cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
black coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black corals
Etymology: From the black colouration of their skeletons of the corals, made of chitin; unlike shallow-water corals which use calcium carbonate to build white skeletons, evident during coral bleaching events which reveal the colour of the skeletons, due to the transparent corals expelling their colourful algae symbionts.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical corals of the family Antipathidae.
Hypernyms: deep coral
coral
Related terms: coral
coral bleaching
coralporosis
deep coral
hard coral
octocoral
soft coral
sea whip coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea whip corals
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cnidarians, of the order Alcyonacea ( <= Gorgonacea), that form flexible colonies with few branches
barrel sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel sponges
Senses: examples: text: In making use of something as simple as a difference in water speed, barrel sponges are exploiting energy from currents and tides that ultimately derive from the gravitational pull exerted by the Moon and Sun.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 29:
glosses: A sponge of the genus Xestospongia, especially Xestospongia testudinaria.
fortepianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortepianists
Etymology: From fortepiano + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A player of the fortepiano
linemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linemates
Etymology: From line + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Jason Pominville and his linemate Derek Roy each scored two goals to help Buffalo win at Toronto.
ref: 2009 January 2, The Associated Press, “Fernandez and Bruins Extend Streaks”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who plays in the same offensive or defensive line
fortepianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortepianist
midmajors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midmajor
neuropsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + psychological or neuropsychology + -ical.
Senses: examples: a neuropsychological examination
glosses: Of or pertaining to neuropsychology, the relation or combination of brain and mind.
Related terms: neuropsychology
neuropsychologist
neuropsychologically
linemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linemate
midmajor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: midmajors
form: mid-major
Etymology: From mid- + major.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A college not affiliated with a conference that is one of the primary partners in the College Football Playoff
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A conference that is not a major conference
nonexhibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exhibiting.
Senses: examples: text: "Dozens of our exhibitors as well as nonexhibiting dealers tell us that there is very little traffic in their galleries," Mr. Smith wrote.
ref: 2009 January 2, Carol Vogel, “One Art Fair Is Canceled, but Others Vow to Proceed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not participating in an exhibition
goldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English goldlees, goldles, equivalent to gold + -less. Compare Dutch goudloos (“goldless”), German goldlos (“goldless”), Swedish guldlös (“goldless”), Icelandic gulllaus (“goldless”).
Senses: examples: text: a goldless vein of quartz
glosses: Lacking gold
Derived terms: goldlessness
premodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-modern
Etymology: From pre- + modern.
Senses: examples: a premodern Chinese sculpture
glosses: Preceding or predating the modern era.
Related terms: premodernism
premodernist
premodernity
medieval
postmodern
by-catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-catches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bycatch.
read head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read heads
Senses: glosses: That part of several electromechanical devices that converts digital or analog information stored on a magnetic or optical medium into electrical signals
Related terms: read/write head
write head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: write heads
Senses: glosses: That part of several electromechanical devices that converts electrical signals into digital or analog information stored on a magnetic or optical medium
Related terms: read/write head
read head
read/write head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read/write heads
Senses: glosses: A combination read head and write head
giant magnetoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant magnetoresistances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum mechanical magnetoresistance effect observed in thin film structures composed of alternating ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers
knockout mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockout mice
Etymology: From the notion that specific genes have been knocked out of the genome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of mice that have been genetically engineered by inactivating specific genes.
genetically engineered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genetically engineered
form: most genetically engineered
Senses: glosses: Synonym of genetically modified.
synonyms: word: genetically modified
Synonyms: genetically modified
one-two punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-two punches
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A combination of two punches, one from each hand, thrown in rapid succession.
examples: text: Fish + Broccoli
The benefit: You can sock it to cancer with this one-two punch.
ref: 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:
text: Products are increasingly differentiated by the one-two punch of crowd-sourced review and easy factual comparison.
ref: 2012 March 21, Dwight Crow, “'Everything Is Automated': How Web Start-Ups Attack the Offline Economy”, in The Atlantic:
text: “We find that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was caused by a combination of the volcanism and asteroid impact, delivering a theoretical ‘one-two punch’,” said study co-author Sierra Petersen of the University of Michigan, using boxing terminology.
ref: 2016 July 6, Sierra Petersen, quotee, “Dinosaurs killed off by ‘one-two punch’ of climate change and asteroid strike – study”, in The Guardian:
text: A one-two punch of diet drugs and TikTok undermined one of the most trusted brands in fat loss, lawyers for WeightWatchers told a US bankruptcy judge, as the bankrupt company seeks to reorganise into a slimmer version of itself.
ref: 2025 May 10, “WeightWatchers blames diet drugs and social media for Chapter 11 bankruptcy”, in FT Weekend, page 13:
glosses: A rapid sequence or combination of two things that has a quick or powerful effect.
Related terms: one-two
Baird's tapir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baird's tapirs
Etymology: For Spencer Fullerton Baird, American naturalist.
Senses: synonyms: hog tapir
glosses: A tapir, Tapirus bairdii, from Central America
wikipedia: Spencer Fullerton Baird
exit policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit policies
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: exit strategy
glosses: A policy or plan that would enable a project to be halted or completed in an effective manner.
Related terms: exit strategy
splice variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splice variants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variant form of an mRNA produced by RNA splicing.
gene splicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene splicings
Senses: examples: text: The feat was accomplished using the gene-splicing techniques known as recombinant DNA technology.
ref: 1980 January 19, “The Promise of Gene-Splicing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique in which fragments of DNA (often from different individuals or species) are combined to form recombinant DNA, especially as a part of genetic engineering.
Related terms: spliceogenic
budgetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From budget + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a budget.
glioblastoma multiforme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glioblastoma multiformes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The most common and most aggressive type of primary brain tumor
morpholino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morpholinos
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structural analog of natural nucleic acid used to modify gene expression, in which the ribose or deoxyribose rings of nucleic acids are replaced with morpholine rings and the phosphodiester intersubunit linkages of nucleic acids are replaced with phosphorodiamidate linkages.
errhine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹ.aɪn/
Forms: form: more errhine
form: most errhine
Etymology: From Latin errhīnum, from Ancient Greek ἔρρινον (érrhinon), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nostril”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing an increase in mucus within the nose, and hence causing one to sneeze.
errhine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹ.aɪn/
Forms: form: errhines
Etymology: From Latin errhīnum, from Ancient Greek ἔρρινον (érrhinon), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nostril”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine applied inside the nose to increase the production of mucus, and hence sneezing.
bankra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankras
Senses: examples: text: All who were able carried a basket or what the locals called a 'bankra' of harvest offerings […]; the firm-backed men, including David, were burdened with bigger baskets that they called 'cutacoos', the woven shoulder straps made of hemp.
ref: 2021, Alex Wheatle, Island Songs:
glosses: A kind of basket for transporting goods.
sari-sari store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sari-sari stores
Etymology: From Tagalog sari-sari + store. Tagalog sari-sari is a reduplication of sari.
Senses: glosses: A convenience store in the Philippines; a neighborhood variety store; a minimarket selling basic necessities.
cDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cDNAs
form: cdna
form: CDNA
Senses: glosses: Initialism of complementary DNA.
glosses: Initialism of copy DNA.
DNA ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNA ladders
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reagent consisting of a solution of DNA of specified length; used in gel electrophoresis as a standard.
Related terms: DNA laddering
cAMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cyclic AMP.
thank yous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thank you
biomedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biomedical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biomedical manner or context.
reparse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈpɑː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: reparses
form: reparsing
form: reparsed
form: reparsed
Etymology: From re- + parse.
Senses: glosses: To parse again.
reparse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈpɑː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: reparses
Etymology: From re- + parse.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the possibility that a reparse may be necessary, it is crucial that the parsing of a command should avoid any irrevocable alteration in the state of the data structures until the command is confirmed.
ref: 1981, Ralph E. Gorin, Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20: Assembly Language Programming:
text: In the case of less vicious examples, the alternate parse may be readily available as a parallel hypothesis, but in the vicious example cited above, a reparse is started with a different set of expectations for the syntactic role of what is being parsed.
ref: 2012, David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk, Machine Learning of Natural Language, page 236:
glosses: The act of parsing again.
Derived terms: reparse point
reparses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reparse
reparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reparse
reparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reparsings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is reparsed.
reparsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reparse
chopsocky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopsockies
form: chop-socky
Etymology: Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.
Senses: examples: text: Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing.
ref: 1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:
text: The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […]
ref: 2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:
text: […] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […]
ref: 2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.
glosses: An individual film of this kind.
put someone in mind of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone in mind of
form: putting someone in mind of
form: put someone in mind of
form: put someone in mind of
Senses: examples: text: Your talking of a retreat, Mr. Marlow, puts me in mind of the Duke of Marlborough, when we went to besiege Denain.
ref: 1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: "Ye hae a face and a tongue that puts me in mind of auld times."
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 23, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Sisterhood, brotherhood was often forgotten; but not till the rise of these ultimate Mammon and Shotbelt Gospels, did I ever see it so expressly denied. If no pious Lord or Law-ward would remember it, always […] some pious thoughtful Elder, what we now call ‘Prester,’ Presbyter or ‘Priest,’ was there to put all men in mind of it, in the name of the God who had made all.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: Who will inherit the earth? . . . Most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch.
ref: 1981 September 28, Peter Stoler, “The Once and Future Zoo”, in Time:
text: With this weekend's whack of snow, Torontonians will be put in mind of last year's chaos.
ref: 2008 December 19, Dave McGinn, “Chilly scenes . . . of winter past”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, retrieved 02 Jan 2009:
text: The silos are rudimentary concrete bins, built for waste to be tipped in, but for no other kind of access. Their further degradation is a sure thing. It all put me in mind of a man who’d made a house of ice in deepest winter but now senses spring around the corner, and must move his furniture out before it all melts and collapses around him.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: evoke
glosses: To remind someone of; to inspire a mental image or awareness of; to cause thoughts concerning.
Related terms: bring to mind
call to mind
come to mind
leap to mind
spring to mind
top of mind
front of mind
sea-eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-eagles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea eagle.
sea-eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-eagle
bancos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banco
bancas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banca
bavettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bavette
bayadères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayadère
spuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spuddle
spuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spuddle
bêches-de-mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bêche-de-mer
Bêche-de-Mer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bislama (language).
deth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of death.
schlockiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of schlocky: most schlocky
pickies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of picky
antifibrinolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fibrinolytic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Serving to inhibit fibrinolysis.
antifibrinolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifibrinolytics
Etymology: From anti- + fibrinolytic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antifibrinolytic agent.
antifibrinolytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifibrinolytic
fibrinolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrinolyses
Etymology: From fibrino- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The process wherein a fibrin clot, the product of coagulation, is broken down.
Derived terms: hyperfibrinolysis
hypofibrinolysis
postfibrinolysis
Related terms: plasmin
fibrinolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrinolysis
ribbed vaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbed vault
electrophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophone
ophthalmologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ophthalmological
Derived terms: neuroophthalmologic
ophthalmologically
teleophthalmological
vectorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vectorisations
Etymology: From vector + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vectorization.
vectorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vectorisation
vectorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vectorization
vectorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vectorises
form: vectorising
form: vectorised
form: vectorised
Etymology: From vector + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vectorize.
vectorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vectorise
vectorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vectorise
vectorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vectorise
chula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chulas
form: choola
form: choolah
form: chulha
Etymology: From Hindi चूल्हा (cūlhā), Bengali চুলা (cula).
Senses: examples: text: After conducting feed back surveys, it was established that success will not depend on maximum number of chulhas installed but also on after installation care and follow up measures to ensure that skill transfer in installation and operation of chulhas has appropriately taken place and any other difficulty and problem has been overcome.
ref: 1996, Rahul Mudgal, Economic Dimensions of Rural Development, page 228:
text: When the basket was full, she carried it back and emptied it next to the outdoor chula where she did most of her cooking.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, page 6:
text: Saroj was crouched over her small choolah, flattening dough between her palms, stretching it with her fingers, before slapping it onto the hot tawa to make chapattis.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 68:
glosses: A hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.
binarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From binary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a binary fashion.
premillennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-millennial
Etymology: From pre- + millennial.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview that Mr. Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.
ref: 2020 January 22, Elizabeth Dias, “Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88”, in The New York Times:
topics: Christianity
antonyms: postmillennial
glosses: Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.
examples: text: Had the aliens in “Independence Day” succeeded in their conquest of the Planet Earth and set about investigating the world they'd just destroyed, they might have come to some rather odd conclusions about our pre-millennial culture.
ref: 1996 September 22, Michiko Kakutani, “The Trickle-Down Theory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He [David Fincher] hit his stride again with “Fight Club,” […] Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety.
ref: 2009 January 2, Dennis Lim, “Journey of a Director, From Night Creature to Tender Time Traveler”, in New York Times:
antonyms: postmillennial
glosses: Occurring before, or in anticipation of, a new millennium.
premillennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premillennials
form: pre-millennial
Etymology: From pre- + millennial.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in the advent of Christ before the new millennium.
Related terms: premillennialism
unsummarizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + summarizable.
Senses: examples: Many of the writings of James Joyce are nearly unsummarizable.
glosses: Not able to be summarized.
interschool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + school.
Senses: examples: text: The interschool basketball tournament was held in March.
coordinate_terms: interuniversity
glosses: Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
splendours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splendour
lochside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loch + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Until the Crinan Canal was opened in 1801 there was little on this lochside spot apart from a 7th-century church.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 138, about Crinan:
text: […] a BBC behind-the-scenes documentary about the royal family’s life, showing the royals watching television, meeting visitors, holding a lochside barbecue while on holiday at Balmoral and even buying sweets in a local shop.
ref: September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Bordering or near a loch.
lochside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lochsides
Etymology: From loch + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.
ref: 2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd:
glosses: The land bordering a loch.
boyband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boybands
Senses: examples: text: Kay Murphy and former Boyzoner Stephen Gately, who ditches the boyband look in favour of the loincloth attire for his stage debut as Joseph.
ref: 2003 February 28 – March 6, Metro Life Magazine (Evening Standard), page 26:
text: The man who gave us all those cheesy 1990s boybands has died. Lou Pearlman was the brains behind *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys (and many other copy-and-paste acts).
ref: 2016 August 22, Doug Criss, “5 things for Monday, August 22: Turkey, Olympics, Donald Trump”, in CNN:
text: Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
ref: 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boy band.
chatshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatshows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chat show.
boy bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy band
chat show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chat shows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talk show.
synonyms: word: talk show
chat shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chat show
explicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explicative
form: most explicative
Etymology: From Latin explicātīvus, from explicō (“to unfold, open out”).
Senses: examples: text: The witness was explicative in telling the police what he saw.
synonyms: explicatory
glosses: Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
Derived terms: explicatively
Related terms: expletive
explicate
explication
off-label
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The prescriber assumes legal liability when he prescribes unlicensed or off-label products.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Merrills, Jonathan Fisher, Pharmacy Law and Practice:
glosses: Alternative spelling of off label.
off-label
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Many medicines used for children are prescribed and used off-label.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Merrills, Jonathan Fisher, Pharmacy Law and Practice:
glosses: Alternative spelling of off label.
pickin' and grinnin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picking and grinning
Senses: examples: text: From Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap there was a lot less pickin’ and grinnin’ and a lot more soft rockers and heartbroken love ballads.
ref: 1987 March 20, Scott Mervis, “Country Slickers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 03 Jan 2009, page 19:
text: In this city of guitars and grits, Andersen is the ambassador of pickin’ and grinnin’.
ref: 2008 June 25, Joe Edwards, “Guitar-playing 'ambassador' greets visitors at Nashville's Hall of Fame”, in USA Today, retrieved 03 Jan 2009:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Vigorous playing of folk or country music on a stringed musical instrument, especially the guitar or banjo, while smiling broadly.
picking and grinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pickin' and grinnin'.
nonemergency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + emergency.
Senses: examples: text: a nonemergency situation
text: Rupak says that 45 percent of his clients undergo nonemergency, nonelective surgeries (such as knee, shoulder, back, and hip operations), while 30 percent have cosmetic procedures (tummy tucks, breast enlargements, and facelifts.)
ref: 2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 152:
glosses: Not an emergency.
examples: nonemergency personnel
glosses: Not involved in emergency services, such as fire or rescue.
nonemergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonemergencies
Etymology: From non- + emergency.
Senses: examples: text: That's the number for nonemergencies.
ref: 1988 November 18, David Allen Jones, “Something Stupid”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Something that is not an emergency
Croesus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːsəs/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: Crœsus
Etymology: From Latin Croesus, from Ancient Greek Κροῖσος (Kroîsos), from Lydian.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
examples: text: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A king of Lydia, noted for his great wealth.
Croesus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːsəs/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: Croesuses
form: Croesi
form: Crœsus
Etymology: From Latin Croesus, from Ancient Greek Κροῖσος (Kroîsos), from Lydian.
Senses: examples: 1875, Henry James, "Benvolio" in The Galaxy 20 (2) (August 1875).
"Decidedly he was to be a great man, and this was not the moment for letting him go! At the same time there was something impressive in this extraordinary lapse in his eagerness—in his finding it so easy to forget his honors. It was only an intellectual Croesus, the Countess said to herself, who could afford to keep so loose an account."
glosses: A rich person.
non-progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: nonprogressive
Etymology: From non- + progressive.
Senses: glosses: Not progressive.
non-contagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncontagious.
precollege
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + college.
Senses: examples: precollege testing
glosses: Occurring before, or in preparation for, college
Related terms: postcollege
postcollege
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + college.
Senses: examples: text: You need to start thinking about your postcollege life.
glosses: Occurring after one's college, especially undergraduate, education
Related terms: precollege
nonterrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-terrible
Etymology: From non- + terrible.
Senses: examples: text: The meal was surprisingly nonterrible, all things considered.
glosses: Not terrible; decent, acceptable.
harborside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harborsides
Etymology: From harbor + -side.
Senses: glosses: An area (especially a residential area) near a harbor (often in the form of converted warehouses etc)
harborside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From harbor + -side.
Senses: examples: text: We met at a harborside cafe.
glosses: Located on or near a harbor.
Related terms: seaside
lakeside
riverside
harborfront
injectables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of injectable
nebbishlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nebbishlike
form: most nebbishlike
form: nebbish-like
Etymology: From nebbish + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Despite his nebbishlike looks, average height, serious eyeglasses and all-black attire, Mr. Luchini knows how to fill a landmark space with his presence.
ref: 2009 January 3, Elaine Sciolino, “Make ’em Laugh, and Love Classics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling, or characteristic of, a nebbish
Synonyms: nebbishy
neuroticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroticisms
Etymology: From neurotic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Your neuroticism is getting out of hand.
text: Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.
ref: 1964, John Michael Argyle, Psychology & Social Problems, page 75:
glosses: The quality or state of being neurotic
Related terms: neuroticistic
overhits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhit
overhitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhit
teamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teamers
Etymology: From team + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone in a team.
raw_tags: in combinations
topics: video-games
glosses: A player who teams with other players, often in an FFA match.
Derived terms: A teamer
blue teamer
B teamer
first-teamer
purple teamer
red teamer
second-teamer
special teamer
first-teamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-teamers
Etymology: From first team + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone in the first team.
first team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first teams
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first-choice lineup of players in a team who start the game.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The actors who will actually appear in a scene, as opposed to the stand-ins, or second team, who take their places for the purpose of setting up the shot.
Derived terms: first-teamer
teamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teamer
endplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endplays
Etymology: From end + play.
Senses: examples: text: At this point, South should have played a spade to dummy's ace, ruffed a spade and led her club king to catch West in a trump endplay, but she became flustered and lost two more tricks to go down one.
ref: 2009 January 3, Phillip Alder, “What to Bid Next? That Depends on the Game You're Playing”, Bridge, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A tactical play in which a defender is put on lead at a strategic moment, and then has to make a play that loses one or more tricks
Synonyms: throw-in
endplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endplays
form: endplaying
form: endplayed
form: endplayed
Etymology: From end + play.
Senses: examples: text: Then a diamond lead endplayed West.
ref: 2009 January 5, Phillip Alder, “From a Holiday Tournament, Two Points for the Price of One”, Bridge, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To make an endplay.
rebids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebid
rebids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebid
rebidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebid
endplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endplay
midcourse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + course.
Senses: examples: a midcourse assessment
glosses: In the middle of a course
fatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fattings
Derived terms: superfatting
fatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fat
anears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anear
Great Pyrenees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Pyrenees
Senses: glosses: A large breed of dog originating in France and often used to guard livestock.
Synonyms: Pyrenean Mountain Dog
anearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anear
aneared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anear
roaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roave
roaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roave
roaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roave
uniquifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uniquify
unloosens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unloosen
unloosening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unloosen
unloosened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unloosen
tumefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tumefy
tumefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tumefy
steppingstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steppingstone, an alternative form of stepping stone.
tumefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tumefy
uncrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncross
uncrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncross
uncrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncrossings
Senses: examples: text: For example, experts in kinesics — body language — recognize that a person sends out hundreds of nonverbal signals — eyebrow twitches, frowns, leg crossings and uncrossings — every second while he or she is speaking and listening.
ref: 1989, Stephen N. Tchudi, Diana D. Mitchell, Explorations in the Teaching of English, page 270:
glosses: Movement out of a crossed position.
unprosecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prosecuted.
Senses: examples: text: We are investigating several unprosecuted offenses from the past.
text: Palestinians inside of Israel do not enjoy full citizenship and are sitting ducks for attacks by Israelis that go unprosecuted.
ref: 2009 January 3, “The Plight of the Israelis, or Palestinians, or Both”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not prosecuted
uncrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crossed.
Senses: examples: text: The northeast corner has coal mines, old railroad towns and, along the Wyoming border, the Uinta Mountains, uncrossed by road and showing hardly a sign of civilization.
ref: 2004, The Rough Guide to the USA, page 1061:
text: Where an uncrossed cheque, or a cheque crossed generally, is sent to a bank for collection, that bank may add a special crossing in favour of itself.
ref: 2011, E. P. Ellinger, E. Lomnicka, C. Hare, Ellinger's Modern Banking Law, page 414:
glosses: Not crossed (in various senses).
uncrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + crossed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncross
reprograms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprogram
rancidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rancidify
rancidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rancidify
rancidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rancidify
demaunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demaund
demaunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demaund
demaunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demaund
affoards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affoard
affoarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affoard
affoarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affoard
affoords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affoord
affoording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affoord
affoorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affoord
afoords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of afoord
afoording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of afoord
afoorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of afoord
preprograms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preprogram
preprogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preprogram
glosses: present participle and gerund of preprogramme
preprogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preprogram
glosses: simple past and past participle of preprogramme
entrammels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entrammel
entrammeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entrammel
entrammelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entrammel
entrammelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrammel
misfunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfunction
misfunctioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfunction
redeposits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redeposit
redepositing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeposit
redeposited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeposit
infolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infold
infolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infold
infolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infoldings
Senses: examples: text: […]Rosilia seated herself upon a small stool in the centre of the floor, when the child in playfulness slipped from her head the combs which confined her hair, and instantly those silken tresses, falling to the ground, spread luxuriantly like a sable veil around her. Amused by the sight, the sportive child stood laughing, and again approaching twisted her fingers through the rich infoldings.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: A folding inward.
infolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infold
precanceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precancel
precanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precancel
blatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blatter
blattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blatter
blattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blatter
underlead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underleads
Etymology: From under- + lead.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A lead of a low card when holding the top card or cards in a suit.
underlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underleads
form: underleading
form: underled
form: underled
Etymology: From under- + lead.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: To lead a low card when holding the top card or cards in a suit.
underled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underlead
underleads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlead
underleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underlead
underleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underlead
naptime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naptimes
Etymology: From nap + time.
Senses: examples: text: Days filled with feeding, diaper changes, naptimes and bedtimes, trying to find a moment to go to the bathroom.
ref: 1988 February 14, Connie Chan, “Motherhood, Lesbian-Style”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 5:
glosses: The time at which one naps
naptimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naptime
storytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storytimes
form: story time
Etymology: From story + time.
Senses: glosses: The time at which a story is told.
seedtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: seedtimes
form: seed-time
Etymology: From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēdatīmô (“seedtime”), equivalent to seed + time. Cognate with Icelandic sáðtími (“sowing time, seedtime”).
Compare also West Frisian siedtiid (“seedtime”), Dutch zaaitijd (“sowing time, seedtime”), German Saatzeit (“season for sowing seed”), Swedish såddtid (“sowing time, seedtime”), Faroese sáðtíð (“sowing time”), Old Norse sáðtíð (“April”, literally “seed time”).
Senses: examples: text: Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost
Shall hold thir course
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: The time to sow seeds.
glosses: A time for new development.
seedtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedtime
sleepytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepytimes
Etymology: From sleepy + time.
Senses: glosses: The time to sleep.
obnubilate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/
Forms: form: more obnubilate
form: most obnubilate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obnūbilātus, perfect passive participle of obnūbilō (“cover with clouds or fog”), from ob- + nūbilō (“be cloudy”), from nūbēs (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”).
Senses: examples: text: [B]ot sen I the to hir cure vassaill:
 [To mak the r]efrane, my power laikis haill.
 [For] in hir net thow art obnubilate:
 [Gif] thow conuert, and tak my trew counsall
 […]eng or lust thow suld neuer assaill.
 […]waill hart fra hir to sequestrate,
 […] time sa far as is fustrate:
 […]oir repent, and thow sall ȝit preuaill.
ref: 1575, John Rolland, edited by W. Gregor, Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs, published 1884, bk 1, ll. 244-251 (p. 23):
text: And that ſame ὁρμὴ, that violent motion vnto action…is it not that that effecteth thoſe ſtrange and horrible acts of madneſſe when the reaſon & ſence are both beſotted and obnubilate?
ref: 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758:
text: Mans vnderstanding’s so obnubilate,
 That when thereon I doe excogitate,
 Intrinsicall and querimonious paines
 Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
ref: 1630, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-poet, John Taylor, epigram 36, p. 266/1:
text: Here is the sample of [Whitman’s] obnubilate, incoherent, convulsive flub-drub.
ref: 1860, George William Bagby (aut., ed.), “Editor’s Table” in The Southern Literary Messenger XXXI (N.S. X), p. 74
glosses: Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.