cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Scientologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scientologists
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Latin scientia + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: I felt great and I got rid of some stuff that I didn't realize that I was dragging around. And I said, 'Whoa, I think I've become a Scientologist.' -- Isaac Hayes
ref: 1998 December 14, A&E Staff with Bill Kurtis, “Inside Scientology”, in A&E Investigative Reports, A&E Network, retrieved 01 Nov 2007:
text: Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all.
ref: 2001 September 27, Tony Ortega, “Sympathy For The Devil”, in New Times Los Angeles:
text: But what is it and where does it come from? Landmark Forum evolved from est (Erhard Seminar Training) an intense and controversial newage selfhelp group of the 1970s and '80s using a combination of Eastern philosophies developed by former scientologist Werner Erhard.
ref: 2002 February 2, Peter Lalor, “Why you will find yourself at the Forum”, in Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: News Limited, page 35:
text: You can't drive past an accident, because as a Scientologist you are the only one who can help. -- Tom Cruise
ref: 2008, Andrew Morton, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page Back Jacket:
head_nr: 2
glosses: A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.
Hypernyms: religionist
Scientologist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scientia + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: Neither of them had heard of Kelly or Kalki, but then neither of them had heard of Horace, Alexander Pope, [Blaise] Pascal, [Denis] Diderot, [Werner] Heisenberg’s law or entropy. Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information. They were perfect “clears,” to use Scientologist jargon.
ref: 1978, Gore Vidal, chapter 2, in Kalki: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 18:
text: He [Robert de Grimston] graduated from a Scientology unit, and within fourteen weeks became a Scientologist “therapist.”
ref: 1980, Jerry Bergman, “William Sims Bainbridge. Satan’s Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult. […]”, in Review of Religious Research, volume 22, New York, N.Y.: Religious Research Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, Book Reviews section, page 93:
text: They moved a group of dancers and Scientologist friends into the Row and created a pageant called U.
ref: 2006, Joe Boyd, chapter 27, in White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 223:
synonyms: Scientological
Scientologistic
glosses: Of or relating to Scientology or Scientologists.
chaun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: chauns
Senses: glosses: A gap or rift.
chaun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: chauns
form: chauning
form: chauned
form: chauned
Senses: examples: text: O, chaun thy breast.
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To open, or yo to yawn.
get one's panties in a bunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's panties in a bunch
form: getting one's panties in a bunch
form: got one's panties in a bunch
form: got one's panties in a bunch
form: gotten one's panties in a bunch
Senses: examples: text: "I understand what you're trying to say, but the fact that it IS crowded will mean you'll stand out less. So try not to get your panties in a bunch."
ref: 2012 November 4, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 279 - Panties:
glosses: Synonym of get one's knickers in a twist.
synonyms: word: get one's knickers in a twist
corydoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corydoras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Corydoras of small freshwater tropical catfish often kept in aquariums.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: cory
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: cory catfish
Sangu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Rori
glosses: An ethnic group based in the Usangu Plain of Chunya District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
Sangu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
glosses: A language of Gabon.
savagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæv.ɪd͡ʒ.ɹɪ/
Forms: form: savageries
Etymology: From savage + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: “For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 172:
glosses: Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
glosses: A violent act of cruelty.
examples: text: They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
glosses: Savages collectively; the world of savages.
examples: text: […] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.
ref: 1990, Brian Leverett, Water Gardens: Step-By-Step to Success, page 9:
glosses: Wild growth of plants.
Derived terms: sweet savagery
scalene muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalene muscles
form: scalene
form: scalenus
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: anterior scalene muscle
middle scalene muscle
posterior scalene muscle
glosses: Any of usually three deeply situated muscles on each side of the neck of which each extends from the transverse processes of two or more cervical vertebrae to the first or second rib.
latinoamericano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latinoamericanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish latinoamericano.
Senses: examples: text: The strongest link I felt with gay and straight Nicas was as a latinoamericano, not as a gay man.
ref: 1985 April 6, Ruben Jara, “Nica: Smiles and Revolution”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: A Latin American.
thangka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thangka
form: thangkas
form: tanka
form: tangka
form: thanka
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཐང་ཀ (thang ka, literally “painting”).
Senses: examples: text: When the talks by Lama Thubten Yeshe on Buddhist and Christian meditation were published, the text included a reproduction of a Christian icon and a Tibetan thangka.
ref: 1996, Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church, BRILL, →ISBN, page 265:
text: Like so many things in Nepal, thangka—Tibetan ritual paintings—are now cranked out for the tourist market, yet the best ones remain undiminished by commercialization, and even the cheapest can't hide the dense Buddhist symbolism inherent in the form.
ref: 2002, David Reed, The Rough Guide to Nepal, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A painted or embroidered linen banner, usually depicting Buddhist themes, originating in Tibet; a prayer flag.
croton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊtən/
enpr: krōtʹn
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊt(ə)n/
ipa: [ˈkɹoʊ̯ʔn̩]
rhymes: -əʊtən
Forms: form: crotons
Etymology: From New Latin crotōn, from Ancient Greek κροτών (krotṓn, “tick”), from the size and shape of the seed.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil.
examples: text: The croton bushes, by day hideous things like jaundiced laurels, were changed by the moon into jagged black and white designs like fantastic wood-cuts.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 15, in Burmese Days:
synonyms: fire croton
garden croton
variegated croton
glosses: A tropical evergreen shrub (Codiaeum variegatum), having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant.
Derived terms: crotonaldehyde
crotonic
crotonine
rhason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhasons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥάσον (rháson), compare Greek ράσο (ráso).
Senses: examples: text: The inner rhason corresponds to the cassock and, like it, is used by the secular clergy. The outer rhason, a wide-sleeved garment, is black in the Greek Church but variable in colour in the Russian Church among the secular clergy (i.e., those who minister in parishes).
ref: 1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition:
glosses: The clerical garb worn in the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Coordinate terms: alb
cassock
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
mitre
omophorion
sakkos
sticharion
zone
scampish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scampish
form: most scampish
Etymology: From scamp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a scamp; knavish.
Derived terms: scampishly
scampishness
scapulimancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: divination using shoulder bones
Synonyms: omoplatoscopy
scapulomancy
scapulomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scapulimancy.
scatter rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatter rugs
Senses: synonyms: area rug
throw rug
glosses: A small rug, especially one of several used as a floor covering.
scenarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenarists
Etymology: From scenar(io) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.
ref: 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.
schizogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to schizogony.
glosses: Causing schizophrenia.
scholiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scholiastic
form: most scholiastic
Etymology: From scholiast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to a scholiast
scholiast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/
Forms: form: scholiasts
Etymology: From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).
Senses: examples: text: [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: [L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.
ref: 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 8:
glosses: A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
Derived terms: scholiastic
scoreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From score + -less.
Senses: glosses: With no points or goals etc having been scored.
Derived terms: scorelessness
scoreless draw
scoreless tie
Related terms: goalless
goalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From goal + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Except for those who directly benefit from the system, life becomes a goalless existence, in which the worst human aberrations start germinating.
ref: 1991, Indu Prakash Singh, Commonism, the manifesto of a new social order:
glosses: Devoid of goals; ambitionless.
examples: text: Stevenage and Sheffield United played out a goalless draw in their League One play-off semi-final first leg.
ref: 2012 May 11, Chris Osborne, “Stevenage 0-0 Sheff Utd”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without goals; in which no goals have been scored; having scored no goals.
Derived terms: goallessly
goallessness
Related terms: scoreless
Scotch tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Scotch Tape. Reportedly a reference to the stereotypical tendency of the Scottish towards thrift, due to cutting of corners with the product initially produced. Compare Dutch oven for similar sense of origin.
Senses: synonyms: word: sellotape
word: sticky tape
glosses: Transparent or translucent pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, used for sealing items together, especially paper.
Related terms: adhesive tape
Durex
sticky tape
tape
gals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡælz/
rhymes: -ælz
Senses: glosses: plural of gal
haversacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haversack
screen test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screen tests
form: screentest
form: screen-test
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screen, test; a test of, or involving, a screen.
examples: text: Alan Ladd's wife spotted the budding beauty and suggested that Julie attend a screen test for a bit part in something called The Girl and the Gorilla.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A filmed audition to test (and demonstrate) an actor's screen-acting ability and/or suitability for a particular role.
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A test for the presence of a particular substance; such a test that by extension tests for a particular organism or medical condition.
examples: text: One of the reasons for the charges was knowledge of a tradition among some police of what they called in Baltimore "a rough ride" (Fernandez, 2015). The practice is to place a handcuffed prisoner face-down in the back of a police van without securing him to the seat, and then intentionally driving in a reckless manner to throw the suspect around without any way of protecting himself from injury. When David was in police work, officers used to talk about the old-fashioned "screen test" which used a similar technique. The officer would put the prisoner in the back seat of a patrol car in handcuffs, but not in a seat belt. Then the officer would slam on the brakes of the patrol car so that the prisoner would lunge forward, face first into the screen separating the prisoner from the police officer in the front seat.
ref: 2018 April 10, David E. Barlow, Melissa Hickman Barlow, Police in a Multicultural Society: An American Story, Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 287:
qualifier: violence
glosses: Synonym of rough ride.
synonyms: word: rough ride
screen test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screen tests
form: screen testing
form: screen tested
form: screen tested
form: screentest
form: screen-test
Senses: examples: text: According to Garrett, "1,400 candidates were interviewed, 90 were screen tested, 149,000 feet of black and white film and 13,000 feet of Technicolor was shot in those tests."
ref: 2013, James Ottley, Atlanta History For Cocktail Parties II: Another Round, Lulu.com, page 73:
text: Also considered was Carroll Baker. Baker screen tested, but failed to win the part.
ref: 2015, Eila Mell, Casting Might-Have-Beens, McFarland & Company, page 187:
text: They would humble-brag about the last commercial they'd booked or how they'd screen-tested for a TV pilot last week, and their sleazy managers would say, "Our little Portia is a booking machine!"
ref: 2017, Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, Simon & Schuster, page 18:
glosses: To audition via a screen test.
examples: text: He testified Moses' that^([sic – meaning that Moses']) blood screen tested positive for cocaine metabolites and Moses' urine screen tested positive for cocaine.
ref: 2004, West's Hawai'i Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court, Intermediate Court of Appeals, Volume 103, West Publishing Company, page 118:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To test for a particular substance, organism or medical condition by means of a screen test.
qualifier: violence
glosses: To subject (someone) to a screen test.
scuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scuffle
scuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scufflings
Senses: glosses: a confused struggle
scurrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scurriers
Etymology: From scurry + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scurries.
scurries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scurry
seastained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seastained
form: most seastained
Etymology: From sea + stained.
Senses: glosses: stained by contact with seawater
seamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: seamier
form: seamiest
Etymology: From seam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life's wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71.
ref: 2013, Sam Jones, Shiv Malik, “Lou Reed, lead singer of Velvet Undergound, dies aged 71”, in The Guardian Online:
text: 1987, David Brin, The Uplift War, Phantasia Press
She just hadn't been aware, having considered such tales rather seamy while growing up.
glosses: Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
examples: 1964, Philip Larkin, ”The Whitsun Weddings”, Faber & Faber
The fathers with broad belts under their suits
And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;
glosses: Having or showing a seam.
Derived terms: seaminess
sea wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea walls
Senses: examples: text: Walk along the beach to where the rock armour begins, then join the sea wall[.]
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 86:
text: As this issue of RAIL went to press, preparations were under way at Dawlish for the first pre-cast units to be installed as part of the programme to protect the sea wall.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 20:
glosses: Alternative spelling of seawall.
seawall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seawalls
form: sea wall
Etymology: From Middle English se-walle, from Old English sǣweall (“seawall”), equivalent to sea + wall.
Senses: glosses: A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
Related terms: breakwater
groyne
hyphenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: People hyphenated the word "typewriter" more often in the past.
glosses: simple past and past participle of hyphenate
hyphenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyphenated
form: most hyphenated
Senses: examples: text: Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
glosses: Written with a hyphen.
examples: text: [The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity.
ref: 2005 October 28, Edwin A. Sumcad, “Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right”, in American Chronicle, archived from the original on 25 May 2006:
glosses: Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
Derived terms: multihyphenated
nonhyphenated
speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This bike has twelve speeds.
glosses: plural of speed
speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: That boy is going to lose his license because he speeds like a demon.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speed
spinels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinel
cincinnus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cincinni
form: cicinnus
Etymology: From Latin cincinnus (“a lock of hair”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.
Derived terms: cincinnal
platypodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæˈtɪpədiːz/
ipa: /pləˈtɪpədiːz/
ipa: /ˈplætɪpoʊdz/
Senses: examples: text: At first I thought it was the same theme, beavers and platypodes being related (catoonishly, if not biologically).
ref: 1999, Plato, “BRAIN for March 19”, in alt.tv.animaniacs.pinky-brain (Usenet):
text: Anyway, kangaroos evolved here, as did platypodes and a whole bunch of other birds and animals and fish and plants. Murray Cod. Emu. Macadamias.
ref: 2001, Peter Mackay, “Native Animal Recipes?”, in canb.general (Usenet):
text: You just like Darwin because of its mascot: you're fond of platypodes.
ref: 2005, Andrew Arensburger, “Kansas: Board member Morris: Evolution a 'fairy tale'”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
glosses: plural of platypus
paring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: pairing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pare
paring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: pairing
Forms: form: parings
Senses: glosses: A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
glosses: The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.
Derived terms: paring knife
dicastery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicasteries
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δικαστήριον (dikastḗrion, “court, tribunal”), from δίκη (díkē, “right, custom, judgement”).
Senses: examples: text: The dicastery will continue to oversee the appointment of bishops in the mission territories. … There is no longer a distinction between congregations and pontifical councils because all the Vatican’s main departments are now defined as dicasteries.
ref: 2022 March 21, Andrea Gagliarducci, “Praedicate evangelium: Things you might have missed in the new Vatican constitution”, in Catholic News Agency, Denver: EWTN News, retrieved 25 Mar 2022:
text: The Argentine pontiff summoned him to Rome in 2023 to head the powerful dicastery for bishop appointments—a job that allowed him to build networks across the Catholic leadership.
ref: 2025 May 10, “Chicagoan pope not afraid of speaking truth to power in US”, in FT Weekend, page 3:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A ministry or department of the Roman Curia of the Holy See, whether administrative or ecclesiastical.
examples: text: The better cause has conquered; and there is at least this advantage to the Athenian legal system, there will be no appeal nor tedious technicalities before a "higher court." The verdict of the dicastery is final.
ref: 1910, William Stearns Davis, A Day in Old Athens:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A judicial body of the ancient Athenian state, made up of dicasts.
Derived terms: dicasterial
sandpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.pɪt/
Forms: form: sandpits
form: sand pit
Etymology: From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.
Senses: glosses: A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
synonyms: sandbox
glosses: A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
examples: text: Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.
ref: 1991, British Broadcasting Corporation, “The Annual Report & Accounts”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: […] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'.
ref: 1992, Richard Hamilton, Simon Wilson, “Richard Hamilton: 17 June - 6 September 1992, Tate Gallery”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: […] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits.
ref: 2005, Robert Fisk, “The Great War for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
whitehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiteheads
Etymology: From white + head.
Senses: examples: text: Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
text: Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 151:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: closed comedo
coordinate_terms: blackhead
glosses: A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
glosses: A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
glosses: The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
glosses: The surf scoter duck.
glosses: A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
Derived terms: like a whitehead
whiteheaded
whiteheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitehead
whittler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whittlers
Etymology: From whittle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Avery was an avid whittler, and had a collection of intricately carved walking-sticks that few could match.
glosses: One who whittles.
glosses: A compact folding knife with two small blades at one end and a single larger blade at the other that folds between them and is sprung by the other ends of both springs.
whittlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whittler
whiskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisker
whiskered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiskered
form: most whiskered
Etymology: From whisker + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
text: Their attention was, however, too much taken up with their fellow-passengers: a whiskered, cloaked, and cigared youth, with every thing military about him but the air:...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 256:
glosses: Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
Synonyms: bewhiskered
whiskery
Derived terms: side-whiskered
whiskered tern
whiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiners
Etymology: From whine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I never realized that he was such a whiner, but he complained steadily about various minor discomforts for the entire road trip.
glosses: One who whines about perceived problems; a complainer.
Synonyms: bellyacher
crybaby
whinger
dinner jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner jackets
form: dinner-jacket
Etymology: So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.
Senses: examples: text: Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.
ref: 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 49:
text: He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers.
ref: 2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 10, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Hachette, page 126:
glosses: A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket.
examples: text: [They] sat in a pen in the corner, smoking cigarettes and reading magazines; four or five girls in black silk dresses and the same number of slight effeminate young men in dinner-jackets.
ref: 1932, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Lonely Road:
text: Mr Lackersteen was even wearing a dinner-jacket—white, because of the season—and was completely sober. The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 17”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: It was a dinner-jacket evening—not tails, because they would only be three—and though he had respected such niceties for years he found them suddenly ridiculous.
ref: 1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 37, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 162:
synonyms: black tie
penguin suit
coordinate_terms: smoking jacket
glosses: The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket.
Derived terms: dinner-jacketed
whiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiner
complainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪnɚ/
Forms: form: complainers
Etymology: From complain + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who complains, or is known for their complaints.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A complainant (an alleged victim in a criminal trial).
Synonyms: word: grumbler
word: squeaky wheel
word: bellyacher
word: carper
word: castigator
word: caviler
word: censurer
word: complainer
word: crabber
word: critic
word: criticizer
word: faultfinder
word: findfault
word: grouch
word: hafter
word: kvetcher
word: latrant
word: nitpicker
word: pettifogger
word: pick-fault
word: quibbler
word: scolder
word: smellfungus
word: sourpuss
word: troublemaker
word: vituperator
word: whiner
word: whinger
word: whining Willy
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: crybaby
word: shrew
word: spoilsport
Derived terms: noncomplainer
Related terms: word: fussbudget
word: fusspot
word: complain
word: peevish
complainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complainer
diplopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪpˈləʊpiə/
Forms: form: diplopias
form: diplopy
Etymology: From diplo- + -opia.
Senses: examples: text: As for Bodhidharma the only painting extant is too late to have been done from life. The sage’s eyes are crossed from his exertions. Diplopia giving the impression of the pineal eye, the Third Eye in full flower.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 61:
text: That doctor also noted the diplopia and sent her for a CT scan.
ref: 2018 December 13, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “Why Was the Woman Having Trouble Seeing, if Her Eyes Were Fine?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images for a single object; double vision.
Coordinate terms: triplopia
omophorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omophorions
form: omophoria
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek ὠμοφόριον (ōmophórion), from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”) + φέρω (phérō, “carry”).
Senses: examples: text: a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.
ref: 1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, page 232.:
text: The bishop wears an omophorion, whose shape and manner of wearing are closer to the original pallium than either the stole or the epitrachelion.
ref: 1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition:
text: Although the bishop also wears - an epitrachelion, his distinctive sign of office is the omophorion-a long, broad strip arranged on the shoulders in such a way that one end descends in front and the other behind. The word 'omophorion' means "shoulder covering" and originally referred to a piece of sheepskin worn over the shoulders by the aged and in firm for warmth.
ref: 2001, “The Symbolism of Vestments”, in Orthodox America, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2001:
glosses: A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium.
Coordinate terms: alb
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
mitre
rhason
sakkos
sticharion
zone
squeaky wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeaky wheels
Etymology: From the proverb "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"/oil.
Senses: examples: text: When I went to those who we needed to get the resources from, I got the title of being the squeaky wheel. Everyone is not going to be a squeaky wheel, but I believe that if we want something and are persistent enough, we will get it...
ref: 1997, Lauch Faircloth, editor, Hud Rebuilding and Loan Guaranty Program:
glosses: A complainer; one who speaks out when there are problems (often pejorative).
examples: text: And it is pretty hard to get government, as you know, ahead of the curve. We always respond to the squeaky wheel when things get bad, but you know, clearly there is food for thought in the observation of where we are in our commodity industries.
ref: 1999, State of the Petroleum Industry; Hearing the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, U.S. Senate:
glosses: Of several problems, the most apparent or the most urgent.
Synonyms: spokesperson
troublemaker
whiner
carlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carling
epitrachelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiliɒn/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪtɹəˈkiljən/
ipa: /-ˈkiː-/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪtɹɑˈkiliɔn/
Forms: form: epitrachelions
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἐπιτραχήλιον (epitrakhḗlion), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios, “on the neck”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns). ἐπιτραχήλιος (epitrakhḗlios) is from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon, on top of, covering”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on; at; near”)) + τράχηλος (trákhēlos, “neck”) + -ῐος (-ĭos) (from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix forming adjectives)).
Senses: examples: text: [A] little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.
ref: 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, page 232
text: The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.
ref: 1987, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 26, Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, →ISBN, page 878, column 2:
text: The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.
ref: 2014, Linda Safran, “Notes”, in The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 373, footnote 14:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
Coordinate terms: alb
epigonation
epimanikion
maniple
omophorion
rhason
sakkos
sticharion
zone
unpleasantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈplɛz.ənt.nəs/
Forms: form: unpleasantnesses
Etymology: From unpleasant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Given the behaviour of the members, who do normally come to Lord’s, this seemed a bizarre attempt to offload the unpleasantness on hoi polloi taking advantage of some rare £25 tickets.
ref: 2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.
examples: text: Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am, of the mischief that may, of the unpleasantnesses that must, arise from a young man’s being received in this manner—domesticated among us—authorized to come at all hours—and placed suddenly on a footing which must do away all restraints.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 322:
glosses: An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.
Derived terms: late unpleasantness
energize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnəd͡ʒaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛnɚd͡ʒaɪz/
ipa: /ˈenəd͡ʒɑɪz/
ipa: /ˈenəd͡ʒaɪz/
Forms: form: energizes
form: energizing
form: energized
form: energized
form: energise
Etymology: From energy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To invigorate; to make energetic.
examples: text: Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
glosses: To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).
examples: text: Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
ref: 1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry:
glosses: To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
Derived terms: deenergize
de-energize
disenergize
energizable
energization
energizer
reenergize
dissimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
Forms: form: dissimulates
form: dissimulating
form: dissimulated
form: dissimulated
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissimulaten, dissimilaten, from Latin dissimulātus + -en (“verb-forming suffix”), perfect passive participle of dissimulō (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Compare the obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler (French dissimuler), ultimately from the same Latin root. Doublet of dissemble, dissimilate, and dissimule.
Senses: examples: text: But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation – and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.
ref: 1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 13, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 212:
glosses: To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
examples: text: [P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 38:
glosses: To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.
examples: text: That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
ref: 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9
glosses: To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
Derived terms: dissimulatingly
undissimulated
Related terms: dissimulator
dissimulation
dissimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissimulat(e), dissimilat(e) (attested in Robert Henryson with an active sense, see the citation page), from dissimulātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: Where they may win ought : by fayre diſimilate ſhow,
There they flickar, and flatter, in fauer to grow.
ref: 1556, John Heywood, chapter LXIII, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: Feigned, simulated, pretended, false.
conforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conforming
form: most conforming
Senses: examples: text: He's trying to get a conforming loan.
glosses: Exhibiting conformity.
Derived terms: conformingly
nonconforming
osmoconforming
unconforming
conforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conform
mitigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mitigate
mitigating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That serves to mitigate.
Derived terms: mitigating circumstance
mitigating circumstances
mitigating factor
mitigatingly
banishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: banishments
Etymology: From banish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The judge pronounced banishment upon the war criminal.
glosses: The act of banishing.
examples: text: He has been in banishment from his home country for well over four years.
text: You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
ref: 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:
glosses: The state of being banished, exile.
Synonyms: exile
Dutch rub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch rubs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of noogie (“prank of rubbing the head with the knuckles”).
synonyms: word: noogie
extra: prank of rubbing the head with the knuckles
second-string
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: belonging to the second string of a team
glosses: substitute or replacement
examples: text: Having worked so hard to reach the Champions League, elimination will be a bitter blow for Mancini and City as they join neighbours United in Europe's second-string competition.
ref: 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: second most important
segmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡˈmɛntəl/
Forms: form: more segmental
form: most segmental
Etymology: From segment + -al.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or constructed from segments
Derived terms: asegmental
bisegmental
extrasegmental
heterosegmental
homosegmental
intersegmental
intrasegmental
midsegmental
monosegmental
multisegmental
myosegmental
nonsegmental
plurisegmental
polysegmental
segmental analysis
segmental anesthesia
segmental arch
segmental bridge
segmentalization
segmentalize
segmentally
segmental neuritis
segmental neuropathy
suprasegmental
unisegmental
selectmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectman
selectman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectmen
Etymology: From select + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.
ref: 2008, Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems:
text: The New England […] town had its own government: a group of selectmen elected by the adult male members of the church. The selectmen acted as a plural executive, while the town’s eligible voters gathered for town meetings and functioned as a miniature parliament.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 4, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.
Coordinate terms: selectwoman
selectperson
selectpeople
self-possession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + possession.
Senses: glosses: confidence in one's own powers
examples: text: She had a very fresh complexion and a pretty, round little face saved from any dolliness by the steadiness of her blue eyes, the firmness of her mouth, and the expression of quiet self-possession.
ref: 2022, J. Storer Clouston, The Adventures of M. D'Haricot:
glosses: calmness and composure, especially when under stress
self-reliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + reliance.
Senses: examples: text: Loss of self-reliance leads to loss of self-confidence.
text: The present sorrow always exceeds its predecessors—not so the present joy; comparison exaggerates the one, while it diminishes the other; and people talk of their youth as if it had not been a period of feverish sensitiveness, awkward embarrassments, many heart-burnings, and an utter want of that self-reliance which alone can ensure content.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 207:
text: A successful response uses social forces such as peer pressure and altruism to help people adapt to changing circumstances. It delivers messages and support that promote self-reliance rather than encourage people to fall back on stressed state support.
ref: 2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9:
synonyms: self-sufficiency
glosses: The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence.
Related terms: self-reliant
radgepacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radgepackets
Etymology: From radge + packet.
Senses: glosses: Someone prone to extreme outbursts of bad temper.
Related terms: radge
radgie
outbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outburst
oysters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster
hematomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematoma
shirtwaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtwaists
form: shirt-waist
form: shirt waist
Etymology: From shirt + waist.
Senses: examples: text: The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist […].
ref: 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 109:
glosses: A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front.
Synonyms: shirtwaister
Derived terms: shirtwaist blouse
Related terms: shirtdress
shooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoo
Shubi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Rwandi-Rundi language of Tanzania.
shingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)li/
Forms: form: shinglier
form: shingliest
Etymology: From shingle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered with shingle or small pebbles.
shirtwaist blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtwaist blouses
Senses: glosses: a shirtwaist
shortness of breath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.
ref: 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:
synonyms: SOB
breathlessness
dyspnea
dyspnoea
glosses: Difficulty in breathing.
Related terms: short of breath
short-winded
sicced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sic