cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
binate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binates
form: binating
form: binated
form: binated
Etymology: From Latin bīnātus, past participle of bīnō (“to binate”), from bīnus (“two each, in pairs”). Equivalent to Latin bīnō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: To perform bination; to hold Mass twice on the same day.
forearm bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forearm bones
Senses: examples: text: (Anatomy course supervisor) And put those forearm bones away will you, we are finished with'em.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two bones, i.e. ulna and radius, that make up the skeletal part of the forearm.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The ulna or the fused ulna and radius, which may be the sole bone of the forelimb or the strongest bone of the forelimb.
hypercatalexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in the late 1880s as a back-formation from hypercatalectic, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκαταληκτικός (huperkatalēktikós), from ὑπερ- (huper-, “over”) + καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “incomplete”)
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
Related terms: acatalectic
catalectic
hypercatalectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: Recorded from circa 1700; from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκατάληκτος (huperkatálēktos).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Which has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).
Derived terms: hypercatalexis
Related terms: acatalectic
catalectic
straight flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight flush
royal flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal flush
non-descriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nondescriptive
Etymology: From non- + descriptive.
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to expressive (or socio-expressive) meaning – and this is the only kind of non-descriptive meaning that we will take into account here – there is no readily available and reasonably objective criterion which enables us to decide between identity and difference.
ref: 1995, John Lyons, Linguistic Semantics:
glosses: Not descriptive; failing to provide a description.
nondescriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-descriptive.
sure enough
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Rain had been predicted for that day and, sure enough, it was beginning to rain.
text: Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash
ref: 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:
qualifier: evaluative
glosses: Just as one would expect.
concestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concestors
Etymology: Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 2004 in his book The Ancestor's Tale.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cenancestor
glosses: The last common ancestor, especially of several different species.
wikipedia: The Ancestor's Tale
Related terms: last universal common ancestor
mixed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mix up
bulkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bulkily
form: most bulkily
Etymology: From bulky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a bulky manner
cosaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosaques
Senses: glosses: A cracker bonbon.
Soup Bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal area at the village of Bathsheba, in Saint Joseph, Barbados, known for many surfing events.
flambant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flamant.
bruiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruiters
Etymology: From bruit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of bruit: a person who disseminates, promulgates, or spreads news, rumours, etc.
viscounties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscounty
seed vessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed vessel
seed leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed leaf
seed pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed pearl
blevey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleveys
Senses: glosses: A BLEVE
blevey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleveys
form: bleveying
form: bleveyed
form: bleveyed
Senses: examples: “Mississauga had one blevey,” said JoAnn Kropf-Hedley, who represented Emergency Management Ontario in Melrose and sits on all of Northumberland County’s emergency committees. “This (at Melrose) was three bleveys. There’s never been a derailment in Canada that’s had three cars blevey. It was really unbelievable.” https://web.archive.org/web/20070218044505/http://www.indynews.ca/archives/news/march_2003/keeping_track.html
glosses: To explode as the result of a BLEVE
longlining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The council, which regulates fishing in federal waters from Texas to the west coast of Florida, voted to close some areas to longlining, and only about half of the approximately 125 boats now using the gear will be allowed to continue.
ref: 2009 August 19, Cornelia Dean, “Ruling on Longline Fishing Aids Turtles”, in New York Times:
glosses: fishing with a longline
bankrupcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bankruptcy.
enclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈklɪsɪs/
/ˈɛnklɪsɪs/
Forms: form: enclises
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis), from ἐν (en) + κλίσις (klísis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of enclitics in the syntax of a language.
ibices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹbĭsēz
ipa: /ˈaɪbɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ibex
crazy paving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crazy pavings
Senses: examples: text: crazy-paving pattern
text: On the legs the changes are more marked and appear as a crazy-paving pattern.
ref: 2012, Karl F. Schaller, Colour Atlas of Tropical Dermatology and Venerology, page 13-64:
text: The convoy was proceeding down the dry, cracked crazy-paving riverbed of the Gomatum.
ref: 2012 -, Jeff Dawson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:
text: Mine in particular was this: I had to dig up a crazy-paving path out of the frozen earth and lay it again one yard further on.
ref: 2014, Eric Scott, I Could Have Been a Contender: Memoirs of a Black Sheep, →ISBN:
glosses: Paving with pieces of irregular size and shape that fit together and (approximately) cover the surface.
Related terms: crazy quilt
proclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proclises
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of proclitics in the syntax of a language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A specific instance of the usage of a proclitic.
hypothenar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɒθɪnə/
Forms: form: more hypothenar
form: most hypothenar
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) + θέναρ (thénar, “palm of the hand”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the ulnar fleshy side of the palm.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the muscles of the little finger.
hypothenar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɒθɪnə/
Forms: form: hypothenars
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) + θέναρ (thénar, “palm of the hand”).
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: The ulnar fleshy side of the palm, formed by the underlying three muscles of the little finger; the hypothenar eminence.
glosses: Any of those muscles: the abductor, flexor, or opponens digiti minimi.
Synonyms: hypothenar eminence
hypothenar muscle
beard moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beard mosses
Senses: glosses: Any of several lichens, of the genus Usnea, that generally grow hanging from tree branches, resembling grey or greenish hair.
Synonyms: beard lichen
old man's beard
treemoss
like a train
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I could not get a shot in. They turned in my direction and came like a train. I stopped the first and the others spilled round him at a frightful speed. I was in the eddy of the first beast, as it were. I got in another shot at an angle behind the ear and down he went.
ref: 1949, Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, Karamojo safari, page 85:
text: "That tide's coming in like a train, and if the Raider breaks up, the currents will drag them under!" Her voice was desperate. "I don't see 'ow anyone can get to them!" It was true.
ref: 1994, Sheila Garrigue, The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Aspinall was suspended for the first three games but we started like a train. We took ten points from the first twelve, beating Leeds 4—0 at home with Hilaire and Blake coming back, and we went to the top of the league.
ref: 2005, Alan Ball, Playing Extra Time, →ISBN, page 221:
qualifier: simile
glosses: With unstoppable momentum.
twip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twips
Etymology: Abbreviation of twentieth of a point (referring to a printer's point).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of measure equal to one twentieth of a point.
twips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twip
pancarte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancartes
Etymology: From French, from Medieval Latin pancharta. See pan- and carte.
Senses: examples: text: John Bouchet, in the third part of his Annels of Aquitaine, marulleth at an old panchart or record which he had seen.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
text: The original plan may have been for nothing more than an extended pancarte to cover the increasing number of donations around the mother house.
ref: 2014, Kathleen Thompson, The Monks of Tiron, page 71:
text: A pancarte was thus not considered to serve the same purpose as a cartulary; rather it was something to be incorporated into one.
ref: 2014, Constance Brittain Bouchard, Rewriting Saints and Ancestors, page 21:
text: This is the date given at the foot of the shorter Angers document and undoubtedly intended to mark the occasion on which that pancarte was created or completed.
ref: 2020, Stephen Church, Anglo-Norman Studies XLII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2019, page 53:
glosses: A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
nopers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From nope + -ers.
Senses: glosses: No.
sexual cannibalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A type of cannibalism in animals, whereby the female devours the male after, or during, copulation.
Chinese mantis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese mantises
Senses: glosses: Any of species Tenodera sinensis of mantis, originating in China.
putois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putois
Etymology: From French putois.
Senses: glosses: A brush of polecat's hair for painting ceramics.
beheader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beheaders
Etymology: From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hunt is so successful at the first goal that the big takeaway of “Marx’s General” may be that Engels, best known as a ruthless party tactician, comes across as the Mario Batali of international communism: a jovial man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great beheader of Champagne bottles.”
ref: 2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who beheads or decapitates.
Synonyms: decapitator
headsman
Coordinate terms: beheadee
Related terms: behead
header
head
allostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos) + στάσις (stásis).
Senses: examples: text: This system of so-called allostasis, of maintaining control through constant change, stands in contrast to the mechanisms of homeostasis that keep the pH level and oxygen concentration in the blood within a narrow and invariant range.
ref: 2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, in the body, through physiological or behavioral change.
Derived terms: allostatic
sascab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As for the use of police tape, he said the unauthorized work, which included the introduction of a sand substitute known as sascab, was against the law and thus created a crime scene.
ref: 2009 August 18, Marc Lacey, “A Battle as the Tide Takes Away Cancún Sand”, in New York Times:
glosses: A naturally occurring mineral material used as a building and paving material in Mesoamerica since antiquity.
endodontist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endodontists
Etymology: From endo- (“within”) + -odont (“tooth”) + -ist (“specialist”).
Senses: examples: text: Her father is an endodontist and her mother is an interior and architectural designer.
ref: 2009 August 16, “Danielle Venokur, Timothy Greenberg”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who specializes in endodontics, a specialty of dentistry.
retrogreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrogreen
osteochondrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒstiːəʊkɒnˈdɹəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: osteochondroses
Etymology: From osteo- + chondrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A family of orthopedic diseases of the joint that occur in children and in rapidly growing animals, characterized by interruption of the blood supply of a bone, necrosis, and regrowth.
Hyponyms: topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Kienbock's disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Köhler's disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Osgood-Schlatter's disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: osteochondritis dissecans
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Panner's disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Scheuermann's disease
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: Sever's disease
Related terms: alt: osteocartilaginous
word: osteochondrous
adiabatic wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiabatic walls
Senses: glosses: Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy
phragmocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phragmocones
Etymology: From phragmo- + cone.
Senses: examples: text: This ability to continuously add new buoyancy chambers to their phragmocones allowed ancient cephalopods to reach truly stupendous sizes.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: The chambered portion of the shell of certain cephalopods, divided by septa into camerae.
siphuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphuncles
Etymology: From Latin sīphunculus (“little tube”).
Senses: examples: text: An extra-salty siphuncle naturally absorbs water from the phragmocone chambers, and the empty space left behind is filled with gases diffusing out from the blood.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod, used primarily in emptying water from new chambers as the shell grows.
glosses: A nectary.
Derived terms: endosiphuncle
siphuncular
ceratitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of keratitis.
elucidator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elucidators
Etymology: From elucidate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who elucidates.
oolongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oolong
monocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monocyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The researchers searched one organ after another, until they checked the spleen and found the monocytic mother lode.
ref: 2009 August 4, Natalie Angier, “Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to monocytes.
Derived terms: granulomonocytic
monocytically
premonocytic
promonocytic
prerevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + revolution.
Senses: examples: text: The hero of “Inherent Vice” worries that “the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness,” that “everything in this dream of prerevolution was in fact doomed to end,” with the “faithless, money-driven world” reasserting “its control over all the lives it felt entitled to touch, fondle and molest.”
ref: 2009 August 4, Michiko Kakutani, “Another Doorway to the Paranoid Pynchon Dimension”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before a period of revolution.
Synonyms: prerevolutionary
splenectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splenectomizes
form: splenectomizing
form: splenectomized
form: splenectomized
Etymology: From splenectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To remove the spleen from.
Related terms: splenectomy
spleen
splenectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splenectomize
splenectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splenectomize
splenectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The splenectomized men, the researchers found, were twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as were the veterans in the control group.
ref: 2009 August 4, Natalie Angier, “Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the spleen removed.
splenectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splenectomize
bushwack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bushwacks
form: bushwacking
form: bushwacked
form: bushwacked
Senses: examples: text: Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.
ref: 1975 July 24, The Barium Messenger, Barium Springs, NC, page 2, column 3:
text: Before Phillips puts on the rubber gloves and leads us through a psychoanalytic interpretation of kindness — complete with morsels like “in order to desire, men debase women; in order to desire, women keep their desires secret (even from themselves)” — the authors bushwack through the history of kindness.
ref: 2009 August 2, Peter Stevenson, “Easy to Be Hard”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bushwhack.
heirless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English eireles; equivalent to heir + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A number of Western European countries, led by Germany, carried out far-reaching measures to provide restitution of Nazi-looted properties in the aftermath of World War II, including setting up commissions to deal with heirless property and communal property illegally seized during the war.
ref: 2009 August 2, Dan Bilefsky, “Hurdles in Eastern Europe Thwart Restitution Claims”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without an heir.
Derived terms: heirlessness
great-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-uncle
great-aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-aunt
botanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botany
alerces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alerce
chalazas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalaza
deciduas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decidua
gajos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gajo
panochas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panocha
verdolagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verdolaga
error-prone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more error-prone
form: most error-prone
Senses: synonyms: fault-prone
antonyms: infallible
glosses: In the habit of making errors.
glosses: Tending to cause errors.
Derived terms: error-proneness
statuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statuary
arbitrarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbitrarities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arbitrariness.
synonyms: word: arbitrariness
dottiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dottinesses
Etymology: From dotty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As in the center of Figure 6-3, a single stroke may reveal the inherent dottiness of computer stroking, which you can minimize by reducing the Step value on the Tool Options palette.
ref: 2003, David C. Kay, William Steinmetz, Paint Shop Pro 8 For Dummies, page 115:
glosses: The state of quality of being covered in dots.
examples: text: She needs to be simultaneously preposterous and entirely serious, and Angela Lansbury, in her Tony-nominated performance in the current revival at the Shubert Theater, is a whirlwind of dottiness with a ramrod spine of practicality.
ref: 2009 May 17, Charles Mcgrath, “Her Magic Act: Transforming Herself Nightly”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied.
Related terms: dotty
dottily
detailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detailing
gagworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gagworthy
form: most gagworthy
Etymology: From gag + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Doesn't matter how it's prepared, it's all gagworthy!!!
ref: 1999 November 28, Lisa (pseudonym), “Re:Grossest Breakfast ever?”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):
text: With crumbly dirt crust and a few pink worms peeking out, the pie looked totally gagworthy!
ref: 2006, Melissa J. Morgan, Over & Out, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Disgusting
lexicographic order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicographic orders
form: lexicographical order
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Formally, given two partially ordered sets A and B, the order ≤ on the Cartesian product A × B such that (a,b) ≤ (a′,b′) if and only if a < a′ or (a = a′ and b ≤ b′).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Given sets (A₁, A₂, ..., Aₙ) and their total orderings (<₁, <₂, ..., <ₙ), the order <ᵈ of A₁ × A₂ × ... × Aₙ such that (a₁, a₂, ..., aₙ) <ᵈ (b₁,b₂, ..., bₙ) iff (∃m > 0) (∀ i < m) (aᵢ = bᵢ ) and (aₘ <ₘ bₘ )
bioclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioclastic
form: most bioclastic
Etymology: From bio- + clastic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a sedimentary rock that is composed of the remains of small organisms
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of erosion or formation caused by the action of living organisms
spongeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spongeworthy
form: most spongeworthy
form: sponge-worthy
Etymology: From sponge + -worthy. Coined in "The Sponge", an episode of Seinfeld that first aired in December 1995, to indicate a man who is worth using one of a limited supply of contraceptive sponges on.
Senses: examples: text: ELAINE: So, you think you're spongeworthy? BILLY: Yes, I think I'm spongeworthy. I think I'm very spongeworthy.
ref: 1995 December 7, “The Sponge”, in Seinfeld:
text: The ultimate question: Is Ken "spongeworthy"?
ref: 2002 December 15, “Readers trash skanky Barbie”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page Q8:
text: I don't know if he's spongeworthy yet, but I do heart him!
ref: 2005, Donna Barstow, Love Me or Go To Hell, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Highly sexually desirable.
Derived terms: spongeworthiness
packable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more packable
form: most packable
Etymology: From pack + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It’s lightweight, flexible and a great packable jacket, but it only has a 2.5-layer membrane versus the Torrentshell’s three-layer one.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
antonyms: non-packable
unpackable
glosses: Capable of being packed.
packable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packables
Etymology: From pack + -able.
Senses: glosses: Anything that can be packed for transportation.
Related terms: packability
packability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pack + -ability or packable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Lots of pockets help with a commute, a storm hood is great if you get caught in a storm on a hike, weight and packability are essential for backpackers and if you’re a climber or biker, you’ll want a helmet-compatible hood.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality or state of being packable.
non-packable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonpackable
Etymology: From non- + packable.
Senses: examples: text: Push the matted leaves to one side and, if possible, add some non-packable material to improve the mulch.
ref: 1963, Jerome Irving Rodale, How to Landscape Your Own Home:
glosses: Not packable.
bragworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bragworthy
form: most bragworthy
Etymology: From brag + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing bragworthy about 10,541-foot Glacier Peak, says the modern hero,[…]
ref: 1976 December 24, Harvey Manning, “Keep Climbing”, in Backpacker, page 35:
text: Around this time of year, […] jazz tourists would be finalizing plans to arrive in the middle of June for two weeks of bragworthy shows.
ref: 2009 May 20, Ben Sisario, “New York Loses Its Jazz Festival”, in New York Times:
glosses: Worth bragging about
regrout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɡɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɡɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɡɹʌut/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɡɹæɔt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: regrouts
form: regrouting
form: regrouted
form: regrouted
Etymology: From re- + grout.
Senses: glosses: To grout again.
regrouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regrout
regrouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrout
regrouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regroutings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent application of grout.
regrouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrout
aetheogam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ā.ēʹthĭōgăm
ipa: /eɪˈiːθɪəʊɡæm/
Forms: form: aetheogams
form: aëtheogam
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀήθης (aḗthēs, “unusual”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
Synonyms: cryptogam
Derived terms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: aetheogamous
chink-a-chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attributed to Max Malini in the early 20th century. Probably an onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: A magic trick where four small items appear to move around a mat with just the wave of the magician's bare hands.
wikipedia: Max Malini
lightstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lightstruck
form: most lightstruck
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of light-struck.
isohumulone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isohumulones
Etymology: From iso- + humulone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds that contribute to the bitter taste of beer.
Related terms: lightstruck
isohumulones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohumulone
Minamata disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 水俣病 (minamatabyō), literally “Minamata disease”, after Minimata, the Japanese city where the disease was first discovered.
Senses: glosses: A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.
Synonyms: Chisso-Minamata disease
aëtheogam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aëtheogams
Senses: examples: text: Aëtheogams, plants furnished with air vessels and stomates or air pores.
ref: 1839, John Lindley, School Botany, volume ix, page 151:
text: aëtheʹos (ἀήθης, unusual), in compounds = unusual ; aëtheogamʹic, aëtheogʹamous (γάμος, marriage), synonymous with cryptogamic.
ref: 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent, page 7 ^〃 (4ᵗʰ Ed.; Duckworth)
glosses: Dated form of aetheogam.
Synonyms: cryptogam
Derived terms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: aëtheogamous
sinjarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sinjar (“a place in Mesopotamia”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare dihydrate of calcium chloride.
chlorocalcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chloro- + calcite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare white mineral, chemical formula KCaCl₃.
megacenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacenters
form: megacentre
Etymology: From mega- + center.
Senses: glosses: A large or major center (place where function or activity occurs).
megacenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacenter
aëtheogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ā.ē'thēŏʹgəməs
ipa: /eɪˌiːθiːˈɒɡəməs/
Forms: form: aetheogamous
Etymology: From aëtheogam + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: aëtheʹos (ἀήθης, unusual), in compounds = unusual ; aëtheogamʹic, aëtheogʹamous (γάμος, marriage), synonymous with cryptogamic.
ref: 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent, page 7 ^〃 (4ᵗʰ Ed.; Duckworth)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the nature of an aëtheogam.
Synonyms: cryptogamous
aetheogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ā.ē'thēŏʹgəməs
ipa: /eɪˌiːθiːˈɒɡəməs/
Forms: form: aëtheogamous
Etymology: From aetheogam + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the nature of an aetheogam.
Synonyms: cryptogamous
aetheogams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aëtheogams
Senses: glosses: plural of aetheogam
aëtheogams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aetheogams
Senses: glosses: plural of aëtheogam
disfellowshiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disfellowship; alternative spelling of disfellowshipped.
disfellowshiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disfellowship; alternative spelling of disfellowshipping.
copular verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copular verb
bad hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad hat
montuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montuosities
Senses: examples: text: Various appearances from which the Moon's montuosity is argued.
glosses: The property of being montuous or having mountains.
examples: text: But had these mountains been diaphanous, we could never have seen those luminous montuosities.
glosses: A mountain or mountainlike unevenness on a surface; a mountain peak.
biographee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biographees
Etymology: From biography + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Where the biographee is the founder of a school, the biography will be mentioned in conjunction with the treatment of the school.
ref: 1977 June, Robert E. Wood, “Philosophy in the New Encyclopaedia Britannica”, in The Review of Metaphysics, volume 30, number 4, page 719:
glosses: One about whom a biography is written; the subject of a biography.
protuberancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protuberancy
biographees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biographee
retroussé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtɹuːseɪ/
ipa: /ˌɹɛtɹuˈseɪ/
Forms: form: more retroussé
form: most retroussé
form: retrousse
Etymology: From French retroussé, past participle of retrousser (“to hitch up, hike up”), from re- (from Latin re- (“back, backwards; again”), from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) or *ure- (“back”)) + trousser (“to fold up, hitch up”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] Roxelane [...] would never have been espoused by the Sultan [Suleiman the Magnificent] had not her nose been retroussé, thus[…]. / It may be noted that to this day a retroussé nose is known in France as a nose a la Roxelane.
ref: 1903 April, “Sir Oracle” [pseudonym], The Era: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Literature and of General Interest, volume XI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T. Coates & Co., →OCLC, page 303:
text: "A tight little craft," was Austin's invariable comment on the matron;[…]. Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “A Novice”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 363:
text: You know, a touch of character – slightly retroussé nose, big mouth, perhaps a couple of freckles.
ref: 1967, Michael Gilbert, “Part Two: Tendresse v. Lucille”, in The Dust and the Heat, London: Hodder & Stoughton; republished Looe, Cornwall: House of Stratus, 2004, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Luminous silver gray eyes outlined in sooty lashes; a pert retroussé nose and faintly carmine tinted lips, slightly full, finished the oval face.
ref: 2004, Anita-Louise Johnson, chapter 1, in Faithful, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 3:
text: She shares with this woman the same retroussé nose and half-moon eyes, the same asymmetrical smile.
ref: 2008, Fiona Capp, Musk & Byrne, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:
text: I would simply waffle about her small, almost perfectly upswept, retroussé nose, and you'd consider me insane, and put me back.
ref: 2009, Jasper Fforde, “The Word”, in Shades of Grey, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Turned up, especially when describing the nose.
Synonyms: word: upturned
sense: describing a nose
word: pug-nosed
sense: describing a nose
word: snub-nosed
soos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soo
temazepam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmeɪ.zɪ.pam/
ipa: /təˈmaz.ɪ.pam/
ipa: /təˈmæz.əˌpæm/
Forms: form: temazepams
Etymology: Probably from tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam.
Senses: examples: text: But if your problem is waking too early, he might suggest a longer-duration drug like temazepam, the generic version of Restoril.
ref: 2009 June 6, Lesley Alderman, “Cost-Effective Ways to Fight Insomnia”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic.
Hypernyms: benzodiazepine
rhizo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: rhiz-
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”).
Senses: glosses: roots (of living organisms).
Related terms: radical
radix
algebrogeometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæld͡ʒɪbɹəʊˌd͡ʒiːəˈmɛtɹɪk/
Senses: glosses: Relating to algebraic geometry.
cofinality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofinalities
Etymology: From cofinal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The cofinality of any set with a greatest element is 1.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The least of the cardinalities of the cofinal subsets of a partially ordered set.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being cofinal.
Related terms: cofinal
surjectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surjective + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being surjective.
bijectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bijective + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being bijective.
Related terms: reversibility
phenomime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenomimes
Etymology: From pheno- + mime.
Senses: examples: text: Phenomimes "depict" states, conditions, or manners of the external world, while psychomimes symbolize mental conditions or sensations.
ref: 1990, Masayoshi Shibatani, The languages of Japan, →ISBN, page 154:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that mimics a certain physical form or motion.
Synonyms: ideophone
Related terms: phonomime
psychomime
on paper
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: During the final exam, students are allowed to bring their computer science notes that are on paper.
glosses: In writing, particularly handwritten or printed as opposed to digital.
examples: text: On paper they're perfect for each other, but it's been six months and their relationship is already on the rocks.
text: From those of the former generation who were in the fulness of age when I came into public life, which was while our controversy with England was on paper only, I soon saw that nothing was to be hoped.
ref: August 25, 1814, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Coles
text: Hutchinson, the current champion at 50 miles, is on paper the fastest rider in the field for Sunday's event
ref: June 06, 2002, Graham Snowdon, The Telegraph:
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hey, just throwing out a random hypothetical to you. Let's say there's a new kid in school, and on paper he should be killing it, but for some reason the other kids don't like him? Why do you think that would be?
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.
ref: 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 55:
glosses: Based on debatable inference; in theory; by appearances only.
glosses: Officially; de jure.
examples: text: This means you can vote even if you are in jail or prison, or “on paper” (on probation, parole or extended supervision) for a misdemeanor.
ref: 2024, ACLU Wisconsin, VOTING RIGHTS FOR PERSONS WITH CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS:
glosses: Of a convicted criminal: on parole.
gigantification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gigantic + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Continual merging of large companies results in gigantification that drives the remaining small producers out of business.
glosses: The act or process of becoming or making gigantic, making extremely or excessively large.
hæritage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæritages
Senses: examples: text: Mairouer that in the same hæritage, Ilke hes rychteouslie from age to age succeidet till vther, that worthilie thay may be called perpetual heires.
ref: 1596, James Dalrymple, Bishop John Leslie’s The Historie of Scotland, volume 1, page 17; first printed by the Scottish Text Society in 1888–1895; another reprint
text: […] of the majoʳ part of the house therevpon, concluding, determining, & declaring that declension from the primitive foundation worke, innovation in doctrine & worship, opinion & practise, & invasion of the rights, libertjes, & priuiledges of churches ; an vsurpation of a lordly & prælatticall power ouer Gods hæritage, a subvertion of gospell order & all this wᵗʰ a dangerous tendencie to the vtter devastation of these churches, turning the pleasant gardens of Christ into a wildernesse, & the inevitable & total extirpation of the principles & pillars of the congregationall way ; that these are the leven, the corrupting gangreens, the infecting spreading plague, the provoaking images of jealousy set vp before the Lord, the accursed thing wᶜʰ hath provoked divine […]
ref: ∼1600–1775, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, printed by order of the legislature, volume 4, part 2, page 490 (AMS Press: 1968)
glosses: Archaic spelling of heritage.
hæritages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæritage
caveach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈviːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: caveaches
Etymology: From Spanish escabeche (“pickled fish”).
Senses: glosses: A fillet of fish, typically mackerel, pickled in vinegar
caveach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈviːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: caveaches
form: caveaching
form: caveached
form: caveached
Etymology: From Spanish escabeche (“pickled fish”).
Senses: glosses: To prepare fish as a caveach
debaucherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɔːtʃəɹəs/
Forms: form: more debaucherous
form: most debaucherous
Senses: examples: text: Alcohol alone is not enough to satisfy our debaucherous ways!
ref: 2024, Joshua Wright, Slack Wyrm #1306
glosses: Excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures.
Derived terms: debaucherously
Related terms: debauch
debauchee
debaucher
debauchery
annites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annite
emergently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emergently
form: most emergently
Etymology: From emergent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have responded to his call, and have to the best of my ability explained the causes and effects of that defective condition of the Mercantile Marine, which has been much and loudly complained of; and I have, in a full and comprehensive manner, detailed all existing abuses, and suggested those remedial measures which I consider essentially necessary to obtain that system of reform which is so emergently required.
ref: 1850, The Nautical Magazine: A Technical and Critical Journal for the Officers of the Mercantile Marine, page 132:
text: For example, being ratified by a constitutionally bound legislative body is one way in which an institution can be emergently justified.
ref: 1996, John T. Sanders, For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings, page 95:
text: Similarly, for a three-dimensional Newtonian world with N point particles, it is unreasonable to hold that a single point particle in 3N-dimensional space emergently exists, even though there is a sense in which the 3N-dimensional configuration space with the single particle has a straightforward mathematical correspondence with the N point particles in three-dimensional space.
ref: 2013, Alyssa Ney, The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics:
text: Then, with his emergently famous precision, he enumerated the flaws Bridges had made when he copied the map.
ref: 2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:
glosses: In an emergent manner.
Axe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Axe
Etymology: Ultimately derived from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk, a river name perhaps originally meaning "abundant in fish". Cognate with the river names Esk, Exe, and Usk.
Senses: glosses: A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
glosses: A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.
Derived terms: english: Somerset
translation: Somerset
word: Axbridge
word: Axminster
word: Axmouth
codfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codfish
megacentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacentres
Etymology: From mega- + centre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of megacenter.
megacentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacentre
under sail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: A ship under full sail.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: With sails unfurled; powered by the wind.
synonyms: in motion
on the move
glosses: In motion.
Related terms: by sail
grow a pair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows a pair
form: growing a pair
form: grew a pair
form: grown a pair
Etymology: Clipping of grow a pair of balls.
Senses: glosses: To be brave; to show some courage, especially in a situation in which one has so far failed to do so.
Synonyms: grow some balls
get a pair
strap on a pair
Related terms: have a pair
on a pair
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing the status of a batsman who has made a duck in the first innings, and is yet to score in the second.
problemsolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problemsolvers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of problem-solver.
problemsolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problemsolver
biomathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + mathematics.
Senses: topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of mathematics to the study of biological systems and processes
hawk moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawk moth
Ivorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ivorian
rose gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose garden
alphabetical orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphabetical order
promarket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promarket
form: most promarket
Etymology: From pro- + market.
Senses: examples: text: The promarket argument fails to acknowledge not only the noncommodity nature of food production, but also the falsity of the assumption that rising GDP inevitably leads to decreased poverty for rural dwellers. Conceptualizing agriculture as a commodity-oriented system of production, the World Bank's MALR [market-assisted land reform] models and the neoliberal economic models that spawned it avoid any direct consideration of the relationship between the land and the majority of the world's poor.
ref: 2006, Michael Courville and Raj Patel, "The Resurgence of Agrarian Reform in the Twenty-first Century", introduction to Promised land: competing visions of agrarian reform, Food First Books, pages 18–19
glosses: In favor of the free market, of capitalism.
bucket naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apparently an error for, or alteration of, buck naked or butt naked.
Senses: examples: text: Normally, it was just about raw, bucket-naked nasty sex, […]
ref: 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Completely naked.