cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mopier
form: mopiest
Senses: examples: text: In all those cases where the hog is mopy and chilly looking I would, after the first stage of lowering the pulse has passed, recommend a teacupful of a strong infusion of the leaves of dogwood or the same quantity of a strong cold infusion of boneset.
ref: 1879, United States. Department of Agriculture, Investigation of diseases of swine, and infectious and contagious diseases incident to other classes of domesticated animals, pages 171–172:
text: She's that altered, nothing interests her; and she's so pale and mopy looking, always going down to the cemetery.
ref: 1891, May A. Brotherhood, Three Midsummer Days, page 225:
text: And because I was so quiet and mopy my stepdaddy Winn would get great kicks out of tickling me till I almost had a spasm.
ref: 2010, Sarah Bruce Kelly, Jazz Girl, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mopey.
Derived terms: mopily
mopiness
mopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: mopies
form: mopying
form: mopied
form: mopied
Etymology: Blend of MOP + copy, acronym of "multiple original prints".
Senses: examples: text: Mopy is a term HP [Hewlett-Packard] has coined to talk about a new paradigm to address the current printing/coping^([sic]) trend. Mopying is a term describing the process of creating multiple original prints, or "mopies" on a laser printer.
ref: 1996 November 11, Noor Amal, “Why copy when you can mopy”, in New Straits Times, page 18:
text: […] "mopying" - making a document and copying it many times - had become common.
ref: 2001 November 17, Robert Uhlig, “Boom in email puts paper use up by 40pc”, in Telegraph:
text: Some offer a function called mopying. Instead of printing one original and then making copies on a copying machine, you get several originals of the document (or high-quality copies).
ref: 2003 September 17, Juhi Bhambal, “Printing Solutions”, in PCQuest, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2006:
glosses: To print more than one copy of a document using a computer printer rather than printing one original and copying it with a separate machine.
mopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: mopies
Etymology: Blend of MOP + copy, acronym of "multiple original prints".
Senses: examples: text: Some people value the crisp appearance of mopies or find it time- consuming to operate both printers and copiers.
ref: 1998, Computer Systems Series: Peripherals, page 22:
text: Hewlett-Packard says that the LaserJet was also the first printer that could print multiple original documents (now known as mopies), and was the first personal laser printer to hit the 1,200-dpi resolution barrier.
ref: 1999, Publish!: The How-to Magazine of Desktop Publishing:
text: So printing mopies (multiple original prints) is now a reality.
ref: 1999, Business India - Issues 544-549, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 73:
glosses: One of the multiple original copies printed from a single original.
dogtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogtrots
Etymology: From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
Senses: glosses: A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
examples: text: Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: The dogtrot was protected from the rain and, because its front and back were open, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...
ref: 2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: architecture
glosses: A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.
examples: text: One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen.
ref: 2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: architecture
glosses: A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
dogtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogtrots
form: dogtrotting
form: dogtrotted
form: dogtrotted
Etymology: From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
Senses: examples: text: The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate.
ref: 1989, Sue Grafton, "E" is for Evidence (Fiction), Crimeline, →ISBN:
glosses: To move at the pace of a dogtrot.
dogtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
Senses: examples: text: If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ...
ref: 1977, Charles van Ravenswaay, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri, reprint edition (History), University of Missouri Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: architecture
glosses: Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
bleck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: blecks
Etymology: From Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old English blæc (“black tint or dye, ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką (“that which is black; blackness”).
Senses: glosses: Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
glosses: Soot, smut.
glosses: A black man.
glosses: Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
bleck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: blecks
form: blecking
form: blecked
form: blecked
Etymology: From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.
Senses: glosses: To blacken.
examples: text: Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis shulde be wiþdrawyn from hem by Goddis lawe, and be ȝoven to poeure nedy men, at ensaumple of riȝtful Tobie.
ref: 1382, John Wycliffe, A Petition to the King and Parliament; republished as chapter 33, in Thomas Arnold, editor, Select English works of John Wyclif, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Tobit i. 8., page 518:
english: Therefore if our prelates or other priests, whatever they be, be openly defiled by sacrifice of maumetry, as with covetousness, that is open sacrifice of false gods, and other great sins, as pride, simony, and manquelling, gluttony, drunkenness, and lechery, by the same skill tithes or offerings should be withdrawn from them by God's law, and be given to poor needy men, by example of rightful Tobias.
translation: Therefore if our prelates or other priests, whatever they be, be openly defiled by sacrifice of maumetry, as with covetousness, that is open sacrifice of false gods, and other great sins, as pride, simony, and manquelling, gluttony, drunkenness, and lechery, by the same skill tithes or offerings should be withdrawn from them by God's law, and be given to poor needy men, by example of rightful Tobias.
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glosses: To defile.
Related terms: blatch
bletch
bleck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blech.
Synonyms: feh
pfaugh
pish
pshaw
pooh
bah
dopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOPA
Etymology: Shortened from dihydroxyphenylalanine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain.
Derived terms: dopamine
dopasensitive
dopasensitivity
fluorodopa
levodopa
methyldopa
ʟ-dopa
downrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further downrange
form: farther downrange
form: furthest downrange
form: farthest downrange
Etymology: From down + range.
Senses: glosses: In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket or projectile in the direction of its travel.
downrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further downrange
form: farther downrange
form: furthest downrange
form: farthest downrange
Etymology: From down + range.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, the sheer rate of fire that the 5-inch guns allowed for was fast enough that a few salvos of regular shells were sent downrange quickly as a followup before the two racing ships passed by each other and vanished into the murk.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:21 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
glosses: In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket or projectile in the direction of its travel.
Related terms: crossrange
uprange
drubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drubbers
Etymology: From drub + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who gives someone a drubbing.
handwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌwoʊvən/
Forms: form: hand-woven
Etymology: From hand + woven.
Senses: glosses: Woven by hand, or with a hand-operated loom.
hardily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hardily
form: most hardily
Etymology: From hardy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The natives of Scotland are accustomed to live more hardily in general than those of England.
ref: 1828, Walter Scott, “How Scotland and England Came to be Separate Kingdoms”, in Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] , volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall; Dublin: John Cumming, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: In a hardy manner.
harlotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harlotries
Etymology: From harlot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: She fell in with bad companions, and became addicted to drink, going from bad to worse until drunkenness, robbery, and harlotry brought her to the lowest depths.
ref: 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:
text: Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding.
ref: 1971, New American Standard Bible, Hosea 4:11
text: Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
ref: 1982, New King James Version, Hosea 4:11
glosses: The trade of a harlot; prostitution.
harmonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonizers
form: harmoniser
Etymology: From harmonize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who harmonizes, or brings harmony.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic pitch shift effect where the shifted version is played alongside the original in harmony.
hematologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haematologic
form: hæmatologic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hematology.
Derived terms: english: generally synonymous
translation: generally synonymous
word: hematological
word: nonhematologic
hernial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hernia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hernia.
Derived terms: hernial sac
intrahernial
herniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herniations
Etymology: From hernia + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a hernia.
Derived terms: postherniation
pseudoherniation
reherniation
spinal disc herniation
motorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorizations
form: motorisation
Etymology: From motorize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of motorizing something.
motorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorization
moralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒ.ɹə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: moralizations
Etymology: From moral + -ization or moralize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The sagas have more than their share of axings in the back, killings encompassed by treachery and trickery, narrated without accompanying moralizations.
ref: 2009, William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking:
glosses: The act of moralizing.
examples: "Our government proposes the moralization of public functions and the end of impunity for government functionaries and for individuals who violate the law and steal from the people," — Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay, quoted in the Los Angeles Times.
glosses: Moral reform.
moralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moralization
molder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: molders
form: moldering
form: moldered
form: moldered
Senses: examples: text: The old book was left to molder until only the cover was left to show it had ever been written.
text: The house had been untenanted for some years and was threatening to molder into a picturesque decay when the Douglases took possession of it.
ref: 1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Tragedy of Birlstone”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 February 1915, →OCLC, part I (The Tragedy of Birlstone), pages 46–47:
glosses: US standard spelling of moulder.
molder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molders
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of moulder.
Derived terms: moldery
molders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molder
molders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of molder
mopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mopish
form: most mopish
Etymology: From mope + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Given to moping.
Derived terms: mopishly
mopishness
moneymaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moneymaking
form: most moneymaking
Etymology: From money + making.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of money-making.
moneymaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From money + making.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of money-making.
moldboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moldboards
form: mouldboard
Etymology: From mold (“soil”) + board.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
related: word: ploughshare
word: plowshare#Noun
word: coulter
word: colter#Noun
word: jointer
word: chisel#Noun
glosses: A curved piece of metal on a plough, following behind the ploughshare, that flips the soil over.
glosses: An analogous part of a bulldozer that clears dirt from the blade.
qualifier: founding
glosses: A follow board.
mixology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixologies
Etymology: Back-formation from mixologist. By surface analysis, mix + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The art of combining various ingredients to create cocktails.
glosses: The work of a disc jockey.
Derived terms: mixological
Related terms: mixologist
pachymetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pachy- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of thickness using a pachymeter
Related terms: micropachymetry
pachymetric
pachymeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachymeters
Etymology: From pachy- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any of several instruments that are used to measure the thickness of something.
shake off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes off
form: shaking off
form: shook off
form: shaken off
Senses: examples: text: The archaeologists shook off the dust that had fallen from the roof, and promptly continued their work.
glosses: To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking.
examples: text: Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-pedophilia push in 2003, to try to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
ref: 2010 March 20, “Police say Australian arrested for child sex in Cambodia”, in The Australian:
text: The 21st century's spectacular reimagined transport hub "set out to shake off the old image of stations. I think it's successfully done that, and it's great that others are following suit," Spinks continues.
ref: 2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69:
glosses: To dissociate oneself from (an allegation or rumour).
examples: text: The police are chasing us! Quick, turn into that side street! We've got to shake them off.
glosses: To lose someone who is tracking you.
examples: text: I just can't shake off this cold.
glosses: To rid oneself of a malady or its symptoms
Synonyms: forshake
good will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goodwill.
scamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scamp
scamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scamp
scamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scamp
scamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scamp
slideshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdˌʃoʊ/
Forms: form: slideshows
form: slide show
Etymology: From slide + show.
Senses: hypernyms: presentation
show
glosses: A presentation of a series of photographic slides, usually with a spoken or recorded explanation.
synonyms: slide deck
glosses: Any sequence of images, shown one after the other (not simultaneously).
examples: text: When there are too many enemies, the whole thing just turns into a slideshow.
topics: video-games
synonyms: slide deck
glosses: Any sequence of images, shown one after the other (not simultaneously).
The situation where a game has a low frame rate due to insufficient computing power.
Coordinate terms: gallery
pictorial
Related terms: slide projector
slide scanner
slideware
filmstrip
ragtag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ragtag
form: most ragtag
form: rag-tag
Etymology: From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.
Senses: examples: text: He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.
synonyms: bedraggled
decrepit
motheaten
tattered
glosses: Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.
examples: text: The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.
synonyms: motley
jumbled
patchwork
uneven
glosses: Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components.
ragtag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragtags
form: rag-tag
Etymology: From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: ragbag
text: The small group of ragtags, who had followed him to the cave a day prior had arrived and kept a short distance away.
ref: 2013, Casper Parks, Ages Past: The Isolation, page 258:
glosses: A shabby, unkempt person.
Related terms: ragtag and bobtail
emunctory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emunctory
form: most emunctory
Etymology: From Latin ēmūnctus, past participle of ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”) + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: A mixture of poor diet and poor hygiene caused him inflammation of the emunctory aperture.
text: This guy was extremely hirsute. Everywhere. So much I used to wonder how he could clearly manage certain emunctory functions.
ref: 1979, Bulletin of the American Historical Collection, volumes 7–8, Manila: American Association of the Philippines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
Related terms: emunction
emunge
emunctory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emunctories
Etymology: From Latin ēmūnctus, past participle of ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”) + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Any part of the body which carries or removes waste.
Aldine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the publications of Aldo Manuzio, Venetian printer.
glosses: Describing the typography used in these publications.
angel's dram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angels' share.
synonyms: word: angels' share
espadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espada
antas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anta
flick knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flick knives
form: flick-knife
Senses: synonyms: switchblade
flicky
glosses: A type of knife which has the blade mounted on a pivot so that it can fold back sideways into the handle when not in use, but can flick out straight, usually with a spring-loaded mechanism, when required.
hypernyms: folding knife
glosses: A type of folding knife, which with a flick of the wrist, using the momentum generated, can open the knife out straight.
speerit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speerits
Senses: examples: text: I’d call it a speerit, if speerits could handle sich rocks as that.
ref: 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of spirit.
speerits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speerit
latté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lattés
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of latte.
icecream headache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream headaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice cream headache.
chewie on ya boot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A conventional expression meant to distract or wish bad luck to an opponent who is taking a kick for goal.
chewie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
homophone: chewy
Forms: form: chewies
form: chewy
Etymology: From chew + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Also, I forgot to take my chewie out of my mouth.
ref: 2006, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, pages 260–261:
text: "You wanna piece of chewie or don't ya? It's Wrigley."
ref: 2010, Martine Murray, How to Make a Bird, page 60:
text: The chewie would hide his smoker's breath and fool the teachers if they did a spot check.
ref: 2019, Sallie Muirden, Wedding Puzzle, unnumbered page:
glosses: Chewing gum.
examples: text: Holding the chewie away from her, he encouraged the dog to walk up the ramp.
ref: 1991, Brenda Trent, For Heaven's Sake, page 104:
text: Millie settled happily enough in her crate with a chewie, […]
ref: 2009, Ellen O'Connell, Rottweiler Rescue, page 83:
text: Meanwhile, here's what you can do now: Find bones and chewies your dog likes.
ref: 2016, Sarah Hodgson, Modern Dog Parenting: Raising Your Dog or Puppy to Be a Loving Member of Your Family, page 223:
glosses: A chewable treat or toy intended for a pet.
Derived terms: chewie on ya boot
holding the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The action of a player keeping hold of the ball when tackled. When tackled the player must kick or handpass the ball and failing to do so (provided the opportunity was given) results in a free kick to the tackler.
liquidated damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An amount owed to a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the defendant that is determined by operation of law, such as the unpaid amount in a breach of contract.
Related terms: unliquidated damages
unliquidated damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An amount owed to a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the defendant that can not be determined by operation of law, such as the value of pain and suffering in a tort case.
Related terms: liquidated damages
jewie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewies
Etymology: From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.
Senses: glosses: A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.
Synonyms: sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: butterfish
sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: jew
sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: jewfish
sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: kabeljou
sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: mulloway
sense: Argyrosomus hololepidotus
word: Madagascar meagre
liquidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liquidate
liquidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liquidate
liquidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liquidate
liquidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquidated
form: most liquidated
Senses: glosses: Having undergone liquidation.
topics: law
glosses: Set; ascertained; made certain by operation of law.
Derived terms: liquidated damages
nonliquidated
unliquidated
unliquidated damages
operation of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An application of a legal rule that automatically brings about a legal consequence.
unliquidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unliquidated
form: most unliquidated
Etymology: From un- + liquidated.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Not liquidated; unascertained.
Derived terms: unliquidated damages
unascertained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnæsəˈteɪnd/
ipa: /ˌʌnæsɚˈteɪnd/
Forms: form: more unascertained
form: most unascertained
Etymology: From un- + ascertained.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout all future time, as now, the human mind may occupy itself, not only with ascertained phenomena and their relations, but also with that unascertained something which phenomena and their relations imply.
ref: 1862, Herbert Spencer, “Religion and Science”, in First Principles, London: Williams and Norgate, page 17:
text: A conjecture vaguely taking shape in his mind resolved itself to nothing again, and left him with only the ache of something unascertained.
ref: 1881, William Dean Howells, chapter IV, in A Fearful Responsibility, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 38:
text: This will dispose of the power of the five perhaps estimable but unknown individuals known as “independents” to control in accordance with their unascertained prejudices the self-defending labors of a great nation in the presence of an efficient foe.
ref: 1917 March 23, “When the House Meets”, in The New York Times, page 8:
glosses: Not ascertained; undetermined; unknown.
head game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head games
form: head-game
form: headgame
Senses: examples: text: The show boating, head games, phony fronts and near literal spider's webs tossed out as glistening and beautiful nets to capture the prize or the perceived prize always amazed me.
ref: 2013, Sereena Nightshade, Black Market, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Sandra got the distinct impression that he was playing some kind of head game with her.
ref: 2014, Derek J. Goodman, The Contamination of Sandra Wolfe, →ISBN:
text: I don't do moody or wounded or stern. I can't play head games.
ref: 2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm: Book One of The Sanctuary of the White Friars, →ISBN:
glosses: An attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.
examples: text: Another was able to bring into popularity puzzles, conundrums, and quiet " head games" or contests of memory and quick-wittedness.
ref: 1900, The School Journal - Volume 61, page 669:
text: Learning is definitely a head game.
ref: 2014, Kay J. Mahne, Capturing Minds by Capturing Hearts, →ISBN:
text: Distance plays into the head game of “what if.”
ref: 2014, Robert C. Vallieres, Jacquelyn M. Howard, Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of Healing through Birds, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A mental pursuit or obsession.
examples: text: When it, come to sex don't test my skills
'Cause my head game have you head over heels
ref: 2003, “Magic Stick”, in La Bella Mafia, performed by Lil' Kim and 50 Cent:
text: They both knew the reason he always came back. Her head game was excellent.
ref: 2010, Wahida Clark, What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets, →ISBN:
text: She went to work like the cock-sucking champion that she was. This Bitch had always had crazy “head game.”
ref: 2012, Jackie Ricci, Michael “El Jefe” Archer, Trunk-Space: The Retribution of a Psychopath, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Skill at fellatio.
head game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: head games
form: head gaming
form: head gamed
form: head gamed
form: head-game
form: headgame
Senses: examples: text: All to be head gamed with official lures, which look on, through their guarded masks.
ref: 2007, Richard Morris, A Denial of Aesthetic Principle, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of head-game.
push-start
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push-starts
form: push-starting
form: push-started
form: push-started
Senses: synonyms: bump-start
glosses: To start a motor car by pushing it (in neutral) and engaging a gear when it has sufficient velocity
push-start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-starts
Senses: synonyms: bump-start
glosses: The starting of a vehicle in this manner.
Latinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Latinize
Latinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Latinises
form: Latinising
form: Latinised
form: Latinised
Senses: examples: text: To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.
Latinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Latinise
Latinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Latinise
Latinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Latinise
protoplasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protoplasm + -al.
Senses: examples: text: You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal atomic globule.
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to protoplasm.
Synonyms: protoplasmic
protoplasmatic
protoplasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to protoplasm.
Synonyms: protoplasmal
protoplasmic
Siamese cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siamese cats
Senses: glosses: A short-haired breed of domestic cat having blue eyes and pointed coat pattern, that is, a pale body and dark extremities.
Derived terms: meezer
Related terms: word: blue point
word: chocolate point
word: lilac point
word: red point
word: seal point
english: a related cat breed
translation: a related cat breed
word: Thai cat
senior citizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior citizens
Senses: examples: text: Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 209:
synonyms: word: senior
word: older adult
word: pensioner
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
coordinate_terms: pensioner
retiree
glosses: An elderly person, variously considered to be a person over fifty, fifty-five, sixty, or sixty-five years of age.
Related terms: grey power
town car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town cars
Senses: examples: text: Her great-uncle was a wealthy man. The type who had a town car and who had a right-hand man to drive it.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: coupé de ville
glosses: A car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.
examples: text: They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: stretch limousine
stretch
glosses: A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of city car.
synonyms: word: city car
monopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -pathic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Affecting only one organ or function.
Related terms: monopathy
status conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: status conferences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A meeting that a court may require to be held between parties to a case to determine whether those parties are prepared to go to trial.
status conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of status conference
briers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brier
monopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopathies
Etymology: From mono- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: polypathy
glosses: A disease that affects only one organ or function.
synonyms: word: ellingness
word: lonesomeness
word: ellingness
word: forlornness
word: lonelihood
word: loneliness
word: lonesomeness
word: monopathy
glosses: Psychological suffering due to solitude or loneliness.
Related terms: monopathic
syntropy
enkindle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enkindles
form: enkindling
form: enkindled
form: enkindled
Senses: examples: text: That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: "By them enkindled, every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm, […]
ref: 1809, Philip Freneau, Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers:
synonyms: word: inflame
word: set on fire
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
Derived terms: enkindler
reenkindle
unenkindled
exobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + biotic.
Senses: examples: text: Work historically performed by toxicologists has provided an impressive list of endogenous and exobiotic compounds termed peroxisome proliferators (PP) which were so named for their ability following chronic high dose administration to rodents, to increase the number and activities of an essential intracellular organelle termed the peroxisome.
ref: 2000, Mohammed Y. Kalimi, William Regelson, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), →ISBN:
text: Little is known about the clinical safety of exobiotic polymers.
ref: 2012, Henrik S. Thomsen, Robert N. Muller, Robert F. Mattrey, Trends in Contrast Media, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Due to soil types and other exobiotic factors (e.g^([sic]) water supply and temperature) many microenvironments may be present, leading to the need for polysaccharides adapted to these conditions.
ref: 2013, B.B. Biswas, H.K. Das, Plant-Microbe Interactions, →ISBN, page 74:
text: In any case, OXLs from C^α-trisubstituted residues were extensively employed for the preparation of enantiomerically α-amino acid derivatives and C^α-tetrasubstituted α-amino acids (in the latter experiments, also in the context of investigations in the prebiotic and exobiotic fields).
ref: 2015, Maxim Ryadnov, Ferenc Hudecz, Amino acids, peptides and proteins: Volume 40, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: From outside of an organism or from the substrate.
examples: text: For example, terran contamination could result in the introduction of exobiotic organisms, the initiation of chemical reactions or changes, or the mutation of either 12 indigenous or exogenous organisms.
ref: 1981, Proceedings - Volume 23, page 109:
text: Around me were computer databases filled with records of innumerable galaxies, exobiotic life forms and extraterrestrial cultures.
ref: 2002, Linda Johnsen, The Living Goddess, →ISBN:
text: Lake Vostok may represent the closest analog to the subglacial environments that existed during the Neoproterozoic Era on Earth or exobiotic environments on Mars or Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter.
ref: 2007, K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan, The Biomarker Guide, →ISBN:
text: Some kind of exobiotic plague had run through the animal stock seven months back, and half of them had died.
ref: 2012, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Star Wars: Death Star, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Of or pertaining to exobiology.
Derived terms: exobiotically
exobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exobiotics
Etymology: From exo- + biotic.
Senses: examples: text: We have listed an example of an exobiotic which influences each identified step, but it should be remembered that this is far from an exhaustive list of the exobiotics which affect adrenal function.
ref: 1996, Philip W. Harvey, Adrenal in Toxicology: Target Organ and Modulator of Toxicity, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The liver is exposed to millions of antigens and exobiotics. If every contact would stimulate the immune system, the liver would be in a permanent state of inflammation.
ref: 2010, Pere Ginès, Chronic Liver Failure: Mechanisms and Management, page 43:
text: ADME and chemical reactivity-related toxicity is low, while biological receptor activity is of higher dimension in chemistry space, and this is partly explainable by evolutionary pressures on ADME to deal with endobiotics and exobiotics.
ref: 2006, Sarfaraz K. Niazi, Handbook of Preformulation: Chemical, Biological, and Botanical Drugs:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An exobiotic substance, especially one that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process.
viricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viricidal
form: most viricidal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a viricide (killing of a husband)
viricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viricidal
form: most viricidal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of virucidal.
golden oldie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden oldies
Senses: synonyms: oldie but goodie
glosses: Something, especially a record, that was very popular in a former era.
Related terms: golden age
golden era
blood plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood plasmas
Senses: examples: Holonym: blood
Meronyms: serum, blood serum, clotting factors
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
related: word: blood cell
word: red blood cell
word: white blood cell
word: platelet
glosses: The clear fluid portion of blood in which the blood cells are suspended.
apropo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of apropos.
porta-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: portable.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of porto- (“portal vein”)
Derived terms: portacabin
portacot
portacrib
portajohn
portaloo
portapak
portapack
portapotty
porta-puppy
portastudio
portacaval
portasystemic
juice loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice loans
Senses: glosses: A loan at usurious interest rates, normally made by members of organized crime.
Related terms: loan shark
reticulated water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticulated waters
Senses: glosses: The piped-water network (as opposed to well water).
givest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: giv'st
Etymology: give + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of give
contadini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contadino
contadina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contadinas
form: contadine
Etymology: From Italian contadina.
Senses: examples: text: The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste—subtlest of servants; the novel half uncut, the novel lemon-coloured and tender, with the ivory knife athwart it like a dagger in a contadina's hair, had been pushed within the soft circle—a circle which, for some reason, affected Strether as softer still after the same Baptiste had remarked that, in the absence of a further need of anything by Monsieur, he would betake himself to bed.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: An Italian peasant woman.
contadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contadina
throwest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: throw + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of throw
threwest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: threw + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of throw
blowest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blow + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of blow
lookest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: look'st
Etymology: look + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of look
willst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From will -st, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix.
Senses: qualifier: archaic or archaicizing
glosses: (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of will (Alternative form of wilt)
feedest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of feed
huggest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hug + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hug
kissest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: kiss + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of kiss
hittest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hit + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hit
touchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: touch + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of touch
pushest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: push + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of push
gettest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: get + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of get
gottest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: got + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of get
bettern't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: better + -n't
Senses: examples: text: I better pull over, bettern't I?
ref: 2004, Kate Burridge, Weeds in the garden of words, page 119:
glosses: [[[had]]] better not (used in a tag question).
cooketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cook + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cook
cookest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cook + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of cook
eatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: eat + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of eat
drinkest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drink + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of drink
lumbrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌm.brɪk.əl/
Etymology: From New Latin lumbricalis, from lumbricus (“intestinal worm, earthworm”) + -alis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: the lumbrical muscles of the forearm or of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.
glosses: Worm-like.
lumbrical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌm.brɪk.əl/
Forms: form: lumbricals
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From New Latin lumbricalis, from lumbricus (“intestinal worm, earthworm”) + -alis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: Any of the four small muscles of the palm of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus, are inserted at the base of the digit to which the tendon passes, and flex the proximal phalanx and extend the two distal phalanges of each finger.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: Any of four small muscles of the foot homologous to the lumbricals of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and are inserted into the first phalanges of the four small toes of which they flex the proximal phalanges and extend the two distal phalanges.
Synonyms: lumbricalis
implied odds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The odds offered by the amount one must call against the amount currently in the pot plus the amount one stands to gain from future betting. (In contrast to pot odds)
Related terms: reverse implied odds
pot odds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pot = $360. Cost to call = $180. Pot odds = 2:1 or 33.3%.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The ratio of pot size to the cost of a contemplated call.
pot committed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pot committed
form: most pot committed
Senses: examples: text: The pot is $900, and your stack is $70. You are pot committed. You are forced to go all-in if the villain raises, even if your hand is weak, or else you are forfeiting the chance to win $900.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Unable to fold as a strategically correct play, given the current pot odds (ratio of pot size to the cost of a contemplated call).
Related terms: all in
cross-question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-questions
Etymology: From cross- + question.
Senses: glosses: A question posed during a cross-examination.
cross-question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-questions
form: cross-questioning
form: cross-questioned
form: cross-questioned
Etymology: From cross- + question.
Senses: examples: text: The good man, he looks on us so clear and cheery, and in his neighbourly soft-smiling eyes we see so well our own shadow, - we have a longing always to cross-question him.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237b:
glosses: To subject to close questioning.
enkindles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enkindle