cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glyptodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyptodonts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) + -odont.
Senses: glosses: Any edentate of an extinct clade of South American armadillos which is identified either as family †Glyptodontidae or as subfamily †Glyptodontinae of family Chlamyphoridae.
Hypernyms: xenarthran
Derived terms: pseudoglyptodont
Related terms: glyptodon
glyptodontid
glyptodontoid
edentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin edentatus.
Senses: examples: an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf
glosses: Lacking teeth.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Edentata.
edentate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edentates
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin edentatus.
Senses: glosses: Any mammal that has few or no teeth, but especially the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths of the former order Edentata.
hoorah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/
/həˈɹɑː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
hoorah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/
/həˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: hoorahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
hoorah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhu.ɹɑː/
/həˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: hoorahs
form: hoorahing
form: hoorahed
form: hoorahed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurrah.
northern pike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːðən paɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹðɚn paɪk/
Forms: form: northern pikes
Senses: glosses: A species of pike, Esox lucius.
Synonyms: sense: Esox lucius
word: American pike
sense: Esox lucius
word: common pike
sense: Esox lucius
word: Great Lakes pike
sense: Esox lucius
word: great northern pike
sense: Esox lucius
word: great northern pickerel
sense: Esox lucius
word: jack
sense: Esox lucius
word: jackfish
sense: Esox lucius
word: lucy
sense: Esox lucius
word: pickerel
sense: Esox lucius
word: pike
sense: Esox lucius
word: slough shark
sense: Esox lucius
word: snake pickerel
sense: Esox lucius
word: snake
sense: Esox lucius
word: water wolf
sense: Esox lucius
word: wolf
gyroelongated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + elongated.
Senses: glosses: Having been elongated by placing an antiprism in the middle of the polyhedron.
raw_tags: of a polyhedron
xerophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xerophilous
form: most xerophilous
Etymology: From xero- + -philous.
Senses: examples: text: The cactus is very xerophilous.
glosses: Able to thrive in dry weather.
Related terms: xerophile
xerophilic
xerophily
at length
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He went on at great/long length about his supposed qualifications.
synonyms: abidingly
duratively
protractedly
glosses: For a long time; extensively.
examples: text: She led us through the tunnels for some time, until at length we reached a small door in the rock.
text: Through all these she persistently pursued the object of her mission. Her search lasted for long weary years—she followed it unweariedly, till at length she was rewarded.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 26:
text: How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
ref: 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet:
text: ‘You got rather left there, old chap,’ said Monk at length.
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, A Prefect's Uncle, A & C Black:
text: At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
synonyms: at last
sooner or later
ultimately
glosses: At last, finally, eventually.
examples: text: The proceedings of Congress are not given, since they are inserted at length in the "Congressional Globe;" but the principal bills are noticed under the date of their passage.
ref: 1800, Francis Vincent, United States Register, page 4:
synonyms: entirely
fully
whole cloth
glosses: In full; without omission or abbreviation.
cynegetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪniːˈd͡ʒɛtɪks/
ipa: /ˌsɪniˈd͡ʒɛtɪks/
rhymes: -ɛtɪks
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
From cynegetic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Hunting (especially with dogs).
cloud seeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud-seeding
Etymology: From cloud + seeding.
Senses: glosses: The act of firing munitions containing silver iodide at passing clouds to make them more likely to produce rain.
Caesarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːzəɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: Caesarisms
form: Cæsarism
form: Cesarism
Etymology: From Caesar + -ism.
Senses: glosses: autocracy
glosses: democratic dictatorship
dadda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daddas
Senses: examples: text: "Dadda!" said Gip, in a guilty whisper.
"What is it, Gip?" said I.
"I do like this shop, dadda."
ref: 1903, H. G. Wells, The Magic Shop:
glosses: Alternative form of dada (“father”).
Misanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the Batan Islands
medevac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdɪvæk/
Forms: form: medevacs
form: MEDEVAC
form: med-evac
form: medivac
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of medical evacuation.
Senses: glosses: The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility.
examples: text: Dr. Isom arrived with a Russian specialist named Shaknovich on a medevac.
ref: 2009, Larry King, My Remarkable Journey, Weinstein Books, page 205:
text: The village of Igiugig, Alaska, came together to light the runway for a medevac flight.
ref: 2020 September 1, Christina Zdanowicz, “When the runway lights failed, Alaska residents used their car headlights to land a medevac plane”, in CNN:
glosses: A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility.
glosses: Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility.
medevac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdɪvæk/
Forms: form: medevacs
form: medevacing
form: medevacking
form: medevaced
form: medevaced
form: medevacked
form: medevacked
form: MEDEVAC
form: med-evac
form: medivac
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of medical evacuation.
Senses: examples: text: Uncleʼs frequent trips to the nursing station get him medevaced out for testing.
ref: 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 168:
glosses: To transport (patients) by medevac.
Related terms: CASEVAC
unai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unais
Senses: glosses: A two-toed sloth.
medevacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medevac
medevacs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medevac
medevacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medevac
medevacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medivacked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medevac
medivacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medevacs
Senses: glosses: plural of medivac
medivacs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medevacs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medivac
medivac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medivacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medevac.
medivac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medivacs
form: medivacing
form: medivacking
form: medivaced
form: medivaced
form: medivacked
form: medivacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medevac.
medivacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medevacked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medivac
medivacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medevacking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medivac
dogmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogmatical
form: most dogmatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dogmatic.
Derived terms: dogmaticalness
undogmatical
B4
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: b4
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of before.
Derived terms: inb4
background processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: background + processing
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The execution of a subsidiary operation by a computer while the user works with another application.
focaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of focalizer.
divitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From div + -itis.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: The practice of authoring web-page code with many div elements in place of meaningful semantic HTML elements.
Related terms: classitis
faddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faddier
form: faddiest
Etymology: From fad + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a fad.
examples: text: He's a faddy eater.
text: In dress now, for example! We are faddy people, you know—faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Heh?
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (story):
glosses: fussy, having particular tastes or whims
Synonyms: faddish
Derived terms: faddily
faddiness
unfaddy
protozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protozoan
sacrifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrifiers
Senses: glosses: The individual or group that is to receive the practical benefits of the sacrifice.
Related terms: sacrifice
despight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despights
Senses: examples: text: In haste Duessa from her place arose,
And to him running said, O prowest knight,
 That ever Ladie to her love did chose,
 Let now abate the terror of your might,
 And quench the flame of furious despight,
 And bloudie vengeance; lo th' infernall powres,
 Covering your foe with cloud of deadly night,
 Have borne him hence to Plutoes balefull bowres.
The conquest yours, I yours, the shield, the glory yours.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
text: I'll bid adieu to gravity, and drink;
And, though I can't put off a woful mien,
Will be all mirth and cheerfulness within:
As, in despight of a censorious race,
I most incontinently suck my face.
ref: 1714, Jonathan Swift, Dennis' Invitation to Steele:
text: Thou, only thou, pure Love, whose cruel might
obligeth human hearts to weal and woe,
 thou, only thou, didst wreak such foul despight,
as though she were some foul perfidious foe.
Thy burning thirst, fierce Love, they say aright,
may not be quencht by saddest tears that flow;
Nay, more, thy sprite of harsh tyrannick mood
would see thine altars bathed with human blood.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), translation of original by Luís de Camões, Canto III, stanza 119, page 126:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of despite.
despight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of despite.
itises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of itis
inoperant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inoperant
form: most inoperant
Etymology: From in- + operant.
Senses: glosses: Not operant.
diamond twill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond twills
Etymology: From diamond + twill.
Senses: glosses: An even-sided twill, in which the weave produces a diamond (rhomboid) pattern.
glosses: A fabric woven with this pattern.
Related terms: herringbone
houndstooth
youthquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youthquakes
Etymology: From youth + quake, by analogy with earthquake. Coined by American magazine editor Diana Vreeland in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: Britain produced many of the first temblors of the youthquake. There were the elegantly dressed but often vicious Teddy boys of the late 1950s. There were the gentler Mods and the tough leather-jacketed, working-class rockers in the '60s.
ref: 1970 June 8, “The Skinheads”, in Time:
text: The trend was partly a manifestation of the Silicon Valley youthquake that was powering the dot-com economy.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
whap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.
Senses: glosses: A blow; a hit; a whop.
glosses: A breast.
whap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whaps
form: whapping
form: whapped
form: whapped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.
Senses: glosses: To strike hard and suddenly.
examples: text: 1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180,
He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big […]
text: TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)
ref: 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, page 379:
text: And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream.
ref: 1902, Henry Van Dyke, “The Mill”, in The Blue Flower, New York: Scribner, page 65:
text: Screen doors whapped throughout the night […]
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 524:
text: She whapped down on the floor.
text: The fish whapped over.
glosses: To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
whap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.
Senses: examples: text: Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
ref: 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Capital Territory, page 10, column 2:
glosses: The sound of sudden blow or hit.
Derived terms: awhape
whap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaps
Etymology: Variant of whaup.
Senses: glosses: The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.
whops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whop
whops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whop
whopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whop
whaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whap
ozarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozarkites
form: Ozarkite
Etymology: First named in print by Charles Upham Shepard in 1846, after The Ozarks, Missouri, although it was from the region of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Thomsonite, a mineral series of the zeolite group.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral mozarkite of the Missouri, Ozark region.
byde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bide.
flyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flytes
Senses: examples: text: The bird of Pallas has also a good flyte on the moral side […] in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.
ref: 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flite.
flyte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flytes
form: flyting
form: flyted
form: flyted
Senses: examples: text: It was plain she was in the worst of tempers. She flyted on the lass till the poor thing's cheek paled.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flite.
thomsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thomsonites
Etymology: From Thomson + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ozarkite, a mineral native to the United States.
Ozarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ozarkites
Etymology: From Ozark + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the Ozarks, Missouri.
phonecalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonecall
phonecall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonecalls
form: phone call
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phone call.
price tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price tags
form: pricetag
Senses: synonyms: price ticket
glosses: The tag or sticker attached to a product, displaying its price.
examples: text: The new sports car comes with a hefty price tag.
synonyms: price point
glosses: The price at which something is offered for sale.
examples: text: Unsurprisingly, there's a hefty price tag attached to a programme that could bring a network on which 80% of train miles operate under electric traction, and which features a 25% increase in the number of people living with[in] 5km (3.1 miles) of a railway station.
ref: 2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 24:
glosses: The amount that something costs.
Related terms: cashtag
price gun
shelf-talker
idk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: IDK
word: I.D.K.
glosses: Abbreviation of I don't know.
Related terms: word: dk
word: DK
word: D.K.
word: unk
english: I don't care
translation: I don't care
word: idc
content word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: content words
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: function word
grammatical word
functor
glosses: A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
Treasury bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Treasury bills
form: treasury bill
form: Treasury Bill
Etymology: From Treasury (“the US Treasury”) + bill.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A government obligation, sold at a discount, maturing in one year or less, and pay no interest prior to maturity.
Synonyms: T-bill
function word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: function words
Senses: examples: text: Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: functor
grammatical word
antonyms: content word
lexical word
glosses: A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
content words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of content word
acequia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈseɪkɪə/
/əˈseɪkjə/
Forms: form: acequias
Etymology: From Spanish acequia, from Arabic الساقیة (“water conduit”), ultimately from Classical Arabic سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”). Doublet of sakia.
Senses: examples: text: Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.
ref: 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3:
glosses: An irrigation ditch, chiefly with reference to Mexico or the southwestern US.
Derived terms: acequia madre
ATKT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of allowed to keep term.
occerence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occurrence.
multi-word
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multiword
Etymology: From multi- + word.
Senses: examples: text: The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).
ref: 2004, John A. Hawkins, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars:
text: The verb categories included two-word multi-word verbs, though terms of more than two words were placed in the phrase category.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
synonyms: multiworded
glosses: Consisting of more than one word.
single-word
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).
ref: 2004, John A. Hawkins, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars:
synonyms: one-word
glosses: Consisting of a single word.
spier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spier, spyer, spiar, equivalent to spy + -er. Compare Dutch verspieder and bespieder (“spier”), German Späher (“spier”). Compare also Danish spejde (“spy”), Swedish speja (“spy”).
Senses: glosses: One who spies; a spy.
conventional weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventional weapons
Senses: examples: text: Germany would agree to make no ABC (atomic, bacteriological and chemical) weapons, build only enough conventional weapons to arm its twelve divisions.
ref: 1954 October 11, “Agreement on Germany”, in Time:
glosses: A weapon of warfare which is not nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological in nature.
Related terms: conventional warfare
conventional weaponry
freak of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freaks of nature
Etymology: Derived from Latin lūsus nātūrae (literally “sport of nature”), originally used to refer to fossils or abnormalities such as two-headed snakes.
Senses: synonyms: aberration
abnormality
anomaly
deformity
freak
monster
mutant
mutation
oddity
rarity
glosses: A monstrosity; a malformation; an abnormal organism.
examples: text: He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.
ref: 1876 July, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVIII, number CCXXV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, chapter IV, page 17, column 2:
glosses: In the variety-show business, a person or an animal on exhibition as showing some strange deviation from nature, such as a bearded woman or an albino.
Related terms: force of nature
conventional warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For McNamara's buildup, which has given the armed forces the capacity to respond flexibly to guerrilla and conventional warfare as well as to nuclear attack, the defense budget this year will be $7.5 billion higher than the last Eisenhower defense budget in 1960.
ref: 1965 October 8, “Strongest & Longest”, in Time:
glosses: The waging of war in a manner which does not use nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
glosses: The waging of war in set military battles, as opposed to waging guerrilla warfare or fighting insurgencies
Related terms: conventional weapon
unhusked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unhusk + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhusk
unhusked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhusked
form: most unhusked
Etymology: From un- + husked (“having a husk”).
Senses: examples: text: For 1975 they would range from 240 million to 259 million tons, depending on husked or unhusked variety.
ref: 1976, India: Conflict System, Security Environment, and Policymaking for Defense:
text: In late-imperial Jiaxing, the seed-to-yield ratio for unhusked rice sown to unhusked rice reaped was, as a measure of volume, between 1:45 and 1:51 in good years for the better farmers.
ref: 2006, Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China, →ISBN:
text: Table II-4 calculates the returns that a peasant could obtain from 1000m² of sawah in 1993 with the premise that yields per hectare were 60 quintals of gabah basah (unhusked paddy containing approximately 25 percent of moisture).
ref: 2007, Hyung-Jun Kim, Reformist Muslims in Yagyakarta Village, →ISBN:
text: see also barley, barley, husked, barley, unhusked (naked), barley (pressed), bone meal, bran, calf fattening mixed feed, coconut, ...
ref: 2007, Martin Weidenbörner, Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Lesser unhusked paddies translates into a high degree of hulling requirement while small amount of broken rice means good performance as well as good rice quality.
ref: 2017, Siti Nor Akmar Abdullah, Ho Chai-Ling, Carol Wagstaff, Crop Improvement: Sustainability Through Leading-Edge Technology, →ISBN:
synonyms: huskless
glosses: Without a husk.
unhusked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhusked
form: most unhusked
Etymology: From un- + husked (“having been husked”).
Senses: examples: text: Jerking the ears and storing them unhusked is a method of harvesting employed in some sections, especially in the South, where the argument usually given in its favor is that if the husks are on the ears they are more protected from the grain weevil.
ref: 1916, Carl Schurz Vrooman, Grain Farming in the Corn Belt with Live Stock as a Side Line, page 17:
text: Unhusked nuts fetch higher prices than husked nuts in areas where there are retting facilities (e.g. backwater areas).
ref: 1965, India Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, Report on the marketing of coconuts and coconut products in India:
text: Most modern shellers can handle an unhusked crop and in fact, the majority of shellers work better if the crop is not husked because of the cushioning effect provided by the sheath.
ref: 1972, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal - Volumes 69-70, page 43:
text: Rice is stored after harvesting in its unhusked form. Husking of rice takes place only for consumption, and not for storage or selling purposes, and the quantity of rice that is husked may vary from family to family.
ref: 2014, Quinbala Marak, Food Politics: Studying Food, Identity and Difference among the Garos, →ISBN:
glosses: Having the husk on; still on the husk; not husked.
conventional weaponry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The French initiative calls for the elimination of chemical weapons, a ban on production of biological arms and the reduction of nuclear arsenals. As for conventional weaponry, the plan aims to establish "a balance of forces" in each region of the world.
ref: 1991 June 17, “World Notes FRANCE”, in Time:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Destructive implements of warfare which are not nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological in nature.
Related terms: conventional warfare
conventional weapon
unhusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhusks
form: unhusking
form: unhusked
form: unhusked
Etymology: From un- + husk.
Senses: glosses: To remove the husk of.
Synonyms: word: husk
conventional war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventional wars
Senses: glosses: A war fought using conventional warfare.
conventional weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventional weapon
concentrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛntɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more concentrative
form: most concentrative
Etymology: From concentrate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and so far the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist;[…].
ref: 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, pages 166–167:
glosses: Characterised by concentration.
Derived terms: concentratively
concentrativeness
stereotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛɹiːˈɒtəmi/
Etymology: From French stéréotomie, equivalent to stereo- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured the word ‘stereotomy’, a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.
ref: 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue:
topics: business
construction
geometry
manufacturing
masonry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The cutting or dissection of solids.
echos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echo
pre-arrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-arranges
form: pre-arranging
form: pre-arranged
form: pre-arranged
Senses: examples: text: Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfil her parting injunction.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 223:
glosses: Alternative form of prearrange.
pre-arranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prearranges
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-arrange
Related terms: prearrange
paraoptometric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraoptometrics
Etymology: From para- + optometric.
Senses: glosses: A person who assists an optometrist
pre-arranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prearranging
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-arrange
Related terms: prearrange
iver
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ever.
ardencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ardency
phrenzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrenzies
Senses: examples: text: The phrenzy generally known by the term muck or ámok
ref: 1817, Thomas Raffles, History of Java, page 333:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of frenzy.
pre-arranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prearranged
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-arrange
Related terms: pre-arrange
subgenera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: sub- + genera
Senses: glosses: plural of subgenus
subgenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnəs
Forms: form: subgenera
form: subgenuses
Etymology: From sub- + genus.
Senses: examples: text: Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed.
ref: 2012, Fritz Taylor, The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles, page 156:
text: Using this approach, a recent study that included genetic data from four of the new species described here proposed that tetraploidization occurred at least once in subgenus Silurana and once in subgenus Xenopus, octoploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus, and that dodecaploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus [21 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog ( Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A subdivision of a genus.
Synonyms: english: shortening
translation: shortening
word: subg.
flavourings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavorings
Senses: glosses: plural of flavouring
usu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of usual.
usu
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of usually.
colloq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colloqs
Senses: examples: text: Project Plus was the cultural center of the campus, with literally 24 hour-a-day possibilities. Involvement ranged from colloqs and tutorials to Sunday evening interest meetings and late night swimming excursions.
ref: 1973, “The Noble Experiment”, in 1973 Colonial Echo, Cambridge, M.D.: Western Publishing, page 150:
text: Educational aspects of the Health Services include four-credit courses, colloqs, and workshops, all geared towards the "education of the whole person, lasting beyond their four years at UMass."
ref: 1978 May 17, Patricia Keefe, “Health program cited as one of country's best”, in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVII, number 142, page 15:
text: One of the women in my dorm quizzed me about my classes over Raisin Bran. "Latin," I droned, "philosophy of religion, a colloq on medieval Icelandic family sagas—"
ref: 2017, Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The spring semester of the Omohundro Institute Colloquia series began last night with a presentation by Richard Godbeer of Virginia Commonwealth University. Four more colloqs will follow in the next few months.
ref: 2018 January 24, “Seats at the Table”, in Omohundro Institute, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023:
glosses: Clipping of colloquium.
colloq
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the test was very simple: a cinch colloq, a doddle colloq, a piece of cake colloq, a pushover colloq, as easy as falling off a log colloq, clear, comprehensible, easy, easy-peasy colloq, effortless, elementary, straightforward, uncomplicated, understandable, uninvolved
ref: 2008, “simple”, in Chambers Compact Thesaurus, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers, →ISBN, page 617:
glosses: Rare form of colloq.
darnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darnel
darnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːnəɫ/
Forms: form: darnels
Etymology: From Middle English darnel, dernel, from Old Northern French darnelle ( > dialectal French dernelle, darnette), of Germanic origin, possibly Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to harm, injure”).
Related to Walloon darne, derne (“stunned, dazed, drunk”), Middle Dutch verdarnt, verdaernt (“stunned, dumbfounded, angry”). The association with being dazed or drunkenness is due to the well-known intoxicating effects of the plant.
Senses: examples: text: With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, / Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow / In our sustaining corn.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
synonyms: ryegrass
bearded darnel
poison darnel
white darnel
glosses: Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.
synonyms: ryegrass
bearded darnel
poison darnel
white darnel
glosses: Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.
especially, species Lolium temulentum, often host to a fungus intoxicating to humans and animals.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lolium persicum
word: Persian darnel
taxonomic: Lolium perenne
word: red darnel
Related terms: Darnell
ryegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryegrasses
Etymology: From rye + grass. But compare English ray grass.
Senses: examples: text: Perennial ryegrass is an important species for lawn seed mixes.
synonyms: lolium
glosses: Any of several species of tufted grasses of the genus Lolium.
examples: text: We seeded the meadow with ryegrass to provide better forage.
glosses: A collection of plants of any of the species, as in a lawn or field.
Derived terms: annual ryegrass
ryegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryegrass
driveshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driveshafts
form: drive shaft
Etymology: From drive + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: The driveshaft of an automobile transfers power from the engine to the wheels.
text: A windmill transmits motion to the ground level via a vertical driveshaft, which operates a water pump.
glosses: A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.
driveshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driveshaft
oxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oxidize
Savitr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Savitṛ
Etymology: From Sanskrit सवितृ (savitṛ, “stimulator, rouser, vivifier”).
Senses: examples: text: However, Savitṛ represents, as has been rightly pointed out by Sāyaṇa, the natural phenomenon of the setting and rising sun, whereas Sūrya represents the sun after it is risen and before it approaches the setting frame.
ref: 2003, Malati J. Shendge, The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rigveda, Abhinav Publications, →ISBN, page 319:
glosses: A solar deity (Deva) and one of the Adityas. He is sometimes identified with, and at other times distinguished from, the chief Sun deity Surya.
Savitṛ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Savitr.
bek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beks
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бек (bek). Doublet of bey and beg.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bey (“Turkish governor”).
botter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑtɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɒtə/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: botters
Etymology: From bot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is estimated by industry and leading botters that only around 1 in 10 players using bots make a profit, mainly in low-stakes games.
ref: 2008, New Scientist, volume 200, numbers 2682-2688, page 28:
glosses: One who operates a bot (automated software process).
Related terms: botherder
botmaster
botter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑtɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɒtə/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: botters
Etymology: From bottom (“backside”).
Senses: examples: text: They told us about anal sex, but it was something that gay men did. And when you're twelve, gay men are botters, benders, shirt lifters and arse bandits.
ref: 2009, Mark Ritchie, Living By The Sword, page 189:
glosses: A homosexual man.
Ozarkites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ozarkite
ozarkites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ozarkites
Senses: glosses: plural of ozarkite
barszcz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borszcz
Etymology: From Polish barszcz. Doublet of borscht.
Senses: examples: text: Slimakowa looked him up and down, gave him a bowl of barszcz and another of potatoes, and told him to wash in the river.
ref: 1921, Selected Polish Tales, page 7:
text: She poured herself another glass of Bulgarian white, and spooned up the remainder of her barszcz before polishing off the small meat pasty that is always served with beetroot soup.
ref: 1990, Anton Gill, Berlin to Bucharest: Travels in Eastern Europe, page 62:
text: BIALY BARSZCZ WIELKANOCNA (WHITE EASTER BARSZCZ) […] Into wide soup bowls, ladle barszcz.
ref: 1991, Tom Bernardin, “Poland”, in The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Bernardin, Inc., published July 1997, →ISBN, page 78:
text: […] cutlery and glasses would appear and then dish after dish of fish en gelée, bowls of barszcz with twisted puff pastry sticks, bigos, pierogi, sliced ham, fresh and picked vegetables, bottled fruits, cakes, tarts and bottles and bottles of flavoured vodkas.
ref: 1999, Cold War, Common Pursuit: British Council Lecturers in Poland, page 73:
text: Women bustled about laying out large platters of chicken, kielbasa rings, heaping bowls of golabki, pierogi and steaming tureens of barszcz.
ref: 2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Polish borscht.
thomsonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thomsonite
Mozarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Did you know that Mozarkite, with its pretty pink and purple swirls is our state rock?
ref: 2010, Judy Young, S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet, →ISBN:
text: Our state rock is Mozarkite.
ref: 2010, Ross Malone, Tales from Missouri and the Heartland, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Because it comes in colors ranging from green to red to purple, Mozarkite is often used in jewelry.
ref: 2011, Carole Marsh, My First Pocket Guide About Missouri, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of mozarkite.
hogweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogweeds
Etymology: From hog + weed, so named because of its use as feed for pigs.
Senses: glosses: Any coarse weedy herb.
examples: text: I see the tall not-weeds with white flowers up close. Don’t touch, don’t touch those. Hogweed, it will burn.
ref: 2023, K Patrick, Mrs S, 4th Estate, page 69:
synonyms: pig's cole
pigweed
cow parsnip
pig's parsnip
clogweed
cadweed
glosses: An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic.
glosses: Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.
Derived terms: giant hogweed
Related terms: goatweed
hogwort
meniver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1858. Thomas Malory (15th century), La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table, page 28,
Then came forth a likely knight, and well apparelled in scarlet, furred with meniver.
text: One day, as I sat in my shop, with two fur pelisses on me, one of sable and the other of meniver, for it was the season of winter and the time of the excessive cold[…]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 372:
glosses: Alternative spelling of miniver.
logotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logotype
unsolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + solvable. Piecewise doublet of insolvable and insoluble.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
ref: 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:
synonyms: insolvable
insoluble
antonyms: solvable
coordinate_terms: uncorrectable
unfixable
unrepairable
unrightable
glosses: Not solvable.
Related terms: indissoluble
soluble
undissolvable
unsolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsolvables
Etymology: From un- + solvable. Piecewise doublet of insolvable and insoluble.
Senses: glosses: A problem that cannot be solved.
provably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more provably
form: most provably
form: proveably
Etymology: From provable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With proof; in a provable manner.
Synonyms: demonstrably
tramlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramline
tramlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tramline
Komodo dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Komodo dragon
bronchitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchitis
osculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osculatories
Etymology: From Latin ōsculātōrium.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A religious tablet, usually carrying a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which is kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace"); it is then passed to others at the mass who also kiss it.
Synonyms: pax
osculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more osculatory
form: most osculatory
Etymology: From osculate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: On this the two ladies went through the osculatory ceremony which they were in the habit of performing, and Mrs. Pendennis got a great secret comfort from the little quarrel—for Laura’s confession seemed to say, “That girl can never be a wife for Pen, for she is light-minded and heartless, and quite unworthy of our noble hero.[…]”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Contains Both Love and Jealousy”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, pages 242–243:
glosses: Of or relating to kissing.
examples: text: A circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation.
anosognosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anosognosias
Etymology: From a- + noso- + -gnosia.
Senses: glosses: The inability of a person to recognize his or her own illness or handicap.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Failure to be aware of a defect or deficit resulting from disability, due to brain injury (e.g. Anton-Babinski syndrome).
Coordinate terms: anosodiaphoria
Derived terms: anosognosic
jk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of JK (“just kidding”).
pandemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [pænˈdiːmɪə]
Forms: form: pandemias
Senses: glosses: A pandemic.
cassino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassinos
Senses: examples: text: In this case business was of the same opinion as love. Pachetti's word was worth a thousand piastres any day; and his cassino on the coast had a very different appearance from his small dark house on the Strada.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: Archaic form of casino (all senses).
Derived terms: big cassino
great cassino
little cassino
smokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokies
Etymology: From smoke + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A type of smoked sausage, often used for hot dogs.
glosses: A smoked fish.
matl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of material.
yogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoga
yogin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yogi.
yogins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogis
Senses: glosses: plural of yogin
yawper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawpers
Etymology: From yawp + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who yawps; one who cries vigorously.
glosses: A loud complainer.
hink pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hink pinks
Senses: synonyms: stinky pinky
glosses: A game in which players guess a rhyming phrase, given definitions or synonyms of the words.
synonyms: stinky pinky
glosses: A rhyming pair of words that describe a single object, normally as a punchline to a riddle in the game, e.g. "fat cat" for "overweight feline".