cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ejectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejectees
Etymology: From eject + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: As each ejectee exited the building, he or she was cheered on by the supporters outside.
ref: 1984 December 22, Charles Michael Smith, “Demonstrators Disrupt New York Falwell Speech”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 1:
glosses: A person who, or thing that is ejected
twazzocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twazzock
hypergroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypergroup
microtrajectories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtrajectory
nanolensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + lensing.
Senses: glosses: microlensing of very short duration and small amplitude
overtwisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtwist
overtwisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtwist
overtwist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtwists
form: overtwisting
form: overtwisted
form: overtwisted
Etymology: From over- + twist.
Senses: glosses: To twist excessively.
overtwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: With any great amount of overtwist, the yarn just kinks up and will not go through the orifice.
ref: 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Excessive twist.
paraexcitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraexciton
polyacenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyacene
sparsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sparsify
sparsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sparsifies
form: sparsifying
form: sparsified
form: sparsified
Etymology: From sparse + -ify.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To make (a graph or a matrix) sparse.
supercavitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercavitations
Etymology: From super- + cavitation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An extreme form of cavitation in which a single bubble of gas forms around an object moving through a liquid, significantly reducing drag.
thermodiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermodiffusions
Etymology: From thermo- + diffusion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: thermal diffusion
antitetanus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tetanus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antitetanic
synonyms: word: antitetanic
counterconditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + conditioning.
Senses: examples: text: This is called classic counterconditioning because it involves countering the association that was previously classically conditioned.
ref: [2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Counterconditioning involves pairing something that the cat thinks is a positive thing (food, play, distance, etc.) with the presence of the scary stimulus.
ref: 2015, chapter 13, in Emily Weiss, Heather Mohan-Gibbons, Stephen Zawistowski, editors, Animal Behavior for Shelter Veterinarians and Staff, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 262:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of conditioning in which a negative response to a stimulus is replaced by a positive one.
Related terms: word: countercondition
gushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gushingly
form: most gushingly
Etymology: From gushing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Just send a good, strong current through, so that the water overflows gushingly, and shake the reels from time to time […]
ref: 1982, Popular Photography, volume 89, number 9, page 118:
glosses: So as to gush or flow forth.
examples: text: "We went to see Guys and Dolls in New York," Maria Clara said gushingly. "It was so typical. We thought of you."
ref: 1998, Robert Stone, Damascus Gate:
glosses: In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
overeffusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overeffusively
form: most overeffusively
Etymology: From overeffusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overeffusive manner.
overeffusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overeffusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overeffusive.
nonsuperfluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + superfluous.
Senses: glosses: Not superfluous.
crackajack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crackerjack.
crackajack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackajacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crackerjack.
subsupplier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsuppliers
Etymology: From sub- + supplier.
Senses: examples: text: Our supplier blamed its subsuppliers for the faulty components.
glosses: A supplier who provides goods or services to another supplier.
subsuppliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsupplier
warningless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From warning + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without warning.
dissepiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛpɪmənt/
Forms: form: dissepiments
Etymology: From Latin dissepimentum (“a partition”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: partition (in an organ); septum
Derived terms: dissepimental
Related terms: dissepimentarium
dissepimentarial
twenty-five/eight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: twenty-five-eight
Etymology: An alteration of twenty-four/seven, implying “twenty-five hours a day, eight days a week”.
Senses: examples: text: “Dang!” Tempest shook her head and rolled her eyes. “You make it sound like homie hangs downtown twenty-five/eight.”
ref: 2002: Zane, The Heat Seekers, page 184
glosses: Unceasingly.
Related terms: 110%
a hundred and ten percent
give 110%
twenty-five/eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-five-eight
form: twenty-five-eight
Etymology: An alteration of twenty-four/seven, implying “twenty-five hours a day, eight days a week”.
Senses: examples: text: Folks, we got a job to do for our world. For our species. For every species on this planet. Can I count on you, and I mean all of you, twenty-four-seven until we resolve this thing? I’ll be right there beside you. First on the field, last off. You work with me twenty-four-seven, I’ll give you twenty-five-eight. Can I count on you?
ref: 2007: Darren Dowler, The War of Angels, page 117
text: “I hear you, but I can’t stay on her twenty-four-seven. I won’t.”
“And I hear you, but she needs twenty-five-eight. You take the risk.”
ref: 2009: Michele Grant, Heard It All Before, page 197
glosses: Unwavering constancy.
twenty-five-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: twenty-five
form: eight
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of twenty-five/eight.
twenty-five-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of twenty-five/eight.
frequentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequentations
Etymology: From frequent + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of frequenting a particular place
pissbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piss + breath.
Senses: examples: text: 'Fuck off, pissbreath!' The innkeeper leapt down the steps and grabbed the serf, clouting him round the ear until it bled.
ref: 1991, Wiliam Owen Roberts, Pestilence:
text: Delete the thread? Why the fuck would I want to do that, pissbreath?
ref: 2005, charlie dick, “Two weeks off?”, in alt.fan.opie-and-anthony (Usenet):
glosses: Term of abuse.
pissface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissfaces
Etymology: From piss + face.
Senses: examples: text: The boy said "sorry" three times, but the girl, who still considers him a no-good-soft-in-the-head-pissface won't let him back in the game.
ref: 1994, Myra Goldberg, Whistling and Other Stories:
text: Still don't remember any a that^([sic]), pissface?
ref: 2007, Chuck Barris, The Big Question:
glosses: Term of abuse.
pissest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: piss + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of piss
squawfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squawfishes
form: squawfish
Etymology: From squaw + fish.
Senses: glosses: A cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus, a voracious predator on small trout and salmon.
Synonyms: pikeminnow
squawfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squawfish
pikeminnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pikeminnows
Etymology: From pike + minnow.
Senses: glosses: The squawfish.
pikeminnows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pikeminnow
inhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhesions
form: inhæsion
Senses: glosses: inherence; act of inhering
inhesions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhesion
noninherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inherent.
Senses: glosses: Not inherent.
noninhibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inhibiting.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not inhibiting.
noninhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + inhibition.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Absence of inhibition.
inhibin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhibins
Etymology: From inhibit + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone, secreted by the gonads, which inhibits the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and is thus under consideration as a male contraceptive
linctuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linctus
inhibitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inhibitive
form: most inhibitive
Etymology: From inhibit + -ive.
Senses: glosses: that inhibits
Synonyms: inhibitory
Derived terms: inhibitively
interinhibitive
photoinhibitive
uninhibitive
umpirage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umpirages
Etymology: From umpire + -age.
Senses: examples: text: When the umpire enters upon his umpirage, he may reexamine the witnesses; but it has been holden not to be objectionable, for the umpire to receive the evidence from the arbitrators, unless the parties require him to do otherwise.
ref: 1838, John Frederick Archbold, The practice of country attornies and their agents, in the courts of law at Westminster:
topics: law
glosses: The office (or term of office) of an umpire
umpirages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umpirage
noninhibitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inhibitive.
Senses: glosses: Not inhibitive.
interferential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interferential
form: most interferential
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to interference (in all senses)
Derived terms: interferential stimulation
interflow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn'tər-flōʹ
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfləʊ/
enpr: ĭnʹtər-flō'
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌfləʊ/
Forms: form: interflows
form: interflowing
form: interflowed
form: interflowed
Etymology: From inter- + flow.
Senses: glosses: To flow between.
glosses: To merge or mingle.
raw_tags: of fluids
interflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn'tər-flōʹ
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfləʊ/
enpr: ĭnʹtər-flō'
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌfləʊ/
Forms: form: interflows
Etymology: From inter- + flow.
Senses: glosses: A flowing between two or more entities.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The flow of water (from rain or snow) directly through the soil.
interfluve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfluves
Etymology: From interfluvial, “[lying] between streams”.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of higher land between two connected river valleys.
Related terms: word: interfluvial
english: between rivers; between; river
translation: between rivers; between; river
alt: from a feminine substantive form of the adjective μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios; ), from the Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, ) + ποτᾰμός (potamós, ) + -ιος (-ios); see more detailed etymology there
word: Mesopotamia
legitimatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˌdʒɪtɪmətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: legitimatizations
Senses: glosses: The act of legitimatizing
mechanizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanizers
Etymology: From mechanize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who or machine that mechanizes.
mesothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesothoraxes
form: mesothoraces
Etymology: From meso- + thorax.
Senses: examples: Holonym: thorax
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
related: word: prothorax
word: metathorax
glosses: The middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect, carrying the second pair of legs, and the forewings when present.
Related terms: word: mesothoracic
mesozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesozoans
Etymology: Mesozoa + -an
Senses: glosses: Any worm-like, marine parasite of the phylum Mesozoa.
momently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊməntli/
Etymology: From Middle English momently, equivalent to moment + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Growing momently more discontent.
text: And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: […]
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 56:
text: The silent Ocean, and the starlight bay, / The twilight glow, which momently grew less, / The voiceless sands, and dropping caves, that lay / Around them, made them to each other press […]
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 188:
text: Huge stones and beams falling momently from the decaying roofs above them, gave evidence, by their sullen and heavy descent, of the vast height of the surrounding houses […]
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
synonyms: word: by degrees
word: little by little
word: momentarily
word: bit by bit
word: by degrees
word: by inches
word: continually
word: footmeal
word: inch by inch
word: incrementally
word: gradatim
word: gradually
word: little by little
word: momentarily
word: momently
word: one by one
word: one step at a time
word: progressively
word: step by step
word: stepmeal
word: unsuddenly
word: by degrees
word: continually
word: in order
word: in series
word: in turn
word: gradatim
word: one after another
word: one after the other
word: one at a time
word: one by one
word: one step at a time
word: sequentially
word: serially
word: seriatim
word: step by step
word: stepwise
word: successively
glosses: From moment to moment; continually.
synonyms: word: briefly
word: fleetingly
word: transiently
word: awhile
word: briefly
word: ephemerally
word: fleetingly
word: flickeringly
word: for a minute
word: momentarily
word: momently
word: summarily
word: temporarily
word: transiently
word: transitorily
glosses: Momentarily; for a moment.
morrocoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morrocoys
form: morocoy
Etymology: The turtle is named after the Morrocoy National Park in Venezuela, where the turtle is indigenous and was spotted for the first time.
Senses: glosses: A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.
glosses: A yellow-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis denticulata.
neurectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: neurectomies
Etymology: From neuro- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical excision of a nerve
Derived terms: neurectomize
Yogiism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yogiisms
Etymology: From Yogi + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: If anything means nothing in baseball (pardon the Yogiism), it's momentum...
ref: 1990, Bill James, The Baseball Book 1990:
text: A leading member of the wide-field camera team captured most of our feelings with a Yogiism: "I've never seen anyone muddy the waters so clearly."
ref: 1998, Eric Chaisson, The Hubble wars:
glosses: A malapropism of the kind characteristic of "Yogi" Berra (1925–2015), American baseball player and manager.
Synonyms: word: Colemanballs
Yogiisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yogiism
Macbethian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Macbethian
form: most Macbethian
Etymology: From Macbeth + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle.
ref: 1998, Syndy M. Conger, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 26:
text: The fitful gleam of the glowing flame gave a Macbethian tinge to the weird scene and brought into bold relief the grim outlines of the cliffs […]
ref: 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The army and the Indian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (circa 1603-1607) about a regicide and the supernatural.
Related terms: Lady Macbethian
outhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outhauls
form: outhauling
form: outhauled
form: outhauled
Etymology: From Middle English outhalen, equivalent to out- + haul.
Senses: glosses: To haul out.
outhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outhauls
Etymology: From out- + haul.
Senses: examples: text: Unfurl the sail and attach the clew to the hook attached to the outhaul line.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope that is used to extend a sail along a spar.
outhauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outhaul
outsert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outserts
Etymology: Blend of out + insert, as though the latter had been formed from in.
Senses: glosses: A piece of promotional material that is placed on the outside of a product.
passionateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From passionate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being passionate.
glosses: A passionate act.
Synonyms: sense: being passionate
word: passion
enduros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enduro
endurest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: endure + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of endure
outserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outsert
patrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin patria (“fatherland, country”). The United Kingdom sense was first introduced by the Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile.
raw_tags: of a noun
glosses: Relating to the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent
Derived terms: nonpatrial
patriality
patrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrials
Etymology: From Latin patria (“fatherland, country”). The United Kingdom sense was first introduced by the Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77).
Senses: glosses: One who has the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent.
glosses: A noun derived from the name of a country.
wall of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walls of death
Etymology: From the apparent risk to participants.
Senses: glosses: A motordrome.
glosses: A form of moshing in which audience members divide into two halves and run toward each other.
motordrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motordromes
Etymology: From motor + -drome.
Senses: glosses: A stunt performance in which a motorcyclist drives around a wall, sphere, or similar raised surface.
Synonyms: wall of death
motordromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motordrome
perigynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the stamens, petals or sepals situated around the ovary (especially, on the rim of the receptacle of a superior ovary).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a hypanthium.
Derived terms: perigynously
perilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peril
Derived terms: unperilled
perilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peril
pistoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pistol
pistolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pistol
pistoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pistol
pistolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pistol
planoconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plano- + concave.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having one side plane and the other concave
raw_tags: of a lens
Related terms: planoconvex
planoconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plano- + convex.
Senses: examples: text: I place my Microscope, and then so place either a round Globe of Water, or a very deep clear plano convex Glass (whose convex side is turn'd towards the Window) that there is a great quantity of Rayes collected and thrown upon the Object […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having one side plane and the other convex.
raw_tags: of a lens
Synonyms: convexoplane
Related terms: planoconcave
puristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more puristically
form: most puristically
Etymology: From puristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a puristic manner.
puristical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puristical
form: most puristical
Etymology: From purist + -ical.
Senses: glosses: puristic
infinity pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infinity pools
Senses: examples: text: “Have you ever swum in an infinity pool?” Cattie had seen pictures. An infinity pool had one side that just … ended. Like the end of the world. Water went right up to the edge and fell away.
ref: 2012, Pete Hautman, All-in, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Synonym of infinity-edge pool.
synonyms: word: infinity-edge pool
infinity pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinity pool
infinity-edge pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infinity-edge pools
Senses: examples: text: […] the American architect John Lautner is considered the father of infinity-edge pool design. His vanishing edge of water at the Silver Top residence in Silver Lake, California, received rave reviews in 1957 and fueled the fires of infinity-edge experimentation.
ref: 2012, Kim Inglis, Bali Home: Inspirational Design Ideas, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: infinity pool
overflow pool
zero-edge pool
glosses: A swimming pool that produces a visual effect of water extending to the horizon or vanishing into a lake, bay, etc.
prankishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prankish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Prankish behaviour; mischief.
Machiavellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Machiavellian
blunderbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blunderbushes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of blunderbuss.
blunderbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blunderbush
bleareyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleareyed
form: most bleareyed
form: blear-eyed
form: bleary-eyed
Etymology: From Middle English blereyȝed, blere iȝed, bler-yed, equivalent to blear + eyed. Cognate with Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued
synonyms: bleary
bleary-eyed
glosses: Having dim or rheumy eyes.
Derived terms: bleareyedness
purblindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purblind + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being purblind.
purblindly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purblindly
form: most purblindly
Etymology: From purblind + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a purblind manner.
skeel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: skeels
Etymology: From Old Norse skjóla, from Proto-Germanic *skeulǭ.
Senses: examples: text: The dairywoman now rolls the whole into one lump[…], closing the fingers, partially, at every stroke; thereby leaving it at the bottom of the skeel, exceedingly rough.
ref: 1789, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire:
glosses: A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
glosses: A washtub.
godsister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godsisters
Etymology: From Middle English godsuster, equivalent to god- + sister.
Senses: examples: text: Let's go back to the thirteen-year-old girl introduced in Chapter 8 who found out her godsister was her half sister.
ref: 2005, Diane Ehrensaft, Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates:
text: Before she met the man who became and remains her pimp, she was selling drugs with her godsister; he was one of their clients.
ref: 2007, Cynthia Cole Robinson, From the classroom to the corner:
text: What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister.
ref: 2009 August 23, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times:
text: "Mother, are you going to take her in as your goddaughter? I'm going to have a godsister? "
ref: 2020, Ruan Bao, Deep Affection of You and Me: Volume 1, Funstory, →ISBN:
glosses: The daughter or goddaughter of one's godparent, or the goddaughter of one's parent.
Hypernyms: godsibling
Coordinate terms: godbrother
godsisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godsister
pipeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipefuls
form: pipesful
Etymology: From pipe + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough tobacco to fill a pipe for smoking.
pipefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipeful
pipesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipeful
antimanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimanagement
form: most antimanagement
Etymology: From anti- + management.
Senses: examples: text: A government headed toward a dictatorship would be expected to be both antilabor and antimanagement.
ref: 1964, William Vern Owen, Howard Vivian Finston, Industrial relations: management, labor, and society:
topics: business
glosses: In opposition to management.
antidictatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidictatorship
form: most antidictatorship
Etymology: From anti- + dictatorship.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing political dictatorship.
antiprotest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiprotest
form: most antiprotest
Etymology: From anti- + protest.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering a political protest.
antihydrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihydrogen
antipress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipress
form: most antipress
Etymology: From anti- + press.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the press (print-based media).
antitelevision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitelevision
form: most antitelevision
Etymology: From anti- + television.
Senses: examples: text: His antitelevision campaign included a proposal that Germans abstain one day each week from watching television.
ref: 2008, David P. Conradt, The German Polity, page 73:
glosses: Opposing television.
putonghua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Putonghua.
antiradio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiradio
form: most antiradio
Etymology: From anti- + radio.
Senses: examples: text: George's scathing, antiradio speech to his wife's radio-station bosses, who have been invited to dinner, invokes the typical condescension of the 1950s' mass culture discourse as well as indicating George's resentment toward his wife[…]
ref: 2008, Denise Mann, Hollywood independents: the postwar talent takeover, page 134:
glosses: Opposing radio.
reagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reagencies
Senses: glosses: power to react
Related terms: reagent
salpingostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salpingostomies
Etymology: From salpingo- + -stomy.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: salpingotomy (sometimes synonymous)
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
surgery
hypernyms: procedure
operation
surgery
treatment
therapy
coordinate_terms: salpingectomy
glosses: The surgical unblocking of a blocked Fallopian tube.
Related terms: oophorosalpingectomy
scaldfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaldfishes
form: scaldfish
Senses: glosses: Any of several edible flatfish of the genus Arnoglossus.
scalyfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalyfoots
Etymology: From scaly + foot.
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian legless lizards, of the genus Pygopus, having prehensile tails and scaly flaps in place of hindlimbs.
semanticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmænˈtɪsɪti/
ipa: [ˌsɪmænˈtʰɪsɪ̈ti]
Etymology: From semantic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of a linguistic system has being able to convey meanings
glosses: The condition of being semantic
incoterm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incoterms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Incoterm.
Incoterms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Incoterm
incorruptibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incorruptible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: incorruptibility
sermonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sermonic
form: most sermonic
Etymology: From sermon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] so that there were conversation — argumentative or declamatory, narrative or anecdotal, grave or gay, satirical or sermonic; nor would any of them have hoped to see the sun rise again in this world, had Burns portentously fallen asleep.
ref: 1856, John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sermons
Synonyms: sermonical
noncustoms
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + customs.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to customs (government department collecting taxes on imports).
nondirect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + direct.
Senses: glosses: Not direct.
Derived terms: non-direct buffer
scaldfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaldfish
shovelboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shuffleboard.
shovelhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelheads
Etymology: From shovel + head.
Senses: glosses: The bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo).
glosses: The shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus).
nonscarce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scarce.
Senses: glosses: Not scarce.
Related terms: nonscarcity
noncommon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + common.
Senses: glosses: Not common (to several cases etc.); distinct.
Related terms: noncommonality
bonnethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnetheads
Etymology: From bonnet + head.
Senses: glosses: A form of hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)
Synonyms: shovelhead
nonstarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + starred.
Senses: examples: text: Nonstarred titles throughout the bibliography mark the many Gothic works that are relatively scarce or difficult to obtain today.
ref: 1981, Marshall B. Tymn, Horror literature: a core collection and reference guide:
synonyms: nonasterisked
unasterisked
unstarred
glosses: Not marked with a star.
Related terms: starless
unstarry
bonnetheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonnethead
nondistinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + distinct.
Senses: glosses: Not distinct.
siglum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡləm/
ipa: /ˈsɪɡlə/
Forms: form: sigla
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin siglum (“abbreviation”), possibly a contracted form of:
* sigillum (“figurine, statuette; seal”), from signum (“figure, statue; seal, signet; mark, sign”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut, sever; to cut off”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”)) + -ulum (diminutive suffix); or
* singulum, a singular form of singulus (“apiece; every; single”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).
The plural form sigla is a learned borrowing from Late Latin sigla.
Senses: glosses: A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word; specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early version of a text.
examples: text: [H]e emerged onto a garden terrace where on the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail, the Dunlop stripe left by Tanya's bicycle, […]
ref: 1963, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Michael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov, transl., The Gift, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson […], →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: A thing which represents something else; a sign, a symbol.
Hyponyms: chrismon
Derived terms: siglarian
skaapsteker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skaapstekers
Etymology: Afrikaans skaap (“sheep”) steker (“stinger”)
Senses: glosses: A venomous snake of genus Psammophylax.
skyflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyflowers
Etymology: From sky + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of the South American shrubs of genus Duranta, having lilac flowers and yellow berries.
Derived terms: word: blue skyflower (Thunbergia grandiflora
taxonomic: Duranta repens
word: Brazilian skyflower
stumpnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumpnoses
Etymology: From stump + nose.
Senses: glosses: Any of several sea breams of the genus Rhabdosargus.
toreutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τορευτικός (toreutikós, “of metal work”), from τορευτός (toreutós, “worked in relief”), from τορέω (toréō, “I work in relief”), from τορευς (toreus, “a boring tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *terə-.
Senses: glosses: The art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal
tormentedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tormentedly
form: most tormentedly
Etymology: From tormented + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Ethel," he said, "I'm tormentedly in love with you. You know that, don't you?"
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 262:
glosses: In a tormented manner.
tractotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractotomies
Etymology: From tract + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical excision of nerve tracts in the medulla of the brain.
traditionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditionists
Etymology: From tradition + -ist. Compare traditionalist and French traditionniste.
Senses: glosses: A person who upholds a tradition
tubectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: tubectomies
Etymology: From tube + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: salpingectomy
underproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + proof.
Senses: antonyms: overproof
glosses: Having a lower alcohol content than proof spirit.
underproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underproofs
form: underproofing
form: underproofed
form: underproofed
form: underprove
Etymology: From under- + proof.
Senses: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
antonyms: overproof
glosses: To proof insufficiently.
proof spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proof spirits
Senses: glosses: A mixture of alcohol and water used as a standard for distilled drinks.
undischarged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + discharged.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is an offence to have an undischarged firearm in your possession or vehicle […]
ref: 1998, David Freestone, The burden of proof in natural resources legislation, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, page 11:
glosses: not discharged
unweeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweeded
form: most unweeded
Etymology: From un- + weeded.
Senses: glosses: Not weeded
unweeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + weeded.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unweed
unweight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unweights
form: unweighting
form: unweighted
form: unweighted
Etymology: From un- + weight.
Senses: glosses: To temporarily remove the body's weight from a ski when making a turn.
glosses: To remove a statistical weighting from.
vapourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapourers
Etymology: From vapour + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any of several tussock moths (family Erebidae, subfamily Lymantriinae), especially of the genus Orgyia.
glosses: One who vapours; a braggart.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Orgyia antiqua
word: vapourer moth
taxonomic: Orgyia recens
word: scarce vapourer moth
vapoury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vapoury
form: most vapoury
form: vapory
Etymology: From vapour + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At this moment Guido, who knew how disagreeable the subject must be to his sister, drew their attention to those golden slants of sunshine which seem to come so direct from heaven to earth,—bright and vapoury ladders,—fitting steps for our vain wishes to mount above; and just then so distinct from the dark mass of shadow flung from the deep forest in the distance.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 222:
text: And still he seemed to grow more white, / More vapoury, and wavier— / Seen in the dim and flickering light, / As he proceeded to recite / His “Maxims of Behaviour.”
ref: 1869, Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria, Canto I:
text: And those white shapes enfolding her were surely never bridal veils, but vapoury wings that rose above her golden head, and swept down curving to her feet.
See also quotations under vapory.
ref: 1921, Lafcadio Hearn, “Karma”, in Karma and Other Stories and Essays, London: George G. Harrap & Co., page 40
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of vapour.
glosses: Affected with the vapours; peevish.
erector spinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌrɛk.tɚ ˈspaɪ.niː/
Forms: form: erectores spinae
Etymology: From New Latin.
Senses: examples: text: The erector spinae are all innervated by lateral branches of the posterior primary divisions (dorsal rami) of the nearby spinal nerves and are covered posteriorly in the thoracic and lumbar regions by the thoracolumbar fascia.
ref: 2005, Gregory D. Cramer, Basic and Clinical Anatomy of the Spine, Spinal Cord, and ANS:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The group of muscles of the back responsible for erect posture of the vertebral column.
deer meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deermeat
Senses: glosses: The meat or flesh of a deer, especially as food; venison.
Synonyms: sense: meat of a deer
word: venison
sense: meat of a deer
word: deerflesh
deermeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At that instant my attention was attracted by the cry of the hounds, and I was about to hasten back to my stand, when the Indian reappeared, with a piece of smoked deermeat in his hand.
ref: 1875, George James Atkinson Coulson, Harwood: A Novel, page 51:
text: Endre had some deermeat there, too, from a buck Arne killed.
ref: 1947, Edward Havill, Big Ember: A Novel, page 53:
text: A slab of deermeat was broiling on a spit over the fire.
ref: 2010, Robert Moss, Fire Along the Sky, page 117:
glosses: Rare form of deer meat.
unexacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexacting
form: most unexacting
Etymology: From un- + exacting.
Senses: examples: text: Florence . . . had, all through, repaid the agony of slight and coldness, and dislike, with patient unexacting love, excusing him, and pleading for him, like his better angel!
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: But Mrs Eames was a kind, patient, unexacting woman, who took all civil words as meaning civility.
ref: 1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 9, in The Small House at Allington:
text: She was rarely angry; she was unexacting, good-humoured, preferring animals to people.
ref: 1919, Kathleen Norris, chapter 1, in Sisters: A Story:
text: Locomotives of this type also work the fast passenger and other trains along the Riviera main line between Marseilles and Ventimiglia on somewhat unexacting schedules, which seem likely to persist until introduction of 25kV electric traction.
ref: 1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: France”, in Modern Railways, page 60:
topics: location
region
states
qualifier: feelings
glosses: Not demanding; uncritical; not difficult to satisfy.
raw_tags: of mind
of persons
examples: text: It . . . yields a staple which requires a very simple and unexacting process to prepare it for market.
ref: 1868 February 20, “Industrial Prosperity at the South”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Aug 2010, page 4:
text: Diesel m.u. coaching train miles worked out at 18 per train hour, doubtless because of stopping services with unexacting schedules and lengthy turn-rounds; [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Passenger traffic declining”, in Modern Railways, page 365:
text: His hours were not long, and his work was unexacting and physically light.
ref: 1964 October 5, Russell Kirk, “To the Point”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 17 Aug 2010, page 16:
glosses: Not requiring precision or substantial effort.
Synonyms: sense: not demanding
word: unquestioning
sense: not requiring precision
word: quick-and-dirty
sense: not requiring precision
word: rule-of-thumb
sense: not requiring precision
word: sloppy
Derived terms: unexactingly
unexactingness
rule-of-thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rules-of-thumb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rule of thumb.
raw_tags: in attributive usage
cover artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cover artist
reges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rex
reget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regets
form: regetting
form: regot
form: regot
form: regotten
Etymology: From re- + get.
Senses: glosses: To get again.
grasp the nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasps the nettle
form: grasping the nettle
form: grasped the nettle
form: grasped the nettle
Etymology: From the short-term skin irritation caused by the stinging nettle.
Senses: examples: text: Hence it was that a few dozen policemen, resolutely grasping the nettle, had no difficulty in handling it.
ref: 1886 February 22, “London's Recent Rioting”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Aug 2010, page 5:
text: President Truman, when at last he grasped the nettle and dismissed MacArthur, knew well enough the outcry that would follow.
ref: 1951 April 30, “From Today's Times”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 18 Aug 2010, page 2:
text: For a number of years a group of brethren of the Craig Yr Hesg Lodge, meeting in Pontypridd, had discussed the possibility of forming a new Lodge. This year they decided to grasp the nettle.
ref: 1993 September 24, “Seeking an identity”, in Guildford Gazette, number 3, page 8:
text: That Tony Blair should wait until the dying days of his premiership before grasping the nettle of nuclear expansion has proved dangerously neglectful.
ref: 2007 May 24, “Brown's Britain: taking the nuclear option”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 18 Aug 2010:
text: We must be bold. We must grasp the nettle and make the most of this opportunity.
ref: 2020 May 6, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: One chance for a new order”, in Rail, page 3:
text: However, his lease would not be affected by the removal of his dukedom and his honours. Perhaps, if his uncle is still in residence by the time William ascends the throne, the future king will grasp this nettle too.
ref: 2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, “Dealing with ‘Andrew problem’ could help ease William’s accession to the throne”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To act boldly, especially when there are short-term adverse consequences.
Related terms: nettlesome
stinging nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinging nettles
Senses: glosses: A nettle; any of the species of genus Urtica that cause painful short-term skin irritation, especially Urtica dioica, originally Eurasian, now naturalized elsewhere.
Synonyms: word: common nettle
alt: Bristolian
word: stinger
Related terms: deadnettle
chestal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛstəl
Etymology: From chest + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In a long-skirted, gold and green and white cotton affair that slides mildly over her chestal area right up to her neck.
ref: 1979, Ascent, volume 5, Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and Ireland, page 54:
text: 1994 Jonathan Collier, "Bart's Girlfriend," The Simpsons, Season 6, Episode 7 (aired 6 November 1994), spoken by Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright).
I'm all tense through the chestal area!
text: 1999 Out, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 1999), Here Publishing
Feeling cursed with too little in the chestal region?
text: I'd be lying to myself if I pretended that seeing Logan here now isn't causing a parade of elephants to stampede through my upper chestal region.
ref: 2008, Micol Ostow, Popular Vote, Scholastic Inc., page 189:
synonyms: pectoral
glosses: of, or pertaining to, the chest region
Melkonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɛlˈkoʊni.ən/
Forms: form: Melkonians
Etymology: Variant of Melkonyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Melkonyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɛlˈkoʊni.ən/
Forms: form: Melkonyans
form: Melkonian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մելքոնյան (Melkʻonyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Durand-Kerner method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Emile Durand, a French mathematician, and Immo Kerner, a German mathematician.
Senses: examples: text: The improved Durand-Kerner Method […] Referring to the improved Durand-Kerner and the improved Ehrlich we find that the approximations converging towards the origin will move directly towards this zero on each iteration cycle always reducing their distance away by the fraction 2/(m+1) in the first method and 3/(m+2) in the second […]
ref: 1975, International journal of computer mathematics, volumes 5-6:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for finding the roots of polynomial equations.
Synonyms: method of Weierstrass
method of Weierstrass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Karl Weierstrass, a German mathematician.
Senses: glosses: Durand-Kerner method