cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glymidine sodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sulfonamide antidiabetic drug, structurally related to the sulfonylureas.
Synonyms: glycodiazine
hymecromone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 4-methylumbelliferone, a choleretic and antispasmodic drug.
hydrocortamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydrocort(isone) + am(ino)- + -ate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic glucocorticoid with anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties.
hexobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexobarbitone
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A barbiturate derivative with hypnotic and sedative effects, formerly used to induce anesthesia for surgery.
hexobarbitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hexobarbital
histrelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hist(idyl) + -relin (“LHRH release–stimulating peptide”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonapeptide analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone with added potency.
hydroxystenozole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An anabolic steroid.
heptaminol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An amino alcohol classified as a vasodilator.
hexobendine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vasodilator that acts as an adenosine reuptake inhibitor.
halometasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halomethasone
Etymology: From halo- + -metasone (“prednisone or prednisolone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A corticosteroid.
Hypernyms: corticoid
corticosteroid
hormone
metasone
steroid
hexapradol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: α-butyl-β-hydroxy-β-phenylamphetamine, a psychostimulant drug of the amphetamine class.
heptabarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedative and hypnotic barbiturate drug, formerly used to treat insomnia.
homprenorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of homo- + cyprenorphine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An opioid analgesic of the thebaine series.
hexapropymate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypnotic and sedative drug, formerly used to treat insomnia.
hepzidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tetracyclic thymoleptic agent.
hydracarbazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antihypertensive agent.
rerunnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rerun + -able.
Senses: examples: rerunnable footage
a rerunnable database script
glosses: Capable of being rerun.
adiantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an adiantoid fern
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the Adiantoideae.
hydroflumethiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A diuretic drug.
homopipramol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tricyclic antidepressant with neuroleptic properties.
halocinonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A topical corticosteroid.
hopantenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: homopantothenic acid
homopantothenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + pantothenic acid.
Senses: glosses: A homologue of pantothenic acid, used to treat a variety of neurological, psychological and psychiatric conditions.
Synonyms: hopantenic acid
homarylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylphenethylamine, an entactogen, psychedelic, and stimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine chemical classes.
hydroxyamfetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sympathomimetic drug.
Synonyms: hydroxyamphetamine
norpholedrine
oxamphetamine
hydroxyamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydroxyamfetamine.
oxamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydroxyamfetamine
norpholedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydroxyamfetamine
hugeously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hugeously
form: most hugeously
Etymology: From Middle English hugeousli, hugisly, equivalent to hugeous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Hugely.
unrepulsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepulsable
form: most unrepulsable
Etymology: From un- + repulsable.
Senses: examples: ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/mansfieldparknov03aust/page/69/mode/1up pages Fanny […] was trying, by every thing in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he unrepulsable was persisting in both.]:
text: Somehow, these abominable, unrepulsable women, always compassed their end; and he found himself helplessly and inevitably possessed of a bunch of flowers.
ref: 1863, Mary Cowden Clarke, The iron cousin; or, Mutual influence, page 149:
glosses: That cannot be repulsed.
rokkaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rokkakus
Etymology: From Japanese 六角 (“six corners, hexagon”).
Senses: examples: text: Rokkakus may be somewhat unstable in near-surface ground turbulence, but once aloft they are remarkably smooth[…]
ref: 2010, James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, Small-Format Aerial Photography, page 104:
glosses: A traditional six-sided Japanese fighting kite.
rokkakus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rokkaku
nubucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nubuck
plate glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate glasses
form: plateglass
Senses: examples: text: Two large windows are provided in the front of the cab with a roller type of route indicator between them; both windows and indicator are fitted with ¼-in.-thick toughened plate glass.
ref: 1955 June, “Two-Car Electric Units for Tyneside and Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 388:
text: About ten years ago, I even helped heave a concrete block through the plate glass window of a store
ref: 1986 December 7, Margaret Hunt, “Discord in the Happy Valley: Report of a Conference on Feminism, Sexuality and Power”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 8:
glosses: Sheet glass; a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, windshields, etc.
Derived terms: plate-glass university
plateglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The large plateglass window, from which I had an excellent view of the countryside the following day, was prevented from steaming up by a de-misting device.
ref: 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
glosses: Alternative form of plate glass.
Fourcault process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First developed in Belgium by Émile Fourcault during the early 1900s.
Senses: glosses: A method of manufacturing flat glass in which the glass is drawn against gravity in an upward direction.
plate-glass university
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate-glass universities
form: plate glass university
Etymology: Modelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.
Senses: examples: text: The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.
ref: 2014 October 12, Julian Coman, “Have England's universities been privatised by stealth?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Keele is historically important as the first ‘Plate Glass University’, but also for the vague carelessness of its planning and architecture, which made it a cautionary example, leading to the much more coherent masterplanning and landscaping at the Universities of Sussex (p. 238), Essex (p. 190), York (p. 394), East Anglia (p. 198) and Stirling (p. 508).
ref: 2022, Owen Hatherley, Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
kydst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See kydde, imperative of kythe (“to show”). Apparently a misunderstanding by Spenser.
Senses: examples: text: But, ah! unwise and witlesse Colin Cloute, / That kydst the hidden kindes of many a weede, / Yet kydst not ene to cure thy fore heart-roote, / Whose ranckling wound as yet does rifely bleede.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: knows (second-person singular)
tinsnips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinsnips
form: tin snips
Etymology: From tin + snips.
Senses: glosses: A kind of snips resembling scissors.
raw_tags: in form
with a plural verb
tenrecid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenrecids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Tenrecidae, the tenrecs
Related terms: tenrecoid
tenrecids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenrecid
tugless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tug + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted a barge, tugless this time, to pass in the darkness.
ref: 2003, Michael Brodsky, Detour, page 193:
glosses: Without a tug or tugs.
winceys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wincey
sicklying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sickly
sicklies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sickly
salsolaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Salsolaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the family Salsolaceae of salt-tolerant plants (now subfamily Salsoloideae in Amaranthaceae).
polyporaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Polyporaceae + -ous
Senses: examples: a polyporaceous fungus
glosses: Belonging to the family Polyporaceae of fungi, especially bracket fungi.
straightlaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straightlaced
form: most straightlaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of straight-laced.
meibomian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meibomian.
myoneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From myo- + neural.
Senses: glosses: neuromuscular; relating to the muscles and nerves
overjust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjust
form: most overjust
form: over-just
Etymology: From over- + just.
Senses: examples: text: That is to say, do not become overjust, for he becomes too just who is not just yet thinks that he is so, deceived as he is by ignorance from knowing what true justice is.
ref: 2008, Francesc Eiximenis, translated by Robert D. Hughes, Francesc Eiximenis: An Anthology, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Too zealous in the pursuit of justice.
overlax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlax
form: most overlax
Etymology: From over- + lax.
Senses: glosses: Excessively lax.
overobvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overobvious
form: most overobvious
Etymology: From over- + obvious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively obvious.
overnew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overnew
form: most overnew
Etymology: From over- + new. Piecewise doublet of supernova.
Senses: examples: text: Bless thy doublet, it is not over-new, threadbare as thy stories:— [...]
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “All Fools’ Day”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 98:
glosses: Very new.
coutille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coutilles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coutil.
kohls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊlz/
ipa: /kɔʊlz/
ipa: /koʊlz/
homophone: coals
homophone: coles
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kohl
meou
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meous
form: meouing
form: meoued
form: meoued
Senses: examples: text: Even her favourite Tabby […] who was wont to wink and meou around the table at meal times, for the especial excitement of her mistress' benevolence, meoued never a word[…]
ref: 1838, The Hesperian, volume 1, page 38:
text: I do not recognize anyone's right to interfere with the freedom of letters, nor can a serious writer be expected to abandon the tongue of Shakespeare for the meouing of Wordsworth and Al. Tennyson and Mr Gosse.
ref: 1916, Ezra Pound, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of meow.
meoued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meou
meouing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meou
meous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meou
immunosuppress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunosuppresses
form: immunosuppressing
form: immunosuppressed
form: immunosuppressed
Etymology: From immuno- + suppress. Possibly a back-formation from immunosuppression.
Senses: examples: text: If AIDS is fuelled by a chronic activation of the immune system, then it would make sense to immunosuppress these patients.
ref: 1999, Angus G. Dalgleish, Robin A. Weiss, HIV and the New Viruses, page 179:
text: Most parasitic organisms are known to immunosuppress their host to some extent.
ref: 2001, Albert O. Bush, Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites, page 23:
glosses: To cause immunosuppression in.
immunosuppressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunosuppress
immunosuppresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immunosuppress
hymnless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hymn + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of hymns.
homefelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homefelt
form: most homefelt
Etymology: From home + felt, i.e. felt in one's own breast.
Senses: examples: text: Such a sacred and home-felt delight.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: inward; private
koruny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koruna
sub-element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-elements
Etymology: From sub- + element.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate or secondary element.
kielbasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kilˈbɑsi/
ipa: /kɪ(l)ˈbɑsi/
enpr: kēl-bäʹsē
enpr: kĭ(l)-bäʹsē
ipa: /kiːlˈbasɪ/
enpr: kēl-băsʹē
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
Senses: glosses: plural of kielbasa
subelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subelements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sub-element.
subelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subelement
kazatsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kazatskies
form: kozatsky
form: kozatski
form: kozatzka
Etymology: Borrowed from Tatar.
Senses: glosses: A squatting dance of Ukraine.
kazatskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kazatsky
leaprous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaprous
form: most leaprous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of leprous.
fieldboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldboots
Etymology: From field + boot.
Senses: examples: text: For a trembling split second Eddington's fieldboot poised over the Senator for a kick.
ref: 1962, James Bassett, Harm's Way, page 298:
glosses: A kind of riding boot with lacing at the vamp, traditionally worn by officers ranked "field grade" or higher.
fieldboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldboot
patteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patteringly
form: most patteringly
Etymology: From pattering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a pattering sound.
over-just
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-just
form: most over-just
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overjust.
plashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plashingly
form: most plashingly
Etymology: From plashing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a plashing sound.
splashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more splashingly
form: most splashingly
Etymology: From splashing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a splashing sound or motion.
king-of-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kings-of-arms
form: king of arms
Etymology: From Middle English King of armes, kyng of armes.
Senses: examples: text: In April 1504 the longstanding Garter king-of-arms John Writhe died.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 188:
glosses: One of the three chief heralds of the College of Arms, designated as Garter (Principal King of Arms), Clarenceux (for England south of the Trent and Wales), and Norroy & Ulster (for England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland).
Derived terms: Lord Lyon King of Arms
Lyon King of Arms
partlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partlet
parcel gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: parcel-gilt
Senses: glosses: Partially gilded, especially on the inner side only.
parcel gilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcel-gilt
Senses: examples: text: Before him, the bishop of Chester bore a relic of considerable status: the leg of St George himself, encased in parcel gilt, a recent gift from the Emperor Maximilian.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 190:
glosses: Merchandise that is partially gilded; a partly gilded object.
Huaorani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huaoranis
form: Huaorani
Etymology: From Huaorani huaorani (“Huaorani, true human”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador.
Huaorani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Huaorani huaorani (“Huaorani, true human”).
Senses: glosses: The language, a language isolate, which is spoken by these people.
Indian potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian potatoes
Etymology: From Indian + potato.
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially
Apios americana (American potato-bean), a terrestrial plant native to eastern North America;
glosses: Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially
Orogenia spp. (now in Lomatium), a terrestrial plant native to western North America;
glosses: Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially
Sagittaria latifolia (broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato), an aquatic plant native to North and South America.
Elvisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Elvis + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The messages cover every aspect of Elvisdom. Every day there are new fans with felt pens arriving to make their mark. And, inevitably, in and amongst the messages from the faithful, a few wags have left their contributions: "Elvis, you came, you saw, you conquered, you croaked."
ref: 1992, Ted Harrison, Elvis People: The Cult of the King, Fount, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: The sphere or fandom of singer Elvis Presley.
headhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headhairs
form: head-hair
form: head hair
Etymology: From Middle English *heed-heer, from Old English hēafodhǣr (“hair of the head, headhair”), equivalent to head + hair. Cognate with Dutch hoofdhaar (“headhair”), German Haupthaar (“headhair”), Danish hovedhår (“headhair”), Swedish huvudhår (“headhair”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] breakfasted before dressing, cleaned up; floors swept, dusted, things moved around and, replaced listened to the news on the radio, shaved carefully, going over the white stubble two times. "Funny how my headhair is dark, not one grey hair, you see, and how my beard, if I let it grow is all white. [...]"
ref: 1967, The Transatlantic review:
text: [...] Brothers strut like generals spinning & tangling of hair entanglement of headhairs was among them [...]
ref: 1973, George Quasha, Jerome Rothenberg, America, a prophecy:
text: The midwife shaves the headhair of the child, takes it in a Phumk (vessel of Sal leave) and immerse in the water of Bonga-Pokhri.
ref: 1992, Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Religion, Rituals and Festivals:
text: I could see my snipped-to-pieces and differentlengthed ^([sic]) headhair all over her knees.
ref: 2002, Sandro Meallet, Edgewater Angels:
text: If something else (gets in the ear) put the tips of the headhair in the ear as far as possible.
ref: 2009, Barbara Zipser, John the Physician's Therapeutics:
glosses: Hair which grows on the head.
Synonyms: fax
yerba santa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yerba santas
Etymology: From Spanish yerba (“herb”) + santa (“sacred”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of plants native to southwestern North America. Eriodictyon californicum or other species in the genus Eriodictyon, which have traditionally been used medicinally.
glosses: Hoja santa, a Central American plant with sweet-scented leaves used to flavor food, Piper auritum.
hoja santa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish hoja santa (“sacred leaf”).
Senses: glosses: A Central American plant with sweet-scented leaves used to flavor food, Piper auritum
Synonyms: tlanepa
acuyo
hierba santa
momo
catch fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch fence
Cascais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and municipality in Lisbon district, Portugal.
Castelo Branco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Castelo Branco.
Senses: glosses: A district in central Portugal.
glosses: A city and municipality of Castelo Branco district, Portugal.
unravelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unraveler
unraveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unravellers
Senses: examples: text: the unravellers of cunning, the investigators of artifice, the humblers of pride, and the scourgers of oppression
ref: August 1, 1824, Sydney Smith, The Lawyer that Tempted Christ (sermon)
glosses: Alternative form of unraveler.
unravellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unraveller
Beatledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Beatle + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: One problem of relationships remained as a result of Ringo's Beatledom for he had been a valuable member of an excellent group called the Hurricanes, led by Rory Storme, one of the liveliest and most likeable young men on the Scene.
ref: 1964, Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise, Pierian Press (1964), page 70
glosses: The state or quality of being a Beatle.
examples: text: We shall not attempt to include here every detail nor tell every anecdote of Beatledom […]
ref: 2006, Joe Stuessy, Scott Lipscomb, Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development, Pearson Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: The sphere, cultural phenomenon, or fandom of The Beatles.
handy talkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handy talkies
form: handie talkie
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: a hand-held portable transceiver
Derived terms: HT
handie talkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handie talkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handy talkie.
base radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base radios
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A wireless communications station installed at a fixed location and used to communicate as part of a two-way radio system or wireless telephone system.
Related terms: base station
power mic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power mics
form: power mike
Senses: glosses: A powered microphone; normally used with a radio transmitter or transceiver.
power mike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power mikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power mic.
roger beep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roger beeps
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A tone or tones added to the end of a radio transmission to indicate that the operator has finished speaking, usually added automatically by a power mic or transceiver.
citizens' band radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citizens' band radios
form: CB
form: CB radio
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A publicly available system of short-distance radio communications, usable by individuals or businesses without a license.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A radio transceiver capable of operating on the band designated for this system.
Related terms: linear amplifier
power mic
roger beep
subjecthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subject + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: These gendered constructions of subjecthood are explored in more detail in Chapter two of this book.
glosses: The condition or state of being a subject.
examples: text: We are especially concerned here with the question of whether certain kinds of properties associated with subjecthood are acquired prior to other kinds of properties.
ref: 1980 December, Peter Cole, Wayne Harbert, Gabriella Hermon, S. N. Sridhar, “The Acquisition of Subjecthood”, in Language, volume 56, number 4, pages 719–743:
text: One of the best-known examples of this method of argumentation applied to problems of universal grammar is the analysis of ergativity and subjecthood in Anderson (1976), a paper notable for its attention to data from a large number of languages and its continuing importance.
ref: 1991, William Croft, “Syntactic Methodology and Universal Grammar”, in Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The condition or state of a word or expression, such as a noun phrase, being the subject of a sentence.
examples: text: Subjecthood emphasizes obedience. Citizenship, on the other hand, recognizes moral obligations to other members of the community and emphasizes responsiveness and participation.
ref: 1998, Christopher Vincenzi, “From Subjecthood to Citizenship”, in Crown Powers, Subjects and Citizens, →ISBN, page 301:
text: But that should not be confused or conflated with citizenship, for, according to Jebb, "citizenship includes subjecthood, but subjecthood does not include citizenship."
ref: 2010, Sukanya Banerjee, “Introduction”, in Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: The condition or state of a person being a subject of a nation or a monarch.
Meronyms: sense: of a nation
word: citizenship
luxury good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxury goods
Senses: glosses: A product or service that is not considered essential to everyday life and is associated with affluence.
designer label
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designer labels
Senses: glosses: A luxury brand name for a piece of clothing, other personal accessory item, automobile etc.
scap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: scaps
Etymology: Clipping of scapula.
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The scapula.
Related terms: scap-net
age-mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age-mates
form: agemate
Etymology: From age + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: It had made him live a life unlike that of most of his age-mates, a reclusive, provincial life.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 152:
glosses: One who is the same age as another.
abdominoscrotal muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.skɹoʊ.tl̩ ˈmʌs.l̩/
Forms: form: abdominoscrotal muscles
Etymology: From Latin abdomen (“abdomen”) + New Latin scrotalis, from Latin scrotum; abdomino- + -scrotal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the cremaster muscle.
abdominoscrotal muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdominoscrotal muscle
Shaysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shaysites
Etymology: From Shays + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Daniel Shays during his 18th-century armed rebellion in New England.
hard-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-up
form: most hard-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard up.
myoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoproteins
Etymology: From myo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that occurs in muscle tissue.
mannoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannoprotein
mannosylglycoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannosylglycoproteins
Senses: glosses: mannoprotein
melanoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanoproteins
Etymology: From melano- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that contains melanin as a chromagen
Related terms: melanoproteinase
abdominothoracic arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.θɔɹ.æs.ɪk ɑɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.θoʊ.ɹæs.ɪk ɑɹt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: abdominothoracic arches
Etymology: abdominothoracic + arch
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The costal arch; anterior and lateral boundary between the abdomen and the thorax.
abdominouterotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.ju.tɚˈɑ.tə.mi/
Forms: form: abdominouterotomies
Etymology: From abdomino- + uterotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Abdominohysterotomy
iritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iritic
form: most iritic
Senses: glosses: Of or related to iritis.
iritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iritic
form: most iritic
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of iridic.
Neodruidism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neo-druidism.
neo-druid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-druids
Etymology: From neo- + druid.
Senses: glosses: A follower of neo-druidism
Neodruid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neodruids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neo-druid.
e-discovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + discovery.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format.
crouchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crouchier
form: crouchiest
Etymology: From crouch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...not a street of "show" poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is "show" iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks...
ref: 1913, Robert Shackleton, Unvisited Places of Old Europe, page 104:
text: They run very low, all crouchy, and so do panthers, which was a surprise to me.
ref: 1919, Outing, volumes 73-74, page 11:
text: So then all of sudden he starts doing that crouchy thing, you know, when he looks like a lion on the hunt.
ref: 2005, Jenny Lee, What Wendell Wants: Or, How to Tell if You're Obsessed with Your Dog, page 102:
glosses: Tending to crouch; hunched over.
outherod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outherods
form: outheroding
form: outheroded
form: outheroded
Senses: examples: text: This is outheroding old George Rose, and would, we are inclined to think, satisfy even Lord Malmsbury himself.
ref: 1828 Dec, The Edinburgh Review:
text: always with some touch of Leonidas-eloquence, often with a fire of daring that threatens to outherod Herod,—the Galleries, ‘especially the Ladies, never done with applauding’.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: of being asked [...] in the Traveller's, why he did not establish a yacht in the Levant and outherod Lamartine [...].
ref: 1841, Charles Henry Knox, Hardness:
glosses: Obsolete form of out-Herod.
B.A.S.E. jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.
ref: 1996, Joe Tomlinson, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Carlton Books, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of BASE jumping.
oversharpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversharpens
form: oversharpening
form: oversharpened
form: oversharpened
Etymology: From over- + sharpen.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To sharpen too much.
oversharpens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversharpen
oversharpened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversharpen
oversharpening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversharpen
BASE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /beɪs/
Forms: form: base
form: B.A.S.E.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth.
Derived terms: BASE jump
BASE jumping
virl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virls
Senses: glosses: ferrule
Druid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Druids
Senses: examples: text: You can find hundreds of Druids at Stonehenge.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of druid.
glosses: A member of a benefit society founded in 1781, the Ancient Order of Druids.
choogle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: choogles
form: choogling
form: choogled
form: choogled
Etymology: Coined by John Fogerty of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Senses: examples: text: The swimming hole is about 75 yards wide and averages 10 feet in depth, ample space for a swimmer to splash and choogle.
ref: 1985 June, Joe Nick Patoski, “Last One In!”, in Texas Monthly, volume 13, number 6, page 227:
text: So, choogle on, baby, and choogle on down the highway, man.
ref: 1993, James Franklin Harris, Philosophy at 33 1/3 rpm: themes of classic rock music, page 176:
text: The two categories come together in "Down on the Corner," which is about poor boys who choogle.
ref: 2000, Robert Christgau, Any Old Way You Choose it: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967-1973, →ISBN:
text: He was sitting on the wall with his friends. 'Hey Pat, man! Choogle on over, yeah?' he cried.
ref: 2001, Patrick McCabe, Emerald Germs of Ireland, →ISBN:
text: “You're all invited. Born to choogle,” he adds, because they kick the tune off with riffs from Creedence Clearwater Revival's premier chooglin' extravaganza, “Born on the Bayou.”
ref: 2011, Greil Marcus, The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, →ISBN:
glosses: To have a good time.
choogle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choogles
Etymology: Coined by John Fogerty of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Senses: examples: text: Hawkins was the king of the choogle, a southern guitarist from Louisiana who played with the down home swamp funk sound that characterized his greatest hit, the 1957 smash "Suzie Q," a tremendous inspiration on bayou rocker John Fogerty, who used it to get Creedence Clearwater Revival their first hit in the 70's.
ref: 1980, Ronald Zalkind, Contemporary Music Almanac, page 234:
text: Their sound was a collision of glam rock strut, Stooges thuggery, and pub rock choogle.
ref: 2013, Chris Handyside, Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Highlights include the voodoo-choogle swamp rock of It's A Cold Night For Alligators and the driving, bubbling groove of Sputnik, driven along by Jeff Sutton's disco-tight, Clem Burke-like drumming, which Billy Miller claims is Roky's answer song to Joe Meek's Telstar.
ref: 2015, Ben Graham, A Gathering of Promises, →ISBN:
text: In fact, it might be a stretch to call R.E.O. Speedwagon prog at all, if they didn't temper the riverboat-pianoed bonfire-in-the-woods choogle of their first two albums with occasional outrageously ambitious, amp-cranking, Hammond-pumping gloom monsters that, like sundry early Kansas/ Head East / Styx tracks, seemed to owe more than a bit to the majestic post-psychedelic organ-metal funderals of the UK's Uriah Heep.
ref: 2016, Chuck Eddy, Terminated for Reasons of Taste, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A funky musical romp.
regular open
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regular + open; apparently a backformation from regular open set.
Senses: examples: text: The set (0,1)∪(1,2) is open, but is not regular open, because its closure is [0,2], so the interior of its closure is (0,2).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being the interior of its closure.
raw_tags: of a set
Related terms: regular closed
likam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪkəm/
Forms: form: likams
form: leccam
form: lekame
form: lecam
form: likame
form: licame
form: lichame
Etymology: From Middle English likam, licam, licame, lichame, from Old English līchama (“body”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkahamō, from Proto-Germanic *līkahamô, equivalent to like (“body”) + hame (“covering, case”).
In Old English, līchama was the general term for "body," while līċ had come to mean a dead body specifically. Cognate with Scots lekame (“body”), West Frisian lichem (“body”), Dutch lichaam (“body”), German Leichnam (“body, corpse”), Danish legeme (“body”), Swedish lekamen (“body”), Icelandic líkami (“body”).
Senses: glosses: The human body.
glosses: A dead body; corpse.
glosses: Likeness; face; countenance.
Related terms: lich
regular closed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apparently a backformation from regular closed set.
Senses: examples: text: The set {0,1,2} is closed, but is not regular closed, because its interior is Ø, so the closure of its interior is Ø.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being the closure of its interior.
raw_tags: of a set
Related terms: regular open
Bennifer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Ben + Jennifer.
Senses: examples: text: Although her Gigli costar stood off to the side and said nothing, Bennifer observers noted that Lopez was once again wearing the $1.2 million pink diamond engagement ring Affleck gave her.
ref: 2003 October 28, Gary Susman, “Jenny From the Block”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: Ben Affleck […] plays Ollie Trinkle. His wife is played by Jennifer Lopez, whose bit part was made even smaller when Smith scrapped a wedding scene with the couple after Bennifer became no more.
ref: 2004 March 27, Beth Jones, “'Jersey Girl' is so lame, you even miss J.Lo”, in Roanoke Times:
text: The public couldn't get enough of Bennifer - possible wedding dates, the Harry Winston engagement rock, various tiffs and reunions.
ref: 2005 December 5, Amy Cooper, “Love in a goldfish bowl”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: “Part of what makes the Bennifer [Jennifer and Ben]^([sic]) story so enticing is that it fills a neat romantic narrative: two people who were in love but things came between them and they find each other again 20 years later,” said the dating coach Hayley Quinn.
ref: 2021 July 30, Hayley Quinn, quotee, “Bennifer is back, but don’t rush to contact your ex, say experts”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The couple consisting of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, together from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2021 to 2024.
abducens labiorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The muscle that raises the corners of the mouth.
abducens oculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin abducō (“drawing away”) + Latin oculus (“eye”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Musculus rectus lateralis bulbi.
abducens muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈduˌsɛnz ˈmʌs.l̩/
ipa: /æbˈdjuˌsɛnz ˈmʌs.l̩/
Forms: form: abducens muscles
Etymology: Shortening of "abducens nerve", in turn from Latin nervus abducens, from abducent, abducens
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Rectus lateralis muscle of the eye; muscle that moves the eye away from the center of the face.
abducens muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abducens muscle
pump room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump rooms
form: pumproom
form: pump-room
Senses: examples: text: Among those who frequented the pump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 75, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The Great Pump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music-gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: [E]ven the German visitors at the baths honored me by drinking my health in the pump-room.
ref: 1847, Hans Christian Andersen, chapter 7, in Mary Howitt, transl., The True Story of My Life:
text: In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the beautiful people came here for the season, taking the waters, meeting for tea in the Pump Room and for balls in the Assembly Rooms.
ref: 2003 August 10, Jacqueline Friedrich, “Choice Tables: Sophisticated Repasts in Bath”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Oct 2012:
glosses: A room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.
pump-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pump room.
abducent nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abducent nerve
get one's arse in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's arse in gear
form: getting one's arse in gear
form: got one's arse in gear
form: got one's arse in gear
Senses: glosses: To start performing a task effectively or start behaving better in general; to shape up.
Related terms: get one's ass in gear
TomKat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Tom + Katie, as a play on tomcat.
Senses: examples: text: Right now, celebrity photographers are in a frenzy trying to wrangle an image of TomKat's kitten.
ref: 2006 April 19, Buck Wolf, “Multimillion-Dollar Bounty on TomKat Baby Photo”, in ABC News:
text: The Beckhams were among several A-lister guests invited to the TomKat wedding at a castle in Italy last month.
ref: 2006 December 5, “Katie welcomes Victoria to the neighbourhood”, in Daily Mail:
text: With her bodyguard tailing closely, Holmes uttered her first public words since the TomKat split, telling the paper, "I'm all right, thank you."
ref: 2012 July 4, Leslie Miller, “Katie Holmes breaks silence after divorce announcement”, in ABC 7:
glosses: The couple consisting of celebrities Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, together from 2005 to 2012.
you think
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Elliptical form of do you think so? or similar.
Senses: examples: text: I reckon the trees are greener in spring than in winter. —You think?
glosses: A sarcastic, rhetorical response to an obvious statement.
Synonyms: sense: rhetorical response
word: you don't say
Robsten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Robert + Kristen.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, though, the messages about Robsten that the fans receive are mixed. Pattinson and Stewart regularly deny the relationship in the mainstream press […]
ref: 2010, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, Melissa A. Click, “Twilight and the Production of the 21st Century Teen Idol”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 233:
text: Based on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's recent trip to London, Star blares that the couple is "going public." They support this idea with a slew of quotes from Rob's aunt, Diana Nutley, who gushes that "it's a true love match," wishes Robsten "all the happiness in the world," and sagely points out that "when a young couple love each other, they can't hide their feelings forever."
ref: 2010 March 5, Patrick Huguenin, “Newsstand Junkie: Love hurts for Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian”, in New York Daily News:
text: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are fueling rumors of a possible Robsten reconciliation since news broke of her affair with director Rupert Sanders.
ref: 2012 September 19, “KStew and RPatz secretly meeting post-scandal”, in New York Post:
glosses: The couple consisting of celebrities Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, together from 2009 to 2013.
Kerait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkærə.ɪt/
Forms: form: more Kerait
form: most Kerait
Etymology: Contested.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a Kypchaq nation which dominated the central Eurasian steppe prior to the rise of the Mongol empire.
Havamal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hávamál.
collar of esses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collars of esses
form: collar of Ss
Senses: examples: text: Anciently, the creation of an esquire, in England, was performed by the ceremony of the King placing about his neck a silver collar of SS, as an ensign of that dignity […].
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, volume I:
text: During the reigns of Edward IV and Richard III the collar of esses was frowned upon, to say the least.
ref: 1997, Doris Fletcher, “The Lancastrian Collar of Esses”, in The Age of Richard II, page 191:
text: Marney's pre-eminence was evident in the new reign's first meeting of the Order of the Garter, which the young king called with alacrity for 18 May – and for which occasion he had bought himself a Lancastrian collar of esses, in emulation of his hero Henry V.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 353:
glosses: An ornamental chain made up of interlinked or juxtaposed S's, originally worn by nobles of the House of Lancaster, and later associated by some writers with the Order of the Garter.