cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hard sledding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When things got so Wolfe had to cut down expenses […], Saul Panzer and I got our weekly envelopes sliced, but [Fred] Durkin's was stopped altogether. Wolfe called him in when he was needed and paid him by the day, so I still saw him off and on and knew he was having hard sledding.[…]
"Hello, Fred do I owe you something?"
[…]"How are you, Mr. Wolfe. I wish to God you did. If there was anybody owed me anything I'd be with him like a saddle on a horse."
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Difficulties, generally; a rough time.
Related terms: tough sledding
rough sledding
howdedo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in, a husky, busy-looking man in a blue suit and black shoes, with a stiff straw hat.[…] The girl said, "Howdedo, Mr. Cook, Mr. Derwin's in Mr. Anderson's room."
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of how do you do.
howdedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howdedos
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of how do you do.
the apple does not fall far from the tree
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the apple does not fall far from the stem
form: the apple does not fall far from the trunk
form: the apple never falls far from the tree
Senses: examples: text: It is impossible to look at Madam Rhen, without at once making the conclusion that she is pleasantness, hospitality, and loquacity itself; nor can one look upon her daughter Renetta without thinking, "the apple does not fall far from the tree!"
ref: 1842, Frederika Bremer, chapter 10, in E. A. Freidlaender, transl., The Neighbours:
text: It's important that I know what diseases affect other members of your immediate family, because "the apple does not fall far from the tree."
ref: 1978 July 3, Dr. Isador Rosenfeld, “Doctor Asks Patient ‘Where The Action Is’”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 16 Oct 2010, page C1:
glosses: A child grows up to be similar to its parents, both in behavior and in physical characteristics.
Related terms: a wild goose never laid a tame egg
birds of a feather flock together
chip off the old block
cut from the same cloth
like attracts like
like father, like son
like mother, like daughter
the nut does not fall far from the tree
behavioralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioralisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of behaviouralism.
Derived terms: neobehavioralism
postbehavioralism
flavine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavines
Senses: examples: text: I cleaned it with saline, packed the cavities with gauze soaked in flavine, and rebandaged.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 205:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flavin.
impressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impressional
form: most impressional
Etymology: From impression + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of an impression.
interpretatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interpretatively
form: most interpretatively
Etymology: From interpretative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an interpretative manner
glosses: With regard to interpretation
longsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
Derived terms: longsightedness
maincrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maincrops
Etymology: From main + crop.
Senses: glosses: The principal vegetable crop of a season (excluding early and late varieties).
malpresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malpresentations
Etymology: From mal- + presentation.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery
Related terms: malpresent
breech birth
meadowland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowlands
Etymology: From meadow + land.
Senses: glosses: A tract of land cultivated as a meadow.
menorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menorrhœa
form: menorrhea
Etymology: From meno- (“menstruation”) + -rrhoea (“flowing”).
Senses: glosses: menstrual bleeding
Derived terms: amenorrhoeic
oligomenorrhoea
Related terms: menorrhagia
metrorrhagia
metachrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from meta- + Greek khrōs colour
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The ability to change colour by the expansion and contraction of chromatophores
microanalyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microanalysers
Etymology: From micro- + analyser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of microanalyzer.
mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪn.dɪdˌli/
Forms: form: more mindedly
form: most mindedly
Etymology: From minded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the specified minded manner
Derived terms: absent-mindedly
bloody-mindedly
broad-mindedly
civic-mindedly
closed-mindedly
close-mindedly
double-mindedly
even-mindedly
fair-mindedly
feeble-mindedly
high-mindedly
liberal-mindedly
light-mindedly
low-mindedly
narrow-mindedly
open-mindedly
right-mindedly
simple-mindedly
single-mindedly
small-mindedly
soft-mindedly
strong-mindedly
tender-mindedly
tough-mindedly
weak-mindedly
wrong-mindedly
minibeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibeasts
Etymology: From mini- + beast.
Senses: glosses: A small terrestrial creature; including arthropods, gastropods, worms etc.
secretaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secretary
secretarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of secretary
minidisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minidiscs
Etymology: From mini- + disc.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A disc/disk in MiniDisc format
examples: Jayne K. Guberman (2005), In our own voices ― A guide to conducting life history interviews with American Jewish women, page 20: “Make sure that your minidisc has microphone inputs. Hand-held, high-quality microphones may need a preamplifier to work with a minidisc.”
glosses: A minidisc player or recorder.
Synonyms: MD
MiniDisc
minifundium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minifundia
Senses: glosses: A smallholding, in Latin America, that is too small to support a family
motor cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor cops
Senses: examples: text: I kept my speedometer at forty or under; Wolfe had told Anderson this would be unostentatious, and besides, I wasn't in the mood for repartee with a motor cop.
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: A policeman driving a motorcycle.
motor cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor cop
mismated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismate
mismated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mismated
form: most mismated
Senses: glosses: Provided with an unsuitable mate
mithridatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθrəˈdeɪdaɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪθrɪdeɪtʌɪz/
ipa: /mɪˈθrɪdətʌɪz/
Forms: form: mithridatizes
form: mithridatizing
form: mithridatized
form: mithridatized
form: mithridatise
form: mithradatize
Etymology: From Mithridates + -ize, in reference to Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Senses: examples: text: Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last.
ref: 1866, J.R. Lowell, letter
text: Poisonous snakes are... ‘mithridatised’ in regard to their own poison.
ref: 1890, E.R. Lankester, The Advancement of Science, page 114:
text: Her experiences in high school gradually mithridatized her to the ways of men.
glosses: To make immune to a poison by administration of gradually increasing doses.
wikipedia: Mithridates VI of Pontus
Pontus
Derived terms: mithridatization
monolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolatries
Etymology: From mono- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: A belief system with one god who can take on multiple faces (the One and the Many). Coined by Egyptologist Erik Hornung in his book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many to characterise Kemetic religions (northern Egypt; Nile delta).
synonyms: monolatrism
hypernyms: henotheism
glosses: The worship of a single deity (possibly while believing in the existence of others).
Related terms: monolater
monolatrist
monolatrous
motherwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðəwəːt/
Forms: form: motherworts
Etymology: From Middle English moderwort; equivalent to mother + wort.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, it makes women joyful and mothers of children and settles their wombs as they should be; therefore we call it Motherwort.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 195:
text: —Miss Luna, muffling up her head,
Went with the ague, straight to bed,
Put out her lamp, and bade them tell
She could not hear her mistress' bell,
Begg'd them with motherwort to dose her,
And drew her cloudy night-cap closer.—
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Comet of 1825, page 151:
glosses: Any of several perennial plants of the genus Leonurus, especially Leonurus cardiaca, used in traditional medicine to help with childbirth or treat uterine disorders.
glosses: common wormwood, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris).
Derived terms: man's motherwort
mothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mothier
form: mothiest
Etymology: From moth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He felt a flutter of panic, a commotion of mothy wings at his throat.
ref: 2012, Griffin Hansbury, The Nostalgist:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a moth.
glosses: infested with moths
glosses: moth-eaten
musculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌ.skjʊl.əs/
ipa: /ˈmʌ.skjəl.əs/
homophone: musculus
rhymes: -ʌskjʊləs
Forms: form: more musculous
form: most musculous
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Middle French musculeux (“composed of muscle”), from Latin mūsculōsus (“muscular, fleshy”), from mūsculus (“a little mouse; a muscle”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he rest of the capacity of the clusters was […] in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with fibres tending from the center or bottom outwards […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, Observ. XXXIX. Of the Eyes and Head of a Grey drone-Fly, and of several other creatures, page 177:
glosses: Made up of muscle or muscle tissue; muscular.
glosses: Characterised by well-developed muscles; muscular, muscly.
glosses: Pertaining to muscle; involving the use of muscles; muscular.
Derived terms: muscular
needleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlefuls
Etymology: From needle + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much thread as is put into a needle at one time.
nitrochalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + chalk.
Senses: glosses: A fertilizer consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate and chalk.
nonvisibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + visibility.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonvisible
notecase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notecases
Etymology: From note + case.
Senses: glosses: A wallet or billfold (for holding banknotes).
notecases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notecase
oilcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilcakes
Etymology: From oil + cake.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oil cake.
orectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more orectic
form: most orectic
Senses: examples: text: The desire to know definitely and presciently is also one of the most urgent of the instincts proper of man; it leads him on to the most mystical speculations as to the future, and is the orectic basis of all the arts of divination, as well as of scientific Proleptics or anticipation of the order of nature.
ref: 1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain, page 94:
glosses: Of or pertaining to desire or appetite
Related terms: orective
orexis
come a long way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes a long way
form: coming a long way
form: came a long way
form: come a long way
Senses: examples: text: Computer-generated graphics have come a long way in the past few decades.
glosses: To make significant progress.
ostensory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostensories
Etymology: Derived from French ostensoir.
Senses: glosses: monstrance
outmodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outmoded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being outmoded.
outwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwatches
form: outwatching
form: outwatched
form: outwatched
Etymology: From out- + watch.
Senses: glosses: To watch more than someone else.
glosses: To maintain a vigil beyond the end.
outworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outworlds
Etymology: From out- + world.
Senses: examples: text: Shepard, it's been two years since you had a job. Isn't it time you rectified that?
Exciting opportunities await Alliance citizens like you on the outworld colonies.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2019, PC, scene: Citadel Zakera Level 27 Advertisement:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A planet that is remote from the homeworld of a civilization.
topics: fantasy
glosses: Any civilization seen as remote from the speaker's perspective.
Derived terms: outworlder
overcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overchecks
Etymology: From over- + check.
Senses: glosses: A check pattern that is superimposed upon another pattern
glosses: A strap that stretches from the pollstrap of the bridle to the saddle
overcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overchecks
form: overchecking
form: overchecked
form: overchecked
Etymology: From over- + check.
Senses: examples: text: When making a trade, err on the side of overchecking the contract details.
ref: 2010, Euan Sinclair, Option Trading: Pricing and Volatility Strategies and Techniques, page 20:
glosses: To check or verify more than necessary.
overcrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcrops
form: overcropping
form: overcropped
form: overcropped
Etymology: From over- + crop.
Senses: glosses: To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility
overdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdamps
form: overdamping
form: overdamped
form: overdamped
Etymology: From over- + damp.
Senses: glosses: To damp a system more than would be necessary to prevent oscillation
overdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdamp
form: most overdamp
Etymology: From over- + damp.
Senses: examples: text: One day, as her husband was ill, she went into the field to help gather in potatoes; the overdamp soil was rotting them, and there was no time to be lost.
ref: 2013, Sarah Bernhardt, My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, →ISBN:
glosses: overly damp.
overdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)deɪt/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈdeɪt/
Forms: form: overdates
Etymology: From over- + date.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A coin on which one date is superimposed over traces of another (due to reuse of a die).
overdate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)deɪt/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈdeɪt/
Forms: form: overdates
form: overdating
form: overdated
form: overdated
Etymology: From over- + date.
Senses: examples: text: And had he also redeem'd his overdated minority from a Pupillage under Bishops, he would much less have mistrusted his Parlament[…]
ref: 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:
glosses: To date later than the true or proper period.
Synonyms: word: postdate
word: overdate
Hypernyms: word: misdate
overfulfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfulfills
form: overfulfilling
form: overfulfilled
form: overfulfilled
form: overfulfil
Etymology: From over- + fulfill.
Senses: glosses: To do or provide more than is needed to fulfill (a quota etc.).
paraprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraproteins
Etymology: From para- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in the blood only as a result of disease
Derived terms: paraproteinemia
parentcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛəɹəntkɹɑːft/
ipa: /ˈpɛəɹəntkɹæft/
ipa: /ˈpeə-/
ipa: /ˈpæ-/
Etymology: From parent + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: The Court report […] received evidence from some that parentcraft classes in hospital were helpful and from others that they conflict with primary health care, and particularly with the work of health visitors.
ref: 1980 January, Gillian [Mary] Pugh, “Antenatal Services”, in Gillian Pugh, editor, Preparation for Parenthood: Some Current Initiatives & Thinking, London: National Children's Bureau, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Parentcraft included traditional female activities of cooking, home management and budgeting and child care, but also gardening and woodwork, and 'knowledge of civic and public affairs'. Both parents had a role to play in promoting home life and the family.
ref: 2003, Linda Bryder, “Helen Deem and Paediatrics, 1939–56”, in A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907–2000, Auckland: Auckland University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: The expectations of pregnant women and their families is that within the pregnancy there will be some kind of antenatal education. This may be within an NHS [National Health Service] setting and taught by midwives (sometimes referred to as ‘parentcraft’) or women may seek private sector classes.
ref: 2016, Teri Gavin-Jones, Sandra Handford, “The History of Antenatal Education”, in Hypnobirth: Evidence, Practice and Support for Birth Professionals, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: The skills and knowledge used by parents in raising children.
pasteurellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasteurelloses
Etymology: Pasteurella + -osis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Pasteurella.
pattypan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattypans
head_nr: 1
form: pattipan
Etymology: From patty + pan.
Senses: examples: text: I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.
ref: 1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June
head_nr: 2
glosses: A pan used for baking patties.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash.
pearlware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearlwares
Etymology: From pearl + -ware.
Senses: glosses: creamware
penicillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penicillate
form: most penicillate
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: tufty
glosses: Having tufts of fine hairs, or in the form of a tuft of fine hairs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a pencil.
Derived terms: penicillately
subpenicillate
Related terms: penicillus
perennate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perennates
form: perennating
form: perennated
form: perennated
Etymology: From Latin perennō.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To survive from one growing season to the next
Related terms: perennation
perennial
overcrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcrop
overcropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcrop
perichondrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perichondria
Etymology: peri- + chondro- + -ium
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a dense layer of fibrous connective tissue surrounding the cartilage of developing bone
Derived terms: perichondrial
overcropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcrop
pileated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a pileus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pileate
glosses: Having a crest covering the pileum.
Derived terms: pileated gibbon
pileated woodpecker
pileum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: pilea
Etymology: From Latin pileum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.
Related terms: pileated
pileus
game port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game ports
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An I/O port, on earlier PCs, used for the attachment of a joystick or similar hardware
neurosecretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + secretory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing neurosecretion
game ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game port
globed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of globe
globed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Removing a globed candle from its stand, she made her way across the palace and out the far door, then down the pebbled path toward the fruit orchard.
ref: 2003, Robin Hardy, Nicole of Prie Mer, page 222:
antonyms: unglobed
glosses: Enclosed in a globe.
superstation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstations
Etymology: From super- + station.
Senses: glosses: A television station that broadcasts nationwide by means of a satellite carrier.
Supyire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language, of the Senufo group, spoken in southeastern Mali
Wolfeana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Wolfe + -ana.
Senses: glosses: Things, generally, connected with someone with the surname Wolfe, especially Thomas Wolfe.
gishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gish
for one's particular
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: For my own particular, I cannot deny, that whatever I have ſaid upon this Occaſion, had been more proper in a Preface, and more agreeable to the Mode, which uſually directs it there.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section V. A Digression in the Modern Kind.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: For one's part; as far as one is concerned.
in gross
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the gross
Senses: glosses: Roughly; approximately; generally; without going into details.
glosses: In a large quantity or sum; without division or particulars; by wholesale.
examples: an easement in gross, a hereditary office held in gross
topics: law
glosses: Held independently of anything else; not annexed to or appended to anything else.
any nook or cranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: any nooks or crannies
form: any old nook or cranny
Senses: examples: text: This book could be in any nook or cranny of the house.
text: An absolute system cannot afford to leave any nook or cranny of existence unexplored.
ref: 1893, David George Ritchie, Andrew Seth, “Darwin and Hegel” (chapter II), in Darwin and Hegel: With Other Philosophical Studies, page 72, footnote 1; quoting Hegelianism and Personality, 2nd edition, (Please provide a date or year), page 213, footnote:
glosses: Any part of a place; anywhere.
Related terms: every nook and cranny
any old nook or cranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Aunt Dahlia] had done Wilbert well where sleeping accommodation was concerned. What he had drawn when clocking in at Brinkley Court was the room known as the Blue Room, a signal honour to be accorded to a bachelor guest, amounting to being given star billing, for at Brinkley, as at most country-houses, any old nook or cranny is considered good enough for the celibate contingent. My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: Alternative form of any nook or cranny.
nook or cranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nooks or crannies
Senses: examples: text: There was not one nook or cranny in the house to hide it.
text: There's not a nook or cranny that I haven't looked in.
text: Everyone went to sleep in some nook or cranny of the house.
glosses: A place or part of a place, especially one that is small, remote, or tedious to access.
Synonyms: english: positive sentences
translation: positive sentences
word: nook and cranny
Derived terms: any nook or cranny
any old nook or cranny
every old nook and cranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of every nook and cranny.
ethylphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylphenols
Etymology: From ethyl + phenol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric ethyl derivatives of phenol, but especially 4-ethylphenol, which is responsible for a musty smell in some wines.
Nestorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nestorian
form: most Nestorian
Etymology: From Nestor + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A Nestorian stele, dated 781AD, was discovered in 1625 near Chang'an.
text: Through them passed not only the traders of the Silk Route[…] but also lone Buddhist monks carrying precious cargoes of scrolls in their backpacks, white-robed Manichean sages from Iran and austere Nestorian clerics who founded Christian monasteries even in remote Tibet.
ref: 1995 November 25, Michael Gibson, “The Treasures of a Lost Buddhist World”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
glosses: Relating to teachings or to the followers of Nestorius.
Derived terms: Nestorianist
Nestorianize
Nestorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nestorians
Etymology: From Nestor + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: After his return he bitterly complained of being called a Nestorian by the Monophysite Philoxenus, declaring that he "knew nothing" of Nestorius.
glosses: A perceived follower of Nestorius in the fourth and fifth centuries. A member of a Nestorian church.
Related terms: Nestorius
Nestorianism
monophysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophysites
Senses: examples: text: Christianity had already established itself in Arabia. In Yemen, the city of Nagrân had become the seat of a Christian bishopric, and some of the more important tribes, like Kindeh and Ghassân, had embraced Christianity, which was also the religion of most of the Arabs of Syria.
But it had not penetrated deeply into their hearts, and its miracles, its doctrine of the Trinity, and the subtle disputes of monophysites and monothelites were absolutely incomprehensible to them.
ref: 1880, The Qurʼân, translated by Edward Henry Palmer, in Sacred Books of the East, by Max Müller, editor ; The Clarendon Press ; vol. 6, p. ⅹⅳ
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Monophysite.
Coordinate terms: monothelite
monophysite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monophysite
form: most monophysite
Senses: examples: text: It followed that however orthodox the Emperor might desire to be, he was forced, if he was a wise man, to take account of the strong bodies of monophysite opinion, which were to be found in Constantinople, in Mesopotamia, in Syria and in Egypt.
ref: 1957, H. A. L. Fisher, A history of Europe, Edward Arnold publishers, page 135:
glosses: Describing the beliefs of a Μonophysite.
Monophysites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monophysite
Nestorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nestorian
earth plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth plates
Senses: glosses: An electrode, in the form of a metal plate buried in external soil, used to earth the electrical system of a building
disquisitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disquisitors
Senses: glosses: A person who makes a disquisition; an inquirer or investigator.
Derived terms: disquisitorial
green labelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green labeling
Senses: taxonomic: Canada spelling
glosses: Any of various labelling systems intended to help customers make informed choices concerning the environmental consequences of the manufacture, use and disposal of a product.
Related terms: green label
great grandmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great grandmasters
Etymology: From great + grandmaster.
Senses: glosses: A grandmaster, in some field, whose skills or accomplishments exceed those of other grandmasters.
NC-17
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only suitable for adults.
raw_tags: of a movie
Coordinate terms: G
M
PG
PG-13
R
X
pseudanthium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudanthia
Etymology: From pseudo- + Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An inflorescence that looks and functions as if it were a single flower.
allograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæləɡɹæf/
/ˈæləɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: allographs
Etymology: From allo- + -graph.
Senses: coordinate_terms: homoglyph
glosses: A variant form of a letter (or other grapheme).
coordinate_terms: autograph
glosses: A signature made by one person for another.
backsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsaws
Etymology: From back + saw.
Senses: glosses: A handsaw that has a reinforcement along its back edge.
backsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backsaws
form: backsawing
form: backsawed
form: backsawed
form: backsawn
Etymology: From back + saw.
Senses: glosses: To cut with a backsaw.
bastard wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard wing
very important persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of very important person
kinocilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪnəˈsɪliəm/
rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: kinocilia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”) + Latin cilium (“eyelid”)
Senses: glosses: A special type of cilium on the apex of hair cells, located in the sensory epithelium of the vertebrate inner ear and involved in the senses of movement and hearing.
Derived terms: kinocilial
kinociliary
kinocilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinocilium
Derived terms: kinociliar
flaskless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flask + -less.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Without a flask (container for holding a casting mold).
mouldability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mould + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moldability.
moldable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moldable
form: most moldable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouldable.
Synonyms: word: ductile
word: fictile
word: formable
word: moldable
word: plastic
word: sequacious
word: shapeable
Derived terms: remoldable
thermomoldable
Related terms: word: argillaceous
word: deformable
word: extensible
word: extensile
word: malleable
word: pliable
word: pliant
word: remoldable
word: reshapeable
word: tractable
word: tractile
word: flexible
word: soft
word: moldability
green sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green sands
Etymology: Green in the sense of being used in a wet state (akin to green wood).
Senses: glosses: An aggregate of sand, bentonite clay, pulverized coal, and water, used in making moulds for metal casting.
stellified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stellify
stellified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Orion is a stellified hunter[…]
ref: 1983, Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope, page 31:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Placed in the heavens by the gods in the form of a celestial body.
floribunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floribundas
Etymology: From Rosa floribunda.
Senses: glosses: A rose cultivar, having large sprays of small flowers, made by crossing polyantha and hybrid tea rose varieties.
tea-urns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-urn
beamspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamspaces
Etymology: From beam + space.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A beam of particles treated as a mathematical space.
circulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulant
consumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consumption
nonexchangable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonexchangeable.
unexchangable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unexchangeable.
unexchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exchangeable.
Senses: glosses: Not exchangeable.
exchangable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exchangeable.
cyclinac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclinacs
Etymology: Blend of cyclotron + linac
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle accelerator in the form of a high-gradient linac driven by a large-current cyclotron
cyclinacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclinac
moldability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouldability
Etymology: From mold + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being moldable.
Synonyms: word: ductility
word: extendibility
word: extensibility
word: malleability
word: moldability
word: plasticity
word: pliancy
word: pliability
word: pliableness
word: sequacity
word: suppleness
Hypernyms: word: softness
Related terms: word: moldable
disconnectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disconnectivities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being disconnective.
disconnective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disconnective
form: most disconnective
Etymology: From disconnect + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by disconnection.
Derived terms: disconnectively
disconnectiveness
beamtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beamtime
beamstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beamstop
isostaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isostatic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being isostatic.
klystrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klystron
mesogranular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + granular.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of mesogranules
mesogranule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesogranules
Etymology: From meso- + granule.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A medium-sized structure in solar granulation
mesogranules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesogranule
postselected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + selected.
Senses: glosses: selected following another process
Related terms: postselection
protograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protographs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin protographum.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: The original manuscript of a given text, from which all further copies derive.
protograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protographs
Etymology: From proto- + graph.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A projected graph.
protographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protograph
quantumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒntəmli/
Etymology: From quantum + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Make a transistor too small, for example, and electrons within it can simply vanish from one place and reappear in another because their location is quantumly indeterminate.
ref: 2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist:
glosses: In a quantum manner; in terms of quantum theory; according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
examples: text: 'What's different now,' said Grove, 'is that the landscape of the city has changed again, as inevitably it does, and the number of people who want a production from the Manhattan Theatre Club has grown sort of quantumly[.]'
ref: 1996, John W. Pereira, Opening Nights: 25 Years of the Manhattan Theatre Club, page 323:
text: So today, I am here today to talk about something equally important and quantumly more interesting I have to say.
ref: 2012, Bola Essien-Nelson, The Diary of a Desperate Naija Woman in the Year 2011, page 142:
text: SEC chairman Isabella Huang-Loh said told reporters on Tuesday (Jul 31) that plastic bag usage in Singapore has 'quantumly grown' over the years.
ref: 2018 July 31, Aqil Haziq Mahmud, “Singapore shoppers take 820 million plastic bags from supermarkets each year: Study”, in Channel NewsAsia:
glosses: Involving a massive increase, especially over a short time or seemingly at once; in one giant leap forwards.
roundings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rounding
astylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astylar
form: most astylar
Etymology: From a- + stylar.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Lacking columns or pilasters
beastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beestings (“first milk after giving birth”).
beastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beasting
bifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + -fold.
Senses: glosses: Twofold, double.
examples: text: O madneſſe of diſcourſe, / That cauſe ſets vp with and againſt it ſelfe, / By-fould authority : where reaſon can reuolte / Without perdition, and loſſe aſſume all reaſon, / Without reuolt.
ref: , Act V, Scene II, page 77
glosses: Of two kinds.
blowdart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowdarts
Etymology: From blow + dart.
Senses: glosses: A dart fired from a blowpipe or blowgun.
branchlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchlets
Etymology: From branch + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small branch; a twig or sprig.
burgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡɹeɪv/
ipa: /ˈbɜɹɡɹeɪv/
Forms: form: burgraves
form: burggraf
form: burggrave
form: burgraf
Etymology: From German Burggraf, from Burg (“castle”) + Graf (“count”). Compare Dutch burggraaf, French burgrave. See margrave.
Senses: glosses: The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.
glosses: One who holds a hereditary title, with an associated domain, descended from an ancestor who commanded a burg, especially in German-speaking Europe.
Derived terms: burgravine
carburize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carburizes
form: carburizing
form: carburized
form: carburized
Senses: glosses: To treat or react with carbon
glosses: To carbonize
Derived terms: carburizable
carburization
decarburize
nitrocarburize
noncarburized
recarburize
Related terms: carburization
carburizer
carburate
carburation
carpophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpophores
Etymology: From carpo- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stem of the fruiting body in higher fungi.
centurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From century + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a century.
Derived terms: supercenturial
cephalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalizations
Etymology: From cephal- + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An evolutionary trend in which the neural and sense organs become centralized at one end (the head) of an animal.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The redistribution of blood flow from the base of the lung towards the upper lobe vessels as a consequence of pulmonary venous hypertension, usually described on a chest radiograph.
Related terms: telencephalization
chickaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickarees
Etymology: Onomatopoeia from its cry; compare chickadee.
Senses: examples: text: We heard the sound of the chickaree
ref: 1864, Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods:
glosses: A small squirrel, one of the species of Tamiasciurus, that lives in evergreen forests of North America.
chlamydate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chlamydate
form: most chlamydate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a mantle or fringe
raw_tags: of some molluscs
communalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communalisms
Etymology: From communal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The communal ownership of property.
glosses: Any social system based around a community.
examples: Near-synonym: sectarianism
glosses: Stoking conflict or discrimination based on religious identity.
Derived terms: ecocommunalism
Related terms: word: commune
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: communism
word: res communis
communard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communards
Etymology: From French communard.
Senses: examples: text: Revealing much flesh if rather less personality, Ms. Avelon throws herself into the role of the real-life Obermaier, a one-woman counterculture who was variously, often simultaneously, a model and a communard, a groupie and a globe-trotter, a feminist and a free-lover, a brat and a goddess.
ref: 2008 July 11, Nathan Lee, “The Life of a World-Class Sex Kitten”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who lives in a commune.
Communard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Communards
Senses: glosses: A member of the Paris Commune of 1871.
glosses: A supporter of their cause.
playout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playouts
Etymology: From play + out.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The transmission of radio or television channels from the broadcaster into the networks that deliver them to the audience.
examples: text: Cyprus and Kazakhstan have sent Estonia and Moldova down to League D following their UEFA Nations League play-out ties.
ref: 2022 March 29, “Nations League play-outs: Cyprus oust Estonia, Kazakhstan edge out Moldova”, in UEFA Nations League:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (also play-out) A relegation playoff; a game or short series of games needed to decide relegation.
playouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playout
chickarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickaree
communicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From communication + -al.
Senses: glosses: That communicates
examples: text: Too often writing—in the broadest sense—is treated as a communicational medium where the subjects of that communication are constituted prior to the writing, where the objects of that communication are also constituted prior to that writing, and where the task of writing is seen as transparently mediating between already pregiven subjects, pregiven objects, and a preconstituted mise en scène.
ref: 2015, “Staging the Politics of Difference: Homi Bhabha's Critical Literacy, Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham.”, in Gary A. Olson, Lynn Worsham, Henry A. Giroux, editors, Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination, page 133:
glosses: Relating to communications
Derived terms: communicationally
noncommunicational
communalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communalism
communards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communard
constructionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more constructionally
form: most constructionally
Etymology: From constructional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a constructional manner
glosses: With regard to construction
continuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuators
Etymology: From continue + -ator or continuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Sheinbaum, who lacks his charisma and political acumen, is seen as the continuator of his political project.
ref: 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2024:
glosses: A person who continues the work of another.
cornetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornetfishes
form: cornetfish
Etymology: From cornet + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several slender, elongate tropical fish, of the family Fistulariidae, that live in shallow water
coupage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: The blending (or cutting) of wine.
cranage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cranages
Etymology: From Middle English cranage, from crane + -age.
Senses: examples: text: If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House , there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
ref: 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:
text: On the short sea route there was continued demand for non-containerised traffic, and a trans-shipment depot was established by an independent haulier at Stranraer in 1979, with overhead cranage to handle steel products from Teesside that justified running a daily Speedlink service from north east England.
ref: 2020 November 18, Industry Insider, “Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: The use of a crane to hoist goods.
glosses: Fees paid for use of the crane.
Coordinate terms: demurrage
shippage
shorage
tonnage
wharfage
daysail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daysails
form: daysailing
form: daysailed
form: daysailed
Etymology: From day + sail.
Senses: glosses: To sail a yacht for a single day, or to sail by day with overnight accommodation on land
decapsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæpsjəleɪt/
Forms: form: decapsulates
form: decapsulating
form: decapsulated
form: decapsulated
Etymology: From de- + capsule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To remove a capsule (especially from the kidney).
decarburize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decarburizes
form: decarburizing
form: decarburized
form: decarburized
Etymology: From de- + carburize.
Senses: coordinate_terms: recarburize
glosses: Synonym of decarbonize.
synonyms: word: decarbonize
raw_tags: of steel
Related terms: word: decarburization