cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compatibilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compatibilizes
form: compatibilizing
form: compatibilized
form: compatibilized
form: compatibilise
Etymology: From compatible + -ize.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: To make compatible.
Derived terms: compatibilizer
Cockett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6394).
dikastophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δικαστής (dikastḗs, “judge”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear of judges.
compatibilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compatibilize
compatibilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compatibilize
surreptition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌsʌɹəpˈtɪʃən/
Forms: form: surreptitions
Etymology: Sense 1, at least, is probably a back-formation from surreptitious; for sense 2, compare the cognate synonym subreption.
Senses: examples: text: They have found a way to continue drinking both furiously and yet with a certain degree of surreptition. The Australians near to the fence slice through the bonds keeping the wrists of the Tommies strapped to the posts. The first couple of ...
ref: 1986, Alan Bleasdale, The Monocled Mutineer, Vintage:
text: We will propose a model that tries to apply ideas taken from the way plants, animals, and human societies have used surreptition to protect themselves against attackers to the way we can protect software from attack.
ref: 2009, Jasvir Nagra, Christian Collberg, Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being surreptitious: stealthiness, covertness; surreptitiousness.
examples: text: If any order shall be made, and the court not informed of the last material order formerly made, no benefit shall be taken by such order, as granted by abuse and surreptition, and to that end the registers ought duly to mention the former ...
ref: 1908, Albert Hutchinson Putney, Equity jurisprudence. Trusts. Equity pleading, page 320:
glosses: Subreption (act of obtaining by surprise, or by unfair representation through concealment).
Sea of Tranquillity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sea of Tranquillity
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sea of Tranquility.
Tranquillity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tranquility
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Fresno County, California, United States.
glosses: Ellipsis of Sea of Tranquillity.
Broughton and Bretton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Flintshire, Wales.
surface integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral over a 2-dimensional domain
Related terms: ∬
∯
Contour integral
Volume integral
surface integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface integral
beertini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beertinis
Etymology: Blend of beer + martini
Senses: glosses: A beer served with olives in it.
beertinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beertini
gelatinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelatini
Bretton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brettons
Etymology: From Old English Brett (“Briton”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2077).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Broughton and Bretton community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3563).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Bretton Woods
Broughton and Bretton
Monk Bretton
pancake-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.keɪk/
ipa: /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/
Forms: form: pancake-makers
Etymology: From pancake in its various meanings and maker - one who makes.
Senses: examples: text: &hellip the great Condé took great credit to himself for being an excellent pancake-maker
ref: 1836, Dick Humelbergius Secundus, Apician Anecdotes: Or Tales of the Table, Kitchen, and Larder, J. D. Strong, page 144:
text: Whereupon the pancake-maker showed how he could turn them. He tossed a pancake high in the air and deftly caught it in the pan.
ref: 1937, Norman W. Caldwell, Fangs of the Sea, page 53:
glosses: One who makes pancakes, thin fried batter cakes.
glosses: A machine which does the same as (1). Also known as a pancake machine or a crepe maker.
examples: text: &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.
ref: 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages, page 1200:
glosses: One who makes pancake, a composite leather of scraps, glue and board, material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
compatibilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compatibilises
form: compatibilising
form: compatibilised
form: compatibilised
form: compatibilize
Etymology: From compatible + -ise.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: To make compatible.
Derived terms: compatibiliser
unextensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unextensive
form: most unextensive
Etymology: From un- + extensive.
Senses: glosses: Not extensive.
compatibilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compatibilise
compatibilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compatibilise
martinied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more martinied
form: most martinied
Etymology: From martini + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The team had resolved to move just after a martinied lunch if they had a "go" sign from Julie.
ref: 1982, Robert P. Davis, Divorce, page 292:
glosses: Served or flavoured with martini.
examples: text: In my martinied state I misjudged this distance and pricked myself. As if in a fairy tale, a single drop of red blood appeared on the white tip of my finger.
ref: 2020, James Engelhardt, Marianne Kunkel, Kwame Dawes, The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader:
glosses: Drunk on martinis.
Bradfords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bradford
graminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin grāmen (“grass”) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Graminology was his well known specialty and there were few, either in this country or abroad , who were his equals.
ref: 1890, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 17-18, page 210:
text: Agnes Arber's monumental work will probably stand for years as the last word in graminology.
ref: 1934, The Biologist, volumes 16-18, page 111:
synonyms: agrostology
glosses: The study of grasses.
Derived terms: graminologist
naphtholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing naphthol
graminologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graminologists
Senses: examples: text: C. conica ' Variegata' of gardens is a neat silver-variegated sedge, which some graminologists now call C. morrowii 'Variegata', a name used until recently for a handsome golden-variegated one-footer that is passingly hardy in New York.
ref: 1989, Fred McGourty, The Perennial Gardener, page 177:
synonyms: agrostologist
glosses: One who studies graminology.
graminologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graminologist
slice shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slice shops
Senses: glosses: A shop selling individual slices of pizza.
slice shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slice shop
uncrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncricks
form: uncricking
form: uncricked
form: uncricked
Etymology: From un- + crick.
Senses: examples: text: I got up, stretched, and uncricked my neck.
glosses: To relieve of a crick (cramp or spasm).
uncricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrick
uncricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncrick
uncricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncrick
coalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalie
unghoulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unghoulish
form: most unghoulish
Etymology: From un- + ghoulish.
Senses: glosses: Not ghoulish.
video conferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: videoconferencing
form: video-conferencing
Etymology: From video conference + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of video conference
video conferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video conferencings
form: videoconferencing
form: video-conferencing
Etymology: From video conference + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: During two separate videoconferencings, Naveen sought cooperation of both the chief ministers as nearly two lakh Odias including migrant workers, students, professionals and pilgrims are stuck in both the states.
ref: 2020 May 2, Sujit Kumar Bisoyi, “Naveen Patnaik discusses return plan of stranded Odias with counterparts in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh”, in The Times of India:
text: Upset that district magistrates and chief development officers are being routinely involved in meetings through video conferencing because of which their other work is suffering, chief minister Yogi Adityanath has issued orders that such meetings can now only be held after 6pm on Tuesdays.
ref: 2022 August 25, “Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath fixes time for departments' video conferencings to enable district magistrates to focus on work”, in The Times of India:
glosses: The act of holding of a video conference.
video conferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of video conference
fake Shemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fake Shemps
Etymology: Coined by film director Sam Raimi in reference to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A person who appears disguised in a film as a replacement for another actor or person.
wikipedia: Sam Raimi
fake Shemps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fake Shemp
technoparanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoparanoid
form: most technoparanoid
Etymology: From techno- + paranoid.
Senses: examples: text: Cronenberg made a technoparanoid movie about Americanization while the NVLA sensationalized horror movies as agents of Americanization, but that very similarity ironically made Videodrome unwelcome in the United Kingdom.
ref: 2013, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing:
glosses: Exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.
Related terms: technoparanoia
unbeery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeery
form: most unbeery
Etymology: From un- + beery.
Senses: glosses: Not beery.
unbeefy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeefy
form: most unbeefy
Etymology: From un- + beefy.
Senses: glosses: Not beefy.
non-optional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + optional.
Senses: examples: text: BR offered discounts on round trips to encourage optional days out and weekends away, but it did not want to discount one-way tickets which were typically used for non-optional journeys.
ref: 2020 December 2, Mark Smith, “Why fares reform is essential... and why it won't be easy”, in Rail, pages 34–35:
glosses: Alternative form of nonoptional.
intromercial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intromercials
Etymology: Blend of intro + commercial.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of preroll (“advertisement shown before the main content”).
synonyms: word: preroll
extra: advertisement shown before the main content
intromercials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intromercial
FRTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Free-radical theory of aging.
deep-dive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-dives
form: deep-diving
form: deep-dived
form: deep-dove
form: deep-dived
Senses: glosses: To engage in deep diving.
glosses: To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis of a topic.
raw_tags: with into
examples: text: All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.
ref: 2012 [2011], Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Bath: Windsor, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Michod […] told a Venice Film Festival press conference today that the pair “worked out really early on we were going to drift away from the plays themselves. We deep-dived the research and then made a whole bunch of stuff up. I can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from Shakespeare,” he laughed.
ref: 2019 September 2, Nancy Tartaglione, “‘The King’s Timothée Chalamet & Joel Edgerton On Getting Down In The Mud For David Michod’s Period Epic – Venice”, in Deadline:
text: Love Daisy Jones & the Six? Spending your free time deep-diving Fleetwood Mac drama? Suddenly need to know literally everything about Riley Keough, including how much she was paid for this show, not to mention her total net worth?
ref: 2023 June 14, Mehera Bonner, “Riley Keough’s Net Worth Seems Kind of Complicated Due to the Elvis Estate”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To involve to immerse oneself thoroughly in (something).
deep-dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-dives
Senses: examples: text: "The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into," says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album.
ref: 2020 December 8, David Barnett, “How John Lennon was made into a myth”, in BBC Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of deep dive.
paurangiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paurangiotic
form: most paurangiotic
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a very sparsely vascularized retina, such as that found in the horse.
kiddified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kiddified
form: most kiddified
Senses: glosses: Made childish.
macafouchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leftovers from a meal, historically eaten by the cook and butler after their master's meal
pores over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pore over
poring over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pore over
pored over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pore over
brings home the bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring home the bacon
bringing home the bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring home the bacon
brought home the bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring home the bacon
from one day to the next
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He drives a different car from one day to the next.
glosses: From day to day, every day.
examples: text: They became homeless from one day to the next.
text: What I have just said, Mr. President, should serve as a sufficient answer to those who say in an ironical tone that the right of suffrage has no magic virtue in itself, and that it cannot from one day to the next transform the slave into the complete citizen, and render him capable of governing the country.
ref: 1865, Agénor de Gasparin, translated by Mary Louise Booth, Reconstruction! A Letter to President Johnson, page 35:
text: Let us imagine the difference between this software firm and a firm producing consumer appliances in the 1950s if from one day to the next all their employees—below the highest management levels—simply walked away to take employment elsewhere.
ref: 1996, Fred Block, “A Second Paradox of Thrift: Investment Strategies and the Future”, in Neva R. Goodwin, editor, As if the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behavior, →ISBN, page 94:
text: The real reason is that retirement is a traumatic experience for most people. From one day to the next they turn from fully occupied persons with responsibilities and in many cases with the powers of decision, into beings with endless hours on their hands and nothing to do.
ref: 1998, Peter Peeters, The Four Phases of Society: Where Are We Going in the 21st Century?, →ISBN, page 124:
synonyms: overnight
glosses: In the span of a day.
birthstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthsteads
form: birth-stead
Etymology: From Middle English birth-sted, equivalent to birth + stead (“place, location”).
Senses: examples: text: For the sun is truly the birthstead of the whole earth.
ref: 1985, Patricia Dreier, A Pocketful of Joys, page 32:
glosses: The place of one's birth, birthplace.
birthsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthstead
boroselenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroselenates
Etymology: From boro- + selenate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion B(SeO₄)₄⁵⁻
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing this anion
'grammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 'grammable
form: most 'grammable
form: grammable
Senses: examples: text: The decor is minimal but luxurious, each room features plastered walls and floor-to-ceiling windows fitted with slatted wooden shutters, making the space extremely ’grammable.
ref: 2015 June 9, Rosie Fitzmaurice, “Hotel of the week: Casa Pueblo, Tulum”, in Evening Standard:
text: Do I create dishes specifically for Instagram? No. Am I aware of what people tend to ’gram? Yes. Do we use that knowledge to create something more ’grammable? No. I know places that have a great feed, but the food is rubbish. I call it ‘cooking for pictures’.
ref: 2017 April 16, Eleanor Morgan, quoting James Lowe, “Food that looks good enough to… Instagram”, in The Guardian:
text: With June 26 fast approaching, those lucky enough to have tickets, will be preparing their festival survivor kits, pop up tents and, of course, their super ’grammable looks.
ref: 2019 June 9, Sabrina Carder, “5 dress styles for every kind of Glastonbury festivalgoer”, in Evening Standard:
text: Driven by a search for the perfectly "grammable" shot, ecotourism is everywhere on the rise, though it rarely delivers on the promise of its name, which is to reconcile the impulse to consume nature with the desire to conserve it.
ref: 2020 August 24, Amia Srinivasan, “What Have We Done to the Whale?”, in The New Yorker:
text: Cross the river to Fish Lane for seriously 'grammable street art.
ref: 2020 December 24, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, Qld, page 10, column 2:
glosses: Clipping of Instagrammable; worthy of being posted on Instagram.
grammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grammable
form: most grammable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'grammable.
birthtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthtides
form: birth-tide
Etymology: From Middle English burdtide, burð tid, equivalent to birth + tide (“time, season”).
Senses: glosses: The time or season of one's birth, birthtime.
dumb-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb-bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumbbell.
dumb-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb-bell
electro-magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electro-magnets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electromagnet.
electro-magnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electro-magnet
birthtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthtongues
form: birth-tongue
form: birth tongue
Etymology: From Middle English burþe tonge, equivalent to birth + tongue.
Senses: examples: text: In replying timidly, Anita revealed her foreign accent, which was instantly observed. “You are American, of course? No? English? Ah, how stupid I am!" Forthwith he began to talk fluently in German, though Anita saw it was not his birthtongue.
ref: 1880, All the Year Round, volume 25, page 203:
text: And now I place them, palms up, wrong five-legged beasts with their underbellies exposed, on the desk for you who have told me, in your own broken wedding of English and your birthtongue, […]
ref: 1976, Albert Goldbarth, Comings Back: A Sequence of Poems, page 78:
text: "No problem. Neo-Gaesh, and that's Orlen's birthtongue."
ref: 1990, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Sassinak:
text: Faan talked constantly to herself and to anyone who'd listen, mixing the Fadogur she was learning with her birthtongue in a hash of sound that gradually grew more comprehensible.
ref: 1991, Jo Clayton, Wild Magic, page 48:
text: Other forms of cultural non-homogeneity (birthtongue or ethnic identity, for example) have, in the generally supportive nature of the group process, tended to become not only not a problem, […]
ref: 1998, Wojciech W. Gasparski, David Botham, Action Learning, page 112:
text: When this warning failed to cure the boys of recklessness, he made them recite the first apothegm of Tholjassan battle-dance at the start of every lesson — not just in Arquali, but also in their individual birthtongues: […]
ref: 2010, Robert V. S. Redick, The Ruling Sea, page 195:
glosses: One's first language, learnt in early childhood; native language.
birthtongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthtongue
birth-tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth-tongues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birthtongue.
birth tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth tongues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birthtongue.
nitrilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of a nitrile
nucleoplasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of nucleoplasm
neo-vernacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + vernacular.
Senses: examples: text: Birmingham's Cross-City route between Redditch/Bromsgrove and Lichfield opened in 1978. The public dislike of 1960s designs led to BR's John Broome adopting neo-vernacular brick to achieve a more traditional look for the new stations - as here at University.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 40, photo caption:
glosses: In architecture, representing a return to traditional materials as a reaction against modernism.
Brodskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brodskyan
form: most Brodskyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brodskian.
trop-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹə(ʊ)p/
ipa: /tɹəp/
ipa: /tɹoʊp/
Forms: form: -trop-
Etymology: From atropine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of atropine derivatives.
-trop-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹə(ʊ)p/
ipa: /tɹəp/
ipa: /tɹoʊp/
Forms: form: trop-
Etymology: From atropine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of atropine derivatives.
darn it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Darn it, my dad didn't get eggnog!
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: An expression used to show displeasure. A less emphatic, less profane version of damnit.
Synonyms: sense: dang it
word: 1
Nipponophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nipponophobes
Etymology: From Nippono- + -phobe.
Senses: synonyms: Japanophobe
antonyms: Japanophile
Nipponophile
glosses: One who hates or fears Japan or the Japanese.
Related terms: Nipponophobia
Nipponophobic
Nipponophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nipponophobe
hipped roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hipped roofs
form: hipped rooves
Senses: examples: text: Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 42, photo caption:
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of hip roof.
synonyms: word: hip roof
not all heroes wear capes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the tendency for superheroes to wear capes.
Senses: examples: text: I don't believe that heroes are extraordinary people— I believe they are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This is a wonderful lesson for adults and children. Not all heroes wear capes!
ref: 2004, Vickie Girard, There's No Place Like Hope, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Everywhere they go, every step they take and no matter who they are with, the band's fans are beside them in spirit and in their hearts, making signs up with slogans such as "You're proof that not all heroes wear capes!" and turning up at venues where the band are recording, rehearsing, or performing.
ref: 2014, One Direction Confidential, Barron's, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Real people are as capable of being heroic as fictional superheroes.
hipped rooves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hipped roof
hipped roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hipped roof
flutter tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flutter tongues
form: flutter tonguing
form: flutter tongued
form: flutter tongued
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flutter-tongue.
vermouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermouthed
form: most vermouthed
Etymology: From vermouth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Served or flavoured with vermouth.
homogeneous width
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous widths
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter, the experimental studies of the homogenous width of quantum dots are reviewed. Especially, temperature-dependent homogeneous width of confined excitons in quantum dots investigated at very low temperatures by means of accumulated photon echo is discussed.
ref: 2013, Yasuaki Masumoto, “Homogeneous Width of Confined Excitons in Quantum Dots -- Experimental”, in Y. Masumoto, T. Takagahara, editors, Semiconductor Quantum Dots, page 326:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The width of homogeneous lines in the optical spectra produced by some process.
pattern book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern books
Senses: glosses: A book containing samples of patterns and designs of cloth or wallpaper.
examples: text: The idea of standard designs is as old as Brunel's pattern-book series of Tudor and Italianate designs for the Great Western Railway in the 1840s.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 43:
glosses: A book of architectural designs.
pattern books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern book
slot jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slot jockeys
Senses: glosses: A gambler who plays slot machines.
slot jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slot jockey
quarterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quarterizes
form: quarterizing
form: quarterized
form: quarterized
Etymology: From quarter + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide into quarters.
Related terms: quarterization
quarterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarterize
quarterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quarterize
quarterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarterize
hedgerowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hedgerowed
form: most hedgerowed
Etymology: From hedgerow + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more hedgerows; surrounded by hedgerows.
tetrylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəl.əˈmoʊ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The cation tetraethylammonium when used for the drug tetrylammonium bromide.
Derived terms: tetrylammonium bromide
workeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workeresses
Etymology: From worker + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female worker.
workeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workeress
-curonium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹəʊ.ni.əm/
ipa: /kjəˈɹoʊ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Etymology: From cur(are) + -onium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of neuromuscular blocking agents with rigid structure.
Related terms: -curium
make someone's hair stand on end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's hair stand on end
form: making someone's hair stand on end
form: made someone's hair stand on end
form: made someone's hair stand on end
Senses: examples: text: That scene in the movie where the killer is stalking his victim made my hair stand on end.
text: A commentator in the tabloid Bild said seeing signs like “Harald’s Eck” (“Harald’s Corner”) made his “hair stand on end”, and that the proper use of the genitive form would be bemoaned by lovers of the German language.
ref: 2024 October 7, Philip Oltermann, “Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To frighten or scare someone.
Related terms: raise someone's hackles
set someone's teeth on edge
stand on end
-curium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əm/
Etymology: From cur(are) + -ium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of curare-like substances, neuromuscular blocking agents with rigid structure.
Related terms: -curonium
untantalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untantalizing
form: most untantalizing
Etymology: From un- + tantalizing.
Senses: glosses: Not tantalizing.
untantalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untantalized
form: most untantalized
Etymology: From un- + tantalized.
Senses: glosses: Not tantalized.
unstaples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstaple
unstapling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstaple
unhingedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhingedly
form: most unhingedly
Etymology: From unhinged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unhinged manner.
bindingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From binding + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a binding or bindings.
blue detuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A situation in which the frequency is higher ("bluer") than the resonance frequency.
red detuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A situation in which the frequency is lower ("redder") than the resonance frequency.
-clidinium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /klɪˈdɪn.i.əm/
Etymology: From -clidine + -ium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of muscarinic receptor agonists or antagonists.
bouleuteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouleuterion
unknocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + knocked.
Senses: examples: to leave no door unknocked
glosses: Not knocked or knocked upon.
Reckitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unphenomenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + phenomenal.
Senses: glosses: Not phenomenal.
nonphenomenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phenomenal.
Senses: glosses: Not phenomenal.
wrencheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrench
drencheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drench
bootboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootboard
boot boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot board
Chimenti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chimentis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Chimenti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
home working
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The full implications of the pandemic on future demand for rail travel are yet to be borne out, although there is broad consensus that a pre-existing shift towards greater home working and less peak-time travel has been accelerated.
ref: 2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of homeworking.
perfesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfessers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of professor.
perfessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfesser
hoomie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of homie.
family friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family friends
Senses: examples: text: John isn't my brother; he's just a family friend.
glosses: An unrelated friend or familiar acquaintance of one's family.
Jevons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛvənz/
rhymes: -ɛvənz
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Jevonsian
Jevonian
Jevons effect
Jevons paradox
Barbican
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4854).
glosses: A neighbourhood and residential estate in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281)
adventurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adventurizes
form: adventurizing
form: adventurized
form: adventurized
Etymology: From adventure + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I recall my friend, the late Charles Jeffries, who heard I was trying to adventurize Canada's past years, and who came down to the office one afternoon and yarned for a couple of hours, chain-smoking as he always did.
ref: 1952, Canadian Author and Bookman, volumes 28-31:
text: Serendipity adventurizes and romanticizes objects of desire, endowing the experience of their acquisition with a vicarious thrill.
ref: 1962, Puzant Kevork Thomajan, Advertigo, page 32:
text: The first thing they did was adventurize our staff. They took them to Boston and had them do the things we would be asking the kids to do.
ref: 1981, Joshua L. Miner, Outward Bound U.S.A.: Learning Through Experience in Adventure-based Education:
text: As usual his adventurizing of the previously undefined is precipitate, cutting off the inductive process of inquiry with a trenchant deduction formulated on the basis of bookish assumptions.
ref: 1992, Steven D. Hutchinson, Cervantine Journeys, page 151:
glosses: To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.
adventurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adventurize
adventurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adventurize
adventurized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adventurize
deputization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deputizations
form: deputisation
Senses: examples: text: Here we have, not a question of the deputization of work to assistants, but of the DEPUTIZATION OF THE WORK OF CAPITAL TO BORROWED FUNDS.
ref: 1922, Herbert Watson, The Knack of Managing: System's New Method of Training Men to Manage:
text: The sheriff departments gave fourteen deputizations to the Indian police on ten reservations.
ref: 1966, Annual Report of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs to the Governor of Arizona, Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs:
glosses: The process of becoming a deputy.
deputizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deputization
money supplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money supply
Egoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of eGoli.
eGoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɡəʊli/
ipa: /ɛˈɡəʊli/
enpr: ĭ-gō􂀽'lē
enpr: ĕ-gō􂀽'lē
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: Egoli
form: EGoli
Etymology: From Zulu eGoli (literally “in Johannesburg”).
Senses: synonyms: Gauteng
Golden City
glosses: Nickname for Johannesburg: the largest city in South Africa, in Gauteng province.
-verine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /və.ɹʌɪn/
ipa: /və.ɹiːn/
ipa: /vəˌɹin/
ipa: /vəɹ.ɪn/
Etymology: From papaverine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of spasmolytics with a papaverine-like action.
shrewly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shrewly
form: most shrewly
Etymology: From Middle English shreuli, schrewelich, equivalent to shrew + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Society have, it seems, invented a cunning machine, shrewly yclept a Torpedo, […]
ref: 1897, Washington Irving, Works: Life of George Washington, page 343:
glosses: In a shrewish manner, shrewdly, sharply.
flutter tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flutter tongue
flutter tonguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flutter tongue
flutter tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flutter tongue
family friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family friend
Javertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʒəˈvɛɹʃən/
Forms: form: more Javertian
form: most Javertian
Etymology: From Javert, a police inspector in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.
Senses: examples: ref: 2005, Jack Shafer in Slate, For all Fitzgerald’s Javertian tendencies, I doubt if he wants to be remembered as the guy who jailed reporters from Time and the New York Times.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the relentless pursuit of a wrongdoer.
wikipedia: Javert
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Zgola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zgolas
Etymology: From Polish Zgoła.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
get a hold of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a hold of
form: getting a hold of
form: got a hold of
form: got a hold of
form: gotten a hold of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get hold of.
Merton Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Merton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2569).
tetrachlorophenolphthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachlorophenolphthaleins
Etymology: From tetra- + chloro- + phenolphthalein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any tetrachloro derivative of phenolphthalein, but especially 4,5,6,7-tetrachlorophenolphthalein
Synonyms: phenoltetrachlorophthalein
druj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬘 (druj).
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
antonyms: asha
glosses: Deceit, falsehood, lie.
data engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data engineers
Senses: glosses: An information technology professional who develops data storage, processing and analytics solutions in a business setting.
data engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data engineer
-dyl
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /dɪl/
Forms: form: dil-
form: -dil-
form: -dil
Etymology: From vasodilator.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of vasodilators.
wolfproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wolfproof
form: most wolfproof
Etymology: From wolf + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to the attacks of wolves.
supereasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + easy.
Senses: glosses: Extremely easy.
turbocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turbo- + capitalist.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relating to turbocapitalism
zeromodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a zero mode
-gab-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: /ɡæb/
/ɡəb/
Forms: form: gab-
Etymology: From GABA (“γ-aminobutyric acid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of gabamimetic agents.
gab-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ɡæb/
/ɡəb/
Forms: form: -gab-
Etymology: From GABA (“γ-aminobutyric acid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of gabamimetic agents.
-bamate
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /bə.meɪt/
Etymology: Clipping of carbamate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of propanediol and pentanediol derivatives used as tranquilizers.
-trigine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /tɹɪ.d͡ʒiːn/
Etymology: Probably from tr(ansduction + (s)ig(nal) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of sodium channel blockers used as signal transduction modulators.
Constable Burton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Constable Burton and Finghall parish council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE1690).
Related terms: Burton Constable
-clidine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /klɪ.diːn/
Etymology: From quinuclidine or (cy)cl(o)- + -idine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of muscarinic receptor agonists and antagonists.
Derived terms: -clidinium
Aby with Greenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aby + with + Greenfield, see each entry for further etymology.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England.
moral universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral universes
Senses: glosses: The moral nature of the universe as a whole in relation to human life, or a specific moral code.
Fermat pseudoprime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fermat pseudoprimes
Senses: examples: text: 341 is a Fermat pseudoprime to the base two.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: With respect to an integer base b, with b > 1, a composite integer n such that bⁿ⁻¹ is congruent to one modulo n.
Kirk Bramwith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Moss and District Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6211).
Stixwould and Woodhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England.
Woodhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodhalls
Etymology: From Old English wudu (“wood”) + hall (“heall”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2411).
glosses: A placename:
Synonym of Old Woodhall, Lincolnshire.
synonyms: word: Old Woodhall
word: Lincolnshire
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Askrigg parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9790).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Hemingbrough parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6931).
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Pudsey, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2034).
glosses: A placename:
A housing estate near Port Glasgow, Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3473).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Old Woodhall
Stixwould and Woodhall
Woodhall Spa
bro out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bros out
form: broing out
form: broed out
form: broed out
Senses: qualifier: or a man
glosses: To hang out (with male friends)
raw_tags: said of men
Old Woodhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Stixwould and Woodhall parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2167).
Synonyms: Woodhall
Hemingbrough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. May be from a term relating to Heming + Old English burh (borough).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6730).
Askrigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9491).
email list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: email lists
form: e-mail list
Senses: synonyms: mailing list
glosses: An electronic mailing list consisting of a database of email addresses and sometimes other information.
email lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of email list
Oddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oddy
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
blerg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blarg.
Settee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Settees
Etymology: From Cree Settee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cree.
erudiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of erudiate
erudiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of erudiate
Sette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Settes
Etymology: Borrowed from French or Italian Sette.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kawagoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 川越 (Kawagoe).
Senses: glosses: A city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, known as "Koedo"（小江戸）
glosses: A town in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
ethenoadenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The mutagen 1H-imidazo[2,1-f]purine
ethosulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethosulfates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion CH₃CH₂-O-SO₃⁻ or any salt containing this anion