cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: damned if one does, and damned if one doesn't
form: one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't
form: one's damned if one does, and one's damned if one doesn't
Senses: examples: text: You can and you can't—You shall and you shan't—You will and you won't—And you will be damned if you do—And you will be damned if you don't.
ref: 1836, Lorenzo Dow, Reflections on the Love of God (1836), ch. 6, p. 30 (on the doctrine of Particular Election)
text: If John leaves for New York to follow his career, his father will disinherit him. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
text: Damned if I do and damned if I don't.
text: Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
glosses: Of a situation where either choice results in a negative outcome.
Related terms: alt: BrE
word: can't do right for doing wrong
word: Ginsberg's theorem
recommends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recommend
recommends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recommend
quarrelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quarreling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarrel
quarrelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarrellings
form: quarreling
Senses: examples: text: Their constant quarrellings made them impossible to live with.
glosses: A heated argument.
root beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root beer
Torne Valley Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Torne, the name of the river that separates Finland and Sweden in the north; compare Swedish tornedalsfinska and Finnish tornionlaaksonsuomi.
Senses: glosses: Meänkieli (language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden)
Related terms: Tornedalen
sell wolf tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells wolf tickets
form: selling wolf tickets
form: sold wolf tickets
form: sold wolf tickets
form: sell woof tickets
Etymology: From wolf ticket/woof ticket, from woofing (“idly boasting”), from woofing (“(emptily/harmlessly) barking like a dog”). Woof ticket/wolf ticket is attested since the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: It's plenty people selling wolf tickets, you know.
ref: 1974, Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, page 165, quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang (2008)
text: I stood there in silence listening to Ollie build himself up by selling wolf tickets about what he planned to do to me.
ref: 2007, Stanley Tookie Williams, Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir, page 59:
text: The two of them played about four hands of spades, each of which was close but as usual, Yvonne won. Of course, she had to sell wolf tickets after the win. "The next time you come over Mchael, I'll let you win." "Let me win?" he asked incredulously.
ref: 2009, Crystal Y. Dixon, Destiny's Time, →ISBN, page 43:
text: A lot of selling of wolf tickets but never any blood. I wish they would kill one of themselves so there would be some peace around here.
ref: 2010, Theodore Dallas Ashford, A Lone Pine Traveler, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Dock has never fired a gun at anyone. He may possibly have sold a reporter a handful of wolf tickets.
ref: 2010, Donald Hall, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, →ISBN, page 164:
english: 2013, NICK DIAZ, UFC"You (St. Pierre) told the fans that I deserve to get beat down, that I chased you around. I got the fight, right? I'm working towards something, everybody knows that. Sorry I had to [say you were scared] to get the fight. They're selling you (fans and media) all wolf tickets people, you're eating them right up. Georges here is selling wolf tickets. Dana here is selling wolf tickets. The UFC is selling wolf tickets. You guys are eating them right up."
translation: 2013, NICK DIAZ, UFC"You (St. Pierre) told the fans that I deserve to get beat down, that I chased you around. I got the fight, right? I'm working towards something, everybody knows that. Sorry I had to [say you were scared] to get the fight. They're selling you (fans and media) all wolf tickets people, you're eating them right up. Georges here is selling wolf tickets. Dana here is selling wolf tickets. The UFC is selling wolf tickets. You guys are eating them right up."
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glosses: To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.
Coordinate terms: buy wolf tickets
Q fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q-fever
Etymology: From query + fever, the causative agent being unknown at the time.
Senses: examples: text: 1995, M. Isaacson, M. J. Hale, Chapter 8: Infections Caused by Rickettsiae, W. Doerr, Tropical Pathology, page 275,
In the past it was believed that chronic Q fever was always the result of reactivation of a primary infection which persisted in latent form.
text: 2001, Todd Hatchette, Thomas J. Marrie, Q Fever, entry in R. W. Ashford, Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections of Man and Domesticated Animals, page 417,
Q fever (query fever) is a zoonosis with worldwide distribution. New Zealand is the only country free of the disease.
text: Q fever has a major public health impact when outbreaks occur.[…]Accurate diagnosis and effective control strategies are necessary to limit the zoonotic and veterinary impact of Q fever.
ref: 2013, H. I. J. Roest, A. Bossers, J. M. J. Rebel, “Q Fever Diagnosis and Control in Domestic Ruminants”, in J. A. Roth, J. A. Richt, I. A. Morozov, editors, Vaccines and Diagnostics for Transboundary Animal Diseases, page 183:
glosses: An infectious disease, resembling influenza, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii (previously classified as Rickettsia burnetii).
Derived terms: Australian Q fever
Q fever pneumonia
Related terms: query fever
atomic theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic theories
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The theory that all gross matter is composed of atoms.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several theories that explain the structure of the atom, and of subatomic particles.
sucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: suckier
form: suckiest
Etymology: From suck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That comedian was pretty sucky on TV last night.
text: My mother-in-law. Who's^([sic]) isn't sucky, you ask? Mine's exceedingly sucky. More than average I'd say. She tries to turn my wife and kids against me […]
ref: 2002, R. Jay Driskill, Necropolis: A Collection of Spectres:
glosses: Being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or inferior.
examples: text: Oh no, you'll spoil her, too much sugar is bad for them. / Surely one won't hurt, just this once, Mildred. / And sucky Janine: Oh yes, can I Ma'am, please?
ref: 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Birth Day”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Tending to suck up or ingratiate oneself.
Derived terms: Kensucky
sucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: suckies
Etymology: From suck + -y.
Senses: glosses: A pacifier.
examples: text: Like postman I am pat
Gave a sucky then i spat
ref: 2019 June 2, XxSoccerMom, “Uncle Road”:
glosses: A fellation, a blowjob.
examples: text: She a sucky acky, lucky fucky
ref: 2020 May 15, Yung Domy, “Candy Shop”:
glosses: A fellatrix, a blowjobber.
Related terms: sucky-sucky
coup-de-grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups-de-grace
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coup de grâce.
goblin shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblin sharks
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 天狗鮫 (tenguzame), from 天狗 (tengu, “a mythical creature with a long nose”) + 鮫 (same, “shark”).
Senses: examples: text: The long flexible caudal fin, without a ventral lobe, the soft, flabby body, and small, soft paired and unpaired fins, suggest that the goblin shark is a relatively inactive, slow swimming species with a density close to seawater.
ref: 2001, Leonard J. V. Compagno, Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species, page 70:
text: Humans rarely see the goblin shark and we do not have a lot of information about them. Goblin sharks have a long, flat, pointy snout and their jaws protrude when they are eating. This makes the goblin shark look very unusual.
ref: 2007, Kimm Bellotto, Katie Kubesh, Niki McNeil, Sharks, page 8:
text: From the few goblin sharks that have been caught and studied, scientists believe them to be ambush predators that sit and wait for prey such as small midwater fishes, crustaceans, and squids.
ref: 2011, Ellen Prager, Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter, page 102:
glosses: A species of mackerel shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, that has a long snout-like protrusion from its forehead and grows to 3.8 meters in length.
restraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restraint
infidels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infidel
eluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elude
construed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of construe
deigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deign
persecutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persecution
gatherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gathering
jealousies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jealousy
glistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glisten
groped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grope
employments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of employment
goblin sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goblin shark
Jack O'Lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack O'Lanterns
Senses: examples: text: We helped the children carve pumpkins into Jack O'Lanterns.
glosses: Alternative spelling of jack-o'-lantern.
Jack O'Lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack O'Lantern
wilfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlfəli/
Forms: form: more wilfully
form: most wilfully
form: willfully
Etymology: From Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]wilfully and comptly commit[…]
ref: 1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:
text: Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Willingly, of one's own free will.
troponyms: maliciously
glosses: Deliberately, on purpose.
sheltering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelterings
Senses: examples: text: The result was most satisfactory, as I succeeded, with Mr. Morgan's kind assistance, in securing a considerable number of larvae living beneath shelterings formed of coccid remains, which I felt sure must be the early stage of a Thalpochares.
ref: 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 2, page 668:
glosses: A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
sheltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shelter
stowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəʊd/
ipa: /stoʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stow
mangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəld/
rhymes: -æŋɡəld
Forms: form: more mangled
form: most mangled
Etymology: From mangle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.
Derived terms: unmangled
mangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəld/
rhymes: -æŋɡəld
Etymology: From mangle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mangle
maddened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maddened
form: most maddened
Derived terms: unmaddened
maddened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of madden
plied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Derived terms: unplied
plied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: examples: text: She plied her trade at $3 a time.
ref: 2024 December 24, Wikipedia contributors, “Madeline Blair”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1264998440:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ply
furrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furrow
furrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furrowed
form: most furrowed
Senses: examples: text: Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
glosses: Marked with furrows.
Derived terms: unfurrowed
enfeebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfeeble
enfeebled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enfeebled
form: most enfeebled
Senses: examples: text: So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 86:
text: In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle.
ref: 2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025:
glosses: Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
Derived terms: unenfeebled
emancipated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emancipate
emancipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emancipated
form: most emancipated
Senses: examples: text: Austin is an emancipated minor.
synonyms: emancipate
antonyms: unemancipated
glosses: Having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free.
Derived terms: unemancipated
dwindled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dwindle
dozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doze
dozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: dozings
Senses: examples: text: The patient now lies at nights with his eye-lids half closed, in light distinct dozings, associated with moaning, frightful dreams, and startings […]
ref: 1819, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of typhus fever, page 32:
glosses: A light sleep.
condescended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condescend
disputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispute
disputing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disputings
Senses: examples: text: Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:
glosses: dispute; argument
broached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a broach
Derived terms: broached spire
unbroached
broached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broach
aspired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aspire
tugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tug
treasured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒəd/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒɚd/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɹɛʒ-]
Forms: form: more treasured
form: most treasured
Etymology: From treasure + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: priceless
glosses: Valued; especially, having a personal value.
treasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒəd/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒɚd/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɹɛʒ-]
Etymology: From treasure + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of treasure
video jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video jockeys
form: VJ
Etymology: From video + jockey, modelled on disc jockey.
Senses: glosses: A person who selects, or plays music videos either on television or at a disco.
Synonyms: veejay
VJ
waiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiter
Mishnaic Hebrew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Hebrew language as used from the second to the tenth century in the Common Era, descended from Biblical Hebrew.
Maulis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.lɪs/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪs
Forms: form: Moulis
Etymology: English modification of Czech Moulis, probably from French Moulin.
Senses: glosses: A United States surname from Czech, the Americanised form of the Czech Moulis
transplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transplant
Biblical Hebrew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the archaic form of the Hebrew language, spoken by the Israelites in the area known as Canaan/Israel in the first millennium BC, best-attested in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
Synonyms: Classical Hebrew
tragedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragedy
slapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slap
sneaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneakings
Senses: examples: text: Then there was much mirth and banter over the swift sneakings for home of certain men carrying large portions of puarka.
ref: 1915, Charmian London, The Log of the Snark, page 108:
glosses: The act of one who sneaks.
sneaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sneaking
form: most sneaking
Senses: glosses: Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.
sneaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sneak
Related terms: cat and kitten sneaking
lob-sneaking
sneaking regarder
sneaking suspicion
tamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tamed
form: most tamed
Senses: glosses: domesticated; made tame
tamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tame
speculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speculate
speculating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculatings
Senses: examples: text: […] whereupon ensues a long course of theatrical speculatings and practisings […]
ref: 1832, Thomas Carlyle, Goethe's Works:
glosses: speculation
shockingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shockingly
form: most shockingly
Etymology: From shocking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
glosses: In a shocking manner.
examples: text: Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
text: He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To a shocking degree.
slavishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsleɪvɪʃli/
Forms: form: more slavishly
form: most slavishly
Etymology: From slavish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although the words were not slavishly borrowed, the expressions partook of the simple dignity of the liturgy to which she had been accustomed, and was probably as worthy of the Being to whom they were addressed as they could well be made by human powers.
ref: 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder:
text: "Railways seldom slavishly followed styles to be seen in the mainstream of contemporary architecture," HE [Historic England] explains.
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 55:
glosses: In a slavish manner.
snarlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snarlingly
form: most snarlingly
Etymology: From snarling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Mina went in again, Woona was still squatted among the ashes; she was silent as Mina entered, but her black eyes rolled defiantly and her lower lip fell snarlingly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:
glosses: In a snarling manner; with a snarl.
snarling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.
text: Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.
ref: 2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: latrant
glosses: Growling, having a snarl.
snarling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snarlings
Senses: examples: text: When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145:
glosses: The act of producing a snarl or growl.
snarling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snarl
Christian Era
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Christian Era
form: CE
Senses: glosses: The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the (assumed) birth of Jesus Christ.
heresies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heresy
nutrigenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutri(tion) + genomics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The field of study that examines how the interaction between genetics and nutrition affects human health, specifically to devise a personalized diet to improve or maintain good health.
Related terms: nutrigenome
unpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + powered.
Senses: glosses: Lacking in power, especially electrical power.
examples: text: an unpowered boat; an unpowered glider
text: The unpowered steering on the early model tandem steer British-built Fodens was almost unbelievable at times.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 98:
glosses: Not using or requiring power, especially artificial power.
unpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + powered.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpower
wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasp
Lala land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of La-La Land.
Micmac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Micmacs
form: Micmac
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mi'kmaq.
Micmac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mi'kmaq.
bulwarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulwark
bulwarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bulwark
delightfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more delightfully
form: most delightfully
Etymology: From delightful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a delightful manner.
reeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reel
ripened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ripen
caverns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.və(ɹ)nz/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)nz
Senses: glosses: plural of cavern
installer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: installers
Etymology: From install + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the event industry there are two critical times when safety is often compromised, at bump-in and at bump-out. At bump-in the organizer is usually pressed for time and it is not uncommon for installers to work around the clock. At the end of the show or exhibition, bump-out carries an even higher risk as everyone is exhausted.
ref: 2014, Lynn Van Der Wagen, Lauren White, Human Resource Management for the Event Industry, page 110:
glosses: One who installs.
examples: text: Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.
ref: 2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968:
text: Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.
ref: 2018 July 16, Ben Cotton, “The oldest, active Linux distro, Slackware, turns 25”, in Opensource.com:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.
Synonyms: setup
set-up
Derived terms: coinstaller
offline installer
web installer
installations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of installation
vapulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vapulate
vapulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vapulate
vapulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vapulate
riva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rift or cleft.
North Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Finnish
glosses: A generic name for a number of Finnish dialects spoken in the Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway. Two of them, Meänkieli (or Torne Valley Finnish) in Sweden and Kven in Norway are officially recognized as minority languages in their respective countries, and are currently considered separate languages. Their structure and grammar are similar to Finnish but the vocabularies are considerably influenced by the majority language of their country.
cortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.tɪ.kəl/
Etymology: From Latin cortex (“bark”), stem cortic-, + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
Derived terms: adrenocortical
allocortical
amygdalocortical
archicortical
bicortical
cerebellocortical
cerebellothalamocortical
cerebrocortical
cortical column
corticalization
cortically
cortical plate
cortical reaction
corticocortical
cytocortical
electrocortical
endocortical
epicortical
exocortical
extracortical
frontocortical
geniculocortical
hippocampocortical
infracortical
intercortical
intracortical
isocortical
juxtacortical
koniocortical
leucocortical
leukocortical
mesocortical
microcortical
midcortical
monocortical
neocortical
neurocortical
noncortical
nucleocortical
occipitocortical
paleocortical
pallidocortical
paracortical
pericortical
posterocortical
precortical
prefrontocortical
retinocortical
spinocortical
striatocortical
subcortical
thalamocortical
transcortical
tricortical
unicortical
visuocortical
Related terms: cortex
cortico-
blastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæstˈoʊmə/
Forms: form: blastomas
form: blastomata
Etymology: From blast- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells or blasts.
Hypernyms: tumor
Hyponyms: ameloblastoma
erythroblastoma
glioblastoma
gonadoblastoma
lymphoblastoma
medulloblastoma
myoblastoma
nephroblastoma
pineoblastoma
retinoblastoma
Derived terms: adenoameloblastoma
aesthesioneuroblastoma
ameloblastoma
androblastoma
angioblastoma
arrhenoblastoma
astroblastoma
blastomal
blastomogenic
cementoblastoma
chondroblastoma
chorioblastoma
ependymoblastoma
esthesioneuroblastoma
fibroblastoma
ganglioneuroblastoma
glioblastoma
gonadoblastoma
granuloblastoma
gynandroblastoma
haemangioblastoma
hemangioblastoma
hemangioendothelioblastoma
hepatoblastoma
leiomyoblastoma
leucoblastoma
lipoblastoma
lymphoblastoma
medullablastoma
medulloblastoma
myoblastoma
myofibroblastoma
nephroblastoma
nesidioblastoma
neuroblastoma
neuroesthesioblastoma
osteoblastoma
pineoblastoma
rentinoblastoma
retinoblastoma
teratoblastoma
trichoblastoma
pineoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineoblastomas
form: pineoblastomata
Etymology: From pineal gland + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A tumor of the pineal gland.
Related terms: pinealoma
medulloblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medulloblastomas
form: medulloblastomata
Etymology: From medulla + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum
nephroblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephroblastomas
form: nephroblastomata
Etymology: From nephro- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A tumour affecting a kidney.
Synonyms: Wilms' tumor
pinealoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinealomas
form: pinealomata
Etymology: From pineal + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour of the pineal gland.
Related terms: pineoblastoma
amelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amelias
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: As already mentioned, limb deficiencies – amelias and meromelias – represent an important group of limb abnormalities.
ref: 2006, Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects, page 126:
text: The newborn examination confirms the diagnosis of amelia and distinguishes it from other limb deficiencies (e.g. terminal transverse defects) and sirenomelia.
ref: 2020, Birth Defects Surveillance: A Manual for Programme Managers, 2nd edition, World Health Organization, page 119:
text: 2021, Femi Oyebode, Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Cambridge University Press, page 179,
Furthermore, the fact that people with amelia can experience phantom limbs, despite never having had any limbs, points to the existence of neural systems ready to respond to sensory inputs from limbs.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The congenital absence of one or more limbs.
Derived terms: amelic
amelus
tetra-amelia
Related terms: hemimelia
meromelia
sirenomelia
amelus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ameli
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A foetus born without limbs.
Related terms: amelia
Sengas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Senga
blastema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə
Forms: form: blastemas
form: blastemata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλάστημα (blástēma, “sprout”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
Derived terms: alt: blastematic, blastematous
word: blastemal
word: blastemic
pinealectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pinealectomies
Etymology: From pineal + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the pineal gland.
Derived terms: pinealectomize
xylyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylyl
MEK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: catalyst: A chemical that makes the polyester resin harden, usually MEK (methyl-ethyl-ketone)
ref: 1973, William Desmond Nelson, Surfing: A Handbook, page 220:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: butanone
glosses: Initialism of methyl ethyl ketone.
glosses: Initialism of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase.
Derived terms: MEKP
MEK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Those that fled were predominantly royalists, leftists, and members of the Islamist-Socialist Mujahedin-e Khalgh, or the MEK, which, until its recent delisting by Washington, was considered a terrorist group by Iran and America alike. Some of those immigrants and their descendants became a visible part of the cultural scene in California, in Tehrangeles, the worst of which were depicted in the unflattering reality show Shahs of Sunset. Apart from the MEK, this older generation has mostly shied away from outright political activism, but many will sometimes support the idea of a new revolution, or even foreign intervention in Iran.
ref: 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014:
glosses: Initialism of Mojahedin-e-Khalq.
2-butanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The industrial solvent butanone.
ethylmethylketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The industrial solvent butanone.
methylpropanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The industrial solvent butanone.
package stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of package store
liquor stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquor store
pantler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantlers
Etymology: From pantelere, a dissimilated variant of Middle English panterere, from panetrie; equivalent to pantry + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A good shallow young fellow. ’A would have made a pantler; ’a would ha’ chipp’d bread well.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon
This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: The servant in charge of the bread and the pantry in a great house.
Related terms: bread-bearer
Lilian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪli.ən/
Forms: form: Lillian
Etymology: Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”).
Senses: examples: text: Airy, fairy Lilian, / Flitting, fairy Lilian, / When I ask her if she loves me, / Claps her tiny hands above me, / Laughing all she can.
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, Lilian:
text: When it was my turn Roger told the crowd that my romanised second and third name, if written as one word in Pinyin, as is now the custom, was exactly like the English girl's name Lilian and he therefore proposed to leave it like that, Lilian being a very pretty name, he said.
ref: 2004, Willem Dijkstra, May You Live in Interesting Times, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 77:
text: These behaviors and mindsets contrast with mindful eating, which means using all your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy the food choices you make without judgment, said Lilian Cheung, a lecturer and director of health promotion and communication in the nutrition department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, via email.
ref: 2021 October 14, Kristen Rogers, “Mindful eating could change your food habits and overall life. Here’s how to start”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Lila
Lil
Lili
Lilia
Liliana
Liliane
Lilias
Lilli
Lillia
Lilianna
Lilliana
Lilliane
Lilliann
Lillianna
Lillianne
Lillie
Lilly
Lillyan
Lillyanne
Lily
Lilyan
Lilyann
hourglass figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hourglass figures
Senses: glosses: A human body shape resembling an hourglass, i.e. with a very narrow waist and wide bust and hips.
Related terms: corset
tightlacing
90-60-90
investments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of investment
concentrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concentrate
dog my cats
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: "I began to feel sorry for Hubby, dog my cats if I didn't."
ref: 1906, O. Henry, The Four Million:
text: Buffalo Bill Cody: "Dog my cats" — Preston Sturgis, "Annie Oakley", 1935
text: Salesman: "Well, dog my cats!" — Moroni Olsen, "Christmas in July", 1940
text: Joe Ross: "Dog my cats indeed" — David Mamet, "The Spanish Prisoner", 1997
text: Marshall Eriksen: "Well, dog my cats..." — Jason Segel, "How I Met Your Mother", 2010
glosses: Used as a mild oath, or as an expression of astonishment
grandest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grand: most grand
grander
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grand: more grand
massacring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of massacre
massacring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massacrings
Senses: glosses: A massacre.
massacred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of massacre
compensated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some commenters foresaw the possibility that "a handful of very compensated employees could tilt the average high enough to meet the minimum average benefit with little or no contributions to the 'average' employee .
ref: 1998, Service Contract Act: Prevailing Wage Resource Book 1998, page 5:
glosses: That received compensation (payment)
examples: text: But, if my view is correct, the only gold standard which could have survived during the last few years would have been the very compensated gold dollar against which the bankers' report was written.
ref: 1934, Irving Fisher, Hans R. L. Cohrssen, Stable Money: A History of the Movement, page 380:
text: The equations of motion can be set up for an airplane equipped with a "compensated" autopilot ( one in which the autopilot constants are varied as the airplane parameters vary ) , including the effects of lag in both the autopilot and the commuter .
ref: 1948, Gifford Bull ·, Stability of an Airplane with a Compensated Autopilot, page 26:
glosses: That has been adjusted to compensate for some circumstances.
Derived terms: compensated dating
compensated summation
noncompensated
time-compensated gain
uncompensated
compensated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compensate
studiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From studious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being studious.
studiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more studiously
form: most studiously
Etymology: From studious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a studious manner.
stuck-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuck-up
form: most stuck-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stuck up.
stunningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stunningly
form: most stunningly
Etymology: From stunning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was stunningly beautiful. I couldn't take my eyes off her.
text: a stunningly expensive gift
text: stunningly awful ideas
glosses: So as to stun or amaze.
stylishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stylishly
form: most stylishly
Etymology: From stylish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.
ref: 2009 January 24, RICHARD OUZOUNIAN, “A winning Bette”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: In a stylish manner.
suggestibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suggestibilities
Senses: examples: text: Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.
ref: 1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5:
text: In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson noted that some individuals seemed to be more suggestible than others. This approach assumed that suggestibility is a trait and led to the development of a model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986).
ref: 2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1992:
glosses: The property of being suggestible.
subconsciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subconsciously
form: most subconsciously
Etymology: From subconscious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Below the level of conscious awareness.
Shirgah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shirga
Senses: glosses: A city in Savadkuh, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
Motown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊtaʊn/
Etymology: Blend of motor + town; see Motor City. The poker slang comes from jacks and fives sounding similar to Jackson 5, associated with Motown popular music.
Senses: glosses: Detroit.
Motown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊtaʊn/
Etymology: Blend of motor + town; see Motor City. The poker slang comes from jacks and fives sounding similar to Jackson 5, associated with Motown popular music.
Senses: examples: text: They may be a rock band, but their retro style shows a heavy Motown influence.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of popular soul music strongly associated with Motown Records.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A jack and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Related terms: Motor City
youthful river
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youthful rivers
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fast-flowing river characterized by a deep, narrow erosion pattern forming a V-shaped channel or valley.
Related terms: english: characterized by a wide channel
translation: characterized by a wide channel
word: mature river
english: characterized by large flood plains
translation: characterized by large flood plains
word: old river
word: rejuvenated river
tinnient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinnient
form: most tinnient
Senses: glosses: Having a ringing or clinking sound.
tintinnabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tintinnabular
form: most tintinnabular
Etymology: From Latin tintinnabulum (“little bell”) + -ar (“forming adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: That tintinnabular peculiarity of the British nation, the semihourly bell.
glosses: Of or related to bells; of the nature of a bell.
examples: text: He excurred to the tintinnabular summons alacritously.
glosses: Of or related to bell-ringing.
Synonyms: tintinnabulary
Related terms: tintinnabulation
tintinnabulum