cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skaamoogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skaamoog
shyshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shysharks
Etymology: shy + shark, from their defensive habit of curling into a ball and covering the eyes with the tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of the deep-water catsharks of the genus Haploblepharus.
Derived terms: brown shyshark
dark shyshark
Natal shyshark
puffadder shyshark
shysharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shyshark
dark shyshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark shysharks
Senses: synonyms: skaamoog
glosses: A deep-water catshark of species Haploblepharus pictus, endemic to the temperate waters off southern Namibia and western South Africa.
dark shysharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark shyshark
skunk spruce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white spruce (“Picea glauca”)
synonyms: word: white spruce
extra: Picea glauca
slap around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slaps around
form: slapping around
form: slapped around
form: slapped around
Senses: glosses: Synonym of smack around
synonyms: word: smack around
slate writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Automatic writing on a slate by a medium, supposed to be produced by spirits.
Related terms: slate writer
slate writer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slate writers
Senses: glosses: A medium who produces slate writing.
slate writers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slate writer
smoke ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokeball
smoke bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke bushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokebush
smoker's face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A wrinkly, sallow face typical of people who smoke tobacco, which depletes the skin of oxygen and nutrients.
snake palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake palms
Senses: glosses: The konjac plant.
smallflower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: small + flower
Senses: glosses: Characterized by flowers smaller than those of others in the same genus or bearing similar vernacular names.
raw_tags: in names of plant species
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vaccinium virgatum
word: smallflower blueberry
taxonomic: Aquilegia brevistyla
word: smallflower columbine
taxonomic: Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus
word: smallflower desert chicory
taxonomic: Festuca minutiflora
word: smallflower fescue
taxonomic: Corydalis micrantha
word: smallflower fumewort
taxonomic: Oenothera curtiflora
word: smallflower gaura
taxonomic: Crepis pulchra
word: smallflower hawksbeard
taxonomic: Malva parviflora
word: smallflower mallow
taxonomic: Erythranthe inconspicua
word: smallflower monkeyflower
taxonomic: Asimina parviflora
word: smallflower pawpaw
taxonomic: Eupatorium semiserratum
word: smallflower thoroughwort
taxonomic: Impatiens parviflora
word: smallflower touch-me-nut
taxonomic: Epilobium minutum
word: smallflower willowherb
taxonomic: Lithophragma parviflorum
word: smallflower woodland star
snowy orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowy orchids
Senses: glosses: A white-flowered orchid of species Platanthera nivea, native to the southeastern United States.
social philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study and interpretation of society and social institutions in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations.
Tarasivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tərăsʹivkə
enpr: tərăsʹĭvkə
ipa: /təˈɹasivkə/
ipa: /təˈɹasɪvkə/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Тара́сівка (Tarásivka). Compare Tarasaŭka and Tarasovka.
Senses: glosses: A rural settlement in Talne urban hromada, Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: The name of scores of villages in Ukraine, including:
A village in Oleksandrivka settlement hromada, Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: The name of scores of villages in Ukraine, including:
A village in Popelnaste rural hromada, Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: The name of scores of villages in Ukraine, including:
A village, the administrative centre of Tarasivka starostynskyi okruh, Boiarka urban hromada, Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded before a. 1772.
A former silrada of Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1972, merged into Boiarka urban hromada in June 2020.
glosses: The name of scores of villages in Ukraine, including:
A village, the administrative centre of Tarasivka starostynskyi okruh, Boiarka urban hromada, Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded before a. 1772.
A starostynskyi okruh of Boiarka urban hromada, Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, established in October 2021.
glosses: The name of scores of villages in Ukraine, including:
A village in Zbarazh urban hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1463.
synonyms: Tarasivtsi
Meronyms: sense: constituent settlements of the former silrada
english: village
translation: village
word: Nove
sense: constituent settlements of the starostynskyi okruh
english: village
translation: village
word: Nove
Solent goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Solent geese
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of solan goose
Solent geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Solent goose
Marx generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marx generators
Etymology: First described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924.
Senses: glosses: An electric circuit that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply, used in high-energy physics experiments and to simulate the effects of lightning.
Marx generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marx generator
speckled bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speckled bass
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black crappie (“Pomoxis nigromaculatus”)
synonyms: word: black crappie
extra: Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Cosmic Owl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: The Cosmic Owl
Etymology: cosmic + owl. From being a celestial object having the appearance of an owl's face.
Senses: examples: text: Through detailed imaging and spectroscopy, the Cosmic Owl was observed at a redshift of 1.14, which places it at a significant distance in the early universe.
ref: 2025 June 20, Lydia Amazouz, “Astronomers Capture the 'Cosmic Owl' – A Rare Galaxy Collision That Looks Like an Owl’s Face!”, in Daily Galaxy:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy pair composed of two almost identical ring galaxies located at redshift z=1.14 which are undergoing collision and merger, wherein the collisional zone forms the beak, and the two rings form the eyes of the owl face.
spectre of the Brocken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectres of the Brocken
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brocken spectre.
specter of the Brocken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specters of the Brocken
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brocken spectre.
spendthrift clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spendthrift clauses
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: spendthrift provision
glosses: A clause indicating that a trust is intended to operate as a spendthrift trust.
spendthrift provision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spendthrift provisions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spendthrift clause
synonyms: word: spendthrift clause
spider orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider orchid
Corybas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ancient Greek Κορύβας (Korúbas)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The son of Iasion and the goddess Cybele, who gave his name to the Korybants.
starmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starmaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star-map
starmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starmap
starchart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starcharts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star chart
starcharts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starchart
web chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web charts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radar chart.
synonyms: word: radar chart
cobweb chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobweb charts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radar chart.
synonyms: word: radar chart
spider chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider charts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radar chart.
synonyms: word: radar chart
stiffleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stifflegs
Etymology: stiff + leg
Senses: glosses: Any of the two or more stiff members, capable of resisting either tensile or compressive forces, that are used to secure the top of a mast in some types of derrick.
Related terms: Scotch derrick
stifflegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiffleg
Scotch derrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch derricks
Senses: glosses: A derrick having stifflegs.
Scotch derricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch derrick
strain at the leash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strains at the leash
form: straining at the leash
form: strained at the leash
form: strained at the leash
Senses: glosses: To be very eager to do or begin something.
strawberry weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry weevils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of strawberry bud weevil
synonyms: word: strawberry bud weevil
glosses: Synonym of strawberry root weevil
synonyms: word: strawberry root weevil
strawberry bud weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry bud weevils
Senses: glosses: A weevil of species Anthonomus signatus, a significant pest of strawberries in North America.
strawberry weevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawberry weevil
styracitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anhydrohexitol found in the husks of the fruit of Styrax obassia.
anhydrohexitols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhydrohexitol
photoflash bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoflash bombs
Senses: glosses: A kind of explosive ordnance dropped from an aircraft to create a bright flash of light to enable aerial photography for surveillance purposes.
piece of the puzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of the puzzle
form: pieces of puzzles
Senses: glosses: A clue that contributes to the solution of a mystery.
PNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of psychoneuroimmunology
glosses: Initialism of perineural invasion
piping plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piping plover
playing piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playing pieces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of game piece.
synonyms: word: game piece
elopeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elope
PPLO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPLOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pleuropneumonia-like organism
PPLOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PPLO
pleuropneumonia-like organism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuropneumonia-like organisms
Senses: synonyms: PPLO
glosses: Any of a number of mycoplasma bacteria similar in colonial morphology and filterability to the causative agent (Mycoplasma sp.) of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.
rot pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rot pockets
Senses: glosses: A neovagina.
rot pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rot pocket
poison parsnip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water hemlock
synonyms: word: water hemlock
polyhedral disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyhedrosis
synonyms: word: polyhedrosis
poor pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An old party game in which one player behaves like a cat and the others try not to laugh.
wood lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood lilies
Senses: synonyms: flame lily
Philadelphia lily
prairie lily
western red lily
glosses: A North American perennial lily of the species Lilium philadelphicum.
flame lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flame lilies
Senses: examples: text: At Christmas we used to gather [...] bunches of gloriosa flame lilies and orchids like white hyacinths.
ref: 1992, Monica Fisher, Nswana--the Heir: The Life and Times of Charles Fisher, a Surgeon in Central Africa, page 225:
text: [see chapter title]
ref: 2012 December 6, J. F. Finnie, J. Van Staden, “X Gloriosa superba L. (Flame Lily)”, in Y.P.S Bajaj, editor, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VI, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Don't let me forget the flame lilies (gloriosa superba), Rhodesia / Zimbabwe's national flower, which bloom at that time of the year, and which would often add to the decorations. So aptly named , the blossoms are indeed glorious, ranging in colour from[…]
ref: 2020 October 20, Heather McCall, For the Love of Christmas, WestBow Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A Gloriosa lily (superb lily) whose yellow and red petals look like wavy, rising wisps of flame.
glosses: Synonym of wood lily.
synonyms: word: wood lily
Philadelphia lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philadelphia lilies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wood lily
synonyms: word: wood lily
prairie lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie lilies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wood lily
synonyms: word: wood lily
western red lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western red lilies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wood lily
synonyms: word: wood lily
toothbrush trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothbrush tree
top it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops it all
form: topping it all
form: topped it all
form: topped it all
Senses: glosses: Synonym of top it off
synonyms: word: top it off
tract society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tract societies
Senses: glosses: A religious organization that promotes the religion by distributing pamphlets.
tract societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tract society
unwaivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + waivable.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Not waivable.
Marie Celeste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marie Celestes
Etymology: Coined by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, as a corruption of Mary Celeste. This form popularized by a fictionalized account in a short story by the author.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mary Celeste.
perceptualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptualisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perceptualization.
Murui Huitoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Witotoan language, spoken in Colombia and Peru.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Murui Huitoto terms
mirasudar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirasudars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mirasidar.
tea clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea clippers
form: tea-clipper
Senses: examples: text: There was the Lightning whose record of thirteen days from Boston to Liverpool, many a steam freighter today cannot beat. There was the Flying Cloud, that sailed from New York around the Horn to Frisco in eighty-nine days. Famous clippers both of them, like the Hurricane, Stag Hound, and the Great Republic. But they are gone like the British tea clippers, the Titania, Spindrift, Caliph and Lothair, and the Lahloo which won the race from Foo Chow to London in 1870, in ninety-seven days. The Cutty Sark is perhaps the only old tea clipper still afloat.
ref: 1929 February 3, Warren Irvin, “Gallant Wooden Vessels Survive; Stanch Ships from the Era of Sail and the Early Days of Steam Are Still in Use Though Dying One by One Ended as a Coal Hulk. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: Their wealth of sails (one memorable tea clipper had 63) demanded huge crews while their narrow holds limited them to relatively small cargoes and correspondingly small margins of profit.
ref: 1978 December 31, Ken Ringle, “Century-Old Laws Still Rule Seamen”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: The variety is endless: Viking longboats, Portuguese carracks, Spanish galleons, British men-of-war, American tea clippers, paddle-wheel steamers and those swift, sleek ocean liners of the 1930s.
ref: 1989 July 2, Sam Burchell, “Around Home: Ship Models”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: The opening of the Suez canal, just after the Cutty Sark was built, quickly made tea clippers redundant as steamers benefited from a shorter sea route.
ref: 2007 May 21, James Sturcke, Peter Walker, agencies, “Fire devastates Cutty Sark”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2013:
text: Built in 1869, it was one of the last tea clippers used to transport goods to Britain from as far as Australia
ref: 2022 April 11, Robert Hardman, “Will you dare climb 70ft up the Cutty Sark's rigging? Famed ship offers London's newest and scariest attraction. So ROBERT HARDMAN strapped on the safety gear and braved a sneak preview”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2022:
glosses: A clipper or fast-sailing vessel formerly employed in the tea trade.
wikipedia: Cutty Sark
tea clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea clipper
tea-clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-clippers
Senses: examples: text: Two other clipper models which have attracted wide attention at the Motor Boat Show are those of the Sea Witch, one of the early American record breakers, and the famous Cutty Sark, one of the fastest of the British tea-clippers.
ref: 1928 January 26, Seabury Lawrence, “Ship Models Draw Many to Boat Show; FamousFlying Cloud, with Two Record Passages to Coast, an Attractive Exhibit. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: The ship was built for speed in 1869, to get the lucrative first harvest of tea back to market ahead of the competition, and is now the last surviving tea-clipper in the world.
ref: 2005 January 27, Maev Kennedy, “Lottery cash to keep the Cutty Sark ship-shape”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2014:
text: The 1869 tea-clipper was already under renovation in her dry dock in Greenwich when she was almost destroyed in a huge fire in May last year.
ref: 2008 June 24, Neil Sears, “Shipping billionaire makes £3.3m donation to restore fire-damaged Cutty Sark”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2008:
glosses: Alternative form of tea clipper.
tea-clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-clipper
entomophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entomophobic
form: most entomophobic
Etymology: From entomo- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Responses of people who are entomophobic involve terror, panic, and revulsion when encountering insects, followed by confusion and anxiety.
ref: 2024 May 24, Vincent H. Resh, “Entomophobia”, in Chit Chat Club, page 3:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or exhibiting entomophobia.
Related terms: entomophobe
entomophobia
cetenarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌtɛnəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkætənɛɹəˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌtiːnəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
Etymology: From catenary + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: "Battery recharging is done from a point of supply built at turnover stations for this purpose. This may be cetenarization of selected tracks in a station on a non-electrified line. If these power points do not exist anymore, the disadvantage is the high investment.."
ref: 2023, Daniel Pribulaa, Zuzana Židováa, Martin Kendraa, Vladislav Zitrický, “Factors affecting mileage of battery electric multiple units”, in Transportation Research Procedia, volume 74, numbers 19–25, page 21:
glosses: The process of forming a catena, such as the installation of a series of wires forming an unbroken catenary wire. Used in reference to processes of installing contiguous electrical wiring in an overhead series circuit to supply an electric train or trolleybus with power along a specific route.
Synonyms: sense: blockchain technology
word: chainization
the very idea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Well, of all things!” cried the equally astonished Jane. “And here I have been wasting whole reams of perfectly good imagination picturing you in Baltimore—the very idea!” And she threw her arms about her friend once more, and kissed her a dozen times.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111:
glosses: Used to indicate surprise or incredulity.
not a word
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Once when he was alone with the Englishman he took occasion to make it quite plain that his engagement to Miss Strong was to be announced immediately upon their return to America. “But not a word of it, my dear Tennington—not a word of it.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111:
glosses: Do not tell anyone; keep (something) a secret.
true as a die
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A giant arm encircled the tawny throat, and a long blade sank once, true as a die, into the fierce heart.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 124:
glosses: With perfect aim or direction.
billion-dollar grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billion-dollar grasses
Etymology: Probably so-called because of the adverse impact of Echinochloa weeds on yields rice and other crops.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Echinochloa of barnyard grass, widely considered harmful weeds.
match penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match penalties
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The situation where a player is sent off for the rest of the game, owing to some serious offense.
yellow meadow ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow meadow ants
Senses: glosses: A common brownish-yellow ant of species
Lasius flavus, of western Eurasia and north Africa
synonyms: yellow hill ant
glosses: A common brownish-yellow ant of species
Lasius brevicornis (formerly in Lasius flavus), of North America.
synonyms: short-horned meadow ant
Related terms: taxonomic: Formica pratensis
word: black-backed meadow ant
yellow hill ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow hill ants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellow meadow ant
synonyms: word: yellow meadow ant
Twann-Tüscherz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Biel/Bienne district, Bern canton, Switzerland, comprising the lakeside villages of Twann, Wingreis, Tüscherz and Alfermée.
nonresale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: non- + resale
Senses: examples: text: The nonresale customer entered into a purchase agreement with a producer.
ref: 1981, “Operating Section Proceedings”, in American Gas Association, page 60:
text: By giving foreign artists the 'national treatment' on the condition of reciprocity, the EU has put indirect pressure on the nonresale right art markets, such as the US or Switzerland, to introduce the resale right into their national laws.
ref: 2022, Kristijan Poljanec, Legal Theory of Auction, page 23:
glosses: Not involving or not permitting a resale.
melting out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A common disease of turfgrass, caused by a fungal pathogen of species Drechslera poae.
qaygiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaygiqs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kashim
synonyms: word: kashim
qaygiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qaygiq
midaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-aged
Etymology: From mid- + aged.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of middle-aged
synonyms: word: middle-aged
blows with the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow with the wind
blowing with the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow with the wind
blew with the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow with the wind
blown with the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow with the wind
mimic thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimic thrushes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of mimid
synonyms: word: mimid
negamax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of the minimax search algorithm, relying on the fact that min(a, b) = -max(-b, -a) to simplify the implementation.
sucker's payoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucker's payoffs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The pessimal outcome for a player who cooperates while the other defects.
Biel/Bienne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Bern canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A district in Switzerland that surrounds the municipality.
Pingelap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An atoll in the Pacific Ocean, part of Pohnpei State of the Federated States of Micronesia, consisting of three islands.
Derived terms: Pingelapese
Geoffroy's monk saki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geoffroy's monk sakis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monk saki
synonyms: word: monk saki
monk saki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monk sakis
Senses: synonyms: Geoffroy's monk saki
glosses: A New World monkey from South America, of species Pithecia monachus.
moon snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon snakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of orange-naped snake (“Furina ornata”)
synonyms: word: orange-naped snake
extra: Furina ornata
mosquito fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquito fleets
Senses: glosses: A fleet of small ships.
mosquito fleets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquito fleet
masking crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masking crabs
Senses: synonyms: moss crab
glosses: A crab of species Loxorhynchus crispatus, found in the East Pacific.
moss crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss crabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of masking crab
synonyms: word: masking crab
darwish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darwishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dervish
darveshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darvesh
darwishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darwish
n-nonane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnˈnɒneɪn/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈnəʊneɪn/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈnɑneɪn/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈnoʊneɪn/
rhymes: -ɒneɪn
rhymes: -əʊneɪn
Etymology: From n- (“normal”) + nonane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (CH₃(CH₂)₇CH₃).
demicantons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demicanton
descantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descantists
Etymology: From descant + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who plays a descant.
descantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descantist
n-decane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnˈdɛkeɪn/
rhymes: -ɛkeɪn
Etymology: From n- (“normal”) + decane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (CH₃(CH₂)₈CH₃).
dewflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewflowers
Etymology: dew + flower
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Drosanthemum of African succulent plants.
dewflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewflower
dimissorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimissorial
form: most dimissorial
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dimissory
synonyms: word: dimissory
dignitarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a dignitary.
diglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, diglyphs.
glosses: Containing two glyphs.
dipicrylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hexanitrodiphenylamine
synonyms: word: hexanitrodiphenylamine
disoperatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disoperatively
form: most disoperatively
Etymology: From disoperative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disoperative manner.
disremembrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Failure to remember; a forgetting.
Related terms: disremember
dissceptres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissceptre
dissceptring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissceptre
difluorophosphato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Difluorophosphate as a ligand
iron-shod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.
examples: text: And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
glosses: Of a wheel or other device, having a protective iron casing or strip.
Chungyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At the beginning of 1842, a secret society uprising led by Chung Jen-chieh broke out in Chungyang County, Hupeh Province.
ref: 1976, Compilation Group for the "History of Modern China" Series [《中国近代史丛书》编写组], “Expansion of the War”, in The Opium War [鸦片战争], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 71:
english: 鸦片战争
translation: 鸦片战争
text: The Chungyang County CCP Committee has implemented the Party's rural economic policies and educated cadres, staff and workers to take the lead to repay overdrafts and debts owed to the collectives.
ref: 1978 August 15 [1978 July 23], “Hupeh County Clears Debts”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 450, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Economic, page 84:
glosses: Alternative form of Chongyang.
Rudong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 如東 /如东.
Senses: glosses: A county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
Rugao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 如皋 (Rúgāo).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
Chongchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇川.
Senses: glosses: A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
LATRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Tanzania
glosses: Acronym of Land Transport Regulatory Authority of Tanzania.
joblist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joblists
Etymology: From job + list.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list of tasks to be performed by the system.
joblists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joblist
RSNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Radiological Society of North America
bag jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag job
lazy girl jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy girl job
scale-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scale-proof
form: most scale-proof
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scaleproof
aye, aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Despite his relative experience, Flannery’s name has come up as a replacement for Padre Manager Jim Riggleman. The Padres are already 16 games under .500 and 9 games behind in the National League West. If offered the job, he would say “Aye, aye, I guess,” but he won’t be campaigning.
ref: 1994 June 18, John Weyler, “Rancho Cucamonga’s Flannery Approaches Job with a Passion”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: “Keep your eye on the hat,” he said. “Put the boat on a reach.” / “Aye, aye,” I obeyed, and then said, “What’s a reach?”
ref: 1998 May 17, Marilyn Berger, “Taking the Helm Is Not All Plain Sailing”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
text: "I want to have absolute evidence that we actually need longer than 28 days," the former first sea lord told the BBC. […] But less than an hour later, following a breakfast with the prime minister, West had changed tack.
ref: 2007 November 16, Patrick Wintour, “How Lord West said ‘Aye, aye’ to the PM”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2013:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye.
aye, aye, sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently,” said the captain. “I wish that you would make a personal and very careful examination of Mr. Caldwell’s effects, to ascertain if there is any clew to a motive either for suicide or murder—sift the thing to the bottom.” “Aye, aye, sir!” responded Mr. Brently, and left to commence his investigation.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Wreck of the ‘Lady Alice’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 172:
text: Beginning tomorrow, telephone operators at the Navy Department’s giant 60,000-call-a-day switchboard will abandon the traditional “thank you” acknowledgment of requests, in favor of the salty and exclusively maritime “Aye, aye, sir!” “A little something extra,” the Navy calls it—“an affirmative answer with a personality.”
ref: 1945 April 22, AP [Associated Press], “Navy Phones Go ‘Aye, Aye, Sir’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: “Remember, no shooting unless you have to. Use your saber.” / “Aye, aye, sir.” Asa could not resist a salute.
ref: 1954, Robert C. Du Soe, chapter XI, in Detached Command, New York, N.Y.; London; Toronto, Ont.: Longmans, Green and Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152:
text: “Can it wait?” / “Sir, yes sir. I suppose, sir.” / “Then wait, Dean. I don’t need to think about all that when I’m on liberty.” / “Sir, I—” They were all staring at him, not unkindly, but he had intruded and he had no business in their Sunday lives. “Aye, aye, sir.” Can’t you even introduce me? “Well, have a nice day, sir.”
ref: 1981 March, James Webb, chapter 0915, in A Sense of Honor, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published April 1982, →ISBN, part 4 (Sunday, February 11, 1968), page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye, sir.
aye-aye, sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘Sound battle stations, if you will, Petty Officer.’ / ‘Aye-aye, sir.’ Jamie rang the bell, and the crew came on deck.
ref: 2009, Alan Savage [pseudonym; Christopher Nicole], “Baptism of Fire”, in The Vortex (Honourable Duncan Morant; 4), Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 33:
text: “Reset the guard zones to twelve miles,” called the captain. / “Aye-aye, sir,” replied Ian, tapping at a keypad on the radar front panel.
ref: 2011 January 15, Roger Lancaster, chapter 10, in To Save a Wretch, Southam, Warwickshire: fifty eight kings press, →ISBN, pages 151–152:
text: ‘Remember when I showed you how to check a whale-boat and its gear last voyage . . .’ / ‘Aye-aye, sir.’ / ‘Off with you and do it now.’ / ‘Aye-aye, sir.’ Jim started to turn away.
ref: 2011 March 3, Jessica Blair [pseudonym; William Spence], chapter 3, in Secrets of a Whitby Girl, London: Piatkus, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye, sir.
aye, aye, Sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: [A]dviſe the Europe Captain to ſtand to the weſtward again on the ebb tide, and keep firing guns and burning lights, and he would ſoon find them.—O, the devil; all wrong again!—This is done on purpoſe to keep out of the way of the Company’s ſhips, becauſe they get more money by carrying in the country ones.—Note that, Purſer: Aye, aye, Sir—A ſail! a ſail! Another, another: Four, five Dutch, French, Engliſh; all ſtanding down upon us.
ref: 1782 February 16, Joseph Price, A Letter to Sir Phil[ip] Jen[nings-]Clerke, Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons, to Whom the Petition of Benjamin Lacam, Sole Proprietor of New Harbour in Bengal, Was Referred, London: […] [F]or the author, published 1783, →OCLC, page 102:
text: "[…] We will take off without delay before the weather shows further signs of deterioration." / "Aye, aye, Sir. May I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours to locate and sink her?"
ref: 1979, John Drew, “Weather Willie”, in War Time Romances of Sailors, Bognor Regis, West Sussex: New Horizon, →ISBN, page 203:
text: Colonel Wilson was a good Marine officer. Even when given an order he’d rather not receive, he said, “Aye, aye, Sir,” and carried it out to the best of his ability.
ref: 1993, W. E. B. Griffin [pseudonym; William Edmund Butterworth III], chapter V, in Close Combat (The Corps; VI), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, section 2, page 104:
text: “Mr. Paul, release that villain from the round house—bring him to me immediately.” / “Aye, aye, Sir, I shall do that with pleasure,” was the gardener’s reply.
ref: 2002, Wallace Bruce, “Towards the End of Schooldays”, in John Paul Jones: Father of the United States Navy: U.S.S. Ranger—U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard—U.S.S. America, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye, sir.
aye-aye, Sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mr. B—— said warningly through his speaking tube to the engineer: “Stand by, now!” / “Aye-aye, Sir.”
ref: 1875 February 4, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Piloting on the Mississippi. Dodging an Island in a Shallow Channel After Dark.”, in J. T. Talbot, W. P. Harding, editors, The Cambridge City Tribune, volume X, number 40, Cambridge City, Ind., →OCLC, front page, column 5:
text: Self: “Can you tell me what that building up there is?” / Native: “Aye-aye, Sir.”
ref: 1878 July 18, A.H.M., “Round England in Ten Days.—III.”, in The Bath Chronicle. […], volume 122, number 6242, Bath, Somerset, →OCLC, page 7, column 5:
text: “This ’ere,” says the captain producing a catalogue across which is printed, Hyde Windlass Co., Bath, Me., in bold type, “is a windlass. You know a windlass when you see him coming across the street? Well, this is one of them. Got that?” / “Aye-aye, Sir.”
ref: 1913 January 24, “Wildcats Are Not Always Real Wild: Marine Reporter Gets Light on Subject at Cost of Drink”, in The Day, 32nd year, New London, Conn., →OCLC, page 4, column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye, sir.
aye aye, Sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘Go slow ahead together, and come round to oh-one-oh.’ / ‘Aye aye, Sir . . . Slow ahead together. Starboard ten.’
ref: 1961, Alexander Fullerton, chapter 8, in The Waiting Game: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ives Washburn, published 1962, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
text: "Get a U-boat for me - that is an order." / "Aye aye, Sir."
ref: 1979, John Drew, “The Battle of the Atlantic”, in War Time Romances of Sailors, Bognor Regis, West Sussex: New Horizon, →ISBN, page 123:
text: “[…] I want a real-time rolling Plot display of where they were, or are, or will be at any time, including a margin of maximum error. Make it fast, people!” There was a rapid chorus of “Aye aye, Sir!” from the trainees.
ref: 2014, Peter Grant, “Rolla System – June 2848 GSC”, in Adapt and Overcome (The Maxwell Saga; 3), Fynbos Press, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye, sir.
Socotra Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In January, the South Korean Navy began construction on a $970 million base in Gangjeong. Once completed in 2014, it will be home to 20 warships, including submarines, that the navy says will protect shipping lanes for South Korea’s export-driven economy, which is dependent on imported oil. It will also enable South Korea to respond quickly to a brewing territorial dispute with China over Socotra Rock, a submerged reef south of Jeju that the Koreans call Ieodo. Both sides believe it is surrounded by oil and mineral deposits.
ref: 2011 August 18, Choe Sang-Hun, “Island’s Naval Base Stirs Opposition in South Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2011, Asia Pacific:
text: MINOR DISPUTES: China has a minor border dispute with Bhutan and the sides have no diplomatic ties. It also has an obscure dispute with South Korea over a submerged rock that both claim. South Korea controls the feature, known variously as Socotra Rock, Leodo and Suyanjiao, and has built an ocean research station and helipad over it.
ref: 2014 July 10, “A look at China’s territorial claims”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025:
text: According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing South Korean diplomatic sources, the confrontation played out on the afternoon of February 26 in the Provisional Maritime Zone (PMZ) near Socotra Rock, southwest of South Korea’s Jeju Island.
ref: 2025 March 18, Seong Hyeon Choi, “Yellow Sea stand-off over ‘steel structure’ raises China-South Korea tensions: reports”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025, China / Military:
glosses: An underwater rock in the Yellow Sea.
Kinabatangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Kinabatangan.
Senses: glosses: A district of Sabah, Malaysia
glosses: A town in Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia
Peninsula Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in the District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A small lake in Flagstaff County, Alberta, Canada.
dead leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead leaves
Senses: glosses: A plant's leaf which is no longer alive, especially one which has detached from the plant and has turned brown and brittle. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: leaf litter
MDRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Men's Dress Reform Party
conformeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conform
wallbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wall bars
chopping-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopping-boards
Senses: examples: text: [T]he woman held it under the tap, and then wiped it with the same cloth she cleaned out the copper with, the verdigris from which adhered to the chopping-board, and from that to the suet with which the pudding was made.
ref: 1825 October 4, The Morning Post, number 17,095, London, →OCLC, page [3], column 5:
text: “When I was captured by the American forces, I was like a fish on a chopping-board,” [Nguyen Quang] Hung said last week. “They could have either killed or spared me.”
ref: 2013 July 1, Mike Ives, “Humerus reunion: Doctor returns Vietnamese vet’s arm”, in Park City Daily News, year 158, number 182, Bowling Green, Ky., →OCLC, page 7A, columns 4–5:
text: Indeed, I became so addicted to this delightful nectar that I mastered the art of racking my childlike body with bogus spasms of croup in the hope of persuading her to set to with the onion and the chopping-board.
ref: 2013 October 25, Keith Newbery, “This Island Life: If it works for you – and tastes good – why not?”, in Isle of Wight County Press, Newport, Isle of Wight, →ISSN, →OCLC, Weekender section, page 2, columns 1–2:
glosses: Alternative form of chopping board.
chopping-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopping-board
cutting-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting-boards
Senses: examples: text: To be SOLD by AUCTION, By Meſſ. CLAYTON and BERTELS. On the Premiſes, To-morrow and Thurſday next, THE genuine Houſehold Furniture, Plate, Linen, China and Books, a Compting-houſe Desk, Cutting-board, &c. of Mr. ANTHONY MOLARD, Taylor, The Upper End of Berwick-ſtreet, Soho.
ref: 1777 November 25, The Public Advertiser, number 13457, London: […] H. S. Woodfall, […], →OCLC, page [4], column 3:
text: The end which goes into the smoker’s mouth is kneaded into shape, and the loose end gummed down with a touch of gum taraxacum. The other end is cut off square on a cutting-board, and your cigar is ready.
ref: 1908 February 8, “A Visit to a Cigar Factory: Toronto Star Reporter Sees the Fragrant Weed Rolled Into Smokes. […]”, in The Toronto Daily Star, 16th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
text: Although Mr [John] McClelland follows strict hygiene procedures and has never had any problem with the quality of his meat, he has had many previous visits from these officials, demanding, for instance, that he should replace his wooden cutting-boards with plastic, then later demanding that these should once again be replaced by wood.
ref: 1998 March 22, “Butchers face the chop”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,919, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of cutting board.
cutting-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutting-board
Watom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vuatom
Senses: glosses: An island of Papua New Guinea, located off the coast of New Britain
Flagstaff County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in east-central Alberta, Canada.
Niasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nias or its people.