cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clickstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickstream
haitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haitch
shed load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shed loads
Senses: glosses: A load that has been shed.
glosses: Alternative form of shedload.
shed loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shed load
inner city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner cities
Senses: antonyms: suburb
countryside
coordinate_terms: city center
;
central business district
;
downtown
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: The parts of a large city closer to its core, especially older, populous areas of low-income or immigrant families as opposed to centrally located commercial areas.
Related terms: word: ghetto
english: homophonous or nearly so in some accents
translation: homophonous or nearly so in some accents
word: intercity
word: urban
dragonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dragon + -less.
Senses: examples: text: His famous "dragon," so much in request in the neighbouring and dragonless parishes during the period of medieval sentiment, till it appears in a cold-blooded "inventory" as "made of hoopis and coveryd wyth canvass," is as life-like an illustration as could well be given of the disillusionizing processes of the Reformation.
ref: 1883, “Local Public Records”, in The Saturday Review, page 176:
text: As a dragonless man, he was held in a certain respect by the other men.
ref: 2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Renegades of Pern, page 79:
glosses: Without a dragon or dragons.
stoveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stove + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a stove.
orchardman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchardmen
Etymology: From orchard + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who owns or tends an orchard.
Synonyms: english: either gender
translation: either gender
word: orcharder
english: either gender
translation: either gender
word: orchardist
orchardmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchardman
feudal law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudal laws
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feudal, law.
qualifier: absolute use
glosses: The legislation governing feudal matters, such as the procedures, (mutual) rights and duties concerning fiefs, feudal lords and their enfeoffed vassals.
lagg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læɡ/
Forms: form: laggs
Etymology: Compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.
ref: 1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329:
text: Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.
ref: 1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp & Bog, page 124:
coordinate_terms: rand
glosses: Waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.
Related terms: fen
morass
more in swamp
kofte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koftes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kofta.
koftes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kofte
unflag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unflags
form: unflagging
form: unflagged
form: unflagged
Etymology: From un- + flag.
Senses: examples: text: A message that has been unflagged will no longer be displayed at the top of your e-mail inbox.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove a flag from.
unflags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unflag
learning difficulties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of learning difficulty
circummure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circummures
form: circummuring
form: circummured
form: circummured
Etymology: From circum- + Latin murus; compare immure.
Senses: examples: text: This empty roof, / this sleeping town, this great stone wall / which circummures us.
ref: 2001, Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe, Penguin Essentials (2020), page 109:
glosses: To surround with, or as if with, a wall.
circummures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circummure
circummuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circummure
circummured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circummure
burghul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bulgur.
chondrosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrosarcomas
form: chondrosarcomata
Etymology: From chondro- + sarcoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
Synonyms: enchondrosarcoma
Derived terms: osteochondrosarcoma
chondrosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrosarcoma
chondrosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrosarcoma
ywrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɔːt/
Senses: examples: text: Of ſhapes tranſformede to bodies ſtraunge,I purpoſe to entreate, Ye gods vouchſafe(for you are they ywrought this wōdrous feate)
ref: 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:
glosses: past participle of work
commote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commotes
form: commot
form: cwmwd
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh cwmwd, from Middle Welsh kymhwt (literally “abode together”).
Senses: examples: text: Some cantrefi might comprise more than two commotes, for example, and the complement of townships would vary from commote to commote, determined by considerations other than mathematical symmetry.
ref: 1997, Nancy Edwards, Landscape and Settlement in Medieval Wales, page 42:
glosses: A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales.
Derived terms: commotal
commote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commotes
form: commoting
form: commoted
form: commoted
Etymology: Back-formation from commotion
Senses: examples: text: It was incidental to the closeness of relationship into which we had brought ourselves that an unfriendly state of feeling could not occur between any two members without the whole society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable thereby.
ref: 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance:
text: It is to commote patriotism and to commote life that our Barries, Maclarens, Hardies, and Caines must go for inspiration to revivify a people growing prematurely old in a vain attempt to make the world "Anglo-Saxon."
ref: 1904, John Aneurin Grey Griffith, Edward 2nd in Glamorgan:
glosses: To disturb or agitate, to disrupt also in the positive sense, to put into (more) commotion, to stir up, to add to the activity of.
commotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commote
gangsterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gangsterlike
form: most gangsterlike
Etymology: From gangster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gangster; criminal, ruthless, etc.
Synonyms: gangsterish
gangsterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gangsterish
form: most gangsterish
Etymology: From gangster + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Gangsterlike.
biscuitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biscuitlike
form: most biscuitlike
Etymology: From biscuit + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a biscuit.
Synonyms: biscuity
tollfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toll-free.
freephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.
Senses: examples: text: If they are not marketed properly they can easily be viewed as a poor man's freephone. Therefore, if such a service is to succeed, it needs to be promoted...
ref: 1997, Peter Murley, Gower handbook of customer service:
text: One reason for the increase in public contact with companies has been the introduction of freephone, or toll-free, services.
ref: 2000, Owen Hargie, Dennis Tourish, Handbook of communication audits for organisations:
text: Adding a freephone telephone number does increase response...
ref: 2001, Dave Patten, Successful marketing for the small business:
glosses: A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers.
Synonyms: toll-free
tollfree
Related terms: freepost
freephone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freephones
form: freephoning
form: freephoned
form: freephoned
Etymology: From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.
Senses: glosses: To call a freephone number.
tondini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tondino
unpolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + polled.
Senses: glosses: Not polled (included in a vote).
rotorcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotorcrafts
form: rotorcraft
Etymology: From rotor + craft.
Senses: glosses: Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors.
Related terms: autogyro
gyrodyne
helicopter
tiltrotor
woodpigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodpigeon
flayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ə/
Forms: form: flayers
form: fleaer
Etymology: From flay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which flays.
flayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flayer
LDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LD
fanfuckingtastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanfuckingtastic
form: most fanfuckingtastic
Etymology: Via expletive infixation, from fantastic + -fucking-.
Senses: examples: text: A: How is your vacation going? B: It is fanfuckingtastic, and I wish it could last twice as long.
text: "Hey this is fanfuckingtastic," Corky said. "Up and at 'em."
ref: 1976, William Goldman, Magic: a novel:
text: And it was some mind-numbingly, unbelievably, sky-high fanfuckingtastic sex. And that seemed to be the only time she was really relaxed.
ref: 1999, Scott Turow, Personal Injuries:
text: Hey, Calypso, your bum looks fanfuckingtastic in those jeans. How about we spend the whole afternoon in bed?
ref: 2008, Nicholas Coleridge, Godchildren:
related: word: fan-fucking-tastic
glosses: Fantastic; great.
fanfuckingtastic
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Via expletive infixation, from fantastic + -fucking-.
Senses: examples: text: A: Austin just broke the faucet again. B: Fanfuckingtastic. Shouldn't someone already have fired that guy by now?
related: word: fan-fucking-tastic
glosses: Fantastic; great.
kiddy fiddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddy fiddler
kiddie fiddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddie fiddler
unsubstantially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsubstantially
form: most unsubstantially
Etymology: From unsubstantial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsubstantial way.
Synonyms: insubstantially
frickin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fricking.
freshwater pearl mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshwater pearl mussels
Senses: glosses: An endangered species of freshwater mussel, Margaritifera margaritifera, capable of producing quality pearls.
rimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimming
embrue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrues
form: embruing
form: embrued
form: embrued
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imbrue.
Derived terms: unembrued
embrues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrue
embruing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrue
embrued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrue
metaanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaanalyses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
metaanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaanalysis
vogueing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vogueing
form: most vogueing
Senses: glosses: fashionable, prevailing
Synonyms: in vogue
I don't speak English
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I don’t speak English
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is unable to speak the English language.
Related terms: do you speak English
assertation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assertations
Senses: examples: text: And he surveyed the audience with a sweep of his eye as if challenging a denial to his assertation. Dimitry, who looked up to Vanya in all matters, hastened to accord with him: […]
ref: 1909, World Today, volume 16, page 149:
text: The question of causation or aggravation of tuberculosis is primarily a medical question. Appellant has produced no medical opinion evidence to support his assertation that the alleged employment factors played any part […]
ref: 1959, Digest and Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board:
glosses: An assertion, statement of opinion.
sand olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand olives
Senses: glosses: A shrub ranging from South Africa to New Zealand, Dodonaea angustifolia or Dodonaea thunbergii.
Related terms: Dodonaea
skurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skurfs
form: skurfing
form: skurfed
form: skurfed
Etymology: Blend of ski + surf
Senses: glosses: to ride on a small surfboard towed behind a speedboat, after the manner of water skiing
glosses: to ride a skateboard using a surfing-like style
faugh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: faw
homophone: fough
Forms: form: faw
form: fough
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 89:
text: Faugh! how it stinks! It doth not smell like a Christian.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.
ref: 1900 Mary Harriott Norris (editor), 1823 Walter Scott (author), Quentin Durward, American Book Company, page 24
text: “Civilized ways, forsooth,” scoffed Tarzan. “Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities. There we kill for food and for self-preservation, or in the winning of mates and the protection of the young. Always, you see, in accordance with the dictates of some great natural law. But here! Faugh, your civilized man is more brutal than the brutes.[…]”
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Countess Explains”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 42:
text: The orthodox religious world says faugh! to sex. Whereupon we thank [Sigmund] Freud for giving them tit for tat.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4:
text: […] The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying ‘Faugh!’
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: yuck
word: bah
word: ack
word: agh
word: argh
word: bah
word: barf
word: bleah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: bleh
word: eugh
word: eurgh
word: ew
word: eww
word: faugh
word: feh
word: foh
word: gah
word: gack
word: ick
word: no
word: pah
word: pew
word: phew
word: poo
word: pooh
word: uck
word: ugh
word: urgh
word: yech
word: yeurgh
word: yeugh
word: ych a fi
word: yuck
word: bah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: faugh
word: faw
word: feh
word: foh
word: fough
word: gaw
word: harumph
word: pah
word: pfaugh
word: pfui
word: phht
word: pho
word: phoh
word: pht
word: piff
word: pish
word: poh
word: pooh
word: pshaw
word: pssh
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: psht
word: pssht
word: pugh
word: puh
word: tush
glosses: An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.
Related terms: fie
Katangese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Katangese
form: most Katangese
Senses: glosses: From, in or relating to Katanga (all senses).
Katangese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants or descendants of the people of Katanga (all senses).
a penny saved is a penny earned
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: First use appears c. 1804. See cite below. Commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin, who actually wrote "a penny saved is two pence clear."
Senses: examples: text: I have reason to fear, that too many masters of ships forget that good old saying, "A penny saved is a penny earned".
ref: 1804, Joseph Huddart (the Elder), Swansea Harbour. Extracts from the [first] report of J. H. ... shewing his plan for the improvement thereof, dated 1794, page 13:
synonyms: a penny saved is a penny gained
glosses: A maxim for thrift stating that money not spent may be spent later, or may earn interest in the meantime.
wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin
made in the shade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly from a children's rhyme: "ice-cold lemonade, made in the shade, stirred with a spade, by an old maid."
Senses: examples: text: Republicans should not "believe these stories that we're taking it easy—that we've got it made in the shade."
ref: 1966 November 1, Paul Beck, “Reagan Says He Would Choose ‘Best Talent’ to Help Run State”, in Los Angeles Times, page 1:
text: "You got it made now, Parson," Feeney informed him. "You know that? Made in the shade. . . . You lucky bastard,"
ref: 1978, Russell Banks, The New World, →ISBN, pages 76–77:
text: Courtnall has it made in the shade now, big money, owns restaurants and a spiffy log cabin on a cliff over the crashing ocean.
ref: 2005, Mark Anthony Jarmon, "Righteous Speedboat," in Our Game: An All-Star Collection of Hockey Fiction by Doug Beardsley, p. 242
glosses: In a condition characterized by comfort, success, easy living, or general well-being.
Related terms: have it made
place in the sun
collateral form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collateral forms
Senses: examples: text: Podgy is a collateral form of pudgy
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A synonymous but not identical, coexisting form (variation) of a word, such as an accepted alternative spelling.
Related terms: homonym
homophone
synonym
Aesculapian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aesculapian
form: most Aesculapian
form: Esculapian
form: Æsculapian
Etymology: From Aesculapius + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice
glosses: Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.
examples: text: Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa
text: […]for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other[…]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
glosses: Medical, concerning healing.
thick-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thick-headed
form: most thick-headed
Senses: glosses: sluggish and obtuse of mind
reïmmerse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reïmmerses
form: reïmmersing
form: reïmmersed
form: reïmmersed
Senses: examples: text: It was on a rare day off, in search of Red Rock, that Sarri got lost and subsequently found his way to Santa Ynez. The valley reminded him of the rolling hills behind the beach town where he grew up. Instantly enamored and drawn to reïmmerse himself in an equestrian community, Sarri moved to a house on Alamo Pintado and landed a job driving a tractor at Firestone Vineyards.
ref: 2008 C.E., Leanne Cooper-Elliott, Santa Ynez Valley Journal, volume 6 (2008), issue 6 (February 7ᵗʰ), Frenchie: A Life with Horses
glosses: Rare spelling of reimmerse.
fiscality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscalities
Etymology: Recorded since 1854, cognate with Dutch fiscaliteit and (derived from?) older French fiscalité, all from Latin fiscalis (“fiscal”), itself from fiscus (“imperial treasury”) + -alis (“-al”).
Senses: glosses: All matters concerning taxation
kolam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolams
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil கோலம் (kōlam).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rangoli.
synonyms: word: rangoli
aeroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroscopes
Etymology: From aero- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device used to collect dust particles, spores etc from the air for subsequent analysis.
glosses: A type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909
machi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machis
Senses: examples: text: Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical.
ref: 2015 August 19, Pascale Bonnefoy, “Alongside a Doctor’s Care, a Dose of Traditional Healing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
Related terms: hachi machi
aerotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Movement of an organism either towards or away from a region of higher oxygen content.
Derived terms: aerotactic
magnetoaerotaxis
Maytide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From May + tide. Cognate to West Frisian maaitiid.
Senses: glosses: The spring month of May.
Synonyms: Maytime
Related terms: May Day
maypole
Maytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maytimes
Etymology: From May + time.
Senses: examples: text: The Maytime is a season of blossoming in nature and social life
glosses: The spring month of May.
Synonyms: Maytide
Related terms: May Day
maypole
aerotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aërotropism
Etymology: Formed as aero- + -tropism after the German Aërotropismus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The growth of an organism either towards, or away from a region of higher oxygen content.
Afro-Cuban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afro-Cuban
form: most Afro-Cuban
Etymology: From Afro- + Cuban.
Senses: glosses: Describing the section of the population of Cuba that has an African heritage.
janken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒŋkɛn/
Forms: form: jan-ken-pon
Etymology: From Japanese じゃんけん (janken).
Senses: topics: games
glosses: The game of rock paper scissors.
afrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aphrodite; stevensite.
aphrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphrometers
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the pressure within a bottle of sparkling wine.
winterkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winterkills
form: winter-kill
form: winter kill
Etymology: From winter + kill.
Senses: glosses: The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population.
Related terms: killer
overkill
winterization
winter-killed
winterly
winter quarters
winterkill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winterkills
form: winterkilling
form: winterkilled
form: winterkilled
form: winter-kill
form: winter kill
Etymology: From winter + kill.
Senses: examples: text: From these data it is evident that the frequent low temperatures may have winterkilled many bare fields of common alfalfa before the ice sheets occurred the latter part of February 1922
ref: 1919, University of Wisconsin. Agricultural Experiment Station, Report of the director, volumes 37-46:
text: The severe cold in conditions of only light snow protection is also reported to have winterkilled considerable areas of winter grains in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia
ref: 1972, Commonwealth Secretariat. Commodities Division, Commonwealth Economic Committee, Grain bulletin, volumes 18-19:
text: It surely had winterkilled all the soft-grained wheat that had been planted.
ref: 2001, Sam Wellman, George Washington Carver: Inventor and Naturalist:
glosses: To kill by the conditions of winter, especially the effect of the cold, freezing.
examples: text: Order new rose bushes to replace any that have winterkilled.
ref: 1951 April 1, “Around the Garden; Future for Pot Plants”, in New York Times:
text: Some lakes may have winterkilled but anglers will find fish if they take some time to look for them
ref: 2004 May 20, “Utah's Top 10 fishing spots”, in Salt Lake Tribune, The:
glosses: To die from the above effects of winter conditions.
winterkills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winterkill
winter-kills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of winter-kill
winter-kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winter-kills
form: winter-killing
form: winter-killed
form: winter-killed
Senses: examples: The lasting frost winter-killed more critters then all predation
glosses: To kill by the effects of wintery conditions
glosses: To die from the lethal effects of wintery conditions
Derived terms: word: winter-killed
word: winterkill
Urartians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urartian
Erewan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Yerevan.
aniridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aniridias
Etymology: From an- + irido- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A rare congenital condition characterized by the underdevelopment of the iris of the eye.
Derived terms: aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
non-heuristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonheuristic
Etymology: From non- + heuristic.
Senses: glosses: Not heuristic.
Tabriz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tæbˈɹiːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian تبریز (tabriz).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Tabriz County's Central District and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Fourth largest city of Iran with population of about 1,600,000. Historical names: Davrezh, Tavrezh, Tavrez, Tauris.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
zaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaas
Senses: examples: text: Z (zaa): a loose-tongued z; same as above.
ref: 2006, Coleman South, Leslie Jermyn, Syria, page 95:
text: the letter Zaa, formally an emphatic 'z', but often pronounced as an emphatic 'd' in Egyptian Arabic
ref: 2013, Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar, Colloquial Arabic of Egypt:
glosses: The letter ظ in the Arabic script.
Ctesiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛsɪfɒn/
ipa: /ˈstɛsɪfɒn/
Etymology: From Latin Ctēsiphōn, from Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn).
Senses: examples: text: These I assume were words so deeply meant / They cut themselves in stone for permanent / Like trouble in the brow above the eyes: / ‘Take Care to Sell Your Horse before He Dies / The Art of Life Is Passing Losses on.’ / The city saying it was Ctesiphon, / Which may a little while by war and trade / Have kept from being caught with the decayed, / Infirm, worn-out, and broken on its hands; […]
ref: 1947, Robert Frost, “The Ingenuities of Debt”, in Steeple Bush:
glosses: An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
fiscalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiscality
Church Slavonicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Church Slavonicisms
Etymology: From Church Slavonic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word recorded in the corpus of Old Church Slavonic or some of the later Church Slavonic recensions.
examples: text: Vitát is in fact expressly recognised as a Church Slavonicism by Preobraženskij, Šanskij and Machek.
ref: 1935, Rocznik Slawistyczny - Revue slavistique [Slavic Yearbook], volume 45, number 1, G. Gebenther i Spółka, →ISSN, page 14:
text: Church Slavonicisms, whether genuine or neologistic, occupy a special layer in the lexicon of Modern Russian.
ref: 2010 [1993], Alan Timberlake, “Russian”, in Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett, editors, The Slavonic Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, section 5.2, page 1070:
text: From a literary standpoint, it is less important that a particular word be a true Church Slavonicism; what is important is how it is colored in the given context.
ref: 2019 [1922], Yuri Tynianov, “The Ode as an Oratorical Genre”, in Ainsley Morse, Philip Redko, transl., edited by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko, Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film, Academic Studies Press, →ISBN, section 2, page 68:
synonyms: Slavonicism
Church Slavicism
Church Slavism
glosses: Denoting a word, phrase or linguistic structure borrowed from or formed under the influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.
Church Slavonicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Church Slavonicism
dawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawas
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili dawa (“medicine”).
Senses: glosses: A medicine, particularly a native one or one used by witch doctors.
glosses: A cocktail made with vodka, honey, and lime juice.
every little bit helps
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of every little helps.
pombe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swahili pombe (“beer”) .
Senses: glosses: An African beer made from millet.
observationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From observational + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being observational.
elaiosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaiosomes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Senses: examples: text: Ants collect the diaspores for the edible elaiosome, carry them to their nests and consume the elaiosomes. Sometimes, the elaiosome content is sucked from the diaspores, or the elaiosome is loosened on the way to the nest.
ref: 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, Springer, page 17:
text: Experiments with removal of C.^([Corydalis]) cava seeds with elaiosomes ablated, and with paper balls, infiltrated with juices of seed bodies and elaiosomes, showed the crucial role of elaiosome content in the ant attraction.
ref: 2003, Elena Gorb, Stanislav S. N. Gorb, “Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem: Mechanisms, Strategies, Adaptations”, in Publications, Kluwer Academic, page 44:
text: Elaiosomes also vary in size, and ants in many instances preferentially disperse diaspores with the greatest elaiosome/diaspore mass ratio, although plants produce seeds of different sizes, allowing for a variety of ants to effect their dispersal
ref: 2007, Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S. Oliveira, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions, University of Chicago Press, page 47:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fleshy structure rich in lipids attached to the seeds of many plant species, usually to attract ants that disperse the seeds.
Hyponyms: caruncle
Related terms: diaspore
myrmecochory
funicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funicles
Etymology: From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of funiculus.
synonyms: word: funiculus
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Intermediate segments of the antenna of chalcid wasps adjoining the pedicel basally and the clava distally.
encierros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encierro
chuntered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chunter
chuntering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chunter
chuntering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunterings
Senses: examples: text: Such misgivings were expressed to anyone who would listen to the chunterings of an increasingly frail old lady.
ref: 2013, Gaynor Gabriel, The Long Shadow, page 101:
glosses: Grumbling; complaining.
dodecaphonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaphonists
Etymology: International word formed circa 1950 from Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”) + -ist, recorded in English since 1953, presumably modeled on German Dodekaphonist.
Senses: examples: text: The pioneering Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg was the leading dodecaphonist.
text: The schism between the dodecaphonists and the priests of tonality.
ref: 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A practitioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave
camera club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camera clubs
Senses: glosses: A club (social organization) devoted to photography.
Equador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ecuador.
camera clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camera club
rochambeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹoʊʃæmˈboʊ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roshambo.
roshambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹoʊʃæmˈboʊ/
Forms: form: roshambos
form: rochambeau
form: row-sham-bow
form: roe-sham-boe
Etymology: Unknown. The syllables ro – sham – bo are called out by players to synchronize their timing. Connections to the French surname Rochambeau are a folk etymology, perhaps derived from the vaguely similar Japanese syllables jan – ken – pon.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Synonym of rock paper scissors.
synonyms: word: rock paper scissors
roshambo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɹoʊʃæmˈboʊ/
Forms: form: roshambos
form: roshamboing
form: roshamboed
form: roshamboed
form: rochambeau
form: row-sham-bow
form: roe-sham-boe
Etymology: Unknown. The syllables ro – sham – bo are called out by players to synchronize their timing. Connections to the French surname Rochambeau are a folk etymology, perhaps derived from the vaguely similar Japanese syllables jan – ken – pon.
Senses: examples: text: I'll roshambo you for it.
glosses: To play a game of roshambo in order to decide a point of contention.
Synonyms: english: as in ‘toss a coin’
translation: as in ‘toss a coin’
word: toss
saibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪblɪŋ/
/ˈsaɪblɪŋ/
Forms: form: saiblings
Etymology: From German Saibling, etymologically equivalent to salmon + -ling.
Senses: synonyms: Arctic char
glosses: A char of Europe (Salvelinus alpinus).
saiblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saibling
Arctic char
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arctic chars
Senses: glosses: A saibling (Salvelinus alpinus).
Arctic chars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arctic char
out of the mouths of babes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Etymology: From King James Bible, Psalms 8:2, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength". (Note that mouth is singular in the Biblical verse, and that the usage of this expression differs from the modern proverbial usage.)
Senses: examples: text: Not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest lessons.
ref: 1859, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in The Professor at the Breakfast Table:
text: Again Puck translated to Kadmiel in the strange, solemn-sounding language, and at last Kadmiel laughed.
"Out of the mouths of babes do we learn," said he.
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 10, in Puck of Pook's Hill:
text: Goldie Hawn […] insists, at times a bit too gushingly, that out of the mouths of babes will inevitably come everything spontaneous and pure in this world.
ref: 1982 May 7, John J. O'Connor, “Art: TV Weekend”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Sep 2013:
text: (CAPTION) Out of the mouths of babes, love is explained. Brooklyn first graders write and read their valentines and describe the meaning of Valentines Day.
ref: 2010 Feb. 12, "First Graders' Valentines" (news video), Time (retrieved 8 Sept 2013)
glosses: From the comments of children, who are honest and innocent, . . . (comes truth or wisdom).
honesty is the best policy
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Attested since the early 1600s. Policy had the meaning of ‘shrewdness, cunning’ and ‘trick, stratagem’ at the time, so that the saying was originally an oxymoron in the same vein as attack is the best form of defence.
Senses: examples: text: All theſe things conſidered, it hath made me to mitigate my former imagination, and to deem it not unpoſſible, that this over-politick and too wiſe Order may reach a note higher than our groſs conceits, who think honeſty the beſt policy, and truth the onely durable armor of proof; […]
ref: a. 1605, reprinted 1673, Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum; Or A View Or Survey of the State of Religion in the Western Parts of the World, page 112
text: Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. He only is an honest man who does that which is right because it is right, and not from motives of policy; and then, he is rewarded by finding afterwards that the honest course he has pursued was in reality the most politic.
ref: 1842, published 1843, anonymous, “Precepts and Proverbs” in The Common School Journal, volume 5, number 24, page 383
glosses: Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.
saice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sais.
saices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saice
syce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sais (“groom or chauffeur”).
syces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syce. (Alternative spelling of saises.)
metanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanalysis
metanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metanalyse
tourelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French tourelle. Doublet of tor, tower, and turret.
Senses: examples: text: Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
text: At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 45:
glosses: A turret.
Fintushel-Stern knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fintushel-Stern knots
Etymology: After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".
Senses: glosses: The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
Synonyms: alt: -2, 3, 7
word: pretzel knot
algo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos).
Senses: examples: text: algo- + -genic → algogenic
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain
algo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Combining form of Latin alga.
Senses: examples: text: algo- + therapy → algotherapy
glosses: alga
speakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more speakingly
form: most speakingly
Etymology: From Middle English spekingly, equivalent to speaking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expressive manner.
Urumqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Urumqi, the seat of government of Xinjiang, stands at about the same latitude as Marseilles, which has an average temperature of six or seven degrees centigrade in January when the grass and leaves of trees remain green and water flows freely. January in Urumqi, however, has an average temperature of fifteen degrees below zero centigrade, and the ground is covered with ice and snow.
ref: 1989, Xinjiang: the Land and the People, Beijing: New World Press, pages 20–21:
text: Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.
ref: 2014 July 15, Ben Blanchard, “Chinese city bans, destroys matches to fight terror”, in Michael Urquhart, editor, Reuters, Emerging Markets:
text: When I returned to Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, during the Spring Festival one year, police cars were lined up outside the train station. I discovered that ethnic minority people from outside Urumqi needed a letter of guarantee from their local relatives or employer just to leave the train station.
ref: 2020, Cha Naiyu, “Witness to discrimination: Confessions of a Han Chinese from Xinjiang”, in Amnesty International:
text: Tesla, the world's most valuable automaker, announced on Dec. 31 that it was opening a showroom in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi. "On the last day of 2021 we meet in Xinjiang," Tesla said in a post on its official Weibo account.
Other U.S. and European automakers or their Chinese partners have showrooms in Urumqi, a city of some 3 million people. German automaker Volkswagen AG has a car factory near Urumqi.
ref: 2022 January 4, Brenda Goh, “Tesla showroom in China's Xinjiang region blasted by rights groups”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Ürümqi.
rhynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyne
changa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanga
Etymology: Coined by Julian Palmer.
Senses: examples: text: Smoked in bongs, pipes, and joints in living rooms, by rivers, on mountaintops, under wattle trees, and at festivals around the globe, changa use has proliferated.
ref: 2016, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Alex K. Gearin, editors, The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A smokable blend of dimethyltryptamine and an MAOI to extend the drug experience in duration and intensity.
arbitrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbitrements
Senses: examples: text: As the diversities of the Circles described in the Spheres are meerely imaginarie; so the division of the Zodiake is not materiall, or of the first Creation, but onely fayned by the will and arbitrement of the Astrologers, that thereby they may know the Beginnings and the End of the Heavens Motion.
ref: 1620, John Melton, Astrologaster, Or, The Figure-Caster. […], London: Barnard Alsop, for Edward Blackmore, page 14; Reprinted (facsimile) under the same name in (Special Publication; 174x), William Andrews Clark Library: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1975:
text: This oration […] he concluded with a flourish of his cudgel, and enforced with such determined refusals to leave them, that they found it impossible to bring the cause to mortal arbitrement at that time, and strolled about the park in profound silence […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Several powerful prices had contended for her alliance, and her father who was a king of wondrous shrewdness, to avoid making enemies by showing partiality had referred them to the arbitrement of arms.
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
glosses: Alternative spelling of arbitrament.
connaisseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connaisseurs
Etymology: Either a borrowing of the French connaisseur (literally “knower, one who knows”) or an updating of the earlier borrowing, connoisseur, to bring it into line with modern French orthography.
Senses: examples: text: The gallery of Prince Valsavoja contains about 100 pictures several of which deserve the attention of the artist and connaisseur.
ref: 1847, L. Piale (publisher), Guide to Naples and Sicily, Part I: Naples, page 42
text: They pass their Sundays agreeably, in complete repose: seated outside their doors, dressed in the best clothes, and displaying, with serene satisfaction, the many rings, pendants, and huge earrings of rare beauty, inherited for many past generations, and which possess an individual character that the connaisseur at once recognises.
ref: 1890, Hamilton Aïdé, “Manners and Customs of Sicily in 1890” in James Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century: a monthly review (July–December 1890), page 579
text: The support of Mr. Albert Igoin, a Spinoza reader and connaisseur of long date, is particularly appreciated.
ref: 1994, Yirmiyahu Yovel, Gideon Segal, editors, Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind: Papers Presented at the Second Jerusalem Conference, page xii:
text: But it needed a connaisseur of Roman law, namely Wolfgang Ernst, Bonn/Cambridge, to remind me that justum facere is the common root of Recht-Fertigung and justification.
ref: 2004, Arthur Hartkamp, Carla Joustra, Towards a European Civil Code: Third Fully Revised and Expanded Edition, Kluwer Law International, footnote, page 159:
glosses: A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
Synonyms: connoisseur
Coordinate terms: connaisseuse
connaisseuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connaisseuse
connaisseurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connaisseur