cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + building.
Senses: examples: text: Nonbuilding structures include all self-supporting structures other than buildings that carry gravity loads and resist the effects of earthquakes.
ref: 1999, Gail H. Shea, Recommended lateral force requirements and commentary:
glosses: Not being or pertaining to a building.
nonbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbuildings
Etymology: From non- + building.
Senses: glosses: A structure that is not a building.
noncrossover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crossover.
Senses: examples: text: The 10 brown offspring constitute only one-half of the offspring produced by noncrossover maternal gametes. Therefore, we estimate that 10 of the white individuals were also produced by noncrossover maternal gametes.
ref: 2002, Susan L. Elrod, William D. Stansfield, Schaum's outline of theory and problems of genetics:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not involving crossover.
noncultivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + cultivation.
Senses: examples: text: The trees in the two former sections have a more nearly dormant period of growth during the early winter than those in the latter, in which case the effect of noncultivation is not so marked.
ref: 1911, Plant Industry Bureau, Bulletin:
glosses: Absence of cultivation; failure to cultivate.
foisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɪstɪ/
Forms: form: more foisty
form: most foisty
Etymology: From foist + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty.
ref: 1669, John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered:
text: Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.
ref: 2000, Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, page 2:
glosses: mouldy, musty, fusty
Derived terms: foistily
foistiness
nonending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From non- + ending.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a circle begins to coincide with the limiting figure of a regular polygon inscribed in it as we increase the number of sides, giving rise to the concept of a nonending process.
ref: 1999, Michael E. Mortenson, Mathematics for computer graphics applications, page 90:
glosses: Not coming to an end.
nonbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Etymology: From non- + brand.
Senses: examples: text: A nonbrand processing strategy refers to all other processing strategies where no evaluation of the advertised brand is made during exposure to the persuasive communication.
ref: 1985, Linda F. Alwitt, Andrew A. Mitchell, Psychological processes and advertising effects:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a commercial brand.
nonpersuasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + persuasive.
Senses: glosses: Not persuasive.
nonconduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + conduction.
Senses: glosses: Failure to conduct (heat, electricity, etc.).
nondependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: Not dependent.
nondependent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondependents
Etymology: From non- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a dependent.
nondependents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondependent
antimetathesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + metathesis.
Senses: glosses: The repetition of the same word in a sentence with a different meaning.
glosses: The inversion of the parts of an antithesis, as in "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem" (Crabbe).
antirationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + rationalism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The philosophical position that opposes rationalism.
antiknocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiknock
antimask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimasks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antimasque.
Derived terms: antimasker
antimask
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-mask
Etymology: From anti- + mask.
Senses: examples: text: Hassler stated that the Board of Health was not going to be influenced by antimask activists. But making a law is one thing, and enforcing it is something else.
ref: 1976, Alfred W. Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, 1918, page 112:
text: Some southern towns and cities made efforts to limit the activities of the Ku Klux Klan with the passage of antimask laws.
ref: 1999, Bruce Adelson, Brushing back Jim Crow, page 9:
antonyms: promask
glosses: Opposing masks.
Related terms: antimasker
antimasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimask
antistatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antistatic
antirationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirationalist
form: most antirationalist
Etymology: From anti- + rationalist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposing philosophical rationalism.
antirationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirationalists
Etymology: From anti- + rationalist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who rejects philosophical rationalism.
antirationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirationalist
antiterminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiterminates
form: antiterminating
form: antiterminated
form: antiterminated
Etymology: From anti- + terminate.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To override the termination of DNA transcription.
Related terms: antitermination
antiterminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiterminate
antiterminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiterminate
antiterminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiterminate
MOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOIs
Senses: examples: text: The patient's MOI is easy to identify, as opposed to the NOI, which is symptomatic only.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mechanism of injury.
antiprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more antiprogressive
form: most antiprogressive
Etymology: From anti- + progressive.
Senses: examples: text: Others considered themselves “alt-lite,” or merely antiprogressive.
ref: 2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Opposing progress.
Derived terms: antiprogressivism
antiprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: antiprogressives
Etymology: From anti- + progressive.
Senses: examples: text: And everyone in Afghanistan would be happy too, she said, once the antiprogressives, the backward bandits, were defeated.
ref: 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 111:
glosses: One who opposes progress.
antipathical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipathical
form: most antipathical
Etymology: From antipathic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antipathic.
synonyms: word: antipathic
emmenagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emmenagogic
form: most emmenagogic
Senses: examples: text: Essential oils not yet mentioned, which some books suggest are emmenagogic and need care during pregnancy, although there is no research to support or reject these suggestions.
ref: 1999, Shirley Price, Len Price, Aromatherapy for health professionals:
glosses: Stimulating blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, causing menstruation.
Related terms: emmenagogue
antipathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antipathically
form: most antipathically
Etymology: From antipathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antipathic manner; through an antipathical fashion.
churel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˈɹeɪl/
Forms: form: churels
Etymology: From Hindi चुड़ैल (cuṛail).
Senses: examples: text: As a churel she now prowls about the neighbourhood with her child in her arms.
ref: 1895, William Crooke, North Indian Notes and Queries, page 39:
text: The Churel, or woman dying in chold-birth, has been mentioned elsewhere.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32:
text: He talked in whispers, and with the utmost respect, of the churel that might be listening overhead.
ref: 1953, The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 29, page 410:
glosses: In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth, pregnancy; or a witch.
churels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churel
antihysteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihysterics
Senses: examples: text: This composition, designed as an antihysteric, is liable to considerable objections, not only in regard to its particular ingredients, but to the medicinal intention of the whole.
ref: 1778, William Lewis, The new dispensatory, page 393:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any substance that counters hysterics.
antihysteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering hysterics.
antihysterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihysteric
antipathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antipathetically
form: most antipathetically
Etymology: From antipathetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antipathetic fashion.
antibiotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /-kʌl/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌæn.ti-/
other: /-baɪˈɑ.tɪ-/
rhymes: -ɒtɪkəl
Forms: form: more antibiotical
form: most antibiotical
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to antibiotics.
antigenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigene
anti-anti-Semitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + anti-Semitism.
Senses: examples: text: For the former, anti-Semitism has receded to such an extent that it is no longer a political problem, making continuing structural protection of the social system through norms of anti-anti-Semitism no longer necessary.
ref: 1997, Werner Bergmann, Rainer Erb, Anti-Semitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch Since 1945, page 276:
text: A big problem, as people always say at meetings of Jewish organizations, is that the young people are falling away from Judaism, and I would add that it is doubtful that they'll come back on a program of anti-anti-Semitism.
ref: 2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America:
glosses: Opposition to anti-Semitism.
outland Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
ref: 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
text: The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each.
ref: 1936 December 7, LIFE, page 28:
text: And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe […]
ref: 2001 June 12, Mike Echo Mike, “Why do I fly !!!”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):
glosses: Germans living abroad, in a foreign land.
Related terms: outland
sibset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibsets
Etymology: From sib + set.
Senses: examples: text: The gift equation deserves special attention among the land transfer equations for both paternal and maternal sibsets.
ref: 2001, International Food Policy Research Institute, Research report (issues 120-124)
glosses: A group of siblings.
sibsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sibset
multiangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one angle.
antientropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antientropic
form: most antientropic
Etymology: From anti- + entropic.
Senses: glosses: Countering entropy.
anticlinorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticlinoriums
form: anticlinoria
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A series of parallel anticlinal folds on a regional-scale anticline.
anticlinoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticlinorium
anticlinoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticlinorium
antiaircrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiaircraft
antitumors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitumor
azinomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azinomycin
fire service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire services
Senses: glosses: fire department
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Service in a fire department or other firefighting organization, whether as a chosen career, or as a result of volunteering or a form of prison labor.
Related terms: military service
prison labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Work which one is compelled to perform due to lack of options, by choice while in prison, or outright against one's will, while in a condition of confinement or slavery.
Related terms: unfree labor
forced labor
hard labor
hard labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard labour
Senses: hypernyms: forced labor
glosses: Forced servitude in the form of physically difficult labor, usually as a penal punishment.
Related terms: penal servitude
serfdom
slavery
fire house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire houses
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Fire station.
fire houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire house
hep D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hepatitis D.
hepatitis D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids, and caused by the hepatitis delta virus.
Derived terms: hepatitis D virus
hep D
hepatitis C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: non-A, non-B hepatitis
word: hep C
glosses: An acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.
Derived terms: hepatitis C virus
hep C
hepatitis B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.
Derived terms: hep B
hepatitis B virus
body fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body fluid
body fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body fluids
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bodily fluid.
synonyms: word: bodily fluid
OODL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Object-Oriented Dynamic Language
medical alert jewelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Patients who know they are allergic to iodine and have a history of syncopes will usually wear medical alert jewelry to inform responders of this medical history.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Metallic bracelets and necklaces documenting patient's preexisting health conditions and known allergies.
Related terms: panic button
Ionian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
{c'd'e'f'g'a'b'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: Ionic mode
glosses: A mode that is the same as a major key, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Dorian mode
Locrian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Phrygian mode
Dorian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone - tone
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A, B♭, C
{c'd'es'f'g'a'bes'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the sixth scale degree raised by one half step, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Ionian mode
Locrian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Phrygian mode
Phrygian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phrygian modes
Senses: examples: semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone.
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D♭, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭, C
{c'des'es'f'g'aes'bes'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the second scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Dorian mode
Ionian mode
Locrian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Lydian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: tone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone.
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F♯, G, A, B, C
{c'd'e'fis'g'a'b'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the fourth scale degree raised by one half step, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Dorian mode
Locrian mode
Mixolydian mode
Phrygian mode
Mixolydian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone.
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C.
{c' d' e' f' g' a' bes' c2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the seventh scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Dorian mode
Ionian mode
Locrian mode
Lydian mode
Phrygian mode
Aeolian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone
text: Starting on the note A, this produces a scale with the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A
text: {a b c'd'e'f'g'a'2}
text: And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale, with the interval pattern
Coordinate terms: Dorian mode
Ionian mode
Locrian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Phrygian mode
scale degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scale degrees
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a number given to each note of a scale
scale degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scale degree
mentulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentula
THM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: THMs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trihalomethane.
balls-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: balls deep
Senses: examples: text: I like to fuck balls-deep. If they can't take it all it's not worth the time.
glosses: With the penis fully immersed in an orifice, more often the anus or vagina than the mouth.
balls-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: balls deep
Senses: examples: text: He was balls-deep in his girlfriend and cumming in buckets.
glosses: Having the penis fully immersed in an orifice, more often the anus or vagina than the mouth.
examples: text: I'm balls-deep into this essay; no turning back.
glosses: Fully committed to a situation.
guz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡʌz/
Forms: form: guzes
form: guz
form: guzzes
form: guzz
form: gaz
Etymology: From Hindi गज़ (gaz) and Urdu گز (gaz), from Classical Persian گز (gaz). Doublet of gudge.
Senses: synonyms: gudge
Mughal yard
glosses: A unit of length used in parts of Asia, ranging from 24 to 41 inches and historically used for measuring textiles, comparable to the English yard.
Derived terms: word: Guzz
Related terms: guzzy
by'm-by
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of by-and-by.
zygomatic arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygomatic arch
sore throats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sore throat
high flier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high fliers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highflier.
high-flier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-fliers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highflier.
high flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high flyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highflier.
high-flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-flyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highflier.
reentres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reentre
reentring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reentre
reentred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reentre
uglysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uglysome
form: most uglysome
Etymology: From ugly + -some.
Senses: glosses: Frightful in appearance; hideous.
umbelappe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbelappes
form: umbelapping
form: umbelapped
form: umbelapped
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of umbelap.
umbegrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbegrips
form: umbegripping
form: umbegripped
form: umbegripped
form: umbegrippe
form: umbe-grippe
Etymology: From Middle English umbegrippen, equivalent to umbe- + grip.
Senses: glosses: To seize hold of.
umbegrippe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbegrippes
form: umbegripping
form: umbegripped
form: umbegripped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of umbegrip.
umbeclap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbeclaps
form: umbeclapping
form: umbeclapped
form: umbeclapped
form: umbeclappe
form: umbe-clappe
Etymology: From Middle English umbeclappen. By surface analysis, umbe- + clap, or um- + beclap.
Senses: glosses: To embrace; enclose.
bedirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedirts
form: bedirting
form: bedirted
form: bedirted
Etymology: From be- + dirt.
Senses: glosses: To cover or defile with dirt.
Derived terms: bedirten
bedirten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedirten
form: most bedirten
Etymology: From Middle English bedritten, past participle of bedriten (“to befoul”), equivalent to be- + dritten. More at bedrite.
Senses: glosses: Fouled with dirt or excrement; befouled.
bedrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: bedrites
form: bedright
Etymology: From bed + rite.
Senses: glosses: The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
bedrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /bəˈdɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɛdˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: bedrites
form: bedriting
form: bedrote
form: bedrit
form: bedritten
Etymology: From be- + drite.
Senses: glosses: To befoul with ordure; bedirt.
SAMPLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness.
pavement pizzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavement pizza
pegger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peggers
Etymology: From peg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who pegs (in any sense).
A regular drinker of alcohol, especially brandy and soda.
glosses: A person who pegs (in any sense).
A person who, or machine that, attached the uppers to the soles of shoes using wooden pegs (shoepegs).
Related terms: word: pegging
hoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooshes
form: hooch
Senses: examples: text: From downstairs we heard a hoosh as the boiler started. The pipes clanked a little while Frankie B talked more about his trip.
ref: 2013, James Quackenbush, A Speckled Axe, page 88:
glosses: A whooshing sound.
examples: text: Christmas Day was spent at this camp, and, as was the case with the other sledging expeditions that were out at the time, a special feast was provided. For breakfast they had hoosh, sardines in tomato sauce and raisins; for lunch Garibaldi biscuits and jelly; and for dinner potted boneless chicken and a small plum pudding.
ref: 1909, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, “Christmas on a Glacier”, in The Heart of the Antarctic, volume 2, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, pages 64–65:
text: They are magnificent animals, averaging 80 lbs. in weight, with a wonderful capacity for endurance in intense cold on very little food. Four such dogs with three men have hauled a load of 1,380 lbs. over soft snow ay 10 miles a day for many weeks. Their staple food was 1½ lbs. of Spratt's cod liver oil biscuits per day; this ration, with a hot hoosh every three days, keeping them in splendid health.
ref: 1929, Ernest Edward Mills Joyce, The South Polar Trail, page 218:
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: A stew made from pemmican or other meat, thickened with biscuit.
hoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hooshes
form: hooshing
form: hooshed
form: hooshed
form: hooch
Senses: glosses: To move with a rushing sound; to whoosh.
hucksterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hucksterers
Etymology: From huckster + -er.
Senses: glosses: huckster
peery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peery
form: peerier
form: most peery
form: peeriest
Etymology: From peer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, which had a droll obliquity of vision, approaching to a squint, though perhaps not a decided one.
ref: 1821, Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth:
glosses: That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.
glosses: Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.
peery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeries
Etymology: From Scots peerie.
Senses: glosses: spinning top
Tropæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trōpēʹən
ipa: /tɹəʊˈpiːən/
Forms: form: Tropaean
Etymology: From Latin tropae(us) (“turning back”, “returning”, adjective) + -an; from the Plinian phrase ventī tropaeī (“sea-breezes”, literally “winds blowing from the sea towards the land”), from Ancient Greek τροπαῖος (tropaîos, adjective) (also used in the noun phrase πνοή τροπαία (pnoḗ tropaía, “an alternating wind, blowing back from sea to land”)), from τρόπος (trópos, “turning”).
Senses: examples: text: The frequent rains brought by the Tropæan winds from the Irish Seas.
ref: 1686, Robert Plot, chapter 2, in The Natural History of Staffordshire, page 44:
glosses: Blowing from sea to land.
raw_tags: of an air current
Tropæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: trōpēʹən
ipa: /tɹəʊˈpiːən/
Forms: form: Tropaean
Etymology: From Latin tropae(us) (“turning back”, “returning”, adjective) + -an; from the Plinian phrase ventī tropaeī (“sea-breezes”, literally “winds blowing from the sea towards the land”), from Ancient Greek τροπαῖος (tropaîos, adjective) (also used in the noun phrase πνοή τροπαία (pnoḗ tropaía, “an alternating wind, blowing back from sea to land”)), from τρόπος (trópos, “turning”).
Senses: examples: text: At the seven gates seven Argive warriors rag’d, / / But, Chief with daring Chief engag’d, / / Left to Tropæan Jove their glittering spoils.
ref: 1813, Sophocles (author) and R. Potter (translator), “Antigone” (lines 156–161) in The Tragedies of Sophocles, page 142
text: The sanctuary of Tropaean (‘turner to flight’) Zeus was made by the Dorians after they had conquered the Amyclaeans and the rest of the Achaeans.
ref: 1898, Sir James George Frazer (translator), Pausanias’s Description of Greece I, page 152
qualifier: Greek and Roman antiquities
glosses: An epithet of Jupiter and Zeus: turner to flight; he who puts to flight.
portolani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portolano
potestative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potestative
form: most potestative
Etymology: From Latin potestativus, from potestas (“power”). Compare French potestatif. See potent.
Senses: examples: text: The third branch of God's authoritative or potestative power consisteth in the use of all things in his possession, by virtue of his absolute dominion.
ref: c. 1683 John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed. Reprinted by J.F. Dove: London, 1832. Article I, p 66. (online)
glosses: authoritative
examples: text: A potestative condition is that which is in the power of the person in whose favor it is contracted; as, if I engage to give my neighbor a sum of money, in case he cuts down a tree which obstructs my prospect.
ref: 1843 John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary. Reprinted by G.W. Childs: Philadelphia, 1864. Entry for "Condition", p. 264. (online)
text: Articles 1170 and 1174 of the French Civil Code deal with potestative conditions. The former defines as potestative a contractual condition the fulfillment of which is within the power of one of the contracting parties to bring about or hinder. The latter article provides that every obligation contracted on a potestative condition on the part of him who purports to bind himself is null.
ref: 1962, William Shelby McKenzie, “Obligations — Potestative Conditions — Right to Terminate In Employment Contracts”, in Louisiana Law Review, volume 22:
topics: law
glosses: of a condition in a legal contract: being completely controlled by exactly one of the parties to the contract
unglowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unglowing
form: most unglowing
Etymology: From un- + glowing.
Senses: examples: text: It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost grey, with a strange reminder of high latitudes.
ref: 1916, Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line:
glosses: Not emitting a glow of light.
examples: text: Is it acceptable to share “good letters” but never share letters with neutral or unglowing commentary?
ref: 2002, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, The ethics of teaching: a casebook, page 108:
glosses: Not conveying praise.
hucksterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hucksterer
peggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pegger
suck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks out
form: sucking out
form: sucked out
form: sucked out
form: suck-out
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, out.
examples: text: Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky.
ref: 2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.
suck out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suck outs
form: suck-out
Senses: examples: text: Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky.
ref: 2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An instance of winning a hand by sucking out.
tamanu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamanus
Etymology: From Tahitian tāmanu.
Senses: glosses: A tree (Calophyllum inophyllum), widely distributed in the Pacific islands, that is a source of a resin, and a bitter oil (tamanol)
Derived terms: tamanol
reactivatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reactivate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reactivated.
antifoulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifouling
reactivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reactivated.
Synonyms: reactivatable
antiformalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiformalist
reactionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reactionist
tamanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamanu
reactivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactivators
Etymology: From reactivate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reactivates.
topics: chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that removes hydrogen sulfide from a solution.
reactivators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reactivator
reactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reactivation
twell
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of till.
twell
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of till.
antinature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinature
form: most antinature
Etymology: From anti- + nature.
Senses: examples: text: Much eco-feminist thought has rejected Christianity altogether, accepting the view that Christianity is not only inherently antifemale, but also antinature and that these two negativities are closely intertwined.
ref: 1999, Arvind Sharma, Katherine K. Young, Feminism and world religions, page 223:
glosses: Opposing or destructive to nature, particularly in its sense as the material world and its nonhuman inhabitants.
calophyllolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A neoflavone isolated from tamanu seeds.
coracoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coracoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a coracoid
Derived terms: epicoracoidal
intercoracoidal
precoracoidal
dastardling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dastardlings
Etymology: From dastard + -ling.
Senses: glosses: An insignificant or contemptible dastard
antinomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinomical
form: most antinomical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antinomic (“contradictory”).
glosses: Relating to antinomianism.
antinomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antinomically
form: most antinomically
Etymology: From antinomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antinomic manner; in a contradictory manner.
antiquations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquation
antipyresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from antipyretic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The reduction of fever.
Related terms: antipyretic
antiptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiptosis
unuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + use.
Senses: examples: a long period of unuse
glosses: disuse
transmeridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + meridian.
Senses: examples: text: After transmeridian flights the individual may have difficulty in falling asleep when it is local time for rest, and there may be spontaneous awakenings during the night as well as early awakening in the morning.
ref: 1989, Robert Steffen, Hans O Lobel, James Haworth, Travel Medicine:
glosses: Across the meridian.
nanosatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosatellites
Etymology: From nano- + satellite.
Senses: glosses: An artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kilograms.
Synonyms: nanosat
Hypernyms: satellite
Coordinate terms: microsatellite
minisatellite
nanosatellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosatellite
picosatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picosatellites
Etymology: From pico- + satellite.
Senses: glosses: An artificial satellite with a wet mass between 0.1 and 1 kilograms.
Synonyms: picosat
picosatellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picosatellite
picornaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to picornaviruses.
antitextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitextual
form: most antitextual
Etymology: From anti- + textual.
Senses: examples: text: Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]
ref: 1988, Shari Benstock, The private self, page 140:
text: The advent of Zen to a large extent functions as an antistructural, antitextual movement[…]
ref: 1994, Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan tradition, page 177:
glosses: Opposing a text or textual conventions.
aconidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + conidial.
Senses: glosses: Not conidial.
bladderful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladderfuls
form: bladdersful
Etymology: From bladder + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a bladder can hold.
bladderfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bladderful
bladdersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bladderful
ballad opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballad operas
Senses: glosses: An often racy and satirical genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the 18th century.
ballad operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballad opera
Boston Mess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pattern which consists of throwing each prop straight up whilst crossing and uncrossing one's arms.
Related terms: Mills Mess
Mike's Mess
Mike's Mess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Mike Day.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pattern, usually done with three balls, which consists of throwing and catching each prop under one's non-throwing arm.
Related terms: Mills Mess
Boston Mess
constructive logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructive logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any kind of logic in which any proof of existence can be converted into an algorithm that constructs the mathematical object which it claims to exist.
Hyponyms: coherent logic
equational logic
intuitionistic logic
cancelier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kænsəˈlɪɚ/
Forms: form: canceliers
form: canceliering
form: canceliered
form: canceliered
Senses: examples: text: He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced
 To cancelier.
ref: 1633, Philip Massinger, The Guardian:
glosses: To turn in flight.
raw_tags: of a bird of prey
canceliered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cancelier
canceliering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cancelier
corydaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corydalines
Etymology: From the genus name Corydalis + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bioactive isoquinoline alkaloid.
corydaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corydaline
form: most corydaline
Etymology: From the genus name Corydalis + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling the genus Corydalis.
Related terms: coralydine
dehydrocorydaline
corydalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corydaline
bulbocapnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid that inhibits acetylcholinesterase.
antiacetylcholinesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + acetylcholinesterase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That inhibits acetylcholinesterase.
antiacetylcholinesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiacetylcholinesterases
Etymology: From anti- + acetylcholinesterase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that inhibits acetylcholinesterase.
antiacetylcholinesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiacetylcholinesterase
antinociceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinociceptive
form: most antinociceptive
Etymology: From anti- + nociceptive.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That inhibits nociception, the sensation of pain.
antinociceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinociceptives
Etymology: From anti- + nociceptive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that inhibits nociception.
Related terms: antinociception
nociceptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nociceptin
antinociceptives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinociceptive
cagework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cageworks
Etymology: From cage + work.
Senses: examples: two interpenetrating cageworks of hydrogen bonds
glosses: A cage or cage-like structure.
cageworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cagework
catalyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalyzers
form: catalyser
Etymology: From catalyze + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which catalyzes.
glosses: A catalytic converter.
catalyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalysers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catalyzer.
catalyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalyzer
catalysers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalyser
C-clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-clips
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: glosses: A circlip.
kommand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From command; introduced by Howard Lasnik in 1976.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: The relationship between a node in a parse tree and other nodes dominated by the same minimal cyclic node.
wikipedia: Howard Lasnik
Synonyms: k-command
Related terms: c-command
komitajis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komitaji
komitadjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komitadji
Chartism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chartisms
Etymology: From chart(er) + -ism, named after the People's Charter of 1838, laying out the movement's six main aims.
Senses: examples: text: An insincere world; a godless untruth of a world! It is out of this, as I consider, that the whole tribe of social pestilences, French Revolutions, Chartisms, and what not, have derived their being,—their chief necessity to be.
ref: 1840 May 19, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 162:
text: […] when she married the young clergyman, and went to settle in that smoky hole Turley; a very nest of Chartism and Atheism, in a part of the country which all the decent families had had to leave for years.
ref: 1857, [Thomas Hughes], chapter II, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
text: Chartism therefore, though a genuine popular movement, was incomplete in its aims and knowledge; the time was not yet come and it could not triumph openly; but it would be a mistake to say that it failed utterly: […]
ref: 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 103:
text: The dangers of this revolutionary ferment were grave; even in England Chartism was rampant—a sinister movement, which might at any moment upset the Constitution and abolish the Monarchy.
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
text: When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.
ref: 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 167:
glosses: A working-class movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century.
wikipedia: People's Charter of 1838
Related terms: Chartist
Chartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst
Forms: form: Chartists
Etymology: From chart(er) + -ist, see Chartism.
Senses: examples: text: There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving us at least in peace; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing!
ref: 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:
glosses: A supporter of the Chartism reform movement in the United Kingdom.
Chartist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst
Etymology: From chart(er) + -ist, see Chartism.
Senses: examples: text: As to the Chartist agitation, there is this to be said of it, that it was thoroughly a working-class movement, and it was caused by the simplest and most powerful of all causes—hunger.
ref: 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 102:
glosses: Relating to Chartism.
Chartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chartist
gadobenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A derivative of pentetic acid whose gadolinium salt is used as an MRI contrast medium
Related terms: gadobenate
gadodiamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gadolinium-based contrast medium.
failed back syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition characterized by chronic pain after back surgery.
postlaminectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + laminectomy.
Senses: glosses: After a laminectomy.
trade paperback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade paperbacks
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: A softcover edition of a previously hardcover book, usually produced with the exact same text as the hardcover.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A paperback book that is in one of the standard sizes for small paperbacks, generally for genre fiction.
qualifier: comic books
glosses: A type of comic book primarily containing previously published material, traditionally in a periodical format, and bound together as one work, or part of a series itself.