cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phytography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From phyto- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of botany concerned with the description of plants.
Derived terms: phytographic
phytographical
zoophytography
sunlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunlike
form: most sunlike
form: sun-like
form: Sun-like
Etymology: From sun + -like.
Senses: examples: text: We look for her that sunlike stood / Upon the forehead of our day […]
ref: 1887, George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life:
glosses: Like a sun.
examples: a sunlike star
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling the Sun.
scorpaeniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpaeniforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the former order Scorpaeniformes or of suborder Scorpaenoidei.
rhotacise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhotacises
form: rhotacising
form: rhotacised
form: rhotacised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rhotacize.
rhotacises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhotacise
rhotacising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhotacise
rhotacised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhotacise
rhotacisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhotacise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rhotacization.
rhotacization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhotacize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The act, process, or result of rhotacizing.
razorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From razor + -less.
Senses: examples: razorless shaving
glosses: Without a razor.
hypersexualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypersexualises
form: hypersexualising
form: hypersexualised
form: hypersexualised
Etymology: From hyper- + sexualise.
Senses: examples: text: Jada's case happened within the wider context of a world that objectifies women, and hypersexualises black women, in particular, to the point of dehumanisation.
ref: 2014 July 17, Laura Bates, “#JadaPose: the online ridiculing of a teen victim is part of a sickening trend”, in The Guardian:
text: Girls has been widely praised for its realistic portrayal of women in an industry that tends to underwrite and hypersexualise female characters.
ref: 2015 April 22, Henry Barnes, “Lena Dunham wants to make Girls film when cast hits 40”, in The Guardian:
text: […]Gerwig was influenced by directors such as Max Ophüls and Jacques Tati, as if that confers greater legitimacy on a film using IP (intellectual property) to make money for a toy company that sells vacuous, hypersexualised dolls.
ref: 2023 July 19, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Related subtrends such as balletcore, Barbiecore and regency-core have drawn criticism for hypersexualising innocence and encouraging women to dress for the male gaze.
ref: 2024 March 21, Emma Russell, “Fit to be tied: why are bows absolutely everywhere in 2024?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hypersexualize.
hypersexualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersexualizations
Etymology: From hyper- + sexualization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of hypersexualizing.
hypersexualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypersexualise
hypersexualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypersexualise
hypersexualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypersexualise
hypersexualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + sexualisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypersexualization.
trick cyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trick cyclist
dominatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dominatingly
form: most dominatingly
Etymology: From dominating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dominating way: commandingly, authoritatively.
glosses: Predominantly, mostly.
aircraftman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraftmen
Etymology: From aircraft + man.
Senses: glosses: A member of the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force or the air forces of various other Commonwealth countries.
aircraftmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircraftman
aircraftwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraftwomen
Etymology: From aircraft + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female aircraftman.
aircraftwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircraftwoman
aircheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airchecks
Etymology: From air + check.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer to a prospective employer.
airchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircheck
aircraftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraftsmen
Etymology: From aircraft + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: An aircraftman.
aircraftswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraftswomen
Etymology: From aircraft + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: An aircraftwoman.
aircraftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircraftsman
aircraftswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircraftswoman
chicken of the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickens of the woods
Etymology: From its chicken-like taste and woodland habitat.
Senses: glosses: Any edible mushroom of the Laetiporus genus.
mechanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanoids
Etymology: From mechano- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Originally he'd entered the Game to rescue the others. He was a sanitation Mechanoid, programmed to clean, and, in theory, should have been immune to the Game's lure. But he wasn't.
ref: 1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A robot that is designed to look and act like a human.
Synonyms: android
Derived terms: biomechanoid
mechanoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanoid
otolaryngological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + laryngological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to otolaryngology.
Synonyms: otorhinolaryngological
eyalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyalets
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla)bor.
Ottoman Turkish ایالتbor.
English eyalet
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ایالت, borrowed from Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla).
Senses: synonyms: vilayet
glosses: A former administrative division or province of the Ottoman Empire.
glasswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassworks
Etymology: From glass + work.
Senses: glosses: the manufacturing of glass or glassware
glosses: glassware
intrinsic motivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrinsic motivation
innates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of innate
innating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of innate
innated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From innate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of innate
innated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innated
form: most innated
Etymology: From innate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I abhorre them (I say) with so naturall, and so innated an opinion, that the very same instinct and impression, which I suckt from my nurse, I have so kept, that no occasions could ever make me alter the same […].
ref: , II.11
glosses: Innate.
serial killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serial killer
nutshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nutshots
form: nutshotting
form: nutshot
form: nutshot
Etymology: From nut + shot.
Senses: glosses: To hit in the testicles.
topics: video-games
glosses: To hit in the testicles.
Especially, to shoot (a player) in the groin, especially the testicles.
nutshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutshots
Etymology: From nut + shot.
Senses: glosses: A blow to the testicles.
nutshots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nutshot
think fast
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Catch! (when throwing an object unexpectedly)
Cabul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kabul.
St. John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: saint
ipa: /ˌseɪnt ˈd͡ʒɒn/
ipa: /sən(t)ˈd͡ʒɒn/
ipa: /ˈsɪnd͡ʒən/
note: saint
ipa: /ˌseɪnt ˈd͡ʒɑn/
ipa: /ˈsɪnd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: St John
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saint John.
glosses: An English surname from Old French.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Florida.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A town in Lake County, Indiana, partly within St. John Township; named for early settler John Hack.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A township in Lake County, Indiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Stafford County, Kansas; named for Kansas Governor John St. John.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An inactive township in New Madrid County, Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A minor city in Rolette County, North Dakota.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A town in Whitman County, Washington; named for early settler E. T. St. John.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in the town of Woodville, Calumet County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: St John
Saint John's
St. John's
St John's
St John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: saint
ipa: /ˌseɪnt ˈd͡ʒɒn/
ipa: /sən(t)ˈd͡ʒɒn/
ipa: /ˈsɪnd͡ʒən/
note: saint
ipa: /ˌseɪnt ˈd͡ʒɑn/
ipa: /ˈsɪnd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: St. John
Etymology: An abbreviation of Saint John.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saint John.
glosses: A Norman surname from one of the many places in France named Saint-Jean, with a church dedicated to a Saint John.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Tipton St John
Related terms: St. John
Saint John's
St. John's
St John's
Makepeace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪkpiːs/
ipa: /meɪkpis/
Etymology: A nickname, from make peace.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Mags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of Mag
Mags
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Maggie, which is a diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
doody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdi/
homophone: duty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: doodies
form: doodie
form: dooty
Etymology: Respelling of duty (“act of urinating or defecating”), possibly by analogy with doodoo and/or because the sense is so far removed from the usual meaning of "duty."
Senses: examples: text: Petra would like to drop despondently onto a rock to pout, but you have to look before you sit, because there are goat doodies everywhere.
ref: 2007, Brian Bouldrey, Honorable bandit: a walk across Corsica:
glosses: Excrement, poop.
doody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdi/
homophone: duty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: doodies
form: doodying
form: doodied
form: doodied
form: doodie
form: dooty
Etymology: Respelling of duty (“act of urinating or defecating”), possibly by analogy with doodoo and/or because the sense is so far removed from the usual meaning of "duty."
Senses: examples: text: Something smells poopy! It's okay if you just doodied, because we have LOTS of paper towels and extra socks.
ref: 2014, Jason James Johnson, Catbug Says, →ISBN:
glosses: To defecate, poop.
Related terms: doo-doo
dooky
doody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdi/
homophone: duty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: doodies
Senses: glosses: A copper coin of India.
Related terms: howdy doody
indeedy-doody
artificial selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Charles Darwin in 1859 in his book On the Origin of Species.
Senses: synonyms: selective breeding
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Intervention by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits.
wikipedia: On the Origin of Species
Related terms: natural selection
sexual selection
svastikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of svastika
perspectiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perspective + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without perspective.
Derived terms: perspectivelessness
librul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more librul
form: most librul
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of liberal.
librul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libruls
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of liberal.
hunnert
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: hunnerts
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hundred.
cluster analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster analysis
angstrom unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angstrom units
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of angstrom.
Derived terms: AU
㍳
polysomnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: polysomnographies
Etymology: From poly- + somnography.
Senses: glosses: A multiparameter recording of brain waves used in the study of sleep
Derived terms: polysomnographic
polysomnologist
Related terms: polysomnographist
politeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪˈtiːə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “city, state, system of government”). Doublet of police and policy.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: citizenship
hunnerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunnert
pulse oximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse oximeters
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pulse ox
glosses: A device used to monitor the oxygen level of a patient's blood.
manyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From many + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being many.
Synonyms: word: multiplicity
word: numerousness
word: manifoldness
word: manyhood
word: manyness
word: morefold
word: multeity
word: multipleness
word: nonunity
Hyponyms: word: twoness
word: threeness
word: fourness
word: fiveness
word: sixness
word: sevenness
word: eightness
word: nineness
word: tenness
Related terms: cardinality
muchness
American ginseng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American ginsengs
Senses: glosses: Panax quinquefolius, source of an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine as a tonic.
barbeiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbeiros
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese barbeiro.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kissing bug
synonyms: word: kissing bug
Fujian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfuːˈd͡ʒæn/
ipa: /ˌfuːd͡ʒiˈæn/
enpr: fo͞oʹjyěnʹ
ipa: /ˈfuːd͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˌfuːˈd͡ʒæn/
ipa: /ˌfuːd͡ʒiˈæn/
enpr: fo͞oʹjyěnʹ
Etymology: From Fuji + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or related to, Mount Fuji.
Gansu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gänʹso͞oʹ
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Kansu
form: Kansuh
form: Kan-suh
form: Kan-su
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù).
Senses: examples: text: This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country.
ref: 2015 October 16, Matt O'Brien, “This is where China’s future will be decided.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2015, Wonkblog:
text: A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents.
Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a billowing cloud of yellow dust smothered Gansu's Linze county on Sunday.
ref: 2021 April 27, “Wall of sand engulfs Chinese town”, in France 24, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021:
glosses: A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.
Guizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)ɡweɪˈd͡ʒoʊ/
enpr: gwāʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Gueijhou
form: Gueizhou
form: Kueichow
form: Kweichow
form: Kueichou
form: Kuei-chou
form: Queicheu
form: Quicheu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴州 /贵州 (Guìzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The siblings lived in a house in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest areas in China; their village, Cizhu, is under the administration of the city of Bijie.
ref: 2015 June 12, Edward Wong, “Chinese Premier Urges Officials to Fight Events That Led 4 Children to Drink Pesticide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2015, Asia Pacific:
text: Over the weekend, engineers in China's mountainous southwestern Guizhou province linked the two ends of a bridge spanning a rocky gorge. The completion of the Beipanjiang bridge marks yet another infrastructure record in China — the world's "highest" bridge, sitting 1,854 feet above the river below.
ref: 2016 September 13, Ishaan Tharoor, “The incredible sight of China’s latest record-breaking bridge”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2016, WorldViews:
text: A mudslide in the south-western province of Guizhou has resulted in 15 deaths. Thirty people are still missing as the search continues.
ref: 2019 July 25, “Chinese landslide kills 15, 30 still missing”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2019, News:
glosses: A province in southwestern China. Capital: Guiyang.
Commonwealth realm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Commonwealth realms
Senses: glosses: A member state of the Commonwealth of Nations (as most former British colonial possessions) which is a realm (kingdom) in personal union with the United Kingdom, i.e. has the British Sovereign as its 'shared' head of state, which is usually represented in its capital by a governor general.
personal union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal unions
Etymology: In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).
Senses: examples: text: The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, also known variously as the United Kingdoms, Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
text: Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.
text: The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.
text: A personal union exists, as in the instance of linked by Great Britain and Hanover from 1714 to 1837, when two states, distinct in every respect, are ruled by the same prince; and they are properly regarded as wholly independent persons who merely happen to employ the same agent for a particular class of purposes, and who are in no way bound by or responsible for each others' acts.
ref: 1895, William Edward Hall, A Treatise on International Law, 4th edition, The Clarendon Press, page 26:
text: Personal unions were scarcely new in British history. From 1066, England had been linked to parts of France under the Norman and then the Plantagenet dynasties. The accession of James VI to the English throne began a personal union that was not extended to a parliamentary union until 1707, while, under William III (1689-1702), the position of the house of Orange in Dutch politics was extended to Britain. Personal unions were also common on the Continent: for the eighteenth century, the list would include those of Poland and Saxony, Sweden and Hesse-Cassel, Russia and Holstein-Gottorp, and Denmark and Oldenburg.
ref: 2004, Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians, Hambledon and London, page 22:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).
Synonyms: sense: union of states under the same monarch
word: composite monarchy
sense: union of states under the same monarch
word: composite state
sense: union of Christ's human and divine natures in one person
word: hypostatic union
have a word in someone's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a word in someone's ear
form: having a word in someone's ear
form: had a word in someone's ear
form: had a word in someone's ear
Senses: examples: text: When you get a moment I'd like to have a word in your ear.
glosses: To speak to someone in private.
Synonyms: have a quiet word
have a word in someone's shell-like
Related terms: have someone's ear
have a quiet word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a quiet word
form: having a quiet word
form: had a quiet word
form: had a quiet word
Senses: examples: text: When you get a moment I'd like to have a quiet word.
glosses: To speak to someone in private.
Synonyms: have a word in someone's ear
have a word in your shell-like
shell-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shell-like
form: most shell-like
form: shelllike
Etymology: From shell + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having a similar shape to a seashell.
examples: text: "Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness?"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
shell-like
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell-likes
form: shelllike
Etymology: From shell + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?
glosses: The ear.
raw_tags: in set phrases
shell-likes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shell-like
on the anvil
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: November 1 1711, William King, letter to Jonathan Swift
I have several things on the anvil, and near finished, that perhaps might be useful if published
text: She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend; she had another arrangement "on the anvil" for a seat in Parliament, which she would accomplish, if that were possible; and finally, a wife.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 308:
text: Foreign tourists may be able to get refunds on goods and services tax (GST) paid by them for shopping in India in the near future, with the government planning to take up the long-pending issue soon.
ref: 2023 March 9, “GST refunds on shopping for foreign tourists on the anvil”, in VATupdate:
text: The oldest surviving bookshop in Kolkata has finally opened a free reading library at its historic premises on College Street […] Dasgupta and Co., which has been in the business since 1886, has made the rare gesture of transforming a part of it — the second floor of the heritage structure in which the shop is located — into a public library, mainly with the intention of benefiting students who can't afford books.
ref: 2025 September 4, Bishwanath Ghosh, “Kolkata's oldest bookshop opens a free library at its historic College Street premises. Dasgupta and Co. has created a public library mainly with the intention of benefiting students who can't afford books; an online library is also on the anvil”, in The Hindu:
synonyms: in the works
in the hopper
coordinate_terms: on the cards
in the cards
in the offing
impending
;
underway
glosses: In a state of discussion, formation, or preparation; not yet matured.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: being worked by a blacksmith.
overtyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtype
overtyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtype
overtypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtype
overtypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtype
watergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watergate
watergates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of watergate
bourg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourgs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of burgh.
glosses: Obsolete form of borough.
overweeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overweeningly
form: most overweeningly
Etymology: From overweening + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At size 8, I had to admit, I was so self-conscious (and secretly, overweeningly proud of it) that often that was all I was.
ref: 2005, France Kuffel, “Size and Sensibility”, in Psychology Today, volume 38, number 1, page 64:
glosses: In an overweening way; arrogantly.
glassworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glass + working.
Senses: glosses: The production of glasswork.
steelworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steel + working.
Senses: glosses: The act of working steel, the creation of steelwork or steelwares
venitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin veniō (“I come, I approach”).
Senses: examples: text: The venitive suffix associates an event of ‘motion to or toward’ to the main verb.
ref: 2007, Loretta O’Connor, Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: or inflection
glosses: Indicating motion to or toward a thing.
raw_tags: of a word
Coordinate terms: andative
venitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venitives
Etymology: From Latin veniō (“I come, I approach”).
Senses: examples: text: […] a derivational suffix indicating ‘movement toward the speaker or deictic center’. […] a derivational venitive […]
ref: 1994, Joan L. Bybee, Revere Dale Perkins, and William Pagliuca, The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 11–12:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion to or toward a thing; or, the indication so provided.
workstrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workstrand
polyphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphores
Etymology: From poly- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A receptacle which bears many ovaries.
polyphores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphore
den mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: den mothers
Etymology: Compound of den + mother, after Boy Scouts of America Cub Scouting usage of den for an individual chapter. Attested since 1936.
Senses: glosses: An adult (female) leader of a Cub Scout den.
examples: text: As the head of the boarding school, he serves as den mother for all the new students.
glosses: A person who plays the role of leader or protector of a group.
oxetanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxetane
tetrafluoromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon tetrafluoride
aluminoxanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminoxane
trichloroethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /trʌɪˌklɔːrəʊˈɛθɪliːn/
Forms: form: trichloroethylenes
form: trichlorethylene
Etymology: tri- + chloro- + ethylene (“ethyl (“eth- + -yl”) + -ene”)
Senses: examples: text: The nurse gave the woman in labour trichloroethylene, a chemical also used to clean metal parts.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: TCE
trichloroethene
coordinate_terms: dichloroethylene
DCE
tetrachloroethylene
perc
glosses: The unsaturated chlorinated hydrocarbon CCl₂=CHCl used as an industrial solvent and formerly as an anaesthetic.
tritheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritheisms
Etymology: From tri- + theism.
Senses: glosses: A belief in three gods, especially the nontrinitarian doctrine that God the Son, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit are separate gods which is condemned as heresy by most Christian denominations.
Related terms: atheism
bitheism
ditheism
henotheism
monotheism
nontheism
panentheism
pantheism
polytheism
theism
unitheism
organization chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organization charts
form: organisation chart
form: organizational chart
Senses: topics: management
synonyms: org chart
organigramme
organigram
organogram
glosses: A graphic display of reporting relationships in an organization, sometimes displaying position titles and position holders.
Related terms: organizational breakdown structure
organisation chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organisation charts
Senses: topics: management
glosses: Alternative spelling of organization chart.
organisation charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organisation chart
organization charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organization chart
bromid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bromide.
organoboranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organoborane
smash and grab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smash and grabs
Senses: examples: text: a smash and grab raid
glosses: A robbery where a window of a shop or other premises is smashed and items are grabbed as quickly as possible.
examples: text: Aggiss and Cowie are smash and grab artists, eclectically borrowing from a range of different dance and performance styles and making them into their own inimitable blended form.
ref: 2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, Anarchic Dance, →ISBN, page 5:
text: My biggest regret is that such a broad and eclectic approach, while in important respects appropriate for a foray into only partly charted territory, inevitably means that I treat some fascinating literatures in a 'smash and grab' manner—I do not do justice to their intrinsic complexity or subtlety.
ref: 2012, Christopher Pollitt, New Perspectives on Public Services, →ISBN, page x:
text: His career has been interpreted over the last century or more as being symptomatic of a wide range of forces thought to be at work in al-Andalus in his day, ranging from sheer smash and grab brigandage to incipient Hispanic nationalism, and from the alienation of indigenous neo-Muslims to a last gasp resistance on the part of a dwindling Christian minority trying to preserve their culture from total extinction.
ref: 2012, Roger Collins, Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796-1031, →ISBN:
text: What Campbell calls the politics of smash and grab lambasted the sexism of the industrial workers and laid bare the shoddy treatment of women, hidden by images of women's heroic attempts to support their men and communities through the long and bitter industrial struggles of the early 1980s.
ref: 2012, Valerie Walkerdine, Luis Jimenez, Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Arsenal were desolate but it would have been a real smash-and-grab had they hung on for three points after Liverpool showed most of the ambition and moments of quality in a game high on drama but short on class.
ref: 2014 December 21, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
text: Kenneth Saltman (2007a) has argued we are living in an era of “smash-and-grab” privatization.
ref: 2015, Kristen L. Buras, Jim Randels, & Kalamu ya Salaam, Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of theft, appropriation, or other form of gaining advantage at another's expense that is done quickly and audaciously.
Related terms: bash and grab
grab and run
snatch and run
smash and grab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smashes and grabs
form: smashing and grabbing
form: smashed and grabbed
form: smashed and grabbed
Senses: glosses: To perform a smash and grab.
smash and grabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smash and grab
cuecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cueca
hypoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more hypoactive
form: most hypoactive
Etymology: From hypo- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Men have the naturally higher sex drive, yet all the laws, customs, punishments, shame, strictures, mystiques, and anti-mystiques are aimed at that tepid, sleepy, hypoactive creature the female libido.
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
glosses: Less than normally active.
Synonyms: underactive
underactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more underactive
form: most underactive
Etymology: From under- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Thus a person with an underactive thyroid can gain weight even on a low-calorie diet.
ref: 1989 Apr, John A. McDougall, “Healthy by Choice”, in Vegetarian Times:
glosses: Less than normally active.
Synonyms: hypoactive
orthopnea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -pnea.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orthopnoea.
Derived terms: orthopneic
penn'orths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penn'orth
twopenn'orths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twopenn'orth
overhead line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhead lines
Senses: examples: text: The outage happened at 5.25pm between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations, after the snake appeared to have climbed an electricity pole, meeting its demise as it attempted to slither along the overhead line. Power was not restored until after 7pm.
ref: 2025 May 1, Gavin Blair, “Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: overhead power line
glosses: A wire or cable, suspended between poles or by a catenary, used to provide trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity.
Related terms: power line
transmission line
overhead lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhead line
behind the times
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Out of date; old-fashioned; obsolete; outmoded; outdated.
Synonyms: antiquated
disused
passé
obsolete
suretyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊəɹɪtiːʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈʃɔːɹətiːʃɪp/
Forms: form: suretyships
Etymology: From surety + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: as a man desperately swimming drowns him that comes to help him, by suretyship and borrowing they will willingly undo all their associates and allies […].
ref: , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.290
topics: law
synonyms: borrowage
borrowship
glosses: An accessory agreement through which one binds oneself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for one's debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
Related terms: guaranty
retrocession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrocessions
Etymology: Compare French rétrocession. See retrocede.
Senses: glosses: The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
topics: law
glosses: The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
glosses: Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
examples: text: For example, suppose the Moon to be placed in 10° of any sign: suppose Saturn to pass over that spot and attain to the 15th degree of the same sign, and there become stationary; that his retrocession carries him back to the 8th degree, […]
ref: 1878, The planisphere: and how to use it:
glosses: The act of retroceding; a going back.
Related terms: retrocede
retrocess
retrocessional
retrocessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrocession
analingus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anilingus.
Derived terms: autoanalingus
venitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venitive
yachtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yacht + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin.
ref: 1945 September 24, “THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. S. Williamsburg”, in TIME, archived from the original on 21 May 2009:
glosses: Without a yacht.
teacherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teacher + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a teacher.
unviolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + violated.
Senses: glosses: Not violated; intact, unharmed.
mix tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mix tapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mixtape.
mix tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mix tape
unimprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + imprisoned.
Senses: glosses: Not imprisoned.
Synonyms: free
reimprison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimprisons
form: reimprisoning
form: reimprisoned
form: reimprisoned
Etymology: From re- + imprison.
Senses: glosses: To imprison again.
reimprisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reimprison
reimprisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reimprison
reimprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reimprison
quadded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quad
quadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quad
letterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From letter + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay.
ref: 1880, John Payne, “Azizeh’s Tomb”, in New Poems, London: Newman & Co, page 98:
glosses: Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters.
examples: text: The next morning’s post brought several letters; one from Roger for Cynthia, and Molly, letterless herself, looked at Cynthia as she read it, with wistful sadness.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 45, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: There is not much more in this letter, and then we have unfortunately another gap of nearly two letterless years, there being none in my collection from June 6, 1811, until May 24, 1813.
ref: 1884, Edward, Lord Brabourne, “1811⁠”, in Jane Austen, edited by Edward, Lord Brabourne, Letters of Jane Austen, volume II, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], →OCLC, page 82:
text: The prospect of seeing some one who had just seen Tom was very exciting, but Nina’s happiness was dampened by the fact that just about that time she had three letterless days.
ref: 1914, Margaret Deland, chapter 5, in The Hands of Esau, New York: Harper & Bros., page 67:
glosses: Not having received a letter; (of a period of time) during which no letter is received. (of a person)
examples: text: a letterless peasant
text: I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: 1760, William Law, A Collection of Letters, London: J. Richardson, Letter I, p. 20,
I join therefore in the public Assemblies, not because of the Purity, or Perfection of that which is done, or to be found there, but because of that which is meant and intended by them: They mean the holy, public Worship of God; they mean the Edification of Christians; they are of great Use to many People; they keep the World from a total Forgetfulness of God; they help the Ignorant and Letterless to such a Knowledge of God, and the Scriptures, as they would not have without them.
text: The son of a small tobacconist, he had grown up a sign-painter’s apprentice; idle, lawless, and practically letterless until he had drifted into the night classes of the Albert League, where Ghillini sometimes lectured.
ref: 1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in The Troll Garden:
glosses: Illiterate.
Derived terms: letterlessness
unletteredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unlettered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unlettered; illiteracy.
brandless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brand + -less.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Without a brand; unbranded, generic.
examples: text: a brandless heifer
glosses: Not bearing the mark of a brand.
Derived terms: brandlessness
banderilleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banderillero
prosumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈsjuːmə/
Forms: form: prosumers
Etymology: Blend of producer + consumer, coined by futurologist Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave (1980). Concept based on suggestion by Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt in their 1972 book Take Today (p. 4) that consumers would take on producer roles in mass customization.
Senses: examples: text: During the First Wave most people consumed what they themselves produced. They were neither producers nor consumers in the usual sense. They were instead what might be called "prosumers."
ref: [1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave:
glosses: A person in postindustrial society who combines the economic roles of producer and consumer.
Related terms: prosumerism
prosumer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈsjuːmə/
Etymology: Blend of professional + consumer.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Targeted at serious, enthusiastic consumers, incorporating professional features but often modified for non-professional use.
raw_tags: of a consumer product
topics: business
marketing
glosses: High-end.
raw_tags: of a consumer product
prosumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈsjuːmə/
Forms: form: prosumers
Etymology: Blend of professional + consumer.
Senses: glosses: A serious, enthusiastic consumer: not professional (earning money), but of similar interest and skills to a (generally lower level) professional, or aspiring to such. The target market of prosumer equipment.
Synonyms: amateur
enthusiast
hobbyist
semiprofessional
prosumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosumer
rollickingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rollickingly
form: most rollickingly
Etymology: From rollicking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a style that owes much to the black-out routines of Ernie Kovacs, Fruit of the Moon kept itself in a frenzy of funny activity. From an actual reading of the Boy Scout handbook on the subject of sexuality […] to a spoof of Charles Atlas advertisements, the troupe was bright and rollickingly good.
ref: 1977 August 20, Jim Marko, “Building A Gay Culture―An Evening of Poetry and Theatre”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 16:
glosses: In a rollicking manner.
cognately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cognately
form: most cognately
Etymology: From cognate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is cognate.
policeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more policeable
form: most policeable
Etymology: From police + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This kind of theory would suggest that 'the state' is actually the hostage of popular agency, that it can afford to criminalize only that which is policeable; and that only unpopular illegalities are policeable.
ref: 1990, Sophie Watson, Playing the state: Australian feminist interventions, page 33:
glosses: That can be policed.
Derived terms: unpoliceable
policeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From police + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without police or a police force.
Derived terms: policelessness
unpoliceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + policeable.
Senses: glosses: Not policeable; that cannot be policed.
forkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fork + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a fork or forks.
knifeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knife + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He was completely nonpushed – he didn’t know what to do – but, not daring to come back again knife-less, had at last determined to buy a dozen; and there they were, a dozen of as good “sheer steel” blades and prongs as were ever crossed on a platter.
ref: 1833, anonymous author, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Ruchard Bently, page 444:
text: He advocates a “knife-less” method of treatment, consisting essentially of nerves sedatives, such as asafætida, valerian, etc., combined with fluid extract of hydrastis in 10 minim doses before meals.
ref: , Charles E. de M. Sajous, M.D., John V. Shoemaker, LL.D., M.D., J. Madison Taylor, A.B., M.D. Monthly Cyclopædia and Medical Bulletin, Vol. I, F.A. Davis Company, page 93
glosses: Without a knife or knives.
Derived terms: knifelessness
spoonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spoon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a spoon or spoons.