cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ramsey's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramsey's theorems
Etymology: Named after British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A (version of a) theorem concerning the existence of cliques in a labelled complete graph.
The theorem that any graph labelling (with colours) of a sufficiently large complete graph contains monochromatic cliques.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A (version of a) theorem concerning the existence of cliques in a labelled complete graph.
The theorem that any graph labelling (with colours) of an infinite complete graph contains at least one infinite monochromatic clique.
Synonyms: sense: finite version of theorem
word: finite Ramsey's theorem
sense: infinite version of theorem
word: infinite Ramsey's theorem
Ramsey's theorems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramsey's theorem
doltery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dolt + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: It is true that some men are cultivated in philosophy and some men are cultivated in doltery.
ref: 1903, The Artsman, volume 1, page 124:
text: For the majority of the film, Homer drifts ignobly from whimsical act to mindless doltery.
ref: 2012, Deirdre M. Pike, Enviro-Toons: Green Themes in Animated Cinema and Television, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, pages 64 and 65:
glosses: Doltish behaviour.
forms of government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form of government
Trumpworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: TrumpWorld
Etymology: From Trump + world.
Senses: examples: text: So, several figures inside Trumpworld have been wrestling with the very dilemma that animated my fictional characters. Put simply: if you’re convinced that the leader you serve is a danger to your country and the world, where does your patriotic and democratic duty lie?
ref: 2018 September 7, Jonathan Freedland, “If you were in the White House, how would you tackle Trump?”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Trumpland
Trumposphere
glosses: Donald Trump's circle of associates, employees and appointees.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Trumpland
MAGA world
MAGAdom
glosses: The mental landscape of Donald Trump or of his supporters.
anociassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + noci- + association. Coined by George W. Crile in 1910.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The prevention of shock during surgery using a combination of methods, including sedation and anesthesia.
wikipedia: George W. Crile
anocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ano- + cutaneous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to both the anus and the skin, as (usually, more specifically) to rashes or lesions that involve both the anal mucosa and the adjacent (perianal) skin.
Derived terms: anocutaneous reflex
anocutaneous line
Related terms: anorectal
rectocutaneous
morphoparadigm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphoparadigms
form: morpho-paradigm
Etymology: From morpho- + paradigm.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, however, each of these verbs belongs to a morphoparadigm—a conjugated verb pattern—that has flexibility of verbal meaning and can fluctuate between intransitive notions of entering into a state or condition or activity and transitive notions indicative of actions being performed upon the grammatical subject.
ref: 2003, C W. Conrad, Active, Middle, and Passive: Understanding Ancient Greek Voice, page 3:
text: Based on the syntactic roles of the verbal collocatives in Russian, we divide their morphoparadigms into the grammemes of participles, gerunds, and personal forms plus infinitives.
ref: 2004, Igor A. Bolshakov, “Getting One's First Million... Collocations”, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 5th International Conference, CICLing 2004; Seoul, Korea, February 2004; Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, page 232:
text: Fuck those Magdalene poofters! Godolphin Frost (imitating a plummy British academic) ‘One has to look no further to prove the supremacy of the Greeks than in the dissemination of particle complexities and the middle-passive morphoparadigm voice’
ref: 2013, Jeremy Johnson, “Better than Death”, in Jeremy Johnson: The Collected Plays Vol. 2, page 140:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a set of forms for the conjugation of a verb.
morphoparadigms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphoparadigm
morpho-paradigm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morpho-paradigms
Senses: examples: text: Each noun with a fixed number has a morpho-paradigm of six cases, but we should also take into account those few tens of masculine singular nouns (some of them rather frequent) that have two more cases: partitive and locative.
ref: 2006, Igor A. Bolshakov, Elena I. Bolshakova, “Dictionary-Free Morphological Classifier of Russian Nouns”, in Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006; Turku, Finland, August 2006; Proceedings, Springer, page 239:
glosses: Alternative form of morphoparadigm.
morpho-paradigms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morpho-paradigm
hohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hohols
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khokhol.
Derived terms: word: Hoholstan
english: Ukrainian
translation: Ukrainian
word: Hoholstani
english: total hohol death, call to kill Ukrainian people
translation: total hohol death, call to kill Ukrainian people
word: THD
lumpenproletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹəʊ.ləˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlʌm.-/
ipa: /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹoʊ.ləˈtɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlʌm.-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more lumpenproletarian
form: most lumpenproletarian
Senses: hypernyms: proletarian
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lumpenproletariat.
lumpenproletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹəʊ.ləˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlʌm.-/
ipa: /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹoʊ.ləˈtɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlʌm.-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lumpenproletarians
Senses: hypernyms: proletarian
glosses: A member of the lumpenproletariat.
lumpenproletarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumpenproletarian
punjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punji
hit the sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the sauce
form: hitting the sauce
form: hit the sauce
form: hit the sauce
Senses: examples: text: Pat Crowley's been hitting the sauce pretty hard since Karen split, and he's got no head for it.
ref: 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 120:
text: If you've done all you can, and everyone still hit the sauce a little too hard, take their keys, call them a cab, offer them the couch, or give them a ride if you are sober
ref: 2009, Christina Perozzi, Hallie Beaune, The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, →ISBN:
text: She adored him and never said an unkind word about him, although she said he hit the sauce every now and again.
ref: 2012, Analiese Douchay, The Flight of the Wood Nymphe, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of hit the bottle.
synonyms: word: hit the bottle
hits the sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit the sauce
hitting the sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit the sauce
uncelebration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncelebrations
Etymology: From un- + celebration.
Senses: examples: text: Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.
ref: 1990, Robert Reginald Garnett, From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, →ISBN:
text: In her essay, she took her cue from the conflicted uncelebrations surrounding the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's contact with the Americas.
ref: 1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, →ISBN:
text: He and Bobby Clark had a lot in common, and he was first on the guest list to Bobby's vets-only annual uncelebration of the Tet Offensive.
ref: 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A memorial of something bad.
examples: text: In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration.
ref: 1978, Cars & Parts - Volume 21, page 26:
text: And the idea of a celebration that celebrated only her, or a celebration that celebrated only celebration, struck her as being cold, narcissistic, and ultimately sterile; a joyless uncelebration in fact.
ref: 1983, Hugh Fleetwood, A Dance to the Glory of God, page 78:
text: If the Osage or Wazhazhe reference scheme is celebratory, not to say mythic and historic, the follow-on Las Vegas reference scheme is all uncelebration.
ref: 2008, Gerald Vizenor, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions.
uncelebrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncelebration
ratness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Cat is hunger. Cat is cruel. Food — Cat is hunter, a machine who smells ratness, who needs fuel.
ref: 2002, Laura Whipple, If the Shoe Fits: Voices From Cinderella, →ISBN, page 26:
text: All in all, an exemplar of Park ratness, their Bernie.
ref: 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 153:
text: And then you add to it the judgment that the victims are some form of deserving species of ratness, further reducing the numbers. But ratness is relative, right?
ref: 2008, Joseph A. McCaffrey, The Marksman's Case, →ISBN, page 88:
text: But they are much better at ratness or guineapigness or monkey business than we are because of other things we have that thicken the plot: like capacities for wonder and conscience and compassion. These tend to bring us into conflict with our ratness or guineapigness or monkey shines.
ref: 2011, Mary Caroline Richards, The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: The quality of being a rat; rattiness.
King Billy pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King Billy pines
form: King William pine
Etymology: After William Lanne, popularly known as King Billy. The tree is not a pine, but is in fact in the cypress family.
Senses: glosses: A species of evergreen conifer native to Tasmania, Athrotaxis selaginoides.
wikipedia: William Lanne
King William pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪŋ wɪl.jəm paɪn/
ipa: /kɪŋ wɪl.i.əm paɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: King William pines
Etymology: From king + William + pine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of King Billy pine.
synonyms: word: King Billy pine
use to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /juːs.tu/
/juːs.tə/
Forms: form: use to
form: used to
Etymology: From use (“to perform habitually”) + to.
Senses: examples: text: Did I use to wear that?
text: I did not use to think her wanting in self possession, but she had not quite enough for the demands of yesterday.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 180–181:
qualifier: now uncommon outside certain constructions
glosses: Infinitive or present tense form of used to: formerly (and habitually or repeatedly) be accustomed to.
examples: text: I use to go every year, until I moved out of the area.
glosses: Synonym of used to.
synonyms: word: used to
examples: text: Drones have become so critical to battlefield success that at times they are used to take out other drones.
ref: 2022 December 2, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Mary Ilyushina, Kostiantyn Khudov, “Russia and Ukraine are fighting the first full-scale drone war”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see use, to.
Red Shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: red shirt
form: red-shirt
Senses: examples: text: The accident occurred on the second pitch of the Red Shirt Route on Mount Yamnuska.
ref: 1999, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Later that summer Lofthouse and Greenwood teamed up with Heinz Kahl to climb the quintessential Yamnuska classic — Red Shirt.
ref: 2003, Ben Gadd, Chic Scott, Dave Dornian, The Yam: 50 Years of Climbing on Yamnuska, →ISBN, page 42:
text: In this section, several difficult climbs interweave with the original Red Shirt route established in 1962.
ref: 2006, Andy Genereux, Yamnuska Rock: The Crown Jewel of Canadian Rockies Traditional Climbing, →ISBN:
glosses: A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.
Red Shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Red Shirt
red shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red shirt
inaddible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inaddible
form: most inaddible
form: inaddable
form: unaddible
form: unaddable
Etymology: From in- + addible.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being added.
inaddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inaddable
form: most inaddable
Etymology: From in- + addable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inaddible.
unaddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaddable
form: most unaddable
Etymology: From un- + addable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inaddible.
unaddible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaddible
form: most unaddible
Etymology: From un- + addible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inaddible.
red-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-shirts
Senses: examples: text: The suspension of hostilities, and the retreat of the Bourbon forces towards the sea, again inspired the people with confidence and daring; so much so, that we were obliged to station red-shirts at the advanced posts, to prevent the collisions between the Sicilians and the Bourbon troops which would have ensued from the intense hatred of the former for the latter.
ref: 1889, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, page 190:
text: THE Italian brigade in the Argonne, under the leadership of Peppino Garibaldi, four years junior to D'Annunzio and grandson of the great hero, had fought bravely but in vain against the superior forces of their German opponents. Five hundred of the original 2,000 red-shirts had been killed, wounded, or lost in the fighting; the depleted force was disbanded on 5 March 1915.'
ref: 2001, John Woodhouse, Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel, →ISBN, page Z-83:
text: Whether it was the valiant defense of Warsaw by the doomed Jewish Corps in 1794 under the command of the legendary Berek Joselewicz or the enthusiasm of the Jewish volunteers who Hocked to the banner during the German Wars of Liberation in the struggle against Napoleon; the loyal service of Jewish National Guardsmen and soldiers (purportedly "20,000" in number) to the Magyar cause in 1848 and 1849 (explicitly acknowledged in the prefatory remarks to the law emancipating Jews during the waning days of Kossuth's revolution); or the Jewish insurgents who joined Garibaldis red-shirts in 1860, the valor and often the disproportionate participation of Jewish men at arms were to be repeatedly invoked to demonstrate that Jews were no stepsons of the nation, but deserved to be emancipated and regarded as genuine Pole and Germans, Hungarians and Italians.
ref: 2005, Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”).
examples: text: A concrete indicator is the rapid growth of the dissenting 'red-shirt' grassroot people who ensured the victory of the Pheu Thai Party over the conservative yellow-shirt group.
ref: 2012, P. Thomas, P. Lee, Global and Local Televangelism, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
red-shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-shirt
inaddibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + addibility.
Senses: glosses: Incapability of addition.
nawth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
nawth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
nawth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
autofires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autofire
autofiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autofire
autofired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autofire
anophelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: infestation with mosquitos of the genus Anopheles.
anoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anoplasties
Etymology: From ano- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Correction of an anal malformation
anospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From ano- + spinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the anus and spinal cord
Chels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛls/
rhymes: -ɛls
Senses: glosses: plural of Chel
Chels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛls/
rhymes: -ɛls
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Chelsea.
anovular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + ovular.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anovulatory.
synonyms: word: anovulatory
ansiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ānsifōrmis (“handle-shaped”), from ānsa (“handle”).
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a loop
Derived terms: ansiform lobule
Muffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Etymology: Shortened from Mary, Margaret, or other names.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
ansotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ansotomies
Etymology: ansa (“(anatomy) a loop-shaped structure”) + -otomy
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The division of a loop, especially of one that forms a constriction.
antegonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + gonial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior of the gonion
anteroexternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From antero- + external.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior and external
antetorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A twisting angle between the neck and condyle of a bone such as the femur that ceases before it reaches normal
retrotorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A twisting between the neck and condyle of a bone such as the femur beyond the established normal
anthelone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urogastrone.
synonyms: word: urogastrone
anthracin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthracene.
anthracotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthracosis + -ic or anthrac- + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anthracosis.
Related terms: anthracosilicotic
anthraniloyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthraniloyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acyl radical of anthranilic acid
antronasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From antro- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to an antrum and its associated nasal cavity
yockel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yockels
Etymology: Variant of hickwall, influenced by yaffle.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. F.C. Birkbeck Terry quoting from the Rev. C. Swainson's “Folklore of British Birds” gives yockel as the local Salopian name for the green woodpecker. ¶ Can any readers of Salopian Shreds and Patches give instances of localities for these names?
ref: May 19, 1886, W.B., “Shropshire Birds”, in Salopian Shreds and Patches, page 114:
glosses: The yaffle or green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
yamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yammas
Senses: examples: text: The yamma is variegated in colour, and has long slender legs; all have valuable wool or hair, but that of the alpaca is best known.
ref: 1869, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, page 89:
text: Some, indeed, go still further, saying that there is but one species, and that the Alpaca, Huanaco, and Yamma are but varieties of the Llama.
ref: 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton’s Brave Tales, Bold Ballads, and Travels and Perils by Land and Sea, pages 1008–1009:
text: The Yamma, or Llama, is of brown or variegated color, and its legs are long and slender. In former days this animal was the only beast of burden which was possessed by the natives, and it was largely used by the Spaniards (who described it as a sheep) for the same purpose.
ref: 1885, John George Wood, Popular Natural History, page 240:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of llama.
antropyloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antro- + pyloric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pyloric antrum
antroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antroscopes
Etymology: From antro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that is used to inspect the maxillary antrum
Related terms: antroscopic
antroscopy
antroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From antro- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Related to antroscopy; by means of an antroscope
antroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antroscopies
Etymology: From antro- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: An antroscopic examination
antrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antrotomies
Etymology: From antro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into an antrum
aorticorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aortico- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the aorta and the kidney.
Derived terms: aorticorenal ganglion
aortopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aortopathies
Etymology: From aorto- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the aorta
aortosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aortoscleroses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: atherosclerosis of the aorta
apancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + pancreatic.
Senses: glosses: Not pancreatic
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Caused by absence of a pancreas
long-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-necked
form: most long-necked
Senses: examples: text: Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
antonyms: short-necked
glosses: Having a long neck.
Puntite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Puntites
Senses: glosses: Puntian (inhabitant of the Land of Punt).
glosses: Puntian (inhabitant of Puntland).
Puntian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Puntians
Senses: synonyms: Puntite
glosses: An inhabitant of the Land of Punt.
synonyms: Puntite
glosses: An inhabitant of Puntland.
wererabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wererabbits
Etymology: From were- + rabbit.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a rabbit.
wererabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wererabbit
werefrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: werefrogs
Etymology: From were- + frog.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a frog.
werefrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werefrog
apazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An anti-inflammatory agent, 5-(dimethylamino)-9-methyl-2-propylpyrazolo[1,2-a][1,2,4]benzotriazine-1,3-dione, used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Synonyms: azapropazone
aperiosteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + periosteal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: That does not involve the periosteum
aphalangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + -phalangia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The absence of a phalanx (bone) in one or more digits.
aphasmid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Lacking phasmids
aphasmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphasmids
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the class Aphasmidia (now Adenophorasida)
aphephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haphephobia.
aphrodisiomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An abnormal enthusiasm for sexual pleasure
apicitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apicites
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the apex of an anatomical part
Derived terms: Petrous apicitis
apicolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apicolyses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: excision of the apex of an anatomical part (typically lung or tooth)
even hands at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even hand at the tiller
even hands at the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even hand at the tiller
even hands on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even hand on the tiller
even hands on the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even hand on the tiller
steady hands on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steady hand on the tiller
steady hands on the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steady hand on the tiller
firm hands at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm hand at the tiller
firm hands at the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm hand at the tiller
steady hands at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steady hand at the tiller
steady hands at the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steady hand at the tiller
firm hands on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm hand on the tiller
firm hands on the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm hand on the tiller
strong hands on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong hand on the tiller
strong hands on the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong hand on the tiller
strong hands at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong hand at the tiller
strong hands at the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong hand at the tiller
sure hands on the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sure hand on the tiller
sure hands on the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sure hand on the tiller
sure hands at the tiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sure hand at the tiller
sure hands at the tillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sure hand at the tiller
falls off the wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall off the wagon
falling off the wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall off the wagon
fell off the wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall off the wagon
non-plussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of non-plus
non-plussing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-plussing
form: most non-plussing
Senses: glosses: Rare form of nonplussing (“confusing”).
trues up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of true up
trued up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of true up
truing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of true up
tongues speakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongues speaker
tongues-speakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongues-speaker
Empire of Japan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Empire of Japan
Senses: synonyms: Dai-Nippon
Empire of Greater Japan
Great Japanese Empire
Greater Japan
Greater Japanese Empire
Imperial Japan
Japanese Empire
glosses: Japan from the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1890) until the enactment of the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (1947). Unofficially used for Japan from the end of the shogunate (1868) to the end of World War II (1945).
Related terms: english: from 1947
translation: from 1947
word: State of Japan
western barn owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western barn owls
Senses: glosses: A barn owl of the subspecies Tyto alba alba, endemic to western Eurasia and most of Africa.
Synonyms: word: screech owl
word: white owl
word: Billy Wix
word: Willy Wix
Hypernyms: barn owl
Voldy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the evil wizard Voldemort in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
Senses: examples: text: As I walked slowly to my desk, I pictured myself, as I had done several times before, telling old Voldy I was quitting. Whenever I had the temptation to stop reading the immensely boring editorials and random reading material, I was subjecting myself to these days for my upcoming GDs/interviews, I would picture myself telling Voldy I was out of here and then his possible reactions. It was my favourite daydream.
ref: 2014, Harkeerat Anand, An Affair to Remember, Sristhi Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 12:
text: It's Halloran. Or as he is more frequently called by the kids around Rosemary Bluffs, Voldy. Named for a certain villain in a certain story about a world of wizards. Trust me, the guy earned the nickname. I've never met anyone so rude. If you held a contest for meanest person in town, Voldy would win every time. Even most adults don't like him.
ref: 2017, Kimberly J. Smith, The Vardo, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: A nickname for a person, or sometimes an animal, who resembles the Harry Potter villain Voldemort in meanness, frightfulness, or some other attribute.
wikipedia: Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
stavnsbånd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a serfdom-like institution in Denmark
apiculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apicula
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin apex.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A short, slender, flexible point
Related terms: apiculus
apituitarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + pituitary + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The lack of a pituitary, or the loss of its function.
apocarteresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocartereses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποκαρτέρησις (apokartérēsis, “suicide by starvation”), from καρτερέω (karteréō, “bear patiently”), ultimately from καρτερός (karterós, “steadfast”).
Senses: glosses: suicide by starvation
apocyneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or resembling, the dogbanes of the genus Apocynum.
apodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + -pod + -ia.
Senses: glosses: The congenital absence of feet.
aponeurectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aponeurectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The excision of an aponeurosis
Richmond Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A city in Bryan County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A residential area and named road in Richmond, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1874).
glosses: A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3133).
glosses: A suburb of Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia.
precants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precant
SERE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
ipa: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: sear
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).
nook and corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nooks and corners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nook and cranny.
synonyms: word: nook and cranny
nooks and corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nook and corner
chilarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈlɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /kaɪˈlɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: chilaria
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of appendages, between the bases of the last pair of walking legs in the horseshoe crab, that prevent the escape of food
chilaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilarium
dactylopodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dactylopodites
Etymology: From dactylo- + podite.
Senses: glosses: The distal segment of the ambulatory limbs of some arthropods
deutomerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutomerites
Etymology: From deuto- + -merite, from -mere.
Senses: glosses: The posterior nucleated portion of an attached cephalont in gregarines.
topics: arachnology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The fixed segment of the grasping part of chelicerae.
Related terms: epimerite
protomerite
tritomerite
dactylopodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylopodite
deutomerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deutomerite
cephalont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalonts
Etymology: From cephalo- + -ont.
Senses: glosses: The adult stage of cephaline gregarine
cephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cephalo- + -ine.
Senses: glosses: having a head-like section in the upper body.
raw_tags: of gregarines
Synonyms: septate
cephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cephalin.
rectricial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rectrix + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a rectrix.
yellow shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow shirts
form: Yellow Shirt
Senses: examples: text: I was extremely happy and excited when promoted to yellow shirt, but I was scared because I didn't want to make any mistakes or get chewed out for doing something wrong.
ref: 1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21:
text: Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck. I saw a yellow shirt run up to him and drag him to safety.
ref: 1992, Approach - Volume 37, Issue 7:
text: But too much turn, and the plane could start to slide and skid across the slippery flight deck. Caskey inched his Tomcat forward. As he approached the shuttle, the yellow shirt slowed his lighted wands.
ref: 2009, James W. Huston, Balance of Power: A Novel, →ISBN, page 457:
glosses: A sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.
examples: text: Yellow shirts seized control of that all-important symbol of globalization that Darrell Berrigan had once written about — the airport — its tourists determining Thailand's future by either passing through or staying.
ref: 2012, Gary L. Atkins, Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore, →ISBN:
text: The fact is my father is one of the leading activists against the yellow shirts. You do know about the situation in Bangkok?
ref: 2012, Colin Cotterill, Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach: A Jimm Juree Mystery, →ISBN, page 82:
text: I had just missed the red shirt rally in Pattaya months earlier, and somehow I missed flying to Suvarnabhumi Airport the week that the yellow shirts occupied it.
ref: 2014, JJ Stone -, Bungee Love, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: Alternative form of Yellow Shirt.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, shirt.
yellow shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow shirt
Yellow Shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yellow Shirts
form: yellow shirt
Senses: examples: text: This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005-13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007-present).
ref: 2014, N. Kim, Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia, →ISBN:
text: The mass demonstrations led by the Yellow Shirts since 2005 sought to expel Thaksin, whom they regard as highly corrupt, manipulative, and authoritarian – a major threat to the country's democracy, monarchy, and national security as a whole.
ref: 2014, Pranee Liamputtong, Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand, →ISBN:
text: On the night of 6 October, the Yellow Shirts marched to parliament, erecting barricades with razor wire and booby traps.
ref: 2015, Andrew MacGregor Marshall, A Kingdom in Crisis, →ISBN:
text: A survey with a sample size of 2,200 in five provinces, from the project Reexamining the Political Landscape of Thailand (Apichat et al., 2013) and conducted by Wanwiphand in April–June 2012, further confirmed Ammar's and Somchai's (2012) conclusions. Wanwiphand found that, firstly, Red Shirts were more likely to have lower socio-economic status than Yellow Shirts, and were also more likely to work in the agricultural or informal sectors.
ref: 2016, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, →ISBN, page 292:
coordinate_terms: Red Shirt
glosses: A member of the Popular Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the organization responsible for the coup d'etat in Thailand in 2006.
examples: text: Once out of the wire, the pilot would follow the hand signals of a Yellow Shirt, a sailor wearing a yellow shirt, to the parking place picked out with great care by another intense group of people playing musical chairs with airplanes from a room in the island on the same level as the flight deck.
ref: 1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier, →ISBN:
text: When he got to the ship, I stopped him and started my lecture. "Now, J. J., you know bringing liquor onboard is against regulations. I'm supposed to report you and have you thrown into the brig. But you and I have been through a lot together on the flight deck. So, this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to turn around and I want to hear two splashes. " I wanted to give J.J. a break — after all, he was my buddy and a fellow Yellow Shirt.
ref: 2009, Andrew Zenas Adkins, The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of yellow shirt.
Related terms: Red Shirt
Yellow Shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yellow Shirt
schools of the air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school of the air
Blue Shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Shirts
Senses: examples: text: At this time, the pilot watched the chock and tie-down on the starboard landing gear being removed by a Blue Shirt.
ref: 1993, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 7:
text: The Blue Shirts chocked and chained the aircraft, which meant they were responsible for securing aircraft to the deck. This was the first job of a Blue Shirt. After gaining experience shocking and chaining, a person would next move up to become a tractor driver, pulling aircraft around the deck.
ref: 2011, William M. Trently, Snapshot: Ship's Dentists, →ISBN, page 72:
text: The Blue Shirts worked under the Yellow Shirts. Blue Shirts drove tugs, threw chocks, pushed airplanes, and scrubbed decks.
ref: 2011, Max Gallimore -, From Here to Caprock, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: Alternative form of blue shirt.
red triangle slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red triangle slugs
Senses: glosses: Triboniophorus graeffei, a large air-breathing land slug in the family Athoracophoridae.
red triangle slugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red triangle slug
ham salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham salads
Senses: glosses: An Anglo-American salad of ham mixed with chopped vegetables or relishes, bound together with mayonnaise, salad cream, or similar dressing.
ham salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ham salad
shirt-jac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirt-jacs
Senses: examples: text: Then there are the JEANS JACKETS which are nothing more than a contemporary shirt-jac.
ref: 1971, Men's Wear - Volume 164, page 52:
text: That is, "Uniform and Weapon" contemplates the shirt-jac, object/icon of black men's material culture in the Caribbean, as a visual sign of the ambivalence of black Caribbean men between bourgeois English affect, which the shirt-jac's modernist material and colonial bush-jacket design cannot escape recalling, and "the revolutionary 'hard man' seriousness associated with Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution."
ref: 2007, Howard Dodson, Colin A. Palmer, Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions, page 166:
text: Left: Green and yellow “shirt-jac” (combined shirt and jacket), cotton blend, spread collar, chest patch pocket, center front button closure, excellent condition. $42
ref: 2012, Zac Bissonnette, Warman's Antiques & Collectibles 2013 Price Guide, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of jac-shirt.
shirt-jacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirt-jac
maftool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maftoul
Etymology: From Arabic مفتول, from the root ف ت ل (f-t-l)
Senses: glosses: A wheat-based dish in Palestinian cuisine, resembling couscous.
victimry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From victim + -ry.
Senses: glosses: victimhood
soys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soy
soys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soy
sugaring off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sugar off
microsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be used safely in a microwave oven.
unconditional surrenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconditional surrender
super power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super powers
Senses: examples: text: He repeated the question, stressing that the answer had to be a super power. Hamish had come back with 'Russia or America' and Kit hadn't understood. It had caused trouble. Kit had become upset, Loretta angry. Hamish backed down and said, 'Captain America', which satisfied Kit.
ref: 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of superpower.
Forbes-Albright syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Anne P. Forbes and Fuller Albright.
Senses: glosses: galactorrhoea-amenorrhoea associated with a pituitary tumour
super powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super power
cling wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cling wraps
Senses: examples: text: Remove cling wrap immediately from cheese or meat. Most cling wraps used in supermarkets are made with a chemical called DEHA, which has been shown in animal studies to affect male reproductive function.
ref: 2000, Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception, →ISBN:
text: To make good facial wrinkles on Plasticine, cover it first with cling wrap, then mark with a sharp-edged tool; the cling wrap helps to soften the sharp edges.
ref: 2012, Susannah Shaw, Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Lightly toast the pistachios in a pan (if you use activated pistachios, skip this step). Transfer cheese mixture to a piece of baking paper; using paper, shape into a 20cm-long log. Cover with pistachios, pressing so they stick. Wrap log in cling wrap; chill overnight.
ref: 2013, Sarah Wilson, I Quit Sugar Christmas Cookbook, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of clingwrap.
cling wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cling wrap
whingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whingle
whingled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whingle
whingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whingle
cling-wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cling-wraps
Senses: examples: text: In the end, Dad goes down himself and comes back with the coffee in a paper cup and the sandwich in cardboard and cling-wrap and sets them by Grandma's chair.
ref: 2008, Annabel Lyon, All-Season Edie, →ISBN, page 117:
text: The thin wet silk clung to her body like milky cling-wrap.
ref: 2001, Karen Robards, Paradise County, →ISBN, page 93:
text: One acceptable approach is to begin with some type of cling-wrap as your first means of protecting your venison.
ref: 2011, John Weiss, The Ultimate Guide to Butchering Deer, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of clingwrap.
janny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jannies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jannie (“janitor, moderator”).
janny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jannies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of janney (“a mummer”).
jannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janny
thighplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thighplate
mountain rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An awnless rice grown without irrigation on the Himalayas, etc.
Rosminianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Rosminian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs of the Rosminians.
Rosminian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rosminians
Etymology: From Rosmini + -an.
Senses: glosses: One who follows the philosophical system of Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855).
Rosminians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosminian
chucks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck in
chucking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chuck in
bad wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bad rap.
chucked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chuck in
contact call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact calls
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A call made between birds in a flock or a pair in order to maintain contact with one another when foraging, flying, etc.