cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frikadelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɹɪkəˈdɛlə/
Forms: form: frikadeller
form: frikadellen
form: frikadelles
form: Frikadelle
Etymology: From the Danish frikadelle and its etymon, the German Frikadelle.
Senses: examples: text: 1. Mix ingredients for frikadelles together. 2. Make 6-8 frikadelles. 3. Place in oven dish with lid, or in a frying pan. 4. Mix ingredients for sauce, and pour over frikadelles.
ref: 1994, Pace, Pace-Maker (Pty.) Limited, page 64:
text: Add 5 frikadelles per bowl of soup, and garnish with green onions.
ref: 2015, Alicia Tobin, Chris Gursche, “Celeriac Soup with Vegetarian Frikadelles”, in Keto·Genesis: 30 Well Fed Days to a New, Leaner & Healthier You, New Westminster, B.C.: Foresight Publishing, →ISBN, page 89:
text: In addition, the store sold fancy imported goods such as frikadelles, Norwegian fish balls and specialty sausages as well as liquors.
ref: 2017, Elizabeth Rezende, Anne Walbom, St. Thomas & St. John – Historic Photos, [Copenhagen]: Danish West Indian Society, →ISBN, page 61:
text: There it was, the frikadelle, inside a sliced sesame bun, sunk in on itself by that point.
ref: 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 31:
glosses: An oblate-spheroid meatball of North European origin, eaten hot or cold, and typically consisting of: minced pork or beef/veal (or, commonly, a blend of these meats); chopped onions; eggs; milk or water; breadcrumbs, oatmeal, or flour; salt; and pepper.
frikadellen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the German Frikadellen, not the Danish frikadellen.
Senses: glosses: plural of frikadelle
frikadeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frikadelle
suprematist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːˈpɹɛmətɪst/
Forms: form: more suprematist
form: most suprematist
Senses: examples: text: Included are classic examples of suprematist design by Lissitzky, who served as a Russian cultural ambassador.
ref: 2007 October 13, Karen Rosenberg, “From World War I, a New Visual Language and Many Dialects”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the art movement Suprematism.
suprematist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːˈpɹɛmətɪst/
Forms: form: suprematists
Senses: glosses: An artist working in the style of Suprematism.
suprematists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprematist
frikadelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frikadelle
antipopulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipopulists
Etymology: From anti- + populist.
Senses: examples: text: It seems from “The Age of Turbulence” that Greenspan enjoyed the obfuscation game: as a frank antipopulist, he thought and still thinks that an air of mystery around the Fed is a good thing.
ref: 2007 October 14, Michael Kinsley, “Greenspan Shrugged”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who opposes populism.
antipopulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipopulist
chasmlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chasmlike
form: most chasmlike
Etymology: From chasm + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This Norwegian electro-acoustic avant-garde supergroup — not a contradiction in terms, for those who pay attention to such things — favors a chasmlike extreme of dynamics and scale, shifting easily between the intricate and almost precious to the ferocious and monolithic.
ref: 2007 October 14, Nate Chinen, “Three With a History, Growing Lighter With Age”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chasm.
prismlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prismlike
form: most prismlike
Etymology: From prism + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prism.
downsloping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downsloping
form: most downsloping
Etymology: From down + sloping.
Senses: examples: text: With seats folded or erect, the downsloping roof impinges on cargo capacity; a Kia Spectra ’s hatch seems as big as an S.U.V.’s in comparison.
ref: 2007 October 14, Lawrence Ulrich, “A Hatchback Plot Is Hatched”, in New York Times:
glosses: Sloping downward.
downsloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From down + sloping.
Senses: examples: text: Downsloping creates an environment that is far less conducive to thunderstorms[…]
ref: 2005, Matthew Miller, Weird, Wild & Unpredictable: An Illustrated History of East Tennessee Weather, page 42:
text: While dewpoints are still fairly elevated, due to west downsloping dewpoints are about 2-4 degrees lower than yesterday in the mid to upper 60s.
ref: 2020 NWS Boston 1103 AM EDT forecast discussion
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Air descending a slope, resulting in adiabatic warming and reduction in relative humidity.
hoydenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoydenisms
Etymology: From hoyden + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1899, Mary A. Ward, Life and works of the sisters Brontë, Introduction to Jane Eyre
And there can be no doubt that there was in Miss Bronte a curious vein of recklessness, roughness, one might also say - hoydenism - that exists side by side with an exquisite delicacy and a true dignity, and is none the less Irish and Celtic for that.
text: After a decade of hoydenism, she developed a strategy called “The Four Man Plan,” or “4MP.”
ref: 2007 October 14, Liesl Schillinger, “It Adds Up to Love (Check Your Math)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The behaviour of a hoyden.
nonmedia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + media.
Senses: examples: text: But in the same period, it increased its nonmedia ad spending 33 percent, to $457.9 million, according to the Advertising Age data.
ref: 2007 October 14, Louise Story, “The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the media.
nonroyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonroyal
normalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The book was written with the cooperation of Mr. Schulz’s family, but in the weeks leading up to its release, some family members have criticized it, saying that it overemphasizes his melancholy and chilly side at the expense of other aspects of his personality — his generosity, his sense of humor, his love of family and, in many ways, his resolute normalness.
ref: 2007 October 14, Randy Kennedy, “You’re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse”, in New York Times:
glosses: normalcy
Synonyms: normaldom
normality
marginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹd͡ʒɪneɪtəd/
Senses: synonyms: marginate
antonyms: unmarginated
glosses: Having a distinct margin.
examples: text: My basic ethical thesis is that women, and other marginated people, are less cut off from the real, material conditions of life than are those who enjoy the privileges of patriarchy.
ref: 1985, Beverly Harrison, Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics:
glosses: marginalized
Derived terms: submarginated
photopaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopapers
form: photo paper
Etymology: From photo + paper.
Senses: examples: text: Now online photo services are offering an upgrade to the humble photopaper card — by selling fancy, folded cards that can display as many as 10 digital snapshots on glossy, high-quality paper stock.
ref: 2007 October 14, Anne Eisenberg, “When a Greeting Card Becomes a Photo Album”, in New York Times:
glosses: Photographic paper; paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints on traditional film cameras.
postsurge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + surge.
Senses: examples: text: When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.
ref: 2007 October 14, Frank Rich, “The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a surge.
prebrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + browned.
Senses: examples: text: There have been four other outbreaks in the state from frozen breaded, prebrowned chicken since 1998, caused in part by confusion over microwave instructions.
ref: 2007 October 14, Andrew Martin, “Did Your Microwave Nuke the Bacteria?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Browned in advance (as of packaged meat).
puzzlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzlement
reacknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reacknowledges
form: reacknowledging
form: reacknowledged
form: reacknowledged
Etymology: From re- + acknowledge.
Senses: examples: text: Now that decades of hostility are past, maybe it is time to reacknowledge the pervasive impact of this path-breaking development.
ref: 2007 October 14, Anthony Tommasini, “Unraveling the Knots of the 12 Tones”, in New York Times:
glosses: To acknowledge again or anew.
Related terms: reacknowledgement
reacknowledges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reacknowledge
reacknowledged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reacknowledge
reacknowledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reacknowledge
gloomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloomish
form: most gloomish
Etymology: From gloom + -ish. Compare glummish, glumpish.
Senses: glosses: Gloomy.
technopunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno + punk.
Senses: examples: text: “Yet we know that by running it through the filter of four Mexicans who are all around 40 years old and who’ve spent 18 years playing everything from sones huastecos to technopunk, the result would be something pretty original.”
ref: 2007 October 14, Josh Kun, “Latest Exploration Takes Café Tacuba to an Old School”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style of electronic punk music.
unfocus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfocuses
form: unfocusses
form: unfocusing
form: unfocussing
form: unfocused
form: unfocused
form: unfocussed
form: unfocussed
Etymology: From un- + focus.
Senses: examples: text: Pancake writes: “If you can unfocus your eyes right — and Corey can — wading the creek is like walking the aisle of a Wal-Mart made for Corey, with all the price tags saying free.”
ref: 2007 October 14, Jack Pendarvis, “Buried Alive”, in New York Times:
glosses: To bring out of focus.
examples: to unfocus a window
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To move the input focus away from.
Synonyms: sense: move input focus from
word: blur
unfocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfocus
unfocusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfocus
carapacelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carapacelike
form: most carapacelike
Etymology: From carapace + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Then they become sashaying runway models and later giggling friends, eventually succeeded by a mysterious creature who is revealed to be a woman hidden in a carapacelike coat.
ref: 2007 October 15, Jennifer Dunning, “An Excursion in Butoh, From Stark to Slapstick”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a carapace.
caramoussals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caramoussal
cornettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornetto
oversexualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversexualizes
form: oversexualizing
form: oversexualized
form: oversexualized
Etymology: From over- + sexualize.
Senses: examples: text: The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising.
ref: 2007 October 15, Andrew Adam Newman, “Unilever Shuns Stereotypes of Women (Unless Talking to Men)”, in New York Times:
glosses: To sexualize excessively.
Related terms: oversexualization
oversexualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversexualize
oversexualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversexualize
oversexualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversexualize
sensualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensualizations
Etymology: From sensual + -ization.
Senses: examples: the later secularization and sensualization of the theme of sex in art and literature
glosses: The process of making sensual.
examples: the sensualization of data in virtual realities
glosses: Conversion into a form that can be sensed.
sensualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensualization
seamhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamheads
Etymology: From seam + -head, referring to the distinctive seam on a baseball.
Senses: examples: text: But the sport is an old flame for romantic types, as proved by numbers even sabermetric lords can wrap their seamheads around.
ref: 2007 October 15, Selena Roberts, “Football Is Booming at Baseball’s Expense”, in New York Times:
text: He was a baseball lifer, a seamhead through and through, who just absolutely liked nothing better than sitting down and talking baseball.
ref: 2018, Adrian Dater, 100 Things Rockies Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die:
glosses: A devoted baseball fan.
seamheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamhead
gloomth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːm(p)θ/
rhymes: -uːmθ
rhymes: -uːmpθ
Etymology: From gloom + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Gloominess.
normohydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: Normal hydration.
oxymetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oximetry.
cardiorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the heart and the kidney.
Derived terms: cardiorenal syndrome
noncardiorenal
euvolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + volume + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of a normal amount (or flow) of blood
Synonyms: normovolemia
Related terms: euvolemic
euvolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eu- + volemic.
Senses: glosses: Having a normal amount of body fluids.
Related terms: euvolemia
neurohormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + hormonal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a neurohormone.
predischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + discharge.
Senses: examples: text: In general, patients who cannot perform a predischarge exercise test have a worse prognosis than those than can do the test.
ref: 2010, Pierre Theroux, Acute Coronary Syndromes, page 122:
antonyms: postdischarge
glosses: Before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution).
predischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predischarges
form: predischarging
form: predischarged
form: predischarged
Etymology: From pre- + discharge.
Senses: examples: text: Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port.
ref: 1987, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, page 26:
text: Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.
ref: 2010, Sunil P Khatri, Kanupriya Gulati, Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms, page 50:
text: It would be interesting if an experiment were performed in which the D2 is first preheated or predischarged before injection into the laser cavity.
ref: 2013, Kenneth J. Button, Infrared and Millimeter Waves V7, page 184:
glosses: To discharge beforehand.
predischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predischarges
Etymology: From pre- + discharge.
Senses: examples: text: The experiments undertaken in order to determine which of the predischarges, the positive or the negative, is the more important for long sparks.
ref: 1928, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine Journal of Science, page 856:
text: The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.
ref: 1973, Digest of Literature on Dielectrics, page 266:
glosses: The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged.
bioimpedance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + impedance.
Senses: glosses: The response of a living organism to an applied electric current.
interuniversity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + university.
Senses: synonyms: intervarsity
coordinate_terms: interschool
glosses: Existing or taking place between universities.
antihypertrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hypertrophic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against hypertrophy.
cardioplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + -plegic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or characterized by cardioplegia.
nefand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nɪˈfænd/
Forms: form: more nefand
form: most nefand
Senses: examples: text: nefand buggeries.
ref: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome:
glosses: unspeakable; nefandous
Santander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæntænˈdɛə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Possibly from the name of Saint Andrew (through a form Sanct Ander) or from Saint Emeterio (through forms Santemter > Santenter > Santander), a martyr whose head was brought there in the third century.
Senses: glosses: A city and port, the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, on the north coast of Spain.
glosses: A department in northern Colombia. See Wikipedia:Santander Department
glosses: A Spanish surname
Derived terms: Norte de Santander
Santander poison frog
Segovia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɡəʊviə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”). Related city names include Segeda and Segontia.
Senses: glosses: A city in Castile and León, Spain.
glosses: A province of Castile and León, Spain.
glosses: The letter S in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Alcorcón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alcorcón.
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain, southwest of Madrid.
scarfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarfie
takas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taka
aftermind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterminds
Etymology: From after- + mind.
Senses: examples: text: Now, brethren, what we want you to mark is this, repentance is not the gushing forth of tears from the fountain of a man's head, under the pressure of calamity; but true repentance is an aftermind, as the word in the Greek literally signifies — a new mind, a turning of the heart to God.
ref: 1862, William Henry Krause, Lectures delivered in Bethesda chapel, Dublin: Volume 2:
text: [...] one respected journal for advocating cocaine as a medicine without realizing that it could become an addictive drug; and somewhere, deep in the recesses of his aftermind, he knew this charge to be partly true.
ref: 1971, Irving Stone, The passions of the mind: a novel of Sigmund Freud:
glosses: A new or changed way of thinking, often as a result of repentance; a renewed mind.
mission creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the "mission creep," the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight.
ref: 1994 September 19, Mark Thompson, “Haiti: The Past As Prelude”, in Time:
text: General John Shalikashvili . . . said it was important to set a target date of one year and then bring the troops home, because "in the absence of that, you find yourself staying there, and that's how very often mission creep comes in."
ref: 1995 October 23, Elaine Sciolino, “One-Year Limit on U.S. Troops in Bosnia Now an 'Estimate'”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 May 2011:
text: The risks of mission creep and a deepening quagmire leading to nation-building would arise only if ownership of the uprising was appropriated from the Libyans by the West, as would happen with ground troops.
ref: 2011 March 13, Ramesh Thakur, “Acting responsibly to protect Libyans”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 27 May 2011:
text: A good stand-and-stir cooking show is to the Food Network as the music video is to MTV: ancient relics of both institutions' respective original purposes, before mission creep led them to trashy reality competition programming — apparently the entropic end-stage of all TV.
ref: 2020 May 18, Adam Ragusea, 5:02 from the start, in The delights and problems of watching Molto Mario, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2024:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.
undermind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underminds
Etymology: From under- + mind.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor assists the undermind, and his assistance is often utterly indispensable: for instance, he "sets" a broken limb, and gives the undermind every assistance, [...]
ref: 1909, Percy Dearmer, Body and soul:
glosses: The subconscious mind or self.
examples: text: Others have named this "tortoise mind" as intuition, or the unconscious, and the id. Caxton goes on to name it the "undermind."
ref: 2010, Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riding the Waves of Innovation:
glosses: The unconscious mind; intuition.
Synonyms: nethermind
Itō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 伊東 (Itō).
Senses: glosses: A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
inhoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inhoops
form: inhooping
form: inhooped
form: inhooped
Etymology: From in- + hoop.
Senses: examples: text: His cocks do win the battle still of mine, When it is all to nought; and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
inbind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inbinds
form: inbinding
form: inbound
form: inbound
Etymology: From in- + bind. Cognate with Dutch inbinden (“to bind”), German einbinden (“to integrate”), Swedish inbinda (“to bind”).
Senses: glosses: To bind or hem in; enclose.
inbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inbeats
form: inbeating
form: inbeat
form: inbeaten
Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: […] and in part imputeth it, that the river Rother is not contained in his channel, and so loseth his force to carry away the sands and beach which the sea doth inbeat into the haven.
ref: 1855, Mary Matilda Howard, Hastings, past and present:
text: […] a man may be superior to his circumstances, and even to these constantly outlying and inbeating influences which deteriorate his life.
ref: 1873, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth pulpit:
glosses: To beat in.
inbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbeats
Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: The bullet […] came through my chest between two ribs, slightly shattering them, went past my heart, as the doctors later told me, when it must have been on an inbeat instead of an outbeat, and then missed my backbone as it went through the other side of my body about an inch.
ref: 2002, Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager, The Story of World War II:
glosses: An inward beat.
inbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: […] two-beat: an outbeat gesture of (usually circumscribed) ecstasis as my glance is released from my bodily self, and an inbeat return of the glance to the bodily-self now modified by having just perceived its own image in the mirror.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth A. Grosz, Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures:
glosses: Occurring on an inward beat.
inbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inbreaks
form: inbreaking
form: inbroke
form: inbroken
Etymology: From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”).
Senses: examples: text: Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak, to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose.
ref: 2003, John S. McClure, The Four Codes of Preaching:
text: "You come back to inbreak again, or you bring kids to do it for you?"
ref: 2004, William McCloskey, Raiders:
text: Our deepest longing lies wholeheartedly in our single hearted desire for God, in following Jesus, Icon of Wisdom Sophia as he continues to INBREAK [meaning “insert itself”] in our time and in giving ourselves unconditionally for healing of the Earth.
ref: 2007, Sarah McFarland Taylor, Green sisters:
glosses: To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
Derived terms: inbreaking
inbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbreaks
Etymology: From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”).
Senses: examples: text: The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 147:
glosses: A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption; a breaking in.
inbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbreakings
Etymology: From in- + breaking.
Senses: glosses: The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
Related terms: inbreak
shield law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield laws
Senses: topics: law
glosses: legislation designed to provide a news reporter with the right to refuse to testify as to information and/or sources of information obtained during the news gathering and dissemination process.
agrin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From a- + grin.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave
Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,
And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream
All that I would. But that large-moulded man,
His visage all agrin as at a wake,
Made at me through the press, and, staggering back
With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came
As comes a pillar of electric cloud,
Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,
And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess:
text: When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Yorke”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face.
agrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /ˈæ.ɡɹɪn/
ipa: /əˈɡɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: agrins
Etymology: From AGRN (“the name of the associated gene”) + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development
infula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infulas
form: infulae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnfula.
Senses: glosses: A fillet of white wool, worn on the head by ancient Roman priests.
glosses: A head covering worn by early Christian priests.
glosses: A ribbon on a bishop's mitre.
kezboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛzbɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: kezboards
Etymology: From keyboard, with z taking the place of y (as it does on such keyboards).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer keyboard whose keys are arranged in the qwertz layout.
kezboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kezboard
parclo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parclos
Etymology: By clipping and ellipsis.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cloverleaf
cloverleaf interchange
glosses: Clipping of partial cloverleaf interchange.
parclos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parclo
camelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.məl.ɹi/
Forms: form: camelries
Etymology: From camel + -ry, modelled after cavalry.
Senses: examples: text: A column of camelry emerged from the city as her honor guards.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 422:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military arm of service that fights while riding camels.
agrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡɹɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of agrin
pseudostuttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + stuttering.
Senses: glosses: The deliberate production of stuttering speech, sometimes used in therapy to teach a patient to control a stutter.
vells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vell
vells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vell
sob sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sob sisters
Senses: synonyms: agony aunt
glosses: A journalist, usually female, who writes mainly sentimental articles or has an advice column.
imaginariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imaginary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now Pierre began to see mysteries interpierced with mysteries, and mysteries eluding mysteries; and began to seem to see the mere imaginariness of the so supposed solidest principle of human association.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: the state of being imaginary
Synonyms: sense: in maths
word: imaginarity
sailour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailours
Senses: examples: text: Two pasportes to all Maiours, &c., the one for one John Randall, a maymed sailour that had served in her Majesty’s Fleet against the Spanyardes, to passe into Cornewall, &c., th’other to Elisabeth Randall to travaile with six small children and a daughter in lawe of hers which was blinde to travaile (sic) to Hull in Yorkshire to a brother of hers to place with him some of her children, and bothe these to continewe no longer in force then to the laste of December next ensuinge.
ref: 1900, John Roche Dasent, editor, Acts of the Privy Council of England, volume XX, Mackie & Co., page 74:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sailor.
has a word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a word
having a word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a word
had a word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a word
euryphage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euryphages
Etymology: From eury- + -phage, from Ancient Greek εὐρύς (eurús, “wide”) + φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any animal that eats a large variety of food.
Synonyms: polyphage
Derived terms: euryphagous
euryphagy
chaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaunters
Etymology: Variant of chanter.
Senses: glosses: A street seller of ballads or similar songs.
examples: text: He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
glosses: The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chanter
ingravidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹævɪdeɪt/
Forms: form: ingravidates
form: ingravidating
form: ingravidated
form: ingravidated
Etymology: From Latin ingravidatus, past participle of ingravidare (“to impregnate”).
Senses: examples: text: they may keep stews in their hearts, and be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thought
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To impregnate (literal or figurative).
imaginarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From imaginary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But we end with those famous Artists leauing them to their graues, and their works to the admiration of all posterity, and speake of Statuary or Caruing, which thus farre differeth from painting; this doth expresse hir image in the plaine or smooth superficies imaginarily; the other in the hollow and vneuen superficies, really.
ref: 1606, Henry Peacham, The art of drawing vvith the pen, and limming in water colours, London: William Jones, Book 1, Chapter 2, pp. 7-8:
text: 1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer No. 40, 7 August, 1724, Volume 1, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 335,
The Father (if all our Family guesses right, and much I fear we do) will be inraged at the Loss of an Estate, in which he had imaginarily placed the whole Sum of his Son’s Felicity in this World;
text: The lethargically mad, sitting with their hands in their laps, imaginarily exhausted, unable to speak above a whisper, with burning but unfocusable eyes, unable to concentrate...
ref: 1940, Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk, New York: New York Review of Books, published 2001, page 20:
text: At some point, the past two or three weeks, Paul had begun to imaginarily hear Erin quietly sobbing—whenever she was in a bathroom with the sink on, and sometimes when in bed, beside him […]
ref: 2013, Tao Lin, chapter 6, in Taipei, New York: Vintage, page 214:
glosses: In an imaginary way, in the imagination.
examples: text: The which Sacrament Melchisedech King of Salem first offered vp figuratiuely in type (or token) of the body and bloude of Christe: and the same man first of al expressed imaginarily (or in image) the Mysterie of this so great a Sacrifice, foreshewing the likenesse of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe the euerlasting Priest.
ref: 1567, Thomas Harding, A reioindre to M. Iewels replie against the sacrifice of the Masse, Leuven: Division 8:
text: […] some desiring to please their tyrannous Princes, put up their statues, and at distance by a phantastical presence flattered them with honours. And in process of time, these were made Gods; and the incommunicable name was given to wood and stones. Not that the Heathens thought that image to be very God, but that they were imaginarily present in them, and so had their Name.
ref: 1667, Jeremy Taylor, The second part of the dissuasive from popery in vindication of the first part, and further reproof and conviction of the Roman errors, London: R. Royston, Part 2, Book 2, Section 7, p. 154:
glosses: By way of an image.
soundbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sound box.
soupfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupfins
Etymology: From soup + fin.
Senses: glosses: The school shark.
souther
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From south + -er.
Pronunciation
*/ˈsaʊðə/.
*Compare southerly /ˈsʌðəli/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of south: more south; southern
souther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southers
Etymology: From south + -er.
Pronunciation
*/ˈsaʊðə/.
*Compare southerly /ˈsʌðəli/
Senses: examples: text: A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
ref: 1902, John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey, page 81:
glosses: A strong wind blowing from the south.
souther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: southers
form: southering
form: southered
form: southered
Etymology: From south + -er.
Pronunciation
*/ˈsaʊðə/.
*Compare southerly /ˈsʌðəli/
Senses: examples: text: Having passed across in sight of this place, the Santa Anna tacked and stood off, as though she were awaiting a pilot, but none appearing, southered her course as if about to proceed down the coast ; having, however, rounded a small island in the river's mouth, covered with lofty trees, which completely concealed their presence, they again anchored.
ref: 1878, Percy Bolingbroke St. John, The flower of the forest; or, Mary Rock, page 71:
text: In that time three other packets loaded, and when the wind southered the four put to sea in company.
ref: 1986, Hervey Benham, Once Upon a Tide, page 207:
text: Very probably they had already made first nests further north, which had their contents destroyed, and they fled south and were more successful with second broods. The consequence of this southering of breeding birds would in all probability cause a southering of their autumn migration routes;
ref: 1904, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, H. A. Macpherson, Fauna of the North-West Highlands and Skye, page 292:
text: The best anchorage in summer for small vessels, gun-brigs, &c. will be found, West point of Berlinga island bearing W. b. N. East point N.N.E. 1/2 E. and the Old Fort on the inner point of the small Sandy bay N. 3/4 W. where you will have eleven fathoms sandy bottom, and good holding ground at tabout three cables length from the shore, which will be of little consequence, inasmuch as the wind generally sets in from the north, and gives good warning ere it southers.
ref: 2010, James Stanier Clarke, John McArthur, The Naval Chronicle: Volume 30, July-December 1813, →ISBN:
glosses: To move toward the south.
examples: text: Reuben's a gude lad and a kind—I have aye allowed that ; but as to his not allowing enquiry anent the scandal of Margery Kittlesides and Rory MacRand, under pretence that they have southered sin wi' marriage, it's clear again the Christian discipline o' the kirk.
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian:
text: He works brass and copper, an' a' sic like mettles, Walds broken brass pans, southers auld copper kettles;
ref: 1843, James Ballantine, The Gaberlunzie's Wallet, page 129:
text: The laddies ran to him to redd ilka quarrel, An' he southered a' up wi' a snap or a farl ; While vice that had daured to stain virtue's pure laurel, Shrunk cowed frae the glance o' the stalwart auld carl :
ref: 1878, John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson, Whistle-Binkie: Or, The Piper of the Party:
text: At the time all was war and rebellion with the tollman-- assault and battery, damages, broken panes, and what not ; but with skilful management, and a few words in the private ear of Mr Rory Sneckdrawer, the penny-writer, we got matters southered up when we were in our sober senses.
ref: 1895, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith, page 169:
glosses: To fix; remedy; put to rights.
soya sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪ.ə sɔːs/
Forms: form: soya sauces
Senses: glosses: soy sauce
spaz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spazzes out
form: spazzing out
form: spazzed out
form: spazzed out
form: spazz out
Senses: glosses: To lose one's physical or emotional control.
examples: text: Oh no, my pen's spazzed out!
qualifier: machine; or similar; machine; or similar
glosses: To stop working properly.
raw_tags: of a tool
spearpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearpoints
form: spear-point
Etymology: From spear + point.
Senses: examples: text: Those overall numbers are in line with Schumer's year-old plan to make NSF the spearpoint of a massive federal investment in research aimed at outinnovating China.
ref: 2021 May 28, Jeffrey Mervis, “Biden backs new NSF tech directorate, but Senate balks”, in Science:
synonyms: ord
glosses: The point or tip of a spear.
Derived terms: at spearpoint
daggerpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daggerpoints
Etymology: From dagger + point.
Senses: glosses: The point or tip of a dagger.
Derived terms: at daggerpoint
breastpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastpoints
Etymology: From breast + point.
Senses: glosses: The place or point of a breast.
swordpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordpoints
Etymology: From sword + point.
Senses: glosses: The point or tip of a sword.
Derived terms: at swordpoint
bladepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladepoints
Etymology: From blade + point.
Senses: glosses: The point or tip of a blade.
Derived terms: at bladepoint
spectacled bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectacled bears
Etymology: Since some specimens have spectacle markings on their faces.
Senses: glosses: Tremarctos ornatus, a species of small, short-faced bear native to South America.
yokai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yokai
form: yokais
form: yōkai
form: youkai
Etymology: From Japanese 妖怪 (yōkai, “ghost, phantom”).
Senses: examples: text: Earl didn’t know all the details about what that type of yokais’ powers were, her mother kept the family secrets close to the vest, and he knew even less about which of those powers had gotten passed onto her half-human offspring.
ref: 2021, Larry Correia, chapter 6, in Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunters International; 9), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.
wikipedia: Nuribotoke
inblow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inblows
form: inblowing
form: inblew
form: inblown
Etymology: From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.
Senses: glosses: To blow into; puff up; inflate.
examples: text: Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...
ref: 1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God:
glosses: To breathe into; inspire.
glosses: To blow in.
inblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inblows
Etymology: From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.
Senses: examples: text: During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.
ref: 1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 109:
text: Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.
ref: 1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419
glosses: The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
glosses: That which is blown in.
imbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbreeds
form: imbreeding
form: imbred
form: imbred
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inbreed.
Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu
Etymology: law (“rule”) + of + conservation (“preservation”) + of + ninjutsu (“a martial art used by ninjas”)
The law implies that each team of ninjas has the same finite amount of "power" of martial arts, therefore a team with fewer ninjas has more powerful ninjas.
Senses: examples: text: > The more creativity and ingenuity you give your aliens, the less is
> available for your humans, generally the protagonists, which means
> things will end poorly for Our Heroes. [...]
Sort of like a SCIENCE application of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu?
ref: 2007 December 3, sw <sw@eyrie.org>, “Re: Why so few creative aliens?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <slrnfl8dbu.6gg.sw@haven.eyrie.org>:
text: In other words, if I can tweak the minion->normal->elite->solo system into a^([sic]) in-game representation of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, there will be much win.
ref: 2008 May 19, Nockermensch <ralgomes@gmail.com>, “Re: Ampersand: The Scoop on D&D Insider”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), message-ID <11398510-50ce-4342-a223-ca68b86c8b89@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>:
text: The Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu was working in the main characters' favor, but even so, it was hard going.
ref: 2011 February 19, Andrew Perron <pwerdna@gmail.com>, “LNH/RACCies: Just Imagine Saxon Brenton vs. Andrew Perron in the Return of the RACCies! #10: Poledancing Phantoms of Limbo”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet), message-ID <1hmvlegtnnkih$.1p14289mto1ro.dlg@40tude.net>:
topics: fiction
human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
narratology
publishing
sciences
glosses: The ability of one or few people to win fights against many opponents.
go poof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes poof
form: going poof
form: went poof
form: gone poof
Senses: glosses: to disappear
going poof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go poof
went poof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go poof
gone poof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go poof
goes poof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go poof
Start menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Start menus
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A menu in some operating systems that is launched by pressing an on-screen button and provides a central launching point for applications and tasks.
Related terms: Windows key
Start button