cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːd
ipa: /kjuːd/
homophone: queued
Forms: form: more cued
form: most cued
Senses: examples: text: The semi-direct measures were to involve a more cued response language laboratory DCT spoken sample and a free response face-to-tace structured interview.
ref: 1995, Thom Hudson, James Dean Brown, Emily Detmer, Developing Prototypic Measures of Cross-cultural Pragmatics, page 3:
text: I vividly remember the case of a six year old boy, who although very cued otherwise, was unable to remember a word, let alone a sentence and he could not read even simple words for the first six months, which gave me the worst headache.
ref: 2012, Rania Foka, Soft Landing Learning, page 7:
text: A comparison of the cued recall probabilities to the cue-word associative strength values revealed an especially interesting age difference.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley, Memory Development Between Two and Twenty:
text: For some analyses, Lamb, Sternberg, Orbach, Esplin, Stewart, and Mitchell (2003) distinguished between general invitations (e.g., "Tell me everything that happened") and cued invitations. Cued invitations were further categorized depending on whether they referenced events, actions, segments of time, or other topics.
ref: 2018, Michael E. Lamb, Deirdre A. Brown, Irit Hershkowitz, Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse, page 122:
text: Overall, however, the Thysdrus pavement is, again like the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore painting, much more cued to the civic calendar than our mosaic from Gaul, both trhough its use of monthly labels and, more significantly, through the high number of monthly panels given over to ritual scenes (nine) as opposed to scenes depicting human beings performing actual labour (only three: June, July and September).
ref: 2024, Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, page 244:
glosses: Having or relying on a cue or cues.
Derived terms: noncued
uncued
cued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːd
ipa: /kjuːd/
homophone: queued
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cue
amoebas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoeba
-adelic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From psychedelic.
Senses: glosses: A suffix used to create adjectives imparting a specific form of coolness, verve, or trippiness.
amœbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amœba
amnesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnesty
alfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Then place the mould upside down on a tray covered with alfoil. The wax will slide down the mould and collect on the foil.
ref: 1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10:
text: […] pulling up outside an ugly, besser-block house at the end of a dead-end road. Its windows were lined from the inside with alfoil. The carcass of a mid-eighties Commodore festered in the front yard, its axles resting on bricks, […]
ref: 2012, Cameron Raynes, The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories, page 56:
glosses: aluminium foil
drunken trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy to the stumbling gait of a person who is drunk on alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: (A stand of) trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment, especially due to thermokarst.
Synonyms: drunken forest
tilted trees
Hypernyms: tree
autocrime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocrimes
Etymology: From auto + crime.
Senses: glosses: Crime involving motor vehicles considered collectively
glosses: An instance of such a crime
autojumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autojumbles
Etymology: auto and jumble sale
Senses: glosses: A sale of second-hand spare parts for old cars
automania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto + -mania. Attested from the 20th century. Compare slightly earlier automaniac.
Senses: examples: text: There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?
ref: 1902, “The Automaniac”, in Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 551:
text: The fact is, some of these people are seized with automania, and if they could not go fast, they would not care to go at all. Automania is the feverish desire to move at the greatest rate of speed of which the motor is capable, with no regard for the life of bipeds or quadrupeds.
ref: 1906 May, “Farmers’ problems”, in Farm Journal, page 178:
synonyms: motormania
glosses: An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
automaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: automaniacs
Etymology: Of auto- (“oneself”) + -maniac (“one who experiences obsession”). Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A person who is self-involved to the point of mental illness.
automaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: automaniacs
Etymology: Of auto (“automobile”) + -maniac (“one who experiences obsession”). Attested from the early 20th century. Compare automania.
Senses: examples: text: A foolish dissipation, ending in broken rest, depleted purses, broken laws, broken automobiles, and broken bones.[…] Is the cost not heavy enough to bring even an automaniac to his senses?
ref: 1902 July 23, “Record Breaking ‘Tours’”, in The Horseless Age, volume 10, page 81:
text: There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] The word “automaniac,” suggested by The Horseless Age, seems quite appropriate[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?
ref: 1902, “The Automaniac”, in Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 551:
glosses: An enthusiast of automobiles and motoring.
glosses: A road hog.
motoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 1983, Kelly Keagy (of the music group Night Ranger), "Sister Christian"
You're motoring / What's your price for flight / In finding mister right? / You'll be alright tonight
glosses: present participle and gerund of motor
motoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorings
Senses: examples: c. 1910, George Bernard Shaw, letter to Beatrice
The afternoon was horrible; but when we struck the sea at Exmouth, and the coast, familiar to me through my Torquay motorings, became lovely in the evening. I revived & was quite jolly when I arrived.
glosses: The act of operating a motorized vehicle; especially, driving a car (motorcar).
Hyponyms: cruising
Related terms: motordom
motor vehicle
nonmotoring
autotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotests
Senses: glosses: A motorsport challenge involving a series of tests, generally around traffic cones, to measure precision driving skill.
Related terms: autotesting
blankie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: blankies
form: blanky
Etymology: Shortened from blanket + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: They instead sought out a place of refuge, somewhere familiar with a blankie and a mug of hot cocoa.
ref: 2002 February 18, Belinda Luscombe, “Dress to De-Stress”, in Time:
glosses: A blanket, especially one used as a security blanket.
breathability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹiː.ðəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
Forms: form: breathabilities
Etymology: From breathable + -ity or breathe + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: If you’re looking for the most breathable mask, Lukovics says, “Cotton is preferable, mainly for absorbing moisture/sweat.” She says multiple layers may be more protective but will also impact breathability.
ref: 2021 August 17, Elizabeth Wallace and Kai Burkhardt, “12 breathable face masks to protect you while exercising”, in CNN:
text: To find the best rain jacket, we tested everything from waterproofness and breathability to fit, feel and packability.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
glosses: The ability of a fabric (or clothing) to transmit air and moisture.
synonyms: inspirability
glosses: The degree to which air or other substance is suitable for breathing.
cabrales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cabrales. The milk of the cheese comes from cows farmed in the Asturian municipality of Cabrales.
Senses: glosses: A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk
Cahita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cahitas
form: Cahita
Senses: glosses: A member of an Indian people from central Mexico.
Cahita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Chicanismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A movement embodying pride in Chicano culture and ethnicity.
base-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of baseball (ball game).
sausage dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage dogs
Senses: glosses: A draught excluder in the shape of a dog.
glosses: Synonym of dachshund (“type of dog”).
synonyms: word: dachshund
extra: type of dog
overstrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstrains
form: overstraining
form: overstrained
form: overstrained
Etymology: From over- + strain.
Senses: examples: text: The very phrase of "generous forbearance" shocked her as overstrained; but she did marvel that Lord Avonleigh felt neither pained nor embarrassed in a situation where such sensations seemed inevitable.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 134:
text: Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.
overstrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + strain.
Senses: glosses: excessive strain
countdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countdown
countdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countdown
count-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: count-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countdown.
Related terms: countdown
count down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: count downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countdown.
count down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts down
form: counting down
form: counted down
form: counted down
Senses: examples: text: The sound system counted down the seconds to meteor impact.
glosses: To announce the passage of time to a precisely timed expected event.
examples: text: The party was counting down the days to Inauguration.
glosses: To await a precisely timed expected event.
count downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of count down
Related terms: countdown
count-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of count-down
Related terms: countdown
fountaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fountain
fountained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fountain
colourises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colourise
colourising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colourise
colourised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colourise
four-seamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-seamer
cow shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow shot
Boten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Lao ບໍ່ເຕັນ (Bǭ ten).
Senses: glosses: A town in Luang Namtha Province, Laos.
bubble positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble position
Secretaries General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Secretary General
carbon microphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon microphone
atom bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atom bomb
backdoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backdoor
bottomoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottomonium
bottomonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottomonium
quarkoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarkonium
first-degree burns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-degree burn
second-degree burns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-degree burn
third-degree burns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-degree burn
graniteware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granitewares
Etymology: From granite + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the sme material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Ironware that has been coated with a layer of vitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resembling granite.
glosses: Pottery with the same type of enamel coating.
cranachan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæ.nə.kən/
ipa: /ˈkɹæ.nə.xən/
Forms: form: cranachans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic crannachan.
Senses: synonyms: Athole brose
glosses: A traditional Scottish dessert made with whipped cream, whisky, oatmeal, honey, and raspberries.
crowdie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊdi/
Forms: form: crowdies
Etymology: Alteration of Early Scots crud (“curd”), cognate with Early Modern English and Middle English crud, crudde (14th c.), crodde, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: The old woman shuffled out from the back room with a handful of coal and a bowl of crowdie for the boy.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 270:
glosses: Gruel or thin porridge.
glosses: A Scottish form of cottage cheese.
depleter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depleters
Etymology: From deplete + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that causes depletion of something
dropt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Sir John had dropt hints of past injuries and disappointments, which justified her belief of his being an unfortunate man, and she regarded him with respect and compassion.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 116:
text: Dan, Watty, and Bell went to the "cavie" or hencoop, folded back the old bag which had been dropt over the front of it to keep the inmates warm, and Dan saw to his intense delight two little heads peeping from under their feathery covering.
ref: 1882, John Strathesk, Bits from Blinkbonny; Or, Bell O' the Manse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dropped; simple past and past participle of drop.
galactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From galactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to galaxies, or in a galactic context.
glosses: To a huge degree; immensely.
unspools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspool
unspooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspool
unspooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unspool
unspooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not spooled.
outfights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfight
opsonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opsonize
opsonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opsonize
opsonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That opsonizes.
opsonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opsonize
phagocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phagocyte
systemic circulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systemic circulations
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of blood circulation which carries oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the body, and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
Related terms: pulmonary circulation
arterial circulation
venous circulation
coronary circulation
collateral circulation
circulatory system
lymphatic system
nitrogen cycle
carbon cycle
oxygen cycle
hydrogen cycle
respiration
single-parent families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single-parent family
pulmonary circulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary circulations
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of blood circulation which carries oxygen-depleted blood away from the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood back to the heart.
Related terms: systemic circulation
arterial circulation
venous circulation
coronary circulation
collateral circulation
circulatory system
lymphatic system
respiratory system
nitrogen cycle
carbon cycle
oxygen cycle
hydrogen cycle
respiration
cyclic redundancy checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclic redundancy check
hospital ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospital ship
clinometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinometer
artesian wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artesian well
lunatic asylums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunatic asylum
paper tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper tiger
sond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sonde (“testing device”).
land of opportunity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the land of opportunity
Senses: examples: text: They say America is the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets? - Mr Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
text: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
glosses: The United States.
swarm spore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarm spores
Senses: glosses: A zoospore
bragging rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Worth as much as $900 million, he estimates, the author clearly thinks he has earned bragging rights, and he intends to exercise them.
ref: 2008 July 3, Andrea Sachs, “Business books (review of How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis)”, in Time:
text: It won't be remembered as a classic in the pantheon of great South Wales derbies, but nobody on the Cardiff City side of the divide will care as their team secured the first ever set of Premier League bragging rights in the Welsh capital.
ref: 2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online:
text: He is talking to RAIL immediately after his station regained its traditional position as 'Britain's busiest' […], and there is no disguising his delight. "The bragging rights are once again Waterloo's," he grins.
ref: 2023 January 25, Cem Davis tells Nick Brodrick, “A warm 'Waterloo family' welcome”, in RAIL, number 975, page 38:
glosses: The prerogative to praise oneself for a skill or accomplishment.
glosses: Honor or prestige.
anaclitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaclitisms
Etymology: See anaclisis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.
Synonyms: anaclisis
Related terms: fetishism
infantilism
babyism
Swiss chard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss chards
Etymology: The origin of the adjective might be linked to Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin who classified the plant in his work Phytopinax in 1596.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Beta vulgaris var. cicla: an edible leafy vegetable; chard.
wikipedia: Gaspard Bauhin
Synonyms: chard
mangold
silverbeet
I'll be
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: I'll be !
Etymology: Presumably short for I'll be damned via anapodoton.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny passed his exams despite not heeding your advice to study hard.
Well, I'll be!
glosses: Expressing surprise.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: I'll be a monkey's uncle
I'll be a son of a bitch
I'll be a son of a gun
I'll be blowed
I'll be damned
I'll be danged
I'll be darned
I'll be dipped
I'll be dipped in shit
I'll be hanged
I'll be shot
zoolatria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zoolatry.
synonyms: word: zoolatry
fuzzy navel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuzzy navels
Etymology: There are several theories about when and where the drink was invented, but it gets its name from the fuzz of the peach and the navel orange used to make it.
Senses: examples: text: She ordered two fuzzy navels.
glosses: A cocktail, usually made with peach schnapps and orange juice.
examples: text: fuzzy navel milkshake, fuzzy navel cake, fuzzy navel pie
text: And you can find menus with imagination: like "Jan's Restaurant's" chuck wagon soup and fuzzy navel pie ... a combination of peaches and orange juice.
ref: 1992, Marilyn Heimberg Ross, Tom Ross, Country bound!, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A drink or food (of a specified type) which imitates this cocktail by featuring peach and orange as central flavours (with or without alcohol).
batter up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Used by an umpire to invite the next batter to the batter's box, especially at the beginning of a half-inning.
abstinence only
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Programs have been developed that either advocate abstinence only […] or abstinence-plus […].
ref: 2002, Marysol Asencio, Sex and Sexuality Among New York's Puerto Rican Youth, page 149:
text: Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas specify the teaching of abstinence only until marriage.
ref: 2002, Larry D. Burlew, Dave Capuzzi, Sexuality Counseling, page 75:
text: Not only was the federal government encouraging abstinence only; […].
ref: 2003, Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, page 101:
text: […] directly to organizations that teach abstinence only without going through the states.
ref: 2006, David Cooper, Broken America, page 182:
glosses: A form of sex education that advocates only abstinence as a means to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
blockhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockhouse
initiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of initiation
osteoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more osteoid
form: most osteoid
Etymology: From osteo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bone; bonelike
osteoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoids
Etymology: From osteo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: An organic matrix of protein and polysaccharides, secreted by osteoblasts, that becomes bone after mineralization
Derived terms: osteoidosis
Related terms: osteo-
in my opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: according to me
Derived terms: IMHO
IMO
in my humble opinion
Related terms: as far as I'm concerned
as I see it
by my lights
for my money
for what it's worth
if you ask me
in my book
in my estimation
in my experience
personally
the way I see it
to my mind
to my way of thinking
two cents
two pennies' worth
A game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A games
form: A-game
Senses: examples: text: Joe brought his A game to the match.
text: If a Taurus isn't able to bring their A-game to social interactions, they'd prefer to stay at home and fix the problem.
ref: 2023 November 2, Monisha Holmes, Erika W. Smith, “Read This Before You Ask Out a Taurus Woman”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: One's highest level of performance; one's best form.
Related terms: at one's best
A games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A game
precip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪp/
Forms: form: precips
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Clipping of precipitation.
peregrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of the spurge family, Jatropha interregima, which is native to the Caribbean but introduced throughout the tropics.
tisk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsk.
flesh wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh wounds
Senses: examples: text: I found him dreadfully bruised, worse even than myself, perhaps owing to the excessive whiteness of his skin, and faint and weak with the loss of blood from the flesh wound in his side, but for all that cheerful as a cricket, and asking for some breakfast.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.
flesh wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flesh wound
vital organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vital organs
Senses: glosses: An organ of the body which performs a sufficiently important function that damage to the organ can cause death.
vital organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vital organ
lilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lillies
Senses: examples: text: in tepid baths was mated to a lilly
ref: 1961, Goethe, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Faust:
glosses: Obsolete form of lily.
Related terms: lilly-low
lilly-pilly
rationalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rationalistically
form: most rationalistically
Etymology: From rationalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a rationalistic manner; in the context of rationalism
alarmclock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of alarm clock.
sex tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex tapes
Etymology: Formerly recorded on video cassette tape.
Senses: examples: text: The series uses the scandal — which begot fortunes, ruined lives and made the celebrity sex tape a defining artifact of the internet age — as a guide through a transitional period in American culture.
ref: 2022 February 2, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A video recording of a sex act, especially one starring a celebrity.
on tape
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We have proof of her crime on tape.
glosses: Recorded using video- or sound-recording technology.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, tape.
Related terms: live on tape
Galway Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay off the west coast of Ireland, between the counties of Galway and Clare.
lowlives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowlife
Alhambra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈhæmbɹə/
ipa: /ɑlˈhɑmbɹə/
ipa: /ælˈhæmbɹə/
Etymology: From Spanish Alhambra, from Arabic الْحَمْرَاء (al-ḥamrāʔ, “the red (fortress)”).
Senses: examples: text: Overhead is a lofty dome, supported by long rows of pillars of fantastic architecture, the idea of which was probably taken from the Moorish ruins of the Alhambra, or perhaps from some enchanted edifice in the Arabian tales.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Hall of Fantasy”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: A palace in Granada, Spain; historically a royal palace.
glosses: A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Alhambraic
Alhambresque
Alhambra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈhæmbɹə/
ipa: /ɑlˈhɑmbɹə/
ipa: /ælˈhæmbɹə/
Etymology: From Spanish Alhambra, from Arabic الْحَمْرَاء (al-ḥamrāʔ, “the red (fortress)”).
Senses: glosses: A solitaire card game played with two decks.
Disneyworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Disney World.
Related terms: Disney
Disneyland
Schengen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛŋ.ən/
ipa: /ˈʃɛŋ.ɡən/
Senses: glosses: A town in southeastern Luxembourg.
examples: text: As is the case for the other Member States participating in Schengen, Greece issues, on the one hand, Schengen uniform visas, and on the other, national long-stay visas for stays exceeding three months.
ref: 2004, Imelda Higgins, Kay Hailbronner, Migration and Asylum Law and Policy in the European Union: FIDE 2004 National Reports, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Schengen Agreement: a treaty between countries in continental Europe abolishing mutual border controls and standardizing visa policy.
examples: text: One of the requirements in Schengen, quite practically, is that you have configure airports so that you can separate out your air travellers from those who are travelling within Schengen and those who are not.
ref: 2013, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign policy considerations for the UK and Scotland in the event of Scotland becoming an independent country: sixth report of session 2012-13, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, Stationery Office →ISBN, page 8
text: Risk indicators avoid the need for checks of police databases for all persons entering Schengen
ref: 2016, Andrea de Guttry, Francesca Capone, Christophe Paulussen, Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN, page 310:
text: The Elysée said it was not aware of Abu-Sitta’s being refused entry to France but a spokesperson told Le Monde: “When it’s a question of a Schengen refuse, the border police can’t do much about it.”
ref: 2024 May 4, Geneva Abdul and Kim Willsher, “UK surgeon who described Gaza ‘massacre’ denied entry to France”, in The Guardian:
text: The Cameroonian’s case is unique as many Africans denied Schengen visas rarely appeal or contest the decisions in court.
ref: 2025 May 21, Larry Madowo, “Africans lost nearly $70M to denied visas applications to Europe in 2024”, in CNN:
glosses: The Schengen Area; the area over which the Schengen Agreement applies.
Derived terms: Schengen Agreement
Schengen Area
Schengen realm
Schengen visa
schizochroal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by Clarke in 1888 (see citation), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “surface”).
Senses: examples: text: The first group may be designated by the term Holochroal; the second group by the term Schizochroal.
ref: 1888 November 24, John M. Clarke, “The structure and development of the visual area in the trilobite, Phacops rana, Green”, in Journal of Morphology, volume ii, number 2, Boston, page 254:
glosses: With compound lenses, each with separate cornea, each lens separated from others by deep scleral walls and forming an image; the corneal membrane extends downward into sclera.
raw_tags: of eyes
wikipedia: 1888
Related terms: abathochroal
holochroal
pleural lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleural lobes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the two longitudinal lobes found on the flanks of various crustacea and arthropods.
Related terms: axial lobe
pleuron
axial lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axial lobes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The longitudinal lobe found in various crustacea, fish and arthropods, running down the centre of the animal.
Related terms: pleural lobe
axis
suspendee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspendees
Etymology: From suspend + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who or thing that is suspended.
triggernometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of trigger + trigonometry
Senses: glosses: The theory and study of firearms and shooting.
naturalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naturalistically
form: most naturalistically
Etymology: From naturalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Understood naturalistically, natural phenomena are only knowable or misconceivable.
ref: 2009, Wilhelm Barthlott, K. Eduard Linsenmair, Stefan Porembski, Biodiversity: Structure and Function, volume 2, page 43:
glosses: In a naturalistic manner.
hedonistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hedonistically
form: most hedonistically
Etymology: From hedonistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hedonistic manner.
well-meaningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more well-meaningly
form: most well-meaningly
Etymology: From well-meaning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a well-meaning manner; with good intentions
strikebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strike breaking
form: strike-breaking
Etymology: From strike + breaking or strikebreak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strikebreak
strikebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strikebreakings
form: strike breaking
form: strike-breaking
Etymology: From strike + breaking or strikebreak + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking.
ref: 1934 August 6, “Hell on the Hoof”, in Time:
synonyms: blackleggery
scabbery
glosses: Activity intended to disrupt or end a strike without an agreement by workers.
strikebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: strike breaking
form: strike-breaking
Etymology: From strike + breaking or strikebreak + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Caterpillar's main strikebreaking tactic had been to advertise for permanent replacements.
ref: 1992 April 27, “Bulldozing the U.A.W.”, in Time:
glosses: Of or pertaining to such activity.
Related terms: strikebreaker
strike breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strikebreaking.
strike-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.
ref: 2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of strikebreaking.
strike-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strikebreaking.
strike-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike-break
corticopontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + pontine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the pons.
cyanobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyanobacteria + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cyanobacteria.
Derived terms: anticyanobacterial
monocyanobacterial
noncyanobacterial
picocyanobacterial
unicyanobacterial
dinoflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlət
Forms: form: dinoflagellates
form: dinoflagelate
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dinoflagellata (phylum name), equivalent to dino- + flagellate.
Senses: examples: text: Noctiluna scintillans, a tiny marine dinoflagellate, glows in the dark thanks to thousands of bioluminescent spherical organelles in its cytoplasm; gathered in millions, it can illuminate the whole sea at night.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 31:
glosses: Any of many marine protozoa of the phylum Dinoflagellata, which have two flagella.
Derived terms: nanodinoflagellate
nondinoflagellate
homeodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeodomains
Etymology: From homeo- + domain.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A folded protein domain that binds to DNA and has a function in transcription
Derived terms: homeodomainless
palaeothermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeothermometers
Etymology: From palaeo- + thermometer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleothermometer.
paleothermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleothermometers
form: palaeothermometer
Etymology: From paleo- + thermometer.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Anything found in the natural record (such as a tree ring) that can be used to deduce the temperature at some time in the past.
raoellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raoellids
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of extinct hoofed mammals of the family †Raoellidae from Eocene India, thought to be ancestors of the whales.
segrosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segrosomes
Etymology: From segregation -o- + -some.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein complex that functions during the segregation of plasmids or chromosomes during bacterial cell division
trigeminocerebellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From trigemino- + cerebellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the trigeminal nerve and the cerebral cortex
brännvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish brännvin. Doublet of brandywine.
Senses: glosses: Any of various Nordic distilled liquors.
gearhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gearheads
Etymology: From gear + head.
Senses: examples: text: HLD has developed a linear belt actuator that circulates the belt in an unusual way, resulting in a gearing reduction of up to 40:1 without a gearhead.
ref: 2007 December 17, “Animatics buys UK’s Harmonic Linear Drive”, in Drives & Controls, UK:
glosses: A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
gearhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gearheads
Etymology: From gear + -head.
Senses: examples: 2000, "Ford Harley-Davidson Truck Rumbles Onto Web to Benefit Charities," PickupTruck.com (US), retrieved 23 Dec/07,
A self-proclaimed gearhead, Leno loves fast Fords and hot Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
glosses: An enthusiast for new technology, or for motoring.
Synonyms: sense: car enthusiast
word: petrolhead
Related terms: motorhead
guttermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guttermouths
form: gutter mouth
Etymology: From gutter + mouth.
Senses: glosses: A foul-mouthed person.
glosses: The obscene manner of speaking of a person who is foul-mouthed.
Synonyms: potty mouth
foul-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foul-mouthed
form: most foul-mouthed
form: foulmouthed
Senses: examples: text: Foul-mouthed? Fuck you, man.
ref: 1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures:
glosses: Tending to use obscene or offensive language; to have a foul mouth.
Synonyms: scurrilous
Derived terms: foulmouthedness
handspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handspans
Etymology: From hand + span.
Senses: synonyms: span
glosses: The distance between the outstretched tips of the little finger and thumb when used as a unit of measurement.
fillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filly
wood spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood spirits
Senses: glosses: A dryad or other spiritual being associated with forests, woods, or trees.
qualifier: often the wood spirit
glosses: Methanol, a type of alcohol.
Synonyms: sense: spiritual being
word: dryad
sense: alcohol
word: methanol
sense: alcohol
word: methol
sense: alcohol
word: methyl alcohol
sense: alcohol
word: wood alcohol
sense: alcohol
word: wood spirits
sense: alcohol
word: carbinol
wood spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood spirit.
wood spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: methanol
methyl alcohol
wood alcohol
wood spirit
carbinol
glosses: Methanol, a type of alcohol.
helmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmers
Etymology: From helm + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of showrunner.
synonyms: word: showrunner
working order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Commission got itself into systematic working order, and for weeks the contributions flowed into its treasury in a generous stream.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLV, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 315:
text: The engine was in working order.
ref: 1908, H. G. Wells, chapter 10, in The War in the Air:
text: The locomotive stock consists of three of the six original American-built 4-6-0 tanks, named Bridget, Peggy, and Hummy, all in clean condition and good working order; [...].
ref: 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
text: The Hedjaz Railway is best known for its connections to T. E. Lawrence, whose fame as "El Orens", the railway wrecker, spread quickly throughout Arabia. He arrived at Yenbo in December, 1916, and immediately started his campaign to sabotage the railway, but to keep it sufficiently in working order to allow supplies to reach Medina.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 166-167:
text: Each coach on the Swedish Yoa2 is 57ft long and 10ft 4in wide; with its two traction motors the unit weighs 79 tons in working order and has a maximum speed of under 60 m.p.h.
ref: 1961 January, “The latest in Continental electric multiple-units and their operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 47:
text: Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:
text: The Pentagon's plans assumed that Iraq's industrial base and utilities were in working order.
ref: 2003 September 22, Unmesh Kher, “3 Flawed Assumptions About Postwar Iraq”, in Time:
glosses: The state or condition of being operational or of functioning acceptably.
raw_tags: of machinery
Related terms: out of order
ichthys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪkθəs/
Forms: form: ichthyses
form: ichthus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ΙΧΘΥΣ (IKHTHUS, “fish”), which also served (repurposed) as an acronym (ΙΧΘΥΣ (IKHTHUS)) for Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ (Iēsoûs Khristós, Theoû Huiós, Sōtḗr, “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior”).
Senses: examples: text: So how could this congregation of crusty kids feel justified in having ichthys tattoos? What would John Lydon think?
ref: 2013 March 26, Carly Lewis, “In Brooklyn, a Punk Church Tries to Redefine Religious Faith”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013:
synonyms: Jesus fish
glosses: A stylized representation of a fish, used as a Christian symbol.
wikipedia: Christian symbolism
Related terms: ichthyo-
Christogram
ichthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichthys.
khula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːˈlɑː/
enpr: ko͞o-läʹ
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: khul'
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic خُلْع (ḵulʕ).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A form of divorce initiated by the wife.
Related terms: talaq
Mixe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiˌheɪ/
Forms: form: Mixes
form: Mixe
Senses: examples: text: Victor told me that a group of Mixes had set up a large workshop near the city of Oaxaca, where they made wood carvings using a variety of machines. The workshop was run by Noel Martinez, a Mixe entrepreneur who had been in charge of[…]
ref: 2010 January 1, Michael Chibnik, Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: An indigenous people of Oaxaca in Mexico.
Mixe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiˌheɪ/
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
pustulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustulated
form: most pustulated
Senses: glosses: Having pustules; pustular or pustulate