cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scrootch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrootches
form: scrootching
form: scrootched
form: scrootched
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scrooch.
incapsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incapsulates
form: incapsulating
form: incapsulated
form: incapsulated
Etymology: From in- + capsule + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encapsulate.
Barlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːləʊ/
ipa: /bɑɹloʊ/
Forms: form: Barlowe
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + hlǣw (“hill”) or lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Senses: glosses: The name of villages in north-eastern England:
A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3474).
glosses: The name of villages in north-eastern England:
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6428).
glosses: The name of villages in north-eastern England:
A small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ1560).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English originating from one of these villages.
glosses: The name of several places in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
A minor city in Ballard County, Kentucky.
glosses: The name of several places in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
An extinct town in Wayne County, Missouri.
glosses: The name of several places in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
An unincorporated community in Foster County, North Dakota.
glosses: The name of several places in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: The name of several places in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
A minor city in Clackamas County, Oregon.
glosses: A community in Yukon, Canada.
Derived terms: Barlow knife
Barlow's disease
Barlow lens
Barlow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːləʊ/
ipa: /bɑɹloʊ/
Forms: form: Barlows
form: Barlowe
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + hlǣw (“hill”) or lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A Barlow lens.
deigneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: deign + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deign
sarrusophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹuːsəˌfəʊn/
Forms: form: sarrusophones
Etymology: From Pierre-Auguste Sarrus, French bandmaster.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of a family of wind instruments intended to replace the oboe and bassoon in bands.
wikipedia: Pierre-Auguste Sarrus
schematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskiːmətaiz/
Forms: form: schematizes
form: schematizing
form: schematized
form: schematized
Etymology: Compare French schématiser, from Ancient Greek σχημᾰτίζω (skhēmătízō, “I assume a position”).
Senses: glosses: To organize according to a scheme.
glosses: To distort and simplify for the purpose of highlighting certain characteristics.
glosses: To make a plan in outline.
frondose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frondose
form: most frondose
Etymology: From Latin frondōsus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Leafy.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Possessing a frond, not discoid.
Derived terms: frondosely
rotative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more rotative
form: most rotative
Etymology: Compare French rotatif.
Senses: examples: 1882, March 9, "On the Conservation of Solar Energy", Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Nature
This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere.
glosses: Turning; rotary; rotational.
Derived terms: rotative engine
bastardy bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastardy bonds
Senses: glosses: A document that named the father of a child whose parents were not married, and stipulated payments (to the mother or to the parish) to be made for its upkeep
sesquiquadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛskwɪˈkwɒdɹət/
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + quadrate (“right-angled”).
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or noting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 135°.
sesquiquadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛskwɪˈkwɒdɹət/
Forms: form: sesquiquadrates
Etymology: From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + quadrate (“right-angled”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A sesquiquadrate aspect or position; an angle of 135°: (a square [90°] + a semisquare [45°]; abbrv. Ses).
Related terms: english: Unicode symbol
translation: Unicode symbol
word: ⚼
hirple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː.pəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: hirples
form: hirpling
form: hirpled
form: hirpled
Etymology: A word of unknown origin, first recorded in Scots sources from the late fifteenth century; but probably from Old Norse herpast (“to suffer from cramp”) the middle voice verb. Compare the Icelandic herpa (“to contract, to draw together”).
Senses: examples: text: Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can.
ref: 1922, John Buchan, Huntingtower:
text: A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame.
ref: 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 513:
text: He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain,
limping and looped in it.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 31:
glosses: To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.
Synonyms: hobble
hurple
solid shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid shots
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A solid round shot or cannonball.
curple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ).pəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: curples
Etymology: A corruption of the Scottish crupper.
Senses: glosses: The hindquarters or the rump of a horse
glosses: A strap under the tail of a horse to stop the saddle from kicking forward
qualifier: transferred
glosses: The buttocks, the posterior.
ily
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: ILY
antonyms: ihy
glosses: Initialism of I love you.
kwassa kwassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑs.ə ˈkwɑs.ə/
Etymology: Perhaps from the French quoi ça? (“what is it?”).
Senses: examples: text: Civic spaces for youth like the kwassa kwassa dance classes are often talked about in the township within frames like morality and health.
ref: 2019, Barbara Heer, Cities of Entanglements, page 71:
glosses: A dance rhythm from the Congo (DRC), where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips.
examples: text: Day after day, never-ending human tragedies are played out as people risk their lives trying to reach Mayotte in overloaded, rickety kwassa-kwassa boats to see family members, place their children in school, visit a health center, sell products on the market or find an odd job.
ref: 2015, Tor Sellström, Africa in the Indian Ocean: Islands in Ebb and Flow, page 318:
text: The large majority of Comorian migrants arrive by sea in small boats known as kwassa kwassa named after the swaying Congolese dance rhythm.
ref: 2016, Rino Coluccello, Simon Massey ·, Eurafrican Migration:
glosses: A traditional flat-bottomed, wooden fishing boat used primarily in the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (so called because it is "very shaky").
tote boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tote board
waiting for the other shoe to drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wait for the other shoe to drop
indecent liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indecent liberties
Senses: examples: text: c. 1700, Samuel Garth, preface to The Dispensary
The intention of this preface is not to persuade mankind to enter into our quarrels, but to vindicate the author from being censured for taking any indecent liberty with a faculty he has the honour to be a member of.
text: It would, therefore, hardly be deemed an indecent liberty in the most private citizen, to offer his thoughts to the consideration of the Executive.
ref: 1779, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Patrick Henry, March 27, 1779
text: Mr. Sheil taunted the Ministers with having, at a private meeting, threatened their supporters with resignation if the Bill were rejected : they had much better have appealed to the country. / Lord Stanley sharply denied that Ministers had taken the "indecent liberty" imputed to them by Mr. Sheil
ref: 1843, Edmund Burke, Ivison Stevenson Macadam, The Annual Register of World Events:
glosses: Any behavior beyond the limits of propriety.
examples: text: ... pinching, tickling, rubbing up against, and other forms of contact in places such as elevators and grocery stores may constitute an indecent liberty.
ref: 2004, Mark R. Laaser, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, page 41:
glosses: Sexual behavior beyond social or legal limits.
sororate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹɔːɹət/
Forms: form: sororates
Etymology: Latin soror (“sister”).
Senses: examples: text: The sororate was operative during the feudal period, at least among the feudal lords.
ref: 1967, Han-chi Fêng, The Chinese Kinship System, page 46:
text: The sororate is frequently associated with the custom of bride price; if the husband′s kindred have “bought” a wife for him and she dies, her family or kindred are obligated to replace her. The institutions of levirate and sororate are very widespread in primitive society, and in many instances a tribe will observe both customs.
ref: 2007, Leslie A. White, The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome, page 99:
text: A related marriage tradition is the sororate (Latin soror means “sister”), in which a man has the right to marry a (usually younger) sister of his deceased wife. In some societies, the sororate also applies to a man who has married a woman who is unable to bear children.
ref: 2010, William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, Bunny McBride, Dana Walrath, Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, page 219:
glosses: The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife, usually after the wife has died.
examples: text: Sororates had a similar effect of providing for the survivors of a deceased.
ref: 1972, Donald Olen Cowgill, Lowell Don Holmes, Aging and Modernization, page 54:
text: Marriage within the same clan is prohibited. However, levirates and sororates are prevalent among the Kurumbas. Widow marriage is permitted.
ref: 1977, P. R. G. Mathur, Tribal Situation in Kerala, page 56:
text: Junior sororates are allowed. Age at marriage for males is between 20 and 22 years and for girls two to four years after puberty.
ref: 2002, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India, volume 27, part 3, page 1549:
glosses: A marriage according to this custom.
Coordinate terms: levirate
Derived terms: sororate marriage
Related terms: polygyny
sophorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: cytisine
baptitoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: cytisine
dress shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress shields
Senses: glosses: A pad affixed temporarily to a dress or other garment, inside the armpit, to prevent the garment's becoming wet or soiled from perspiration.
killer bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killer bee
production values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now we are seeing animators putting all their attention into animation (with much complex internal movement of the figures, and movements carried out in full detail) as opposed to other production values like background painting or involved ink and paint work.
ref: 1966, Ernest Callenbach, “Reviews: Short Films”, in Film Quarterly, volume 19, number 4, page 65:
text: And, whether you held that the footage was mainly live action or largely computer-generated, the evident production values had come increasingly to argue against the idea of a student effort, or indeed of anything amateur in the usual sense.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Aesthetically, Letts's film bears material traces of its low budget as well as the director's inattention to professional production values.
ref: 2004, Stacy Thompson, “Punk Cinema”, in Cinema Journal, volume 43, number 2, page 51:
glosses: plural of production value
hard start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard starts
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosion in a rocket engine during startup, usually due to the presence of too much propellant prior to ignition.
fireplugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireplug
fluked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Dugong is easily distinguished from the manatees by its fluked, dolphin-like tail.
glosses: Having flukes.
fluked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fluke
fluking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fluke
figments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figment
fetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fêtes
Senses: glosses: plural of fete
fetes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fêtes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fete
tragic hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragic heroes
Senses: topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall.
Related terms: tragic heroine
tiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English *tever, teapor, teafur, from Old English tēafor (“red, red lead, vermilion, purple; a material used in making salve; pigment, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *taubr, from Proto-Germanic *taubrą (“magic, sorcery”). Cognate with Dutch toverij (“sorcery, witchcraft”), German Zauber (“magic”), Icelandic töfrar (“magic, spells”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.
tiver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪvə/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tivers
form: tivering
form: tivered
form: tivered
Etymology: From Middle English *teveren, from Old English tēofrian, *tīefran (“to mark in red or purple, colour; depict, portray”), from tēafor as above.
Senses: glosses: To mark with tiver, as sheep.
funnelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: funneling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of funnel
funnelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnellings
form: funneling
Senses: glosses: The process of passing something through a funnel.
funneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: funnelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of funnel
funneling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnelings
form: funnelling
Senses: glosses: The process of passing something through a funnel.
Kiato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kiaton
Senses: glosses: A town in the northern part of the Korinthia prefecture in southwestern Greece
Kiaton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kiato.
lassus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lassu
production value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production values
Senses: examples: text: Soon the novelty of all-talking pictures wore off and incidental music began to make a comeback. It was, after all, an added production value.
ref: 1969, Toby Haggith, “Face the Music”, in Film Quarterly, volume 22, number 4, page 11:
text: The New York publicity people asked the studio people if the films were to be shot in colour or not so as to decide if whether to feature that production value in the promotional campaigns.
ref: 1994, Mark S. Miller, “Helping Exhibitors: Pressbooks at Warner Bros. in the Late 1930s”, in Film History, volume 6, number 2, page 189:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A method, material, or stagecraft skill used in the production of a motion picture or artistic performance; the technical quality of such a method, material, or skill.
scrumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrumples
form: scrumpling
form: scrumpled
form: scrumpled
Senses: examples: text: ...once a piece of paper has been scrumpled no amount of flattening will erase the fact that it has been treated that way
ref: "The Man Who Never Was" by Ewen Montagu, published by J. B. Lippincott Company 1954 Page 87
text: Throw the first sheet unfolded. Throw the second scrumpled up into a ball. And throw the third after you have folded it into a paper airplane.
ref: 2011, Brian Clegg, Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window:
glosses: To crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).
scrumples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrumple
scrumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrumple
scrumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrumple
calumnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calumny
calumnies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calumny
noroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norovirus
ampelopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ampɪˈlɒpsɪs/
Forms: form: ampelopsises
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ampelopsis, from Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “appearance”).
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out’, so to speak, in blossom.
ref: 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417
glosses: A vine of the genus Ampelopsis
tarata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taratas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lemonwood (“the tree Pittosporum eugenioides”).
synonyms: word: lemonwood
extra: the tree Pittosporum eugenioides
violoncelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violoncello
legat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legats
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of legal attaché.
Senses: glosses: A legal attaché.
laxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lax
leges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lege
leges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lex
laxer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lax: more lax
laxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laxers
Etymology: From lax + -er.
Senses: glosses: lacrosse player
levet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvɪt/
Forms: form: levets
Etymology: Compare French lever (“to raise”).
Senses: examples: text: First he that led the cavalcate,
Wore a sow-gelder's flagellet,
On which he blew as strong a levet.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
libant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more libant
form: most libant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).
Senses: examples: text: VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]
ref: 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125:
text: What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!
ref: 1901 May, Eleanor Booth Simmons, “In May”, in The Bookman, volume 13, number 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 252:
text: The libant libellula darts to the bush / Where safe it sippeth from the laurel’s chaste
ref: 1901, [Louis Eilshemius], “Love: Sweet Recollections”, in Poetical Works of Louis M. Elshemus, First series, New York: The Abbey Press Publishers, page 264:
glosses: Sipping; touching lightly.
janitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janitrixes
form: janitrices
Etymology: From Latin iānitrīx. By surface analysis, janitor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female janitor.
Synonyms: janitress
janitrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janitrix
navigatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navigatrixes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nāvigātrīx. By surface analysis, navigate + -trix.
Senses: synonyms: navigatress
glosses: A female navigator.
navigatrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navigatrix
instructrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instructrixes
form: instructrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin īnstrūctrīx. By surface analysis, instruct + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female instructor.
Synonyms: instructress
scrootched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrootch
albes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albe
gemmate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛmət/
ipa: /dʒəˈmeɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gemmātus, perfect passive participle of gemmō (“to put forth buds”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gemma (“a bud”).
Senses: examples: text: gemmate structure
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: gemmated
glosses: Having buds; reproducing by buds.
gemmate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛmət/
ipa: /dʒəˈmeɪt/
Forms: form: gemmates
form: gemmating
form: gemmated
form: gemmated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gemmātus, perfect passive participle of gemmō (“to put forth buds”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gemma (“a bud”).
Senses: glosses: to deck with gems
bagasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagass
glosses: plural of bagasse
bromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brome
cames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of came
short-list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of short list.
short-list
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-lists
form: short-listing
form: short-listed
form: short-listed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shortlist.
dones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of done
tank engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank engines
Senses: examples: text: Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated. [...] Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:
text: The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic.
ref: 1952, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains, page 117:
glosses: A steam locomotive that carries its fuel and water containers on the locomotive frames rather than in a separate tender.
Synonyms: tank locomotive
Related terms: tender engine
eulerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eulerian.
Armorica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈmɒɹɪkə/
Etymology: From Latin Armorica (compare Middle English Armorik), from Transalpine Gaulish *Aremorika (“(place) by the sea”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare- (“in front of”) + *mori (“sea”). Compare Breton war vor, Welsh ar fôr (“on the sea”), and the tribe Morini.
Senses: glosses: The north-western part of ancient Gaul, corresponding to modern Brittany.
Derived terms: Armorican
spoligotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined from parts of the phrase "Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing", specifically from spacer, oligonucleotide, and typing.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique for the identification and analysis of polymorphism in certain types of repeat units in DNA.
Related terms: spoligotype
deligotyping
spoligotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoligotypes
Etymology: Backformation from spoligotyping.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of polymorphism in the repeat units of DNA
Related terms: spoligoforest
spoligotyping
deligotype
could do with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: could have done with
Senses: examples: text: I could do with a torch, if you've got one.
text: The fence could do with another coat of paint.
text: Your son could do with a good talking to!
text: That cutter is no good to me now. I could have done with it yesterday.
text: Jones could still do with Jonny May, the scorer of the first two of England’s four tries, recovering swiftly from an apparent hamstring tweak but in Sinckler and his young flankers, Tom Curry and Sam Underhill, the coach has some steadily improving individuals.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
glosses: To need something that would be beneficial.
Related terms: could do without
can do with
can do without
could have done with
could have done without
pull an oar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls an oar
form: pulling an oar
form: pulled an oar
form: pulled an oar
Etymology: Suggesting the teamwork employed by competitive rowers.
Senses: glosses: To contribute toward a group effort.
gdi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of GDI.
deflavorizing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflavorizing machines
Etymology: Coined by Woody Allen in the 1980 film Stardust Memories.
:
Sandy Bates: It's funny, because in my family nobody ever committed suicide, nobody... this was just not a middle-class alternative, you know? I — my mother was too busy running the boiled chicken through the deflavorizing machine to think about shooting herself or anything.
Senses: examples: text: My granny always runs her vegetables through the deflavorizing machine before allowing us to eat them.
glosses: An imaginary device which removes the flavor from something, particularly food.
synergists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synergist
palanchino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palanchinos
form: palanchinoes
Etymology: From Italian palanchino, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: ... I saw, I say, in the Piazza one of their Fryers, or Giangami, clad all in white, sitting in an handsome Palanchino, with two great white Umbrellas held over him, one on each side, (which two were for the more gravity) and a Horse led behind, being follow'd by a great train of other Giangami, clad in their ordinary habits. Before the Palanchino march'd a numerous company of Souldiers and other people, may Drums and Fifes, two strait long Trumpets and such brass Timbrels as are used in Persia, Bells and divers other Instruments, which sounded as loud as possible, and amongst them was a troop of Dancing-women adorn'd with Girdles, Rings upon their Legs, Neck-laces and other ornaments of Gold, and with certain Pectorals, or Breast-plates, almost round, in the fashion of a Shield and butting out with a sharp ridge before ...
ref: 1892, Edward Grey & al. translating Pietro della Valle as The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India..., Vol. II, pp. 268–9
glosses: Obsolete form of palanquin.
cubiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubitus
obloquoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of obloquy.
empirical ego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empirical egos
Senses: examples: text: When he debates, Shall I commit this crime? choose that profession? accept that office, or marry this fortune?—his choice really lies between one of several equally possible future Selves. What his entire empirical Ego shall become, is fixed by the conduct of this moment.
ref: 1879, William James, “Are We Automata?”, in Mind, volume 4, number 13, page 13:
text: The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.
ref: 1977, David Carr, “Kant, Husserl, and the Nonempirical Ego”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 74, number 11, page 688:
topics: human-sciences
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.
suasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suasive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment. They spoke with utmost clarity for the purpose of suasiveness on a wide scale.
ref: 1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311:
glosses: The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
glosses: Persuasiveness.
Synonyms: sense: persuasion
word: suasion
blastoporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blastopore + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a blastopore; blastoporal.
blastoporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blastopore + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a blastopore; blastoporic.
Derived terms: circumblastoporal
suprablastoporal
blastopore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastopores
Etymology: From blasto- + pore.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The opening into the archenteron
Derived terms: blastoporal
blastoporic
gourder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourders
Etymology: From gourd + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes a gourd container.
goutweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gout + weed, from having formerly been used to treat gout.
Senses: glosses: A ground elder, Aegopodium podagraria.
Synonyms: goutwort
governmentese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governmentalese
Etymology: From government + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon spoken in government.
mantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantises
Senses: glosses: plural of mantis
gowlare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gowlares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gaveller.
gaveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡavələ/
Forms: form: gavellers
form: gaveler
form: gowlare
Etymology: From gavel + -er.
Senses: glosses: A usurer.
glosses: Someone who pays gavel for rented land.
Graafian follicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Graafian follicles
Etymology: Named for Regnier de Graaf, Dutch scientist.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mature ovarian follicle at the final stage of folliculogenesis.
folliculogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin folliculus + -o- + genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of growing and developing for an ovarian follicle in the ovary.
grabbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæbəbəl/
Forms: form: more grabbable
form: most grabbable
Etymology: From grab + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be grabbed.
Derived terms: ungrabbable
grabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæbl̩/
Etymology: From grab + -le.
Senses: examples: text: To lay / fish (up)on the grabble
text: Some advise to angle for the common Eel upon the Grabble […]
ref: 1740, chapter 11, in John Williamson, editor, The British Angler, London: J. Hodges, page 223:
glosses: A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.
goober-grabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goober-grabblers
form: goober grabbler
form: gouber-grabbler
form: gouber grabbler
Etymology: From goober (“peanut”) + grabbler (“grabber, one who searches on hands and knees”).
Senses: examples: text: A Georgian is popularly known in the South as a ‘Gouber-grabbler’.
ref: 1869, Overland Monthly, number 3, page 129:
glosses: A Georgian.
snig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: snigs
form: snigging
form: snigged
form: snigged
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
glosses: To sneak.
glosses: To chop off; to cut.
Derived terms: sniggle
snig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: snigs
Etymology: Ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz, whence snail.
Senses: glosses: A small eel
Derived terms: sniggle
dropdown list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropdown lists
form: drop-down list
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user interface control GUI element similar to a list box which allows the user to choose one value from a list.
Related terms: list box
combo box
drop-down list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-down lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dropdown list.
list box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: list boxes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A GUI widget that allows the user to select one or more items from a list contained within a static, multiple line text box.
Hypernyms: box
Related terms: dropdown list
combo box
fire sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire signs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the three star signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius.
Related terms: air sign
earth sign
water sign
air sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air signs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the three star signs Aquarius, Gemini and Libra.
Related terms: earth sign
fire sign
water sign
earth sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth signs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the three star signs Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo.
Related terms: air sign
fire sign
water sign
water sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water signs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the three star signs Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio.
Related terms: air sign
earth sign
fire sign
bioceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioceramics
Etymology: From bio- + ceramic.
Senses: glosses: Any of several ceramic materials, having a similar composition to the minerals of bone, used in bone implants
genotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genotype
genotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genotype
genotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genotypings
Senses: glosses: The process of determining a genotype
Derived terms: regenotyping
serogenotyping
subgenotyping
methylcytosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylcytosines
Etymology: From methyl + cytosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyl derivative of cytosine, but especially 5-methylcytosine formed by methylation of DNA
microsized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microsized
form: most microsized
form: micro-sized
Etymology: From micro- + sized.
Senses: glosses: Greatly reduced in size.
nanoceramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoceramic
bleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleepers
Etymology: From bleep + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that bleeps.
glosses: An electronic device that makes a bleeping sound to obscure certain words, used to censor spoken dialogue.
Synonyms: beeper
nanoceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoceramics
Etymology: From nano- + ceramic.
Senses: glosses: Any ceramic material, especially one having a very small grain size, produced by nanotechnology
bleepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bleepier
form: bleepiest
Etymology: From bleep + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by bleeping noises.
raw_tags: of sound
polyubiquitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyubiquitins
Etymology: From poly- + ubiquitin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chain of several ubiquitin molecules attached to a protein.
Related terms: polyubiquitinate
polyubiquitination
heapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: heapier
form: heapiest
Etymology: From heap + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having lots of heaps or piles.
Synonyms: cumulose
Derived terms: heapily
heapiness
retroviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + viral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a retrovirus
Derived terms: antiretroviral
acute retroviral syndrome
retroviral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrovirals
Etymology: From retro- + viral.
Senses: glosses: A retrovirus
sheepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: sheepier
form: sheepiest
Etymology: From sheep + -y.
Senses: synonyms: ovine
sheepish
sheeplike
antonyms: nonovine
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sheep.
Related terms: sheepish
sheepy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: sheepies
Etymology: From sheep + -y.
Senses: glosses: sheep
neapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: neapier
form: neapiest
Etymology: From neap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The tides are getting neapier soon.
glosses: Having a very small difference between low tide and high tide.
raw_tags: of tides
peepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiː.pɪ/
ipa: /ˈpi.pi/
homophone: peepee
homophone: PP
rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: peepier
form: peepiest
Etymology: From peep + -y.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to peep (to watch someone or something).
examples: text: She is so peepy sometimes I think only dogs can hear her.
glosses: Having a high-pitched voice, like the sound of a peep.
Derived terms: creepy-peepy
sweep someone off their feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweeps someone off their feet
form: sweeping someone off their feet
form: swept someone off their feet
form: swept someone off their feet
Senses: glosses: To seduce someone romantically.
examples: text: Am I capable of feeling as strongly as that? But I was absolutely unconscious! I hadn't a phrase to meet it with! I was overcome! I was swept off my feet! I didn't even try, in the dimmest way, to put it down!
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 77:
text: Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:
glosses: To overwhelm.
heterocercal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterocercal
form: most heterocercal
Etymology: From hetero- + cercal.
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a fish's tail, such that the vertebral column bends and extends upwards into the upper lobe of the tail, making it larger than the lower lobe; as in sharks, rays, and skates.
Coordinate terms: diphycercal
homocercal
protocercal
Derived terms: hemiheterocercal
heterocercality
Related terms: heterocerc
heterocercy
sterlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sterlets
Etymology: From Russian сте́рлядь (stérljadʹ).
Senses: glosses: A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus.
systematology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematologies
Etymology: From German Systematologie, from Late Latin systemat-, stem of systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “organised whole, body”); with suffix -logie (“study of”).
Senses: glosses: The science or study of systematizing
glosses: The science or study of systems or their formations
Santiago de Chile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Santiago de Chili
Etymology: From Spanish Santiago de Chile (“Santiago of Chile”), distinguishing the intended city.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Santiago, the capital city of Chile.
synonyms: word: Santiago
extra: the capital city of Chile
Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.
Basse-Terre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæsˈtɛə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the overseas department of Guadeloupe, France, located in the Lesser Antilles.
glosses: An island comprising the western half of the overseas department of Guadeloupe.
South Tarawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kiribati.
Havanan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Havanan
form: most Havanan
Etymology: From Havana + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Havana in Cuba.
Havanan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Havanans
Etymology: From Havana + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Havana.
Viangchan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Vientiane: the capital city of Laos.
limer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪməɹ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: limers
form: lymer
form: limier
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman limer (Old French liemier, French limier), from Old French liem (“leash”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
limer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪməɹ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: limers
Etymology: From lime + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who limes; someone who uses bird-lime or who limewashes.
limer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪməɹ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: limers
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Someone who hangs around the streets; someone hanging out.
Derived terms: lime
chessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛsəl/
Forms: form: chessels
Etymology: From earlier cheslip, literally cheese + lip.
Senses: glosses: A mould in which curds are placed before being pressed to remove the whey; subsequently the chessel is removed to allow the cheese to mature.
lustres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lustre
luxurient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luxurient
form: most luxurient
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of luxuriant
secor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secors
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of 116.7 cents.
heart rate monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart rate monitors
Senses: glosses: A wearable device that allows a user to measure their heart rate in real time, usually consisting of a chest strap transmitter and a wrist receiver.
heart rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart rates
Senses: examples: text: For most adults, a normal resting heart rate ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute
For children less than 10, normal resting heart rates vary by age: […]
ref: 2025 June 25 (last accessed), “Measuring Resting Heart Rate (RHR)”, in Virginia Commonwealth University, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025, page 1:
glosses: The number of heartbeats per unit of time, usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.
Derived terms: heart rate monitor
puls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pul
non-plussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-plussed
form: most non-plussed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonplussed.
non-plussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of non-plus
double acrostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double acrostics
form: double-crostic
Senses: glosses: A poem whose stanzas, except the first two, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the final letters, the second stanza.
Coordinate terms: triple acrostic
Meronyms: cross-light
light
upright
triple acrostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple acrostics
Senses: glosses: A poem whose stanzas, except the first three, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the middle letters, the second stanza; and the final letters, the third stanza.
Coordinate terms: double acrostic
Meronyms: cross-light
light
upright
cross-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-lights
Senses: glosses: A word clued by a stanza in a double acrostic or triple acrostic; its initial and final letters are used to form the uprights.
ladies man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies men
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of lady's man.
upright piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upright pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: boudoir piano
cabinet piano
straight piano
glosses: A type of piano with vertically mounted strings.
Related terms: grand piano