cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
apolipoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apolipoproteins
Etymology: From apo- + lipoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polypeptide or protein that can serve as an apoprotein by binding with a lipid to form a lipoprotein.
Hypernyms: apoprotein
Derived terms: proapolipoprotein
carboxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxyl group.
Derived terms: carbenicillin
carbenoxolone
carbocisteine
carboxyalkyl
carboxyglutamic acid
carboxyhemoglobin
carboxykinase
carboxymaltose
carboxymethyl
carboxypenicillin
carboxyphenyl
carboxyprothrombin
carboxyterminal
carboxy-terminal
carboxy-terminus
carboxytherapy
carsalam
ticarcillin
toco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocos
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of tocodynamometer.
toco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: tōʹkō
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.koʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: toko
Etymology: From Hindi ठोको (ṭhoko), second-person plural imperative form of ठोकना (ṭhoknā, “to strike, hit, beat”), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀤𑀺 (*ṭhokkadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑀢𑀺 (*ṭhokati).
Senses: examples: text: The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, “Rugby and Football”, in Tom Brown's School Days, London: Macmilla and Co., published 1928, page 95:
text: Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco—
Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado, London: G. Bell and Sons, published 1911, act 1, page 17:
glosses: Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
Derived terms: give toco
toco for yam
toco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: tōʹkō
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.koʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: tocos
Etymology: From Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
ref: 2007, Les Beletsky, Bird Songs from Around the World, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.
ref: 2014, R. Eric Miller, Murray E. Fowler, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8 - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: a toco toucan
deaminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈæmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: deaminates
form: deaminating
form: deaminated
form: deaminated
Etymology: From de- + aminate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove an amino group from (a compound), especially by the use of a deaminase enzyme.
Related terms: deaminated
renegado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegados
form: renegadoes
Etymology: From Spanish renegado.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of renegade.
deaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈæmɪneɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deaminate
deaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈæmɪneɪtəd/
Forms: form: more deaminated
form: most deaminated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That has had one or more amino groups removed
deformylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɔː(ɹ)mɪleɪz/
Forms: form: deformylases
Etymology: From de- + formyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that removes the formyl group from some amino acids (especially from methionine).
Auger effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əʊˈʒeɪ ɪˈfɛkt/
Etymology: Named for French physicist Pierre Victor Auger (1899–1993).
Senses: synonyms: Auger-Meitner effect
glosses: The secondary emission of an electron following the ionisation of a core electron of an atom.
wikipedia: en:Pierre Victor Auger
formyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mɪl/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)maɪl/
Forms: form: formyls
Etymology: Formed from the root of Latin formīca (“ant”) + -yl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: methanoyl
glosses: The univalent radical -CHO, derived from formaldehyde, that is characteristic of aldehydes
Derived terms: chloroformyl
formylase
formylate
formylation
formyl chloride
formyl fluoride
formylglutathione
formylglycine
formylium
formylmethanofuran
formyl methionine
formylmethionine
formyl peptide receptor
formyltransferase
tetraformyl
Related terms: -form
formylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more formylated
form: most formylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That has had one or more formyl groups added
Related terms: formylation
formylmethionine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of formyl methionine.
formyl methionine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The formylated form of the amino acid methionine; it initiates peptide synthesis in bacteria
metalloprotease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloproteases
Etymology: From metallo- + protease.
Senses: examples: text: A recent study focused on the enzymatic and cytotoxic functions of jellyfish metalloproteases and identified diverse proteolytic effects including gelatinolytic, caseinolytic, and fibrinolytic activities.
ref: 2015 June 18, Mahdokht Jouiaei et al., “Ancient Venom Systems: A Review on Cnidaria Toxins”, in Toxins, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: metalloproteinase
metalloproteinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloproteinases
Etymology: From metallo- + proteinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre
Derived terms: antimetalloproteinase
matrix metalloproteinase
pro-matrix metalloproteinase
proteinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinases
Etymology: From protein + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: Thrombin is another endogenous serine proteinase that can be released from fibrin clot following gingival tissue injury or inflammation.
ref: 2017, E. S. Rovai, M. Holzhausen, “The Role of Proteinase-Activated Receptors 1 and 2 in the Regulation of Periodontal Tissue Metabolism and Disease”, in Journal of immunology research, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: protease
Derived terms: antiproteinase
endoproteinase
leukoproteinase
lipoproteinase
melanoproteinase
metalloproteinase
miniproteinase
multiproteinase
panproteinase
retroelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroelements
Etymology: From retro- + element.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A retrotransposon.
indican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicans
Etymology: See indigo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside obtained from plants of genus Indigofera, the source of natural indigo dye.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: uroxanthin
glosses: An indigo-forming substance found in urine and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin); an indoxyl sulphate of potash.
Derived terms: indicanuria
indiglucin
indihumin
pseudoindican
cyanamid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanamids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cyanamide.
bajan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajans
Senses: examples: text: Sinfonietta for orch and two bajans (Russian accordions).
ref: 1974, Fontes Artis Musicae, volume 21, page 67:
text: […] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.
ref: 1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94:
text: […] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.
ref: 1994, Stereophile, volume 17, page 193:
text: Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Trio Voronezh playing piano, trombone and Russian folk instruments: the double-bass balalaika (a large triangular instrument), the domra (a short-necked lute), and a bajan (a button accordion, partially operated with the chin).
ref: 1997, Directions in Sound, volume 45/46, page 10:
text: accordion or bajan solo
ref: 1997, Orchestral Music in Print, Musicdata, →ISBN, page 178:
text: He takes a chamber-music approach to the large orchestral forces, isolating various instruments from time to time, and creating a glistening score with a vast, evocative range of sounds, partly through the inclusion of mandolins, guitars, theorbo, electronic keyboard and a bajan (an accordion with a very high register), which often create an alienating effect, as in the grotesque minuet in the first act.
ref: 2007, Opera, volume 58, page 1467:
text: And he pursued additional courses/training on the bajan, under the guidance of Maestro Gianluca Pica, and continued his advanced accordion studies with Maestro Alessandro Mugnoz at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali […]
ref: 2019, Maximillien de Lafayette, Accordion and World’s Best Contemporary Accordionists, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).
spy satellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spy satellites
Senses: glosses: An artificial space satellite used for reconnaissance or intelligence gathering.
wikipedia: KH-9 Hexagon
spy satellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spy satellite
reconned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recon
reconning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recon
reactants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reactant
revealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revealers
Etymology: From Middle English revelare, equivalent to reveal + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Whether "The Doctor" be written by Southey or not, let revealers of mysteries determine; it is certainly written by one who strongly resembles him, perhaps too strongly to be other than himself.
ref: 1838, T.B. Browne, Thoughts of the Times; or, Men and things, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 108:
synonyms: revelator
antonyms: concealer
glosses: A person or thing that reveals.
examples: text: Next (and my favorite) is Blank Space , four corner rebus squares reading "blank" for the down answers and "space" for the acrosses, mirroring the central revealers
ref: 2023 October 15, Stu Ockman, Will and Me: Confessions of a Crossword Junkie, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Though experienced solvers will likely see where this is going , others might need the help of the revealer
ref: 2023 November 14, David Bukszpan, Crosswordese: The Weird and Wonderful Language of Crossword Puzzles, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The theme launches off a main revealer entry at 93-Across. There are four clues that refer to that entry, at 39-, 65-, 104- and 108-Across. When solved, 93-Across will also make the grid art snap into focus.
ref: 2024 November 16, Caitlin Lovinger, “Nothing but Blue Skies”, in New York Times:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: An entry in a crossword that guides the solver towards the theme or endgame.
Related terms: dead giveaway
revealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revealer
reshelve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlv
Forms: form: reshelves
form: reshelving
form: reshelved
form: reshelved
Etymology: From re- + shelve.
Senses: glosses: To shelve again; to place back on a shelf.
reshelves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshelve
reshelving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshelve
reshelving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshelvings
Senses: examples: text: The least popular books had had fewer than four reshelvings in ten years.
glosses: The act of placing back on a shelf.
relayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relayers
Etymology: From relay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, relays.
glosses: An athlete who takes part in a relay race.
relayer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relayers
form: relayering
form: relayered
form: relayered
Etymology: From re- + layer.
Senses: glosses: To layer again.
relayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relayer
reenactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reenactors
form: re-enactor
Etymology: From reenact + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who reenacts.
examples: text: So we stare instead at a long dining tables with their collections of silver and porcelain and wander through restored kitchens full of re-enactors doing things to whole pigs.
ref: 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: One who takes part in a historical reenactment.
reenactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reenactor
retransmit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: retransmits
form: retransmitting
form: retransmitted
form: retransmitted
Etymology: From re- + transmit.
Senses: examples: text: The repeater retransmits the messages it receives.
glosses: To transmit again.
retransmits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retransmit
retransmitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retransmit
tortious interference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortious interferences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Intentional damage to a person's contractual or other business relationships.
wikipedia: Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
retransmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retransmit
recycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recyclers
Etymology: From recycle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who recycles, or a machine used to recycle.
Derived terms: road recycler
recyclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycler
recycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recycle
baptises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baptise
baptising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baptise
baisas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baisa
backpedalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backpedaling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backpedal
backpedalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpedallings
form: backpedaling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backpedaling.
backpedalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backpedal
expunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspʌŋ(k).ʃən/
/ɛk-/
Forms: form: expunctions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin expunctiō, expunctiōnem.
Senses: synonyms: expunctuation
glosses: The act of expunging or erasing.
glosses: The condition of being expunged.
ampuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampul
bouffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouffe
bouffons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouffon.
as such
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.
glosses: In the role or manner of the thing mentioned.
examples: text: I don't have a library as such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.
glosses: In a true or literal sense.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
examples: text: Money as such is not the root of evil.
text: Nietzsche was well aware of this meta-ethical question, which in the above cited aphorism he calls: “The problem of morality itself.” It is implicitly answered in his explicative attitude towards morality as such.
ref: 2012, Y. Yovel, Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker, →ISBN:
text: The nature of an entity, a medieval would have said, is what-it-is-as-such. An entity does not have a certain nature in the way it has a certain property. It is a certain nature. If an entity is something as such, then it is a certain nature.
ref: 2012, K.J. Clark, Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, →ISBN:
text: For only in this way is it possible to uncover the psychical as such in a truly original and concrete manner.
ref: 2012 -, J.J. Kockelmans, Phenomenological Psychology: The Dutch School, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Although wisdom as such, courage as such, understanding as such, existence as such, and so on can readily be conceived of (but not imagined), there are no entities corresponding to those conceptions: there are only instances of wisdom, courage, and so on.
ref: 2014, Elmar J. Kremer, Analysis of Existing: Barry Miller's Approach to God, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Per se, by itself, in itself, in and of itself.
examples: text: I'm a mother of four young children; as such, I'm always rushed off my feet.
glosses: Being as previously mentioned or described.
tacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackets
Etymology: From tack + -et.
Senses: glosses: A small, broad-headed nail or tack.
tallage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: tallages
form: taliage
form: talliage
form: tailage
form: taillage
Etymology: From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: An impost.
examples: text: The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
tallage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: tallages
form: tallaging
form: tallaged
form: tallaged
Etymology: From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: To lay an impost upon.
glosses: To cause to pay tallage.
Derived terms: tallageable
chantant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chantant
form: most chantant
Etymology: French chantant (“singing”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in a melodious and singsong style.
Related terms: café-chantant
tangly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tanglier
form: tangliest
Etymology: From tangle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Entangled; intricate.
glosses: Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
tapster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapsters
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tappestere, from Old English tæppestre (“barmaid”), equivalent to tap + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: […] A tapster is a good trade: an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered serving-man a fresh tapster.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: There is a Twin-brother to this Falſe-galloper, and hee cheats Inne-keepers onely, or their Tapſters, by learning firſt what Country-men they are, and of what kindred: and then bringing counterfeit letters of commendations from ſuch an Vncle, or ſuch a Coozen (wherein is requeſted, that the Bearer thereof may bee vſed kindely) […]
ref: 1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Jacke in a Boxe. […]”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, pages 292–293:
text: About the ſecond VVatch, a general Complaint of Drovvth vvas made both by the Priſoner and his Keepers. Among vvhom it vvas at last agreed, that the Conſtable ſhould remain on Duty, and the young Fellovv call up the Tapſter; in which Diſpoſition the young Fellovv apprehended not the leaſt Danger, as the Conſtable vvas vvell armed, and could beſides eaſily ſummon him back to his Aſſiſtance, if the Priſoner made the leaſt Attempt to gain his Liberty.
ref: 1742, Henry Fielding, “The Escape of the Thief. […]”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 100:
text: 1878, John Payne, Introduction, in François Villon, Poems, translated by John Payne, New York: Boni & Liveright, c. 1918, p. 33,
[…] in a twinkling the accomplished sharper changes the pitchers and pretending to examine the contents, asks the tapster what kind of wine he has given him […]
synonyms: barkeep
glosses: One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
Related terms: tapper
tapstress
tardigradous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tardigradous
form: most tardigradous
Etymology: From tardigrade + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Moving slowly; slow-paced.
Related terms: tardigrade
tardity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English tardite, tarditee, from Old French tardeté and/or Latin tarditās, equivalent to tard(y) + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Slowness; tardiness.
Synonyms: sense: slowness
word: lentitude
sense: slowness
word: lentor
sense: slowness
word: retardation
sense: slowness
word: sloth
sense: tardiness
word: belatedness
word: lateness
bandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banda
taslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taslets
Etymology: From tasse + -let. Alternatively, from Middle French tasse + -let.
Senses: glosses: A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the thighs; a tasse.
bimonthlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimonthly
tauromachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tauromachies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”).
Senses: glosses: Bullfighting
antipastos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipasto
tawery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taweries
Etymology: From taw + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where skins are tawed.
antiperspirants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiperspirant
tawniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tawny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tawny.
Baumann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baumanns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Baumann.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
arroyos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arroyo
teache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaches
Senses: examples: 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xcv-xcvi,
[…] when the liquor is reduced sufficiently, so as to be contained in the third smaller copper, it is ladled into that, and so on to the last, called the teache, so named probably from the practice, at this stage of the process, of trying the consistency of the boiled juice by the touch.
glosses: One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.
teache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of teach.
barbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barb
montons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monton
teaseler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaselers
Etymology: From teasel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
monteras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montera
montera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monteras
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Iberian hat associated with bullfighters.
tectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tectly
form: most tectly
Etymology: From tect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Covertly; privately; secretly.
tede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tedes
form: tead
Etymology: From Latin taeda.
Senses: glosses: A torch; a flambeau.
tedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: tedges
Senses: glosses: The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured.
teemful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teemful
form: most teemful
Etymology: From teem + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Pregnant; prolific.
glosses: Brimful.
teend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teends
form: teending
form: teended
form: teended
Etymology: From Middle English tenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle”). See tinder.
Senses: glosses: To kindle; to burn.
teest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teests
Senses: glosses: A tinsmith's stake.
glosses: A small anvil.
wimpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wimpy: more wimpy
wimpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wimpy: most wimpy
cadene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of low-quality carpet imported from the Levant.
cadetship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadetships
Etymology: From cadet + -ship.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The position, rank, or commission of cadet.
glosses: A kind of training programme that combines on-the-job experience with formal training; an apprenticeship
anglaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anglaise.
cadgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cadgy
form: most cadgy
Senses: glosses: cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking
glosses: frolicsome; wanton
Derived terms: cadgily
cadginess
calculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calculatory
form: most calculatory
Etymology: From calculate + -ory?
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to calculation.
calendographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calendographers
Etymology: From calendar + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: One who makes calendars.
calendographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendographer
magnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English magnes, from Latin magnēs. Doublet of magnet.
Senses: examples: text: Of mightie magnes stone
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.
ref: 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London]: [s.n.], published [1870], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Obsolete form of magnet.
magnons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnon
caliduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caliducts
Senses: glosses: A pipe or duct used, especially in ancient times, to convey hot air or steam for heating purposes.
Related terms: calid
caliducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caliduct
piqué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkeɪ/
ipa: /piˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: piqués
form: pique
Etymology: Borrowed from French piqué (“(noun) ribbed fabric; (ballet) step on to the point of the leading foot without bending the knee; (adjective) backstitched; (cooking) larded”), Middle French piqué (“quilted”), a noun use of the past participle of piquer (“to prick, sting; to decorate with stitches; to quilt; to stitch (fabric) together; to lard (meat)”).
Senses: examples: text: I found three piqué shirts, each a shade lighter than the one before it, and each so fine and closely woven it shone like satin.
ref: 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 269:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: marcella
glosses: A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A movement in which the raised, pointed foot of the working leg is lowered so that it pricks the floor and then either rebounds upward or becomes a supporting foot.
camerade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camerades
Senses: glosses: Comrade.
campaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more campaniform
form: most campaniform
Etymology: Latin campana (“bell”) + -form
Senses: synonyms: bell-shaped
campaniliform
campanulate
glosses: In the shape of a bell.
piqués
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piqué
pianino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pianinos
Etymology: Italian
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pianette, or small piano.
candidateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candidateships
Etymology: From candidate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Candidacy.
cannonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannonries
Etymology: From cannon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Cannons, collectively; battery of cannons.
glosses: The firing of cannons.
cannonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannonry
candidateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candidateship
proto-languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-language
snaggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snaggy: more snaggy
snaggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snaggy: most snaggy
naggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of naggy: more naggy
naggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of naggy: most naggy
kew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kews
Senses: examples: text: The following telegram with explain this: "Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations."
ref: 1908, Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, Staff Rides and Regimental Tours, London: Hugh Rees, page 305:
text: the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths
ref: 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber:
text: "As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up."
ref: 2016, Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak, Titan Publishing:
related: word: cue
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
kew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Aphetic form of thank you.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Kew,’ she said politely, and then took off, expertly negotiating the narrow aisles between the stalls.
ref: 2013, F. E. Higgins, A Tangle of Traitors (The Phenomenals; 1), London: Macmillan Children's Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Clipping of thank you.
teests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teest
red corpuscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red corpuscle
camporee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæm.pəˈɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: camporees
Etymology: Blend of camp + jamboree
Senses: hyponyms: freezoree
glosses: A gathering of Scouts at which accommodation is in tents.
carbonatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbonatizes
form: carbonatizing
form: carbonatized
form: carbonatized
Etymology: From carbonate + -ize.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To combine with carbon dioxide to form carbonates
carbonatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonatizations
Etymology: From carbonate + -ization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Reaction with carbon dioxide to form carbonates.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The introduction of carbonate rocks to replace others.
Derived terms: decarbonatization
chiffarobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiffarobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chifforobe.
chifforobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪfəˌɹoʊb/
Forms: form: chifforobes
form: chiffarobe
form: chifferobe
Etymology: Blend of chiffonier + wardrobe
Senses: examples: text: Now, my Grandmamma Mattie pulled the used-to-be Easter dress from the chifforobe and tossed it on the bed where my mama lay, still as a cadaver.
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 163:
glosses: A piece of furniture consisting of a wardrobe combined with a chest of drawers.
chiminea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimineas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chimenea.
chop and change
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chops and changes
form: chopping and changing
form: chopped and changed
form: chopped and changed
Senses: examples: text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.
text: [...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.
ref: 1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153:
glosses: To change or exchange repeatedly.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.
glosses: To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.
Derived terms: choppy-changey
civil trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil trials
Senses: glosses: A trial in which a plaintiff seeks damages or other remedy from a defendant; a lawsuit
cliché-verre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cliché verre.
screenager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹiːneɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: screenagers
Etymology: Blend of screen + teenager. Coined by author Douglas Rushkoff.
Senses: glosses: A teenager who spends a lot of time in front of the screen of a personal computer or video game console.
that's just me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Personally, I wouldn't be making jokes if I were sitting on drugs and weapons charges, but that's just me."
ref: 2001, Steve Hamilton, Winter of the Wolf Moon, page 197:
glosses: Indicates the expression of a personal opinion, but often used ironically as an understatement.
Related terms: is it just me?
it is not just you
Rambo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmbəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Etymology: * The name "Rambo" is of unknown origin. It can be dated back to the 17th-century Swedish immigrant Peter Gunnarsson Rambo. According to folk legend it is derived from the mountain Ramberget ("Raven’s Hill") in Gothenburg, whence the Swedish immigrants to Delaware originated in the 17th century.
* "Rambo" is also the name of an old farm in Vestfold county, Norway ("Rambøe" 1664, "Ramboe" 1723) - and about 65 people in Norway have Rambo as a family name. The Old Norse form of the name might have been *Hrafnabú. The first element is then the genitive plurals of hrafn m. 'raven', and the last element is bú n. 'farm'. The name was brought to the US by Norwegian settlers.
* "Rambo" became widely known after John Rambo, a fictional Vietnam War veteran and protagonist of the film series Rambo.
See also Japanese 乱暴(らんぼー) (ranbō, “violence; violent; reckless; rude; rough; unreasonable”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Rambeau
Rambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmbəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: Rambos
Etymology: * The name "Rambo" is of unknown origin. It can be dated back to the 17th-century Swedish immigrant Peter Gunnarsson Rambo. According to folk legend it is derived from the mountain Ramberget ("Raven’s Hill") in Gothenburg, whence the Swedish immigrants to Delaware originated in the 17th century.
* "Rambo" is also the name of an old farm in Vestfold county, Norway ("Rambøe" 1664, "Ramboe" 1723) - and about 65 people in Norway have Rambo as a family name. The Old Norse form of the name might have been *Hrafnabú. The first element is then the genitive plurals of hrafn m. 'raven', and the last element is bú n. 'farm'. The name was brought to the US by Norwegian settlers.
* "Rambo" became widely known after John Rambo, a fictional Vietnam War veteran and protagonist of the film series Rambo.
See also Japanese 乱暴(らんぼー) (ranbō, “violence; violent; reckless; rude; rough; unreasonable”).
Senses: glosses: One who is reckless, disregards orders, uses violence to solve all problems, and bravely charges headlong into the teeth of the enemy.
glosses: An American variety of apple with a greenish-yellow skin, mottled and striped with dull red.
Synonyms: loose cannon
Derived terms: word: Rambomania
english: knife
translation: knife
word: rambo
Related terms: Rambeau
Rimbaud
riding halter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding halters
Senses: glosses: A type of rope halter specifically designed to be used for riding horses. It is considered a type of bitless bridle. Ithas two rings set low on the noseband for the purpose of attaching reins. Horse control is achieved by direct pressure on the nose.
mechanical digestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The breaking of food into digestible chunks, normally using the teeth.
tizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tizzes
Etymology: From tizzy, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: A tizzy; a state of worried confusion.
badfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badfics
Etymology: From bad + fic.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A badly-written fanfic.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
aporose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Greek α ("without") and πορος ("passage").
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: imperforate; not porous.
avocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: after...Mrs. Arundel went back to her ordinary avocations—small savings and domestic inspections.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 52:
glosses: plural of avocation
antiqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antique
backaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backache
backbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbiter
billetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: billeting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of billet
billetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billettings
form: billeting
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of billeting.
billeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: billetted
Senses: glosses: having a billet
Derived terms: unbilleted
billeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: billetted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of billet
billetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: billeted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of billet
beaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bean
beaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /biːnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bean
bights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: bites
homophone: bytes
Senses: glosses: plural of bight
bights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: bites
homophone: bytes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bight
bursars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursar
Birnbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birnbaums
form: Berenbaum
form: Birenbaum
Etymology: Borrowed from German Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
añu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: añus
form: anyu
Etymology: añu (quechua)
Senses: glosses: A crop grown in the Andes (Tropaeolum tuberosum).
Synonyms: mashua
luminous flux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminous fluxes
Senses: glosses: In photometry, the measure of the power of light as perceived by the human eye, in proportion to the power at each wavelength.
Synonyms: luminous power
Related terms: lumen
SI unit of measurement
luminous energy
breweries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brewery
butteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttery
breadbaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadbasket
bootlegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bootleg
Romelt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name from a Russian company.
Senses: glosses: The direct liquid-phase reduction of ferrous and nonferrous ores and industrial waste products.
agnize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agnizes
form: agnizing
form: agnized
form: agnized
form: agnise
Etymology: From Latin agnōscō.
Senses: examples: text: I do agnisz / A natural and prompt alacrity / I find in hardness.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To recognise; to acknowledge.
argillic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The argillic soil drained slowly.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: soil science
glosses: Of or pertaining to clay or clay minerals.
argillic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argillics
Senses: glosses: A soil of this kind.
avouchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avouchments
Etymology: From avouch + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: While in the judgement of wise Men, by laying the foundation of his defence on the avouchment of that which is so manifestly untrue, he hath giv’n a worse soile to his own cause, then when his whole Forces were at any time overthrown.
ref: 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, page 5:
glosses: The act of avouching.
examples: text: Under oath, at the Army-McCarthy hearings, he denied ever having said this. His denials were as meaningless as his avouchments, and reputable journalists heard him.
ref: 1959, Richard H. Rovere, “What He Was and What He Did-1”, in Senator Joe McCarthy, Cleveland: Meridian, published 1963, page 31:
glosses: A positive declaration.
attorneyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorneyships
Etymology: From attorney + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or profession of an attorney.
attent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛnt/
Forms: form: more attent
form: most attent
Etymology: From Latin attentus.
Senses: examples: text: Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 6:40:
text: All patiently awaited the event
Without a stir or sound, as if no less
Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent.
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XIV:
glosses: Attentive, heedful; intent.
Derived terms: attently
attent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛnt/
Etymology: From Latin attentus.
Senses: examples: text: So being clad unto the fields he went
With the faire Pastorella every day,
And kept her sheepe with diligent attent
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Attention.
annexment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annexments
Etymology: From annex + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of annexing.
glosses: The thing annexed.
appeach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appeaches
form: appeaching
form: appeached
form: appeached
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman apescher, rare variant of Old French empescher, from Latin impedicō.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne was Kynge Marke wonderly wrothe / and wold haue slayne Amant / but he and the two squyers held them to gyders / and sette nought by his malyce / whanne Kynge marke sawe he myght not be reuenged on them / he said thus vnto the Knyght Amant / wete thou wel / and thou apoeche me of treason / I shalle therof defende me afore Kynge Arthur
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
text: For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch, / Which them appeached, prickt with guilty shame, / And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Berkley Publishing, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 557,
“ […] When the riches are equal, we might say that the luckier side wins, as if by tossing a coin. Now, are you two sure, if you did appeach Queen Guenever of treason, that your side would be the luckier one?”
glosses: To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach.
Derived terms: appeacher
appeachment