cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: tumps
form: tumping
form: tumped
form: tumped
Etymology: Possibly from tumpoke.
Senses: examples: text: Don't tump that bucket over!
glosses: to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
glosses: To fall over.
examples: text: To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.
ref: 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:
glosses: To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
tump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: tumps
Etymology: Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Senses: glosses: A tumpline.
hurdy-gurdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː.diˌɡɜː.di/
ipa: /ˌhɜː.diˈɡɜː.di/
ipa: /ˈhɝː.diˌɡɝː.di/
ipa: /ˌhɝː.diˈɡɝː.di/
Forms: form: hurdy-gurdies
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in imitation of the sound produced by the stringed instrument. Compare obsolete hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”). Attested from the 1740s.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string.
examples: text: He flung open the door, and found there only a ragged boy with a hurdy-gurdy on his back.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 83:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of street organ, often considered a misnomer.
synonyms: word: street organ
word: often considered a misnomer
glosses: A water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.
examples: text: A pair of oars, a small mast and sail, pen boards to contain the fish, a bailer, a water jar, a bait knife, a compass, a small wooden winch called a hurdy gurdy, a fish gaff, and the tubs, trawls, floats, and anchors used to set gear was all that was required to equip it.
ref: 2009, Keith McLaren, A Race for Real Sailors, page 20:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A winch, a windlass.
Synonyms: sense: stringed instrument
word: wheel fiddle
Derived terms: hurdy-gurdyist
hurdy-gurdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː.diˌɡɜː.di/
ipa: /ˌhɜː.diˈɡɜː.di/
ipa: /ˈhɝː.diˌɡɝː.di/
ipa: /ˌhɝː.diˈɡɝː.di/
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in imitation of the sound produced by the stringed instrument. Compare obsolete hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”). Attested from the 1740s.
Senses: examples: text: “You mean when she read that God-awful poem in her hurdy-gurdy Swedish chef accent?
ref: 1995, Jones, Tanya, Ophelia O. and the mortgage bandits, →OCLC:
text: Swedes are often said to sing while they speak. (Listen to Floyd, the Muppet’s Swedish chef, singing “Hurdy Gurdy” and you’ll understand this.)
ref: 1996, Svensson, Charlotte Rosen, Culture shock!, →OCLC:
text: Just don’t do what the Swedish chef from The Muppet Show does and start playing tennis with the meatballs, or start waving your cooking utensils about the kitchen and shouting ‘hurdy gurdy’ at your mates.
ref: 2009, The great big bumper book of marmite, →OCLC:
glosses: Sounding like the Swedish language.
Related terms: english: one who plays a hurdy-gurdy
translation: one who plays a hurdy-gurdy
word: viellist
hippocampi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippocampus
tunicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːnɪkəl/
Forms: form: tunicles
Etymology: Latin tunicula, diminutive of tunica (“tunic”).
Senses: glosses: A small tunic.
examples: 1845, In illustrating his views on the Popish tendency of these rubrics, the rev. gentleman particularly referred to the use of the alb, and cope, and tunicle, by the clergy in the discharge of their official duties. — The Times, 11 Jan 1845, p.5 col. D
glosses: A vestment worn by an archdeacon.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tunica; a membrane or membranous sheath of skin.
bollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bollen
form: most bollen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boln (“swollen”).
Becher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 26:35:
glosses: A male given name.
cathode-ray tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathode-ray tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cathode ray tube.
hippocampal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An article on hippocampal association that Diana Hartrick co-authored grabbed my imagination.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 62:
glosses: Pertaining to the hippocampus.
Derived terms: amygdalohippocampal
bihippocampal
corticohippocampal
entorhinohippocampal
extrahippocampal
hippocampally
interhippocampal
intrahippocampal
nonhippocampal
parahippocampal
perihippocampal
posthippocampal
retrohippocampal
septohippocampal
subhippocampal
cephaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cephaloid
form: most cephaloid
Etymology: From cephalo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like the head or the brain.
Synonyms: headlike
ceroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From cero- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Modelled in wax.
glosses: Of or relating to such an art or process.
Related terms: ceroplastic acid
ceroplastics
ceroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From cero- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: The art of modelling in wax.
ceroplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art of modelling in wax.
Related terms: ceroplastic
combinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.bɪ.nə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑm.bə.nəˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /kəmˈbaɪ.nəˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more combinatory
form: most combinatory
Etymology: From combine + -atory.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial.
conditioned on a combination of phonemes (rather than a phoneme changing by itself in any position)
raw_tags: of phonetic change
glosses: Having the ability to combine; combinable, combinational or combining.
Derived terms: combinatory logic
benet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: benets
form: benetting
form: benetted
form: benetted
Etymology: From be- + net.
Senses: glosses: To catch in a net; ensnare.
examples: text: Being thus benetted round with villains
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To surround as by a net.
benet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
ipa: /ˈbɛnət/
rhymes: -ɛnət
ipa: /bɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: benets
Etymology: From French [Term?], from Latin benedictus (“blessed”).
Senses: glosses: An exorcist, the third of the four lesser orders in the Roman Catholic church.
boken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bokens
form: bokening
form: bokened
form: bokened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boke.
deliquesence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the formation of a solution by the absorption of moisture from the air
Related terms: deliquescent
ubicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈbɪsɪti/
Forms: form: ubicities
Etymology: From Latin ubi (“where”) + -icity.
Senses: examples: text: And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: whereabouts, location
Diwali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈwɑːli/
ipa: /dɪˈvɑːli/
ipa: /dɪˈwɑli/
ipa: /dɪˈvɑli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Forms: form: Diwalis
form: Dewali
form: Divali
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दिवाली (divālī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali, literally “row of lights”), from दीप (dīpa, “light”) + आवलि (āvali, “series, line, row”). Doublet of Deepavali.
Senses: examples: text: Around one billion people worldwide and across the U.S. will celebrate Diwali this week.
ref: 2024 October 30, Chandelis Duster, “Millions of people celebrate Diwali this week. Here is what you should know”, in NPR:
text: While Diwali is a major religious festival for Hindus, it is also observed by Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists.
ref: 2025 October 7, Deepa Bharath, “California makes Diwali an official statewide holiday”, in KCRA:
glosses: An annual festival of light, observed during several days in October and November.
Synonyms: word: Festival of Lights
word: Deepavali
alt: more often used in Malaysia and Singapore
word: Deepawali
english: more often used in Bangladesh, Bengal, and Odisha
translation: more often used in Bangladesh, Bengal, and Odisha
word: Kali Puja
deliquescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈlɪkwəsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more deliquescent
form: most deliquescent
Etymology: Latin deliquescens, present participle of deliquesco; de + liquesco (“I melt”): compare French déliquescent.
Senses: examples: text: “Any one who stands outside, who hides himself in a deliquescent aloofness, is a sneak and a spy—”
ref: 1918, Wyndham Lewis, Tarr, London: The Egoist, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 15:
text: Yes, laugh, as I want to laugh for instance in the concert hall when the orchestra trundles to a stop and the virtuoso at his piano, hunched like a demented vet before the bared teeth of this enormous black beast of sound, lifts up deliquescent hands and prepares to plunge into the cadenza.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
text: […] Manet painted him [ Stéphane Mallarmé ] in a boneless, deliquescent slouch;
ref: 2002, Julian Barnes, chapter 8, in Something to Declare, New York: Knopf, page 122:
synonyms: melting
disappearing
glosses: Seeming to melt away.
examples: text: deliquescent salts
text: […] dew fell in sufficient quantity to make the streets muddy, and it would certainly have washed so deliquescent a substance as salt into the soil.
ref: 1846, Charles Darwin, chapter 2, in Geological Observations on South America:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
examples: 1850, Asa Gray, The Botanical Text-Book, New York: Putnam, 3rd edition, rewritten and enlarged, Chapter 4, p. 102,
In other cases, the main stem is arrested, sooner or later, either by flowering, by the failure of the terminal bud, or the more vigorous development of some of the lateral buds, and thus the trunk is lost in the branches, or is deliquescent, as in most of our deciduous-leaved trees.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
examples: text: The spores, so soon as they are ripe, either drop out of the sporiferous membrane (hymenium), or, as more frequently happens, are projected from it with an elastic jerk, or else, as is the case of Agarics of a deliquescent kind, return to the earth mixed up with the black liquid into which these ultimately resolve themselves.
ref: 1847, Charles David Badham, A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, London: Reeve Brothers, page 51:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
raw_tags: of the fruiting body of a fungus
Derived terms: deliquescently
nondeliquescent
seahorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seahorses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea horse.
Derived terms: bullneck seahorse
cape seahorse
common seahorse
crowned seahorse
dwarf seahorse
estuary seahorse
flat-faced seahorse
giraffe seahorse
great seahorse
hedgehog seahorse
knobby seahorse
knysna seahorse
lemur-tail seahorse
longnose seahorse
long-snouted seahorse
longsnout seahorse
low-crowned seahorse
narrow-bellied seahorse
offshore seahorse
short-head seahorse
slender seahorse
spiny seahorse
spotted seahorse
three-spot seahorse
tiger snout seahorse
tiger tail seahorse
yellow seahorse
zebra seahorse
similarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of similarity
delomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛləˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Senses: glosses: delomorphous
delomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: tissue culture etc
glosses: Having a precise and well-formed limit or boundary.
raw_tags: of a cell
Synonyms: delomorphic
Derived terms: adelomorphous
monoatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪk
Etymology: From mono- + atomic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monatomic.
Mustique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌˈstiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: Derived from French moustique (“mosquito, Culicidae sp.”).
Senses: examples: text: Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
ref: 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:
glosses: An island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Derived terms: Petite Mustique
monoclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From mono- + clinic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three unequal axes with two perpendicular and one oblique intersections.
Derived terms: monoclinicity
Related terms: triclinic
orthorhombic
hexagonal
rhombohedral
tetragonal
cubic
triclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From tri- + clinic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three unequal axes all intersecting at oblique angles.
Related terms: monoclinic
orthorhombic
hexagonal
rhombohedral
tetragonal
cubic
phase separation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The conversion of a single-phase system into a multiphase system; especially the separation of a solution into two immiscible liquids.
Related terms: coacervation
photic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
Forms: form: more photic
form: most photic
Etymology: From photo- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or irradiated by light.
glosses: Of, related to, or irradiated by light.
Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
synonyms: euphotic
epipelagic
sunlight
Derived terms: aphotic
disphotic
euphotic
mesophotic
nonphotic
photically
photic sneeze reflex
photic zone
subphotic
photic zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photic zones
Senses: glosses: The part of the near-surface body of an ocean or lake that receives enough sunlight for photosynthesis to be possible.
Synonyms: euphotic zone
epipelagic zone
sunlight zone
Related terms: pelagic zone
aphotic zone
aphotic zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphotic zones
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: That part of the deep body of an ocean or lake that receives insufficient sunlight for photosynthesis to be possible.
Hyponyms: mesopelagic zone
twilight zone
bathypelagic zone
bathyal zone
midnight zone
abyssopelagic zone
abyssal zone
hadopelagic zone
hadalpelagic zone
hadal zone
Related terms: pelagic zone
photic zone
cutlass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtləs/
Forms: form: cutlasses
Etymology: From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel (“knife”) + -as (augmentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She could feel Tern’s stare fixed right between her shoulder blades, and knew he was aching to plunge his cutlass there.
ref: 2015 September 1, Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows, →ISBN:
text: In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
glosses: A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
Synonyms: cuttoe
hanger
Derived terms: cutlassfish
cutlass bearing
cutlass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtləs/
Forms: form: cutlasses
form: cutlassing
form: cutlassed
form: cutlassed
Etymology: From Middle French coutelas, from Old French coutel (“knife”) + -as (augmentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.
nonentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonentities
form: non-entity
Etymology: From non- + entity.
Senses: examples: text: The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 201–202:
text: But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise, →ISBN:
text: Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley, it's almost as though he's a complete nonentity, isn't it?
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “Mad-Eye Moody”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: An unimportant or insignificant person.
examples: text: New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 201:
text: Gay men have no identity. They appropriate badly that of straight men who are all fucked up in the first place over thir ^([sic]) mythic masculinity stereotype. So, twice removed, the gay man flounders through life doubly fucked up dancing the dance of non-entity around the bright, burning flame of sex, power and upward mobility.
ref: 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:
glosses: The state of not existing; nonexistence.
Synonyms: word: absolute zero
word: also-ran
word: chopped liver
word: cipher
word: crumb
word: Joe Nobody
word: little guy
word: minnow
word: nebbish
word: nobody
word: no one
word: nothing
word: nothingburger
word: nonentity
word: picayune
word: pip-squeak
word: pleb
word: peon
word: prole
word: puny
word: quidam
word: rinky-dink
word: shrimp
word: wankstain
word: zero
word: zilch
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: worthless person
Derived terms: nonebrity
nonentitive
nonentitize
nonentityism
Related terms: word: lay figure
word: small-timer
word: small fry
word: small potatoes
bombycine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombycine
form: most bombycine
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to silkworms; bombic.
bookmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: bookmarks
Etymology: From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
Senses: examples: text: He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.
synonyms: bookmarker
glosses: A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: favourites
glosses: A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
Derived terms: bookmarklet
bookmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: bookmarks
form: bookmarking
form: bookmarked
form: bookmarked
Etymology: From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create a bookmark.
Derived terms: bookmarkable
unbookmarked
Semapedia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Semacode + Wikipedia
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A former project using Semacode nodes to connect Wikipedia articles to their relevant places in physical space.
Semacode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Semacodes
Etymology: Marketing coinage, perhaps from semantic code.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A machine-readable two-dimensional barcode used primarily to code website addresses.
referrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: referrers
Etymology: From refer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who refers another.
glosses: The URL from which a user agent was referred to another URL.
Derived terms: referer
referrer spam
Related terms: referee
referent
referral
legality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liˈɡælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: legalities
Etymology: From legal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206:
glosses: Lawfulness.
examples: text: There was one game in particular called “legality,” in which the managers of the establishment played against all comers. It was a game in which six numbers were marked upon a board, the players staked upon a number, the keeper of the bank threw against the players, and according to whether they were successful or not in the number they backed, they won or lost.
ref: 1888 August 13, “Police Intelligence: Clerkenwell”, in London Evening Standard, page 2:
glosses: A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck.
Derived terms: legality panel
medicolegality
principle of legality
pseudolegality
fish-knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-knives
form: fish knife
Etymology: From Middle English fyschknyff.
Senses: glosses: A knife for cutting and serving fish at table.
glosses: A table knife with spatula-shaped blade designed for eating fish.
fish knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish knives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fish-knife.
fishplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishplates
Etymology: From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).
Senses: examples: text: The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.
ref: 1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track.
Synonyms: joint bar
fishplate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fishplates
form: fishplating
form: fishplated
form: fishplated
Etymology: From fish + plate. See fish (“curved wooden bar used to strengthen a ship's mast”).
Senses: examples: text: One section of the line will consist of 60 ft. lengths of rail welded together on site to form fully continuous rails; another will be of 300 ft. lengths, flash butt-welded in Dinsdale Rail Welding Depot and fishplated together on site; [...].
ref: 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To connect (rails) together using a fishplate.
avowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From avow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
Derived terms: avowableness
avowably
unavowable
Related terms: avow
avowal
avowance
avowed
avower
avidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɪdli/
Forms: form: more avidly
form: most avidly
Etymology: From avid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I remember going to the pictures at the local flea pit and seeing Riders of Death Valley, a serial in which I avidly #followed the fortunes of my hero Jim . . .
ref: 1980, Mervyn Thompson, All My Lives:
text: In America, where classics like Monopoly dominate, Eurogames still have an avidly geeky following.
ref: 2008 August 28, “German recreation: An affinity for rules?”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2021:
glosses: In an avid manner; greedily; eagerly.
greedily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greedily
form: most greedily
Etymology: From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.
text: I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.
text: There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:
synonyms: avidly
eagerly
glosses: In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
autoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From auto- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to autoplasty (a type of lesion repair with healthy tissue).
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: alloplastic
glosses: Involving a subject changing oneself rather than the environment or situation.
Derived terms: autoplastically
autoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoplasties
Etymology: From auto- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.
Related terms: autoplastic
autobiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobiographers
Etymology: From auto- + biographer.
Senses: glosses: One who writes his or her own life or biography.
Synonyms: autobiographist
schm-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ʃm-/
Forms: form: shm-
form: sm-
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמ־ (shm-), imitative of many Yiddish words such as schmaltz or schmuck.
Senses: examples: text: Rain, schmain, we've got a game to play.
glosses: Used to form a reduplicated rhyming compound of any word in order to express disparagement, dismissal, or derision.
examples: text: Issa big schmood.
text: Look at my big schmeat.
glosses: Used to form an intensified word, typically with words starting with m especially for comedic effect.
Related terms: sch-
autogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From auto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Self-produced.
glosses: Independent of a medium.
glosses: Performed by fusing the parts to be joined without adding solder.
raw_tags: of a process of soldering
examples: text: If patients are familiar with such techniques, they may wish to use them during the preliminary exercises but I advise against using them during an autogenic session.
ref: 2001, Micah R. Sadigh, Roberto Patarca Montero, Autogenic Training, page 120:
glosses: Relating to autogenic training.
Derived terms: autogenically
autogenic training
nonautogenic
Related terms: autogeneic
autogenous
audibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more audibly
form: most audibly
Etymology: From audible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Argentinian remains a danger to his own team, clumsily conceding the penalty which allowed Gómez to put Wigan ahead, and it was clear that City's audibly frustrated fans do not trust him.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.
Synonyms: aloud
paper scissors stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rock paper scissors (game)
synonyms: word: rock paper scissors
extra: game
attainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈteɪnmənt/
Forms: form: attainments
Etymology: From attain + -ment; compare Old French ataignement.
Senses: examples: text: My attainment of proficiency in German was due to years upon years of study.
synonyms: accomplishment
acquisition
acquirement
glosses: The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.
examples: text: The scholar who had made so many attainments, knows now how small they were compared with what one glance into the spiritual glory has taught him.
ref: 1860, National Preacher, volume 33, number 1, page 11:
synonyms: accomplishment
acquisition
acquirement
glosses: That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.
Derived terms: nonattainment
reattainment
unattainment
underattainment
spring in one's step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: pep in one's step, pep, peppiness, perkiness, spryness, get-up-and-go
text: After her promotion, she carried out her new position with a spring in her step and a contagious smile.
text: Why the crisis puts a spring in the Prime Minister's step [title]
ref: 2008 October 11, Andrew Rawnsley, “Why the crisis puts a spring in the Prime Minister's step”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.
ref: 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:
text: England have dispersed for a few days of recharging the batteries at home and, after clinching their second successive win of the Six Nations, have done so with a spring in their step.
ref: 2024 February 11, Gerard Meagher, “Borthwick’s England have spring in step after finding way to eke out wins”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Enthusiasm, energy or a positive outlook or cheerful attitude.
mol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊl/
ipa: /mol/
ipa: /moʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: mols
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mol (1897).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative spelling of mole.
Synonyms: gram molecule
Derived terms: picomol
armored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armored
form: most armored
form: armoured
Etymology: From armor + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Clad or equipped with arms or armor.
examples: text: They came with horses and armored vehicles, carrying rifles and in tactical gear in the middle of what is the heart of immigrant Los Angeles. But there were few of their supposed targets to be found Monday — immigrants without documentation.
ref: 2025 July 7, Melissa Gomez, Rachel Uranga and Brittny Mejia, “Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
glosses: Covered with armor, as a ship or the face of a fortification; armor-plated.
Derived terms: armored car
armored combat
armored combat fight
armored combat fighting
armored combat vehicle
armored cruiser
armored fighting vehicle
armored fist
armored personnel carrier
armored rat
armored soldier
armored train
armored truck
up-armored
armored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: armoured
Etymology: From armor + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of armor
mech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: mechs
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A large piloted combat robot.
examples: text: But I reprogrammed the recognition codes, and they won't treat him as Roubor Transic, nor will they obey any order he gives them. He's Mr. X to the mechs, a casual human to be taken care of just as well as possible, but never, never released.
ref: 1999, Analog Science Fiction & Fact - Volume 119, page 55:
text: He particularly liked the box full of "companions," small, hand-held mechs with advanced AI functions, programmed as individual advice and information systems.
ref: 2001, Robert I. Katz, Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future, page 100:
text: She grew up in Lower Manhattan, suffering the impeccably programmed attentions of the nanny mechs that did the work her mother and father couldn't be bothered with.
ref: 2006, Lou Anders, Futureshocks, page 75:
text: After a round of hugs and kisses, they headed to the lounge where Genie met them at the door and escorted them to the new VIP section followed by a mech that took their drink orders.
ref: 2019, Ron S. Nolan, Met Chron New-Humans:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: robot
hyponyms: android
mechanoid
glosses: A robot.
examples: text: Yes, Switchitis. It's a highly contagious disease which can affect all propeller mechs. This disease can be costly, but usually not to the mechs. They're just the carriers. The people most affected by this disease are the flightcrews – those fearless adventurers who go flying around in machines that you mechs have worked on.
ref: 1979, Daved V. Arel, “Switchitis”, in Mech, page 6:
glosses: Clipping of mechanic.
glosses: Clipping of mechanics.
examples: text: front/rear mech
text: To fit a braze-on front mech without breaking the chain, remove the nut and bolt from the chain cage, as shown.
ref: 2011, Fred Milson, Complete Bike Maintenance, MVP Books, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Campagnolo made one more giant step forward when the company developed the first parallelogram rear mechanism—the Gran Sport—in 1951. Its parallelogram action and double jockey wheels are how all rear mechanisms (or rear mechs for short) operate today.
ref: 2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 54:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of (derailleur) mechanism.
Derived terms: mech hanger
stat mech
Related terms: mecha
CAS
mech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of mechanical.
glosses: Abbreviation of mechanized.
surface runoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface runoffs
Etymology: From surface + runoff.
Senses: examples: text: When there is very heavy rainfall on California hillsides over a prolonged period, there is almost always ensuing surface runoff.
synonyms: stormwater
runoff[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
glosses: Overland flow of excess water (with or without accumulated contaminants) that cannot be absorbed by the ground as infiltration.
wikipedia: surface runoff
Related terms: precipitation
wastewater
csárdás
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: csárdáses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of csardas.
armaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armament
gestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gestores
Etymology: From Latin gestor.
Senses: examples: STANDARD BANK FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD v TAYLAM (PTY) LTD 1979 (2) SA 383 (C) @p388.
his quasi- contractual relationship was brought about where the gestor, acting without a mandate, rendered a service to the dominus - in this instance the debtor - and in doing so acted reasonably and in the interest of the dominus with the intention not only of administering the affairs of the dominus but also of being compensated for such administration.
topics: law
glosses: A manager of another's affairs.
Kolar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, southern India.
Kolar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolars
Etymology: Ultimately, from Proto-Slavic *kolařь (“wheelwright”), via various languages, including:
* Czech Kolář, from kolář.
* Slovak Kolár, from kolár.
* Serbo-Croatian Kolar, from kolar.
* Slovene Kolar, from kolar.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unimaginative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪv/
Forms: form: more unimaginative
form: most unimaginative
Etymology: From un- + imaginative.
Senses: examples: text: For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 251:
text: Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
text: His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than "chromium-plated" inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
synonyms: uncreative
uninventive
uninspired
unoriginal
antonyms: imaginative
glosses: Not imaginative.
Derived terms: unimaginatively
unimaginativeness
twosome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːsəm/
rhymes: -uːsəm
Etymology: From Middle English twosome, equivalent to two + -some. Cognate with Scots twasome, twaesome (“twosome”).
Senses: glosses: Being or constituting a pair; two.
glosses: Twofold; double.
examples: text: a twosome dance
glosses: Performed by two individuals.
Synonyms: sense: twofold
word: twissel
word: twofold
Derived terms: gruesome twosome
twosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːsəm/
rhymes: -uːsəm
Forms: form: twosomes
Etymology: From two + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And I was tooling along a mossy path with the brow a bit wet with honest sweat, when there came to my ears the unmistakable sound of somebody reading poetry to someone, and the next moment I found myself confronting a mixed twosome who had dropped anchor beneath a shady tree in what is known as a leafy glade.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
glosses: A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
glosses: A dance for two people.
Synonyms: sense: group of two
word: duet
word: duo
word: pair
trove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəʊv/
ipa: /tɹoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Forms: form: troves
Etymology: Originally in the phrase treasure trove, from Anglo-Norman tresor trouvé (“found treasure”), where the past participle trouvé (“found”) was interpreted in English as a noun. Doublet of trope.
Senses: glosses: A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.
glosses: A collection of things.
mala fide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: malâ fide
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin malā fidē (“in bad faith”).
Senses: examples: text: Having regard to this dictum it is clear to me that the plaintiff cannot rely on negotiorum gestorum to recover damages. The gestor, ie the plaintiff, did not intend to serve the dominus, ie the defendants. The gestor did not act bona fide in the mistaken belief that he was serving the dominus. It was the plaintiff's evidence that in an attempt to preserve its good name and reputation it was decided to accept the cancellation of the agreement. It is thus clear that the gestor, the plaintiff acted mala fide in its own interest. In my view, the plaintiff cannot succeed on this principle of negotiorum gestorum.
ref: 2001, Maritime Motors (PTY) LTD v Von Steiger and another, 2001 (2) SA 584 (SE) @ 600
topics: law
antonyms: bona fide
glosses: In bad faith.
archrival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: archrivals
form: arch rival
form: arch-rival
Etymology: From arch- + rival.
Senses: examples: text: The New York Yankees are playing their archrival the Boston Red Sox tonight.
synonyms: archcompetitor
glosses: A chief rival.
Derived terms: archrivalry
aptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp(t).li/
homophone: happily (in some h-dropping accents)
Forms: form: more aptly
form: most aptly
Etymology: From apt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: an aptly named hotel
text: My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.
text: The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
text: The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
glosses: In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably
apologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: apologists
Etymology: From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.
Senses: examples: text: […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430:
text: A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.
ref: 2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
glosses: One who makes an apology.
One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
glosses: One who makes an apology.
Synonym of apologizer.
synonyms: word: apologizer
Derived terms: Mopologist
Related terms: apologete
apologetic
apologeticism
apologetics
apologia
apologism
apologize
apologise
apologizer
apologiser
apology
apologetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apologetically
form: most apologetically
Etymology: From apologetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: In an apologetic manner; by way of defense, apology or excuse.
Synonyms: apologizingly
apathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apathetically
form: most apathetically
Etymology: From apathetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an apathetic manner.
overillumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-illumination
Etymology: From over- + illumination.
Senses: glosses: Excess light supplied beyond the amount required for a given task.
glosses: Wasted light through illumination of an unoccupied space, creating energy wastage.
examples: text: The building's architect failed to account for natural light availability and specified more lighting fixtures than needed, resulting in over-illumination and leading to increased headache incidence for some building occupants.
glosses: Excessive or annoying light producing glare, annoyance and adverse health effects.
Related terms: light pollution
light trespass
skyglow
Gowda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gowdas
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಗೌಡ (gauḍa); this surname is predominantly found in Karnataka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kannada.
antidiarrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + diarrheal.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or treating diarrhea.
antidiarrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidiarrheals
Etymology: From anti- + diarrheal.
Senses: glosses: A substance or drug having such capabilities.
Andhra Pradesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.dɹə pɹəˈdɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi आंध्र प्रदेश (āndhra pradeś).
Senses: glosses: A state in southeastern India, where Telugu is the primary language. Capital: Amaravati.
batching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batch
interrogated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interrogate
retreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retreat
retreating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retreatings
Senses: examples: text: But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 319:
glosses: The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
deregistrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deregistration