cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
doup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊp/
rhymes: -aʊp
Forms: form: doups
form: dowp
Senses: examples: text: on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:
glosses: The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
examples: text: They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:
glosses: A cigarette butt.
barbarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbarianisms
Etymology: From barbarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some postulate that after a nuclear war, humanity would fall into a state of barbarianism.
glosses: A primitive or simplistic ethos or societal condition; barbarism.
examples: text: The teacher accused the bullies of barbarianism when she caught them taunting the girl in a wheelchair.
glosses: Behaviour appropriate to a barbarian, that is uncivilized, brutal, or crude.
Synonyms: sense: primitive ethos or societal condition
word: degeneracy
sense: primitive ethos or societal condition
word: reductionism
sense: primitive ethos or societal condition
word: savagery
sense: primitive ethos or societal condition
word: state of nature
sense: primitive ethos or societal condition
word: simplicity
sense: behaviour of a barbarian
word: degeneracy
sense: behaviour of a barbarian
word: rudeness
sense: behaviour of a barbarian
word: savagery
sense: behaviour of a barbarian
word: wildness
sense: behaviour of a barbarian
word: unsophistication
Derived terms: semibarbarianism
tirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: tirls
form: tirling
form: tirled
form: tirled
Etymology: From archaic trill (“spin, twiddle”), probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl.
Senses: glosses: To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.
examples: to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door
glosses: To make a rattling or clattering sound by twirling or shaking.
glosses: To twist.
glosses: To strip; to unroof.
tirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: tirls
Etymology: From archaic trill (“spin, twiddle”), probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl.
Senses: glosses: A vibration.
glosses: A substitute for a trundle wheel or lantern wheel in a mill.
bandy-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bandy-legged
form: most bandy-legged
Etymology: From bandy (“bowlegged”) + legged.
Senses: examples: text: Once some bandy-legged, lurching creature, an ant-eater or a bear, scuttled clumsily amid the shadows.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of bow-legged, having knees which bend outward.
synonyms: word: bow-legged
word: having knees which bend outward
luck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lucks out
form: lucking out
form: lucked out
form: lucked out
Senses: examples: text: I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show.
glosses: To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky.
examples: text: The baby brother was no oil painting. He had lucked out with the genetic lottery. […] He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.
ref: 2011, Lee Child, The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel, Dell, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: To experience a misfortune; to be unlucky.
Related terms: luck in
bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood
bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blood
atajo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atajos
Etymology: Spanish atajo
Senses: examples: text: It could hardly be termed a cavalcade, as it consisted of an atajo of pack-mules, with some carretas drawn by oxen.
ref: 1866, The Boy's Friend, volume 2, page 197:
glosses: A train of mules or horses.
Ulster Scots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Ullans
glosses: A dialect of the Scots language spoken in Ulster, Ireland.
synonyms: word: Scotch-Irish
word: Scots-Irish
glosses: The descendants of Scottish settlers in the Irish province of Ulster, mostly in present-day Northern Ireland.
Related terms: Scots
oxidizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidizers
Etymology: From oxidize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Both chemicals are solid oxidizers in granular form and have a chlorine odor. […] Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition.
ref: 2024 November 24, “Chemical Decomposition, Fire, and Toxic Gas Release at Bio-Lab, Inc.”, in U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board^(https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/investigation_update_bio-lab_final_nov2024_(005).pdf), page 2:
text: BioLab officials told the investigators they had established a permanent fire watch two or three months prior to the incident after strong odors from oxidizers in two storage buildings were detected, according to the CSB report. BioLab also told CSB two employees were on duty for fire watch on September 29.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidizing agent, especially one used to oxidize the fuel of a rocket or a fuel cell.
Derived terms: antioxidizer
photooxidizer
recuperative thermal oxidizer
regenerative thermal oxidizer
thermal oxidizer
blooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blood + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blood
blooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodings
Etymology: From Middle English blodyng, equivalent to blood + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Review, page 470:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A bleeding.
ozone-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ozone-friendly
form: most ozone-friendly
Senses: glosses: not containing substances (such as CFCs) that that are destructive to the ozone layer
hounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology: From hound + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hound
hounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: houndings
Etymology: From hound + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
ref: 2011 July 30, “Embraceable you”, in The Economist:
glosses: Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
Derived terms: rockhounding
hounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hound
pharmacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacologist
glucocorticoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucocorticoid
gangrenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋɡɹɪnəs/
Forms: form: more gangrenous
form: most gangrenous
Etymology: From gangrene + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The medic worried that Private Johnson's wounded leg was looking more gangrenous.
glosses: Indicative of or afflicted with gangrene.
Synonyms: sense: related to gangrene
word: infected
sense: related to gangrene
word: necrotic
sense: related to gangrene
word: putrefactive
sense: related to gangrene
word: rotting
sense: related to gangrene
word: septic
Derived terms: gangrenously
nongangrenous
corticosteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corticosteroid
auxilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxilians
Senses: glosses: A member of a group, typically composed of volunteers, that helps support a hospital.
Related terms: auxiliary
pyrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrogen
avales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avale
pyrectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrectic
sulfonamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfonamide
mineralocorticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineralocorticoids
Etymology: From mineral + -o- + corticoid.
Senses: examples: text: Severely undervirilized males may have normal mineralocorticoid activity; fully masculinized males may display salt loss.
ref: 2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sandra E. Juul, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, page 1301:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: Any of a group of steroid hormones, characterised by their similarity to aldosterone and their influence on salt and water metabolism.
Derived terms: antimineralocorticoid
avises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avise
sulfa drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfa drugs
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antibiotic drugs structurally related to sulphonamide, tending to be bacteriostatic rather than bacteriocidal.
sulfa drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfa drug
phytosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytosterols
Etymology: From phyto- + sterol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of steroid alcohols, phytochemicals naturally occurring in plants. They are white powders with mild, characteristic odor, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohols.
Synonyms: plant sterol
Derived terms: phytosterolemia
sulphonamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphonamide
tranquillizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquillizer
tranquilliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranquillisers
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.
tranquillisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquilliser
watch it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watches it
form: watching it
form: watched it
form: watched it
Senses: examples: text: Hey, watch it! You nearly hit me.
glosses: To be careful or cautious; to pay attention to what one is doing (usually imperative).
disulfanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disulfane
disulphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disulphanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of disulfane.
gamely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gamelier
form: more gamely
form: gameliest
form: most gamely
Etymology: From game + -ly; compare Old English gamenlīċ (“belonging to games, sportive, theatrical, ridiculous”) and Middle High German gāmelich, gemelich (“joyful”).
Senses: examples: text: That's what I wanted: a challenging race, a gamely fight.
ref: 2004, David Unger, Life in the damn tropics: a novel:
text: This confirmed the penetration of the theoretical knowledge of color when it is taught using a gamely practice where the act of working come to be a pleasure.
ref: 2004, Jose Luis Caivano, editor, AIC 2004 Color and Paints, Proceedings
text: "A worthy prospect, I must say." Sterling nodded. "I'll introduce you to Mr. Flynn, once we reach Orleans." Jack gasped like a man stabbed. "Would by chance your friend be a pale looking sort with a gamely laugh?" Sterling drew his head back.
ref: 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose:
text: Costumed as Whittington's beloved cat, in a knee-length black cloak that swirled around tight broadcloth trousers and jack boots, she trod the floor with a gamely dignity that cast all the requisite princesses and pretty shepherdesses in a pale light.
ref: 2009, Jillian Hunter, A Wicked Lord at the Wedding:
text: Here was a sober young Harlemite in a gamely tilted bowler with a little French mustache.
ref: 2011, Amor Towles, Rules of Civility:
glosses: Sportive; lively; joyful.
examples: text: The black bass was strongly recommended as a gamely creature and as excellent for the table, and it was put into Meeting-house Pond.
ref: 1893, William Sweetzer Heywood, History of Westminster, Massachusetts:
topics: fishing
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of or pertaining to game.
gamely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gamely
form: most gamely
Etymology: From game + -ly; compare Old English gamenlīċ (“belonging to games, sportive, theatrical, ridiculous”) and Middle High German gāmelich, gemelich (“joyful”).
Senses: examples: text: Stoke pressed gamely but clear chances were few and Fulham held on to record a first away league win in 16 months.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
text: Many of the other boats cut in, with their radios, to cheer Dick on, while he gamely fought the huge fish. The monster was continually stripping line off the reel, as Dick fought gamely; reeling for all he was worth!
ref: 2011, Harry Grigsby, Key Largo Adventures:
text: But her belief in the fruits of that labor[…]means that she will gamely take whatever licks and praise might come with being in charge and trying to stay on the cutting edge.
ref: 2022 March 17, Joe Coscarelli, “Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: bravely
indomitably
pluckily
resolutely
glosses: In a game or plucky manner; in a willing and spirited fashion.
disulphanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disulphane
nootropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nootropic
Adamesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adamesque
form: most Adamesque
Etymology: From Adam + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Samuel McIntyre, famed for his distinctive and delicate version of the English Adamesque style.
ref: 2004, Carolyn K. Tolles, Bryant Franklin Tolles - Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide:
topics: architecture
glosses: In the style of Robert Adam (1728–1792), Scottish neoclassical architect.
VFL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, Ian W. Shaw, The Bloodbath: The 1945 VFL Grand Final, Scribe Publications, →ISBN:
text: The VFL began with eight clubs: Carlton; Collingwood; Essendon; Fitzroy; Geelong; Melbourne; St Kilda; and South Melbourne.
ref: 2006, Ross Booth, “58: The economic development of the Australian Football League”, in Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymański, editors, Handbook on Economics of Sport, page 553:
text: The professional Victorian Football League (VFL) matches attracted more than 100000 spectators weekly from 1939 until 1941. In 1942, however, the VFL lost half of its football fields to ancillary and military services.
ref: 2009, Kate Darian-Smith, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945, page 164:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of Victorian Football League, an Australian rules football league formed in Victoria, Australia, in 1896; renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 after expansion to other states starting in the 1980s.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of Victorian Football League; a second-tier regional (country area) Australian rules football league operating within Victoria; derived from the historic Victorian Football Association, from which the future AFL broke in 1896.
anticonvulsants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticonvulsant
AMSL
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: related: word: amsl
glosses: Initialism of above mean sea level.
Pty Ltd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: (Pty) Ltd
Senses: examples: text: Both companies stem from the formation in 1926 of the Australian Cream Tartar Company Pty Ltd to undertake the manufacture of cream of tartar and tartaric acid.
ref: 1967, Donald T. Brash, American Investment in Australian Industry, page 312:
text: In CA Henschke & Co v Rosemount Estates Pty Ltd, the applicant (the proprietors of the Hill of Grace wine) made allegations under ss 52 and 53 of the Act concerning the respondent′s Hill of Gold wine.
ref: 2003, Caron Beaton-Wells, Proof of Antitrust Markets in Australia, page 207:
text: Example — contribution on employer′s behalf
John terminates employment with his employer, ABC Pty Ltd, on 28 January.
ref: 2011, CCH Australia, Australian Master Tax Guide 2011, page 726:
topics: business
glosses: Proprietary Limited, a type of company that has one or more shareholders and in which the number of shareholders is limited.
Related terms: Pte Ltd
bailo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baili
form: baylo
form: Bailo
form: Baylo
Etymology: From Venetan bailo. Doublet of bailiff.
Senses: examples: text: Venice engaged to restore to the triarchs all property which the baili had conferred in fief since 1255.
ref: 1886, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 7, page 328:
text: In 1670 the bailo was considered responsible for all the Venetian consuls in the Ottoman Empire.
ref: 2010, Gábor Ágoston, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, page 73:
glosses: title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte
baila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately Wellington noise control cut short the party after 3 a.m., when drunken baila broke the decibel level.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 322:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music from Sri Lanka and India, mainly using European instruments and rhythms.
bailes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baile
balas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaləs/
Forms: form: balases
form: balace
form: balass
form: ballace
Etymology: From Old English bales, balais, from Old French balais, from Arabic بَلَخْش (balaḵš), from Persian بلخش (balaxš), a form of بدخش (badaxš, “balas”), related to بدخشان (badaxšân, “Badakhshan”), the region where they are found.
Senses: glosses: A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby.
Derived terms: balas-ruby
balas ruby
balaban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balabans
Senses: glosses: An Azerbaijani wind instrument made of wood.
bales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
homophone: bails
Senses: glosses: plural of bale
bales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
homophone: bails
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bale
balases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balas
barres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barre
baso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.səʊ/
Etymology: Clipping of basically + -o (diminutive suffix). Compare deffo.
Senses: examples: text: i mean yeah it's baso the same tbh
glosses: Abbreviation of basically.
basan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin)
basen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: basens
form: basening
form: basened
form: basened
Etymology: From base (adjective) + -en.
Senses: examples: text: If I had time I should write a long essay to show how much the political, and the ethical, and the theological teaching of the early Friends has basened that of modern England.
ref: 1897, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Macdonell, Journalist, page 186:
text: The Nation, self-immersed, sinks in the mires;
It basens to a horde of the unjust.
ref: 1956, Carlin T. Kindilien, American poetry in the eighteen nineties:
glosses: To make or become base (inferior or unworthy); to lower
Derived terms: basening
bastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baste
bastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
Senses: glosses: plural of baste
batido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batidos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish batido (“beaten”).
Senses: glosses: A Cuban smoothie-like beverage.
Related terms: licuado
batiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtiːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: batistes
Etymology: From French batiste, a form of Baptiste, of disputed origin (“according to Littré and Scheler from the alleged original maker, Baptiste of Cambray; according to others, from its use in wiping the heads of children after baptism” – OED).
Senses: examples: text: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
ref: 1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.; London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:
text: Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
text: He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:
glosses: A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
bata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bata
form: batá
form: bàtá
Etymology: From Yoruba bàtá.
Senses: examples: text: Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine.
ref: 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “The Rhythm of the Saints”, in The Coast, Warner Bros.:
text: Five drummers in front setting the dance—three beating barrel drums, a fourth beating a double-skin bata, and the fifth beating four small bata tied together.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 283:
glosses: A ceremonial double-headed drum played in triplet in the religion of santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria.
beneficia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beneficium
besan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsən/
rhymes: -eɪsən
homophone: basin
Etymology: From Tamil [Term?]. Compare Hindi बेसन (besan).
Senses: glosses: Gram flour, as used in Indian and Burmese cuisine.
Related terms: besan cheela
besan chilla
ovenbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovenbirds
Etymology: From oven + bird, from the shape of the nest.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds:
Originally, any of several small European birds that build dome-shaped nests; such as the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
glosses: Any of several birds:
An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
glosses: Any of several birds:
Any bird of the Central and South America family Furnariidae.
Synonyms: taxonomic: Furnariidae bird
word: furnariid
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Furnariidae bird
word: woodcreeper
word: miner
word: leaftosser
birle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: birles
form: birling
form: birled
form: birled
form: birl
form: byrl
Etymology: From Middle English birlen, from Old English byrelian (“to give or serve a drink to”), from byrele (“cupbearer, steward, butler”), from Proto-Germanic *burilijaz (“carrier, manservant”), from *burjô (“descendant, son”), from *beraną (“to bear, carry”). Related to Old English byre (“son, offspring, youth”). More at bear.
Senses: examples: c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 68: "Young Hunting",
She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer.
glosses: To pour a drink (for).
examples: c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 73: "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet",
They birled, they birled at Annies wake / The white bread and the wine, / And ere the morn at that same time / At his they birled the same.
glosses: To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
Derived terms: birler
birles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birle
pericope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɪkəpi/
Forms: form: pericopes
form: pericopae
Etymology: From Late Latin pericope, from Ancient Greek περικοπή (perikopḗ, “section”), from περι- (peri-, “across”) + κοπή (kopḗ, “cutting”), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).
Senses: glosses: A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
examples: text: The reader looked up the Sunday morning pericope.
text: The oldest known system of pericopes in the Western Church is ascribed to Jerome.
glosses: A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
Synonyms: english: passage of Scripture
translation: passage of Scripture
word: reading
Derived terms: pericopal
pericopic
phytochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: The plants used belonged to botanical families known to have little phytochemical significance.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 87:
glosses: Pertaining to the chemistry of plants.
Derived terms: phytochemically
phytochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytochemicals
Etymology: From phyto- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Any chemical substance characteristic of plants.
glosses: Any chemical or nutrient derived from a plant source; a phytonutrient.
lown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊn/
ipa: /lʌun/
rhymes: -aʊn
rhymes: -ʌun
Forms: form: lowns
Etymology: From Middle English lune, borrowed from Old Norse logn (“windstillness”), from Proto-Norse *lugna, meaning "place where the water is smooth", ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include Icelandic lón, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).
Senses: glosses: Calm, tranquillity.
glosses: A shelter; a calm or peaceful place.
lown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊn/
ipa: /lʌun/
rhymes: -aʊn
rhymes: -ʌun
Forms: form: lowner
form: lownest
Etymology: From Middle English lune, borrowed from Old Norse logn (“windstillness”), from Proto-Norse *lugna, meaning "place where the water is smooth", ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include Icelandic lón, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye may hear him, on a lown day, at every farm-house in the parish.
ref: 1826 April, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
glosses: Peaceful, calm.
lown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊn/
ipa: /lʌun/
rhymes: -aʊn
rhymes: -ʌun
Forms: form: lowns
Etymology: See loon.
Senses: glosses: A low fellow.
homogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɒdʒənaɪz/
ipa: /həˈmɑːd͡ʒənaɪz/
Forms: form: homogenizes
form: homogenizing
form: homogenized
form: homogenized
form: homogenise
Etymology: From homogen(eous) + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.
glosses: Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.
examples: text: While we neither refute nor endorse this contention of arrival at a more inclusive postmodernity, our analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey.
ref: 2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 21:
glosses: To make homogeneous or uniform.
Synonyms: word: blend
word: fuse
word: homogenize
word: inosculate
word: uniformize
Hypernyms: word: alter
word: mix
Hyponyms: word: puree
Derived terms: cryohomogenize
homogenizability
homogenizable
homogenizer
overhomogenize
rehomogenize
Related terms: homogeneity
homogenization
homogeny
phyto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪtəʊ/
ipa: /faɪtoʊ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or derived from plants.
Derived terms: phytoagglutinin
phytobranchiate
phytochimy
phytochlore
phytocidal
phytoclimate
phytocollite
phytoecological
phytoecologist
phytoecology
phytoflagellate
phytogelin
phytogenetical
phytogenic
phytogenous
phytognomical
phytognomy
phytograph
phytographer
phytographic
phytolaccin
phytolithus
phytomelin
phytometer
phytomitogen
phytomonad
phytonisse
phytopalaeontologist
phytopalaeontology
phytopaleontology
phytopathogenicity
phytophagan
phytophenomenology
phytophobia
phytophthirian
phytophylogenetic
phytophysiological
phytosaurian
phytoscopic
phytoscopy
phytosociologist
phytosophy
phytosterin
phytotaxy
phytoteratology
phytotomous
phytovitellin
Related terms: -phyta
-phyte
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boleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boleens
Etymology: First used in the year 2000 on the website WitchVox.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boline.
homogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homogenize
homogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homogenized
form: most homogenized
Senses: glosses: Having been made homogenous, said especially of milk (which when homogenized no longer separates into cream and skim milk).
Derived terms: homogenized milk
nonhomogenized
unhomogenized
Related terms: homogenization
jalouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈluːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: jalouses
form: jalousing
form: jaloused
form: jaloused
Etymology: From Scots jalouse, from Old French jalouser. The sense "to be jealous of" came about as a misunderstanding by southern writers, from the similarity to jealousy.
Senses: examples: text: Now the mention of the Skerburnfoot brought back to him only the thought of Ailie, and not of the witch wife, her mother. So he jaloused no ill, for at the best he was slow in the uptake.
[…]
'Ford!' cried John, in scorn. 'There'll be nae ford for you the nicht unless it was the ford o' the river Jordan. The burns are up and bigger than man ever saw them. It'll be a Beltane's E'en that a' folk will remember. They tell me that Gled valley is like a loch, and that there's an awesome heap o' folk drouned in the hills. Gin ye were ower the Mire, what about crossin' the Caulds and the Sker?' says he, for he jaloused he was going to Gledsmuir.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: To suspect.
examples: text: When my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 18:
glosses: To be jealous of.
bombee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombees
Etymology: From bomb + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: It must be comforting to the bombee to know the bomber had a moral doubt.
ref: 1973, Robert N. Kharasch, The Institutional Imperative, page 32:
coordinate_terms: bomber
glosses: One who is bombed; the victim or target of a bombing.
bombees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombee
levirate marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levirate marriages
Etymology: From levirate + marriage, from Late Latin lēvir (“husband's brother”).
Senses: examples: text: Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.
ref: 2008, Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 261:
glosses: A marriage in which a widow marries her late husband's brother in order to maintain the family community.
Coordinate terms: sororate marriage
Related terms: levir
average atomic mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: average atomic masses
Senses: glosses: The weighted average of the atomic masses of the naturally occurring isotopes of an element.
animistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animistic
form: most animistic
Etymology: From animist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to animism.
Derived terms: animistically
unanimistic
Related terms: animism
animist
stramash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəˈmæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: stramashes
Etymology: Compare Scots stramash. Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone, although the OED rules out the latter connection (to Italian) and suggests a relationship to English smash.
Senses: examples: text: This stramash was the first time that I had interposed in the family concerns of my people, for it was against my nature to make or meddle with private actions, saving only such as, in course of nature, came before the Session[…]
ref: 1821, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing; during the ministry of the Rev. M. Balwhidder. […] , page 124:
text: Then more calling, and bawling,
And squalling, and falling,
Oh! what a fearful stramash they are all in!
ref: 1840, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:
text: Last year, I […] had a noble stramash on Folly Bridge. That is the last fighting I have seen.
ref: 1861, H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, section XXXVI:
text: The Muscular Christians rebelled at these ideas with a stir and stramash audible to all men.
ref: 1896 Marsh 28, Spectator, 444
glosses: A tumult or disturbance.
stramash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəˈmæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: stramashes
form: stramashing
form: stramashed
form: stramashed
Etymology: Compare Scots stramash. Possibly related to Hindi तमाशा (tamāśā) or Italian stramazzone, although the OED rules out the latter connection (to Italian) and suggests a relationship to English smash.
Senses: glosses: To make a noise, to cause an uproar, to cause a disturbance
glosses: To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
pericopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pericope
levirate marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levirate marriage
progestagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progestagens
form: progestogen
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: The steroid hormone progesterone.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: Any of a class of synthetic hormones which produce effects similar to progesterone (the only natural progestagen) and have antiestrogenic and antigonadotropic properties.
Synonyms: gestagen
Related terms: birth control
progestin
botes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bote
sororate marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sororate marriages
Senses: examples: text: Sororate marriage is prevalent among the Hill Kharias, only after the death of the first wife and that also depends on the consent of the father-in-law and the prospective second wife.
ref: 1980, Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi, Vijay S. Upadhyay, The Kharia, Then and Now: A Comparative Study of Hill, Dhelki, and Dudh Kharia of the Central-eastern Region of India, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, page 138:
glosses: A marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of his wife, or once his wife has proven infertile.
Coordinate terms: levirate marriage
sororate marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sororate marriage
ergosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergosterols
Etymology: From French ergot + sterol.
Senses: examples: text: Terbinafine has a unique mechanism of action among the antifugal agents (Petranyi et al, 1984; Balfour and Faulds, 1992), inhibiting the synthesis of ergosterol, a key sterol component in the plasma membrane of the fungal cell.
ref: 2003, Peter G. Pappas, “Terbinafine”, in William E. Dismukes, Peter G. Pappas, Jack D. Sobel, editors, Clinical Mycology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 104:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
mycology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: The steroid precursor of vitamin D₂. It is found in cell membranes of fungi, and is their functional equivalent of cholesterol. It is also found in the membranes of some protists.
Related terms: ergocalciferol
sterol
viosterol
brame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪm/
Etymology: From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *brammjan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.
Senses: examples: text: […] hart-burning brame
 She ſhortly like a pyned ghoſt became.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 52:
glosses: Intense passion or emotion; vexation.
brille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brĭlə
ipa: /ˈbɹɪlə/
Forms: form: brilles
Etymology: From German Brille.
Senses: glosses: A transparent scale that covers the eye of a snake and is periodically shed as part of the exuvia.
Synonyms: eyecap
spectacle
brilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brille
case hardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: case-hardening
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of case harden
case hardening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case-hardening
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of imparting greater hardness to the surface of a piece of metal.
glosses: A condition of dried meat in which the exterior is so dry and hard that the interior moisture is sealed in.
case harden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: case hardens
form: case hardening
form: case hardened
form: case hardened
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To impart greater hardness to the surface of a piece of metal.
Derived terms: case hardened
case hardening
case hardened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: case-hardened
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of case harden
case hardened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more case hardened
form: most case hardened
form: case-hardened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of case-hardened
case-hardening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of case hardening.
case-hardened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.
examples: text: Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create.
ref: 1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:
glosses: Hardened by experience.
delusional parasitosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A delusional disorder in which affected individuals experience uncontrolled hallucination in which they are infested with parasites, insects, or bugs.
documentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒk.jʊ.mənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /-.mɛnˈ-/
ipa: /ˌdɑ.kjʊ.mənˈtɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /-.kjə.-/
ipa: /-.mɛnˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: documentarians
Etymology: From documentary + -an.
From document + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience.
ref: 2015, Merritt Mecham, The Documentarian as tourist: travel and representation in documentary, Brigham Young University:
glosses: A person whose profession is to create documentary films.
examples: text: After you have gone through all these steps, you are ready to tackle your company's documentation problems. You have also become an experienced systems documentarian...
ref: 1976 September 20, Joseph T. Rigo, “Personal initiative only way to learn documentation?”, in Computerworld, page 19:
text: Have you considered hiring a technical writer or documentarian to assist in the production of user manuals?
ref: 1981 October 12, Larry E. Long, “What makes a DP author different?”, in Computerworld, page 41:
glosses: A person who writes software documentation.
examples: text: Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope to change this.
ref: 2013, Troy Howard, Eric Redmond, Eric Holscher Documentarians, Write the Docs
text: ...the developer with an aptitude for or an interest in writing assumes the task of documentarian.
ref: 2016, Jennifer deWinter, Ryan M. Moeller, Computer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection, Routledge, page 24:
text: I recently co-organised the Build your Docs career conference together with the Write the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical writing profession ... The talks provided lots of practical advice on how we can, as documentarians, learn in such a way as to maximise our potential for development in the future.
ref: 2018, Jonathan Glassman, Build your Docs career event: our recap, UK Government Digital Service
glosses: A person who cares about communication and documentation.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis.
Related terms: documenter
ridiculed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ridicule
-sky
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-skiː/
ipa: /-ski/
Senses: related: word: -ski
word: -skii
word: -skij
glosses: Alternative spelling of -ski.
-sky
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-skiː/
ipa: /-ski/
ipa: /-skaɪ/
ipa: /-skiː/
ipa: /-ski/
Etymology: Clipping of Bluesky. Compare -blr, -Tok, and -Tube.
Senses: coordinate_terms: -blr
-Tok
-Tube
-twt
glosses: Combined with a noun or adjective for a specific community of users or a genre of posts on the social media platform Bluesky.
Derived terms: english: community of African Americans
translation: community of African Americans
word: Blacksky
english: community of book readers and authors
translation: community of book readers and authors
word: Booksky
english: community of economists
translation: community of economists
word: Econsky
english: derogatory; community of American liberals, or BlueSky viewed as a liberal website
translation: derogatory; community of American liberals, or BlueSky viewed as a liberal website
word: Libsky
english: community of book writers
translation: community of book writers
word: WriteSky
-off
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from playoff, a deverbal, as the archetype.
Senses: examples: text: We must imagine this as a set of instructions: go forth and buy tickets, so we can keep making our bonkers explosion-offs for you in the future. When asked if he had enjoyed the film, he said: “I loved it” – twice. He wore a mask.
ref: 2020 August 29, Rebecca Nicholson, “Tom Cruise: another groundbreaking role for cinema's cheerleader”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: suffixed to a bare infinitive
glosses: A competition [of the activity denoted by the verb], especially a final, tiebreaker, or repechage within a broader tournament.
Related terms: -out
-off
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: See -ov.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -ov.
-ov
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -off
Senses: glosses: A romanization of the Slavic possessive suffix -ов (-ov).
Related terms: -ova
-ovo
-ovy
hogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hog
hogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
examples: text: The child was hogging the arcade game.
glosses: Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Making a rough cut to quickly remove material
Derived terms: seat hogging
hogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For a cantilevered beam, the steel reinforcement should be placed at the top to carry the hogging moment along the upper face.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.
examples: text: hogging pass, hogging cutter
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: relating to hogging
Derived terms: hogging frame
miasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪəzˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more miasmatic
form: most miasmatic
Senses: examples: text: In the Renaissance, when disease was thought to be miasmatic, or transmitted by bad air and smells, strongly perfumed gloves were thought to protect the wearer from epidemics.
ref: 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Reeking, oppressing, having the nature of miasma.
Derived terms: antimiasmatic
cabriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabrioles
Etymology: From French cabriole (“a goat's leap”).
Senses: examples: text: It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.
ref: 2009 January 23, Benjamin Genocchio, “A Winter Wonderland of Old and Modern Invites Meandering”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.
Related terms: cabriolet
cabrioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabriole