cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wainscotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪŋ/
Forms: form: wainscottings
form: wainscoting
Etymology: From wainscot + -ing. Attested since at least the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: The giggles got louder and ran around the corners of the room like rats behind the wainscotting.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
Synonyms: word: wainscot
wainscotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪŋ/
Forms: form: wainscoting
Etymology: From wainscot + -ing. Attested since at least the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wainscot
walkway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːkˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈwɔkˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈwɑkˌweɪ/
Forms: form: walkways
Etymology: From walk + way.
Senses: examples: text: The slope [at Bank station, Waterloo & City] was always resented, especially on Monday morning, and it was supplemented by the installation of the Underground's first Trav-o-lator - or moving walkway - in 1960.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
text: SDCC is crowded enough without a few hundred more chuds in rascal scooters cutting in line and taking up space on the public walkways because they heard the cast of The Big Bang Theory was going to be here or something.
ref: 2014 July 28, Jeremy Azevedo, “Actually, Comic-Con Is Fucking Awesome”, in Vice:
text: Walkways and handrails were also upgraded during the work, to improve safety for maintenance staff.
ref: 2020 July 15, “Network News: £2 million repairs complete at Eskmeals viaduct”, in Rail, page 22:
text: The funding will allow state and city officials to devise a community-driven plan to cap parts of the 6.5-mile expressway with structures that could reduce traffic noise and contain green space, pedestrian walkways and air filtration systems.
ref: 2021 November 30, Aliya Uteuova, “The plan to transform one of New York City’s dirtiest freeways into green space”, in The Guardian:
text: For now, the walkway will remain bare, although there are plans for it to be used to exhibit art and relics.
ref: 2024 December 20, Angela Giuffrida, “Corridor of power: the Medicis’ cross-river Florence walkway opens to public”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A clearly defined path for pedestrians.
Derived terms: front walkway
moving walkway
flag-bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag-bearers
form: flagbearer
form: flag bearer
Etymology: From flag + bearer.
Senses: examples: text: Abramenko, a top aerialist in freestyle skiing, a five-time Olympian and the country’s flag-bearer for the opening ceremony, garnered more attention after the event, when a photograph of his hug with a Russian rival was widely circulated.
ref: 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: flag carrier
standard-bearer
glosses: One who carries a flag, especially at a ceremony.
examples: text: The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, has been a flag-bearer for “open journalism”, which invites input from readers.
ref: 2012 September 22, “The Guardian's future: unguarded”, in The Economist:
synonyms: flag carrier
standard-bearer
glosses: One who openly promotes an idea or value and becomes symbolic for it.
weirdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weirdnesses
Etymology: From weird + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being weird.
glosses: The result or product of being weird.
Synonyms: abnormality
eeriness
queerness
eccentricity
peculiarity
unearthliness
paranormal
Derived terms: uantum weirdness
loris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈlɔɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪs
Forms: form: lorises
Etymology: From French loris, reportedly from obsolete Dutch loeris (“simpleton”).
Senses: examples: text: If the stairs allow such room for thought it’s because Trudy is taking them at the pace of the slowest loris.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 135:
glosses: Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the subfamily Lorisinae, found in India and southeast Asia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Loris spp.
word: slender loris
taxonomic: Nycticebus spp.
word: slow loris
Related terms: angwantibo
potto
Laurence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒ.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈlɔɹəns/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹəns/
rhymes: -ɒɹəns
Forms: form: Laurences
form: Lawrence
Etymology: From the name of a third century Roman martyr, Latin Laurentius, "a person from Laurentum", the place name possibly derived from laurus (“laurel”) .
Senses: examples: text: Romeo: Bid her devise / Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; / And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell / Be shriv'd and married.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: "I will do any thing, however impossible, if you will only not call me Mr Hervey. Why am I not Laurence to you - Miss Vivian calls me Laurence - I am Laurence to every one but you - let me hear you call me Laurence," in an earnest manner.
ref: 1835, Mary Shelley, Lodore, Wallis&Newell, published 1835, page 30:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Lauren.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: sense: feminine forms
word: Lauren
sense: feminine forms
word: Laura
sense: pet forms
word: Larry
sense: pet forms
word: Laurie
sense: pet forms
word: Lawrie
sense: pet forms
word: Lol
word: Laurie
word: Lourie
word: Loury
word: Lowrie
word: Lowry
word: Lars
word: Loren
word: Lorenzo
word: Laura and its variants
ventilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventilator
graininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graininesses
Etymology: From grainy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being grainy; granularity
ichnocoenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnocoenoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichnocoenosis.
jewel bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel bearings
Senses: glosses: A bearing used in watches, gyroscopes and other instruments, normally made of a synthetic corundum.
Samuelson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Samuel + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English and Ashkenazic Jewish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Samuel.
Derived terms: Balassa-Samuelson effect
Related terms: Samuelsen
Samuelsson
Landry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Landrys
Etymology: French, from the Germanic land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), + ric, from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“mighty”).
Cognate to the Spanish given name Landerico, Landrigo.
Senses: examples: text: It will have the capacity to house over 400 men, Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry said at a press conference Wednesday, half of whom will be sent there by the end of September.
ref: 2025 September 3, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, “Trump administration to open new ICE facility at notorious Louisiana prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A commune in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Donnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒni/
homophone: Donny
rhymes: -ɒni
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Don, Donald, Donovan, or Adonis.
glosses: Doncaster
Johne's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For Dr. H. A. Johne, German pathologist
Senses: glosses: A chronic, contagious and often fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by the intestinal bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract
Synonyms: paratuberculosis
Aimée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Forms: form: Aimées
form: Aimee
form: Amy
form: Amey
form: Amie
form: Amee
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Aimée (“beloved”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
hypothecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothecations
Etymology: From hypothecate + -ion. From Latin hypothecatio, from hypotheco (“I pledge as collateral”), from Greek.
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: The use of property, or an existing mortgage, as security for a loan, etc.
examples: text: It is, however, precisely here that the weakness of hypothecation lies, for governments are not likely readily to surrender control over the disposition of taxes they impose.
ref: 1984, John R. Butler, Michael S. B. Vaile, Health and Health Services: An Introduction to Health Care in Britain, →ISBN, page 68:
text: So, strict hypothecation is only advisable when the tax pays entirely and only for that spending programme […]
ref: 2006, Dominic Maxwell, “Towards a citizen's inheritance”, in The Citizen's Stake, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Either way, effectively the government is simply using the hypothecated tax as part of general revenue, and the hypothecation is a sham.
ref: 2006, Julian Le Grand, Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Local authorities have linked the scheme to broader climate ambitions. Indeed, some of the funding for the stations has come from hypothecation of monies received through Birmingham's Clean Air Zone charges.
ref: 2025 October 1, Peter Plisner, “Closing in on Camp Hill reopening”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 46:
glosses: A tax levied for a specific expenditure.
Derived terms: rehypothecation
Related terms: word: hypothecate
word: in hock
word: secured debt
word: secured loan
word: securitization
for good
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: fər go͝od′
enpr: fôr′-
ipa: /fə ˈɡʊd/
ipa: /ˌfɔːɹ-/
ipa: /fəɹ ˈɡʊd/
ipa: /ˌfoɹ-/
ipa: /fə ˈɡʊd/
ipa: /ˌfoːɹ-/
ipa: /fɐ ˈɡʊd/
ipa: /fa ˈɡʊd/
ipa: /fəɹ ˈɡʉd/
ipa: /ˌfoɹ-/
ipa: /fəʳ ˈɡʊɖ/
ipa: /ˌfoːɾ-/
Forms: form: for good and all
Etymology: From for (“over (a period of time)”, preposition) + good (“of an action: complete, thorough, utter”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: A bad haircut is no fun, but at least you’re not stuck with it for good, only until it grows out.
text: This day I left Chelsea for good (that's a genteel phrase) and am got into Suffolk street.
ref: 1711 July 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XXVI.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 85:
text: [S]he was dozing in the elbovv-chair, having refuſed to lie dovvn, ſaying, She ſhould ſoon, ſhe hoped, lie dovvn for good.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LIII. Mr. Belford, to Robert Lovelace, Esq.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 200:
text: Well, now, I'm no scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure; and, to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead for good, or do he come alive again?
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Israel Hands”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 207:
text: What I want is to get out of this fix, for good—so I can go to sleep at night without worrying over what's going to happen to me tomorrow, and next month, and next year.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XXXII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 540:
text: Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
ref: 1971 March 19, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Famous Blue Raincoat”, in Songs of Love and Hate, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC; lyrics republished in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, 1993, →ISBN, page 153:
text: Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it / I just want you back for good
ref: 1995, Gary Barlow, “Back for Good”, in Nobody Else, performed by Take That:
text: He […] unbuttons the bottom of his jacket so the rumors can be dispelled for good: he no longer wears his double belts.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, book 3:
synonyms: definitively
forever
for good and all
once and for all
permanently
glosses: In a way that is conclusive and final.
Related terms: for better or worse
till death do us part
Musa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːsə/
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), Persian موسی (Musâ), and Turkish Musa; ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. Doublet of Moses.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Moses.
Related terms: Moses
Moussa
Mussa
Gebel Musa
Jabal Musa
Jebel Musa
Donaher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish, Alternative spelling of Danaher.
quantifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑn.tɪ.faɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.tə.faɪ.ɚ/
Forms: form: quantifiers
Etymology: From quantify + -er.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.
Synonyms: word: quantifier
Hypernyms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: determiner
Derived terms: existential quantifier
quant
quantifier elimination
self-quantifier
universal quantifier
Related terms: word: quantification
word: quantify
word: quantity
word: number
word: calculus
word: frequency
word: commonness
word: size
word: each and every
word: every single
word: every last
word: all
word: every
word: each
word: all but one
word: nearly all
word: almost all
word: most
word: more than half of
word: the majority of
word: a great many
word: many
word: several
word: some
word: few
word: multiple
word: hardly any
word: almost no
word: no
word: none
word: transfinitely many
word: infinitely many
word: finitely many
word: a lot of
word: the better part of
word: the greater part of
word: a great deal of
word: much
word: ∀
word: ∃
word: zero
word: one
word: two
word: three
word: four
word: five
word: innumerable
word: zillion
word: full
word: non-empty
word: empty
word: complete
word: incomplete
word: by everyone
word: universally
word: generally
word: widely
word: commonly
word: usually
word: by many people
word: sometimes
word: by some people
word: by no one
word: never
word: everyone
word: everybody
word: nearly everyone
word: the majority of people
word: most people
word: many people
word: some people
word: hardly anyone
word: almost no one
word: no one
word: nobody
word: everywhere
word: almost everywhere
word: at most places
word: at many places
word: at some places
word: at few places
word: almost nowhere
word: hardly anywhere
word: nowhere
word: everything
word: nearly everything
word: most things
word: many things
word: few things
word: some things
word: hardly anything
word: almost nothing
word: nothing
word: overwhelming majority
word: vast majority
word: great majority
word: large majority
word: majority
word: plain majority
word: large minority
word: substantial minority
word: minority
word: small minority
word: tiny minority
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 4. Unsubstantiality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 78. Generality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 100. Plurality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 101. Zero
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 102. Multitude
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 103. Fewness
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 105. Infinity
memetic engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of developing memes, through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of altering the behavior of others in society or humanity.
glosses: The process of creating and developing theories or ideologies based on an analytical study of societies, cultures, their ways of thinking and the evolution of their minds.
memes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meme
jojoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈhəʊbə/
ipa: /həʊˈhəʊbə/
ipa: /hoʊˈhoʊbə/
ipa: /həˈhoʊbə/
enpr: hō-hōʹbə
enpr: hə-hōʹbə
Forms: form: jojobas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish jojoba, from O'odham hohowai.
Senses: examples: text: The ground was bad – rocky and hard. That was why we used it for jojoba plants. The plants are tough. They donʼt need much.
ref: 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 195:
glosses: Any of species Simmondsia chinensis of shrubs native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico, the only plant known to store liquid wax in its seed.
Synonyms: sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: goat nut
sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: deer nut
sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: pignut
sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: wild hazel
sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: quinine nut, coffeeberry
sense: Simmondsia chinensis
word: gray box bush
Derived terms: jojoba ester
jojoba oil
Related terms: jujube
syboe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syboes
Senses: glosses: A spring onion or green onion.
syboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syboe
Josephson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The zero-voltage current of paired electrons through a weak connection between superconductors.
wikipedia: Brian David Josephson
Related terms: Josephson junction
Cooper pair
pepsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepsis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pepsi (“person from Quebec”).
blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blocker
Josephson junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Josephson junctions
Etymology: After Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A weak insulating barrier between two superconductors, used as an ultrafast switch.
wikipedia: Brian David Josephson
Related terms: Josephson effect
blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blockers
Senses: examples: text: Forced to substitute a ‘blocker’ of meat, with its cheap accompaniment of bread and vegetables..for poultry and rump-steaks.
ref: 1848 April 24, Fraser's Magazine, volume 396, number 2:
glosses: Synonym of block ornament (“a cheap piece of meat of poor quality”).
synonyms: word: block ornament
extra: a cheap piece of meat of poor quality
Cooper pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooper pairs
Etymology: Named after American physicist Leon Neil Cooper.
Senses: examples: text: The fundamental requirement for superconductivity is the existence of Cooper pairs.
ref: 1991, Werner Buckel, Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, page 42:
text: This is because a superconducting state is composed of extended Cooper pairs. A coherence length, #92;xi, describes the extension length of a Cooper pair over which the two quasiparticles remain bound as a pair.
ref: 2000, Lynne Marie Merchant, Variation of the Superconductor Order Parameter in Quench-condensed Granular Films, University of California, page 8:
text: This is a direct macroscopic manifestation of the presence of a condensate of Cooper pairs in a superconductor.
ref: 2004, Ludovic Pricoupenko, Hélène Perrin, Maxim Olshanii, Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions, EDP Sciences, page 173:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: BCS pair
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pair
glosses: A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
wikipedia: Leon Neil Cooper
Joule's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From James Prescott Joule, English physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantitative relationship between the quantity of heat produced in a conductor and the electric current flowing through it.
wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
junction detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junction detectors
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device in which the detection of radiation takes place at the depletion junction of a reverse-biased semiconductor junction.
woad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊd/
ipa: /woʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: woads
Etymology: From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.
Senses: examples: text: Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo.
ref: 1840, Francis S. Wiggins, The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist, page 185:
text: Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops.
ref: 1997, Joan Thirsk, Alternative Agriculture: A History, page 80:
text: The cultivation of woad had taken hold in southern England during the early 1580s, but this dispute provides the earliest evidence of its cultivation in the fields around Tewkesbury.
ref: 1998, Daniel C. Beaver, Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690, page 32:
glosses: The plant Isatis tinctoria.
examples: text: To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Gaſcony and Guienne, or woads of Tholouſe, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ſubjects; and that all ſuch wines and woads imported in foreign bottoms ſhould be forfeited.
ref: 1814, Robert Henry, The History of Great Britain, 5th edition, volume XII, page 309:
text: But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad.
ref: 1856, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture, page 462:
text: Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.
ref: 1983, E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance, page 360:
text: For example, woad, a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria, was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo.
ref: 2007, Richard L. Myers, The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide, page 152:
glosses: The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.
Synonyms: sense: the plant
word: glastum
sense: the plant
word: Isatis tinctoria
sense: the blue dye
word: indigo
sense: the blue dye
word: indigotin
Derived terms: dyer's woad
woaden
woader
woad-waxen
woad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊd/
ipa: /woʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: woads
form: woading
form: woaded
form: woaded
Etymology: From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.
Senses: examples: text: Now as the tenants after woading, pay the ſame rent as before, one cannot wonder at landlords making use of such an easy method to raise money: but it is the tenants that quarrel most at it; they assert the land to be 7 sg. an acre the worse for it; here then lies the enquiry.
ref: 1771, Arthur Young, The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, page 59:
text: Such land was usually woaded for two, three or four years and then corned,[…].
ref: 1968, Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution, page 209:
text: He planted woad on it, and engaged a person from the north to manage it; and the produce was so abundant as to afford immense profit. I believe he only woaded two years, and then let it.
ref: 1812, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1811, page 517:
glosses: To plant or cultivate woad.
examples: text: All woollen goods truly mathered, ſhall be marked with a red roſe, and a blue roſe, and all ſuch truly woaded throughout, with a blue roſe only; and if any perſon shall affix any ſuch mark falsely, he ſhall forfeit, for every piece ſo marked 4l. (ſee under).
ref: 1777, George Clark, The Penal Statutes Abridged, and Alphabetically Arranged, page 111:
text: Againſt a dyer for woading his cloth only to the third ſtall (whereas the custom of dyers was to woad it to the fourth ſtall) and then marking it with the company's seal as if it had been woaded to the fourth ſtall; he was found guilty of woading it only to the third ſtall, and not of ſetting ſuch mark to it, for which reaſon the court was of opinion no judgement ought to be againſt the defendant.
ref: 1793, Charles Viner, A General Abridgment of Law and Equity, volume 14, page 409:
text: This wool, when scowered, weighed 50 lbs.; when woaded blue, and picked, 48 lbs.
ref: 1809, Charles Henry Hunt, A Practical Treatise on the Merino and Anglo-Merino Breeds of Sheep, page 64:
glosses: To dye with woad.
Derived terms: woader
woadster
X-Acto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trademark, 1920s, presumably from exact.
Senses: glosses: A utility knife, usually with a short, sharp, disposable blade mounted on a pen-like body, usually for crafts and hobbies; an X-Acto knife.
monkey around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monkeys around
form: monkeying around
form: monkeyed around
form: monkeyed around
Senses: examples: text: I wanna be a man, mancub / And stroll right into town / And be just like the other men / I'm tired of monkeyin' around!
ref: 1967, Robert Bernard Sherman, Richard Morton Sherman, “I Wan’na Be like You (The Monkey Song)”, in The Jungle Book, performed by Louis Prima and Phil Harris:
synonyms: monkey about
glosses: To act foolishly.
Related terms: barrel of monkeys
monkeyshine
monkey up
mandrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.dɹɪl/
homophone: mandril
Forms: form: mandrills
Etymology: From man + drill (“Mandrillus leucophaeus”).
Senses: examples: text: For the Mandrills live in society, and their bands are so powerful in point of numbers, and so crafty in point of management, that they are about as formidable neighbours as could be imagined.
ref: 1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia, George Routledge and Sons, page 76:
text: In both mandrills and drills, males have long muzzles with pronounced maxillary ridges and long tooth rows. Like baboons, mandrills and drills have forelimbs and hindlimbs of nearly equal length.
ref: 1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200:
text: Mandrills occur in Gabon, Congo, Rio Muni and in Cameroon, to the south of the Sanaga River.
ref: 2003, Alan Dixson, Nancy Harvey, Marilyn Patton, Joanna Setchell, “2: Behaviour and reproduction”, in William V. Holt, Amanda R. Pickard, John C. Rodger, David E. Wildt, editors, Reproductive Science and Integrated Conservation, Cambridge University Press, page 26:
glosses: A primate, Mandrillus sphinx, with a colorful face and rump.
gelada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəˈlɑːdə/
Forms: form: geladas
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ጭላዳ (č̣əlada).
Senses: glosses: Any of species Theropithecus gelada of Old World monkeys, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests.
Synonyms: bleeding-heart monkey
gray langur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray langurs
Senses: glosses: An Old World monkey endemic to the Indian subcontinent of the genus Semnopithecus, gray in color, with a black face.
Synonyms: Hanuman langur
douc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːk/
Forms: form: doucs
Etymology: Borrowed from Muong dộc, probably via French.
Senses: glosses: A colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
Derived terms: red-shanked douc
lutung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutungs
form: lotong
form: lutong
Etymology: From Malay.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of Old World monkeys, making up the genus Trachypithecus, with a rather slim build and a long tail
impish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɪʃ/
Forms: form: more impish
form: most impish
Etymology: From imp + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.
ref: 1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in A Story of the Stone Age, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2012:
text: But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.
ref: 1942, Virginia Woolf, chapter 20, in The Death of the Moth, and other essays, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2011:
text: As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.
ref: 2023 October 13, Brian Logan, “‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
Synonyms: sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: implike
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: mischievous
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: pixilated
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: prankish
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: puckish
Derived terms: impishly
impishness
surili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surilis
Etymology: From Indonesian surili, from Sundanese surili.
Senses: glosses: A small Old World monkey of the genus Presbytis, unlike other langurs in having bulges above the eyes.
Related terms: leaf monkey
grivet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grivets
Etymology: From French grivet.
Senses: glosses: An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.
Diagnostic Drawing Series
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) was developed in 1982 by art therapists (Mills, Cohen, & Meneses, 1993).
Senses: glosses: A standardized art therapy assessment in which the artist/patient is asked to draw three pictures.
glosses: An international collaborative project on how people tend to draw.
visioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visioners
Etymology: From vision + -er.
Senses: glosses: A visionary, one who has visions.
topics: business
hyponyms: visualizer
glosses: One who converts a vision (such as idea or concept) into a visual image, e.g. a storyboard, animation, movie footage.
Related terms: visionary
visualizer
implike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmp.laɪk/
Forms: form: more implike
form: most implike
Etymology: From imp + -like.
Senses: glosses: Possessing the qualities or appearances of an imp.
Synonyms: sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: impish
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: mischievous
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: pixilated
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: prankish
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: puckish
prankish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prankish
form: most prankish
Etymology: From prank + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Given to or characterized by impishness or playfulness; mischievous.
Synonyms: sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: impish
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: mischievous
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: pixilated
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: implike
sense: naughtily or annoyingly playful
word: puckish
Derived terms: prankishly
prankishness
churchyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.jɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ.jɑːd/
Forms: form: churchyards
form: church-yard
Etymology: From Middle English churchyard, chirch-ȝerd, chircheȝerd (also kirk-ȝerd, kirkeyard > English kirkyard), equivalent to church + yard. Compare also Middle English kurk-garth, kyrkgarth, kirrkegærd, from Old Norse kirkjugarðr (“churchyard; graveyard”). Replaced Middle English chirchetoun from Old English ċirictūn (churchtown).
Senses: examples: text: They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard. This recorded the death of a woman who lived to be 70 with the comment 'Her time was short'. Shaw thought that a place that considered a life of 70 years short was the right place for him.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 44:
glosses: A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
Synonyms: sense: graveyard
word: cemetery
word: kirkyard
Derived terms: churchyard cough
pixie dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fairy dust.
synonyms: word: fairy dust
M&M
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: M&M's
form: M&Ms
Etymology: Trade name, from the initials of the surnames of Forrest E. Mars Sr. and Bruce Murrie; introduced in the 1940s.
Senses: glosses: A small milk chocolate candy piece with an artificially colored sugar coating, produced by Mars Incorporated.
Derived terms: Fem&M's
M&M
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: M&M meeting
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of morbidity and mortality.
abasiophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abasia (“inability to walk”) + -philia.
Senses: glosses: An overpowering sexual attraction to people who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg-braces, spinal braces, plaster or fibreglass orthopedic casts, or wheelchairs.
Jedi Master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jedi Masters
Etymology: The highest of orders in the Jedi Order of the Star Wars universe, similar to a bishop.
Senses: glosses: Respectful term of address for an expert in a particular field.
wikipedia: Star Wars
colonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-lŏn′ĭk
ipa: /kəˈlɒn.ɪk/
note: Received Pronunciation, older
ipa: /kəˈlɔːn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɔn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɒn.ək/
ipa: /koˈlɔn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From colon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, affecting, or within the colon.
Derived terms: cholecystocolonic
colonic cocktail
colonic transit time
extracolonic
gastrocolonic
ileocolonic
intracolonic
mesocolonic
nephrocolonic
noncolonic
pancolonic
pericolonic
rectocolonic
colonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-lŏn′ĭk
ipa: /kəˈlɒn.ɪk/
note: Received Pronunciation, older
ipa: /kəˈlɔːn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɔn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kəˈlɒn.ək/
ipa: /koˈlɔn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: colonics
Etymology: From colon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Different forms of colonics have been used through the ages for therapeutic purposes, ranging from detoxifying and system cleansing to treatments of chronic headaches, back pain, allergies, and addictions.
ref: 2016, Gilles Marin, Healing from Within with Chi Nei Tsang:
glosses: An enema.
glosses: Synonym of colon cleansing (removal of nonspecific toxins from the colon and intestinal tract considered pseudomedicine)
synonyms: word: colon cleansing
extra: removal of nonspecific toxins from the colon and intestinal tract considered pseudomedicine
colicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colicines
form: colicin
Senses: glosses: Any of various antibiotics produced naturally by bacteria such as Escherichia coli.
Related terms: bacteriocin
pushknee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushknees
Etymology: From push + knee.
Senses: examples: text: The deckhand had to climb the pushknee to get onto the empty barge.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A triangular steel structure incorporated into or attached to the bow of a pushboat, allowing the boat to face up to a barge which is higher than the deck of the pushboat.
junction diode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junction diodes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A semiconductor rectifying device in which the barrier between the two regions of opposite conductivity (n-type and p-type) type produces the rectification. All solar cells are junction diodes.
n-type
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (Of a semiconductor) in which conduction is due to the movement of electrons rather than positive holes.
n-type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n-types
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of formulas that have n free variables of a certain sort
Related terms: p-type
p-type
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If we lower the potential of the p-type region then we steepen the step and make it even harder for the electrons and holes to flow across the junction.
ref: 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 168:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (Of a semiconductor) in which conduction is due to the movement of positive holes rather than electrons.
Related terms: n-type
junction transistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junction transistors
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A transistor in which the emitter and collector barriers are formed by p-n junctions between semiconductor regions of opposite conductivity type.
p-n junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-n junctions
Senses: examples: text: In this way a pn-junction can be used as a diode – it can allow a current to flow, but only in one direction.
ref: 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 168:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interface between a p-type and n-type semiconductor; used to create junction diodes and junction transistors
aerokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A telekinetic ability to control the movement of air.
Related terms: aerokinetic
Israël
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In non-native speakers’ English: borrowed from Dutch Israël or French Israël.
Senses: examples: text: I Say then: Hath God reiected his people? God forbid, for I alſo am an Iſraëlite, of the ſeede of Abraham, of the tribe of Ben-iamin. † God hath not reiected his people vvhich he foreknevve. Or knovv you not in Elias vvhat the Scripture ſaith: hovv he requeſteth God againſt Iſraël?
ref: 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Romanes 11:1–2, page 409:
text: hi there, i will be going to israël very shorlty, and i'd like to go visit a few sites and communes where they apply ecological philosophy and permaculture.....
ref: 1999 May 20, salmieri, “ecology-community things to do in israël???”, in rec.travel.misc (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022:
text: Cor, my husband, and I are going to Israël at the end of next month.
ref: 2003 August 25, Fam van Delft, “Israël”, in alt.religion.christian.home-church (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022:
text: If it is 200 jews leaving France per day, they would be all gone to Israël in 9 years (2013)
ref: 2004 July 29, kodok, “200 French Jews Rescued From Jew-Hating France!!!”, in alt.france (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022:
glosses: Obsolete and non-native speakers' English spelling of Israel.
golf ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf balls
Senses: glosses: A small, usually white ball that is designed for use in the game of golf.
glosses: A typeball.
Derived terms: golf ball coral
rocking chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocking chairs
form: rocking-chair
Etymology: From rocking + chair.
Senses: glosses: A chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked (swung) back and forth.
Derived terms: nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
rocking-chair money
Related terms: rocking horse
rocking stool
hobby horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobby horses
form: hobbyhorse
form: hobby-horse
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: The Irish hobby, an extinct breed of horse.
glosses: A child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick.
examples: text: Don't ask him about global warming: it's his favourite hobby horse, you'll never get away.
text: The squire was now on his hobby-horse, as we say; he had placed the old worn fur cap by his side on the sofa, leaving his bald head and grey hairs exposed.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:
glosses: A topic about which someone loves to talk at great length.
glosses: A puppet-like costume used in some traditional dances and festivals that gives its wearer the appearance of a man on horseback.
examples: text: British users rechristened the baron's invention the hobby horse then the dandy horse, because draisines became very fashionable with Regency gentlemen.
ref: 2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: dandy horse
draisienne
glosses: An early bicycle with no pedals or brakes.
Derived terms: hobby-horsey
hobbyhorsical
'Obby 'Oss
hobby horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hobby horses
form: hobby horsing
form: hobby horsed
form: hobby horsed
form: hobbyhorse
form: hobby-horse
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to pitch back and forth
Related terms: rocking horse
fishtank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishtanks
Etymology: From fish + tank.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fish tank.
kabillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabillions
Etymology: See + -illion. Possibly influenced by Arabic kabīr = "big".
Senses: examples: text: "I want to bottle up this feeling," she told him, awed by its strength. Sexual chemistry, who knew? "We could market it and make a kabillion dollars."
 "A kabillion is a lot," he murmured, then turned his attention to her left ear. Goose bumps sprinted across every inch of her skin as his tongue feathered over the rim to tickle the lobe. "A kabillion-ten," she corrected herself. "In the first year."
ref: 2007, Christie Ridgway, His Forbidden Fiancee:
text: Now, remember we are one in a kabillion frequencies times a kabillion more. God can see them all at once and causes it to move at will. By the way, I made up the word "kabillion." It just sounds really big and should be a word anyway. You can make up how many zeros that should be.
ref: 2022, Wiley Backlash, The Last Gold Ring: A Saga-Initial Offering A Beginning:
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
smoke detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke detectors
form: smoke-detector
Senses: synonyms: word: ceiling bird
word: smoke alarm
glosses: A device that sounds an alarm when it detects smoke or other evidence of a fire.
umptillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umptillions
Etymology: From umpty + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: The cosmos is stranger than I can know: full of change, full of beauty. The rich tapestry of interlocking fields and forces weaves umptillion configurations, and every one is beautiful.
ref: 2010, Lou Anders, Fast Forward 2:
text: "Sarah tells me you work for a magazine." Rufus studied the living room while my mother studied him. "Why, that must be it, right there?" There were umptillion copies of Her strewn not so casually across the glass face of the coffee table by our couch, so it was hard to tell which one Baylor pointed to.
ref: 2017, Louise Hawes, The Language of Stars:
glosses: An extremely large, unspecified number.
race car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race cars
form: racecar
Senses: glosses: A car designed for use on racetracks in motor racing events.
soccer ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer balls
form: soccerball
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A ball that is designed for use in the sport of soccer; a football.
velocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velocity
mountain range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain ranges
Etymology: From mountain + range.
Senses: examples: text: For the first 60 miles from Padang Besar, the railway passes through a succession of rice fields, with villages at regular intervals, but then crosses a jungle-clad mountain range to reach the west coast.
ref: 1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
Synonyms: word: Note: Names of mountain ranges often simply use the plural of a name for an individual mountain: alps
word: highlands
word: hills
word: mountains
word: etc. See Thesaurus:mountain. Also
word: in informal usage that part is often omitted entirely
word: and the first part pluralized: the Rocky Mountains can be called the Rockies.
word: mountain chain
word: mountain range
word: range
Hypernyms: word: landform
Hyponyms: word: sierra
Meronyms: word: mountain
Related terms: word: mountain chain
word: :Category:en:Mountains
pepper shaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛpə(ɹ)ˌʃeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pepper shakers
form: peppershaker
Senses: glosses: A small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.
Synonyms: pepperette
pepper pot
Related terms: salt shaker
pepper mill