cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
electioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɪˌlɛk.ʃənˈɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: electioneers
form: electioneering
form: electioneered
form: electioneered
Etymology: From election + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To campaign for an elective office, on one's own behalf, or on behalf of another, particularly by direct contact.
Derived terms: electioneerer
emigre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/
Forms: form: emigres
form: émigré
form: emigré
Etymology: From French émigré.
Senses: examples: text: Between the wars, Paris was the center for all the world's emigres.
glosses: One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.
glosses: An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another.
emphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emphasis
encephalitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From encephalitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
Derived terms: nonencephalitic
postencephalitic
engorged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engorge
engorged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engorged
form: most engorged
Senses: glosses: Overly filled with fluid; used especially of blood vessels.
Derived terms: unengorged
engorgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engorgements
Etymology: From engorge + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of swallowing greedily.
examples: text: However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
ref: 2024, Jennifer Davidson, Beth Shepherd, Sunderarajan Jayaraman, Practice Long Cases for the Part B Final FRCR Examination:
glosses: The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
glowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊd/
ipa: /ɡloʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glow
frowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frown
hauled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haul
engagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engagement
sawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: sod (cot–caught merger)
homophone: sword (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saw
sawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: sod (cot–caught merger)
homophone: sword (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, yes, el Pero! that was himself!" cried the captain; "I sawed him at the ale-house at Penzance with my own eye."
ref: 1903, Darnley: Or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold:
glosses: simple past of see
glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlændz/
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: plural of gland
proposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊzəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of proposal
purchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purchasers
Etymology: From purchase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
glosses: One who purchases.
Synonyms: word: buyer
word: customer
word: patron
word: client
word: emptor
word: procurer
word: punter
word: purchaser
word: sellee
word: vendee
Hypernyms: word: recipient
Hyponyms: word: prostitute's client
word: regular
Derived terms: straw purchaser
Related terms: word: buy
handing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand
handing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: handings
Senses: examples: text: Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued […]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: The act by which something is handed to somebody.
Related terms: glad-handing
expects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expect
creeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: plural of creep
creeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Forms: form: the creeps
Senses: glosses: A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
examples: text: I get the creeps walking down that street, even in broad daylight.
text: Padilla added that while the tarantulas may give some the creeps, they munch on things that humans often consider pests, including cockroaches, beetles and other insects.
ref: 2019 August 9, Dylan Miettinen, “Is that love in the air? Thousands of tarantulas to descend on southeast Colorado in search of mates”, in CNN:
glosses: A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
Synonyms: sense: anxiety
word: dithers
sense: anxiety
word: heebie-jeebies
sense: anxiety
word: willies
sense: anxiety
word: collywobbles
sense: anxiety
word: wiggins
sense: anxiety
word: fear
Derived terms: give someone the creeps
creeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creep
feathery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i/
Forms: form: featherier
form: more feathery
form: featheriest
form: most feathery
Etymology: From feather + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling feathers.
glosses: Covered with feathers.
Derived terms: featherily
featheriness
feathery false lily of the valley
feathery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i/
Forms: form: featheries
Etymology: From feather + -y.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: avian
glosses: Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics.
catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch
catches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch
beckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛkənd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beckon
navigational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From navigation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to navigation.
Derived terms: aeronavigational
astronavigational
navaid
navigational chart
navigationally
neuronavigational
nonnavigational
observes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of observe
observes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observe
Persians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Persian
fastest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He set a new fastest time for running a mile.
text: Scientists say it is one of the world’s fastest-melting glaciers.
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
glosses: superlative form of fast (adjective): most fast
fastest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fast (adverb): most fast
fastest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face.
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of fast
ejected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eject
fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fence
fences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fence
drag the chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drags the chain
form: dragging the chain
form: dragged the chain
form: dragged the chain
Etymology: The term stems from the railway when chains and hooks connected the carriages or goods trucks. If the rear chain came lose from the secured position it would drag on the ground slowing progress.
Senses: glosses: To fall behind relative to others.
glosses: To unwittingly hold up progress.
examples: text: Acts dragging the chain seem designed to prevent progress on this important issue.
glosses: To deliberately hold up progress by acting slowly.
dragging the chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag the chain
quadratic equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadratic equations
Senses: examples: text: When I was seven years old at a new school, I cried all day, every day. When I was 14 years old, I cried in maths lessons. An improvement, I guess. It wasn’t that I was bad at maths; I knew my way around a quadratic equation, let me tell you.
ref: 2015 September 8, Katie Everson, “Why I've written a book for teenagers about taking drugs”, in The Guardian:
text: The arid argot of the estate agent’s schedule becomes obsolete when the task is to sell a pub-restaurant at the edge of a Highland wilderness. It’s like trying to describe the glory of the Lake District with a quadratic equation.
ref: 2018 November 25, Kevin McKenna, “Remote island pub for sale ... just don’t expect a quiet life”, in The Guardian:
text: The quadratic equation has frustrated math students for millenniums. […] If, while watching the Super Bowl, you had wanted to estimate how far a pass thrown by Patrick Mahomes traveled through the air, you would have been solving a quadratic equation.
ref: 2020 February 5, Kenneth Chang, Jonathan Corum, “This Professor’s ‘Amazing’ Trick Makes Quadratic Equations Easier”, in The New York Times:
text: If there’s one skill we absolutely should have been taught in school, it's how to craft the perfect dating app profile. I mean, if I can still remember the quadratic equation, surely I should have been schooled in the art of snagging a date. But alas, our education system seems to think finding our soulmates isn't as essential as algebra.
ref: 2024 April 8, Lydia Wang, Morgan Sullivan, Rachel Varina, “24 Best Hinge Prompts to Actually Help Your Matches Get to Know You”, in Cosmopolitan:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: linear equation
cubic equation
glosses: A polynomial equation of the second degree; an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as ax²+bx+c=0, where x is an unknown value, a, b, and c are known numbers, and where a does not equal zero.
optative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptətɪv/
ipa: /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: opt.
Etymology: From Middle French optatif, from Late Latin optātīvus, a calque of Ancient Greek εὐκτική (euktikḗ, “related to wishing”), from Latin optātus, past participle of optāre.
Senses: examples: text: an optative blessing
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
text: […] then, in the optative retirement from hard science that building and opening a U.S.T.A-accredited and pedagogically experimental tennis academy apparently represented for him […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Expressing a wish or a choice.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Related or pertaining to the optative mood.
Related terms: cooptative
optative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptətɪv/
ipa: /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: optatives
form: opt.
Etymology: From Middle French optatif, from Late Latin optātīvus, a calque of Ancient Greek εὐκτική (euktikḗ, “related to wishing”), from Latin optātus, past participle of optāre.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Tamil, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb or expression in the optative mood.
Derived terms: optatively
Related terms: subjunctive
beserker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of berserker.
pennings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈpɪnɪŋz/
homophone: pinnings (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛnɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of penning
referer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: referers
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of referrer.
examples: text: The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.
ref: 1996, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0:
text: If a referring URL was specified, for each valid referer, make sure that a valid referring URL was passed to FormMail
ref: 2001, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 278:
text: The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one.
ref: 2007, Ben Fry, Visualizing Data, page 253:
text: The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.
ref: 2007, Tiara Yule, The Illustrated Dictionary of Internet, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of referrer (“the referring URL”).
delevel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delevels
form: deleveling
form: delevelling
form: deleveled
form: deleveled
form: delevelled
form: delevelled
Etymology: From de- + level.
Senses: glosses: To demote, or be demoted, to a lower level.
level up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: levels up
form: leveling up
form: levelling up
form: leveled up
form: leveled up
form: levelled up
form: levelled up
Etymology: From level + up. The video game sense is a calque of Japanese レベルアップ (reberu appu) using the SOV word order.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: step up
text: The government promises to level up the department.
antonyms: level down
coordinate_terms: upgrade
;
ramp up
qualifier: literal and figurative
glosses: To raise to the same level or status; to improve so as to make as good as others.
examples: text: Boris Johnson should consider setting targets to level up the UK’s weakest regions to tackle widespread inequality, according to one of the government’s senior independent policy advisers.
ref: 2020 February 4, Phillip Inman, “Set targets to 'level up' regions, says Industrial Strategy Council”, in The Guardian:
text: Labour's Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds hit back at Sunak and said that his failure to greenlight major projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail showed that government claims of levelling up the country were "not supported by the evidence".
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Sunak focuses on jobs, infrastructure and 'levelling up'”, in Rail, page 7:
glosses: To reduce economic and developmental inequalities across the United Kingdom.
examples: text: I leveled up after defeating the dragon.
text: As your troops conquer the enemy, they'll earn experience and gain levels. Each time they level up, their stats will increase.
ref: 2003 December 24, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, Show Some Class, page 33:
text: For example, there are still mobs to defeat, and doing so levels up your character and improves your gear.
ref: 2024 November 21, Nathan Warby, “What is Supervive? New MOBA gameplay, platforms, more”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To progress to the next level of player character stats and abilities, often by acquiring experience points in role-playing games.
inion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inia
form: inions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰνίον (iníon, “occipital bone; back of the head”). Compare -ion (“anthropometric landmark”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.
Derived terms: iniad
inial
iniac
Orinoco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.ɹɪˈnoʊ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˌoɹ.ɪˈnoʊ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˌɒɹɪˈnəʊkəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Senses: glosses: A South American river flowing 1600 miles (2410 km) from Brazil through Venezuela to the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: The Orinoco river basin of Venezuela.
Derived terms: Orinocan
Orinoco agouti
Orinoco Belt
Orinoco crocodile
Orinoco goose
Orinoco piculet
Orinoco saltator
uro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uro
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 洞 (uro).
Senses: glosses: A small, irregularly-shaped wound made in the trunk of a bonsai tree for aesthetic reasons.
gigahertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigahertz
form: gigahertzes
Etymology: From giga- + hertz.
Senses: glosses: One billion hertz, 10⁹ Hz.
Derived terms: multigigahertz
subgigahertz
sub-gigahertz
ad seriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad seriatum.
Senses: glosses: sequential
ad seriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad seriatum.
Senses: glosses: in sequence; sequentially
seriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin seriatum, neuter of Medieval Latin or New Latin seriatus (“arranged in serial order”).
Senses: examples: text: She named them — a seriatum not of causes but of symptoms. For a long time she made no suggestion as to any fundamental cure.
ref: 1934, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, editors, The American Mercury, volume 32, page 405:
text: […] perhaps now in present perception, but also reflexively to become identical with itself through the seriatum of time.
ref: 1986, The Life of the transcendental ego: essays in honor of William Earle (William Earle, Edward S. Casey, Donald V. Morano), page 205
text: Konkuvel depicts the marital proceedings of Vacavatattai and Utayanan in a seriatum: The astrologer computed the auspicious day for the wedding. The valluvan mounted on an elephant, beat the drum and announced […]
ref: 2000, A. Kiruṭṭin̲an̲, Tamil culture: religion, culture, and literature, page 294:
glosses: a series, a sequence
Related terms: ad seriatum
seriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Misspelling of seriatim, influenced by the commonness of the Latin ending -um.
Senses: examples: text: THE CHAIR-- I suppose that the motion to take up the resolutions seriatum should be considered first.
ref: 1885, Proceedings of the Convention on the Improvement of the Western Waterways, page 41:
text: Has the motion been made that they be considered seriatum? If the motion has not already been made, I wish to move that these amendments be considered seriatum.
ref: 1901, Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, volume 18, page 797:
text: Mr. Block: Mr. Chairman, I move, then, that the Constitution be not taken up seriatum, section by section. […] If we take it up seriatum we may stay here until next week.
ref: 1912, Proceedings of the Organization Meeting and of the First Annual Convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, page 38:
glosses: Misspelling of seriatim (“sequentially”).
seriatum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Misspelling of seriatim, influenced by the commonness of the Latin ending -um.
Senses: examples: text: A. No, sir; because we would have to make a seriatum rating of them.
ref: 1908, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, volume 14, page 241:
text: The following is a seriatum review of the principal points disputed by Swift & Co. in this pamphlet.
ref: 1919, Stimulation of live-stock products: hearings before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 107:
text: A seriatum resignation procedure such as this would be valid if the stock involved were over 50% of voting stock, […]
ref: 2002, Casenote Legal Briefs: Business Organizations/Corporation, page 86:
glosses: Misspelling of seriatim (“sequential”).
Related terms: seriate
seriatim
series
backgrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of background
backgrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backgrounded
form: most backgrounded
Senses: glosses: Moved to the background
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a task) Made non-interactive
black-eyed pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-eyed peas
Senses: synonyms: blackeye pea
black-eye pea
bachapin bean
black-eyed bean
black eyed cowpea
black eyed dolichos
common cowpea
cultivated African cowpea
cowgram
acre pea
crowder bean
southern pea
crowder pea
marble pea
poona pea
kafir bean
hypernyms: word: cow pea
word: field pea
word: <
english: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
translation: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
word: pea
word: ;
word: bean
glosses: An African leguminous plant, of the species Vigna unguiculata, widely cultivated as food and forage, specifically Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata.
synonyms: blackeye pea
black-eye pea
hypernyms: word: cowpea
word: field pea
word: <
english: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
translation: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
word: pea
word: ;
word: bean
glosses: The edible seed of these plants.
synonyms: blackeye pea
black-eye pea
hypernyms: word: field pea
word: <
english: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
translation: [[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] senses
word: pea
word: ;
word: bean
glosses: Any pale bean with a black spot.
blackwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwoods
Etymology: From black + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
glosses: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
glosses: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
glosses: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
glosses: The very dark wood of such trees.
Derived terms: Tasmanian blackwood
Blackwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From black + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet north-east of Loch Carron, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG9543).
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
An outer suburb west of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7274).
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7943).
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A town and community in Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1797).
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia.
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
glosses: Any of many places around the world.
A village in the Shire of Moorabool, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from the placename.
Derived terms: Blackwoodian
Blackwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Easley Blackwood.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A bidding convention in contract bridge, used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract.
loved one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loved ones
Senses: examples: text: I felt myself masculine, the protector of the weak, the fighting male. And, best of all, I felt myself the protector of my loved one. She leaned against me.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: It's gonna be easy to get things done / I will relax along with my loved ones / Loved ones, loved ones visit the building
ref: 1977, David Byrne, “Don't Worry About the Government”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
text: “Friends called around and sat on pillars outside the building and I talked to them out the window,” said Ms. Cunningham, who added that she kept in touch with loved ones over Zoom as well.
ref: 2020 June 5, Alyson Krueger, “The Agonizing Question: Is New York City Worth It Anymore?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment, one of someone's close ones; sometimes: next of kin (for example on hospital admission form).
examples: text: Whereas once the main option was a traditional black hearse service, these days a "green funeral" with a cardboard coffin is just one of the alternative ways to send off a loved one.
ref: 2003 March 29, Jessica Watson, “Laying to rest the days of his and hearse”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 23 Jun 2008:
glosses: A recently deceased close friend or family member.
storm door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm doors
form: storm-door
Senses: glosses: A door normally leading to a storm cellar, cellar or a basement, for protection from a tornado or a violent storm.
glosses: A secondary door placed exterior to the primary door, to better weatherproof an entrance. Those storm doors that are also screen doors can be used for ventilation purposes when the primary door remains open. Typically found on front doors, rear doors, side doors, balcony doors.
Coordinate terms: storm shutter
storm cellar
storm window
screen door
aluminum door
aluminium door
pharmacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑɹməˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: pharmacologists
Etymology: From pharmacology + -ist.
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Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A student of pharmacology; one versed in the science of pharmacology.
Derived terms: ethnopharmacologist
immunopharmacologist
neuropharmacologist
phytopharmacologist
SRU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sulphur recovery unit.
iffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being iffy.
Synonyms: dubiousness
eudaimonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eudaimonia.
belfries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlfɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of belfry
obeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obey
cystine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪs.tiːn/
Forms: form: cystines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), where it was found.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nonessential amino acid formed by the oxidation of cysteine; it contains two cysteine residues linked by a disulfide bond.
Synonyms: E921 when used as an improving agent
Derived terms: cystine knot
cystinosis
cystinuria
polycystine
selenocystine
smelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell
examples: foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
glosses: Used in adjectival compounds.
Derived terms: smelling salts
smelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: smellings
Senses: examples: text: To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
ref: 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
glosses: The act by which something is smelled.
pedalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdələʊ/
Forms: form: pedalos
form: pedaloes
form: pédalo
Etymology: Borrowed from French pédalo, a genericized trademark. By surface analysis, pedal + -o.
Senses: examples: text: It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.
ref: 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:
text: On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt your feelings. But it’s just art. It can’t harm you. You don’t have to like it – not at all – but it’s going to be gone in a month or so, and you can still use the pedalos while it’s there.
ref: 2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: pedalboat
word: paddleboat
glosses: A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.
chlorine dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a reddish-yellow explosive gas, ClO₂, used as a water disinfectant and to bleach flour and wood pulp
Synonyms: E926 as a food additive
bleaching agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleaching agents
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to a product in order to whiten it; a bleach
packaging gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packaging gases
Senses: glosses: Any gas used to provide a modified atmosphere for a product.
smelling salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smelling salt
ammonium carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: baker's ammonia
hartshorn salt
salt of hartshorn
sal volatile
glosses: The ammonium salt of carbonic acid, (NH₄)₂CO₃; a white powder, smelling of ammonia, used in the preparation of smelling salts and baking powder.
nimbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The neem tree.
Sancho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsænt͡ʃoʊ/
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The nine of trumps in the game of Sancho Pedro.
examples: text: “It was my privilege to accompany this hero, as his humble Sancho.”
ref: 1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 6, in Crocker’s Hole, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 6:
glosses: An assistant or sidekick, from Cervantes’ Sancho Panza.
Derived terms: Pedro Sancho
ketjak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kecak
Etymology: Borrowed from Balinese ketjak.
Senses: examples: 1999: An innovation on Mule Variations is the employment of a turntable artist, who as it turns out is so discrete you hardly notice, except on “Eyeball Kid”, which makes brilliantly apposite use of a sampled gospel choir and Balinese ketjak chanters — Luc Sante, Village Voice 12 May 1999 (Innocent When You Dream, Orion 2006, p. 250)
glosses: A form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.
Highlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Specific application of highlands, equivalent to high + lands.
Senses: glosses: The mountainous northern area of Scotland.
glosses: A town in Orange County, New York, United States.
Hypernyms: Scotland
Coordinate terms: Lowlands
Derived terms: word: Addington Highlands
word: Central Highlands
word: Descartes Highlands
word: Grey Highlands
word: Highland
word: Highlander
word: Highlands County
word: Highlands East
word: Lanark Highlands
word: Ozark Highlands
word: Southern Highlands
word: St Minver Highlands
Related terms: word: highland
alt: n
word: Highland
Erie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈiɹi/
ipa: /ˈɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈi.ɹe/
ipa: /ˈiəɹi/
homophone: eerie
homophone: eyrie
homophone: airy (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Etymology: From an Erie word rendered in French as Erieehronon, Eriechronon, and Riquéronon and said to mean “long tail” or “long-tailed”, in reference to the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar).
Senses: glosses: A tribe of Native Americans.
Erie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈiɹi/
ipa: /ˈɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈi.ɹe/
ipa: /ˈiəɹi/
homophone: eerie
homophone: eyrie
homophone: airy (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Etymology: From an Erie word rendered in French as Erieehronon, Eriechronon, and Riquéronon and said to mean “long tail” or “long-tailed”, in reference to the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar).
Senses: glosses: Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes of North America.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Any of a number of other places in North America; see Erie (disambiguation) at Wikipedia.
Derived terms: Erie County
Fort Erie
Lake Erie
piccata
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɪˈkɑːtə/
Etymology: From Italian piccata (“larded”), past participle of piccarsi (“prick oneself”).
Senses: examples: text: Rattle-snake piccata with grapes and figs, old Brown Betty with a yellow wig […]
ref: 1999, Tom Waits, Filipino Box Spring Hog:
glosses: Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
piccata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɪˈkɑːtə/
Forms: form: piccatas
Etymology: From Italian piccata (“larded”), past participle of piccarsi (“prick oneself”).
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you've been put off by all the syllables that hang around veal. The saltimboccas, parmigianas, piccatas and scaloppines. Well, it's a ruse. In fact, veal is very simple food.
ref: 1990, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 23, number 5:
text: “(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!”
ref: 2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (6:40 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sean Rinaldi (Anthony Atamanuik):
glosses: A dish of food sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce; or an individual slice of such a dish.
ignitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ignitable
form: most ignitable
Etymology: From ignite + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ignited; able to burn.
gyrovague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrovagues
Etymology: From Medieval Latin gȳrovagus (“wandering aimlessly”).
Senses: glosses: A wandering monk having no fixed monastery, as exemplified in the Rule of St. Benedict.
radiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiosities
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional rendering system that simulates all reflections from objects in the scene.
3D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 3-D
form: 3 D
form: three-D
form: three-dee
form: threedee
Senses: examples: text: And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
ref: 2013 May 10, James Ball, “US government attempts to stifle 3D-printer gun designs will ultimately fail”, in The Guardian:
text: Listings with a 3D tour also garnered more interest, drawing 66% more visitors and 90% more saves in April than those without.
ref: 2020 June 26, Anna Bahney, “These people bought homes without ever stepping inside”, in CNN Business:
coordinate_terms: 1D
2D
4D
glosses: Abbreviation of three-dimensional.
Derived terms: 3D chess
3DNow!
3D print
3D printed
3D printer
3D printing
3D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3Ds
form: 3-D
form: 3 D
form: three-D
form: three-dee
form: threedee
Senses: examples: text: No, the slightest imbalance there would have alarms flashing all over the room. Probably it was the fact that he knew the threedee was a little out of whack.
ref: 1969, Dave Van Arnam, Starmind, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 14:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: tri-V
glosses: A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.
examples: text: A man Ellaby's own size was sitting there, viewing a 3D. When he heard Ellaby at the door he got up.
ref: 1955 January, Martin Lesser, “The Dictator”, in Imagination, volume 6, number 1, page 85:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: trideo
tridim
glosses: A three-dimensional video.
Skolt Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Finno-Ugric language spoken by 300 people in the area north of the lake Inari in Finland and nearby parts of Russia.
Skolt Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Skolts, their culture, or the Skolt Sami language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Skolt Sami terms
colligated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colligate
colligated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colligated
form: most colligated
Senses: glosses: tied together
glosses: logically connected
comfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmfɪt/
Forms: form: comfits
Etymology: From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
Senses: examples: text: Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: "Why, what are they?" she asked, looking at him askance. ¶ "Hashish; did you never hear of it?" ¶ "Oh, yes; it's that Indian stuff which brings one fantastic visions, isn't it? I've always wanted to see and taste it, and now I will," cried Belle, nibbling at one of the bean-shaped comfits with its green heart.
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Perilous Play:
text: But since I ate your present of comfits—and they were admirable comfits, and I ate them with speed—my heart is changed and inclined toward you, I know not why or how, except it be through magic.
ref: 1922, James Elroy Flecker, The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, act I, page 17:
glosses: A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
Derived terms: kissing comfit
Related terms: comfiture
bonbon
discomfit
sugar-plum
comfit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmfɪt/
Forms: form: comfits
form: comfiting
form: comfited
form: comfited
Etymology: From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
Senses: examples: 17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, page 302,
The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt.
glosses: To make into a dry sugared confection.
comfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmfɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmfɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌmfɪt/
Forms: form: comfits
Etymology: Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
Senses: examples: text: A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose..
ref: 2023, Trent Dalton, Lola in the Mirror:
glosses: A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
consentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Agreeing; in accord.
Derived terms: consentiently
Related terms: consensual
consent
crabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæbd/
Forms: form: more crabbed
form: most crabbed
Etymology: From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
examples: text: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]
ref: c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter:
glosses: Cramped, bent.
glosses: Crowded together and difficult to read.
raw_tags: of handwriting
examples: text: Unlike most aircraft, the B-52's fully-steerable landing gear allows it to land crabbed and stay crabbed throughout rollout without destroying its tires.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
examples: text: The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
raw_tags: of an approach and landing
Derived terms: crabbedly
crabbedness
uncrabbed
crabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæbd/
Etymology: From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crab
siding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: sidings
Etymology: From side + -ing (“material, collection”).
Senses: examples: text: Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
glosses: A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
Synonyms: word: cladding
siding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
glosses: present participle and gerund of side
siding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: sidings
Etymology: From side + -ing (“derivative noun, having the quality of”).
Senses: examples: text: They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Laid out over six square kilometres, Sellafield is like a small town, with nearly a thousand buildings, its own roads and even a rail siding – all owned by the government, and requiring security clearance to visit.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).
Derived terms: private siding
reversing siding
stabling siding
Related terms: trackside
dawdler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawdlers
Etymology: From dawdle + -er.
Senses: synonyms: dawdle
idler
glosses: A person who dawdles or idles.
dickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dicker
dickering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickerings
Senses: glosses: bargaining
glosses: bartering
empty nest syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home.
Related terms: empty nester
full nest syndrome
firestick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firesticks
Etymology: From fire + stick.
Senses: glosses: A poker used to arrange coals, logs, etc., in a fire.
examples: text: Newton used a fire-stick a yard long to light his pipe.
ref: 1963, Arthur Upfield, The Lake Frome Monster, London: Pan Books, published 1969, page 72:
glosses: A stick burning, or with hot embers, at one end, taken from a fire.
examples: text: If you did not stop, you ricked a firestick into the load and they were pretty good at it, believe me.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 75:
glosses: In traditional cultures, a smouldering stick used to transport fire from one place to another.
glosses: In traditional cultures, an implement used to start a fire by friction.
Synonyms: poker
stoker
Derived terms: firestick farming
transforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transform
transforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transform
jacks-of-all-trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack-of-all-trades
jacquard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacquards
Etymology: Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.
Senses: examples: text: The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room.
glosses: Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
glosses: Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
glosses: A Jacquard loom.
Derived terms: jacquardlike