cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
students' union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: students' unions
Senses: glosses: A student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools. In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, and representation.
glosses: The building where the union provides such services.
glosses: A student organization to provide services to students, especially of higher education (in this sense only US English, and then almost always "student union")
glosses: The building where the union provides such services. (in this sense only US English, and then almost always "student union")
Synonyms: english: US spelling
translation: US spelling
word: student union
word: SU
student loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: student loans
Senses: topics: business
education
finance
glosses: A loan granted to a student in higher education to help pay for the tuition.
Related terms: scholarship
subj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of subject.
glosses: Abbreviation of subjunctive.
subjs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subj
suburbanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suburbanises
form: suburbanising
form: suburbanised
form: suburbanised
Etymology: From suburban + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suburbanize.
suiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suiters
Etymology: From suit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally your chances of going alone and getting all five tricks are rather better on a two-suited hand than a one-suiter.
ref: 2016, Card Games All-in-One For Dummies, page 73:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Something having a certain number of suits.
examples: text: He lifted the big three-suiter onto the bed and opened it.
qualifier: luggage
glosses: Something that can hold a certain number of suits.
Derived terms: birthday suiter
zootsuiter
Related terms: C-suiter
suiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suiter
sun dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sundance.
sunquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunquakes
Etymology: From sun + quake.
Senses: glosses: A quake occurring on the Sun.
sunquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunquake
sun parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun parlors
form: sun-parlor
form: sun parlour
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sunroom.
synonyms: word: sunroom
surf rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of rock music stylised by a fast tempo, and a melody played by a saxophone or electric guitar.
Derived terms: surf rocker
sweet talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Flattery; cajolery
sweet talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweet talks
form: sweet talking
form: sweet talked
form: sweet talked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweet-talk.
swordsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordspersons
form: swordspeople
Etymology: From sword + -s- + -person.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at using swords in combat.
Hyponyms: swordsman
swordswoman
swotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swotters
Etymology: From swot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their favourite pupils were the snotty little swotters who could repeat parrot-like most historical dates, the division of fractions and the genealogical musical chairs of the English monarchy.
ref: 1988, Paul Stuewe, The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Someone who swots
swotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swotter
synaptology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of synapses
Related terms: synaptological
synecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of synoecious.
table mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table mats
form: tablemat
Etymology: From table + mat.
Senses: examples: text: I watch as Abikok scoops two spoonsful of rice, a spoonful of broccoli, a spoonful of peas, and a large chunk of roast beef into a plate. She then lifts it with both hands and places it on my table mat.
ref: 2020, Eileen K. Omosa, The Fear Within Us:
glosses: Synonym of place mat.
synonyms: word: place mat
examples: text: After putting the leaves in the table and putting on the tablemat and tablecloth, they laid the placemats out.
glosses: A cushion or stiff material placed on top of a table, underneath a tablecloth.
Related terms: place mat
tablecloth
surf rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: surf rockers
Etymology: From surf rock + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surf rock musician.
glosses: A surf rock fan.
talent show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talent shows
Senses: examples: text: By the 1980s, there was still huge appeal for what became known as 'shiny-floor' talent shows, especially during weekend primetime. In the US, Star Search ran for 12 years in its original run, from 1983 to 1995, and as searches went, it did genuinely uncover some A-list talent, including Destiny's Child, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morrisette and LeAnn Rimes.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: An event where participants perform to showcase their talents.
Synonyms: talent contest
talent contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talent contests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talent show.
synonyms: word: talent show
talent shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talent show
tandem bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tandem bicycles
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: tandem
glosses: A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer.
tank suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank suits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tanksuit.
taphole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapholes
Etymology: From tap + hole.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a blast furnace, a hole which molten metal or slag is tapped off through.
tapholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taphole
tape recording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape recordings
Senses: glosses: A sound recording made with a tape recorder
target man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: target men
form: targetman
Senses: examples: text: For Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, however, it was further evidence his decision to add the former San Jose Earthquakes target man was on the money. Despite the precision passing of Robbie Keane and the pace of Gyasi Zardes up front, Gordon can still come on late for LA to go route one and chuck it in the mixer, or at least make the most out of set-pieces like corners.
ref: 2015 March 16, Richard Whittall, Graham Parker, “Turf war escalates as New York City FC makes home debut in week two”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Synonym of centre forward.
synonyms: word: centre forward
tax man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taxman.
tax year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax years
Etymology: From tax + year.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Synonym of fiscal year.
synonyms: word: fiscal year
team spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: esprit de corps
glosses: Camaraderie; willingness to co-operate with others.
desynchronise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desynchronises
form: desynchronising
form: desynchronised
form: desynchronised
Etymology: From de- + synchronise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desynchronize.
Derived terms: desynchronisable
desynchronisation
desynchronisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desynchronisations
Etymology: From desynchronise + -ation or de- + synchronisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desynchronization.
favoursome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more favoursome
form: most favoursome
form: favorsome
Etymology: From favour + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The second hill was easy of access but looked down on one small town only, and that none too favorsome in its appearance.
ref: 2011, Gardner Dozois, The Furthest Horizon:
text: Goddess of Haiti, favorsome,
Preserve in flowering loveliness
Your treasures' sweet delirium.
ref: 2015, Doris Y. Kadish, Deborah Jenson, Poetry of Haitian Independence, page 71:
synonyms: favourable
glosses: Characterised or marked by favour or favouritism; acceptable, satisfactory.
tautism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of tautology + autism, coined by Lucien Sfez.
Senses: glosses: The incommunicative state of a person immersed in a virtual world.
sensualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sensualises
form: sensualising
form: sensualised
form: sensualised
Etymology: From sensual + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sensualize.
peripheralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peripheralises
form: peripheralising
form: peripheralised
form: peripheralised
Etymology: From peripheral + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peripheralize.
Derived terms: peripheralisation
peripheralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peripheralise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peripheralization.
Isle of Thanet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area in northeastern Kent, England, bordering onto the North Sea and English Channel, which was an island at one time. The main towns in Thanet are Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate.
Scilly Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪli ˈaɪlz/
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Isles of Scilly.
synonyms: word: Isles of Scilly
big-boy pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big boy pants
Etymology: From big boy.
Senses: examples: text: Taking the baby from Kidd she snatched the screaming Davey by the wrist and half-carried him up the stairs yelling, "You wanna wear big-boy pants? Big boys wear big-boy pants, but big boys use the potty!"
ref: 1983, Randall Wallace, So Late Into the Night, Doubleday, published 1983, →ISBN, page 29:
text: "And so," you continue, "I'm putting your diapers away because you can now wear big boy pants and do your poop and pee-pee in the potty chair all by yourself."
ref: 1987, Eleanor Weisberger, When Your Child Needs You: A Parents' Guide Through the Early Years, Adler & Adler, published 1987, →ISBN, page 31:
text: “We've switched to big-boy pants. No more diapers,” his mom said a little too loud, so Alec would hear.
ref: 2000, Timothy A. Buzzard, Guru in a Little Boy Suit, Trafford Publishing, published 2000, →ISBN:
hypernyms: underpants
coordinate_terms: big-girl pants
glosses: Pull-up underwear worn by a boy during and after toilet training, as contrasted to the diapers worn during infancy.
examples: text: If Horwitz is planning on running for office again in the future (and it certainly looks that way), perhaps it's time he put on his big-boy pants and engage in civil discourse.
ref: 2011, David H. Hoffman, "Ugly election rhetoric" [letter to the editor], Suburban Life, 25 May 2011, page A8
text: He needs to put on his big boy pants and make the tough choice.
ref: 2012 April 12, Alissa Gulin, “Keystone Pipeline: It won't unlock the future”, in The Diamondback, volume 102, number 125, University of Maryland, page 4:
text: Even with a broken finger, Wach put on his big boy pants, wrapped his hand, and dominated on the offensive line all game.
ref: 2014, "Jewish Community Football League Playoffs and Championship!", The Baltimore Jewish Home, 11 December 2014 - 25 December 2014, Volume 1, Issue 21, page 19
antonyms: bitchy pants
grumpy pants
scaredy pants
coordinate_terms: big-girl pants
glosses: A notional pair of trousers or underwear worn by a male when acting maturely.
Related terms: in short pants
big-girl pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænts
Forms: form: big girl pants
Etymology: See big girl.
Senses: examples: text: Talk about how she'll be able to wear big-girl pants or fancy pants (decorated training pants) because she will learn to use the potty.
ref: 1987, Stephen W. Garber, Good Behavior: Over 1,200 Sensible Solutions to Your Child's Problems from Birth to Age Twelve, Villard Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 161:
text: You might say something like, “Nancy, this morning before you woke up, Dolly went pee-pee in her big-girl pants. We don't go pee-pee in our big-girl pants, do we?”
ref: 2006, Teri Crane, Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day: Proven Secrets of the Potty Pro, Fireside, published 2006, →ISBN, page 240:
text: As you get started on potty training, take your child to the store with you. Show her the wide variety of big girl pants available, and let her choose the style and picture that works best for her.
ref: 2010, Kim Bookout, Karen Williams, The Everything Guide to Potty Training: A Practical Guide to Finding the Best Approach for You and Your Child, Adams Media, published 2010, →ISBN, page 107:
hypernyms: underpants
coordinate_terms: big-boy pants
glosses: Pull-up underwear worn by a girl during and after toilet training, as contrasted to the diapers worn during infancy.
examples: text: I am very disappointed, but we did always say we wanted the best dog for her, so I will have to put my big girl pants on now and have faith that this will be the perfect dog for our family and for Ehlena.
ref: 2010, Stacy Fry, “Hope for Independence: A Diary Excerpt”, in Kathy Nimmer, editor, Two Plus Four Equals: Celebrating the Partnership of People with Disabilities and Their Assistance Dogs, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:
text: So put on your big-girl pants and own up to what you and your stupidity caused.
ref: 2011, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Retribution, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Oftentimes you're embarrassed and don't want other people to know about it. You likely feel like crap and wish you had never put yourself out there in the first place. Shake it off, my friend. It's time to pull on your big girl pants.
ref: 2015, Kelly Tonelli, Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women, Morgan James Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, page 101:
antonyms: bitchy pants
grumpy pants
scaredy pants
coordinate_terms: big-boy pants
glosses: A notional pair of trousers or underwear worn by a female when acting maturely.
Related terms: in short pants
big girl pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big-girl pants.
big boy pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big-boy pants.
Yulefest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yulefests
form: Yule-fest
form: Yule fest
Etymology: From Yule + -fest, possibly modelled after German Julfest. Compare also Dutch joelfeest, Danish julefest, Swedish julfest.
Senses: examples: text: Through June and July, the resort celebrates Yulefest and fully decorates the venue with Christmas decorations and offer special Yuletide banquets and dining.
ref: 1996, Australian Hotelier: Official National Magazine of the Australian Hotels Association, Volume 13
text: “I've never been to a Yulefest celebration, but I really would like the opportunity to celebrate the birth of Christ in a special way right now. I don't think I was quite as thankful as I should have been last Christmas.”
ref: 2012, Jennifer Ann Ryan, Good Things Come:
text: It might be June, but Yulefest was a great money spinner in the Mountains with the punters wanting a pretend White Christmas. And they might just get it. Snow was forecast and the wind was howling outside. It was going to be a cold winter.
ref: 2015, D.B. Tait, Cold Deception:
glosses: The celebration or festival of Yule; midwinter feast.
Synonyms: Christmas celebration
Christmas party
Related terms: Christmas
Octoberfest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Octoberfests
form: Oktoberfest
Etymology: From October + -fest, after German Oktoberfest.
Senses: examples: text: Even though it is not yet October, the Hingham Lutheran Church held its annual Octoberfest today, complete with a full spread of German food and beer and an authentic Umpah band ("King Ludwig's German Band").
ref: 2008, Ronald B. Schram, Caroline and Papa: Growing Up and Growing Older:
glosses: The Bavarian holiday (Oktoberfest or Wiesn), or any such holiday, celebrated in late September to early October, typically featuring German music, cuisine, and beer-drinking as prominent activities.
joydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From joy + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: All the people are in a sort of joydom over the new French Republic,' he wrote to Emerson, 'which has descended suddenly (or shall we say, ascended, alas!) out of the Immensities upon us; […]
ref: 1943, Frank Alfred Lea, Carlyle: prophet of to-day:
text: I trust he is full with joydom to be with his scholars again." Not daring to trust her voice, Vivien inclined her head.
ref: 1950, Dornford Yates, Lower Than Vermin:
text: When you thought of Chicago, you thought of the joydom called Jazz.
ref: 1991, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Muse-echo blues:
text: Your cummings joydom joydoms me. He has, as you see, that innocence & fraternity of things I love so much, that easy oneness with the world: the world in his hands is a sauntering along, a song, a gaiety as of a late spring rain […]
ref: 2005, Theodore Russell Weiss, Renée Karol Weiss, The Always Present Present: Letters, Poems:
text: The association of Chicago with "the joydom of jazz" inspires Lena to name her son after the city, yet the impulse to find a creative outlet through the music is so strong that it prompts her to abandon her child when her husband attempts to stifle her creativity and career.
ref: 2007, Robert H. Cataliotti, The Songs Became the Stories:
glosses: The state or condition of joy or of being joyful; exhilaration; enjoyment.
Soffi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.
ref: 1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: Archaic form of Safavi.
basic bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic bitches
Senses: examples: text: Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada / Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother
ref: 2011, Kreayshawn, “Gucci Gucci”, in Somethin' 'Bout Kreay:
text: The newly renovated venue is quickly becoming an alternative outlet on Davie, distancing itself from the more commercial parties on the strip – and the basic bitches who frequent them.
ref: 2014 March 12, Raziel Reid, “The Vatican approves”, in Xtra!, number 535,27, Vancouver, published 2014, page 16:
text: This isn't some sort of tirade against basic bitches who want to enjoy Valentine's Day in all its pink and read^([sic]) heart-shaped glory.
ref: 2015 February 13, Jen Pritchard, “I want a steak and a blow job”, in In The Middle, number 11, page 23:
coordinate_terms: bro
glosses: A person who likes mainstream music and fashion, or is otherwise unexceptional and uninteresting.
basic bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basic bitch
if I'm honest
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: to be honest
friendsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English frendsomnes, frendsomnesse, equivalent to friendsome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What with them not having been recentwise rescued by him, they was less inclined to friendsomeness, but once I'd related the circumstances of our meeting, they warmed up a bit.
ref: 2015, Alexis Hall, Liberty & Other Stories: A Prosperity Collection - Page 250:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being friendsome; friendliness.
Arusha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Arusha Region, in northeastern Tanzania.
daladala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daladalas
form: dala dala
form: dala-dala
Etymology: From Swahili daladala, duplicated call of dala (“5-shilling coin”), from English dollar, q.v. Compare US dollar van.
Senses: qualifier: Tanzania
glosses: Synonym of shared taxi.
synonyms: word: shared taxi
dental hygienists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental hygienist
Mephibosheth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈfɪb.əˌʃɛθ/
Forms: form: Miphiboseth
Etymology: From the Biblical Hebrew מְפִיבֹשֶׁת (Məp̄īḇṓšeṯ).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the son of Jonathan, grandson of Saul
Homeric Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: classics
glosses: a dialect of Ancient Greek used by Homer in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns consisting primarily of the Ionian and Aeolic Greek dialects
area denial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of area-denial.
non-magnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From non- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: not magnetic; Alternative form of nonmagnetic.
white devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white devils
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 洋鬼子 (yángguǐzi, “Western devil”).
Senses: glosses: A white person.
Synonyms: white person
white devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white devil
magnetisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnetise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magnetizable.
mixoglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mixo- (“mixed”) + -glossia (“tongue, language”). Compare idioglossia, macroglossia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the mixing of several languages in multilingual societies
oppertunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of opportunity.
polk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polks
form: polking
form: polked
form: polked
Senses: examples: text: "Several of the visitors then partook for a short time, with evident Parisian gusto, of the pleasures of the dance," yes--we did, and the lovely girls with whom we polked (ladies being one of the Club emollients) were eloquent in praise of our exquisite tournures which were shown to such advantage beneath our tight uniforms.
ref: 1848, Mr. Jolly Green, “The visit of the French national guards to London”, in The New Monthly Magazine:
glosses: To dance the polka.
gallore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of galore.
ecad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecads
Etymology: From eco- + -ad.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism whose form has been affected by its environment.
glosses: A non-inherited somatic modification caused by an organism's environment.
marginalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginalisation
go up for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes up for
form: going up for
form: went up for
form: gone up for
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up, for.
examples: text: the keeper went up for a caught behind
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of the fielding side, to appeal for the batsman or batswoman to be out.
Synonyms: word: appeal
word: ask the question
caught behinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caught behind
Judaise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Judaises
form: Judaising
form: Judaised
form: Judaised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Judaize.
Derived terms: Judaisation
Judaisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Judaization.
trolley jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolley jack
merchant fleets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchant fleet
tree ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree fern
ladycow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladycows
form: lady cow
Senses: examples: text: Under this name naturalists distinguish the little beetles generally called lady-birds, or ladycows.
ref: 1849, Jane Loudon, Gardening for ladies; and Companion to the flower garden:
glosses: Synonym of ladybird.
synonyms: word: ladybird
ladycows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladycow
head teachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head teacher
railway sleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railway sleeper
texed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Senses: examples: text: I texed Megan and asked her what was going on. She texed back that it was her brother and he had a crush on me so she changed places with him.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Strange, Weavers of the Crystal Domes, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: simple past and past participle of text
reserved tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reserved track
Nepalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nepali
nail punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail punch
pine needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pine needle
video cassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video cassette
Faroe Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faroe Islander
Faeroe Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faeroe Islander
steering columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steering column
pop fasteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pop fastener
expiry dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expiry date
sell-by dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sell-by date
Falkland Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Falkland Islander
raw materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raw material
spare wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spare wheel
motor trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor trade
thal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: thalassaemia
echo sounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echo sounder
daily papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daily paper
cargo ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargo ship
door closers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door closer
fire doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire door
post office boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post office box
blood transfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood transfusion
mackerel skies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackerel sky
pot plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot plant
laws of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of law of nature
passing places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing place
median lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of median line
New Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It is particularly in its vocabulary that New Persian departs from Middle Persian, in two different ways. First, New Persian contains many words which are originally foreign to Persian proper and are betrayed by their form as belonging to other, northern or eastern Iranian dialects: New Persian owes much to Parthian and to related dialects and it has also borrowed from Soghdian. Secondly, it has admitted a considerable proportion of Arabic words, a proportion which has increased with time [...]
ref: 1975, Gilbert Lazard, “The Rise of the New Persian Language,”, in Cambridge History of Iran, volume IV, page 597:
text: the earliest samples of New Persian consist of a handful of verses dating from the end of the 3rd/9th century, by which time the influx [from Arabic] had been going on for two centuries.
ref: 1986, Lawrence Paul Elwell-Sutton, “Arabic Language III”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 2, page 234:
glosses: The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is the direct precursor of Middle Persian.
Synonyms: Neo-Persian
control towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of control tower
mini diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini digger
mini excavators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini excavator
shoe stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe store
building materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of building material
crowd-pullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowd-puller
hymn books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymn book
colouring pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colouring pencil
coloured pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloured pencil
colour pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colour pencil
coloring pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloring pencil
color pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color pencil
colored pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colored pencil
tea breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea break
noun modifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noun modifier
tramsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramshed
non-academics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-academic
Cup Finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup finals
Senses: glosses: plural of Cup Final
cup finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup final
wars by proxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars by proxies
Senses: glosses: plural of war by proxy
part-finances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of part-finance
part-financing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of part-finance
part-financed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of part-finance
re-emphasises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-emphasise
re-emphasising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-emphasise
re-emphasised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-emphasise
desulphurises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desulphurise
desulphurising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desulphurise
desulphurised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desulphurise
earspool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earspools
Etymology: From ear + spool.
Senses: synonyms: plug
glosses: A short cylindrical piece of jewellery traditionally worn in an ear piercing.
earspools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earspool
desynchronises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desynchronise
desynchronising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desynchronise
sensualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sensualise
sensualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sensualise
sensualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sensualise
peripheralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peripheralise
peripheralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peripheralise
peripheralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peripheralise
Judaises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Judaise
Judaising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Judaise
Judaised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Judaise
intercuttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercutting
stovepiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stovepipe
stovepiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stovepipe
take the veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the veil
form: taking the veil
form: took the veil
form: taken the veil
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.”
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: To retire into a convent and live as a nun.
Totonac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Totonacs
form: Totonac
Etymology: From Spanish Totonaca, from Nahuatl Totonacatl.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people who resided in the eastern coastal and mountainous regions of Mexico at the time of the Spanish arrival in 1519, and who now reside in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo.
Totonac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Totonaca, from Nahuatl Totonacatl.
Senses: glosses: The language (sometimes classified as a language cluster) spoken by the Totonac.
Totonacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Totonac
joyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From joy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is no better word for it than that coined by a boy from Russia in a composition on the Spring, written after only three months' study of English. He wrote of the “joyness” of the spring.
ref: 1913, Christian Register, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Still, we must not forget those who have tolled through hardships of the winter past, those who cannot see the joyness of life and the beauty of spring because of the bitterness of sickness, [...]
ref: 2010, Troy Victor Post, The Teller of Burnham Bank:
text: All evening (with the foreknowledge of this now goading them into joyness) they had had a fine time. a viciously.
ref: 2012, James Jones, George Hendrick, From Here to Eternity: A Novel:
text: The spokesman of one KP group said to him: “Sair, there are much joyness in the hearts of the kitchen boys since you have come to be cook here.” Mailer enjoyed joking with them in Japanese, which he had learned a bit of.
ref: 2014, J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life:
glosses: The state or condition of joy; joyfulness.
Synonyms: joy
joyhood
joyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From joy + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Green grove of Clifton! though vanished our boyhood, We'll visit your glade in some fair eve of June; Yet lingers the spirit which brightened life's joyhood, […]
ref: 1853, Edward HIND, Spencer Timothy Hall, Poems:
text: Previous to his beginning to speak, the whole of that great crowd of spirits was moving about, talking, laughing, etc., but while he spoke there was a holy calm, a perfect silence resting on the scene. Joyhood ceased its laugh, the brook staid its murmur, […]
ref: 1898, John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Spiritualism:
text: Symptom five — just like the others: Oh, it's fishing time, my brothers, When the fever, all a-sudden, Makes us think of lilacs buddin', And the heart turns back to boyhood With its honeyed days of joyhood!
ref: 1911, Folger McKinsey, Songs of the Daily Life:
text: Fret not, old pal, when you are sore
At things which rob you of your joyhood.
ref: 1919, Locomotive Engineers Journal:
glosses: The quality, condition, or state of joy.
Related terms: joyness
forestallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestallments
form: forestalment
Etymology: From Middle English forstallement, equivalent to forestall + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most important objects of our Schools, is the forestallment of crime, by bringing the minds of the children under proper influences, before they have become contaminated with vice, [...]
ref: 1853, Boston (Mass.). School Committee, Report of the Annual Examination of the Public Schools:
glosses: The act or process of forestalling; a delay; hindrance; prevention; aversion.
Synonyms: determent
deterrence
preclusion
forestallments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestallment
forestalment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestalments
Etymology: From forestal + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forestallment.
forestalments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestalment
antichoir
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antichoir
form: most antichoir
Etymology: From anti- + choir.
Senses: examples: text: Because many choirs were improperly used during this period, an era of antichoir feeling developed shortly after the 1905 Hymnal was published.
ref: 1953, Microfilm Abstracts, volume 13, page 835:
text: As late as 1854, the antichoir members of an Ohio Methodist congregation heckled the choir whenever it tried to sing, hoping to "bring discredit on the singers by creating discord."
ref: 2008, BYU Studies, volume 47, page 108:
glosses: Opposing a choir.
foresnatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresnatches
form: foresnatching
form: foresnatched
form: foresnatched
Etymology: From fore- + snatch.
Senses: examples: text: Friends of the people! — glorious name, indeed, If these bestow, not you foresnatch, the meed — Your motive, not your means, the Muse admires, Whom kindred aims — congenial zeal inspires; [...]
ref: 1803, Josiah Walker, The defence of order, a poem:
text: [...] at once reach the objects of her infant admiration and draw them nearer to her eagerness, then ran with pouting lips to foresnatch her father's kisses.
ref: 1825, Mac-Erin O'Tara (pseud.), Thomas Fitz-Gerald: the Lord of Offaley:
text: Hoar Pindus, from his rocky barriers, Looks on thy ranks of gay-plumed warriors, And sees an ominous sight : The leafy tent for victory graced, Foresnatching fate with impious haste From gods that rule the fight.
ref: 1847, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
glosses: To snatch in advance.
foretaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foretaken
form: most foretaken
Etymology: From fore- + taken; or as a past participle of foretake.
Senses: glosses: Received or adopted beforehand.
foretaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fore- + taken; or as a past participle of foretake.
Senses: glosses: past participle of fortake
foretackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretackles
form: fore-tackle
Etymology: From fore- + tackle.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The tackle that attaches or hooks on to the pendant (on a masthead or foremast) for the purposes of hoisting, tautening, or securing a stay.
identical by descent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of corresponding segments of a chromosome in different individuals, identical because they were inherited from a common ancestor without crossover.
Related terms: identical by state
cap gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cap guns
form: cap-gun
Senses: glosses: A toy gun that uses small charges of shock-sensitive explosive compounds to simulate the sound and puff of smoke of a gunshot.
Coordinate terms: cap pistol
cap guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap gun
lithophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithophones
Etymology: From litho- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.
ref: 1970, Musical instruments: handbook to the Museum's collection, Horniman Museum, →OCLC, page 25:
text: A third line of evidence—the production of sound using the natural rock as lithophones—is, like the two just discussed, geographically widespread, covering all continents except perhaps Antarctica.
ref: 2018, Bruno David, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art:
hyponyms: bianqing
sounding stone
glosses: Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
examples: text: It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.
ref: 1880, Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 26, page 126:
text: Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a " lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.
ref: 1885, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 191:
text: Mr James M'Kenzie Davidson, M.B., C.M., with the assistance of Processor Alex. Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a "lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.
ref: 1885 August, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 191:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.
lithophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithophones
Senses: examples: text: A sample of lithophone, one of the zinc sulphide whites examined by the author, had the following composition: […]
ref: 1892, George Henry Hurst, Painters' Colours, Oils, and Varnishes: a Practical Manual, page 67:
text: Orison B. Smith testified that he was familiar with lithophone; that it was known to trade as sulfid of zinc white and white sulphide of zinc; that it is zinc and barytes burnt together in a furnace, the barytes acting as a base for the zinc, which becomes sulphide of zinc; that the sulphide of zinc, commercially, would consist of a large portion of barytes and a large portion of sulphide of zinc and possibly a little oxide; that he recognized lithophone as one of the species of sulphides of zinc known to commerce.
ref: 1901, Treasury Decisions, volume 3, page 34:
text: Lithophone (ZnS.BaSO₄) under the action of light did not respond as rapidly as expected. Lithophone is well known to turn grey or even black on exposure to intense light, and later this dark color may turn to pure white in the absence of light or even in subdued light.
ref: 1915 September, Chemical Age, volume 22, page 118:
text: Lithophone, however, is not as well known a pigment and a full discussion of its properties and characteristics may prove of interest and profit. The discovery of lithophone is credited to Orr, an Englishman, in 1874.
ref: 1918, Railway Engineering and Maintenance, volume 14, page 25:
text: The term pigment was originally used to denote inorganic materials which imparted colour to the paint such as white lead, titanium oxide, lithophone, zinc oxide and zinc sulphide for white paints, ultramarine for blue, red lead and iron oxides for red […]
ref: 1969, ʼAdis ʼAbabā negd meker bét, Small-scale industries in Africa, →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of lithopone.
misandryist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1999, M's Frost, TYGER: "Dennis With An 'E'" (Mf ped) AIM=555 Group: alt.sex.stories.d
belligrent and as would be expected by a misandryist.
2003, Diedrich Cole, removing shoes again Group: alt.fan.miss-manners
"Any man's my man if I want it that way." -- Joan Crawford, as the wicked, duplicitous, scheming, misandryist, egocentric egomaniac Eva Phillips, in 'Queen Bee'.
2009, whitevamp, Ken covers his misspelling Group: soc.men
... pissant to be sexually attractive, I'm a misandryist. Boy, talk about narcissism!
glosses: Misspelling of misandrist.
unfreedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfreedom
NAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NAEs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of N-acyl-ethanolamine.
Related terms: N-acyl
N-
acyl
ethanolamine
ethane
-ol
ethanol
amine
-amine
NAEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NAE
NAPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NAPEs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of N-acyl-phosphatidylethanolamine.
Related terms: N-acyl
N-
acyl
phosphatidylethanolamine
phosphate
phosphatide
-ide
phosphatidyl
-yl
ethanolamine
ethane
ethanol
-ol
amine
-amine
NAPEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NAPE
gonihedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gonio- + ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “seat; face of a regular solid”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: of or pertaining to the generalization of the Feynman path integral to an integral over random surfaces
N-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Abbreviation of nitrogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the functional group that carries this prefix is attached to a nitrogen atom on the parent molecular segment
Derived terms: N-tert-butyl-
Related terms: english: nitrogen
translation: nitrogen
word: N
word: n-
defence mechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defence mechanisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of defense mechanism.
sec-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Abbreviation of secondary.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: secondary-form of a functional group, a branched functional group
Synonyms: word: s-
Coordinate terms: tert-
iso-
Derived terms: word: s-
teary-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teary-eyed
form: most teary-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having tears in one's eyes, as if from crying.