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Related terms: pourpointerie
pourpointing
amyotonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyotonia
Victoria sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Victoria sponges
Etymology: After Queen Victoria, who preferred this cake with her afternoon tea.
Senses: examples: text: We were told that the auditorium could actually hold seven hundred, but that the caterers could only provide enough scones, Maid of Honour tarts and Victoria sponges for the smaller number.
ref: 2003, Guy Hunting, Adventures of a Gentleman’s Gentleman: The Queen, Noel Coward and I, London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 254:
text: Out for a cuppa and a slice of Victoria sponge in an old-fashioned tea-shop, a little light shopping at Bert's Homestore and home in time for the husband's triumphant return from the mysterious world of earning one's own living and a fix of The Great British Bake Off.
ref: 2012 September 15, Julie Burchill, “When people romanticise the past, they're making a fetish of hardship”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2015:
text: While the contestants grind away under the clock at their Victoria sponges and poached pear puddings in an idyllic Somerset setting, hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins inquire winkingly about the erectness of a biscuit or the appropriate length for a profiterole.
ref: 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: Victoria sponge cake
glosses: A type of sponge cake with a layer of jam sandwiched in the middle.
Victoria sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victoria sponge
apoliticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apolitical
lurgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lurgy
casher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkæʃə/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
homophone: kasher
Forms: form: cashers
Etymology: From cash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cashes (a cheque, etc.).
Derived terms: casher box
jaspé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaspé
form: most jaspé
form: jaspe
Etymology: From French jaspé, past participle of jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Senses: glosses: Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
examples: text: He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.
ref: 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187:
glosses: Streaked; variegated.
Related terms: jasper
jasperize
jaspidean
jaspideous
jaspé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaspés
form: jaspe
Etymology: From French jaspé, past participle of jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Senses: examples: text: Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads.
text: The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé. The tecnique used to produce real jaspé stripes is lengthy: the warps are measured, tied to resist the dye in some places, and then put into a dyebath and the dye fixed; the warp is then dried and taken to the loom.
ref: 1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: A shaded, plainweave type of cloth, embroidered or similarly printed.
restripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restripe
restriping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restripe
restriping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restripings
Senses: examples: lane restripings on the highway
glosses: The act of striping again or differently.
restriped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restripe
jaspideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaspideous
form: most jaspideous
Etymology: From Latin iaspideus, from iaspis (“jasper”).
Senses: glosses: jaspidean; made of jasper
glosses: jaspidean; containing jasper
glosses: jaspidean; like jasper
catawamptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catawamptious
form: most catawamptious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catawampus.
flatulogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flatulogenic
form: most flatulogenic
Etymology: From flatulence + -o- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: In some individuals various foods are flatulogenic, especially milk, legumes, and cabbage.
ref: 1953, Modern Medicine Annual:
text: This is the flatulogenic effect of laxatives in general.
ref: 1992, Edgar Achkar, Richard Gilbert Farmer, Bertram Fleshler, Clinical gastroenterology:
glosses: Tending to produce flatulence.
Halina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Belarusian Галі́на (Halína), from Ancient Greek γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm”), name of a Nereid and of early martyrs venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Галі́на (Halína).
Related terms: Galen
Galene
escroc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escrocs
Etymology: From French escroc (“crook, villain”).
Senses: glosses: A villain or crook, especially in French contexts.
procureur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procureurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French procureur.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A procurator.
procureurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procureur
better than sex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It's insane the way people compare everything to sex. For years now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has made the talk-show rounds telling audiences that pumping iron is better than sex. No wonder it took him so long to find a bride.
ref: 1987 September, Robert McKay, “The National Standard”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 104:
text: In the second generation, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina developed NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. Several million then suddenly noticed that the Web might be better than sex.
ref: 1995 August 21, Robert Metcalfe, “Microsoft and Netscape open some new fronts in escalating Web Wars”, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 34, page 35:
text: I mean, Madonna says they [Manolos] are better than sex and Suzy Menkes marvels at the way no one but Manolo can build so much sexual arousal into a sliver of suede.
ref: 2003, New Statesman:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Superlative; wonderful.
Pensilvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pennsylvania.
Klinefelter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Harry Klinefelter, who identified the condition in the 1940s.
Senses: glosses: A genetic condition in which a person is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.
interposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interposers
Etymology: From interpose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Since I have your good leave to go away,
I will make haste: but, till I come again,
No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 52, column 1:
glosses: One who interposes.
examples: text: The drillable centre-line determining device disclosed in this patent takes the form of an interposer which has on its underside a projecting location pin perpendicular to its upper surface which acts as a planarisation platform.
ref: 1984, Robotics Technology Abstracts - Volume 3, page 280:
text: As the name suggests, an interposer is placed in between the packaging substrate and dies to provide electrical interface routing. The objective of an interposer is to electrically reroute a terminal to different dies or to extend a connection to broader areas via wider pitch.
ref: 2016, Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Vobulapuram Ramesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Majumder, Arsalan Alam, Through Silicon Vias: Materials, Models, Design, and Performance, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
interposers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interposer
interchangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒmənt/
Forms: form: interchangements
Etymology: From interchange + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: A contract of eternal bond of love, / Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands, / Attested by the holy close of lips, / Strengthened by interchangement of your rings, […]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], lines 152–155:
glosses: interchange, exchange
intraurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + urban.
Senses: examples: text: Intraurban commuting would be helped by mass transit but interurban commuting less so.
synonyms: intracity
antonyms: interurban
intercity
glosses: Within an urban area.
government issues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of government issue
nominalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nominal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nominality.
synonyms: word: nominality
chevet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevets
Etymology: French [Term?], head of the bed, diminutive from chef (“head”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An apse chapel
outflux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfluxes
form: outfluxing
form: outfluxed
form: outfluxed
form: Etymological
form: hybrid
form: efflux
Etymology: From out- + flux.
Senses: glosses: To exit out of a defined zone.
outflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outfluxes
form: Etymological
form: hybrid
form: efflux
Etymology: From out- + flux.
Senses: glosses: That which exits (the flux out of a defined zone)
Synonyms: efflux
mixed reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed reaction
outfluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outflux
unhinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hinted.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Not hinted.
fifty-first state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifty-first states
form: 51st state
Etymology: As though an addition to the existing fifty states of the USA.
Senses: examples: text: “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” Mr. Trudeau said during a news conference on Tuesday. “That’s never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.”
ref: 2025 March 4, Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson, quoting Justin Trudeau, “Trump’s Latest Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Could Be His Biggest Gamble”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A country or region regarded as under the control of the United States.
orienter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orienters
Etymology: From orient + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] an agreement about their Significance in the sense that there is acceptance of the appropriateness of these signals and signs as orienters of interaction in a specific social situation and a commonality of response to them.
ref: 2009, Jerry D. Moore, Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader, page 377:
glosses: A person or thing that orients.
as opposed to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: synonyms: as against
glosses: in contrast to, rather than, instead of; particularly used in defining a concept by providing an example that does not fall inside the concept.
décor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: décors
form: decor
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French décor.
Senses: examples: text: Yet Mrs Allen found much favour with the décor of the new vehicles. She also agreed that the levels of comfort were "immeasurably higher" than she had previously found.
ref: 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 47:
text: Fashionable Uzbeks wear clothing made from the fabric, and suzanis have become popular with interior designers from the UK to Singapore, who use them as wall décor, bedding, or as the fabric for throw pillows.
ref: 2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Alternative spelling of decor.
décors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décor
ankyloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ankylose
ankylosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ankylose
polyhalogenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + halogenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of making something polyhalogenated.
octabromodiphenyl ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brominated flame retardant with the molecular formula C₁₂H₂Br₈O.
Brigadoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: Brigadoons
Etymology: After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Senses: examples: text: I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon
ref: 1985, Mike Scott, “The Whole of the Moon”, in This Is The Sea, performed by The Waterboys:
text: A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted.
ref: 1988 July, Cruise Travel, volume 10, number 1, page 46:
text: But low tide allowed us to walk on tiptoes along an underwater sandbar, and explore the tide pools, miniature maritime Brigadoons in which we'd find crabs...
ref: 2003, George Howe Colt, The big house: a century in the life of an American summer home:
glosses: A place that seems magically transient.
Derived terms: Brigadoonery
Brigadoonish
Brigadoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brigadoon
cycloheptanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloheptane
cyclogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclogenesis
oxymetholone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑk.sɪˈmɛθ.əˌloʊn/
Etymology: Blend of (hydr)oxymethylidene + mestanolone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic anabolic steroid developed in 1960, used to treat osteoporosis and anaemia and to stimulate muscle growth in undernourished or underdeveloped patients.