cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
power pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerpop
form: power-pop
Senses: examples: text: Power pop was given the “pop” part of its name because the songs were based on well-crafted, memorable melodies with clever lyrics, as were some of the early songs by the Beatles. Power pop songs also often included catchy-sounding group harmonies like those sung by the Beach Boys in the early sixties.
ref: 1998, Katherine Charlton, Rock Music Styles: A History, McGraw-Hill, page 116:
text: Then it’s early R.E.M. in excelsis: seething momentum, cascading guitar arpeggios, power-pop punch in the arrangements, […].
ref: 2018 October 25, James Parker, “R.E.M., in Retrospect”, in The Atlantic:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular music inspired by 1960s British and American pop and rock music, with strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs.
noncomparative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + comparative.
Senses: glosses: Not comparative.
reopeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reopener
poker machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poker machines
Senses: examples: text: He didn′t always play the same poker machine, but he never went to the tables where he would have to interact with a live dealer. In fact, he usually stuck to the row of poker machines closer to the back door.
ref: 2007, Max Allan Collins, Double Dealer: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Mortal Wounds, page 119:
text: Even better, there are some video poker machines — admittedly, they′re very hard to find — that actually offer favorable odds if you play perfectly.
ref: 2007, Mary Herczog, Las Vegas for Dummies, page 177:
text: Even there, you see poker machines placed in the bar counter to greet you.
ref: 2010, Marina Milicevic, Vegas Dealer, page 19:
glosses: An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially
An electronic machine used to play poker.
examples: text: In New South Wales poker machines were legalized in clubs in 1956.
ref: 1973, Francis Keble Crowley, Modern Australia in Documents: 1939-1970, page 351:
text: Lotteries, horse-racing and poker machines loom large in the life experience of many Australians.
ref: 1974, Donald Ernest Edgar, Social Change in Australia: Readings in Sociology, page 23:
text: At that time Ainsworth had been manufacturing and selling poker machines in NSW for nineteen years.
ref: 1991, Queensland Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers, volume 4, page 303:
text: He approached people who were not in the criminal world, including his poker machine attendant, to acquire firearms or arrange hitmen for him.
ref: 2008, Malcolm Brown, editor, Cold Blooded Murder: True Crimes That Rocked Australia, unnumbered page:
text: I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.
ref: 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
glosses: An electronic machine used to play games of chance for money, especially
Synonym of slot machine.
synonyms: word: slot machine
Derived terms: pokie
pokie machine
nondyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dyed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of undyed.
synonyms: word: undyed
diecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diecast
diecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diecast
diecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diecastings
Senses: glosses: A casting, a cast, made from a die: Synonym of diecast (“n.”).
glosses: The process of making a cast from a die: gerund of diecast (“v.”)
dieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From die + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a die (mold for forming objects).
dyelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyelike
form: most dyelike
Etymology: From dye + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of dye.
dyeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dye + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without dye.
palmreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palm reading.
palmistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmistry
doramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorama
J-drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J-dramas
form: J-Drama
form: Jdrama
form: JDrama
Etymology: From J- (“Japanese”) + drama.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese television drama.
Synonyms: dorama
Coordinate terms: sense: another country dramas
word: C-drama
sense: another country dramas
word: K-drama
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: JAV
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: J-film
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: J-horror
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: J-idol
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: J-pop
sense: Japanese-language entertainment
word: J-rock
J-dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J-drama
reclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclosures
Etymology: From re- + closure.
Senses: glosses: the act of closing (something that was opened) again
reclosures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reclosure
spearwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearwomen
Etymology: From spear + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female warrior who fights with a spear.
spearwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearwoman
reopenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reopen + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being opened again.
Jennabeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jenna + Beth.
Senses: examples: text: His secretary-administrative assistant, also a new Consortium staff member, is Jennabeth Ward, a recent graduate of the University of Texas.
ref: 1969, The San Francisco Consortium, Quarterly Newsletter, volumes 1-3, page 8:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
BDSMer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDSMers
Etymology: From BDSM + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than occasional BDSM indulgences in the bedroom, lifestyle BDSMers practice their craft 24/7.
ref: 2007, Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace, The Second Life Herald:
text: After many more visits and discussions with BDSMers, I began to understand the power play and sexual high that BDSM can bring.
ref: 2007, Marlene Wasserman, Pillowbook: creating a sensual lifestyle:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: One who participates in BDSM.
BDSMers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BDSMer
threepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹʌpəni/
Forms: form: thrippenny
form: thruppeny
Etymology: From three + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of threepence.
glosses: Of little worth; mean; vulgar.
Derived terms: threepenny bit
threepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹʌpəni/
Forms: form: threepennies
form: thrippenny
form: thruppeny
Etymology: From three + penny.
Senses: glosses: A stamp worth three pence.
Related terms: triobolar
sevenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seven + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of sevenpence.
eightpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eight + penny.
Senses: examples: text: In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a value or cost of eightpence.
Derived terms: eightpenny nail
diagetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly by analogy with dia-.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diegetic.
ninepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nine + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of ninepence.
ninepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninepennies
Etymology: From nine + penny.
Senses: glosses: A relatively cheap seat in a cinema, costing ninepence.
tenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ten + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of tenpence.
Derived terms: tenpenny nail
tenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenpennies
Etymology: From ten + penny.
Senses: examples: text: A course of eighteen lessons was paid for by two tenpennies.
ref: 1825, Henry Blake, Letters from the Irish Highlands, page 311:
glosses: A coin worth ten pence.
synonyms: ten-penny
ten penny
glosses: Ellipsis of tenpenny nail.
elevenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eleven + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of elevenpence.
fifteenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fifteen + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of fifteenpence.
eighteenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eighteen + penny.
Senses: examples: text: On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gawdy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a value or cost of eighteenpence.
twentypenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twenty + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of twentypence.
thirtypenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thirty + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of thirty pence.
fortypenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forty + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of forty pence.
twelvepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twelve + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of twelvepence.
glosses: Trifling; insignificant.
Derived terms: twelvepenny nail
thirteenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thirteen + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of thirteenpence.
sixteenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sixteen + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of sixteenpence.
Derived terms: sixteenpenny nail
combined cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: using multiple thermodynamic cycles so that the overall effect is greater than the sum of the parts
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: using multiple propulsion techniques in an interlinked synergistic way to give improved performance
fourteenpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fourteen + penny.
Senses: glosses: Having a value or cost of fourteenpence.
thirteenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thirteen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of thirteen pence.
seventeenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seventeen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of seventeen pence.
nineteenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nineteen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of nineteen pence.
fifteenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fifteen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of fifteen pence.
fourteenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fourteen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of fourteen pence.
sixteenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sixteen + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of sixteen pence.
twentypence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twenty + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of twenty pence.
twelvepence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twelve + pence.
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount of twelve pence.
factory farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factory farms
Senses: glosses: A very large, factory-style farm in which many animals are confined at high stocking density.
Synonyms: megafarm
Derived terms: factory farming
Related terms: CAFO
amatol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæməˌtɒl/
ipa: /ˈæməˌtɑl/
ipa: /-ˌtɔl/
Etymology: Blend of ammonia + toluol.
Senses: glosses: A high explosive consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene.
Related terms: sodatol
caboclo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caboclos
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caboclo, borrowed from Old Tupi kuriboka.
Senses: examples: text: Dawn found him still awake, in one of the two taverns of Cumbe, drinking brandy with sour cherries and having a ballad contest with the caboclo Matias de Tavares.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 138:
glosses: A person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African descent.
Related terms: x-caboquinho
carrotwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrotwoods
Etymology: From carrot + wood.
Senses: glosses: An Australian soapberry tree, Cupaniopsis anacardioides
chainplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chainplates
Etymology: From chain + plate.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A plate on the side of a sailing ship to which the shrouds are attached.
comparatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparatists
form: comparativist
Etymology: From comparative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who carries out a comparative study, especially of language and literary works.
covin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvɪn/
Etymology: From Old French covin, from Latin convena (“a meeting, a coming together”), from conveniō.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Fraud, deception.
Related terms: convent
convention
coven
cyprinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyprinoid
form: most cyprinoid
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the suborder Cyprinoidei of the order Cypriniformes.
glosses: Resembling the carp.
cyprinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyprinoids
Senses: glosses: A fish of that suborder.
Hyponyms: cyprinid
degust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degusts
form: degusting
form: degusted
form: degusted
Etymology: From French déguster. Doublet of degustate.
Senses: examples: text: If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy "took his whack," like liquorice water.
ref: 1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, →ISBN, page 35f.:
text: The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish.
ref: 1892, M. Betham-Edwards, A north-country comedy, J.B. Lippincott, page 17:
text: I began to tell him all the tale of the demons, at which relation, first of all, he cried "Pshaw!"... But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning...
ref: 1895, O. Crawfurd, Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, volume 1, Chapman & Hall, page 269:
text: He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older
ref: 1898, L. Menand, Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs, page 78:
text: as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted.
ref: 1904, F.T. Bullen, Creatures of the Sea: Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes, Religious Tract Society, page 409:
text: Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake.
ref: 1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: This book is meant to help you along in your own quest for cheese, and I hope that you do taste the cheeses that you read about. By the time you finish this book you should have degusted a lot of wonderful cheese.
ref: 2008, J. Hurt, S. Ehlers, “Introduction”, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World: A Tasteful Guide to Selecting, Serving, and Enjoying Cheese, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour
Related terms: degustation
dialyzate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialyzates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dialysate.
diestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dioestrus.
dioestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈiːstɹəs/
Forms: form: diœstrus
form: diestrus
Etymology: From di- + oestrus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: out of heat
glosses: A period of sexual inactivity (in female mammals) between periods of oestrus.
gypsum board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gypsum + board.
Senses: glosses: Panels used for drywall construction.
Synonyms: word: wallboard
word: plasterboard
word: Gibraltar board
word: GIB wall
english: in New Zealand, trademark
translation: in New Zealand, trademark
word: ceiling linings
word: rock lath
word: drywall
dockage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dockages
Etymology: From dock + -age.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: wharfage
glosses: Docks collectively; dock space.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: wharfage
coordinate_terms: shorage
demurrage
cranage
tonnage
shippage
;
pilotage
glosses: A charge levied for docking.
emersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emersed
form: most emersed
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That rises above the surface.
raw_tags: of an aquatic plant
emersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emerse
emersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emersions
Senses: glosses: Emergence, especially from the water.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The reappearance of a heavenly body after being eclipsed by another or by the sun's brightness.
epicanthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) + κανθός (kanthós).
Senses: examples: text: Along the dimming shore of broken fence and rubble and over the sparse colonies of jakelike dwellings a new curse falling, a plague of bats, small basilisks pugnosed with epicanthic eyes and upreared dogs' ears filled with hair and bellies filled with agony.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 215:
text: Still white, but this time there is a hint of epicanthic fold about her eyes.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 331:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That partially covers the inner angle of the eye.
raw_tags: of a fold of skin
Derived terms: epicanthic fold
ethogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethograms
Etymology: From etho- + -gram.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A catalogue of the typical behaviour patterns of a species.
eunuchoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eunuchoid
form: most eunuchoid
Etymology: From eunuch + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Some we already knew, like Casimir Ava the tragic actor with his pale eunuchoid-velvet complexion and studied poses.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 105:
text: Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Resembling a eunuch.
eunuchoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eunuchoids
Etymology: From eunuch + -oid.
Senses: glosses: An organism exhibiting eunuchoidism.
euonymus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euonymuses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Her father's euonymus shines as we walk,
And swing past the summer-house, buried in talk,
And cool the verandah that welcomes us in
To the six-o'clock news and a lime-juice and gin.
ref: 1945, John Betjeman, “A Subaltern's Love Song”:
glosses: Any of many (often decorative) trees, shrubs and woody vines, of the genus Euonymus.
Synonyms: spindle tree
spindle
Derived terms: word: climbing euonymus
word: box-leaf euonymus
english: dwarf spindle
translation: dwarf spindle
taxonomic: Euonymus nanus
word: dwarf euonymus
english: winged spindle, burning bush
translation: winged spindle, burning bush
taxonomic: Euonymus alatus
word: winged euonymus
english: spindle, Fortune's spindle, spreading euonymus
translation: spindle, Fortune's spindle, spreading euonymus
taxonomic: Euonymus fortunei
word: wintercreeper euonymus
explicandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explicanda
Etymology: From Latin explico.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is to be explained or explicated
income statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: income statements
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: profit and loss statement
P&L statement
P&L
glosses: A calculation which shows the profit or loss of an accounting unit (company, municipality, foundation etc.) during a specific period of time, providing a summary of how the profit or loss is calculated from gross revenue and expenses.
Related terms: balance sheet
ninety-day wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninety-day wonders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 90-day wonder.
ajapsandali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajapsandal
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian აჯაფსანდალი (aǯapsandali).
Senses: glosses: A Georgian dish consisting of eggplants, potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers and seasoning.
ajapsandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian աջափսանդալ (aǰapʻsandal).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ajapsandali.
anchor baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor babies
Senses: examples: text: In the US each year, hundreds of thousands of anchor babies are born to illegal-alien mothers.
ref: 2009, Daniel Sheehy, Fighting Immigration Anarchy, page 63:
text: I suppose you're going to tell me all about the stupidity of the gringos. By the way, you're one of them, anchor baby. Once your folks swam the river and had you over here, you started getting all the freebies, right?
ref: 2010, Mike McPheters, Cartels and Combinations:
text: […] scenes of an ambulance let through the Tijuana-San Diego border and a pregnant senorita emerging to give birth to her anchor baby.
ref: 2011, David Carraturo, Cameron Nation: Going All-In to Save His Country, page 201:
text: […] anchor babies remains a divisive issue surrounding illegal immigration in the United States.
ref: 2014, Marilyn J. Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, editors, The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
text: When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election, his signature policy agenda around immigration often leaned into the “anchor baby” fallacy. Part of his platform included ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, and Trump called for deporting such families.
ref: 2020 March 16, Alexandra Villarreal, “'Anchor babies': the 'ludicrous' immigration myth that treats people as pawns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: passport baby
glosses: A child born to non-citizen parents in the United States or another country that grants birthright citizenship (cf. jus soli), and who, as a citizen, can help their parents and other family members gain citizenship or permanent residency.
Related terms: birth tourism
anchor babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchor baby
retrospectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Retrospective.
forbye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forby.
forbye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:
english: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
translation: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
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text: She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.
ref: 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, pages 229–230:
glosses: Alternative form of forby.
forklifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forklift
gallonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallonages
Etymology: From gallon + -age.
Senses: glosses: An amount of liquid measured in gallons.
discorsioun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of discursion.
producorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒd(j)ʊˈsɔːɹɪəl/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊduˈsoɹiəl/
Forms: form: more producorial
form: most producorial
form: produceorial
Etymology: From producer, after directorial from director.
Senses: examples: text: "We don't plan to act in it," Mr. Affleck says. "Our role is producorial."
Producorial?
"It's like professorial except it requires no accreditation, no intelligence and no actual expertise, which is why we qualify."
ref: 2000 September 10, Franz Lidz, “Ben Affleck Shocker: I Bargained With Devil for Fame”, in New York Times:
text: I have partners that I've worked with for over 30 years that sort of deal with all the more producorial roles in the film.
ref: 2007 April 12, Ivan Reitman, “interview with Ryan Parsons”, in CanMag, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2010:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production (of a film)
grysbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grysboks
Etymology: From Afrikaans grysbok, from Dutch grijsbok, from grijs (“gray”) + bok (“buck, billy goat”).
Senses: glosses: A small antelope of genus Raphicerus from South Africa.
hamadryas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhæməˈdraɪ.əs/
Forms: form: hamadryases
Senses: glosses: A large baboon (Papio hamadryas), from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
Synonyms: hamadryad
hamadryas baboon
holy baboon
harborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harborers
Etymology: From harbor + -er.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of harbourer.
harbourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbourers
form: harborer
Etymology: From Middle English herberer, harberer, herberour, herborewer, herberȝer, equivalent to harbour + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who harbours another.
examples: the harbourers of doubt
glosses: One who harbours or entertains something.
harborless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From harbor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of harbourless.
hausen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hausens
Etymology: From German Hausen.
Senses: glosses: European sturgeon (Huso huso)
haustellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: haustella
Senses: glosses: A sucking organ, in the form of a proboscis, in many insects and crustaceans
heartsore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartsore
form: most heartsore
Etymology: From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).
Senses: synonyms: word: sorrowful
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Heartsick.
heartsore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartsores
Etymology: From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).
Senses: examples: text: They remain as eye-sores, and, I might say, heartsores; for God knows there is misery enough within those wretched portals.
ref: 1885, Alfred J. Cohen, Jonathan's home, by Alan Dale, page 104:
text: The witness says: That is true, I did say that through heartsore, because my Master beat the child, although it was not so much, and it is true that when I was so angry Master and Mistress prevented me.
ref: 1904, George McCall Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, page 278:
synonyms: word: dejection
word: unhappiness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Heartache, misery, grief.
inchmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/
Forms: form: inch-meal
Etymology: From inch + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.
ref: 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:
text: I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.
ref: 1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6):
text: He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.
ref: 1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay:
glosses: Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).
a.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of almost surely.
JSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Houston
coordinate_terms: Canaveral
KSC
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Johnson Space Center.
JSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JSCs
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: Initialism of joint-stock company.
glosses: Initialism of junior school certificate.
produceorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌpɹɑdəˈsoʊɹi.əl]
Forms: form: more produceorial
form: most produceorial
form: producorial
Etymology: Blend of producer + directorial
Senses: examples: text: I'm always just trying to get direct access to an audience, without having to go through the media hoops, or even theproduceorial hoops
ref: 2003, Kathleen Gallagher, “A dialogue with Ann-Marie MacDonald”, in How theatre educates: convergences and counterpoints with artists, scholars and advocates, University of Toronto Press, page 251:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production
empery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.pə.ɹɪ/
/ˈɛm.pɹɪ/
Forms: form: emperies
Etymology: From Middle English emperie, from Old French emperie, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of imperium and empire.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,
That grieuous image of ingratitude:
That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie:
And burne him in the fury of that flame,
That none can quench but blood and Empery.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
text: Secondly, the Largeneſs of his Empery, and the firſt Conquest of Ireland, long before the Reign of K. Hen. the Second.
ref: 1604, Edward Coke, “To the Reader”, in The Fourth Part of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt.:
text: My Myne of precious stones: My Emperie, / How blest am I in this discovering thee!
ref: 1661, John Donne, To his Mistress going to Bed:
text: It is morning there / O where our Indian emperies lie revealed, / Yet lost, all, let this keel one instant yield!
ref: 1930, Hart Crane, “Ave Maria”, in The Bridge:
glosses: An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
examples: text: Because he filched away
Thine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire,
And gifted mortals with it, — such a sin
It doth behoove he expiate to the gods,
Learning to accept the empery of Zeus,
And leave off his old trick of loving man.
ref: 1833, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound:
glosses: Absolute power or authority.
Synonyms: sense: absolute authority
word: dominion
sense: absolute authority
word: sovereignty
gazebolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gazebolike
form: most gazebolike
Etymology: From gazebo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gazebo.
psalmbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psalmbooks
Etymology: From psalm + book.
Senses: glosses: A book of psalms.
psalmbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalmbook
loxodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having teeth with several parallel oblique ridges on the surface.
loxodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loxodonts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A creature with teeth of this kind.
Related terms: Loxodonta
loxodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loxodont
dilambdodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See di-, lambda, odonto-.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having teeth with a pair of lambda-shaped ridges on each.
dilambdodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilambdodonts
Etymology: See di-, lambda, odonto-.
Senses: glosses: A creature with teeth of this kind.
Related terms: zalambdodont
dilambdodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilambdodont
nonarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-articulated
Etymology: From non- + articulated.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unarticulated (“not jointed”).
synonyms: word: unarticulated
extra: not jointed
glosses: Synonym of unarticulated (“not expressed in words”).
synonyms: word: unarticulated
extra: not expressed in words
Related terms: disarticulate
disarticulation
inarticulate
inarticulated
unarticulate
coarticulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coarticulate
coarticulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coarticulate
coarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coarticulate
unclomb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌŋˈkləʊmb/
ipa: /ʌŋˈkloʊmb/
Etymology: From un- + clomb.
Senses: glosses: Not climbed.
Synonyms: unclimbed
adamantinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamantinomas
form: adamantinomata
form: adamantoma
Etymology: From adamantine + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: ameloblastoma
glosses: A benign tumor of the jaw occurring occasionally in young people. These tumors originate in the enamel organ, developing from the remains of its epithelium, and may reach the size of an apple.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare bone cancer usually occurring in the bones of the lower leg and involving both epithelial and osteofibrous tissue.
Related terms: adamantinomatous
adamantoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamantomas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of adamantinoma.
innumerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈn(j)u.mɝ.əs/
Forms: form: more innumerous
form: most innumerous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin innumerus.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being counted or numerated; indefinitely numerous.
Synonyms: sense: not capable of being counted
word: innumerable
sense: not capable of being counted
word: countless
sense: not capable of being counted
word: numberless
sense: not capable of being counted
word: unnumbered
manward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmænwəɹd/
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?] (man + -ward).
Senses: glosses: Directed toward mankind.
manward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈmænwəɹd/
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?] (man + -ward).
Senses: glosses: Toward mankind.
mightened
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Julie, at first surprised, was now shocked, but too intelligent to argue at this time. "At least you're still here, which you mightened have been if luck hadn't been around? My mum didn't get that option."
ref: 2007, D. Bruce Edwards, Apple Girl, →ISBN, page 371:
text: ‘D’you think it'll brighten up, Mister Weather-man?’ Well it might. ‘I don't think it will, ya know!’ Well it might or it mightened who's to say.
ref: 2001, Enda Walsh, Bedbound: &, Misterman : two plays, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of mightn't.
Related terms: wouldened
couldened
shouldened
uncoveted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkʌv.ɛt.ɪd/
Etymology: From un- + coveted.
Senses: glosses: Not coveted.
sceptral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp.tɹəl/
Forms: form: more sceptral
form: most sceptral
Etymology: From sceptre + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or similar to a sceptre.
examples: text: But he / Right wrathfully / Bears on his sceptral soul unbent / And rules thereby the heavenly seed,...
ref: 1833, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound:
glosses: Sovereign.
reiterant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiˈɪt.ɝ.ənt/
Senses: glosses: Reiterating; repeating.
Synonyms: sense: repeating
word: repetitive
wickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪk.ɚd/
Forms: form: more wickered
form: most wickered
Etymology: From wicker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Composed of or covered by wickerwork or wickers.
heirdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹdəm/
Forms: form: heirdoms
Etymology: From heir + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: An inheritance or succession.
Synonyms: sense: inheritance
word: inheritance
sense: inheritance
word: heirship
unreluctant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌn.ɹɪˈlʌk.tənt/
Etymology: From un- + reluctant.
Senses: glosses: Not reluctant.
Synonyms: sense: not reluctant
word: game
sense: not reluctant
word: inclined
sense: not reluctant
word: willing
enclothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɛnˈkloʊð/
Forms: form: enclothes
form: enclothing
form: enclothed
form: enclothed
Etymology: From en- + clothe.
Senses: glosses: To cover with clothing.
Synonyms: sense: to cover with clothing
word: clothe
murtherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more murtherous
form: most murtherous
Etymology: From murther + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Bloody; violent.
examples: text: Aſſaſſinat: m. A murther, or murtherous act committed for gaine, or in hope of a revvard; alſo, a ſuddaine aſſault, made of ſet purpoſe, and vvith a murtherous intent, although th' aſſaulted be not killed.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Assassinat”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature G, recto, column 2:
text: De Salez her Husband ſtriving and ſtrugling for life againſt the pangs of death; fear and haſt (contrary to her intent and mind) had ſo made his murtherous wifes hand ſhake and tremble, as ſhe did not ſo fully cut his throat-bole, but he could yet both cry and groan, which he did very mournfully, and which indeed was ſoon over-heard by a man and a maid-ſervant of his, […]
ref: 1662, John Reynolds, “History XI”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther. […] Book III, London: […] A. M. for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of murderous (“intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal”).
Related terms: murth
murther
murtherer
reverencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛv.əɹ.ɛns.ɝ/
Forms: form: reverencers
Etymology: From reverence + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reverences something.
precounsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈkaʊn.səl/
Forms: form: precounsels
form: precounseling
form: precounselling
form: precounseled
form: precounseled
form: precounselled
form: precounselled
Etymology: From pre- + counsel.
Senses: glosses: To prophesy.
glosses: To counsel beforehand.
Synonyms: sense: predict
word: prophesy
foreknower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈnoʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: foreknowers
Etymology: From foreknow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who foreknows.
featly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːt.li/
Forms: form: featlier
form: featliest
Etymology: From Middle English fetly, corresponding to feat + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Why may not a man beare himselfe betweene enemies featly [translating commodément] and faithfully?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 1, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Properly; suitably.
examples: text: He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded.
ref: 1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book III, page 213, column 2:
glosses: With skill or talent; cleverly, skilfully.
examples: text: […] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Gracefully or elegantly.
featly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːt.li/
Forms: form: featlier
form: featliest
Etymology: From Middle English fetly, corresponding to feat + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Skilful.
glosses: Graceful or elegant.
Related terms: featous