cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deputation
subterfuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterfuge
confiscations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confiscation
intonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intonation
interpolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpolation
combustibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combustible
crack pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack pipe
crack pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack pipes
form: crackpipe
form: crack-pipe
Senses: glosses: Any pipe used for smoking crack cocaine.
Related terms: english: for smoking marijuana
translation: for smoking marijuana
word: bong
word: crack-
word: crackhead
word: crack whore
english: for smoking hashish
translation: for smoking hashish
word: hash pipe
word: love rose
word: pizzo
word: pookie
english: when innards removed, a type of crack-pipe
translation: when innards removed, a type of crack-pipe
word: tire gauge
inheritances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inheritance
enlargements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enlargement
compositors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compositor
bathing cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathing caps
form: bathing-cap
Senses: glosses: a silicone, latex or lycra cap worn on the head by recreational and competitive swimmers.
Synonyms: swim cap
swim cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim caps
Senses: glosses: a silicone, latex or lycra cap worn on the head by recreational and competitive swimmers.
Synonyms: bathing cap
swim caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swim cap
tragedians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragedian
titleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more titleless
form: most titleless
Etymology: From Middle English titleles, titlelees, equivalent to title + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The first four drafts were swept down a manhole and a long, titleless book began to evolve.
ref: 2010, Larry McMurtry, Moving On, page 7:
glosses: Having no title; nameless.
examples: text: Coriolanus / He would not answer to: forbad all names; / He was a kind of nothing, titleless, / Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire / Of burning Rome.
ref: 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V, I, 11:
glosses: Without noble title; common.
thwartings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thwarting
after-school special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-school specials
form: after school special
Senses: glosses: A television program broadcast in the mid- to late afternoon and directed toward adolescents.
after school special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after school specials
form: after-school special
Etymology: Coined in 1972 by the American Broadcasting Company.
Senses: glosses: A television program broadcast in the mid- to late afternoon and directed toward adolescents, usually dealing with controversial or socially relevant issues.
epicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of epicene.
kiss the ground someone walks on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses the ground someone walks on
form: kissing the ground someone walks on
form: kissed the ground someone walked on
form: kissed the ground someone walked on
Senses: examples: text: and when you shall teach me otherwise, I will not only embrace it, but will kiss the ground you walk on
ref: 1836, Théodore de Bèze, translated by Francis Sibson, The Life of John Calvin, J. Whetham, page 167:
text: Yes ; they cross themselves, bow down their heads level with their heels, kiss your feet, grovel on the very ground, and kiss the earth you walk on.
ref: 1863 August 22, “Two Russian Villages”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume X, number 226, page 617:
text: Make up something that I can believe. Say yer never 'ad a 'and in this, an' I'll kiss the ground yer walk on.
ref: 1911, Louis Stone, Jonah:
glosses: To praise someone highly.
acervately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acervately
form: most acervately
Etymology: From acervate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acervate manner.
adularescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd͡ʒ.ə.ləˈɹɛs.əns/
Etymology: From adularia + -escence.
Senses: glosses: The optical phenomenon, exhibited by some specimens (moonstones) of the mineral adularia, of exhibiting a white to pale bluish or rarely pale orange sheen along crystal faces.
Related terms: adularescent
sanidine
magnesium carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The magnesium salt of carbonic acid, MgCO₃; it is a white powdery solid that occurs as magnesite and other minerals; it used as a mild base and in numerous industrial applications
silver nitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The silver salt of nitric acid, AgNO₃; it is sensitive to light and is used in the preparation of silver halides for photography; it is used in laboratories as a reagent to test for chloride
sodium sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sodium sulfate.
sodium sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of sulfuric acid, Na₂SO₄; it is a mild laxative (as Glauber's salt), and is used in the manufacture of paper, detergents and many other products.
Synonyms: sulfate of soda
ammonium nitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to the Lebanese government, about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was stored in a warehouse on the Beirut waterfront and caught fire, later exploding.
ref: 2020 August 5, John Ismay, “What Is Ammonium Nitrate, Blamed in the Beirut Explosion?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH₄NO₃; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
Derived terms: ammonite
ANFO
Related terms: amatol
ammonite
ammonitrate
busy as a beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very busy.
Related terms: busy beaver
clean as a hound's tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rogers left the Department of State in September, 1973, before the Watergate scandal had implicated Nixon and some of his principal White House aides. He couldn't have picked a better time to return to private life and all his friends were happy for him. Bill Rogers simply cleaned his desk and moved back to his old law firm, Rogers and Wells. He came through all this untarnished, as clean as a hound's tooth.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clean; very innocent.
Synonyms: clean as a new penny
clean as a whistle
poor as a church mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Alteration of earlier hungry as a church mouse, from the fact that Catholic and Orthodox priests are called to scrupulously prevent any crumb of the sacrament of Eucharist (the bread which is understood to be Christ's body) from falling on the altar or to the ground, meaning that church mice had no crumbs to feed on. This phrase seems to be a corruption of the even earlier expression “as quiet as a church mouse” from the 1300s.
Senses: examples: text: But to return to our public functions; that we have had a decided turn for the church appears from the fact that the church-mouse is a recognised order amongst us, and it is our just pride that we alone have preserved the genuine character of the institution as founded by the Apostles, inasmuch as our poverty has passed into a proverb— "as poor as a church-mouse."
ref: 1844, a Mouse (sic), Le Peuple Souriquois: An Historical Sketch, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, vol. 71, pt. 2, page 428
text: She was an Eastern Virginia woman, and, although poor as a church mouse, thought herself superior to West Virginia people.
ref: 1879, John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier, Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., page 17:
text: "As poor as a poet" would be quite as comprehensible as "as poor as a church mouse."
ref: 1932 April 9, Isidor Schneider, “Hard Luck Of Poets”, in The New York Times:
text: Pulford is currently building a raised bed for an allotment, and another school garden is due to open soon. "I'm poor as a church mouse, but I wake up a happy man," he says.
ref: 2009 September 23, Mark Gould, quoting Paul Pulford, “Former heroin addict inspires growing optimism from the wild side”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: almsless
word: arm
word: badly off
word: bankrupt
word: beggared
word: beggarly
word: boracic
word: broke
word: broken
word: broker than the Ten Commandments
word: destitute
word: dirt poor
word: disadvantaged
word: down and out
word: down at heel
word: down on one's luck
word: down on one's uppers
word: empty-handed
word: feeling the pinch
word: flat
word: hard up
word: impecunious
word: impoverished
word: in need
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: lower-class
word: necessitous
word: needy
word: oofless
word: pauperized
word: penniless
word: penurious
word: pinched
word: pok kai
word: poor
word: poor as a church mouse
word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: possessionless
word: poverty-ridden
word: poverty-stricken
word: shillingless
word: skint
word: stone-broke
word: stony-broke
word: strapped
word: stuck
word: threadbare
word: unwealthy
word: wealthless
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.
Related terms: quiet as a church mouse
quiet as a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quiet as a church mouse
Senses: synonyms: word: faint
word: hushed
word: low
word: muffled
word: quiet
word: quiet as a grave
word: quiet as a mouse
word: quiet as a church mouse
word: soft
word: still
word: stifled
word: tranquil
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very quiet, so as to not be heard.
clean as a whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clean
qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely innocent; beyond moral reproach.
Synonyms: clean as a bean
clean as a hound's tooth
clean as a new penny
clean as a new pin
Related terms: clear as a bell
happy as Larry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: This has been said to refer to the Australian boxer Larry Foley (1849–1917), who never lost a fight. This is not likely as the earliest reference to the phrase is in a letter to the editor of the Illawarra Mercury in Wollongong, Australia in 1857. In it the correspondent "G U A" (probably Dr. George Underwood Alley, known for regularly corresponding with newspapers) writes "...we'll all live together, like Brown's cows, and be as happy as Larry."
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely happy and carefree.
wikipedia: Larry Foley
Synonyms: happy
strong as an ox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: as strong as an ox
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very strong and powerful.
white as a sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: pale as a ghost
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very white or pale, as if suffering from shock.
raw_tags: said of a human's complexion
tiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiro
undiscoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscoverable
form: most undiscoverable
Etymology: From un- + discoverable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be discovered; hidden perfectly.
topics: law
glosses: Not subject to being produced in response to a discovery request.
adjutancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjutancies
Etymology: From adjutant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The state or office of being an adjutant, assistant, or helper.
trembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tremble
trembles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremble
trembles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of milk sickness.
synonyms: word: milk sickness
slums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /slʌmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of slum
slums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /slʌmz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slum
abdominal cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdominal cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hollow portion of the torso within the abdomen, containing the abdominal organs, in mammals below the diaphragm.
Related terms: abdomino-
coelo-
abdominal cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdominal cavity
stay at home
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stay-at-home.
stay at home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay at homes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stay-at-home.
stay at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays at home
form: staying at home
form: stayed at home
form: stayed at home
Senses: examples: text: Democrats were concerned that Mitt Romney might win the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election because millennials would stay at home on Election Day.
glosses: Not to vote in an election; not to turn out; not to make it to the polls
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, at, home.
abdominal wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdominal walls
Senses: glosses: The layer of muscles that surrounds the abdominal cavity and contains the abdominal organs.
Related terms: mirach
abdominal walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdominal wall
acacia gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪ.ʃə ɡʌm/
ipa: /əˈkeɪ.sjə ɡʌm/
ipa: /əˈkeɪ.ʃə ɡʌm/
Senses: glosses: The sticky congealed sap of the acacia tree, used as a food additive and in adhesives.
Synonyms: gum arabic
methyl methyacrylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound C₅O₂H₈, mostly used as a monomer for the production of the transparent plastic polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
PMMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of polymethyl methacrylate.
Lucite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: leucite
Senses: glosses: The tough transparent thermoplastic polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
Synonyms: Perspex
Hypernyms: plastic
gives out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give out
giving out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give out
gave out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give out
given out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give out
action potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action potentials
Senses: examples: text: Even some single-celled organisms have action potentials.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 23:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A short-term change in the electrical potential that travels along a cell such as a nerve or muscle fiber.
lesser evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser evils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lesser of two evils.
synonyms: word: lesser of two evils
Derived terms: lesser evilism
scrubland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrublands
Etymology: From scrub + land.
Senses: examples: text: The scrubland I'd be crossing looked desolate, but at least it wasn't a desert.
text: New lakes had appeared as if by magic in the arid scrublands. Instead of hunting for puddles in the sandstone, she could lead her 100 animals to drink their fill.
ref: 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: It was then a further 21 years until the construction of Bramley Ordnance Depot (which became Central Ammunition Depot from 1946) began on an area of scrubland just south of the village.
ref: 2025 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:
glosses: A plant community characterized by scrub vegetation, consisting of low shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
Synonyms: heathland
accouche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accouches
form: accouching
form: accouched
form: accouched
Etymology: A back-formation from accouchement, or else from French accoucher.
Senses: glosses: To aid in an accouchement.
heathland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heathlands
Etymology: From heath + land. Compare Saterland Frisian Heedelound (“heathland”).
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the latter station—reached after traversing the only level mile of track between East Suffolk Junction and Beccles—a stiffish climb leads across heathland to Wickham Market Station, which is actually at Campsea Ashe, 1½ miles from the town of Wickham Market.
ref: 1954 December, D. S. Barrie and B. D. J. Walsh, “Railways of East Suffolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 816:
glosses: A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
Synonyms: heath
heathlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heathland
scrublands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrubland
geophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geophytes
securitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: securitizes
form: securitizing
form: securitized
form: securitized
Etymology: From security (“tradeable financial asset”) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Once the private sector had discovered securitization, it securitized any claim imaginable, from residential mortgages to receivables for products and services from cars to credit cards and student loans; the original policy goal of lowering the costs of credit for homeowners gave away to minting as much private money (or debt) as investors demanded.
ref: 2020, Katharina Pistor, “4: Minting Debt”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To convert assets or claims (typically outstanding loans or other receivables) to securities, usually by selling them with a discount to a financial intermediary, which pools them with other similar assets and sells further as securities to third-party investors.
Derived terms: securitization
Related terms: asset-backed security
securitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made into a security.
securitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of securitize
securitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of securitize
securitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of securitize
financial instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financial instrument
stepuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepuncles
form: step-uncle
Etymology: From step- + uncle.
Senses: glosses: The brother of one's mother's husband (stepfather) or father's wife (stepmother).
glosses: The stepbrother of one's father or mother.
Hypernyms: stepfamily
Related terms: stepaunt
stepnephew
stepniece
stepaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepaunts
form: step-aunt
Etymology: From step- + aunt.
Senses: glosses: The sister of one's stepparent
glosses: The stepsister of one's parent
Hypernyms: stepfamily
Related terms: stepnephew
stepniece
stepuncle
stepniece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepnieces
form: step-niece
Etymology: From step- + niece.
Senses: glosses: The daughter of one's stepbrother or stepsister
glosses: The stepdaughter of one's sibling
Related terms: stepaunt
stepnephew
stepuncle
dermatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɜːməˈtəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: dermatoses
Etymology: From dermato- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the skin.
Derived terms: acrodermatosis
chromatodermatosis
genodermatosis
neurodermatosis
photodermatosis
dermatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatosis
muscle fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscle fibers
form: muscle fibre
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: myocyte
glosses: A single cell of a muscle; each muscle fiber contains many myofibrils, the contractile unit of muscles.
muscle fibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle fiber
muscle fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscle fibres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of muscle fiber.
muscle fibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle fibre
afferently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more afferently
form: most afferently
Etymology: From afferent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Inwardly, toward the center.
myofibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myofibrils
Etymology: From myo- + fibril.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the cylindrical organelles, found within muscle cells, that are the contractile unit of muscles.
Synonyms: word: sarcostyle
Derived terms: myofibrillar
myofibrillogenesis
premyofibril
myofibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myofibril
efferently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more efferently
form: most efferently
Etymology: From efferent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Outwardly, away from the center.
sarcostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcostyles
Etymology: From sarco- + -style.
Senses: glosses: A myofibril.
sarcostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcostyle
interfibrillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: from inter- (“between”) + fibrillar
Senses: glosses: Located or situated between fibrils.
funny car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funny cars
Senses: coordinate_terms: dragster
glosses: A drag racing car of a class generally having forward-mounted engines and carbon fiber automotive bodies over the chassis, superficially resembling manufacturers' showroom models.
funny cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funny car
fire-sale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to or resembling a fire sale.
fire sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire sales
Etymology: By metonymy, from 19th century discount sales of products that had been damaged by fire or that could no longer be stored because the storage facility had been destroyed by fire necessitating immediate sale or loss of value.
Senses: examples: text: By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer a fire sale of some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
ref: 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
text: Bruce was happy with a point and is now focused on surviving a fire-sale at the KC Stadium before the transfer window shuts, with Tom Huddlestone linked with West Ham. “We have lost 14 players and brought in five or six but the transfer window [closing] is still three weeks away,” he said.
ref: 2015 August 16, Press Association, “Wolves rescue point against Hull thanks to Allan McGregor howler”, in The Guardian:
text: The fire sale comes a week after FTX provided a $250 million emergency line of credit to BlockFi.
ref: 2022 June 30, Kate Rooney, “FTX closes in on a deal to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for $25 million in a fire sale, source says”, in CNBC:
glosses: A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices, often at losses.
fire sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire sale
finger bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger bowls
form: fingerbowl
form: finger-bowl
Senses: examples: text: In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases[…]
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine:
glosses: A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses.
finger bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger bowl
adjunctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adjunctly
form: most adjunctly
Etymology: From adjunct + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adjunct manner.
administrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His administrant style was leading from the front.
glosses: Administrating
administrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administrants
Senses: examples: text: The intern was the administrant of the experimental serum.
glosses: The one who administers.
vaginal birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginal births
Senses: glosses: Birth via the vagina (as opposed to caesarean section).
vaginal births
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginal birth
overspill estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overspill estates
Senses: glosses: A housing estate planned and built for the rehousing of people from decaying inner city areas, usually as part of the process of slum clearance.
live pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live pairs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Two members of Congress who would have otherwise cast opposing votes, but who form an agreement whereby one announces the couple is a live pair and registers his or her own vote as present rather than for or against. Although not recognized or recorded in vote tallies, the effect is to allow the other member to be absent without affecting the outcome of the vote.
alternatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From alternating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alternating manner; taking turns.
adamancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamancies
Senses: examples: text: Knowing the stubbornness and adamancy of born-again Christians, they're more likely to write off Borhek off as "fallen," and accuse her of succumbing to the arguments of Satan.
ref: 1979 December 29, Andy Beck, “Parents of Gays”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 15:
text: I stuck my nose in the air, realizing too late that it was a borrowed gesture – one I’d been using for years in moments of pride or adamancy – and that it properly belonged to the woman sitting opposite me.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 405:
glosses: The property of being adamant.
arthritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthritic
yoctograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoctogram
yoctoampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoctoamperes
Etymology: From yocto- + ampere.
Senses: examples: text: However, in the IGZO-FET, heavy holes strongly suppress tunneling current, and at most yoctoampere off-state current is estimated which is dominated by thermally excited holes.
ref: 2012, Masakazu Murakami, Kiyoshi Kato, Ko Inada, Takanori Matsuzaki, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki, “Theoretical examination on a significantly low off-state current of a transistor using crystalline In-Ga-Zn-oxide”, in 19th International Workshop on Active-Matrix Flatpanel Displays and Devices (AM-FPD):
text: First, they are known to show an off-state current on the order of yoctoampere per micron (10⁻²⁴ A/µm) at room temperature (RT).
ref: 2016, Yoshinobu Asami, Motomu Kurata, Yutaka Okazaki, Eiji Higa, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Satoru Okamoto, Shinya Sasagawa, Tomoaki Moriwaka, Tetsuya Kakehata, Yuto Yakubo, “Properties of c-axis-aligned crystalline indium–gallium–zinc oxide field-effect transistors fabricated through a tapered-trench gate process”, in The Japan Society of Applied Physics, volume 55, number 4S:
text: For example, the off-state current per micrometer of the channel width at 85° C. is less than or equal to 100 yA (1 yA (yoctoampere) is 1×10⁻²⁴ A).
ref: 2018, Jun Koyama, Semiconductor device including refresh circuit for memory cell (UA Patent 9,922,692):
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical current equal to 10⁻²⁴ amperes. Symbol: yA
Synonyms: yoctoamp
yA
yoctoamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoctoampere
deciampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsiæmpɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: deciamperes
Etymology: From deci- + ampere.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical current equal to 10⁻¹ amperes. Symbol: dA
Synonyms: deciamp
dA
deciamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deciampere
plosophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plosophoric
form: most plosophoric
Senses: glosses: Describing any of several non-explosive materials that become explosive when mixed.
pozole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsəʊleɪ/
ipa: /pəˈzəʊleɪ/
ipa: /pəˈsoʊˌleɪ/
ipa: /pəˈzoʊˌleɪ/
Forms: form: pozoles
form: posole
Etymology: From Spanish pozole, from Classical Nahuatl pozolli (“stew of maize kernels”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mexican soup, made from hominy, pork, chilli and other ingredients.
integer factorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integer factorizations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The decomposition of a composite number into a product of smaller integers
Hyponyms: prime factorization
crab canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab canons
Etymology: From the mistaken medieval notion that crabs move backwards.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A contrapuntal composition in which one melody is superimposed on the same melody in reverse
Related terms: cancrizans
bunkered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunker
bunkering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunker
bunkering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkerings
Senses: examples: text: The number of bunkerings at the port has been increasing.
text: Our company provides bunkering services throughout the region.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: coaling
glosses: The taking on board of bunker fuel.
glosses: The illicit removal of oil from a pipeline or other distribution system.
bozzetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəʊtˈsɛtəʊ/
Forms: form: bozzetti
Etymology: From Italian bozzetto.
Senses: examples: text: In his studio, his small bozzetti were diligently kept out of public view, and he granted access to the back room where he stored them only to select individuals.
ref: 2020, Johannes Myssok, “Angelica Kauffman and Antonio Canova”, in Bettina Baumgärtel, editor, Angelica Kauffman, Hirmer, page 24:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A small scale model used to make a larger sculpture.
Related terms: draft
maquette
model
modello
sketch
study
wintle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪntəl
Forms: form: wintles
form: wintling
form: wintled
form: wintled
Etymology: Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen (“to reel”); compare wentelen.
Senses: examples: c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,
The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
1974, Austin Clarke, quoted in 1981, G. Craig Tapping, Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings, page 282,
Along the cliffs a breeze wintled.
glosses: To wind, to reel.
glosses: To stagger, to sway or rock.
examples: text: At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
ref: 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, published 2011, page 214:
glosses: To tumble, to capsize.
examples: text: Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.
ref: 2002, Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey, US, page 222:
glosses: To wriggle.
Derived terms: wintler
boccette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Italian billiards-like ball sport.
bozzetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bozzetto
working capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: working capital requirement
topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: WC
glosses: Amount of capital a business or other entity has available for running its daily operations, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities.
cader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cadre.
angelfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angelfish
adnominally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adnominal + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In an adnominal way; used like an adnoun, adjectivally.
sizar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizars
form: sizer
Etymology: An alteration of sizer, from size (“fixed portion”) + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: batteler
pensioner
servitor
glosses: An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.
Related terms: bursar
scholarship
thia-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of chemical compounds containing sulfur, especially where a sulfur atom replaces an oxygen atom in an analogous compound
Coordinate terms: sense: heterocyclic element
word: fluora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: chlora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: broma-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: ioda-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: oxa-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: selena-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: tellura-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: aza-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: phospha-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: arsa-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: stiba-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: bisma-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: sila-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: germa-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: stanna-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: plumba-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: bora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: mercura-
Related terms: thiabendazole
thiacalixarene
thialdine
thialol
thiamazole
thi-
thio-
thiacalixarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiacalixarenes
Etymology: From thia- + calixarene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several analogs of calixarenes in which benzene rigs are connected by sulfur bridges.
sizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sizer
meat and two veg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stereotypical standard dinner, with a meat and two kinds of vegetable.
glosses: The male genitals.
Related terms: chips with everything
airtightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more airtightly
form: most airtightly
Etymology: From airtight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Be sure to seal the jar airtightly or the contents will go bad from exposure to oxygen.
glosses: Sealed in an airtight manner.
true frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true frogs
Etymology: From true (“sensu stricto”) + frog.
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the large family Ranidae, found worldwide, typically with smooth and moist skin; large, powerful legs; and extensively webbed feet.
Synonyms: ranid
moss frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss frogs
Senses: glosses: A group of tropical frogs in the Rhacophoridae family, mostly arboreal.
Malabar flying frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malabar flying frogs
Senses: glosses: A species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae, found in western India, Rhacophorus malabaricus, having the ability to glide due to the webbing between its toes.
Synonyms: sense: Malabar gliding frog
word: Racophorus malabaricus
air bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bladders
Senses: synonyms: fish maw
gas bladder
swim bladder
glosses: An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density.
examples: text: The company used to be notorious for excessive packaging, and social media grew littered with examples: three pairs of socks wrapped in puffy air bladders[…]
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A type of packing material that consists of an airtight bag full of air, used to cushion fragile items.
gas bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas bladders
Senses: examples: text: Nicknamed a "manta" by Andromeda Initiative observers, this majestic creature has been sighted on several worlds in the Heleus Cluster. The Nexus scientists believe it may have originally evolved on a world with heavy deposits of element zero, giving it the ability to lower its mass enough to "swim" through the air. Expanding the muscular gas bladders on its underside allows the creature to rise and orient itself in flight.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Andromeda Wildlife: Manta Codex entry:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density.
Synonyms: air bladder
fish maw
swim bladder
thialol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: diethyldisulfide (C₂H₅)₂S₂
air bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air bladder
thiamazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θʌɪˈam.ə.zəʊl/
ipa: /θaɪˈæm.əˌzoʊl/
Forms: form: methimazole
Etymology: From thia- + (i)m(id)azole.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An imidazole derivative that interferes with the synthesis of thyroid hormone and is given orally in the treatment of hyperthyroidism; 1-methylimidazole-2-thiol, C₃H₂N₂(CH₃)(SH).
Related terms: alt: prodrug
word: carbimazole
gas bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas bladder
swim bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swim bladder
methimazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈθɪm.ə.zəʊl/
ipa: /məˈθɪm.əˌzoʊl/
Forms: form: methimazoles
Etymology: From meth- + thi- + (i)m(id)azole.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thiamazole.
Derived terms: carbimazole
thioamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioamides
Etymology: From thio- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical compound, analogous to the amides in which the oxygen atom of the carbonyl group is replaced by sulfur; R-CS-NH₂ (and N-derivatives)
Derived terms: carbothioamide
Darwin's frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darwin's frogs
Etymology: Named after Charles Darwin
Senses: glosses: Rhinoderma darwinii, a species of frog native to Chile and Argentina, with a distinctive feature of raising the tadpoles in the male's vocal sac.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhinoderma rufum
word: Chile Darwin's frog
vocal sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocal sacs
Senses: glosses: The flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs, used for amplification of the voice.
Amazon milk frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amazon milk frogs
Senses: glosses: A large frog native to South America, of species Trachycephalus resinifictrix.
Synonyms: Mission golden-eyed treefrog
blue-sided leaf frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-sided leaf frogs
Senses: glosses: A species of tree frog native to Costa Rica, Agalychnis annae, noted for the blue stripes running down both of its sides.
Synonyms: yellow-eyed leaf frog
long-fingered frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-fingered frogs
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of frogs of the genus Cardioglossa.
water spout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.tə spaʊt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈwɔ.təɹ spaʊt/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.təɹ spaʊt/
Forms: form: water spouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waterspout.
thiasarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiasarches
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The leader of a thiasus.
thiasus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiasi
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek θίασος (thíasos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.
Related terms: thiasarch
thiasote
thiasote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiasotes
Senses: glosses: A member of a thiasus in Ancient Greece.
recreational vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recreational vehicles
Senses: glosses: A self-propelled vehicle (motor home), or trailer designed for use as living quarters on overnight recreational activities and travel.
Derived terms: RV
Related terms: mobile home
psychosexual development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.
thialdine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic base 5,6-dihydro-2,4,6-trimethyl-4H-1,3,5-dithiazine, that occurs in the aroma of cooked meat.
thumb war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb wars
Senses: synonyms: thumb fight
pea-knuckle
pea-knuckle war
thumb-a-war
thumb wrestle
qualifier: hand games
glosses: A children's game in which the two opponents interlock each other's right- or left-handed fingers, each attempting to hold down the other's thumb.
affixal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From affix + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter, the lexical evidence has been examined for the affixal nature of various sequences in the pre-Roman language(s) of Sardinia.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 453:
glosses: As or like an affix.
Derived terms: affixally
alpha decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha decays
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle.
Coordinate terms: beta decay
electron capture
gamma decay
spontaneous fission
alpha decays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha decay
manducate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manducates
form: manducating
form: manducated
form: manducated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin mandūcātus, perfect passive participle of to chew, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French manger.
Senses: glosses: To chew (something); to masticate.
examples: text: If we manducate bread, then it is capable of all the natural alterations, and it cannot be denied. But if we manducate Christ's body after a natural manner, what worse thing is it, that it descends into the guts, than that it goes into the stomach; to be cast forth, than to be torn in pieces with the teeth, as I have proved that it is by the Roman doctrine?
ref: 1653 (indicated as 1654), Jeremy Taylor, “The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, Proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Section IX. Arguments from Other Scriptures, Proving Christ’s Real Presence in the Sacrament to be Only Spiritual, Not Natural.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume IX, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 503:
glosses: To eat (something).
Related terms: manducation
manducator
manducatory
manger
basic research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Research performed without regard to practical applications.
Synonyms: word: blue skies research
word: fundamental research
word: pure research
Jamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamericans
Etymology: Blend of Jamaican + American
Senses: glosses: An American of Jamaican birth or ancestry
Jamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jamerican
form: most Jamerican
Etymology: Blend of Jamaican + American
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of such people or their culture
inventory management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: stock control
qualifier: supply chain
glosses: The formal management of the timing and quantities of goods to be ordered and stocked by an organization in order that demand can always be satisfied without excess expenditure.
Related terms: inventoryless
safety stock
buffer stock
E&OE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: E. & O. E
form: e&oe
Senses: glosses: Initialism of errors and omissions excepted/excluded.
sweat like a pig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats like a pig
form: sweating like a pig
form: sweated like a pig
form: sweated like a pig
Senses: synonyms: sweat like a horse
sweat buckets
sweat bullets
sweat like a hooker in church
qualifier: simile
glosses: To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.
cut like a knife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts like a knife
form: cutting like a knife
form: cut like a knife
form: cut like a knife
Senses: examples: text: The bitter wind cut like a knife, freezing my fingers and numbing my circulation.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To sting severely, to cause a sensation of stinging, especially said of cold weather.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To be very sharp (of a character, or remark)