cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cow-creamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-creamers
Senses: examples: text: This cow-creamer, in case you’re interested, was a silver jug or pitcher or whatever you call it shaped, of all silly things, like a cow with an arching tail and a juvenile-delinquent expression on its face, a cow that looked as if it were planning, next time it was milked, to haul off and let the milkmaid have it in the lower ribs.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Other Whieldon wares include cottages (with figures) and cow-creamers – milkjugs modelled in the shape of cow, with the tail curved to form the handle, the mouth pierced for the spout, and a hole in the back for filling.
ref: 1989, Judith Miller, Martin Miller, editors, Miller’s Understanding Antiques, London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 84, column 4:
text: I put it together with the two cow-creamers (we call them creamers in the USA, here they’re called milkjugs, I know that, and it’s interesting that both terms have sexual connotations) and what I want to point out about them to you is that they vomit milk, which makes them fascinating cultural artefacts.
ref: 2006, Susan Hiller, “Working Through Objects, 1994”, in Charles Merewether, editor, The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art, London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of cow creamer.
cow-creamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow-creamer
floor-space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Second, to appropriate the wall-surface and a part of the floor-space of the western wing of the building to mineralogy and geology.
ref: 1871, Joseph Henry, “Report of Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for 1870”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institute for the Year 1870, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 35:
text: When the court is used at quarter sessions and petty sessions several magistrates sit together, so that the floor-space of the bench ought to be considerable, sufficient perhaps for ten or twelve magistrates.
ref: 1875 January 9, John Brett, “County Court Houses and County Gaols in Ireland”, in George Godwin, editor, The Builder: An Illustrated Weekly Magazine, for the Architect, Engineer, Archæologist, Constructor, Sanitary Reformer, and Art-Lover, volume XXXIII, number 1666, London: Office: […], page 32, column 2:
text: It is safe to assume that it is wise to sacrifice floor-space of rooms for closets, for they secure not only comfort, but order and neatness in the appearance of the house.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 43:
text: This division of the room makes it more difficult to furnish and less comfortable to live in, besides wasting all the floor-space between the chimney and the door.
ref: 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “Walls”, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: Archaic form of floorspace.
floor-plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor-plans
Senses: examples: text: CA, Cold-air Flue for First Story, which delivers the air from without, under the Stove, as shown at C A, in the transverse-section, (p. 184,) and at F, in the floor-plans.
ref: 1848, Henry Barnard, School Architecture; or Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses in the United States, New York, N.Y.: […] A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes & Co.; Cincinnati, Oh.: H. W. Derby & Co., page 182:
text: Although it can be made perfectly clear only by the use of a section drawing, a glance at the floor-plans herewith supplied may be of partial assistance.
ref: 1896 January, “Notes and Extracts”, in Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library. Providence, R. I., volume 2, Providence, R.I.: […] [T]he Library. Snow & Farnham, […], page 10, column 1:
text: These pieces of card of the exact size of bedsteads, bureaus, buffets, etc., can be moved about on the architect’s floor-plan of each room to determine the location of windows, doors, gas-brackets, etc.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 43:
text: Show visitors use the showguide (with floor-plan and ads) to pre-plan their limited visiting time (who and what equipment they want to see).
ref: 1985, Textile World, volume 135, page 8:
glosses: Dated form of floor plan.
floor-plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor-plan
school-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school-houses
Senses: examples: text: A committee was appointed to examine into the condition of the school-houses then occupied by the public schools, and report what alterations, improvements, and additional accommodations were required. This committee, after a full investigation, reported in favor of building new school-houses, on large and eligible sites, in different parts of the city.
ref: 1848, Henry Barnard, School Architecture; or Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses in the United States, New York, N.Y.: […] A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes & Co.; Cincinnati, Oh.: H. W. Derby & Co., page 233:
text: The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.
ref: 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 1, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë, volume I:
text: But the calmest region is the upland, where human life is spread out beneath the bodily eye, where the mind roves from the peasant's nest to the spiry town, from the school-house to the churchyard, […]
ref: 1870, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 263:
text: The complaint charged that the defendants, on, etc., at, etc., "in a certain public place, to wit, in a certain school-house in which a singing-school was then and there being held, did make a great brawl and tumult, and stamped their feet on the floor, hissed, used loud and saucy language, and were guilty of rude, indecent, and disorderly conduct."
ref: 1874 December 18, John M. Shirley, state reporter, “State v. Rollins”, in Reports of Cases in the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire, volume LV, Concord, N.H.: Published by Josiah B. Sanborn, published 1876, →OCLC, page 102:
text: On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]
ref: 1878, Virginia. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate of Virginia, page 31:
text: “Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked.
“Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 87:
glosses: Archaic form of schoolhouse.
school-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school-house
melakhot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melakhah
water-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water-tight
form: most water-tight
Senses: examples: text: The hasps, which were evidently intended to be secured by padlocks, had lost their fastenings, which were supplied by two skean-dhus—the small dagger of the Highlander—which had been thrust through the iron loops, and kept the casket perfectly water-tight.
ref: 1839, [George Robert Gleig], “Legends of the Lochs and Glens. No. I.—The Linn of the Caldron.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume V, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 411:
text: It is best to dress the stone to a smooth edge at the piazza level to insure a water-tight joint.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “The Building”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 25:
text: Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired.
ref: 1990, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: Alternative form of watertight.
stabbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stabbily
form: most stabbily
Senses: glosses: in a stabby manner
stabbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stabby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stabby.
gas-bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas-brackets
Senses: examples: text: “[…] and further, to ordain the respondent to restore to the said mansion-house and offices the following articles which may already have been removed from the said mansion-house or others, viz. dining-room and lobby lustres, dining-room wall gas-brackets, the two brackets in the boudoir, the drawing-room grate, and two stone lions, the ferns and other plants which were in the vineries at the time of the sale,” &c.
ref: 1880 February 20, The Scottish Law Reporter: Containing Reports by G. R. Gillespie, B.A. (Editor), H. J. E. Fraser, M.A., David Dundas, B.A., J. H. Forbes, B.A., and J. D. Sym, M.A., Advocates, of Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, Court of Teinds, and House of Lords, volume XVII, Edinburgh: John Baxter & Son, […], page 438, column 2:
text: Wall gas-brackets should never be allowed to swing, for if perfectly safe at a distance of one foot from woodwork, the bracket is often turned toward the wall, and consequently all precaution as to distance is useless.
ref: 1880 July 1, “Location of Gas Lights”, in The Plumber & Sanitary Engineer, volume 3, number 15, New York, N.Y., page 298, column 1:
text: These pieces of card of the exact size of bedsteads, bureaus, buffets, etc., can be moved about on the architect’s floor-plan of each room to determine the location of windows, doors, gas-brackets, etc.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 43:
text: Wall gas-brackets were of the same style as the pendant gaseliers.
ref: 1949, John Gloag, The Englishman’s Castle: A History of Houses, Large and Small, in Town and Country, from A. D. 100 to the Present Day, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, page 151:
glosses: Alternative form of gas bracket.
gas-brackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas-bracket
gasfittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasfitting
scrub dashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrub dasher
spot reductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot reduction
superintroductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintroduction
osmotransductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmotransduction
phosphodestructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphodestruction
production possibility curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of production possibility curve
productionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productionist
productive efficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productive efficiency
pseudo-obstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-obstruction
supercults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercult
window-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-frames
Senses: examples: text: She sat until all around her was in darkness, until not a spray of roses which twined about the window-frames from without, was discernible.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter III, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: Thoroughfares lying close by the Thames, which were wont to suffer from inundations, were raised; those which from limited breadth had caused inconvenience and bred pestilence were made wide; warehouses and dwellings of solid brick and carved stone, with doors, window-frames, and breastsummers of stout oak, replaced irregular though not unpicturesque habitations; […]
ref: 1885, J[oseph] Fitzgerald Molloy, chapter VIII, in Royalty Restored or London under Charles II., volume II, London: Ward & Downey, […], pages 192–193:
text: Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: Archaic form of window frame.
window-frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window-frame
supernormal profits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernormal profit
normal profits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normal profit
professional universities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional university
profibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profibril
profit motives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profit motive
profit shares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profit share
normal extensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normal extension
pseudonormalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonormalisation
super-photons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-photon
hydroxyiodolactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyiodolactone
indolactams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolactam
indicative votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indicative vote
subvotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvote
voteshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voteshare
exponential generating functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exponential generating function
morphofunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphofunction
Moroccan dirhams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moroccan dirham
Moroccan Dirhams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moroccan Dirham
postfunctionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postfunctionalization
multilayer perceptrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilayer perceptron
multifunctionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multifunctionalization
marginal notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginal note
postum notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postum note
mechanical bulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanical bull
mechanical engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanical engineer
medial graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medial graph
phenographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenograph
megalographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalograph
meibographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meibograph
planar graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planar graph
plain talls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain tall
pneumatonographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatonograph
pyrheliographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrheliograph
regular elements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regular element
plain loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain loaf
resistographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistograph
resistance thermometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistance thermometer
stategraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stategraph
state diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state diagram
static efficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static efficiency
static scopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static scope
weather-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weather-tight
form: most weather-tight
Senses: examples: text: […] There’s a rubble-stone
Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow
In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight;
There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!
ref: 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1917, Part VI, lines 309-312, p. 215:
text: Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 42:
text: The house was weather-tight and warm, big fires blazed in every room.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Gill, chapter 22, in Snow Hall, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Alternative form of weathertight.
station chefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of station chef
telespectrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telespectrograph
extensographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extensograph
extension reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extension reel
exsheathments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsheathment
gas chromatographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas chromatograph
gartels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gartel
gnomographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomograph
hypsographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypsograph
hypothetical imperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothetical imperative
isobolographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isobolograph
isochromenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochromenone
isogams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isogam
isolation transformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolation transformer
isometrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isometrograph
karyographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyograph
karyomappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyomapping
karyomaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyomap
keratographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratograph
kelp beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelp bed
Kei apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kei apple
knowledge graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knowledge graph
knothole sections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knothole section
knopites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knopite
knockout merchants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockout merchant
Mediterranean gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mediterranean gull
megapopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megapopulation
ice dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice dance
ice carousels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice carousel
ice bucket challenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice bucket challenge
ileovesicostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ileovesicostomy
ileoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ileoscopy
medianoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medianoscopy
miniendoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniendoscopy
Botlikh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Northeast Caucasian language, dpokin in southwestern Dagestan, Russia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Botlikh terms
nasolaryngoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasolaryngoscopy
nasopharyngeal tonsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasopharyngeal tonsil
pancreatosplenectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatosplenectomy
pancreatoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatoscopy
oropharyngoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oropharyngoscopy
pancreaticosplenectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreaticosplenectomy
pancreaduodenectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreaduodenectomy
relaparoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaparoscopy
relative frequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relative frequency
rhinoendoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoendoscopy
re-views
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-view
re-views
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-view
reverse traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse trap
tenoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenoscopy
tenontoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenontoplasty
tensiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tensiograph
tympanoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanoscopy
fibrobronchoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrobronchoscopy
flexible sigmoidoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexible sigmoidoscopy
fig-sews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fig-sew
Aime-la-Plagne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Related terms: Aime
identification parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identification parade
gastrofibroscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrofibroscopy
gastroenterotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroenterotomy
gastroduodenums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroduodenum
gastrocystoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrocystoplasty
gastrocolostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrocolostomy
eSIMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eSIM
esophagoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagoplasty
esophaguectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophaguectomy
laryngopharyngectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngopharyngectomy
laryngeal sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngeal sac
leiomyomectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leiomyomectomy
lymphadectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphadectomy
Lympharis morphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lympharis morpho
nasopharyngectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasopharyngectomy
odontectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontectomy
ODOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ODO
oopherectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oopherectomy
oophorosalpingectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oophorosalpingectomy
operculectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operculectomy
ovarectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovarectomy
parametrectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parametrectomy
parallelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelist
parasympathectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasympathectomy
door-knobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-knob
parasitophorous vacuoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitophorous vacuole
pharyngoesophagectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngoesophagectomy
pharyngoesophagoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngoesophagoscope
waist bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waist bag
a-alike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪəˈlaɪk/
Forms: form: a-alikes
Etymology: From a- + alike. Originally from Nation of Gods and Earths' lingo, popularized by hip-hop artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Cause you walk like an 85, talk like an 85
On the down-low, be eating pork like an 85
Yeah, right, back the fuck up, you ain't my A-Alike
Spare ya life, you be lucky, you get a fair fight
ref: 2006, Lord Jamar feat. 40 Bandits, “The Cipher”, in The 5% Album:
text: Wesley Muhammad. to. First, you raise the question to your a-alikes: “So what should we do in the face of such attacks against our religion?” implying that my part in this discussion is tantamount to an attack against YOUR religion. Let[…]
ref: 2016 December 16, Wesley Muhammad, Is Allah a Man? The Islam Debate, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 70:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: kindred spirit, friend (someone who shares similar interest and values)
wikipedia: Nation of Gods and Earths
couture house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couture houses
Senses: examples: text: To qualify as a couture house, which is an official designation like champagne, a brand must maintain an atelier of a certain number of artisans full time and produce a specific number of garments twice a year for a show.
ref: 2018 June 30, Vanessa Friedman, “Why We Cover High Fashion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An official designation for a haute couture brand.
couture houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couture house
dwarf cassowary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf cassowaries
Senses: glosses: Casuarius bennetti, the smallest of the three extant species of cassowaries.
couturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couturists
Etymology: From couture + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Such existential mashups define a show that also includes Hilton Als, Lynda Benglis, Leif Elggren, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, and Amy Yao among its conceptual couturists.
ref: 2013 May 3, Neil Genzlinger, Holland Cotter, “May 5 — 11: Couture as Armor, Id and Manifesto”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A maker of couture; a couturier.
couturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couturist
catch pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch pits
Senses: examples: text: Joints in between catch pits and pipes in the drains installed above the derailment site were "extremely poorly constructed", according to the narrative presented by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to Lord Matthews' court in Aberdeen.
ref: 2023 September 20, “Network News: Catch pits "poorly-constructed"”, in RAIL, number 992, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of catchpit.
over-dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-dressed
form: most over-dressed
Senses: examples: text: He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 13:
text: He was a vulgar, over-dressed fellow, of about thirty-five or forty, of slender yet sinewy build. He wore a plum-colored overcoat, lavender kids, patent-leather shoes, and a shiny silk hat.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:
text: In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.
ref: 1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, page 234:
text: They both lived on money of their own, and were wearisomely idle and over-dressed.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Invisible Man”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: Alternative form of overdressed.
catch pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch pit.
persulfido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ligand consisting of two sulfur atoms with a double negative charge. (S₂²⁻)
spider-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spider-like
form: most spider-like
Senses: examples: text: A little romance had woven itself into spider-like existence, from her shallow brain, over that incident.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:
text: In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.
ref: 1949, John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora, page 103:
text: My Squadron Leader's crew adopted a family of jerboas and my Troop Corporals chose a black, spider-like monster, about 3 in. long with short legs and enormous jaws, which they called a "jerrymander".
ref: 1965, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Desert Life, page 31:
text: Another implementation of the system was introduced by the AB-Thera (KCI, San Antonio, TX) with the use of spider-like sponge that allow a better fluid drainage and a better wound contraction and with a reported primary fascia closure rate of 89 % [53, 54].
ref: 2015 July 25, Federico Coccolini et al., “The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure”, in World Journal of Emergency Surgery: WJES, volume 10, →DOI:
text: Around 70 different species of trigonotarbids have been recognised, mostly from the Carboniferous period, but some representatives are even older than the Rhynie Chert, pushing the origins of spider-like land animals back into the Silurian Period.
ref: 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of spiderlike.
storm-door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm-doors
Senses: examples: text: If Roxy were not Roxy, the cook, talking at the kitchen storm-door with Binns, whose scraggy horse dropped his head so low with the dropping of the reins that he looked as if he would drop in the street altogether if the authorities did not interfere—[…]
ref: 1886, Harriet [Elizabeth] Prescott Spofford, “The Tragic Story of Binns”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 833, columns 1–2:
text: Near one of the doors, and almost above a register, she got overheated from the one, and a chill whenever the storm-door opened and let in a column of freezing air. […] It was that the sales-lady, his fiancée, should procure an impression on wax of the key to the storm-door of old Dunn’s store.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, pages 90–92:
text: Storm-doors and -shutters.—All doors, windows, and other openings on the first floor, and cellar openings, shall be provided with storm-doors and -shutters, made in the strongest manner, of tongued and grooved white pine, ⅞ inch thick and 3 inches wide, nailed with galvanized wrought-iron nails clinched. […] The storm-door of the kitchen shall be hung on hinges and fitted with a Yale lock, using the same key as the lock to the main kitchen door, which shall also be a Yale lock.
ref: 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Sample Specifications”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Archaic form of storm door.
storm-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm-door
disulfido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + sulfido.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two sulfido ligands.
chalcogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcogenates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester derived from oxidation-state-6 chalcogen oxyacids.
Hyponyms: sulfate
selenate
tellurate
polonate
halochalcogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halochalcogenates
Etymology: From halo- + chalcogen + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of a variant of a chalcogenate, where one oxygen atom is replaced by a halogen.
Hyponyms: fluorosulfate
chlorosulfate
interchalcogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interchalcogen
interchalcogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interchalcogens
Etymology: From inter- + chalcogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound formed from two or more different chalcogens
chalcogenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalcogenol
chalcogenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcogenols
Etymology: From chalcogen + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing a chalcogen bound to a hydrogen atom (-EH)
Hyponyms: alcohol -OH
thiol -SH
selenol -SeH
tellurol -TeH
weers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weer
mop-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mop-sticks
Senses: examples: text: Demn old mother Fortune, for throwing one of my birth and spirit into such a demnation situation; to be obliged to follow that lanky old mop-stick there before me, with a white mop-like top-not; […]
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Men Servants”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: In 1870 steam was substituted for water, and chair-stock, clothes-horses, mop-sticks, turned stock, and woodenware were manufactured.
ref: 1891, Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes, editors, History of Windsor County, Vermont, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., […], page 632:
text: The clerks in the Ordnance Department at the Tower were sworn in as special constables, and were served out with batons cut out of old mop-sticks.
ref: 1895, John [Miller] Adye, “Days of Peace”, in Recollections of a Military Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 8:
glosses: Archaic form of mopstick.
mop-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mop-stick
mop stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mop sticks
Senses: examples: text: […] after all, the spectre, which so long stood in our path, was little other than our old friend of school-boy days—the ingenious but imposing amalgamation of mop sticks, fagots, fluttering white rags, and an illuminated hollow turnip.
ref: 1856, Arthur Hallam Elton, Tracts for the Present Crisis, Bristol: T. Kerslake, […], page 102:
text: It was time to make my own stickball bat. I took one of my mother’s old mop sticks and broke off the metal end that held the rags she used to clean the floors.
ref: 2013, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, Albany, N.Y.: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: We all played the part of the hero and we would sing western songs and ride around on old mop sticks like horses. We would ride through the alleys until the tip of the mop stick was sharp.
ref: 2017, John Capouya, Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of mopstick.
mop sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mop stick
macropolyhedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + polyhedral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of a fusion of smaller polyhedra.
liriconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from ancient Greek λειρός : pale, and κουία : powder; named by Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger in 1825. The name reflects the appearance of the streak.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue monoclinic mineral composed of aluminium, copper, arsenate, and hydroxide.
philoroman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From philo- + Roman.
Senses: glosses: Friendly with Rome.
hair-dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair-dressers
Senses: examples: text: Nay, I would make it so interesting, that the fair peruser should beg the hair-dresser to settle the curls himself, and not interrupt her.
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
text: Many were afraid to allow the barbers or hair-dreſſers to come near them, as inſtances had occurred of ſome of them having ſhaved the dead, and many of them had engaged as bleeders.
ref: 1799, W[illiam] Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] [T]he Compiler; H. D. Symonds, […]; and J. Ridgway, […], page 426:
text: “[…] Yesterday we went to a hair-dresser’s shop down below there, and we saw a man who was almost exactly like you—only—” he added, looking up, “his eyes were gray and yours are brown.” / “He was my twin brother,” said the guide, puffing at his pipe cheerfully. “My father thought he could make hair-dressers of us both, and I tried it for four years. But I always wanted to be climbing the mountains and there were not holidays enough. So I cut my hair, and washed the pomade out of it, and broke away. I don’t look like a hair-dresser now, do I?”
ref: 1915, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “A Night Vigil”, in The Lost Prince, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 284–285:
glosses: Archaic form of hairdresser.
hair-dressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair-dresser
hair dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair dressers
Senses: examples: text: Quære, might not hair dressers friz and turn, though not shave, classically, according to the dignifying principles of the sculptor?
ref: 1797, J[ohn] Penn, Critical and Poetical Works, London: […] Elmsly, […], pages 123–124:
text: The Hair Dressers. An hair dresser is a little busy animal always on the fidget, wagging his tail here, there, and every where, where he has no business, somewhat like a wren or a water-wagtail.
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: Nay, the hair dresser at Tavistock, and hair dressers are oracles that deserve more attention than some are willing to allow, said that as to such places as Bristol, Liverpool, Exeter, and London, he had no curiosity about them, but that if he could have the happiness of seeing Truro, he should die contented. I must say, I was not so much struck as the hair dresser and the other admirers of this place.
ref: 1801, C[harles] Dibdin, Observations on a Tour through Almost the Whole of England, and a Considerable Part of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Large Number of Intelligent and Respectable Friends, volume I, London: […] G. Goulding, […], page 146:
glosses: Obsolete form of hairdresser.
hair dressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair dresser
mirror armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirror armours
form: mirror armor
Senses: glosses: A kind of plate armour developed from round metallic mirrors often worn over other armour (usually over mail) as reinforcement.
mirror armours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirror armour
circular state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular states
Etymology: Named after the torus-like shape of the valence electron orbital in these states, which resembles a classical circular orbit.
Senses: examples: text: […] [T]he selection rules on the Auger and X-ray transition probabilities tend to populate preferentially the circular states, that is those for which the orbital angular momentum l is given by l#61;n-1.
ref: 1962 December 24, J.R. Rook, “The decay of K⁻ mesic atoms”, in Nuclear Physics, volume 39, →DOI, page 479:
text: We report the production of a population of atoms in a Rydberg state with #124;m#124;#61;n-1, where m and n are the magnetic and principal quantum numbers, respectively. We designate these states as "circular" because in the classical limit they describe an electron in a circular orbit. Among all the states with a given principal quantum number, the circular states have the largest magnetic moment, smallest Stark effect, and longest radiative lifetime.
ref: 1983 October 17, Randall G. Hulet and Daniel Kleppner, “Rydberg Atoms in "Circular" States”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 51, →DOI, page 1430:
text: So-called circular states with the maximal angular momentum L#61;n-1 can have lifetimes exceeding 100 s, 10⁶ times longer than those of low-L states, in appropriately engineered environments.
ref: 2021 August 6, Sam R. Cohen and Jeff D. Thompson, “Quantum Computing with Circular Rydberg Atoms”, in PRX Quantum, volume 2, →DOI, page 030322:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of those quantum states of an atom, which has a high principal quantum number n, and a magnetic quantum number m_l with the maximum possible magnitude, |m_l|=n-1.
garret-window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garret-windows
Senses: examples: text: Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted.
ref: 1786, [John] Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide: Containing Every Instruction and Information Useful and Necessary to Persons Living in London, and Coming to Reside There; […], London: […] [T]he Author, […], page 149:
text: If he be originally belched out of a kitchen, dropped from a garret-window, or the offspring of an harlot and twenty fathers.
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Dandy Actors”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Opposition is its nourishment, for it is her ambition to be a heroine; and though she might disdain her innamorato were he admitted to her mother’s drawing-room, she will think him irresistible as she smiles on him from a garret-window; […]
ref: 1837, Mrs. John Sandford [i.e., Elizabeth Sandford], “On Female Romance”, in Woman, in Her Social and Domestic Character, 5th edition, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], page 150:
glosses: Archaic form of garret window.
garret-windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garret-window
linen-draper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linen-drapers
Senses: examples: text: You will, of course, dress yourself up as a Dandy, and profit by the advice which I have just given to your demi-kinsman, the linen-draper.
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “An Haberdasher”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: The linen-draper at the corner under the town clock was divided between keeping an eye on his apprentices to see that they did not spar with yard sticks, and mentally criticising the ludicrous and meretricious window-dressing of his next-door neighbour.
ref: 1897, S. R. Crockett, chapter 33, in The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 252:
text: The next month, the commissioners were convinced to retain the old linen-drapers as a guild but suggested linking them to the male guild of secondhand clothes dealers (fripiers-tailleurs), with a tariff of one-third the normal entrance fee for current entrants and the whole fee later.
ref: 2007, Daryl M. Hafter, Women at Work in Preindustrial France, University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: Alternative form of linendraper.
linen-drapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linen-draper
stakedriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakedrivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stake-driver.
stakedrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stakedriver