cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salvinorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvinorins
Etymology: Shortened form of Salvia divinorum + -in.
Senses: glosses: Any of several structurally-related compounds found in the Salvia divinorum plant, of which only salvinorin A is known to be active in humans.
salvinorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvinorin
spit and baling wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rough and ready materials.
Related terms: haywire
superinjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinjunction
unstemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stemmed.
Senses: examples: unstemmed leaf tobacco
unstemmed musical notes
glosses: Not stemmed.
issant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of issuant.
methylenedioxypyrovalerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A psychoactive drug, (RS)-1-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one, with stimulant properties
Coordinate terms: bath salt
Derived terms: word: MDPV
goose bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goose bump
sculptrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭlpʹtrĭks
ipa: /ˈskʌlptɹɪks/
Forms: form: sculptrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sculptrīx. By surface analysis, sculpt + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer, sculptrix, was born in London, of parents the most illustrious[.]
ref: 1826, James Silk Buckingham, editor, The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature, volume X, page 114:
text: [F]ather had the pleasure of driving Mrs. Hill and her sister afterwards to a meeting of the Livingstone Memorial Committee in George Street, where we had cake and wine, and he, as Member for the city, proposed a vote of thanks to the gifted sculptrix in a beautiful little speech which came warm from his heart, and which she seemed much to appreciate.
ref: 1888, John Beveridge MacKie, The Life and Work of Duncan McLaren, volume II, T. Nelson and sons, page 79:
text: 2001, Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown, Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants (Jossey-Bass; →ISBN, 9780787956509), page ?
Wendy is a 29-year-old mixed media sculptrix with an MFA from Port University.
glosses: A woman who sculpts; a female sculptor; a sculptress.
goose pimples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goose pimple
sculptrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭlpʹtrĭsēz
ipa: /ˈskʌlptɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sculptrix
Africanist dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africanist dances
Senses: examples: text: Although I am of European descent, I practice Africanist dance forms in the US, such as hip-hop, jazz, and Afro-contemporary dance.
glosses: Any of various dance genres and practices that exist in Africa and the African diaspora and have their sources in concepts or practices from Africa.
fulth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊlθ/
rhymes: -ʊlθ
Forms: form: fouth
Etymology: From Middle English fulth, fulthe; equivalent to full + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English fylleþ (“fullness”, in compounds) and Middle High German vüllede (“fullness”).
Senses: examples: text: —It was as though a garland of red roses / Had fallen about the hood of some smug nun / When irresponsibly dropped as from the sun, / In fulth of numbers freaked with musical closes, / Upon Victoria's formal middle time / His leaves of rhythm and rhyme.
ref: 1910, Thomas Hardy, A Singer Asleep:
text: Yes, these yonder are the vessels, / Which Don Juan Ponce de Leon / Hath with gear and crews outfitted / For the seeking of the island / Where, in lovesome fulth, the Water / Of Rejuvenescence welleth.
ref: 1911, John Payne, transl., The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine: Now First Completely Rendered Into English Verse, in Accordance with the Original Forms, volume 3, page 134:
text: The man who looked after the clew (clough) spoke of the louth and fulth of the drain. (Lowness and fulness.)
ref: 1952, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Summer Bulletin, page 18:
glosses: Fullness; abundance; plenty.
examples: text: A lambe will fall to the grownde, or to eatinge of grasse, when it is aboute a moneth or five weekes olde; yett if it have its fulth of milke, it will forbeare the longer; and the lambes that forbeare grasse the longest, prove for the most parte, the straightest, and best quartered; and these usually that fall to grasse over soone, proove short runtish sheepe, and are of the shepheardes callede dumplinges, or grasse belly’de lambes.
ref: 1641, Henry Best, “Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York”, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, George Andrews, published 1857, page 4 & 5:
text: 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 62.
When the weather is genial, at the times of hatching and coming on the water of these two flies, the trout generally take their fulth of them in preference to all others, when the natural flies only can succeed; but if rude, westling weather then prevails, it gives good imitations a chance.
text: 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 73.
THE stars of the spring are fading, but their splendour remains iu the trout! Fat and capricious, the gilded monarch selects his fulth from the good things that surround him.
text: A lamb falls to the ground, i.e., begins to eat grass instead of being suckled when about five weeks old, for then they have had their fulth of milk.
ref: 1924, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, page 41:
glosses: Fill; sufficiency; repletion; satiety.
contractability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contract + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability for something to be contracted.
Number of the Beast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The number 666, esoterically regarded as being related to the Beast.
Related terms: hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
mark of the beast
underthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underthinks
form: underthinking
form: underthought
form: underthought
Etymology: From under- + think.
Senses: examples: text: There was a new one; usually, I underthink these things.
ref: 2007, Brian Haig, Man in the Middle:
text: This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink — or underthink — the problem, and this is where we really start to bollix things up.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey Kluger, Simplexity:
glosses: To give insufficient thought or consideration to; fail to consider adequately.
Derived terms: underthinker
inæquality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inæqualities
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of inequality.
rigidity modulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigidity moduli
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An object's tendency to shear, defined as the ratio of shear stress to shear strain
Synonyms: shear modulus
underhang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underhangs
form: underhanging
form: underhung
form: underhung
Etymology: From under- + hang.
Senses: examples: text: Though less commonly done, it is best to underhang framing pieces — such as letting the girder extend well beyond the end joists if the girder is especially attractive.
ref: 2005, Steve Cory, Decks: Plan, Design, Build:
glosses: To suspend; hang.
underhang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhangs
Etymology: From under- + hang.
Senses: examples: text: A piece of oatmeal stuck in the underhang of Roy's lip. May sipped her morning coffee, watching it bob as he spoke.
ref: 1987, Patricia Volk, White light:
text: This spreads the angle of the copper to between 35 and 40 degrees from the 30-degree underhang and pushes the insulated nose of the steel V outward enough to fracture the mica segment [...].
ref: 1966, IEEE Industry, General Applications Group, IEEE transactions on industry and general applications: Volume 2:
glosses: That which underhangs.
febricitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of febricitant
expostulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expostulatory
form: most expostulatory
Etymology: From expostulate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: It is unquestionably a "Tendenzschrift," apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose "instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity" ("Essay," London ed., 1826, p. 81).
ref: 1917, George Alexander Kohut, preface to Hebrew tales; selected and translated from the writings of the ancient Hebrew sages, p. 13
glosses: Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
ministers without portfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minister without portfolio
geddid
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: Ya gotta keep yer eye on the ball, son. Eye. Ball. Eyeball. Geddid?
glosses: Alternative form of geddit Pronunciation spelling of get it.
Townshend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaʊn.zənd/
ipa: /ˈtæɔn.zənd/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A small village in Crowan parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5932).
glosses: A place name:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Windham County, Vermont, United States, named after Charles Townshend.
Related terms: Townsend
keysmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keysmith
nonwoodland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + woodland.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to woodland.
bikeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bike + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a bicycle.
Derived terms: bikelessness
unfootnoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + footnoted.
Senses: glosses: Not provided with a footnote.
glosses: Not included in a footnote.
greetz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From greets + -z.
Phonetic spelling of greets.
Senses: examples: text: OK, greetz to all the real amateur radio ops and enthusiasts out there.
ref: 2000, MattD.., “Greetz! And Mark, where are ya?”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet):
ref: 2003, [sis], “Greetz from Poland ;)”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Greetings; Alternative form of greets.
babygrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babygrow
babygrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbiː.ɡɹəʊ/
Forms: form: babygrows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babygro.
duckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duck + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without ducks.
Derived terms: ducklessness
gay bash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gay bashes
form: gay bashing
form: gay bashed
form: gay bashed
form: gay-bash
Senses: examples: text: Josh had to go to hospital last night after being gay bashed outside a pub.
synonyms: fag-bash
glosses: To physically or verbally assault someone believed to be homosexual.
Coordinate terms: trans bash
small clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small clauses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A minimal predicate structure that possesses arguments and predicates but no tense: small clauses usually occur within the context of full clauses and may act as the direct object of the verb.
small clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small clause
Hinomaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 日の丸 (hinomaru, “circle of the sun”).
Senses: glosses: The national flag of Japan, consisting of a large red disc (representing the sun) in the centre of a white rectangular horizontal background.
Roscoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒskəʊ
Forms: form: Rosco
form: Roscow
Etymology: From a place in Lancashire, from Old Norse rá (“roebuck”) + skógr (“forest”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.
doru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorus
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dory (“spear”).
furfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furfie
furfie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furfies
Senses: examples: text: "He's off his lolly. It's just bloody Buka talk. Another of their half-arsed furfies. And he knows it!"
ref: 1998, Peter Pinney, Signaller Johnston's Secret War: New Guinea 1943-1945, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of furphy.
BMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: BMPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Basic Multilingual Plane, one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode, formally known as Plane 0; the conventional full set of all characters in basic Unicode, using the 65,536-codepoint range from U+0000 through U+FFFF.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bean-Managed Persistence, persistence form of Enterprise JavaBeans.
examples: text: These standard practices have been established and incorporate BMPs to meet internal, state, and federal requirements, balance construction costs, and minimize impacts to landowners and the environment. […] Any contractors involved in construction of the Transmission Line will adhere to these BMP requirements.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, pages 37, 52:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Best Management Practice; management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters in the USA and Canada.
BMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BMPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: file format
glosses: Abbreviation of bitmap.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of batch message processor.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of basic metabolic panel.
Coordinate terms: SIP
SMP
SPUA-A
SPUA-B
SSP
TIP
fluitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Floating.
gravitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitators
Senses: glosses: A device that combines high voltages with materials with high dielectric constants, claimed to exhibit anti-gravity effects.
Related terms: electrogravitics
Adonis blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adonis blues
Senses: glosses: A bright blue butterfly, Polyommatus bellargus, of the family Lycaenidae.
black hairstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black hairstreaks
Senses: glosses: A brown butterfly, Satyrium pruni, of the family Lycaenidae
black hairstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black hairstreak
neti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Sanskrit नेती (netī)
Senses: glosses: Nasal irrigation performed using a neti pot as part of Hatha yoga.
Derived terms: neti pot
Related terms: neti neti
brown argus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown arguses
form: brown argus
Senses: glosses: A brown butterfly (Aricia agestis) of the family Lycaenidae
brown arguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown argus
brown hairstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown hairstreaks
Senses: glosses: A brown and orange butterfly of species Thecla betulae, family Lycaenidae.
brown hairstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown hairstreak
chalkhill blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalkhill blues
Senses: examples: text: Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: A silver-blue butterfly, Polyommatus coridon, of the family Lycaenidae.
chalkhill blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkhill blue
chequered skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequered skippers
Senses: examples: text: This summer the chequered skipper, which became extinct in England in 1977, is being returned to the forest of Rockingham in Northamptonshire via specimens from Belgium.
ref: 2018 April 7, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
glosses: A brown and orange chequered butterfly, Carterocephalus palaemon, of the family Hesperiidae
chequered skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequered skipper
clouded yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clouded yellows
Senses: glosses: A bright yellow butterfly, Colias croceus, of the family Pieridae.
glosses: Any of the species in genus Colias.
Derived terms: Berger's clouded yellow
pale clouded yellow
clouded yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clouded yellow
common blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common blues
Senses: glosses: A small blue butterfly. of species Polyommatus icarus, family Lycaenidae, of temperate Asia and Europe.
common blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common blue
dark green fritillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark green fritillaries
Senses: glosses: A big, bright orange and black butterfly with a greenish body (Argynnis aglaja), of the family Nymphalidae
dark green fritillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark green fritillary
dingy skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingy skippers
Senses: glosses: A small, cryptic, dull brown butterfly, Erynnis tages, of the family Hesperiidae
dingy skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingy skipper
Trifluviens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trifluvien
shikimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese シキミ (shikimi).
Senses: glosses: The tree Illicium anisatum.
Duke of Burgundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small, orange and brown butterfly, Hamearis lucina, of the family Riodinidae
Essex skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Essex skippers
Senses: examples: text: The Essex skipper declined by 67% between 2000 and 2009 and the small skipper declined by 62% in the same period. Both species’ caterpillars live on grasses found on field margins.
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: European skipper
glosses: A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus lineola, of the family Hesperiidae.
Essex skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Essex skipper
European skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European skippers
Senses: glosses: A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus lineola, of the family Hesperiidae. Also known as the Essex skipper
European skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European skipper
Glanville fritillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glanville fritillaries
Etymology: Named after Lady Eleanor Glanville, English butterfly enthusiast, who captured specimens in Lincolnshire during the 1690s.
Senses: glosses: An orange and brown chequered butterfly (Melitaea cinxia), with distinctive cream and orange underwing pattern, of the family Nymphalidae.
palagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌːlʌŋi/
ipa: /pʌˈlʌŋ(ɡ)i/
ipa: /ˈpɑːləŋi/
ipa: /pəˈlaŋi/
Forms: form: palagis
form: palagi
Etymology: From Samoan pālagi, variant of papālagi (“white person, European”). Compare earlier papalagi.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Serves him right for trying to act like a palagi!’ she muttered to herself.
ref: 1979, Albert Wendt, Leaves of the Banyan Tree:
text: Then Ione said: "Jerry, you are the only honest palagi I ever met."
ref: 1994, Jerome Gold, Hurricanes:
text: After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community.
ref: 2010 October 10, Oscar Kightley, New Zealand Herald:
qualifier: Western Polynesia
glosses: A white person; a Caucasian.
Synonyms: papalagi
plate powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate powders
Senses: glosses: A powder used to polish silverware, especially silver plate
glosses: A powder used as a denture fixative, for holding a false teeth plate in position.
fuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfuːki/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ふき (fuki).
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant, Petasites japonicus, native to Asia; giant butterbur.
examples: text: ["Butterbur"] Refers often to Petasites hybridus (common butterbur), but the leaves of another species, Pentasites japonicus (giant butterbur or fuki), are eaten as a vegetable in Korea and Japan.
ref: 2009, International Food Information Service, Dictionary of Food Science and Technology, page 65:
glosses: Shoots or other parts of the plant used for food or medicine.
rigescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more rigescent
form: most rigescent
Etymology: From Latin rigescens, present participle from rigescere (“to grow stiff”).
Senses: glosses: Becoming stiff or numb.
wigged-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wigged-out
form: most wigged-out
Senses: examples: text: Others are getting their kicks through the increasingly wacky, wigged-out Tokyo getups that look like something imported from Carnaby Street.
ref: 2001 July 9, Ginny Parker, “Tokyo Takes a Trip”, in Time:
text: In Phoenix, a man bit off and swallowed the thumb of his 2-year-old son in a wigged-out attempt to mix their DNA.
ref: 2002 July 22, Debra Rosenberg, Suzanne Smalley, “'I Felt Like I Wanted To Hurt People'”, in newsweek.com:
glosses: Very excited; crazy, frantic, zany.
Synonyms: excited
kooky
nutty
wacky
zany
Related terms: wig out
Oviedan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Oviedo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
Oviedan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oviedans
Etymology: From Oviedo + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
read-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from read through.
Senses: examples: text: A read-through cache presents a simple abstraction to the calling code, which no longer has to handle the case where the information is available but not cached.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.
read-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read-throughs
Etymology: Deverbal from read through.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of readthrough.
Related terms: write-through
nondiuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diuretic.
Senses: glosses: Not diuretic.
gerund-participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerund-participles
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (in other operational definitions) gerund, present participle
text: The gerund-participle ¶ Traditionally (for example, in the grammar of Latin), a gerund is a verb-form that is functionally similar to a noun, whereas a participle is one that is functionally similar to an adjective.
ref: 2005, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar:
text: THE TERM 'GERUND-PARTICIPLE' used in the title of this paper is adopted from Huddleston and Pullum (2002:80), who see no reason to give priority to one or the other of the traditional terms used to refer to the verbal uses of the English -ing form illustrated in (1):
ref: 2005, Patrick J. Duffley, The English gerund-participle in cognitive grammar:
text: The intralinguistic analysis carried out on our sample has revealed that, on average, the English gerund-participle is frequently used to realize circumstance adverbials, which may express a great variety of semantic roles.
ref: 2009, Frank Boers, Jeroen Darquennes, Koen Kerremans, Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics:
text: Therefore I was happy when Geoffrey Pullum and Rodney Huddleston, in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, presented a clear and compelling argument that "A distinction between gerund and present participle can't be sustained" (pp. 80-83 and 1220-1222). They therefore use the merged category "gerund-participle".
ref: 2010, Mark Liberman, “Gerunds vs. participles”, in Language Log:
text: This amounted to 176 occurrences of the gerund-participle and 49 of the to-infinitive, an interesting statistic in itself, as it confirms the more noun-like character of the gerund-participle, ...
ref: 2014, Patrick Duffley, Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ing-form
hypernyms: wordform
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form#Noun
glosses: The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
thegndom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thegndoms
Etymology: From thegn + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thanedom.
homichlophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμίχλη (homíkhlē, “mist, fog”) + New Latin -phobia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: […] as dense as the fog surrounding the house, outside through the window, sucking the crepuscular light up into the spooky mist, homichlophobia augmenting the turmoil.
ref: 2010, Bill Smith, Rant and Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott, Charivari, published 2011, →ISBN, page 390:
text: Thick fog rolled in and swallowed Abby whole. Unable to see her outstretched hand, she clenched her jaw to stop her teeth from chattering. Homichlophobia — the fear of fog.
ref: 2012, Scott Cramer, Night of the Purple Moon, Train Renoir Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: “Necrophobia—fear of death and dead bodies. There's, like, hundreds of different phobias you could have. Know what homichlophobia is?”
Sousa shook his head. “No freakin' idea.”
“Fear of fog,” the slender EMT said. […]
ref: 2012, Jon Loomis, Fire Season, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
text: I responded, ... “I never knew Burl had to fear fog, or anything else for that matter.”
“Homichlophobia,” she spat[.]
ref: 2019, Steve Herndon, “Draw the Latch”, in Beyond the Periphery, Xlibris US, →ISBN:
glosses: The fear of fog.
domain names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domain name
dohickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dohickey
garbage bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage bins
Senses: glosses: A bin for garbage; (in particular) a wheelie bin.
garbage bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage bin
creative work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creative works
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: A tangible manifestation of creative effort, such as literature, music, paintings, and software.
Synonyms: word: content
word: creative work
word: opus
word: piece
Hypernyms: word: work
word: body of work
word: intellectual property
Hyponyms: word: derivative work
word: magnum opus
word: work of art
word: artwork
word: art piece
word: painting
word: photograph
word: photo
word: motion picture
word: short
word: theater
word: music
word: dance
word: performance
word: show
word: work of fiction
word: fanfic
word: prose
word: poetry
word: sequel
word: prequel
word: midquel
word: software
word: electronic game
word: transcreation
word: pot boiler
word: pot-boiler
word: potboiler
Related terms: word: creativity
word: creative
word: art
word: fiction
word: story
word: literature
word: translation
word: writing
word: canvas
word: periodical
word: life imitates art
word: art imitates life
creative works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creative work
grammalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammalogue
five senses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the five senses
Senses: glosses: The five major senses in most animals: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Related terms: sensorium
sixth sense
six senses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The five senses and the sixth sense; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and extrasensory perception.
product placements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of product placement
endite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endites
Etymology: From end- + -ite.
Senses: antonyms: exite
glosses: An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
synonyms: maxilla
glosses: One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
endite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endites
form: enditing
form: endited
form: endited
Etymology: See indite.
Senses: examples: text: From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden.
ref: 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Obsolete form of indite.
Related terms: enditic
asur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asurs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi असुर (asur).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Asura.
examples: text: This use of the word to portray the Bengal chief minister as the biggest challenger to the country’s two most powerful men, and especially their depiction as an asur or demon, did not go down well with supporters of the country’s ruling force, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).
ref: 2021, Snigdhenu Bhattacharya, The Wire:
glosses: An evil person.
asur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hebrew אָסוּר (asúr).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of assur.
asur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sable, goulis, asur, vert, perpure […]
ref: 1869, Frederick James Furnivall, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert).: A Booke of Percedence, page 96:
text: ... asur a griffin passant […]
ref: 1896, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Society of Antiquaries of London, Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition, Burlington House, 1894, page 67:
text: 94. RYSELEY OF [ ] beryth to his crest […] a wreeth silver and asur manteled asur[…]
ref: 1904, The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, page 184:
text: Thomas Wall's book of crests of 1530 records that 'Trevylion of Devon beryth to his crest two armes asur the handes silver holdyng a pellet on the[…]
ref: 2022 July 5, Louise D’Arcens, Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, Medieval literary voices: Embodiment, materiality and performance, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of azure.
jour printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jour printers
Etymology: From jour + printer.
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Henry Clay Vedder, American Writers Of To-Day, p. 126; passage refers to Mark Twain's youth in the 1830s United States
When the lad had acquired enough skill to call himself a journeyman printer he set out to see the world, and his native State thenceforth saw little of him. Those were the halcyon days of the "jour" printer; the world was all before him where to choose. He set out, with no kit of tools to carry, and with certainty of employment almost anywhere he might go, or of assistance from his fellows in the craft, thanks to a sort of free-masonry that prevailed everywhere among them. He might work his passage all around the continent and see life in all its phases, as no man of any other trade or profession could.
text: The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, / He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript; […]
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, stanza 15:
glosses: A journeyman printer — referring to both a man's profession and his status within his trade or company.
clock towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clock tower
radio clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio clock
balloon clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloon clock
game clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game clock
tall-case clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tall-case clock
longcase clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longcase clock
hour hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hour hand
paleanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pale- + anthropo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of fossil humans, and the evolution of modern man.
Derived terms: paleanthropological
refbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refback
palaeanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palae- + anthropology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleanthropology.
Kiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiː.kiː/
Senses: glosses: A pet form of several female given names beginning with K.
angry fruit salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angry fruit salad
link whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of link whore
text links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of text link
link spams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of link spam
social profiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social profile
pop-unders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pop-under
pop-up advertisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pop-up advertisement
hermitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hermitical
form: most hermitical
Etymology: From hermitic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a hermit; reclusive.
Cushitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kushitic
Etymology: From Cushite + -ic; 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Cushites.
Cushitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kushitic
Etymology: From Cushite + -ic; 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages.
Cushite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kushite
Etymology: From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.
Cushite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kushite
Etymology: From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, in the Hamitic area, the Berber languages of the north-west are clearly distinguished from Ful, and these, again, from the Nilotic languages, which, in their turn, are quite distinct from the “Cushite” languages in the east (i.e. Somali, Galla, Saho, Bedauye, etc.).
ref: 1915, Carl Meinhof, translated by A. Werner, An Introduction to the Study of African Languages, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, page 150:
text: The numerous Cushite languages of East Africa make up another branch of Afroasiatic and can be separated for convenience into five subgroups—northern, central, eastern, western, and southern. […] The northern branch of Cushite consists of a number of closely related dialects of which Bedauye, the best known, may be taken as representative.
ref: 1990, [Joseph H. Greenberg], “Internal a- Plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) (1955)”, in Keith Denning, Suzanne Kemmer, editors, On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 401:
text: In the second language category are Cushite speakers. Cushite is a subdivison of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Cushite speakers live in areas stretching from the coast of the Red Sea across the Horn of Africa.
ref: 1995, David M. Helgren, Robert J. Sager, World Geography Today, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 454:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Cushitic subfamily of languages.
Cushite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cushites
form: Kushite
Etymology: From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.
raw_tags: in academic contexts
LOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOL
Derived terms: lulz
LOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of LOL
Cush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌʃ/
ipa: /kʊʃ/
Forms: form: Kush
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
glosses: An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.
Derived terms: Cushite
Cushitic
Related terms: Nubia
Sudan
Egypt
Cush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌʃ/
ipa: /kʊʃ/
Forms: form: Kush
Senses: examples: text: He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.
ref: 2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239:
text: I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...
ref: 2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:
text: It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ...
ref: 2021, Okuon Cham, From Hell to Haven; Darkness to Light; Negativity to Positivity; and from Cradle to Salvation, Life Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”).
asperitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æsˈpɛɹɪtas/
/æsˈpɛɹɪtæs/
Forms: form: asperitates
form: asperitases
form: asperitas
Etymology: From Latin asperitās, replacing the older undulatus asperatus. Doublet of asperity.
Senses: glosses: A cloud formation characterized by wavy undulations in the cloud base.
on one's last legs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [A] friend who assists me with a view to future profit . . . lies like the fox's scent when on his last legs, increasing every moment.
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 6, in St. Ronan's Well:
text: He is on his last legs. His kidneys are 'most gone. Remember, 'tis I must bury him.
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 6, in The Valley of the Moon:
glosses: About to die.
examples: text: My computer's on its last legs; it crashes running Minesweeper.
text: [T]he wood was main dark, but had a kind of a low glow in it like a fire on its last legs.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Beach of Falesa”, in Island Nights' Entertainments:
glosses: About to lose viability or become defunct.
Related terms: not have a leg to stand on
have seen one's last gum tree
bipennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipennes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bipennis (“two-winged”).
Senses: examples: text: Bipennis... A twibill, axe, or twall, sharpe on both sides, wherewith carpenters make mortaises: it was in old time a weapon
ref: 1937, Starnes, D. T., “Bilingual Dictionaries of Shakespeare’s Day”, in PMLA, volume 52, number 4, page 1009:
glosses: An axe with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
Synonyms: twibill
bipennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipennis
caetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caetrae
Etymology: From Latin caetra.
Senses: glosses: A short Spanish shield.
caetrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caetra
comitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Describing the degree of eye misalignment when looking at objects that does not depend on direction of gaze
Derived terms: comitant strabismus
mammaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mamaw.
pappaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pappaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papaw.
defenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensers
Etymology: Compare French défenseur, Latin defensor. Compare defensor.
Senses: examples: text: if I may know any of their fautors , comforters , counsellors or defensers
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of defender.
Kush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This particular type of marijuana is a favorite of the rapper as well as many other weed aficionados. Known for its sweet smell, Kush also packs quite the punch with a high level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
ref: 2009, I. M. Stoned, Weed: 420 Things You Didn't Know (or Remember) about Cannabis, page 3:
text: Kush is a pure indica and is a short, compact plant. A two-time winner of the international Cannabis Cup, Kush is very popular among indica growers.
ref: 2010, Alicia Williamson, Grow Marijuana Now!: An Introductory, Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Cannabis, page 95:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of kush.
Kush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew כוש.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cush.
Derived terms: Kushite
Kush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kushes
Etymology: Respelling of German Kusch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cœliæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeliae
form: cœlias
Senses: glosses: plural of cœlia
cœlia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœliæ
form: coelia
Etymology: From Latin coelia, from Ancient Greek κοιλία (koilía, “hollow place”).
Senses: glosses: Cavity of an abdomen.
Kushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊʃɑːn/
ipa: /kʊˈʃɑːn/
Etymology: Epigraphic (Bactrian in Greek script) ΚΟϷΑΝ košan, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Guṣāṇa, Parthian kšn, ultimately from Chinese 貴霜／贵霜 (Guìshuāng). The conventional name Kushan and the proposed connection with the Chinese term is due to Alexander Cunningham's Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans (1899).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient Indo-Scythian or Tocharian kingdom in Central Asia and Northern India.
glosses: The Bactrian language.
Kushan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊʃɑːn/
ipa: /kʊˈʃɑːn/
Forms: form: Kushans
Etymology: Epigraphic (Bactrian in Greek script) ΚΟϷΑΝ košan, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Guṣāṇa, Parthian kšn, ultimately from Chinese 貴霜／贵霜 (Guìshuāng). The conventional name Kushan and the proposed connection with the Chinese term is due to Alexander Cunningham's Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans (1899).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of the dynasty that founded and ruled the Kushan realm.
Kushan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊʃɑːn/
ipa: /kʊˈʃɑːn/
Forms: form: more Kushan
form: most Kushan
Etymology: Epigraphic (Bactrian in Greek script) ΚΟϷΑΝ košan, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Guṣāṇa, Parthian kšn, ultimately from Chinese 貴霜／贵霜 (Guìshuāng). The conventional name Kushan and the proposed connection with the Chinese term is due to Alexander Cunningham's Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans (1899).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Kushans or the Kushan realm.