cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
independence number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independence numbers
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of vertices in a maximum independent set of a given graph, often denoted as α=α(G).
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The smallest cardinality of a maximal independent family of subsets of the natural numbers, usually denoted by lowercase Fraktur letter i.
dominating set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominating sets
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of vertices of a graph, such that each vertex in that graph is either in that set or adjacent to a vertex in that set.
Related terms: domination number
domination number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domination numbers
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the number of vertices in a minimum dominating set of a given graph, often denoted as γ=γ(G)
exhuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhume
exhumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhume
regality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regalities
Etymology: From Middle English regalite, from Old French, from Late Latin rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”), equivalent to regal + -ity. Doublet of royalty.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […]
ref: 1993, Miklós Boskovits, The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270, volume 1, page 33:
glosses: Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
Derived terms: burgh of regality
debrine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debrines
form: debrining
form: debrined
form: debrined
Etymology: From de- + brine.
Senses: examples: text: Some potash operators have expirimented with portable cyclones to debrine the slurry on top of the tails pile.
ref: 1994, Charles A. Hodge., Pollution Control in Fertilizer Production., page 350:
text: After several seasons, the brine liquid drains out downwards from the pockets and the pockets may even debrine completely.
ref: 1999, A. H. Sihvola., Electromagnetic Mixing Formulas and Applications., page 238:
glosses: To remove a brine or saturated salt solution from.
Synonyms: desalinate
tatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatees
Senses: glosses: aunt; auntie.
glosses: a person having the qualities of a trusted and honest confidant (without intimate interactions implied).
-cha
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃ(j)ə/
ipa: /tʃ(j)æ/
Forms: form: -choo
form: -chu
Etymology: From an unstressed you (/jə/) after a word ending in /t/; the unstressed sequence /tj/ coalesces into /tʃ/ ⟨ch⟩ in many accents.
Senses: examples: text: Baz: 'BAD NEWS, BUD. I NEVER WANTED TO FIGHTCHA, BUT IF WE WANT OUT, WE GOTTA SCRAP! YOU 'N ME, MANO A MANO.'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Reize), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch
glosses: Alternative form of ya (“you”).
raw_tags: used only after a /t/ sound
Related terms: -ja
Czechoslovakian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛk.əz.lə.væk.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛk.ə.sloʊˈvɑk.i.ən/
Etymology: From Czech + -o- + Slovak + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the former nation of Czechoslovakia.
Synonyms: Czechoslovak
Czechoslovakian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛk.əz.lə.væk.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛk.ə.sloʊˈvɑk.i.ən/
Forms: form: Czechoslovakians
Etymology: From Czech + -o- + Slovak + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Czechoslovakia.
Synonyms: Czechoslovak
dermo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”); compare dermis § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: dermal: dermis, but also often, broadly, skin or epidermis.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Coordinate terms: cutaneous
dermal
derm-
derma-
dermato-
epidermal
Related terms: -derma
-dermatous
F1 hybrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F1 hybrids
Etymology: Filial + 1 + hybrid
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first filial generation of seeds or animal offspring, which are usually vigorous and uniform. Produced by crossing two distinctly different parents.
Related terms: F2 hybrid
F1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of F1 hybrid.
glosses: help or advice (derived from the common usage of "F1" as the help key, during the DOS era of computing programs)
Formula 1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of Formula One.
Cupid's bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cupid's bows
Senses: glosses: The archery bow borne by Cupid in artistic representations, which curves inward at the centre and often outward at the ends.
glosses: The curve of the upper lip which resembles such a bow; the philtrum.
glosses: A similar curve carved in woodwork, etc.
reostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reostats
Senses: glosses: Dated form of rheostat.
behaviourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behaviourists
Etymology: From behaviour + -ist.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of behaviorist.
Derived terms: neobehaviourist
irons in the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Describing a blacksmith working on several pieces at the same time.
Senses: examples: text: Although she plans to step back from the boards of NSAR and East West Rail, there are "a couple of other irons in the fire".
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 45:
text: “Hippo, what are you working on? I've noticed you haven't debuted anything in a while, so it must be pretty good.” “What? Wh-why would I tell you that? I don't answer to you. I have a lot of irons in the fire. In fact, I should check on 'em. I'm checking on my irons!”
ref: 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (3:18 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Hippocampus (Duncan Trussell):
glosses: Tasks in progress; involvement in ongoing projects.
Related terms: have one's fingers in many pies
spin plates
too many balls in the air
wear too many hats
rigorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rigorously
form: most rigorously
form: rigourously
Etymology: From rigorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
ref: 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
glosses: In a rigorous manner.
nelfinavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛlˈfɪn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug (trademark Viracept) of the protease inhibitor class that is used in the form of its mesilate C₃₂H₄₅N₃O₄S·CH₄O₃S to treat HIV infected patients.
Derived terms: nelfinavir mesylate
protease inhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protease inhibitors
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: antiprotease
glosses: Any molecule that inhibits the function of proteases (enzymes that aid the cleavage of proteins), e.g. alpha-1 antitrypsin.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: PI
glosses: Any of a class of medications that act by interfering with proteases, used to treat or prevent viral infections including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
Hyponyms: sense: medications
word: amprenavir
sense: medications
word: atazanavir
sense: medications
word: darunavir
sense: medications
word: fosamprenavir
sense: medications
word: indinavir
sense: medications
word: lopinavir
sense: medications
word: nelfinavir
sense: medications
word: ritonavir
sense: medications
word: saquinavir
sense: medications
word: tipranavir
protease inhibitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protease inhibitor
inhibitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhibitor
amprenavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈpɹɛn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used to treat HIV infected patients.
Derived terms: fosamprenavir
atazanavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæt.əˈzæn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is administered orally in the form of its sulfate C₃₈H₅₂N₆O₇·H₂SO₄ in conjunction with other antiretroviral agents to treat HIV infected patients.
darunavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used in to treat HIV infected patients.
fosamprenavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fos- (“phosphorous derivative”) + amprenavir.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
Derived terms: fosamprenavir calcium
fosamprenavir calcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The salt form of the protease inhibitor drug fosamprenavir used in the treatment of HIV infected patients.
nelfinavir mesylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The salt form of the protease inhibitor drug nelfinavir used in the treatment of HIV infected patients.
malta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish malta, in turn from German Malzbier.
Senses: examples: text: I toasted him with my glass of malta.
ref: 2016, Marion E. Currier, Linked:
glosses: A non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage, popular in Latin America.
indinavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From indina- (“alteration of indanyl”) + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug C₃₆H₄₇N₅O₄ of the protease inhibitor class that is used in the form of its sulfate in combination with antiretroviral drugs (such as zidovudine) to treat HIV infected patients.
lopinavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊˈpɪn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug C₃₇H₄₈N₄O₅ of the protease inhibitor class that is taken orally usually in conjunction with other retroviral agents (such as ritonavir) to treat HIV infected patients.
ritonavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtoʊ.nəˌvɪɹ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɑn.əˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug C₃₇H₄₈N₆O₅S₂ of the protease inhibitor class that is administered orally to treat HIV-infected and AIDS patients.
Related terms: nirmatrelvir
saquinavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sa- (“probably alteration of (prote)as(e)”) + quin(oline) + -a- + -vir (“antiviral”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug C₃₈H₅₀N₆O₅ of the protease inhibitor class that is used in the form of its methylated sulfonic salt especially in combination with other antiretroviral agents to treat HIV infected patients.
Derived terms: english: HIV protease inhibitor
translation: HIV protease inhibitor
word: -navir
tipranavir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -navir (“HIV protease inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiretroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used in to treat HIV infected patients.
Derived terms: tipranavir disodium
tipranavir disodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The salt form of the protease inhibitor drug tipranavir used in the treatment of HIV infected patients.
HAART
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Goldilocks principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Referring to the girl in the fairy tale who found one bowl of porridge too hot, one too cold, and one just right.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The observation that, out of the great range of all possible conditions on Earth, the actual conditions are all “just right” in order to support life.
Related terms: Goldilocks planet
Goldilocks zone
housemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: housemates
Etymology: From house + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: ‘“Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’
‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’
ref: 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 12:
synonyms: flatmate
roommate
glosses: Someone living in the same house.
toepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toepieces
Etymology: From toe + piece.
Senses: glosses: The portion of a shoe that covers the toes.
glosses: The forward part of a ski binding by the toe, for either water skiing or snow skiing.
hard-assed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-assed
form: most hard-assed
Senses: qualifier: sometimes considered
glosses: Of a person: having a very difficult personality; being a perfectionist.
eka-astatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + astatine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tennessine.
synonyms: word: tennessine
Cheddaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of cheddaring.
Czech hedgehog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Czech hedgehogs
Senses: examples: text: Omaha Beach was shielded by about 3,700 obstacles, including 450 ramps, 2,000 stakes, 1,050 Czech hedgehogs, and 200 Belgian Gates. These followed a standard pattern.
ref: 2013, Steven Zaloga, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: caltrop#Noun
;
Belgian Gate
dragon's teeth
glosses: A static antitank and anti–landing craft obstacle, widely used during World War II, constructed from three mutually perpendicular steel rails connected in the form of a tripod.
Related terms: english: often hypernymous
translation: often hypernymous
word: tank trap
panzanella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A summer bread salad including sliced bread and fresh tomatoes, flavored with basil, olive oil and vinegar.
theocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /θiːəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
Forms: form: more theocentric
form: most theocentric
Etymology: From theo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Having God as main focus: with God, a god, or gods as the focal point.
Related terms: theocentrism
overhasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + hasty.
Senses: examples: text: I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.
text: He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.
ref: 1836, Medico-Chirurgical Review, Richard & George S. Wood, page 64:
text: "Sir Julien de Montessy, he at length said, " I may have been overhasty in my judgment, suspend your's for awhile ; — there be no book in whatever tongue so hard to read as a woman's heart ! I have told you what I have seen and heard — yet hearing, I might have heard wrong, and seeing, I might have viewed with eyes prejudiced by my humour; so it were best deliberate ere so rash a step as you propose be taken. He is a right brave, open-hearted stripling, and by my faith, sir knight, t' would grieve me sorely that harm befell him, were I sure you had no ground for animosity.
ref: 1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress, Edward Bull, pages 137-138:
text: But, however, concerning philosophies of this kind, a caution was on no account to be overlooked ; because already we foresee it in mind, and augur, that if at any time, stirred by our admonitions, men (taking leave of the sophistical learning) shall, in earnest, shape themselves to experiment, then will it certainly happen, on account of the premature and overhasty speed of the mind, and its spring and flight to generalities and the principles of things, tliat there will be an imminent danger from such philosophies; and this evil it is fit even now to meet.
ref: 1844, Francis Bacon, James Glassford, Novum Organum Scientiarum, Edinburgh Print Company, pages 50-51:
text: He entered into a discourse filled with phrases like "secondary consciousness" "collective hallucinations," "nerve-force," wherein, while admitting that great and good men believed in the phenomena of "spiritism," he concluded that they were overhasty in assigning causes. For his part, the realm of hallucination was boundless.
ref: 1905, Hamlin Garland, The Tyranny of the Dark, Harper & Brothers, page 358:
text: We must not be overhasty in condemning those, who made an earnest plea for the educational rights of women.
ref: 1910, Good Housekeeping Magazine 1910-09: Volume 51, Issue 3, Hearst Magazines, page 257:
text: The discovery of galvanism, the general progress of the knowledge of electricity, the beginnings of chemistry, the various beginnings of discovery in the biological sciences —all these things constituted fascinating temptations to overhasty generalization. .
ref: 1913, John Michels, Science, Science Press, page 572:
glosses: Too hasty.
Derived terms: overhastily
overhastiness
obsoleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obsolete
Related terms: obsolescent
overfly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overflies
form: overflying
form: overflew
form: overflown
Etymology: From over- + fly.
Senses: examples: text: My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
text: In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193:
glosses: To fly over something.
examples: text: The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.
glosses: To fly too far past something.
Derived terms: overflier
Related terms: flyover
overflight
-osity
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈɑ.sə.ti/
ipa: /-ɾi/
Etymology: From Middle English -ouste, from Old French -ouseté, from Latin -ōsitās; later modified to the current form. It is equivalent to -ose or -ous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Forming nouns, usually abstract, and usually from adjectives in -ous or -ose.
glosses: Forming nouns from other adjectives for humorous effect.
Synonyms: -ness
-hood
-ship
-th
-itas → -ity
-itude
-ia
-itia
-ability
-ibility
-icity
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: callosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: credulosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: curiosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: generosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: impetuosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: incredulosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: luminosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: monstrosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: pomposity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: porosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: preciosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: religiosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: scrupulosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: sinuosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: venomosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: virtuosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ous
word: viscosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ose
word: bellicosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ose
word: grandiosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ose
word: jocosity
sense: terms derived from adjectives in -ose
word: verbosity
sense: other derivations
word: animosity
sense: terms derived using -osity for humorous effect
word: bogosity
sense: terms derived using -osity for humorous effect
word: randomosity
overflies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfly
overflying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfly
overflew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overfly
overflown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + flown.
Senses: glosses: past participle of overfly
overflown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English overflowen (past participle of overflowen besides rare overflowed), from Old English oferflōwen (past participle of oferflōwan).
Senses: glosses: past participle of overflow
tunneler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnelers
form: tunneller
Etymology: From tunnel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes tunnels.
glosses: A device for making tunnels.
Derived terms: bridge-and-tunneler
tunnelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunneler
xoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ɛksəʊɛksəʊ]
Forms: form: xo
form: XO
form: xoxoxo
form: XOXO
Etymology: From use of X/x to mean “kiss” and O/o to mean “hug”. Use of “X” to indicate a kiss attested since 1763, preceded by medieval use of an “X”, which was then kissed by illiterates to indicate a signature. Use of “O” is more recent, and presumably created by analogy (e.g., X/O in tic-tac-toe). Speculative theories on precise origins abound, including folk etymologies (for example, the notion that the X represents the crossed arms of a hug and that the O represents the pursed lips of a kiss).
Senses: synonyms: 88
X's and O's
glosses: Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.
wikipedia: Gilbert White
Related terms: xxx
ooo
tromp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɒmp/
Forms: form: tromps
form: tromping
form: tromped
form: tromped
Etymology: 1892, variant of tramp.
Senses: examples: text: Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
text: The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
text: He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read.
ref: 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
text: Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
text: BLACK KNIGHT TROMPED MOODILY THROUGH THE PLAINS. JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL, IN THE END. AT LEAST HE'D ESCAPED THE MIRROR OF FATE.
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Black Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending
synonyms: march
stamp
stomp
tramp
trample
glosses: To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
examples: text: The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
synonyms: clobber
decimate
rout
trounce
whip
glosses: To utterly defeat an opponent.
tromp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɒmp/
Forms: form: tromps
form: trombe
form: trompe
Etymology: French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace or gathers to generate compressed air.
tromps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tromp
tromping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tromp
tromped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tromp
trampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramplers
Etymology: From trample + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This trampler upon human rights is — Fashion.
Strange that mankind should love a despotism,
And while they kick against one kind of rule,
Should uncomplainingly endure another,[…]
ref: 1871, James Hurnard, The setting sun, a poem, page 86:
glosses: One who tramples.
tramplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trampler
shochu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shochus
form: shōchū
Etymology: From Japanese 焼(しょう)酎(ちゅう) (shōchū), from Middle Chinese 燒酒 (syew tsjuw^X), from 燒 /烧 (shāo, “burn; flammable”) + 酒 (jiǔ, “alcohol”). Compare Mandarin 烧酒 (shāojiǔ), and Korean 소주 (soju). Doublet of shaojiu and soju.
Senses: examples: text: Lightly flavored shochus, like the barley-based Iichiko, are good mixed with soda water made on the premises with fresh lemon or in a cocktail like the Natsushima […]
ref: 2022, Steve Reddicliffe, The New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails (Second Edition) (page 582)
glosses: A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.
Related terms: sake
awamori
taproom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæpˌɹum/
Forms: form: taprooms
form: tap room
Etymology: From tap + room.
Senses: examples: text: Dusty left the taproom of the tavern and wandered into the small arcade in back.
text: On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
synonyms: tap
glosses: A room where alcoholic beverages are served on tap; a bar or barroom.
taprooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taproom
full tosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full toss
tamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tamable
form: most tamable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tameable.
spin bowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spin bowler
self-similarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-similarities
Etymology: From self- + similarity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being self-similar, of having parts that resemble the whole, as a fractal has.
self-similar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-similar
form: most self-similar
Etymology: From self- + similar.
Senses: glosses: Having self-similarity; having parts that resemble the whole, as a fractal has.
Related terms: self-similarity
self-similarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-similarity
teeter-totter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teeter-totters
form: teetertotter
Etymology: Either from teeter + totter, or from a reduplication of either element.
Senses: glosses: A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center.
glosses: A type of glider swing; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a tandem swing attached to a swingset, with two riders facing each other.
teeter-totter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teeter-totters
form: teeter-tottering
form: teeter-tottered
form: teeter-tottered
form: teetertotter
Etymology: Either from teeter + totter, or from a reduplication of either element.
Senses: glosses: To ride a seesaw.
teeter-totters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teeter-totter
overemphasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overemphasizes
form: overemphasizing
form: overemphasized
form: overemphasized
form: overemphasise
Etymology: From over- + emphasize.
Senses: glosses: To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.
overemphasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overemphasize
overemphasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overemphasize
overemphasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overemphasize
thousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/
ipa: /ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/
Etymology: From Middle English thousendfold, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.
Senses: examples: text: The changes to the algorithm resulted in a thousandfold increase in efficiency, earning the engineer a small brass plaque.
text: [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
ref: 1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185:
glosses: Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
examples: text: Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Having one thousand parts or members.
thousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaʊzəndfəʊld/
ipa: /ˈθaʊzəndfoʊld/
Etymology: From Middle English thousendfold, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of a thousand.
barber shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barber shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barbershop (“place of business of a barber”).
throwaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from throw away.
Senses: examples: text: Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.
text: More people means that more synthetic compounds and dangerous throwaway plastics are manufactured, many of which add to the growing toxification of the Earth.
ref: 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.
examples: text: The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.
glosses: Extemporaneous; off the cuff.
examples: text: As the film opens, a martial-drum-dominated version of the "Star Wars" theme and the inevitable bottom-to-top print crawl inform us that the Clone Wars, a conflict that originated as a throwaway line in the original 1977 film... https://web.archive.org/web/20150911134648/http://www.nysun.com/arts/star-wars-clone-wars-painted-in-the-stars/83922/
text: I was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake: "You flew the wing-five over Leningrad, didn't you?" It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot. https://web.archive.org/web/20120125090151/http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html
text: In one throwaway visual gag, the towering filing cabinet behind his desk is shown to have no drawers at all, but several concealed mirrors instead.
ref: 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:
glosses: Given in a casual manner, either deliberately or unconsciously, with apparent disregard for effect.
Synonyms: sense: being intended for a single use
word: single-use
sense: being intended for a single use
word: disposable
Derived terms: throwaway ticketing
throwaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwaways
Etymology: Deverbal from throw away.
Senses: examples: text: Some [of the essays] appeared originally in writer's^([sic]) forums and bookstore throwaways, others in more academic contexts […]
ref: 2016, Dr Eric Murphy Selinger, Dr William A Gleason, Romance Fiction and American Culture:
glosses: Something temporary and disposable, as:
Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.
glosses: Something temporary and disposable, as:
A burner account.
toxemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxemias
form: toxaemia
Senses: glosses: Blood poisoning; adverse reaction to toxic byproducts of systemic infection.
Synonyms: sense: adverse reaction to infection's toxic byproducts
word: blood poisoning
sense: adverse reaction to infection's toxic byproducts
word: septicemia
Derived terms: toxemia of pregnancy
water toxemia
Related terms: necrosis
toxemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxemia
tracheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.əl/
rhymes: -eɪkiəl
Etymology: From trachea + -al.
Senses: examples: text: When an allergic reaction caused Jack's throat to swell, the paramedics inserted a tracheal tube so that he could breathe.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trachea.
Derived terms: aortotracheal
apotracheal
bronchotracheal
cricotracheal
endotracheal
epitracheal
esophagotracheal
extratracheal
intertracheal
intratracheal
laryngotracheal
midtracheal
nasotracheal
nontracheal
orotracheal
paratracheal
peritracheal
pharyngotracheal
pretracheal
retrotracheal
tracheally
transtracheal
treatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treatable
form: most treatable
Etymology: From Middle English tretable, from treten (“treat”) and Old French traitable, Anglo-Norman tretable; equivalent to treat + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1980s, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.
glosses: Able to be treated; not incurable.
glosses: Not intractable; moderate.
kundru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gherkin-like vegetable, Coccinia grandis, from Southern India and Indo-China.
traitorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more traitorously
form: most traitorously
form: traitourously
Etymology: From traitorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The vizier traitorously revealed the location of the hiding princess in order to save himself.
glosses: In a traitorous manner; treacherously.
Erin go bragh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Irish Éire go brách or Éirinn go brách.
Senses: glosses: Ireland forever.
infrastructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infrastructural
form: most infrastructural
Etymology: From infrastructure + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to or originating in infrastructure.
Derived terms: infrastructuralist
infrastructurally
noninfrastructural
eulogise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.lə.dʒaɪz/
Forms: form: eulogises
form: eulogising
form: eulogised
form: eulogised
form: eulogize
Etymology: From eulogy + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly the calm current of their ordinary existence is disturbed by a visit from the reigning monarch; all the little, mean, and malevolent passions—vices, we should rather say—engendered of vanity and vexation of spirit, rise at once to the surface of the troubled waters—troubled by the demon of ambition; and the poor princess is left in mute dismay, to wonder what has become of the humility, the independence, and the content which she had so rashly eulogised.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 178:
text: Bradshaw eulogises again about "considerable manufactures of woollen cloth", plus the "excellent grammar school, founded by Edward VI".
ref: 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton: Frome”, in RAIL, number 967, page 56:
glosses: To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
Derived terms: uneulogised
skittled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skittle
entrenching tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrenching tools
Senses: examples: text: In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.
ref: 2014, Harry Turtledove, Hitler's War:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: E-tool
coordinate_terms: trencher
glosses: A short shovel, usually with collapsible handle, used by soldiers for digging trenches, foxholes, etc., and as a weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
Related terms: entrenchment
zaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zap
zaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zap
N.V.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of NV.
tattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætl̩ɚ/
ipa: /ˈtætlɚ/
ipa: /ˈtætl̩ə/
ipa: /ˈtætlə/
Forms: form: tattlers
Etymology: From tattle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My sister is a big tattler; she always tells Mommy when I hit her!
synonyms: word: informant
word: narc
word: stool pigeon
word: tattletale
word: abaddon
word: accuser
word: beefer
word: bewrayer
word: bigmouth
word: blabber
word: blabtale
word: blabtongue
word: canary
word: CI
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: gossip
word: grass
word: informant
word: informer
word: jurat
word: leak
word: mole
word: narc
word: nark
word: nonce
word: outer
word: peacher
word: quisling
word: rat
word: ratfink
word: rooster
word: sneak
word: snitch
word: snout
word: squealer
word: state's evidence
word: stooge
word: stool pigeon
word: stoolie
word: supergrass
word: sycophant
word: tattler
word: tattletale
word: telltale tit
word: telltale
word: tout
word: whistleblower
glosses: One who tattles (notifies authorities of illicit behavior) or is inclined to do so; a tattletale.
glosses: Either of two similar bird species in the shorebird genus Heteroscelus (Tringa in some taxonomies).
examples: text: A few truck drivers griped drowsily about the tattlers in their cabs which graphed the mileage per hour per day.
ref: 1960, Edward Hogland, The circle home:
text: Electronic monitors (black box, tattlers) help to define the actions of the driver during normal and emergent operation of the EMS unit.
ref: 2002, National Association of EMS Physicians, Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight, page 270:
synonyms: tachograph
glosses: A device fitted to a vehicle to measure mileage etc.
Derived terms: grey-tailed tattler
tittle-tattler
chancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chance
chancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancings
Senses: examples: text: Although some of the subjects treated of are deciduous, all of them last for seasons; and such is the intention of the book, whatever may be its chance in a world of chancings.
ref: 1832, Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual, page viii:
text: I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse […]
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, A Procession of Dead Days:
glosses: Something that happens by chance.
glosses: sexual advance with suggestive body contact
tattlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattler
reclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reclusive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But of Lee you hear hardly anything at all; she is nearly as famous for her reclusiveness (now there’s an oxymoron) as J. D. Salinger.
ref: 2006 February 4, Erica Wagner, “First word: People don't love Harper Lee—they love her work”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 29 Jun 2007:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being reclusive.
Synonyms: isolation
publicity-shyness
wallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wally
dished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɪʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dish
dished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɪʃt
Senses: examples: text: Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.
glosses: Shaped like a dish; concave.
examples: text: Getting tired, however, of this idol-worship, Lord Arthur gives out that he is ‘dished;’ and his worshippers depart from him as fast as they came.
ref: 1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105:
text: I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.
ref: 1841 March 12, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Harriet Mozley]”, in Anne Mozley, editor, Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church […], volume 2, published 1890, page 292:
text: I have been in splendid health, and was getting quite fat till within the last few days, when I caught cold on the stupid Rhine […] and just now I am very ‘dished’ indeed.
ref: 1845 June 4, Geraldine Jewsbury, “[Letter to Jane Welsh Carlyle]”, in Anne Ireland, editor, Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle, published 1892, pages 161–2:
glosses: Defeated, exhausted.
Derived terms: undished
Related terms: dishlike
habit-forming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habit-forming
form: most habit-forming
Senses: examples: text: Many governments prohibit the advertising of habit-forming substances to minors.
glosses: Addictive; likely to cause dependence or recurrence of use.
infiltrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪtə/
/ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪtɔː/
Forms: form: infiltrators
Etymology: From infiltrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes Israelis were attacked by Arab infiltrators, and hardly a month went by without a West Jerusalemite either being killed or wounded.
ref: 1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:
text: Suddenly, one of the cadre appeared from out of the darkness. "Hello, soldier", he said. "Do you have a light?” “Sure,” Jack replied, digging into his pocket for a book of matches. “Soldier! You are dead!” exclaimed the cadre. Jack had failed to challenge the infiltrator. The password was “Bronx”, the counter password was “Bombers”.
ref: 2015, Roger K. Baer, An American Journey, →ISBN:
text: Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir blamed infiltrators for the recent deaths of anti-government protesters a speech Sunday while vowing to respect the will of the people in the 2020 elections.
ref: 2019 January 20, Sarah El Sirgany and Bianca Britton, “Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir blames infiltrators for anti-government protest deaths”, in CNN:
text: “We will remove every single infiltrator from the country, except Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah told supporters in West Bengal on Thursday.
ref: 2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN:
glosses: One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
Synonyms: sense: one who infiltrates an organization or territory
word: informant
sense: one who infiltrates an organization or territory
word: narc
sense: one who infiltrates an organization or territory
word: spy
sense: one who infiltrates an organization or territory
word: plant
sense: one who infiltrates an organization or territory
word: provocateur
infiltrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infiltrator
crin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French crin (“horsehair”).
Senses: glosses: horsehair fabric
informational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnfəˈmæɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more informational
form: most informational
Etymology: From information + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The subway map was quite informational, allowing us to determine the most efficient route to our destination.
text: This exercise gave students an insight into [...] how lexicographers work with unfamiliar lexis, and the informational sources that lexicographers use to construct dictionaries.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
text: Ukrainian Khortytsia Group of Forces Spokesperson Major Viktor Trehubov stated on June 15 that Russian forces are likely moving toward Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in an effort to achieve “political goals”- likely meaning informational objectives meant to shape international opinion about Russia’s war in Ukraine.
ref: 2025 June 16, Anna Harvey, Angelica Evans, Daria Novikov, Christina Harward, Jessica Sobieski, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 16, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:
glosses: Designed to or able to impart information; possessing information.
Derived terms: bioinformational
informationalisation
informationalization
informationally
metainformational
noninformational
Related terms: informative