cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
centerline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerlines
form: centreline
form: centre line
Etymology: From center + line.
Senses: examples: text: It is particularly confusing when the motorist is channelized across the highway centerline. For long-term closures conflicting pavement markings must be removed or obliterated before relaning the roadway.
ref: 1978, US Department of Transportation, Traffic control for street and highway construction and maintenance operations:
glosses: A line down the center of a road, generally one that divides traffic moving in opposite directions.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: ℄
qualifier: trades
glosses: A line, either demarcated or imagined, representing the precise center (middle) of something (such that what lies on one side of it is precisely equal in size to what lies on the other side); the central axis represented by this line.
examples: text: You might already know that, I don't know, but since you are training at home I didn't want you to be weaving wildly on each side of the rope - the goal is to pop up as tight as possible to the center line.
ref: 2005 July 31, Vovchanchyn Fan, “Re: Bob and weaving drill”, in Sherdog (Usenet):
text: take his lead leg out from under him. Just dont it when he is going for a power jab, just make sure your heads out of the center line
ref: 2006 January 3, Justin Pressley, “Re: having problems whilst sparring”, in Sherdog (Usenet):
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other.
centerlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centerline
certifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of certify
certifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of certify
certifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certifyings
Senses: examples: text: […] certifyings that are comparatively formal […]
ref: 1920, Parliamentary Papers, volume 18, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, page 76:
glosses: An act of certification.
certitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certitude
chewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chewable
form: most chewable
Etymology: From chew + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being chewed.
glosses: Chewy.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Allowing for a particular type of bid that does not trigger the flip-in.
raw_tags: of a poison pill
Derived terms: chewability
chewably
unchewable
chewable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewables
Etymology: From chew + -able.
Senses: glosses: Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.
glosses: Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.
A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
chides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chide
circuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circus
clarifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clarify
clearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearance
clerkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clerkish
form: most clerkish
Etymology: From clerk + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling a clerk.
Derived terms: clerkishly
climaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climax
climaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of climax
clockmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockmakers
Etymology: From Middle English clockemaker, clokkemakyer, equivalent to clock + maker.
Senses: examples: text: There were hundreds of clockmakers in London during that era.
synonyms: clocksmith
hypernyms: horologist
horologer
coordinate_terms: watchmaker
glosses: A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains clocks.
examples: text: Near-synonym: watchmaker
text: We have the great clockmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: God in His role as the creator of the clockwork universe.
Related terms: clockmaking
Old Maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əʊld meɪd/
Forms: form: Old Maids
Senses: examples: text: The only card games I know are Go Fish and Old Maid.
glosses: A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card.
examples: text: The Joker will serve as the Old Maid.
glosses: The unmatchable card itself.
clumsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clumsy: more clumsy
clumsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clumsy: most clumsy
micro-organism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-organisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of microorganism.
micro-organisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-organism
lacto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: lact-
Etymology: From Latin lac (“milk”).
Senses: glosses: milk.
Synonyms: galacto-
galact-
candidature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkændɪdət͡ʃʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈkændɪdət͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkændɪdətjʊɚ/
Forms: form: candidatures
Etymology: From French candidature, equivalent to candidate + -ure.
Senses: glosses: The condition of becoming a candidate; candidateship.
Derived terms: precandidature
Related terms: candidacy
Dark Ages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːˌkeɪd͡ʒɪz/
Forms: form: the Dark Ages
form: Dark Age
form: dark Ages
form: dark ages
form: darke ages
Etymology: The phrase appears in writing of the English Reformation by Richard Sibbes (1620) and by George Abbot (1624), the archbishop of Canterbury. Both authors use it to refer to the period of papal supremacy before the Reformation. The earliest citation in Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1687. Use is specific to English therefore not likely to be from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: There is one very real sense in which the Dark Ages were the brightest of times, and it is this: that they were times of defined and definite duties and freedoms.
ref: 2001 December 24, Gene Wolfe, “The Best Introduction to the Mountains”, in David Pringle, editor, Interzone, number 174, →ISSN, page 49:
synonyms: Early Middle Ages
glosses: The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 CE.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 BCE).
glosses: The dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863).
glosses: The dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893).
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
examples: text: It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era.
ref: 1992, Steven Davis, Connectionism: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Yes, DSL is a better, faster and less expensive way to access the Internet. Unfortunately, it's saddled with back-office systems that belong in the Dark Ages and politics that may require regulatory oversight.
ref: 2000 March 6, Network World, volume 17, number 10, page 49:
text: Put yourself back in the dark ages, the time before the Internet took off–say, the 1970s–and ask: What was the environment for creativity then?
ref: 2001, Lawrence Lessig, The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013, page 104:
text: The Scourge disaster sent angaran civilization into a dark age. Records of their golden era of technological advancement and proliferation through space only survived as oral history, making it difficult to separate truth from legend. Nevertheless, angara believe they had colonized numerous planets across the cluster before the Scourge's devastation left them cut off from each other for centuries.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Lost Colony Worlds Codex entry:
text: Sunshine on the street at the parade / But you would rather be in the dark ages / Making that sign / Must've taken all night
ref: 2019 June 14, Taylor Swift, Joel Little, “You Need to Calm Down”, in Lover, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: Any relatively primitive period of time.
false modesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false modesties
Senses: examples: text: Although having a large ego is considered undesirable, at times it is proper to take credit where it is due rather than display false modesty.
text: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Behavior that is intended to seem humble but comes across as fake and unflattering.
Related terms: humblebrag
brownnoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownnosers
Senses: examples: text: “Unbelievable. Boimler's cozying up with those brownnosers to get out of trash day? Such a great call.” “More trash for the rest of us. I smell adventure.”
ref: 2021 September 16, John Cochran, “The Spy Humongous” (4:58 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):
text: “W-wait, why isn't Gumball in here with us?” [Laszlo chuckles] “Because Guillermo is the only one out of all of you that has ever shown me any kindness.” “[coughs] Brownnoser.” “And yet you all treat him so shabbily that even after all this time of waiting to become one of you... he's force to give up and take matters into his own hands.”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (19:48 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: Alternative spelling of brown noser (one who flatters others in an obsequious manner.)
scaphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scapho- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of execution, among the ancient Persians, in which the victim is fastened into a hollow boat, force-fed and slathered in honey and milk and exposed to insects until the victim's death.
paragraph mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragraph marks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pilcrow.
synonyms: word: pilcrow
paragraph marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragraph mark
Glasgow smile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glasgow smiles
Senses: examples: text: Here they will become acquainted with the city’s endemic crime, random violence and such terms as “a Glasgow kiss” (a head butt) and “a Glasgow smile” (a mouth extended with a cut).
ref: 2006 June, “Third World Scouts to aid Glasgow poor”, in The Times:
text: To promote the bid they had this slogan, 'Glasgow Smiles Better', which, when you consider what a Glasgow smile is, is a pretty negative association to make.
ref: 2007, Harland Miller, International Lonely Guy, page 118:
synonyms: Chelsea grin
Chelsea smile
glosses: A facial scar received from being cut on the edge of the mouth, resembling an extended smile.
Related terms: Glasgow kiss
bibliothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotheca
spatulomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatulamancy
Senses: glosses: Divination, or foretelling of future events, through animals' shoulder blades.
2e
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: education
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of twice-exceptional.
Patzcuaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pátzcuaro.
unwaveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwaveringly
form: most unwaveringly
Etymology: From unwavering + -ly or un- + waveringly.
Senses: examples: text: But the man refused to talk - his brow lowering, his eyes glaring unwaveringly.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126:
text: He maintained that position unwaveringly throughout the second round of hearings.
ref: 1993 Oct, David Brock, “Who is Janet Napolitano?”, in American Spectator, volume 26, number 10, page 20:
text: Representative Nancy Pelosi, our California congresswoman, has affirmed that the United States stands “unwaveringly” by Israel as it conducts its defense[…]
ref: 2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: manner
glosses: In an unwavering manner.
examples: text: But the authors cover all the stages and issues thoroughly, even if their approach is so unwaveringly politically correct it occasionally loses sight of reality.
ref: 1995 Oct, “Self-esteem: the real story”, in Todays Parent, volume 12, number 7, page 74:
qualifier: frequency
glosses: Consistently, staunchly.
unobjectionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobjectionable
form: most unobjectionable
Etymology: From un- + objectionable.
Senses: examples: text: The line had obvious good qualities. It nowhere involved severe gradients; its curves in Whishaw's phrase were "unobjectionable"; it served an economic need; until the opening of the more direct Dundee-Forfar line, it had no real competitor; it was managed with vigour and honesty.
ref: 1953 February, S. G. E. Lythe, “Early Days of the Arbroath & Forfar Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
antonyms: objectionable
glosses: Not objectionable; not causing any objection.
Primats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Primat
Solomons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A man needs only to be careful—and lucky—to live a long time in the Solomons; but he must also be of the right sort. He must have the hall-mark of the inevitable white man stamped upon his soul.
ref: 1910 March, Jack London, “The Terrible Solomons”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: Ellipsis of Solomon Islands.
Solomons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Solomon
autotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotypes
Etymology: From auto- + type.
Senses: glosses: A copy or facsimile.
glosses: An early form of photograph produced using autotypy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function that completes the typing of a field using a prediction based upon the characters entered so far.
Derived terms: artotype
autotypic
autotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autotypes
form: autotyping
form: autotyped
form: autotyped
Etymology: From auto- + type.
Senses: glosses: To reproduce (a document) by autotype.
autotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotypies
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
vomitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomitorium
bulbiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlbɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more bulbiform
form: most bulbiform
Etymology: From Latin bulbus (“bulb”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Though there was to be no encounter with the Bol'shaia Igra that day, the shadow of the bulbiform envelope, and the menacing twinkle of gunmetal beneath it, nonetheless would persist well into the later moments of ground-recreation.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 245:
glosses: Shaped like a bulb.
parison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹɪsən/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəsən/
Forms: form: parisons
Etymology: From French paraison, from parer (“pare”).
Senses: examples: text: The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 278:
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
aronia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aronias
Etymology: From the translingual genus name, Aronia.
Senses: glosses: chokeberry
anamorphoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænəˈmɔːfəskəʊp/
Forms: form: anamorphoscopes
Etymology: From anamorphosis + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: The classical anamorphoscopes, he went on to explain, were mirrors, cylindrical or conical, usually, which when placed on or otherwise near a deliberately distorted picture, and viewed from the appropriate direction, would make the image appear “normal” again.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 280:
glosses: A mirrored device which gives a correct image of an anamorphosis.
lateener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /læˈtiːnə/
Forms: form: lateeners
Etymology: From lateen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nearby […] lay a curious vessel which it seemed the Being had arrived in. Not the usual lateener, in fact appearing to have neither sails, masts, nor oars.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 282:
glosses: A ship with a lateen rig.
aptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æpˈtɒtɪk/
Forms: form: more aptotic
form: most aptotic
Etymology: From aptote + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: To become as they'd say out here aptotic, uninflected, unable, sometimes, to tell subject from object.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 282:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Uninflected.
aptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æpˈtɒtɪk/
Etymology: Haplology of apoptotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Misspelling of apoptotic.
strappado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strappados
form: strappadoes
Etymology: From Italian strappato, from strappare (“to pull”).
Senses: examples: text: What, vpon compulsion? No: were I at the Strappado, or all the Racks in the World, I would not tell you on compulsion.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A form of torture in which the victim is hung from the ceiling by a rope attached to the hands, which are tied together behind the victim's back.
strappado
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strappados
form: strappadoing
form: strappadoed
form: strappadoed
Etymology: From Italian strappato, from strappare (“to pull”).
Senses: glosses: To torture by means of this device.
well-hung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: better-hung
form: best-hung
form: well hung
Senses: examples: text: As the poets have mournfully sung, / Death takes the innocent young, / The rolling-in-money, / The screamingly-funny, / And those who are very well hung.
ref: c. 1968, W. H. Auden, As the poets have mournfully sung:
text: He wishes he were young, a little better hung
ref: 1995, “Grown Man”, performed by Loudon Wainwright III:
synonyms: word: horse-hung
word: hung like a horse
word: black where it counts
word: horse-hung
word: hung like a bull
word: hung like a horse
word: hung like a donkey
word: meat for days
word: meat for the poor
word: macrophallic
word: megalophallic
word: three-legged
word: tons of basket
word: well-endowed
word: well-hung
glosses: Having a large penis.
examples: text: When shopping, you can easily spot well-hung beef. It will be dry on the outside, cushion-soft and will hold a thumb print when pushed in for a few seconds.
ref: 2014, Fran Warde, Tim Wilson, Ginger Pig Meat Book, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Allowed to mature correctly, normally hanging, to encourage tenderness.
raw_tags: of meat
examples: text: On a point of that nature, he humbled himself before his noble Friend. He was rude and uncultivated in speech. The tongue of his noble Friend was so well hung, and so well attuned to courtly airs, that he could not attempt to enter into competition with him on such subjects as these.
ref: 1837 December 12, Lord Henry Brougham, The Royal Message (House of Lords):
glosses: Eloquent or loquacious.
raw_tags: of a tongue
kia quen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 夾棍 /夹棍 (jiāgùn).
Senses: glosses: A form of torture, among the ancient Chinese, in which planks of wood squeeze or hit the victim's feet.
zanzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zænˈ(d)ʒi/
/t͡sæn-/
/-d͡ʒə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 拶指, literally "finger compressing".
Senses: glosses: A form of torture, among the ancient Chinese, in which wooden sticks are placed around the victim's fingers and used to crush or break the fingers.
breaking wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaking wheels
Senses: synonyms: Catherine wheel
glosses: A wheel used to break a restrained victim's limbs and body in an ancient European form of execution.
Related terms: break on the wheel
Catherine wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catherine wheels
form: Catharine wheel
form: Catharine-wheel
form: Catherine-wheel
form: catherine wheel
form: catherine-wheel
Etymology: Saint Catherine of Alexandria was said to have been sentenced to execution on such a wheel, which shattered at her touch.
Senses: examples: text: Sorcerers are too common; cunning men, wizards, and white witches […] have commonly St. Catherine's wheel printed in the roof of their mouth, or in some other part about them […]
ref: , II.i.1
text: […] her tortures consisted of being broken on a wheel (later called Catherine wheel), but the machine broke down injuring bystanders; Catherine was beheaded.
ref: 1992, David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, 3rd edition, page 88:
text: She only lied to the boy to keep him from hurt, and for her sin her intestines were pulled from her on a Catherine wheel.
ref: 2008, Peter Carey, His Illegal Self, page 181:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A breaking wheel, or wheel with spikes on it.
examples: text: [Karoline] Leavitt threw Roman candles, Catherine wheels and smoke bombs in the air in the hope of distracting reporters. But she was unable to quash the nagging suspicion that Donald Trump has something to hide.
ref: 2025 September 9, David Smith, “The president doth protest too much: Trump’s denial on Epstein is backfiring”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: pyrotechnics
glosses: A firework that rotates when lit.
examples: text: […] she went on, making turns and twists, flourishing her skirts, kicking higher and higher, and finally, among a volley of shouts, fell on her hands and turned head over heels in a magnificent catherine-wheel; then scrambling to her feet again, she tumbled into the arms of a young man standing in the front of the ring.
ref: 1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 1, in Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:
text: We did a Catharine-wheel together down the passage. Somehow we gathered up a chair upon our way, and bounded on with it towards the street.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cartwheel move.
topics: architecture
glosses: A rose window.
Derived terms: Catherine wheel cookie
tramp chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramp chairs
Senses: glosses: A small cage in the shape of a chair, designed to restrain a victim and put them on display.
claques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claque
unmannerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈmænəli/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈmænɚli/
ipa: /ˌən-/
Forms: form: more unmannerly
form: most unmannerly
Etymology: From Middle English unmanerli (“discourteously, rudely; excessively, unrestrainedly”) [and other forms], from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + manerli, manerly (“with good manners, courteously; in accordance with custom or propriety, appropriately, becomingly, properly; respectfully”). Manerli is derived from maner (“kind, sort; form, nature; circumstances; method, manner; outward behaviour, manners; morals; custom, usage; cause, reason”) (see further at etymology 1) + -li (suffix forming adverbs). The English word is analysable as un- + mannerly, and is cognate with Middle Dutch onmanierlike (modern Dutch onmanierlijk).
Senses: examples: text: [T]here the Murtherers, / Steep’d in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers / Vnmannerly breech'd with gore: [...]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 138, column 1:
synonyms: impolitely
uncivilly
glosses: In a way that is not mannerly; discourteously, rudely.
clathrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clathrins
Etymology: From Latin clāthrī + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fibrous protein that forms a polyhedral coat on the surface of the coated pits and vesicles of cells during endocytosis.
unpin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: unpins
form: unpinning
form: unpinned
form: unpinned
Etymology: From un- + pin.
Senses: examples: text: Lady Bellaston answered with a smile, “Then you have seen this terrible man, madam; pray, is he so very fine a figure as he is represented? for Etoff entertained me last night almost two hours with him. The wench I believe is in love with him by reputation.” Here the reader will be apt to wonder; but the truth is, that Mrs Etoff, who had the honour to pin and unpin the Lady Bellaston, had received compleat information concerning the said Mr Jones, and had faithfully conveyed the same to her lady last night (or rather that morning) while she was undressing; on which accounts she had been detained in her office above the space of an hour and a half.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: To unfasten by removing a pin.
examples: to unpin a program from the Taskbar
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.
examples: text: […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
ref: 2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To undo the pinning or fixing of (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it can be modified again.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To get (a piece) out of a pin.
counterilluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterilluminates
form: counterilluminating
form: counterilluminated
form: counterilluminated
Etymology: From counter- + illuminate.
Senses: glosses: To use photophores on the underside of the body so as to hide a dark silhouette that would otherwise be seen from below by predators
raw_tags: of a fish
unsifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sifted.
Senses: examples: text: If you bake with unsifted flour you don't know how much you are using because it might be packed down or very fluffy.
glosses: Not having been sifted.
examples: text: […] You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: 1765, George Colman, The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse, London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 2nd edition, 1768, Volume I, Preface, p. xxxii,
But each man’s understanding, such as it is, must be his guide; and he, who has not courage to make a free use of it, but obtrudes the opinions of others, unsifted and unexamined, on his readers, betrays more want of respect for their understanding, than diffidence of his own.
glosses: Inexperienced; untried, unscrutinized.
coursework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: course work
Etymology: From course + work.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An assignment, project or task that a student is required to complete as part of a particular course, which is then assessed and counts towards the grade given.
fluffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fluffy: more fluffy
fluffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fluffy: most fluffy
electrofusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + fusion.
Senses: glosses: fusion by means of electricity
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the fusion of plant protoplasts by electrical stimulation
flickeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flickeringly
form: most flickeringly
Etymology: From flickering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flickering manner
glosses: Briefly
Synonyms: sense: flickering manner
word: coruscatingly
sense: flickering manner
word: dazzlingly
sense: flickering manner
word: sparklingly
sense: flickering manner
word: twinklingly
sense: briefly
word: ephemerally
word: fleetingly
word: transiently
word: temporarily
glomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: glŏmĕrʹ(y)o͝olər
enpr: glŏmûrʹyo͝olər
ipa: /ɡlɒˈmɛɹ(j)ʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɡlɒˈmɜːjʊlə(ɹ)/
enpr: gləmĕrʹ(y)ələr
enpr: glōmĕrʹ(y)ələr
ipa: /ɡləˈmɛɹ(j)əlɚ/
ipa: /ɡloʊˈmɛɹ(j)əlɚ/
Etymology: From glomerulus + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or affecting a glomerulus.
Derived terms: aglomerular
extraglomerular
glomerular capsule
glomerular lipidosis
glomerularly
infraglomerular
interglomerular
intraglomerular
juxtaglomerular
macroglomerular
microglomerular
multiglomerular
nonglomerular
panglomerular
periglomerular
polyglomerular
postglomerular
preglomerular
protoglomerular
subglomerular
transglomerular
tubuloglomerular
uniglomerular
mesofossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesofossils
form: meso-fossil
Etymology: From meso- + fossil.
Senses: examples: text: The mesofossils are small, three-dimensional and charcoalified or lignitized and yield exquisite structural details when studied with scanning electron microscopy.
ref: 1999, XVI International Botanical Congress, Abstracts, International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies, page 180:
text: The present study, based on the morphology of leaves and reproductive organs, reveals much more diversified mesofossil plant assemblages.
ref: 2012, Bernard Gomez et al., “10: Mesofossil Plant Remains from the Barremian of Hautrage (Mons Basin, Belgium), with Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Paleoenvironment Insights”, in Pascal Godefroit, editor, Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, Indiana University Press, page 105:
text: Currently, seeds assignable to Nitaspermum are recorded only from the early to mid-Albian mesofossil floras at Puddledock and Kenilworth localities, eastern North America.
ref: 2018, Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj R. Pedersen, “17: Fossil Seeds with Affinities to Austrobaileyales and Nymphaeales From the Early Cretaceous (Early to Middle Albian) of Virginia and Maryland, USA”, in Michael Krings, Carla J. Harper, Néstor Rubén Cúneo, Gar W. Rothwell, editors, Transformative Paleobotany, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 432:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
Related terms: microfossil
luciferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luciferins
Etymology: From Latin lūcifer (“light bringer”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”
ref: 2017 October 6, Ed Yong, “The Most Beautiful Death Trap”, in The Atlantic:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polycyclic heterocycles that are responsible for the bioluminescence of fireflies, being converted to oxyluciferin by luciferase in the process.
Derived terms: aminoluciferin
luciferyl
luciferase
oxyluciferin
oxyluciferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyluciferins
Etymology: From oxy- + luciferin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The luminescent product of the oxidation of luciferin by luciferase
micropylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micropyle + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to micropyles
moundbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moundbuilders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mound builder.
mound builder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mound builders
form: moundbuilder
form: mound-builder
Senses: glosses: A member of any of several Native American peoples who constructed large mounds for ceremonial or burial purposes.
glosses: A megapode.
octopamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oct(opus) + -opamine (“dopaminergic agent, dopamine derivative”), because it was isolated from an octopus's salivary gland.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An aromatic amine, 4-(2-amino-1-hydroxy-ethyl)phenol, related to noradrenaline, having similar characteristics to dopamine.
Derived terms: octopaminergic
photoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoprotective
form: most photoprotective
Etymology: From photo- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to photoprotection
photoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + protection.
Senses: glosses: The function, in plants that are adapted to high levels of sunlight, that protects the centres of photosynthesis from damage by excess light, normally by the use of carotenoid pigments
Related terms: photoprotective
photoprotector
photoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoproteins
Etymology: From photo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several proteins that generate light when oxidized, normally without the aid of an enzyme catalyst
sclerenchymatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sclerenchymatous
form: most sclerenchymatous
Senses: examples: text: In Fagus silvatica, Quercus Suber, &c., the first sclerenchymatous ring soon acquires projections directed towards the larger medullary rays.
ref: 1884, Anton Bary, Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns:
text: The cortex consists of two distinct layers (c and c'); the outer layer becomes more sclerenchymatous towards the periphery.
ref: 1891 February 24, “Nutrient Layer in the Testa”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 61:
text: Details of the reverse of a zoarium; sclerenchymatous crust removed by weathering which exposed two series of narrow ridges (the fewer higher and the more numerous lower ones between them); large circular accessory pores stand out in form of molds; originally they penetrated the sclerenchymatous crust, now removed by erosion.
ref: 1957, Maxim Konradovich Elias, Fenestella from the Permian of West Texas, page 133:
text: It also restored stem anomalies like reduced trichome turgidity and density, deformation in collenchymatous and sclerenchymatous cells induced by As stress.
ref: 2013, Advances in Fabaceae Research and Application: 2013 Edition, page 15:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of sclerenchyma
sclerenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sklɪəɹˈɛŋkɪmə/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /skləɹˈɛŋkəmə/
Forms: form: sclerenchymas
form: sclerenchymata
Etymology: From sclero- + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A mechanical ground tissue, impermeable to water, which consists of cells having narrow lumen and thick, mineralized walls of lignin; present in stems, vascular bundles (of monocots), seed coverings, and vein and tips of leaves.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of the stony corals (Anthozoa).
Coordinate terms: chlorenchyma
sclereid
collenchyma
merenchyma
parenchyma
Derived terms: sclerenchymatous
thermocycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocyclers
Etymology: From thermo- + cycler.
Senses: glosses: A thermal cycler
thermal cycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal cyclers
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A laboratory device in which a polymerase chain reaction is carried out repeatedly in cycles which in turn amplifies the sample DNA segments. The instrument contains a thermal block which contains the DNA samples and can precisely control the internal temperature.
Quonset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒnsɪt/
Forms: form: Quonsets
form: quonset
Etymology: Named after Quonset Point, the place they were manufactured; the placename derives from an Algonquian language.
Senses: examples: text: They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Besides the wind, sand, tumbleweed, and Joshua trees, there was nothing at Muroc except for two quonset-style hangars, side by side, a couple of gasoline pumps, a single concrete runway, a few tarpaper shacks, and some tents.
ref: 1979, Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff:
synonyms: Quonset hut
glosses: A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.
Related terms: word: Nissen hut
Nissen hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nissen huts
Etymology: Named after Canadian engineer Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930).
Senses: examples: text: A group of six men could erect a Nissen hut in just four hours. Its design could be easily modified for a range of uses such as hospitals, kitchens, drying rooms and bathhouses.
ref: 2015, James Campbell et al., editors, Studies in Construction History, →ISBN, page 244:
text: A row of original, large and life-expired MoD 'wriggly tin' Nissen huts close to the Rail Live entrance haven't simply been reskinned, they have been replaced with new, modern equivalents to the original design.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “The Rail Live story...”, in RAIL, number 984, page 36:
glosses: A prefabricated building, formerly used by the military, having a semicircular roof of corrugated iron.
Related terms: Iris hut
Romney hut
Quonset
Quonset hut
divided highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divided highways
Senses: glosses: A dual carriageway
get on someone's wick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on someone's wick
form: getting on someone's wick
form: got on someone's wick
form: got on someone's wick
Etymology: Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang states that wick is a shortening for Hampton Wick as rhyming slang for prick, i.e. penis.
Senses: examples: text: His silly questions are really getting on my wick.
synonyms: word: get on someone's nerves
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions.
take a gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a gamble
form: taking a gamble
form: took a gamble
form: taken a gamble
Senses: examples: text: He really took a gamble when he left his job to become a writer. But it paid off in the end.
text: I took a gamble on my girlfriends' parents not being home and turned up without warning.
glosses: To try something risky.
Synonyms: roll the dice
take a chance
take a flyer
take a risk
magnotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magno-therapy
Senses: glosses: Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism
favella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favellas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of favela.
facete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsiːt/
Forms: form: more facete
form: most facete
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin facētus; perhaps via Italian faceto.
Senses: examples: text: Adrian the sixth pope[…]gave command that statue should be demolished and burned, the ashes flung into the River Tiber, and had done it forthwith, had not Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, dissuaded him to the contrary […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
glosses: Facetious.
Derived terms: facetely
faceteness
humbugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəmˌbəɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: humbuggings
Etymology: From humbug + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Extract from a letter to Horace Walpole, written from Florence, in Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George L. Lam (1960), p. 446. […] You will laugh at me, I suppose, when I say I don't understand Tristram Shandy, because it was probably the intention of the author that nobody should. It seems to me humbugging, if I have a right notion of an art of talking or writing that has been invented since I left England.
ref: 1760 November 1, Horace Mann [Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet], “Horace Mann on Sterne’s ‘Humbugging’”, quoted in Alan B. Howes, editor, Laurence Sterne: The Critical Heritage, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1971 (reprinted 1995), ISBN 978-0-415-13425-5, page 104
text: My Friends, and Dear Countrymen, do not discard, / The Song and advice of a Patriot Bard, / Who wants you to listen to Cambria's praise, / To keep up old Customs, and walk in old ways, / So sung in Humbugging, and Tomfoolery.
ref: 1859, J[ohn] H[enry] P[hillips] [i.e., John Scourfield], “A Welsh Ode. Composed for the Eisteddfod.”, in Lyrics, and Philippics, [s.l.]: Middle Hill Press, OCLC 562485204; reprinted London: G. Norman, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, 1864, OCLC 260327185, page 27
text: Vice Lords call fighting humbugging, and robbing hustling. Humbugging is further subdivided: fighting between rival clubs is gangbanging, fighting between individuals is humbugging, and fighting which results when a group of club members goes out to jump on anyone they can find is wolf packing.
ref: 1979, R. Lincoln Keiser, The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Streets (Illinois Collection), New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).
humbugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəmˌbəɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: humbuging
Etymology: From humbug + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humbug.
Related terms: humbug
humbugger
humbuggery
humbuging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humbug
humbuged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humbug
humbugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humbuged
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humbug
archeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archaeon.
body piercing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body piercings
Senses: examples: text: He finds body piercing to be a satisfying occupation.
glosses: The practice of making an opening in part of the flesh and attaching rings, small barbells or varios other decoration through it.
examples: text: I have a number of body piercings that would make a nun shiver.
glosses: An opening made in the flesh through the above practice.
Related terms: body jewelry
genital piercing
industrial piercing
surface piercing
atropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɹəʊpi.ə/
Forms: form: atropias
Senses: glosses: Dated form of atropine.
Popescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Popescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Popescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
dispositifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispositif
unreel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreels
form: unreeling
form: unreeled
form: unreeled
Etymology: From un- + reel.
Senses: glosses: To remove or uncoil from a reel.
Synonyms: reel out