cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burning bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning bushes
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A biblical object described in Exodus 3:1-22, used by Yahweh to communicate with Moses.
glosses: Any plant of several species of Euonymus:
A winged spindle or winged euonymus (Euonymus alatus), with vivid magenta Fall foliage, native to eastern Asia common as an ornamental and invasive in North America.
glosses: Any plant of several species of Euonymus:
A western burning bush (Euonymus occidentalis), native to western North America
glosses: Any plant of several species of Euonymus:
An eastern burning bush (Euonymus atropurpureus), an ornamental shrub native to the midwestern US that bears a red berry.
glosses: A white dittany (Dictamnus albus), a perennial herb which gives off so much essential oil that it can sometimes be lit and will burn briefly without harming the plant.
glosses: A forest flame-creeper (Combretum paniculatum), a plant native to Africa.
glosses: A summer cypress (Bassia scoparia, syn. Kochia scoparia), a large annual herb in the family Chenopodiaceae, native to Eurasia, introduced to many parts of North America.
Synonyms: sense: Euonymus atropurpureus
word: wahoo
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: fraxinella
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: dittany
sense: Dictamnus albus
word: gas plant
burning bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burning bush
pumpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpet
chaparral cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaparral cocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roadrunner.
synonyms: word: roadrunner
Related terms: english: the female
translation: the female
word: chaparral hen
chaparral cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaparral cock
woman of letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women of letters
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of man of letters.
women of letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman of letters
hepar antimonii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance of a liver-brown colour obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalis; antimony sulphide.
winking monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winking monkeys
Senses: glosses: The greater spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans).
winking monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winking monkey
Pluto monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pluto monkeys
Senses: glosses: A long-tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus mitis mitus) with side whiskers. It is predominantly black with some grey parts and a white frontal band.
Pluto monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pluto monkey
cetrarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetrarates
Etymology: From cetraric acid + -ate.
Senses: glosses: A salt or ester of cetraric acid.
cetrarates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cetrarate
fence the tables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fences the tables
form: fencing the tables
form: fenced the tables
form: fenced the tables
Senses: examples: text: January 19 1840, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Memoirs
Felt great help in fencing the tables
text: To be the bride of Christ was the thought that filled her heart; and when, at the fencing of the table, Dr. Chrystal preached from Matthew nine and fifteen, 'Can the children of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?' it was remarked by sundry that Ailie's face was liker the countenance of an angel than of a mortal lass.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's Supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table.
Related terms: debarrance
hawser iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawser irons
Senses: glosses: caulking iron
hawser irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawser iron
magnesia alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bulky white amorphous substance, consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a mild cathartic.
capsular ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsular ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ligamentous bag or capsule a synovial joint.
capsular ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsular ligament
asparagus beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asparagus beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of small beetles of the genus Crioceris, such as Crioceris asparagi, that are destructive to asparagus.
Derived terms: common asparagus beetle
spotted asparagus beetle
asparagus beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asparagus beetle
physic nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physic nuts
form: physick-nut
form: physick nut
form: physic-nut
Senses: glosses: A small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha curcas) with poisonous seeds, cultivated to produce biodiesel fuel.
Synonyms: Barbados nut
purging nut
physic nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physic nut
tamalera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamaleras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tamalera.
Senses: examples: text: There is no Christmas without tamales in Costa Rica. To get into the holiday spirit, Tico Times photographer Alberto Font visited La Flor de Aserrí, a “tamalera” in the town of Aserrí, south of San José, to witness the making of tamales.
ref: 11 December 2013, Making tamales, The Tico Times
glosses: A person or factory that makes tamales.
glosses: A tamale seller.
tamaleras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamalera
Yugosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yugo- + -sphere, coined in 2009 by Tim Judah of The Economist.
Senses: glosses: The area of the former Yugoslavia; the sphere of Yugoslav culture and influence.
snoopily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snoopily
form: most snoopily
Etymology: From snoopy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snoopy manner.
medical certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical certificates
Senses: glosses: A statement from a physician or other health care provider that attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient.
Synonyms: doctor's certificate
Related terms: aegrotat
sick note
doctor's certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctors' certificates
Senses: glosses: A medical certificate.
Ballarino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
stink cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stink cedars
Senses: glosses: The California nutmeg tree (Torreya californica).
glosses: A related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).
stink cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stink cedar
thief tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thief tubes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of liquor thief.
synonyms: word: liquor thief
thieves' vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four thieves' vinegar.
reflecting circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflecting circles
Senses: glosses: An astronomical instrument for measuring angles, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle.
reflecting circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflecting circle
tulip trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulip tree
attainables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attainable
Balaam box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balaam boxes
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A receptacle for rejected articles.
Synonyms: Balaam basket
baktunob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baktun
Yi Jing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I Ching.
petticoat government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petticoat governments
Senses: examples: text: On my honour, Mrs. Courtenaye, you will make me an advocate for petticoat government, after such a specimen of its excellent influence. Still, my young friend, I am like the rest of the world—cannot leave well alone—must have you up to town.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Arrived at Home”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Government by women, whether in politics or domestic affairs.
petticoat pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petticoat pipes
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary blast-nozzle and petticoat pipe properly proportioned for any British locomotive can make it produce 30 d.b.h.p./sq ft of grate continuously with a blast-pipe pressure 4 lb/sq in. above atmospheric pressure.
ref: 1962 February, “Letters to the Editor: The Giesel oblong ejector”, in Modern Railways, page 143, letter from W. A. Tuplin:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smokebox of a locomotive, to equalize the draft.
batter rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batter rules
Senses: glosses: An instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.
batter rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batter rule
Mount Patterson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The highest peak in the Sweetwater Mountains, in Mono County, California, United States. Possibly named for James H. Patterson, a native of Ohio who settled at Big Meadows before 1867. Elevation: 3,552 meters.
glosses: A mountain in the Waputik Range in Alberta. Named for John Duncan Patterson in 1917. Elevation: 3,197 meters.
eusteles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eustele
Pontefract cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pontefract cake
Pontefract
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin pons (“bridge”) + Latin fractus (“broken”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4522).
Derived terms: Mansfield-et-Pontefract
Pontefract cake
jewel beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel beetles
Senses: examples: text: This effect can be produced not only by purposeful ringbarking with an axe but also by insects, such as longicorns and jewel beetles, feeding in the phloem-cambium under the bark.
ref: 1996, Phillip W. Hadlington, Judith A. Johnston, Australian Trees: Their Care and Repair, page 5:
text: The black jewel beetle (Melanophila acuminata) was found to be attracted by forest fires, because burnt wood is the only suitable substrate for bringing up its offspring. The antennae of the black jewel beetle were proved to be highly sensitive and selective to guaiacol derivatives, compounds which are generated by the pyrolysis of wood (Schütz et al. 1999a).
ref: 2007, Prodpran Thakeow, Gerrit Holighaus, Stefan Schütz, “11: Volatile Organic Compounds for Wood Assessment”, in Ursula Kües, editor, Wood Production, Wood Technology, and Biotechnological Impacts, page 216:
text: The ceiling and the chandelier of the main hall were covered with the wing cases of thousands of Asian jewel beetles.
ref: 2009, Terry Smith, What Is Contemporary Art?, page 172:
glosses: Any of the very many beetles of the family Buprestidae, known for their glossy, iridescent colours.
Derived terms: false jewel beetle
jewel beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewel beetle
seiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 正座 (seiza, literally “proper sitting”).
Senses: examples: text: She arranged herself with her legs folded beneath her, spine erect, echoing “seiza”, the Japanese sitting position adopted in formal situations.
ref: 2024 February 10, Helen Barrett, “The underappreciated style of Yoko Ono”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:
glosses: A traditional formal way of sitting in Japan, by kneeling with the legs folded underneath the thighs and the buttocks resting on the heels, with ankles turned outward.
gallium arsenide phosphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallium arsenide phosphides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A semiconductor composed of a mixture/alloy of gallium arsenide and gallium phosphide
American hollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American holly
sekoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sekos
V-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V-necks
form: v-neck
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A V-shaped neckline on a garment such as a pullover, usually at the front of the garment.
wikipedia: Kim Dong-han
Chippenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Ċippanham, from the personal name *Cippa, genitive singular *Cippan + hamm (“promontory”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9173).
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6669).
glosses: A suburb of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5012).
Derived terms: Chippenham Without
Flitwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: flĭtʹĭk
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪk/
Etymology: From the name of the River Flit + Old English wīc (“village; temporary abode”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0334).
wikipedia: River Flit
Glossop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0394).
glosses: A small town in Berri Barmera council area, Riverland region, South Australia, named after John Glossop.
glosses: A surname.
Harpenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)pəndən/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1314).
Kenilworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kenelworth
Etymology: From Old English feminine personal name Cynehild (“royal battle”), genitive singular Cynehilde + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2971).
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in south-east Edmonton, Alberta.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Wellington North township, Wellington County, Ontario.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A borough in Union County, New Jersey.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in North Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Carbon County, Utah.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Washington, D.C..
glosses: A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
glosses: A rural town in Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Kenilworth ivy
Ormskirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Old Norse origin. Derived from Ormres kirkja, i.e. the church of Ormr, a personal name meaning "serpent" or "dragon".
Senses: glosses: A market town in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4108).
Derived terms: Ormskirk terrier
Uckfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌkˌfiːld/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Wealden district, East Sussex, England, on the River Uck (OS grid ref TQ4721).
Verwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Equivalent to fair + wood; recorded as Fairwod (1329) and Fayrwod (1436).
Senses: glosses: A town in Dorset, England.
Usupashvili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Georgian უსუფაშვილი (usupašvili).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Georgian surname უსუფაშვილი (usupašvili).
V-sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V-signs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of V sign.
Vigenère cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Vigenère ciphers
Etymology: Named after Blaise de Vigenère (who was not, however, the first to invent it).
Senses: glosses: A text encryption technique that uses a series of different Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword.
wikipedia: Blaise de Vigenère
Related terms: Vigenère tableau
borrow trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: borrows trouble
form: borrowing trouble
form: borrowed trouble
form: borrowed trouble
Senses: glosses: To worry about future events not in one's control and that may not come to pass.
glosses: To look for trouble; to ask for trouble.
overapprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overapprehensive
form: most overapprehensive
Etymology: From over- + apprehensive.
Senses: glosses: Excessively apprehensive.
imperial drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperial drills
Senses: glosses: A linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.
agaric mineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: moonmilk
bait bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bait bugs
Senses: glosses: sand bug (crustacean)
bait bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bait bug
depart with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: departs with
form: departing with
form: departed with
form: departed with
Senses: examples: text: Iohn to stop Arthurs Title in the whole,
Hath willingly departed with a part,
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To resign; to part with.
exhausted receiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhausted receivers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A receiver, such as that used with an air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel whose interior is a more or less complete vacuum.
exhausted receivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhausted receiver
firing iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firing irons
Senses: glosses: An instrument used in cauterizing, especially on horses.
firing irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firing iron
textile cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textile cones
Senses: examples: text: The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound. In a 2-inch-long textile cone snail , the tooth is about 1/4 inch long.
ref: 1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25:
text: The textile cone lives in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is fairly common on the Western Australian coast south to about Point Coates.
ref: 2010, Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates, page 154:
text: The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail
ref: 2016, Lee Atchison, Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications, page 204:
text: Shaped like an ice-cream cone, the textile cone has eye stalks at its narrow end as well as a special tube used to smell food and breathe even while it is hidden beneath the sand.
ref: 2017, Ruth Martin, The Animal Book, Lonely Planet Kids:
glosses: An attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.
textile cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textile cone
occasionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occasionalists
Etymology: From occasional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of occasionalism.
occasionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occasionalist
apostlehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apostle + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an apostle.
churchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English church work, churche woorke, chirche werk, churche werk (also as kyrkwarke, kirkwarke, kirc werke), equivalent to church + work.
Senses: examples: text: But from a sister-in-law who only has you in to tea occasionally as a matter of duty, and who is prominent in churchwork, one may, of course, expect anything.
ref: 1919, James Branch Cabell, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, page 286:
glosses: The work done by a church to spread religion.
tallyhoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tallyho
tallyhoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tallyho
autokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + key.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a cipher that incorporates the plaintext into the key.
Synonyms: autoclave
irregible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛd͡ʒɪbl̩/
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin irregibilis (“ungovernable”), from ir- (“un-”) + regibilis (“governable”, “tractable”); equivalent to the English ir- (“un-”) + regible (“governable”, “tractable”).
Senses: examples: text: According to Lipscombe in 1927, many Javanese travelled to Lampung, with no aid from the Government attracted by the opportunity of free irregible land and the means of supporting themselves until their first harvest by working in the fields at harvest time of the already established settlers who were possible relatives or friends.
ref: 1979, Indonesian Journal of Demography, XI-XV, page 24:
glosses: Not regible; ungovernable, unmanageable, intractable.
deinterleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deinterleaves
form: deinterleaving
form: deinterleaved
form: deinterleaved
Etymology: From de- + interleave.
Senses: glosses: To convert from an interleaved format.
Derived terms: deinterleaver
deinterleaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deinterleave
deinterleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deinterleave
deinterleaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deinterleave
deratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derating
Burgundy pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burgundy pitches
Senses: glosses: A yellowish-brown resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. It was formerly used in medicinal plasters.
rufflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruffling
vallar crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vallar crowns
Etymology: From Latin corona vallaria
Senses: glosses: A circular gold palisaded crown, bestowed upon the general who first broke through the rampart and into the enemy's camp.
vallar crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallar crown
underpromise and overdeliver
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: underpromise, overdeliver
Senses: examples: text: Think about the old customer service maxim, underpromise and overdeliver.
ref: 2010, Marty Brounstein, Arthur H. Bell, Dayle M. Smith, Business Communication, page 225:
topics: business
glosses: Improve business interactions and relationships with customers by setting modest expectations and then exceeding those expectations by delivering more than what was initially promised or expected.
overdeliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdelivers
form: overdelivering
form: overdelivered
form: overdelivered
Etymology: From over- + deliver.
Senses: examples: text: “He’s wise not to overpromise, but to underpromise and overdeliver,” said Dave Checketts, a former president of the Knicks and then Madison Square Garden who left in 2001 after a power struggle with James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden.
ref: 2008 April 4, Richard Sandomir, “Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To deliver in excess of a norm, standard, or requirement.
Derived terms: underpromise and overdeliver
uncrested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crested.
Senses: examples: an uncrested bird
glosses: Without a crest.
mitiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mitiest.
glosses: superlative form of mity: most mity
ungarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungarded
form: most ungarded
Etymology: From un- + garded.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unguarded.
hydatid of Morgagni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydatids of Morgagni
Etymology: Named after the Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The appendix of testis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The paraovarian cyst
hydatids of Morgagni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydatid of Morgagni
casus omissus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin [Term?]. Compare Spanish hacer caso omiso
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A case not provided for by the statute.
casus fortuitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: A force majeure
Silverite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Silverites
Etymology: From silver + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of a 19th-century political movement in the United States that advocated for silver continuing to be a monetary standard along with gold.
Silverites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Silverite
invisible green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: dyes
glosses: A very dark shade of green that is almost black.
invisible bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invisible birds
Etymology: So called because it is rarely sighted.
Senses: glosses: A small songbird (Myadestes genibarbis sibilans), found on the island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean.
upon the whole matter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of on the whole.
wands of peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wand of peace
reguarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reguardes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regard.
reguarde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reguardes
form: reguarding
form: reguarded
form: reguarded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regard.
brandy fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandy fruits
Senses: glosses: Fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.
grocer's itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender. Ground insects could be mixed into brown sugar, often without detection; their use was linked to an unpleasant condition known as “grocer’s itch.”
ref: [2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An itching eruption, a variety of eczema, produced by sugar mites (Tyroglyphus sacchari or Glycyphagus domesticus) or fruit mites (Carpoglyphus lactis et al.).
Japanese persimmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese persimmons
Senses: glosses: The tree Diospyros kaki
glosses: The red or yellow edible fruit from this tree, which somewhat resembles a tomato.
Synonyms: sense: Diospyros kaki
word: Chinese persimmon
sense: Diospyros kaki
word: kaki
sense: Diospyros kaki
word: kaki persimmon
sense: Diospyros kaki
word: Oriental persimmon
Japanese persimmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese persimmon
ursolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursolates
Etymology: From ursolic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of ursolic acid.
ursolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursolate
ursodeoxycholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursodeoxycholates
Etymology: From ursodeoxycholic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of ursodeoxycholic acid.
ursodeoxycholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursodeoxycholate
starch hyacinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starch hyacinths
Etymology: So called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch.
Senses: glosses: grape hyacinth (Muscari spp., Pseudomuscari spp., and Leopoldia spp.).
starch hyacinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starch hyacinth
mazarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazarine
Clean Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old Testament reading at sext on this day, Isaiah 1:16, “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil...”
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: Clean Week < Lent, Great Lent
text: Clean Monday, a holiday in Greece, marks the start of the Lenten season.
ref: 2010 February 10, New York Times, page D5:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Pure Monday
Ash Monday
Monday of Lent
Green Monday
glosses: The seventh Monday before Easter, (Eastern Christianity) traditionally regarded as the beginning of Lent or Great Lent.
Related terms: Clean Week
Forgiveness Vespers
strengthening plaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strengthening plasters
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A plaster (the adhesive type) containing iron, supposed to have tonic effects.
strengthening plasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strengthening plaster
methyl violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An artificial dye consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline.
Related terms: methyl blue
methyl green
gunner's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The gun to which sailors were tied to be flogged.
Derived terms: kiss the gunner's daughter
marry the gunner's daughter
Chinese room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese rooms
Senses: glosses: The setting of a thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chinese language is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing them to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computer system a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear.
picture rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture rods
Senses: examples: text: "If you take it like that," he chuckled, "how will old Johnson take it? Go out and hang himself to his own picture-rods, I hope!"
ref: 1899, E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, Nine Points of the Law:
glosses: A picture rail
picture rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picture rod
rivalrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rivalrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being rivalrous.
unrivalrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrivalrous
form: most unrivalrous
Etymology: From un- + rivalrous.
Senses: glosses: Not rivalrous.
famine fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: typhus
incrementable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From increment + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being incremented.
decrementable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From decrement + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being decremented.
polygalacturonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pectic acid
polygalacturonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygalacturonates
Etymology: From polygalacturonic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: pectate
polygalacturonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygalacturonate
Martinmas summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martinmas summers
Senses: glosses: A period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer.
Martinmas summers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martinmas summer
stomach worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomach worms
Senses: glosses: A common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), sometimes found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
glosses: Any of other parasitic worms, such as Dispharynx nasuta.
Derived terms: alt: Teladorsagia circumcincta
word: brown stomach worm
alt: Hirudinella ventricosa
word: giant stomach worm
alt: Haemonchus placei
word: large stomach worm
taxonomic: Ostertagia ostertagi
word: lesser stomach worm
alt: Hyostrongylus rubidus
word: red stomach worm
alt: Teladorsagia axei
word: small stomach worm
alt: Haemonchus contortus
word: twisted stomach worm
stomach worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomach worm
stock companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock company
budgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more budgeable
form: most budgeable
Etymology: From budge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being budged or moved.
Derived terms: unbudgeable
bounty jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounty jumpers
Senses: glosses: One who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty.
bounty jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounty jumper
tandem engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tandem engines
Senses: glosses: A compound steam engine (not the train, the engine) with two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another.
tandem engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tandem engine
planishing roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planishing rolls
Senses: examples: text: Planishing can also be employed where a limited shaping operation is required and where the surface is to be altered or improved . It is also possible to use planishing rolls in sheet metal operations, where again a limited amount of work hardening will be applied
ref: 1977, R. B. Ross, Handbook of Metal Treatments and Testing:
glosses: One of the rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness as part of coin manufacture.
planishing rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planishing roll
planings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɪŋz/
homophone: plainings
Senses: glosses: plural of planing
just intonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament.
lighter screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighter screws
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.
lighter screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighter screw
fowling piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowling pieces
Senses: examples: text: "Dear Grandfather———" his lordship began with a very grave face, and was certainly on the point of making a confession, but his servant, entering with a variety of fowling-pieces, sent for his choice from my lord, together with a shot-bag, jacket, &c.;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 266:
text: What could I do? My useless fowling-piece was in my hand. What help could I get from that? I looked desperately round for some rock or tree[.]
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small animals.
fowling pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fowling piece
carmine red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carmine reds
Senses: glosses: A pigment obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance.
maliciousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maliciousness
Irish poplin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish poplins
Senses: glosses: A fabric with silk warp and worsted weft, made in Ireland, and commonly used for neckties.
irregular warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 2005, Robert Russell Mackey, The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865, →ISBN:
text: Studying the raid's effect on one community reveals how the different forms of irregular warfare — partisan warfare, guerrilla tactics, and cavalry raids — intertwined along the Ohio River border.
ref: 2010, Stephen I. Rockenback, “The Spoliation of Defenseless Farmers and Villagers”, in U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare 1775-2007: Selected Papers, →ISBN:
ref: 2011, John Arquilla, Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How masters of irregular warfare shaped our world, →ISBN:
glosses: Warfare in which one or more combatants are irregulars (such as partisans, guerrillas or insurgents) rather than regular military forces.
glosses: Warfare in which one or more combatants are irregulars (such as partisans, guerrillas or insurgents) rather than regular military forces.
Warfare with the aim of gaining or establishing political authority using asymmetric warfare tactics.
raw_tags: in particular
Hyponyms: asymmetric warfare
guerrilla warfare
Related terms: insurgency
aquila alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: calomel, or various other substances
pellet moulding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellet mouldings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A narrow band ornamented with small flat disks.
pellet mouldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellet moulding
quicksilver water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering.
Synonyms: quick water
rethank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rethanks
form: rethanking
form: rethanked
form: rethanked
Etymology: From re- + thank.
Senses: glosses: To thank again.
thankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English þankeable, equivalent to thank + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being thanked.
Derived terms: thankably
unthankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + thankable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being thanked.
rethanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethank
rethanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rethank
rethanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rethank
take the trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the trouble
form: taking the trouble
form: took the trouble
form: taken the trouble
form: take trouble
Senses: glosses: To make the effort (to do something); to bother.
ant rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it grows around ant nests in Texas and has been thought to be cultivated by the ants for the sake of its seed.
Senses: examples: text: […] LINCECUM HYPOTHESIS The Lincecum Hypothesis, or the ant-rice story, is a strangely romantic idea from the Civil War era that has now lost favor. This controversy revolved around the claim that harvesters not only collect seeds […].
ref: 1998, Stephen Welton Taber, The World of the Harvester Ants, page 33:
glosses: Grass of species Aristida oligantha.
burrowing owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrowing owls
Senses: synonyms: shoco
burrow owl
howdy-ow
howdy owl
glosses: A small owl of the Americas (Athene cunicularia or Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often dug by prairie dogs.
burrowing owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrowing owl
burrobrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrobrush
Euclid's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Euclidean algorithm
religiophilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From religio- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to religion and philosophy.
googolgon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googolgons
Etymology: From googol + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with a googol number of sides (virtually indistinguishable from a circle)
doozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doozers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doozy.
googolgons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googolgon
Trysta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
axonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: axonometric projection
apodiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the order Apodiformes, including swifts and hummingbirds.
simplifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From simplify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being simplified.
unsimplifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + simplifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being simplified.
salonfähig
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from German salonfähig.
Senses: examples: text: Wits and miniaturists have applied their talents to rendering languages, perhaps more crucially now as direct ethnic derogation is no longer salonfähig.
ref: 1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.
ref: 2017, Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, Routledge, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: Acceptable for polite society.
jumping plant louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping plant lice
Senses: examples: text: Two European leaf feeders, the jumping plant louse Psylla ulmi and the aphid Tinocallis platani,. are both normally restricted to Ulmus laevis.
ref: 1983, R. H. Richens, Elm, page 64:
text: However, since then devastating effects of the leucaena psyllid (Heteropsylla cubana), a tiny jumping plant louse, have been experienced in many areas where leucaena is grown.
ref: 1997, I. Faridah Hanum, L.J.G Van der Maesen, editors, PROSEA : Plant Resources of South-East Asia, 11: Auxiliary Plants, page 179:
text: For instance, the psyllids, also known as jumping plant lice, contain compartments in their cells that can be recognized as Proteobacteria from the DNA they contain.
ref: 2011, Trudy M. Wassenaar, Bacteria: The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful, page 40:
glosses: A psyllid, any species of the family Psyllidae of plant-feeding insects.
Synonyms: sense: any species of family Psyllidae
word: psyllid
jumping plant lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumping plant louse
clitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more clitorial
form: most clitorial
Etymology: From clitor(is) + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: "Good!" he said. "Now I just want to test these clitorial reflexes – often enough, that's where trouble strikes first."
ref: 1958, Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg, Candy:
text: Thus we would be likely to believe that no one before us had ever argued for school desegregation, worried about the apolitical masses, lived in split-level houses, used automated tools, got sick because of mislabeling, got well because of tetracycline, slept on Posturepedic beds, favored clitorial sex, laughed at Scientologists, mocked Interpol….
ref: 1999, Wendy Lesser, The Amateur:
text: In normal woman these clitorial diameters are in the range of 5 mm.
ref: 2013, Amitava Pal, Rupali Modak, Practical Manual of Gynecology, page 254:
glosses: Clitoral.
Derived terms: clitorially
clitorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪˈtɔːɹɪəli/
Forms: form: more clitorially
form: most clitorially
Etymology: From clitorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the women professed to have feelings or sensations in their genitals only when their female partners actively stimulated them clitorially or by various sadomasochistic manipulations.
ref: 1988, Elaine V Siegel, Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition, page 52:
text: “Even clitorially, it's very, very hard. I orgasm only from oral sex, masturbation or vibrators.”
ref: 2006, Gerrie Lim, In Lust we Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema:
glosses: Clitorally.
shotai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotai
Etymology: From Japanese 小隊 (shōtai, literally “small team”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese military unit, equivalent to a platoon, flight, or section.
ignition tube test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignition tube tests
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An analytical technique in which a sample is heated in a sealed tube, volatile metals being removed by sublimation to a cooler part of the tube from where they can be removed and weighed
Lugoj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Lugoj.
Senses: glosses: A city in Timiș County, in western Romania.
Blaj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Blaj.
Senses: glosses: A city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania.
Calafat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Calafat.
Senses: glosses: A city in Dolj County, in southern Romania.