cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chicken turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken turtles
Etymology: After the chicken-like flavor of its meat.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I've a chicken-turtle, which promises well—the first I've received this season, from what I call my West-Indian farm […].’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 81:
glosses: An uncommon freshwater turtle, of species Deirochelys reticularia, found in the southeast of the United States, similar in appearance to the eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta), but with an unusually long, striped neck, a yellow stripe on each of its legs and a net-like pattern on its carapace.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Deirochelys reticularia reticularia
word: eastern chicken turtle
taxonomic: Deirochelys reticularia chrysea
word: Florida chicken turtle
taxonomic: Deirochelys reticularia miaria
word: western chicken turtle
net-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more net-like
form: most net-like
Etymology: From net + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of netlike.
reciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + ciliation.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The reformation of cilia in a damaged ciliate cell.
green turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green turtles
Senses: examples: text: Among the archipelago's ecological attractions are turtles and avians. The green turtles (Chelonia mydas japonica) that lay their eggs on Wangan Island between May and October are an endangered species protected by ROC law.
ref: 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310:
glosses: A green sea turtle (Chelonia spp.).
Derived terms: Galapagos green turtle
Galápagos green turtle
green turtle soup
green sea turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green sea turtles
Senses: glosses: Any of species Chelonia mydas of large sea turtles, the only species of the genus Chelonia.
Synonyms: sense: Chelonia mydas
word: green turtle
sense: Chelonia mydas
word: black turtle
sense: Chelonia mydas
word: black sea turtle
sense: Chelonia mydas
word: Pacific green turtle
pig-nosed turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-nosed turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
pignose turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pignose turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pig-nose turtle.
pig-nose turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-nose turtles
form: pig-nosed turtle
form: pignose turtle
Senses: glosses: The Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).
Australasian pig-nose turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australasian pig-nose turtles
Senses: glosses: Carettochelys insculpta, a species of soft-shelled turtle native to freshwater streams, lagoons and rivers of the Northern Territory of Australia and of southern New Guinea.
Synonyms: sense: Carettochelys insculpta
word: Fly River turtle
sense: Carettochelys insculpta
word: pig-nosed turtle
sense: Carettochelys insculpta
word: pitted-shelled turtle
sense: Carettochelys insculpta
word: plateless turtle
sense: Carettochelys insculpta
word: pig-nose turtle
Fly River turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fly River turtles
Senses: glosses: Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).
pitted-shelled turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitted-shelled turtles
Senses: glosses: The Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).
plateless turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plateless turtles
Senses: glosses: The Australasian pig-nose turtle (Carettochelys insculpta).
pond turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pond turtles
Senses: glosses: A turtle of the genera of the Emydidae family.
glosses: The giant Asian pond turtle, Heosemys grandis.
glosses: A turtle of the genus Mauremys.
glosses: The Philippine forest turtle or Leyte pond turtle (Heosemys leytensis).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Emys orbicularis
word: European pond turtle
taxonomic: Heosemys grandis
word: giant Asian pond turtle
taxonomic: Heosemys leytensis
word: Leyte pond turtle
taxonomic: Actinemys marmorata
word: Pacific pond turtle
taxonomic: Heosemys leytensis
word: Philippine pond turtle
taxonomic: Actinemys marmorata
word: western pond turtle
word: and many more
Related terms: Emydidae
Mauremys
Heosemys
river turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river turtles
Senses: glosses: Any marine turtle that inhabits rivers.
Derived terms: english: Podocnemis
translation: Podocnemis
word: American sideneck river turtle
english: in family Geoemydidae
translation: in family Geoemydidae
word: Asian river turtle
taxonomic: Rhinoclemmys funerea
word: black river turtle
taxonomic: Hardella thurjii
word: brahminy river turtle
taxonomic: Dermatemys mawii
word: Central American river turtle
taxonomic: Hardella thurjii
word: crowned river turtle
taxonomic: Podocnemis expansa
word: giant South American river turtle
taxonomic: Dermatemys mawii
word: Mesoamerican river turtle
taxonomic: Podocnemis expansa
word: South American river turtle
taxonomic: Podocnemis unifilis
word: yellow-spotted river turtle
sea-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea turtle.
sea turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea turtles
form: seaturtle
form: sea-turtle
Senses: glosses: Any turtle that inhabits oceans.
Derived terms: green sea turtle
Kemp's Ridley sea turtle
leatherback sea turtle
loggerhead sea turtle
Ridley sea turtle
side-necked turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-necked turtles
Senses: examples: text: As we scan the Gaelian shore we see large side-necked turtles sunning themselves.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 29:
glosses: Any turtle of the suborder Pleurodira, characterised by protecting its head by turning it to one side rather than, as hidden-neck turtles do, withdrawing it into its shell.
Derived terms: Geoffroy's side-necked turtle
South American side-necked swamp turtle
Related terms: snake-necked turtle
snake-necked turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake-necked turtles
Senses: glosses: Any turtle of the Chelodina or Hydromedusa genera and some others in family Chelidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hydromedusa tectifera
word: Argentine snake-necked turtle
taxonomic: Chelodina longicollis
word: Australian snake-necked turtle
taxonomic: Chelodina longicollis
word: eastern snake-necked turtle
taxonomic: Chelodina mccordi
word: McCord's snake-necked turtle
taxonomic: Chelodina mccordi
word: Roti Island snake-necked turtle
taxonomic: Hydromedusa tectifera
word: South American snake-necked turtle
Related terms: side-necked turtle
snapping-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapping-turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snapping turtle.
turtle-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turtleback.
reoffend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnd
Forms: form: reoffends
form: reoffending
form: reoffended
form: reoffended
Etymology: From re- + offend.
Senses: glosses: To offend again; especially after receiving punishment or treatment
Derived terms: reoffence
reoffender
re-offender
falsificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From falsification + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data.
ref: 2008, Andrew Chesterman, edited by Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, and Benjamins Translation Library, Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A tribute to Daniel Gile, page 57:
topics: sciences
glosses: Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
falsificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsificationists
Etymology: From falsification + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of falsificationism.
ramified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This first electric railway under London has thus now become an integral part of the ramified tube system of the Metropolis.
ref: 1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ramify
gastric cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: cancer of the stomach.
Synonyms: stomach cancer
operationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operationalisms
Etymology: From operational + -ism.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement.
Related terms: operationalist
stomach cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomach cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: cancer of the stomach(s).
Synonyms: gastric cancer
symbolic logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbolic logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal system of deductive logic in which aspects and relationships of natural language are represented by a system of symbols.
commodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɒdɪfɑj/
Forms: form: commodifies
form: commodifying
form: commodified
form: commodified
Etymology: From commodity + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: […
ref: 2009 January 17, John R. MacArthur, “Hope as a commodity”, in Toronto Star:
text: As capitalism, especially in its current neoliberal and globalized form, seeks to commodify the world, to transform everything existing—earth, water, air, living creatures, the human body, human relationships, love, religion—into commodities, so advertising aims to sell those commodities by forcing living individuals to serve the commercial necessities of capital.
ref: 2010 January, Michael Löwy, “Advertising Is a “Serious Health Threat”—to the Environment”, in Monthly Review, volume 6, number 8, →ISSN, page 21:
text: With over 160 lavish full-color images, 20 mouth-watering recipes, and 40 essays on food, love, and life, La Figa is a genuine treat for the senses and an invitation to approach something that's been overly functionalized and commodified with a little bit more playfulness, poignancy, and poetry.
ref: 2011 June 9, Maria Popova, “In a New Book, Food and Sensuality Become Art”, in The Atlantic:
text: Our attention spans have been chopped up and commodified, sold off piecemeal to platforms and algorithms. We’re too busy, too lazy, too preoccupied to lose ourselves in books.
ref: 2023 June 21, A. O. Scott, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The T-shirt is white, with a simple message, “Freedom,” rendered in plain black letters across the chest. It’s also now widely available for sale, indicative of an internet culture that instantaneously commodifies any significant event.
ref: 2025 September 14, Alexander Nazaryan, “‘Freedom’ Shirt Becomes a Meme and an Instant Commodity”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.
Synonyms: commercialize
commoditize
Derived terms: commodifiability
commodifiable
commodification
commodificational
commodifier
recommodify
Related terms: decommodify
bungled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bungled
form: most bungled
Etymology: From bungle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2021:
glosses: Incompetently performed; ruined through incompetent action; botched up.
bungled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bungle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bungle
IANAE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I am not an economist.
glosses: Initialism of I am not an expert.
Related terms: IANAL
falsificationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsificationist
reread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɹiːd/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹɛd/
Forms: form: rereads
form: rereading
form: reread
form: reread
Etymology: From re- + read.
Senses: glosses: To read again.
examples: text: My first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (Seymour 2013), has further contributed to the development of queer ecology, rereading well-known contemporary queer novels and films as environmental polemics and theorizing why such reaadings have not been possible before.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 23:
glosses: To read or interpret in a new way.
reread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɹiːd/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈɹiːɹiːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: rereads
Etymology: From re- + read.
Senses: synonyms: rereading
glosses: The act of reading something again.
bunk bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunk beds
form: bunkbed
Etymology: From bunk + bed.
Senses: examples: text: He had dibs on the top bunk bed.
glosses: Two or more beds fixed on top of one another, so that one person can sleep in each bunk at a different height.
Related terms: bunk
bunkmate
loft bed
Murphy bed
truckle bed
inkjet printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkjet printers
form: ink jet printer
form: ink-jet printer
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.
Related terms: daisy wheel printer
dot matrix printer
dye-sublimation printer
laser printer
photo printer
thermal printer
inkjet printers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkjet printer
inkjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkjets
form: ink jet
form: ink-jet
Etymology: From ink + jet.
Senses: examples: text: The non-impact printers employ an electrostatic, thermal, inkjet or other non-impact mechanism to transfer the character image.
ref: 1971, Computer Industry Annual, Computer Design Publishing Corporation, page 271:
text: HP aims to improve energy efficiency of its inkjet and laserjet printers 40% by 2011 and to triple its use of recycled material in inkjet products by 2011.
ref: 2009 March 27, “Inside HP's Ink Jet Cartridge Recycling Process”, in InformationWeek:
glosses: A device, particularly one used in the printing of documents, which propels tiny droplets of ink to the paper.
examples: text: Inkjets aren't as expensive as they used to be.
text: The application, form and all, can be printed on hundreds of printers including inkjet and laserjets.
ref: 1994, Dennis V. Damp, The book of U.S. government jobs, page 88:
glosses: An inkjet printer.
Derived terms: inkjettable
inkjetting
Related terms: inkjet printer
inkjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkjet
squizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: squizzes
form: squiz
Etymology: From British dialectal (Cornwall) squiz (“to look, examine critically”). Perhaps a blend of squint + quiz (“to peer at, eye suspiciously”).
Senses: examples: text: The building itself is worth a squizz; its modern metal forms and structures evoke maritime themes.
ref: 2002, Chris Rowthorn, Alex Landragin, Kate Daly, Victoria, Lonely Planet, page 297:
text: “That lot heard about the place and came in here on their way to an Antarctic research station. But mostly, it′s just curious folks that drop by for a squizz—like you, for instance.”
ref: 2009, William Efford, Picaroon, page 77:
text: “I'll get you to have a look at the paper work and just have a squizz through some patient′s case notes, so you get an idea of how we document our daily nursing units of care.[…]”
ref: 2012, Annette Evalyn Swain, Suicide Angels and the Silent Terrorists: A Story About Bullying, iUniverse, page 82:
text: I think it would be a good idea to have a squizz at Toowoomba′s place.
ref: 2012, Jo Nesbø, The Bat, page 328:
glosses: A look.
Synonyms: butcher's
butchers
dekko
gander
squizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: squizzes
form: squizzing
form: squizzed
form: squizzed
form: squiz
Etymology: From British dialectal (Cornwall) squiz (“to look, examine critically”). Perhaps a blend of squint + quiz (“to peer at, eye suspiciously”).
Senses: examples: text: “That′s just according to how you bring them up, Jane,” Betsy replied ; “if they′d had porridge from the first, they′d have eaten it fast enough ; and it isn′t good to allow children to be squizzing (looking) into their food and picking it over.”
ref: 1885, Emily Cruwys Sharland, Ways and means in a Devonshire village, a book for mothers′ meetings, page 19:
text: He liked to see them laughing, enjoying themselves, squizzing at the antics of whitefellers in party mood.
ref: 1998, Patricia Shaw, A Cross of Stars, published 2011, unnumbered page:
text: 1999, Lindsay Charman-Love, Top Hat and Taiaha, Huia Short Stories 3, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 44,
Others were off at the shops getting ice blocks or squizzing at the boats down at the wharf.
text: 2010, Linzy Harris, Perdita, Paragon Publishing, UK, page 79,
She presented me with a bag, and when I squizzed inside I saw it contained five boxes of cigarettes.
glosses: To look, to examine.
raw_tags: with "at"
attachments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attachment
ombres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ombre
possessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessor
habitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitant
coact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈakt/
Forms: form: coacts
form: coacting
form: coacted
form: coacted
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin cōgō.
Senses: examples: text: The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To compel, constrain, force.
coact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈakt/
Forms: form: more coact
form: most coact
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin cōgō.
Senses: examples: text: too much solitariness […] is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary.
ref: , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244
glosses: Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
coact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈakt/
Forms: form: coacts
form: coacting
form: coacted
form: coacted
form: co-act
Etymology: From co- + act.
Senses: synonyms: cooperate
glosses: To work together.
orography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈɹɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: orographies
form: oreography
Etymology: From oro- (“mountain”) + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Orography: A description of mountains.
ref: 1846, Joseph Emerson Worcester, A universal and critical dictionary of the English language: to which are added Walker's Key to the pronunciation of classical and Scripture proper names, much enlarged and improved, and a pronouncing vocabulary of modern geographical names, Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Company, published 1849, page 501:
text: A knowledge of the Hydrography of a country aids as much in determining its geology as does its Orography, — that is, a description of its mountains.
ref: 1853, Edward Hitchcock, “The Geology of the Globe”, in Outline of the Geology of the Globe and of the United States in Particular with Sketches of Characteristic American Fossils., Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, page 10:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study, or a physical description of mountains.
examples: text: Morocco was in 1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the chain.
ref: 1911, “Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition”, in Africa:
text: Most flows actually occur, of course, over non-uniform orography and consequently in numerical models of such flows it is necessary to transform the coordinates so that the equations accurately represent flows in such terrain (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975).
ref: 1995, B. W. Atkinson, “Introduction to the fluid mechanics of meso-scale flow fields”, in A. Gyr, Franz-S. Rys, editors, Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields, page 20:
text: The independent scientists of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) expressed concerns about how the spectral model would deal with steep mountains.[…]It was this work that lead to development of the envelope orography outlined below.
ref: 2006, Austin Woods, Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach, page 105:
glosses: The orographic features of a region.
Derived terms: orographer
rusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rust
rusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: rustings
Senses: examples: text: An example will best make the matter clear, and throw light, perhaps, on many cases of apparently mysterious rustings.
ref: 1899, Scientific American, volume 81, page 309:
glosses: The development of rust on a surface.
glosses: The phenomenon where the fur of a black cat develops a brown colour when exposed to sunlight.
RV's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RV
RV's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of RV
RV-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of RV
RV'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of RV
RV'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of RV
RV'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of RV
rutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutter
rushedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rushedly
form: most rushedly
Etymology: From rushed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rushed manner; hurriedly, with haste.
ruptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rupture
ruptures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rupture
ruptured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a rupture; broken, leaking.
glosses: Having a rupture; broken, leaking.
herniated
Derived terms: ruptured duck
ruptured membrane
ruptured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rupture
rupees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rupee
zhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhen
Senses: glosses: Clipping of zhenniao
runouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runout
run outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run out
runs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run out
running out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run out
run-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-in
rummaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rummage
rummaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rummagings
Senses: examples: text: There was always the impossibility, of course, of finding him anything, the least bit "good," that he wouldn't already, long ago, in his rummagings, have seen himself[…]
ref: 1905, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, page 400:
glosses: The act of one who rummages.
ruminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruminate
ruminating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruminatings
Senses: examples: text: These sketches indicate ruminatings mysterious to us.
ref: 2012, David Rooks, A Still Moon and Stars: Early Columns, and More:
glosses: An act of pondering over, meditation, or reflection.
ruminants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruminant
ruminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruminate
ruminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: ruminate
educating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of educate
educating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That educates; educational.
instructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instruct
turtle hulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turtle hull
orographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oreographic
Etymology: From orography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the physical features of mountains, or to orography.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the effects of mountains on weather.
Derived terms: bathyorographic
orographically
rumble seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumble seat
rulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruling
ruffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruffle
ruffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruffle
ruffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rufflings
Senses: examples: text: Late in the morning I wak'd first; and observing my lover slept profoundly, softly disengag'd myself from his arms, scarcely daring to breathe for fear of shortening his repose; my cap, my hair, my shift, were all in disorder from the rufflings I had undergone
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: The action of the verb ruffle
ruffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruffle
fuck-knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck-knuckles
form: fuckknuckle
form: fuck knuckle
form: fucknuckle
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of fuck + knuckle.
Senses: examples: text: That little fuck-knuckle is into me for eighteen dimes, plus interest
ref: 1986 June 12, Richard Martins, The Cinch, Random House Publishing Group, page 95:
text: Typical septic. Can't understand why the rest of the world thinks he's a fuck-knuckle.
ref: 1998 April 21, Justin Downey, “Re: rachel is awful cute!”, alt.nuke.the.USA, aus.flame.usa, and alt.flame
text: “Cool your jets, fuck-knuckle. I've been getting an anus beating all day and I'm preparing for a federal raping tomorrow because of you two freaks...”
ref: 2002 January, Michael Cordoni, Peaches & Snitches: A Novel, Writers Club Press, page 136:
text: ‘Right fuck-knuckle, get into those dixies over there,’ ordered the crazy-eyed shit posing as a cook, but more closely resembling a human hog.
ref: 2002 April, Terry O’Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS soldier in Vietnam (Allen & Unwin Proprietary), page 12
glosses: A term of abuse.
coulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊltə/
Forms: form: coulters
form: colter
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
text: I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:
related: word: colter
word: culter
word: ploughshare
word: plowshare#Noun
word: moldboard
word: mouldboard#Noun
word: jointer
word: chisel#Noun
glosses: A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
glosses: The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
fuckknuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckknuckles
Senses: examples: text: The "knife" you are longing for is your own Crow. You post with sincereity, desperation, and you post like a fuckknuckle. (I know.)
ref: 1997 July 1, Peter “E. Varden” Shore, “Re: Replacements”, in alt.bitterness (Usenet):
text: 1998 July 31, Thomas K. Javoroski, “Re: To all fans of Gygax...”, rec.games.frp.advocacy, rec.games.frp.dnd, and rec.games.frp.misc, Usenet
He's trying to entertain, not teach, you insufferable fuckknuckle!
text: So tell me, oh ignorant, unemployable fuckknuckle how many men and boys have to give sworn testimony before you believe that Wacko is a child molesting criminal?
ref: 2005 April 5, John Lucas, “question for the Jackson fans”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of fuck-knuckle.
vegetative cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetative cells
Senses: glosses: A nonreproductive cell; any cell that is not involved in the production of gametes.
fuck knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck knuckles
Senses: examples: text: You fuck knuckles showed that you couldn't play fair, and because you couldn't play fair, now you've got to play by Beaudreau's Rules.
ref: 1998 September 2, Randy Beaudreau, “This board is Beaudreau's House now”, in alt.tv.comedy-central (Usenet):
text: 2004 December 3, William J. Wolfe, “Re: PETA Campaign Pitches Fish As Smart”, aus.politics, alt.politics.british, alt.politics.communism, alt.politics.democrats, and alt.politics.economics, Usenet
That's right, fuck knuckle, you can't prove that fish feel pain, neither can anybody else.
text: 2006 May 25, Colin Kynoch, “aus.sport.aussie-rules”, Re: Bumblers Fined for cheating and runner booted for 2 weeks, Usenet
And can you point to any Essendon supporter who has defended Dimma?
Didn't think so you deluded fuck knuckle.
text: He still wondered who the fuck knuckle was who made them do that and who purchased the stupid fucking things.
ref: 2006 June 30, Kerry Plowright, Vostock Station - Point of Impact, Trafford Publishing:
glosses: Alternative form of fuck-knuckle.
nonreproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reproductive.
Senses: glosses: Not able to reproduce; sterile.
glosses: Not of or pertaining to reproduction.
nonreproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonreproductives
Etymology: From non- + reproductive.
Senses: examples: text: In ant societies, the nonreproductives do particular tasks that benefit “the queens,” who reproduce.
ref: 2009 June 16, Claudia Dreifus, “Insects Succeeding Through Cooperation”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any creature that cannot reproduce.
named after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of name after
name after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: names after
form: naming after
form: named after
form: named after
Senses: examples: text: The scientist named his newly discovered species after a famous pop artist.
text: The scientist discovered a new species, which he named after a famous pop artist.
synonyms: name for
glosses: To give (someone or something) the name of another person, place, or thing; to name (someone or something) in honour of
Euclidian space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euclidian spaces
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A space where the principles of Euclidean geometry apply.
name for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: names for
form: naming for
form: named for
form: named for
Senses: glosses: To intentionally give someone the same name or a derivation of the same name as another person, place, or thing.
Related terms: english: more common usage
translation: more common usage
word: name after
double-edged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more double-edged
form: most double-edged
Senses: glosses: Of a blade, such as a sword or knife, sharp on both edges.
examples: text: Slander is a double-edged weapon: you can hurt the reputation of another but it diminishes your own reputation that you debase yourself so much.
glosses: As dangerous for the user as the one it is used on.
Coordinate terms: single-edged
Derived terms: double-edged sword
Related terms: cut both ways
names after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of name after
evaluating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evaluate
naming after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of name after
supervised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of supervise
supervised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervised
form: most supervised
Senses: glosses: Done under supervision; watched.
Derived terms: supervised injection site
supervised learning
practicums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practicum
practica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practicum
in a bake
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: O, Dedalus, he cried, Doyle is in a great bake about you.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
glosses: Very angry.
paediatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paediatricians
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pediatrician.
Derived terms: neuropaediatrician
pædiatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædiatricians
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of paediatrician.
palaeobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleobotany.
palæobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of palaeobotany.
tartness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartnesses
form: tartnesse
Etymology: From Middle English *tartnesse, from Old English teartnes (“sharpness, severity, asperity”), equivalent to tart + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: sourness
bitterness
glosses: The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste.
falsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phalsa.
tartnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus this box is a coppel in which... the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test.
ref: 1831, Johann Ludwig Tieck, The old man of the mountain, The lovecharm, and Pietro of Abano, from the German, page 153:
glosses: plural of tartness
unbraid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbraids
form: unbraiding
form: unbraided
form: unbraided
Etymology: From un- + braid.
Senses: glosses: To disentangle the strands of a braid
Kurds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurd
detartration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + tartrate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: With grapes, there are two problems: colour extraction in red grapes, and detartration.
ref: 1938, Fruit Trades World Directory, page 195:
text: Detartration is of interest if potassium bitartrate is to be recovered.
ref: 1959, Extension Series, Purdue University Dept. of Engineering, page 801:
text: Detartration by bulk storage is accomplished in one of two ways.
ref: 1951, Morris Boris Jacobs, The Chemistry and Technology of Food and Food Products, page 2200:
text: During fermentation approximately ten percent of the acids are lost due to metabolism, detartration or destruction.
ref: 2015, Jeffrey L. Lamy, Business of Winemaking, page 133:
glosses: The process of detartrating, i.e. removing tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
detartrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The crude calcium tartrate used in the production of tartaric acid (min. 50% purity) is recovered from alkaline solutions resulting from the detartrating of wine vats (potentially containing 140-250 g tartaric acid/L) by acidification to a pH of maximum 8, addition of a calcium salt to precipitate calcium tartrate, and recycling of part of the filtrate.
ref: 2001, United States Patent #6,797,053, filed July 9, 2001
text: FRUIT JUICE CONCENTRATES AND SYRUPS[:] detartrating the juice before concentrating will reduce the amount of cream of tartar...
ref: 1939, Donald Kiteley Tressler, George Long Marsh, Maynard Alexander Joslyn, Fruit and Vegetable Juices, page 379:
glosses: present participle and gerund of detartrate
imaginativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imaginative + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: imaginativity
glosses: The characteristic of being imaginative.
maneen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneens
Etymology: From man + -een.
Senses: examples: text: I was standing at the end of the South Terrace one day with some maneens like myself and sure we thought we were grand fellows because we had pipes stuck in the corners of our mouths.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
glosses: A little man.
Corkonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kɔɹˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Corkonian
form: most Corkonian
Etymology: From Cork + -onian (in, e.g., Devonian, Oxonian, Ultonian).
Senses: examples: text: But there is nothing malevolent in the Corkonian mode of levying toll upon old residents and new comers; […] priests with frowning faces, and queer-looking little boys with funny ones, and a miscellaneous lot of noisy patriots always going to shout and hear others shout at “the meeting,” are constant and prominent features in Corkonian life.
ref: 1852 July, “The Corkonians, Past and Present”, in The Dublin University Magazine, […], volume XL, number CCXXXV, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr, →OCLC, page 120, columns 1–2:
text: Then every one was complaining about the high price of labor, and it was supposed that a Chinese “nurseman,” at two dollars and a half a month, would be a decided improvement over a French bonne with watery eyes and a Corkonian accent, and that a cook who could make at least tolerable dishes at four dollars a month would be better than one who charged seventy-five dollars for the privilege of spoiling provisions.
ref: 1879 April, David D. Porter, “The Chinese in America—Present and Future, Etc.”, in The United Service. A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs., volume I, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lewis R[andolph] Hamersly & Co., →OCLC, page 311:
text: I have no hesitation in saying that I would put first in this last generation among the Irishmen who remained in Ireland, and rendered great service to the National cause, two men, each typically Corkonian to the fingertips, with the gifts and qualities and virtues that mark them out among their fellows.
ref: 1934 May 31, Daniel F[lorence] Cohalan, quotee, “Two Sons of ‘Rebel Cork’: [Tim] Healy and [Michael] Collins; Judge Cohalan’s Fine Tribute”, in Irish Independent […], volume 43, number 129, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 7:
text: Mary is universally loved. When I put this to her, her reply is modest, and typically Corkonian: “Ah, will ye stop.”
ref: 2012 July 4, Valerie O’Sullivan, “From Reenaree to Buramino … with lots of love from Mary T [Murphy]”, in The Kerryman, North & West Kerry edition, Tralee, County Kerry, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 5:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Cork.
Corkonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kɔɹˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Corkonians
Etymology: From Cork + -onian (in, e.g., Devonian, Oxonian, Ultonian).
Senses: examples: text: Vivacious and versatile, beyond the average even of Irishmen, the Corkonians mingle raillery with their hospitality, and cut up cattle and human nature with a trenchant ease and constant energy, as if they had taken a government contract to victual the State with beef and satire, fresh jokes and pickled pork at the same time.
ref: 1852 July, “The Corkonians, Past and Present”, in The Dublin University Magazine, […], volume XL, number CCXXXV, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr, →OCLC, pages 119–120:
text: To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:
text: Other men there were who did splendid work. But in each generation, in the last analysis, there is one who bears the palm; and Healy and Collins, each in his day and time, did work that will be remembered through many lives that are yet to come. Well may you, Corkonians, and your children, glory in the fellowship of such men!
ref: 1934 May 31, Daniel F[lorence] Cohalan, quotee, “Two Sons of ‘Rebel Cork’: [Tim] Healy and [Michael] Collins; Judge Cohalan’s Fine Tribute”, in Irish Independent […], volume 43, number 129, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 7:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cork.
footlocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footlockers
Etymology: From foot + locker.
Senses: glosses: A long, rectangular trunk or similar container that lies flat on the floor, especially one used for personal belongings and kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks and dormitories.
footlockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footlocker
flattop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flattops
form: flat top
form: flat-top
Etymology: From flat + top. Sense of “aircraft carrier” attributed to the message, “Scratch one flattop,” radioed during the Battle of the Coral Sea by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to the USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang.
Senses: examples: text: Well school's not so bad but the summer's better
Gives me more time to see my girl
Walk through the park beneath the shiny moon
Oh when we kiss she makes my flat top curl
ref: 1959 Jerry Keller, "Here Comes Summer" (lyrics)
glosses: A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: An aircraft carrier.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
Synonyms: sense: guitar with a flat top
word: folk guitar
disabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disability
blackest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blækəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of black: most black
dissembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissemble
dissembled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissemble
dissembling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissemblings
Senses: examples: text: The lies and dissemblings about this period are beyond most people's imaginations.
ref: 2005, C. L. Corey, Our Own Felicity: We Make Or Find, page 82:
glosses: The action of the verb dissemble
dissembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissemble
pursuivant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.vənt/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹ.sɪ.vənt/
other: /ˈpɜr.swɪ.vənt/
Forms: form: pursuivants
form: poursuivant
form: pursevant
Etymology: From Middle English pursevant et al., from Old French pursuivant, present participle of pursuivre (“to follow”). Doublet of pursuant.
Senses: examples: text: How oft do they [the blessed Angels] with golden pineons, cleaue / The flitting skyes, like flying Purſuiuant, / Againſt fowle feendes to ayd vs millitant: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 291:
text: The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, / And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope.
ref: 1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To A Child:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: pursuivant at arms
glosses: A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; an attendant of the heralds, e.g. in the College of Arms.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A Grand Lodge Officer who guards the inner door during a meeting of the Grand Lodge.
examples: text: The law was altogether without force in the highlands which lie on the south of the vale of Tralee. No officer of justice willingly ventured into those parts. One pursuivant who in 1680 attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: A royal messenger, (particularly) one with the authority to execute warrants.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A warrant officer.
glosses: A follower.
humanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmeɪn.li/
Forms: form: more humanely
form: most humanely
Etymology: From Middle English humanly; equivalent to humane + -ly. Piecewise doublet of humanly.
Senses: examples: text: The study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the University of Florida and the tortoise was humanely euthanized with an overdose of sodium pentobarbital performed by intracoelomatic injection [34 ].
ref: 2015 August 6, “A Genomic Approach to Unravel Host-Pathogen Interaction in Chelonians: The Example of Testudinid Herpesvirus 3”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a humane manner.