cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
widow-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪ.dəʊˌmeɪ.kəɹ/
ipa: /-də-/
ipa: /ˈwɪ.doʊˌmeɪ.kəɹ/
ipa: /-də-/
Forms: form: widow-makers
form: widow maker
form: widowmaker
Etymology: From widow + maker. For sense 4, compare German Witwenmacher.
Senses: examples: text: O, it grieves my soul, / That I must draw this metal from my side / To be a widow-maker!
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: What is a woman that you forsake her, / And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, / To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Harp Song of the Dane Women:
text: Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had a widow-maker on its hands once in a while. ... One typical 'widow-maker' has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company.
ref: 1973, Peter F. Drucker, Management: tasks, responsibilities, practices, published 1999, page 316:
glosses: Something which or someone who takes a person's life, particularly men; a lethal hazard that affects mostly men or is specific to a primarily male trade.
topics: business
forestry
synonyms: fool killer
glosses: The detached or broken limb of a tree, a hazard to those walking underneath.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An occlusion of the left coronary artery or its anterior interventricular branch; which is likely to cause a fatal heart attack.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
debreasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹɛstəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debreast
debreasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹɛstəd/
Senses: glosses: Of poultry, having had the white meat removed.
codel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codels
form: CODEL
Senses: examples: text: It was the start of one of those congressional delegation trips — a CODEL, in the bureaucratic shorthand — but this time, I was the only member of Congress along for the ride.
ref: 2005, Bill Richardson, Michael Ruby, Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, page 134:
glosses: Abbreviation of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
white meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white meats
Etymology: From Middle English whyte mete, wyttemet, equivalent to white + meat.
Senses: synonyms: breast
antonyms: dark meat
glosses: The breast portion of poultry.
antonyms: red meat
glosses: Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and in some uses, even pork.
examples: text: [W]hite meates, as milk, butter ⁊ chéeſe, which were woont to be accoũted of as one of the chiefe ſtayes thorowout the Iſland, are now reputed as foode appertinent only to the inferiour ſoꝛt, […]
ref: 1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of the Foode and Diet of the Englishe.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 94, verso, column 1:
text: [I]n the very houſe or grange that I was borne in, my Mother and her maides made all the Whitmeate of ſeuenſcore kine and odde.
ref: 1588, Bartholomew Dowe, “A Dialogue betweene a South-hamshyre Woman and a Suffolke Man concerning Making of Whitmeate”, in A Dairie Booke for Good Huswiues. […], London: […] J[ohn] C[harlewood] for Thomas Hacket, […], →OCLC, signature A3, recto:
text: For the southern labourer the traditional ‘white meats’ were now dearer and scarcer, and although the total number of cows increased in the seventeenth century more were now kept on large farms, where the milk was turned into butter and cheese for sale in the markets.
ref: 1999, John Burnett, “Milk: ‘No finer investment’?”, in Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The white meats—milk, curds, cheese, butter, whey, and buttermilk, from either sheep or cows, were important in their diet.
ref: 2004, Laura Mason, “Historical Overview”, in Food Culture in Great Britain (Food Culture around the World), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Together with their dependence on brown bread and ‘white meats’, it was their consumption of roots and leaves that distinguished the diet of the lower orders in the countryside and helped in some way to define their inferiority.
ref: 2013, Adam Fox, “Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England”, in Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, John Walter, editors, Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, published 2015, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Dairy produce (occasionally including eggs).
Derived terms: the other white meat
Related terms: red wine
white wine
petty apartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: grand apartheid
glosses: Any form of racial segregation that applies only to public spaces.
tricot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹikoʊ/
Forms: form: tricots
Etymology: From French tricot, from tricoter (“to knit”).
Senses: glosses: A soft knit fabric.
Proto-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Polynesian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of most Polynesian languages.
Proto-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Proto-Polynesians
Etymology: From proto- + Polynesian.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who spoke the Proto-Polynesian language.
Proto-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + Polynesian.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Proto-Polynesian language, or the people who spoke it.
Related terms: Proto-Polynesian terms on Wiktionary
fuck face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck faces
Senses: examples: text: And out of the corner of his eye, he could see the fuck face of Mrs. Brown, as Steven had her bent over the bed.
ref: 2005, Lawrence Ross, Friends with Benefits, →ISBN, page 130:
text: She tries to cover her pleasure. Makes lovely noises. The interplay of expressions on her fuck face as she comes is fun for me.
ref: 2018, Dall Wilson, Once and This, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: A person's facial expression during orgasm.
disbursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disburse
Santoprene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A thermoplastic elastomer, used in manufacture of household goods.
to go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: to-go
Senses: examples: text: I'd like two burgers, two small orders of fries and two shakes, to go.
glosses: Served in a package or takeout container so as to be taken away from a restaurant rather than eaten on the premises.
examples: text: In my country, we go to public school for 12 years, and I have three more years to go.
text: Right now, out of four bicycles, that's two down and two to go.
text: There are only two days to go.
text: A contract with one year to go.
glosses: Remaining. To finish. (In a group of events or items) belonging to the subgroup that have not passed or have not been finished or have not been addressed yet.
examples: text: This old sweater has just got to go!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, go.
Synonyms: word: carryout
word: takeaway
word: takeout
Related terms: on the go
cat house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat houses
Senses: examples: text: George shook himself. He said woodenly, "If I was alone I could live so easy." His voice was monotonous, had no emphasis. "I could get a job an' not have no mess." He stopped. "Go on," said Lennie. "An' when the enda the month come-" "An' when the end of the month came I could take my fifty bucks an' go to a... cat house..."
ref: 1937, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in Of Mice and Men:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cathouse.
rabbit hutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit hutches
Senses: glosses: A cage for keeping a rabbit or rabbits.
nomothete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomothetes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νομοθέτης (nomothétēs, “law-giver”).
Senses: examples: text: He proposed a bicameral legislature divided into elected legislators tasked with everyday business of state, who he called “telothetes,” and another set of legislators called “nomothetes” of ages forty to fifty-five elected by their peers to fifteen-year terms.
ref: 2018, Quinn Slobodian, quoting H. A. Hayek in translation, in Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, 206
glosses: A lawgiver; a legislator.
examples: text: Clearly we are in the presence of a motif, common to other religions and mythologies — that of the Nomothete, the name-giver, the creator of language
ref: 1997, Umberto Eco, “Some Remarks on Perfect Languages”, in Semiotics around the world: synthesis in diversity:
glosses: A name giver.
screener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screeners
Etymology: From screen + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: One who, or that which, screens.
A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
synonyms: screenman
screensman
glosses: One who, or that which, screens.
A question or survey used to filter potential participants based on some characteristic.
glosses: An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
examples: text: Movie buffs can indulge themselves at the Hollywood Cinema, a two screener showing second-run films at reduced prices, 5916 Hamilton Avenue.
ref: 1983, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 16, number 6:
glosses: A cinema having the specified number of screens.
fairy bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘I was a fairy-bread hogger at parties,’ he told me seriously, his eyes immediately changing. ‘I used to put them in my pockets or hide them wherever I could, until one day I was exposed when my host handed me my parka and four slices of fairy bread fell out. I was seven years old and up till this day if I ever see fairy bread I palpitate and realise that psychologically I will never be cured.’
I laughed at his theatrics and took the Tim Tam he offered me.
ref: 1990, Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi, unnumbered page:
text: I notice that the rest of the party food has just about disappeared. All that is left are a few puddles of congealing tomato sauce, a couple of smashed meringues and the dried-out crusts from fifty-odd triangles of fairy bread.
ref: 2004, Ilsa Evans, Drip Dry, page 86:
text: Robert cleared his throat. ‘Um, one of the airline hostesses took a shine to Jack and made him some fairy bread. You know, bread with hundreds and thousands? He was pretty happy with that’.
ref: 2005, Kris Webb, Kathy Wilson, Inheriting Jack, page 16:
glosses: A snack made of buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.
sprinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of sprinkle
Synonyms: word: hundreds and thousands
word: jimmies
word: nonpareils
word: spreckles
word: sprinkles
word: sugar strands
Hypernyms: word: confectionery
word: decoration
sprinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋkl̩z/
Senses: examples: text: He had a double ice cream cone, with sprinkles.
glosses: Small candy or sugar pieces that are sprinkled over other confections.
Synonyms: word: hundreds and thousands
english: if chocolate
translation: if chocolate
word: jimmies
word: nonpareils
word: spreckles
word: sprinkles
word: sugar strands
Hypernyms: word: confectionery
word: decoration
sprinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprinkle
house-sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-sitters
form: house sitter
form: housesitter
Etymology: From house-sit + -er.
Senses: synonyms: homesitter
glosses: Someone who house-sits.
Related terms: babysitter
house-sit
house-sit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsˌsɪt/
Forms: form: house-sits
form: house-sitting
form: house-sat
form: house-sat
form: house-sitted
form: house-sitted
form: housesit
form: house sit
Etymology: From house + sit, formed by analogy to babysit.
Senses: examples: text: I'm house-sitting for my friends while they're on vacation in France.
text: I’m house-sitting my uncle’s place in San Rafael for a few months.
ref: 2021, Cherry Radford, The Spanish House, Aria, →ISBN:
synonyms: home-sit
glosses: To live temporarily in someone else's home, or to attend it regularly, for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence.
Derived terms: house-sitter
housetop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌtɑp/
Forms: form: housetops
form: house top
form: house-top
Etymology: From house + top.
Senses: examples: text: 26 Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be reueiled; and hidde, that shall not be knowen.
27 What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee vpon the house tops.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:26–27:
text: Up on the housetop, reindeer pause. / Out jumps good old Santa Claus.
ref: c. 1860, Benjamin R. Hamby, Up on the Housetop:
text: Not only did the distance to the The Pure Drop, the fully-licensed tavern at the further part of the dispersed village, render its accommodation practically unavailable for dwellers at this end; but the far more serious question, the quality of the liquor, confirmed the prevalent opinion that it was better to drink with Rolliver in a corner of the housetop than with the other landlord in a wide house.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 41:
glosses: The roof of a house.
Derived terms: cry from the housetop
humanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːmənɪst/
ipa: [ˈhçuːmənɪst]
ipa: [ˈçuːmənɪst]
Forms: form: humanists
Etymology: From Middle French humaniste.
Senses: glosses: A scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities.
synonyms: word: humanitarian
glosses: A person who believes in the philosophy of humanism.
glosses: In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics.
Derived terms: antihumanist
humanistic
humanist minuscule
neohumanist
posthumanist
religious humanist
humanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːmənɪst/
ipa: [ˈhçuːmənɪst]
ipa: [ˈçuːmənɪst]
Etymology: From Middle French humaniste.
Senses: synonyms: word: humanitarian
glosses: Relating to humanism or the humanities.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
housesit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: housesits
form: housesitting
form: housesat
form: housesat
form: housesitted
form: housesitted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of house-sit.
housesitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housesitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
bahut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈhʊt/
ipa: /bəˈhuːt/
rhymes: -ʊt
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: bahuts
Etymology: Borrowed from French bahut, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau.
topics: architecture
glosses: A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.
peephole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːphəʊl/
ipa: /ˈpiphoʊl/
ipa: [ˈpʰiphoʊɫ]
Forms: form: peepholes
Etymology: From peep + hole.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a conjurer’s den. — I shouldn’t be surprised if cabby’s old gent is staring at us all the while from some peephole of his own.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: A small hole, opening, or piece of glass, especially in a door, through which one can look without being seen.
Synonyms: word: spyhole
word: peekhole
word: doorhole
word: door viewer
Derived terms: peepholed
peephole optimization
peepholer
peepholing
Related terms: knothole
eyehole
Haifa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈxaɪfə/
/ˈhaɪfə/
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish حیفا (Hayfa) and Arabic حَيْفَا (Ḥayfā), from Hebrew חיפה (Kheifa), from Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (“rock”) presumably in reference to Mount Carmel, from Akkadian kāpu "rock".
Senses: glosses: A port city in northern Israel.
glosses: A district of Israel.
Related terms: Haifan
normed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From norm + -ed.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a mathematical structure, endowed with a norm.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of a data set that has been adjusted to a norm.
Derived terms: word: norm
word: normed linear space
word: normed ring
word: normed space
word: normed vector ring
word: normed vector space
word: unnormed
Related terms: normalise
normalize
normo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A normal (standard) level of something, as opposed to corresponding terms beginning with hyper- and hypo-.
Synonyms: english: good; true; often synonymous
translation: good; true; often synonymous
word: eu-
Derived terms: normoactive
normobaric
normoblast
normoblastic
normoblastosis
normocalcaemia
normocalcemia
normocalcaemic
normocalcemic
normocapnia
normocapnic
normocephalic
normocholesterolemia
normocholesterolaemia
normocholesterolemic
normocholesterolaemic
normochromasia
normochromatic
normochromia
normochromic
normocrinic
normocyte
normocytic
normocytosis
normoerythrocyte
normoglycaemia
normoglycemia
normoglycaemic
normoglycemic
normokalaemia
normokalemia
normokalaemic
normokalemic
normolipidemic
normo-orthocytosis
normophilia
normophiliac
normoplasia
normoskeocytosis
normospermatogenic sterility
normospermia
normospermic
normosthenuria
normotension
normotensive
normothermia
normothermic
normotonia
normotonic
normotopia
normotopic
normotriglyceridemic abetalipoproteinaemia
normotriglyceridemic abetalipoproteinemia
normotrophic
normouricemia
normouricemic
normouricuric
normovolaemia
normovolemia
normovolaemic
normovolemic
normoxia
normoxic
Classical Japanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Japanese language as spoken and written which was used during about 900-1200 C.E. and continued to be commonly used as the written language until about 1900 C.E.
Synonyms: bungo
woodchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchips
form: wood-chip
form: wood chip
Etymology: From wood + chip.
Senses: glosses: A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
examples: text: Oh, Deborah, do you recall? / Your house was very small / With woodchip on the wall
ref: 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:
glosses: A small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper.
Coordinate terms: sawdust
woodflour
wood flour
woodmeal
woodshaving
woodwool
wood wool
Derived terms: woodchipper
woodchipping
bungo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊŋɡəʊ/
Forms: form: Bungo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 文(ぶん)語(ご) (bungo, “writing language”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.
Synonyms: Classical Japanese
bungo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊŋɡəʊ/
Forms: form: bungos
form: bungoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).
Senses: examples: text: On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent
ref: 1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:
text: He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […]
ref: 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
glosses: A large sailboat once used in Mexico.
woodchipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchippers
Etymology: From wood + chipper.
Senses: glosses: A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.
pearl shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl shells
Senses: glosses: The pearl oyster.
pearl oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl oysters
Senses: glosses: Any of several bivalve molluscs that are a source of pearls, but especially Pinctada margaritifera.
Synonyms: pearl shell
woodchop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: woodchops
form: woodchopping
form: woodchopped
form: woodchopped
form: wood chop
Etymology: From wood + chop.
Senses: glosses: To chop wood, especially as a sport.
woodchop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchops
form: wood chop
Etymology: From wood + chop.
Senses: glosses: A woodchopping competition or set.
glosses: A strength training movement wherein a kettlebell, band or cable is tugged by medial movement of the arms in front of the body from above one side of the transverse plane to below its other side, targetting the oblique and transverse abdominal muscles while standing.
Derived terms: woodchopper
woodchopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchoppers
Etymology: From wood + chopper.
Senses: glosses: A person who chops wood; a lumberjack
glosses: A person who woodchops as a sport
nill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: nil
homophone: Nill
Forms: form: nills
form: nilling
form: nilled
form: nilled
form: nould
form: nould
Etymology: From Middle English nillen, from Old English nyllan (“to not want”), corresponding to ne + will. Cognate with Old Frisian nelle. Unrelated to Latin nolo which is constructed the same way, but the morphemes that compound both verbs are cognates.
Senses: examples: text: I here auow thee neuer to forſake.
 Ill weares he armes, that nill them vſe for Ladies ſake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 465:
text: What I nill tell, you aske (quoth ſhe) in vaine,
 Nor mou’d by praier, nor conſtraind by powre[…]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 61, page 225:
glosses: To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
examples: text: I must indeed abide the Doom of Men, whether I will or I nill:[…]
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Appendix A”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, page 427:
glosses: To be unwilling.
examples: text: Certes (ſayd he) I n’ill thine offred grace,
 Ne to be made ſo happy doe intend[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 280:
glosses: To reject, refuse, negate.
Derived terms: willy-nilly
nill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: nil
homophone: Nill
Etymology: Compare Irish néal and Scottish Gaelic neul (“star, light”). Compare nebula.
Senses: glosses: Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
glosses: Scales of hot iron from the forge.
nill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: nil
homophone: Nill
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nil and nihil (“nothing”) to represent German nichts and nix (“nothing”), confused with Latin nix (“snow, snow-white thing”), used for white forms of zinc oxide. Doublet of nihil album.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms used in medicine and cosmetics.
synonyms: word: zinc oxide
word: particularly white forms used in medicine and cosmetics
foreknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreknowledges
Etymology: From fore- + knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: […] B. W. for Benj[amin] Alsop, […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: The mule knows the hidden pitfalls of the morass; the swallow feels the storm ere it comes upon the air, and wings to the quiet shelter of its nest—they foresee their dangers, and avoid them; while we blindly rush forward into the depths of the pit and the fury of the tempest; for we know not what evils await us. No kind foreknowledge gives us even the choice of avoidance.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 125:
text: But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way.
ref: 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Knowing beforehand; foresight, precognition, prescience.
Related terms: foreknow
atomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomizations
Etymology: From atom + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or an instance of atomizing.
Converting liquid to mist.
synonyms: aerosolization
nebulization
examples: Holonym: normalization
glosses: The act or an instance of atomizing.
Separating pieces of data so as to put each piece in its optimal place within a relational database model, avoiding needless duplication and spurious dependencies.
Related terms: atomize
atomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atomize
stereotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thigmatropism.
synonyms: word: thigmatropism
Related terms: word: stereotaxis
word: stereotropic
thigmatropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thigmo- + tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The turning of an organism when in contact with a solid object; stereotropism
Related terms: thigmatropic
stereotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stereotype
stereotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a certain stereotype.
glosses: Printed from stereotype plates.
examples: text: Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
ref: 1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:
text: There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.
ref: 1989 December 24, Elizabeth Pincus, “Screwball Glitz And Revolt Against Misogyny”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 16:
glosses: Unoriginal; stereotypical.
stereotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛri.əˌtaɪpi/
/stɪər-/
/-i.oʊ-/
Forms: form: stereotypies
Etymology: From French stéréotypie, from stéréotype + -ie. By surface analysis, stereotype + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive repetition, especially of meaningless gestures.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
stereovision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + vision.
Senses: glosses: three-dimensional visual perception
Related terms: binocular vision
Illuminati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illuminatus
Related terms: Illuminism
exeleutherostomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exeleutherostomizes
form: exeleutherostomizing
form: exeleutherostomized
form: exeleutherostomized
Etymology: as if Greek *ἐξελευθεροστομίζειν, < ἐξ out + ἐλεύθερος free + στόμα mouth + -ίζ verbal suffix + -ειν infinitive ending.
Senses: examples: text: The heroes of the Iliad—shall we hide it to live, or exeleutherostomize it and die?—are for the most part boors.
ref: 1854, C. D. Badham, Prose Halieutics, page 181:
text: The offices of a General Manager of one of the few national banks is not the place to exeleutherostomise.
ref: 1973, Bryan Stanley Johnson, Christie Malry's Own Double-entry, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Burgess has had time to add to the world's memorable stock of philosophical conundrums, worldly glosses, kindly judgments, liberating verbal experiments — and when he has been given a decently grateful interval to exeleutherostomize.
ref: 1974, Paul W. Boytinck, Anthony Burgess: an enumerative bibliography, with selected annotations:
glosses: To speak out freely, especially at an inappropriate moment.
trillium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪli.əm/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪljəm/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪləm/
Forms: form: trilliums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals
Derived terms: nodding trillium
painted trillium
red toad trillium
red trillium
white trillium
yellow trillium
watch-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch-caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watch cap.
watch cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch caps
Senses: glosses: A knitted cap, such as the one worn by a seaman when on watch.
Synonyms: sense: knitted cap
word: knit hat
sense: knitted cap
word: knit cap
sense: knitted cap
word: sock cap
sense: knitted cap
word: stocking cap
sense: knitted cap
word: skull cap
sense: knitted cap
word: skully
sense: knitted cap
word: snow hat
sense: knitted cap
word: snow cap
sense: knitted cap
word: ski cap
sense: knitted cap
word: tossle cap
sense: knitted cap
word: woolly hat
sense: knitted cap
word: wooly hat
sense: knitted cap
word: chook
sense: knitted cap
word: beanie
sense: knitted cap
word: tuque
sense: knitted cap
word: toboggan
supremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supremacist
form: most supremacist
Etymology: From supremacy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately following the First Contact War, an anonymous extranet manifesto warned that an alien attempt at human genocide was inevitable. The manifesto called for an army -- a Cerberus to guard against invasion through the Charon relay.
[…]Throughout the 2160s and 2170s, alleged Cerberus agents assassinated politicians, sabotaged starships bearing eezo, and conducted nightmarish experiments on aliens and humans. Denounced as human-supremacist, Cerberus calls itself human-survivalist.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cerberus Codex entry:
glosses: Supportive of supremacism, the belief that some groups should control others.
Synonyms: bigoted
Hyponyms: white supremacist
whitist
black supremacist
Derived terms: cissupremacist
white supremacist
black supremacist
supremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supremacists
Etymology: From supremacy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of supremacism, a supporter of the belief that some groups should control others.
Synonyms: racist
Hyponyms: white supremacist
whitist
black supremacist
Derived terms: white supremacist
black supremacist
woke supremacist
white-supremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-supremacists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white supremacist.
white supremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white supremacist
form: most white supremacist
form: White supremacist
form: white-supremacist
Senses: examples: text: Even a film like Do the Right Thing is a very white supremacist film.
ref: 2007, Haile Gerima, Why We Make Movies, page 200:
text: On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.
ref: 2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN:
glosses: Characterized by white supremacy.
white supremacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white supremacists
form: White supremacist
form: white-supremacist
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Martin has always been an ardent white supremacist and figured in several movements for the overthrow of negro domination.
ref: 1898, The Convention of ’98. A Complete Work on the Greatest Political Event in Louisiana’s History, and a Sketch of the Men who Composed it, New Orleans: William E. Myers, page 48:
text: At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward’s account.
ref: 2018 September 4, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2019:
glosses: An advocate of white supremacy, a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.
Hypernyms: racist
white supremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white supremacism
Senses: examples: text: Among Southern whites, the defence of slavery slid into a defence of white supremacy, since that was a useful way to unite the white population behind a coherent ideology; most Southerners did not actually own slaves, and had no necessary interest in defending that institution alone.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 909:
glosses: The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.
glosses: A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.
Hypernyms: racism
Derived terms: white supremacist
Related terms: baasskap
black supremacy
straight supremacy
cissupremacy
nonshivering thermogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation of body heat in warm-blooded animals by any means other than shivering, especially by biochemical means.
thermogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: thermogeny
glosses: The generation of heat in an organism, especially by biochemical means
Derived terms: nonshivering thermogenesis
cutworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutworms
Etymology: From cut + worm, from the habit of eating through the stem of plants, or possibly from cutty (“short”).
Senses: examples: text: I listened while they discussed putting stove ash at the base of tomato plants to keep off cutworms or Mama bragged on how fast I was learning to read.
ref: 2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1st edition, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
Derived terms: army cutworm
cutworm moth
pale western cutworm
hypoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.pə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.əl/
ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.pə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈɡlɑs.əl/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Etymology: From New Latin hypoglōssus + -al, from Ancient Greek ῠ̔πόγλωσσος (hŭpóglōssos, “under the tongue”), from ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-, “under, hypo-”) + γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”) + -ος (-os, adjectival suffix); equivalent to hypo- + glossal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the area under the tongue.
Derived terms: faciohypoglossal
hypoglossal canal
hypoglossal nerve
hypoglossal nucleus
parahypoglossal
hypoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.pə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.əl/
ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.pə(ʊ)ˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈɡlɑs.əl/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: hypoglossals
Etymology: From New Latin hypoglōssus + -al, from Ancient Greek ῠ̔πόγλωσσος (hŭpóglōssos, “under the tongue”), from ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-, “under, hypo-”) + γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”) + -ος (-os, adjectival suffix); equivalent to hypo- + glossal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of hypoglossal nerve.
exhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhale
exhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhalings
Senses: examples: text: Diarmid sang in a language Camrose didn't know, with a lot of liquid sounds mixed up with exhalings from deep in the throat.
ref: 2004, Patricia Bow, The Bone Flute:
glosses: exhalation
brux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Forms: form: bruxes
form: bruxing
form: bruxed
form: bruxed
Etymology: Back-formation from bruxism, from Ancient Greek βρυγμός (brugmós, “grinding (teeth)”).
Senses: examples: text: When the patient bruxes, he uses his supporting cusps to wear away the restraining inclines.
ref: 1976, Norman R. Arnold, Occlusal Treatment: Preventive and Corrective Occlusal Adjustment:
glosses: To grind the teeth, especially involuntarily or during sleep.
Related terms: bruxer
bruxism
bruxomania
touts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tout
touts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tout
Moldavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moldavians
Etymology: From Moldavia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or citizen of the former Principality of Moldavia or Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.
glosses: Dated form of Moldovan.
Moldavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Moldavia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Moldovan (“dialect of Romanian”).
glosses: Dated form of Moldovan (“Romanian language”).
Moldavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Moldavia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Moldavia (the former principality or Soviet SSR).
glosses: Dated form of Moldovan.
Derived terms: Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
deckhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkˌhænd/
Forms: form: deckhands
Etymology: From deck + hand.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
examples: text: Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
ref: 2020, John Ramsey Holloway, Zachary Stribling, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 15:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A stagehand.
deckhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkˌhænd/
Forms: form: deckhands
form: deckhanding
form: deckhanded
form: deckhanded
Etymology: From deck + hand.
Senses: examples: text: You deckhand for Old Sam in the summer, you guide climbers up the Big Bump in the spring, you can skin a Cat, mine for gold, butcher a moose, fix an engine.
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN:
text: I deckhanded on a fish boat for four years and knew no fisherman likes to be called out of the blue and have his numbers demanded!
ref: 2004, Stephen Hume, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Years later, I met a guy who had deckhanded on her after I did, and he was a little more equivocal.
ref: 2011, Bruce Burrows, The River Killers, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Larry ran a tugboat company from there, and sometimes my brother and I deckhanded for him.
ref: 2017, Claire Dederer, Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl, →ISBN:
glosses: To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.
decolletage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decolletages
form: décolletage
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of décolletage.
peaceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peaceably
form: most peaceably
Etymology: From Middle English pesibly; equivalent to peaceable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For, if (ſaid he) you throw among five Yahoos as much Food as would be ſufficient for fifty, they will, inſtead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each ſingle one impatient to have all to itſelf; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Great Love of His Native Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 258:
text: Men in helmets have divided that, with swords; men in wigs, with quill and inkhorn, to divide it: and even more hateful these latter, if more peaceably; for the wig-method is at once irresistibler and baser.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Parliament of Paris), page 85:
text: All the buck-passing shows a healthy reluctance to shut down free speech, which unlike the right to eat dinner, is explicitly cited in the Constitution, along with the right to peaceably assemble.
ref: 2022 July 11, Joan Vennochi, “For a Supreme Court justice, it can’t be ‘privacy for me’ and no right of protest for thee”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: In a peaceable manner.
affrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affrighted
form: most affrighted
Senses: examples: text: Oh my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 72:
glosses: Terrified.
Derived terms: affrightedly
unaffrighted
affrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affright
decompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːkəmˈpɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: decompressions
Etymology: From de- + compression.
Senses: examples: text: The decompression of large data files may take a while.
glosses: The process of decompressing.
glosses: The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver).
glosses: A mode of operation of some internal combustion engines which reduces the engine's compression ratio, making it easier to start but significantly increasing fuel consumption.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The relief of pressure on a body part by surgery.
Derived terms: abdominal decompression
decompression bomb
decompression buoy
decompression chamber
decompression illness
decompression party
decompression schedule
decompression sickness
decompression stop
decompression table
decompression trapeze
decompressive
explosive decompression
intrauterine cranial decompression
microdecompression
myofascial decompression
degeneracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹəsi/
ipa: /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnɹəsi/
ipa: /dɪˈd͡ʒenəɹəsi/
Forms: form: degeneracies
Etymology: From degenerate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: If it be true, that the preſent age is more corrupt, than the preceding, the great multiplication of Novels has probably contributed to its degeneracy.
ref: 1800, Vicesimus Knox, “Essay XIV (On Novel reading)”, in Essays Moral and Literary, volume I, page 100:
text: Inveterate abuse of drinking in nonhereditarily disposed persons creates a degeneracy like the hereditary.
ref: 1893, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education, page 133:
glosses: The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: compensation
glosses: The ability of one part of the brain to take over another's function without being overexerted.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A limiting case of a class of objects which appears to be qualitatively different from (and usually simpler than) the rest of the class.
Derived terms: nondegeneracy
undegeneracy
Chaldees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chaldee
affright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: affrights
Etymology: From Middle English afrighten, from Old English āfyrhtan, equivalent to a- + fright.
Senses: examples: text: No one for a moment dreamed of the possible occurrence of any thing in the course of a few hours which would fill every mind with horror, and cause even the dark-hearted Martina to tremble with affright.
ref: 1854, The Mysteries of a Convent, page 107:
text: […]Then behold, there came up to us a huge fish, as big as a tall mountain, at whose sight we became wild for affright and, weeping sore, made ready for death, marvelling at its vast size and gruesome semblance; when lo! a second fish made its appearance than which we had seen naught more monstrous.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
glosses: Great fear, terror, fright.