cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
saleability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saleabilities
form: salability
Etymology: From sale + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: He threw a heavy, ribbon-bound mass of matter into my lap, and recommenced writing his report upon its saleability as a book.
ref: 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, chapter 5, in The Inheritors, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, published 1920, page 72:
text: The character of the land, its salability, and the likelihood of a rise in value could be judged by the property adjacent […]
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter 48, in Jennie Gerhardt, New York: Boni & Liveright:
text: […] she had used up her fame in her own lifetime, and wrote no one book which either merit or saleability could sustain in print.
ref: 2002, Julian Barnes, “Not Drowning But Waving: The Case of Louise Colet”, in Something to Declare, New York: Knopf Doubleday:
glosses: The quality or state of being saleable.
Synonyms: saleableness
saleabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saleability
saleableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salableness
Etymology: From saleable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With the extension of traffic in space and with the expansion over ever longer intervals of time of prevision for satisfying material needs, each individual would learn, from his own economic interests, to take good heed that he bartered his less saleable goods for those special commodities which displayed, beside the attraction of being highly saleable in the particular locality, a wide range of saleableness both in time and place.
ref: 1892 June, Karl Menger [i.e., Carl Menger], “On the Origin of Money”, in Caroline A. Foley, transl., edited by F[rancis] Y[sidro] Edgeworth, The Economic Journal: The Journal of the British Economic Association, volume II, number 6, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section VI (On the Genesis of Media of Exchange), page 248:
glosses: The quality or state of being saleable.
Synonyms: saleability
saleably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saleably
form: most saleably
Etymology: From saleable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a saleable manner.
saléeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saléeites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saleeite.
saléeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saléeite
porte-monnaie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte-monnaies
form: portemonnaie
Etymology: From French porte-monnaie.
Senses: examples: text: She saw without looking that her mother pressed a little clasp; heard, without wanting to, the sharp click that marked the closing portemonnaie from which something had been taken.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: A wallet.
sale-leaseback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leaseback
saleratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saleratuses
form: salaeratus
form: salæratus
Etymology: From New Latin sal + aeratus.
Senses: examples: text: She spent nearly two hours firing up the oven and trying to raise a loaf of wheat bread with saleratus, the only leavening she could find.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 31:
glosses: Sodium bicarbonate.
glosses: Potassium bicarbonate.
saleratuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saleratus
gourou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a West African language, such as Hausa gōr̃ò or Bambara goro.
Senses: examples: text: Provisions were spilled out of their baskets; and in walking one stepped on morsels of rock salt, packages of gum, rotten dates, and gourou-nuts.
ref: 1886, M. French Sheldon, transl., Salammbô of Gustave Flaubert, London: Saxon and Co., page 304:
text: The Negroes of Senegal and the Soudan chew the gourou with delight, although it has a sharp and astringent taste.
ref: 1898, Dr. Jacobus X, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology: Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of Semi-Civilized Peoples, volume II, Paris: Libraire de Médecine, Folklore et Anthropologie, page 116:
text: At the great bamboulas and fêtes the gourou is much used.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 107:
glosses: kola
gourou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of guru.
cercles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercle
backchannels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backchannel
backchannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backchannel
flame tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flām trē
ipa: /fleɪm tɹiː/
Forms: form: flame trees
Etymology: flame + tree, from the fiery colour of the flowers.
Senses: examples: text: The people stared in awe at the magnificently colored flame tree.
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Rhododendron arboreum (tree rhododendron), of southern Asia
examples: text: […] its scarlet-flowered cousin the maple leaved Sterculia, or Australian flame-tree, which we grow in California for ornament, too, is a tough waterproof fiber a couple of inches thick, that is good material for cordage and mats.
ref: 1919, Charles Francis Saunders, With the Flowers and Trees in California, R.M. McBride & Co., section 47:
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Brachychiton acerifolius (syn. Sterculia acerifolia, Australian flame tree, Illawarra flame tree, lacebark tree)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Delonix regia (royal poinciana), native to Madagascar
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Alloxylon flammeum (Queensland tree waratah, red silky oak)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Butea monosperma (flame of the forest), of southern Asia
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Embothrium coccineum (Chilean flame tree, Chilean firebush)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Erythrina abyssinica, of eastern and southern Africa
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Erythrina spp. (coral trees), of most tropical and subtropical regions
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Koelreuteria bipinnata (Chinese flame tree)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Nuytsia floribunda (Australian Christmas tree)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Peltophorum spp. (African flame tree)
glosses: Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:
Spathodea campanulata (African tulip tree, African flame tree)
Hypernyms: tree
rox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rocks (“is great”).
flame trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flame tree
dossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doss
dossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doss
berlingots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berlingot
noctambulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sleepwalking.
Related terms: noctambule
noctambulic
noctambulist
noctambulistic
noctambulo
noctambulous
barnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːnəkl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹnəkl̩/
Forms: form: barnacles
Etymology: Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish bairneach), from Proto-Celtic *barannīkos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).
Senses: hypernyms: arthropod
crustacean
glosses: A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
glosses: The barnacle goose.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: word: cruft
glosses: A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
synonyms: twitch
glosses: An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
glosses: A pair of spectacles.
glosses: A good job, or snack easily obtained.
synonyms: shellback
glosses: A worldly sailor.
Derived terms: acorn barnacle
barnacle eater
barnacle goose
barnaclelike
barnacle scale
barnacly
barnacular
debarnacle
giant barnacle
goose barnacle
gooseneck barnacle
O'Shea's vent barnacle
rock barnacle
whale barnacle
barnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːnəkl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹnəkl̩/
Forms: form: barnacles
form: barnacling
form: barnacled
form: barnacled
Etymology: Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish bairneach), from Proto-Celtic *barannīkos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).
Senses: examples: text: Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
ref: 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 178:
text: To dream that some things just barnacle to your heart, and it might take years, or it might always just be there.
ref: 2020, “YTK, Lunar Cartographer”, in Timmy's Unbuttoned Gen X Meditations, performed by Good Fuck:
glosses: To connect with or attach.
examples: text: He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
ref: 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada, published 2002, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: To press close against something.
Related terms: limpet
cuny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunies
Senses: examples: text: I early found my way to ships to become a sea-cuny.
ref: 1915, Jack London, The Star Rover:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An ordinary seaman.
false scent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false scents
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A scent laid down to distract a predator that hunts by smell from the scent trail of its prey.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
head_nr: 2
glosses: A misleading expectation created by ambiguous writing.
fettler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fettlers
Etymology: From fettle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the engine stopped for water, or to drop stores at fettlers' camps, or to accumulate the steam to take it up a heavy grade.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 79:
text: 1939, Comrade Fettler (a Union song about Fettlers)http://unionsong.com/u266.html
The summer brings its nursery, with dust and sandy blight
But the Fettler must keep toiling, to keep the track alright.
glosses: A person who maintains railway lines.
glosses: Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
glosses: Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
examples: text: How's tha' doing fettler?
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A friend or mate
topics: business
mining
glosses: An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
longhauling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋhɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɔŋhɔlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋ-/
Forms: form: long-hauling
Etymology: From long haul + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Please address the effects of the military proposals on the fishing industry; consider commercial fishing, longhauling, pound dashing, trawling, seigning for shrimp, crab, shellfish, and pinfish. What are the impacts due to noise, radiation, and the restricted fishing areas?
ref: 1989 July, “Public Hearing Transcript of February 2, 1989”, in Final Environmental Impact Statement: Mid Atlantic Electronic Warfare Range (MAEWR) within Restricted Airspace R-5306A: Environmental Impact Statement, volumes III (Public Comments and Responses), Norfolk, Va.: Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, →OCLC, page 334:
text: Joshua Hancock was the owner of a small fleet of narrow boats working mostly in the Midland canals area. The fleet consisted of six horse-drawn narrow boats used mostly in the Birmingham area, and one over-powered steam boat with the ability to be accompanied by two dumb barges which he used for long-hauling and river work.
ref: 2010, Alan Butt, River Hobbler's Apprentice: Memories of Working the Severn & Wye, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, →ISBN:
text: [page 56] In the far eastern precincts of the sound, for example, Atlantic fishermen tended to do a lot of long-hauling. Given their boats' limited engine power and the long distances the fishermen often traveled, spending a week on the water made economic as well as practical sense. […] [page 57] Yet, Harkers Island boats were also used in long-hauling operations up around Ocracoke, which meant that their fishermen spent at least several nights away from home in their cramped quarters.
ref: 2013, Lawrence S. Earley, The Workboats of Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, pages 56–57:
glosses: The act of travelling long distances.
examples: text: Taxi fares to Strip hotels [in Las Vegas, Nevada] – 30 minutes in heavy traffic – run $10 to $15 (to downtown, average $20), cash only. Fare gouging (‘long-hauling’) through the airport connector tunnel is common; ask your driver to use surface streets instead.
ref: 2012, Amy C. Balfour et al., Lonely Planet Southwest USA, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of a taxicab driver taking a passenger on a long detour to the destination without consent in order to drive up the fare.
examples: text: Everyone thought he was crazy these days, and he was willing to admit that he was more than a little responsible for that. Quitting his longhauling job, living out of his truck, and subsisting on his savings while he pursued a man that no one believed existed ... it did sound kinda crazy to an outsider in these matters.
ref: 2006, Brandon Massey, Vicious, Atlanta, Ga.: Dark Corner Press, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: The act of transporting goods over long distances.
longhauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋhɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɔŋhɔlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋ-/
Forms: form: long-hauling
Etymology: From long haul + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of longhaul.
Related terms: word: long haul
word: longhaul
word: longhauled
panic snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic snaps
Senses: glosses: A device that allows a rope or cable to be released quickly and easily, such as one made for horses with a ring that instantly releases anything attached to the snap.
slopdosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: wet mud
Prishtina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Prishtina.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pristina.
off-load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: off-loads
form: off-loading
form: off-loaded
form: off-loaded
Senses: examples: text: It handles two scheduled trains daily, which include loaded wagons of coal off-loaded from coastal vessels.
ref: 1962 August, R. C. Riley, “The Modernisation of the Plymouth area—II”, in Modern Railways, page 121:
glosses: Alternative spelling of offload.
off-loads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of off-load
off-loading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of off-load
off-loaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of off-load
tashkil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tashkīl
form: tashkiil
form: tashkeel
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تَشْكِيل (taškīl).
Senses: glosses: vowelization, vocalization or diacritization—the various diacritics, taken collectively, that are attached to Arabic letters in certain styles of writing and that indicate such features as vowels and gemination (consonant doubling) and absence of any vowels.
Related terms: damma
fatha
furigana
kasra
nikud
pinyin
pronunciation respelling
shadda
sukun
zhuyin
bopomofo
destocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The news article said that destocking was to blame for reduced sales.
glosses: The process of reducing inventory or of stocking less.
destocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Many shops are destocking high-end goods due to the recession.
glosses: present participle and gerund of destock; to reduce stock or inventory.
folklife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folklives
Etymology: From folk + life.
Senses: glosses: Folklore; those cultural traditions passed down orally or informally.
lickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lickable
form: most lickable
Etymology: From lick + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a lickable sweet
text: a lickable cunt
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being licked.
Derived terms: lickably
unlickable
tattooee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattooees
Etymology: From tattoo + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person receiving a tattoo.
tarsale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsalia
Etymology: From New Latin tarsāle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus, especially one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.
tarsalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsalgias
Etymology: From tarso- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly, I treated old standing tarsalgias with the saw or the chisel, like all other surgeons.
ref: 1916, Jean-François Calot, translated by A. H. Robinson, Indispensable orthopaedics: a handbook of treatment, 2nd English edition, volume II, St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, translation of original in French, published 1921, page 662:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pain in the tarsus.
ne exeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ne exeats
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nē exeat (literally “may he not go forth”), from nē (“not”) + exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A common law writ prohibiting the departure of a person or of property from the jurisdiction of a court.
metatarsalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mĕtˌ-ə-tärˌ-sălˈ -jə
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms metatars- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the region of the metatarsals; inflammation of any of the five bones between the heel and the toes.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: word: stone bruise
Hypernyms: pain
Coordinate terms: tarsalgia
archenteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archenterons
form: archentera
Etymology: arch- from Latin archi- from Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-) + enteron from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “gut”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A primitive alimentary cavity
Derived terms: archenteric
peronei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.əˈniˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of peroneus
soft porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviated form of softcore pornography.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of softcore pornography.
unexplicit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexplicit
form: most unexplicit
Etymology: From un- + explicit.
Senses: glosses: Not explicit, relatively ambiguous.
hardcore porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardcore pornography.
softcore pornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of pornography where the sexual acts are relatively unexplicit.
Coordinate terms: hardcore pornography
scutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskjuːtɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: scutages
Etymology: From Middle English scutage, from Medieval Latin scutagium, from Latin scutum (“shield”).
Senses: examples: text: The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The wars and the maladministration of Richard I and John forced these kings more and more to count on extraordinary revenues, to multiply aids and especially scutages.
ref: 1925, D. Pasquet, An Essay on the Origins of the House of Commons:
synonyms: escuage
glosses: A tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
encyclopædiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encyclopædia
collagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
Related terms: collagraph
collography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of collagraphy.
Karok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Karuk.
Karok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karoks
form: Karok
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Karuk.
hypertridimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + tridimensional.
Senses: glosses: Having more than three dimensions.
household deities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of household deity
thermalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thermalize
thermalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thermalize
parlously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parlously
form: most parlously
Etymology: From parlous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a parlous way.
thermogravimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermogravimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, thermogravimetry.
thermalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thermalise
thermalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thermalise
millionairedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From millionaire + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a millionaire.
examples: text: With the "Constance," which in his heart of hearts he loathed, departed the last remnant of Cheyne's millionairedom, and he gave himself up to an energetic idleness.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, chapter X, in “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
glosses: The world or sphere of millionaires.
depersonalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depersonalization
unchamfered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chamfered.
Senses: glosses: Not chamfered.
consectator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consectators
Senses: glosses: An imitator or disciple.
glosses: One who follows or pursues.
unburstable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + burstable.
Senses: examples: text: An interesting demonstration of the qualities of the Searle unburstable inner tube, the product of the Searle Unburstable Tube Co., Ltd., Birmingham, England, was made […]
ref: 1914, The Horseless Age, volume 33, page 635:
glosses: Impossible to burst; not burstable.
consectators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consectator
moraliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moralisers
Etymology: From moralise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moralizer.
rallier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ralliers
Etymology: * rally + -er
Senses: glosses: One who rallies.
multi-addiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-addictions
form: multiaddiction
Etymology: From multi- + addiction.
Senses: examples: text: To further complicate matters, the reactions of family members to the multi-addiction patterns were as unhealthy as the coping of the addicts themselves.
ref: 1983, Patrick Carnes, The sexual addiction:
text: One could test this hypothesis by following a group of subjects displaying different addictive behaviors over time using a multi-addiction assessment...
ref: 1999, Glenn D Walters, The addiction concept: working hypothesis or self-fulfilling prophesy?:
text: Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort.
ref: 1999, Rick Bass, Brown dog of the Yaak: essays on art and activism:
glosses: Addiction to multiple substances.
household god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: household gods
Senses: examples: text: Action and speed and profit are our household gods, and the man who resists the changing times is punished at every turn.
ref: 1962, Robert Sterling Yard, The Living Wilderness, volume 27, page 8:
glosses: Synonym of household deity.
synonyms: word: household deity
body of water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodies of water
Senses: synonyms: water body
glosses: Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as an ocean, a river, a lake or a bay.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see body, of, water.
Synonyms: word: body of water
word: water body
Hypernyms: word: landform
Hyponyms: word: aqueduct
word: aquifer
word: bayou
word: beck
word: bay
word: beel
word: bight
word: billabong
word: branch
word: brook
word: burn
word: canal
word: cenote
word: channel
word: cove
word: caldera
word: creek
word: embayment
word: estuary
word: falls
word: firth
word: fjard
word: fjord
word: fleet
word: fork
word: fountain
word: freshet
word: frith
word: gill
word: gulf
word: harbor
word: harbour
word: impoundment
word: inlet
word: kettle lake
word: kill
word: lade
word: lagoon
word: lake
word: lick
word: lin
word: loch
word: lochan
word: lock
word: lode
word: lough
word: mere
word: mill race
word: navigation
word: ocean
word: oxbow lake
word: passage
word: polynya
word: pond
word: pool
word: pothole
word: puddle
word: reach
word: reservoir
word: ria
word: rill
word: river
word: rivulet
word: roadstead
word: run
word: runnel
word: sag pond
word: sea
word: seaway
word: seep
word: sink
word: slough
word: sound
word: spring
word: strait
word: stream
word: streamlet
word: swallet
word: tributary
word: tarn
word: watercourse
word: waterway
word: arroyo
word: bourne
word: draw
word: gilgai
word: haor
word: playa
word: sike
word: turlough
word: vernal pool
word: wadi
word: wash
word: winterbourne
Related terms: word: Body of water on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
pharyngeal tonsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngeal tonsil
radio waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio wave
cordless telephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordless telephone
cordless phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordless phone
dishpan hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly coined circa mid-1920s for the advertising of Lever Brothers "Lux" brand dishwashing soap.
Senses: examples: text: Avoid dishpan hands. Those 1950s sitcom moms had it right (and probably had lovely hands): Wear rubber gloves while cleaning and doing dishes.
ref: 2007 February 18, H. E. Thomas, M. Thomas, “5 Ways to Combat Cold-Weather Hands”, in Washington Post, retrieved 30 Jul 2009:
glosses: Hands which are rough, reddish, and dry, as from irritation and chafing caused by immersion in hot water mixed with detergent.
Apennine Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Apennine Peninsula
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Italian Peninsula.
synonyms: word: Italian Peninsula
Apennines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæpənaɪnz/
Forms: form: the Apennines
Etymology: From Latin Ā̆pennīnus.
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Italy, stretching 1,200 km from the north to the south of the country, along its east coast, traversing the entire Apennine Peninsula, and often called the "spine of Italy".
Synonyms: Apennine Mountains
Apennine Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Apennine Mountains
Senses: glosses: The Apennines.
Baré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of northwest Brazil and Venezuela.
Baré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct language of Venezuela.
Brabantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brabant + -ian.
Senses: examples: The Brabantian Calvinists emigrated en masse to Holland after the Sack of Antwerp in the 1580s.
synonyms: Brabantine
glosses: Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
examples: text: That is a Brabantian accent, not a Limburgish one!
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Brabantian dialect.
Brabantian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brabant + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia.
synonyms: Brabantish
Brabantic
glosses: The Dutch dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (the Netherlands), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces (Belgium).
Brabantian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brabantians
Etymology: From Brabant + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.
glosses: A person from the respective provinces or historic region of Brabant (especially if Brabantian-speaking).
metathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting metathesis.
Synonyms: metathetical
Derived terms: metathetically
metathetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting metathesis.
Synonyms: metathetic
Derived terms: nonmetathetical
Oreos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oreo
mocking birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mocking bird
Sukkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sukkot.
enteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entera
form: enterons
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”).
Senses: glosses: The gut, the whole intestine (alimentary) canal
Derived terms: mesenteron
perienteron
Related terms: archenteron
enteralgia
enterectomy
enteric
entero-
enteroceptor
enterocinesia
enterogastrone
enterokinase
enterolith
enterology
enteroptosis
enteroscope
enterostasis
enterostaxis
enterostomy
enterotomy
enterotoxemia
turn-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-on
turn-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-off
palace politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palace-politics
Senses: examples: text: [T]he palace at Delhi was known to have been a focus of discontent and intrigue for some time previous to the Revolt. The mode in which the Marquis of Dalhousie treated these matters, in his minute of 1856, has already been adverted to; but it may be well to repeat his words here, to shew the exact state of Delhi palace-politics at that time.
ref: 1859, George Dodd, The history of the Indian revolt and of the expeditions to Persia, China, and Japan, 1856-7-8, London: W. and R. Chambers, pages 67–68:
text: Some Janizaries predicted that Justice Douglas would eventually be either Secretary of State or Chairman of the Defense Commission. He had given the President valiant aid in the campaign, in ideas and memoranda for the six speeches, and was still a chief figure in the palace politics of the inner circle.
ref: 1940 November 11, “The Election: The Next Administration”, in Time:
text: As the SACP’s deputy general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, noted in a 2008 article for New Agenda, “The ANC’s 2007 national conference created a situation in which there is the danger of further fragmentation and factionalism, palace politics, a politics of revenge and of rear-guard fight-backs”.
ref: 2009 May 17, Mazibuko K Jara, “The capitulation of the great communists”, in The Times, South Africa, retrieved 20 Jul 2009:
glosses: The relationships and interactions of top-level officials, advisors and other powerbrokers within a government, especially as involving internal rivalry and intrigue.
palace-politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palace politics.
cum dumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm dʌmpstɚ/
Forms: form: cum dumpsters
form: cumdumpster
form: cum-dumpster
Etymology: From cum + dumpster.
Senses: examples: text: The artist collected one hundred used white dress shirts and employed the formal conventions of male fashion to describe the double standards of society’s responses to sex for male versus female teenagers. […] On the back of each shirt, a centerline separated the categories “Male” and “Female.” The male side is articulated by only two adjectives: “stud” and “man.” On the female side is a spill of slanderous words and phrases used to characterize sexually active young women: “whore,” “cunt,” “slut,” “cum-dumpster.”
ref: [1995, Patricia C. Phillips, “Peggy Diggs: Private Acts and Public Art”, in Nina Felshin, editor, But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, →ISBN, page 308:
text: “We fucked the shit out of this cum dumpster the other night,” he explains. Oh, I say. The photos show a woman, probably in her early twenties, wearing nothing except for white socks sagging around her ankles.
ref: 2001, Ken Baker, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, →ISBN:
text: She was unclean, she had let herself be used in the filthiest way, she was a ratty hotel washrag, a cum dumpster.
ref: 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 493:
text: I would be spending my evening with a nice cum dumpster named Bubbles. Dressed from head to toe in tight black leather, she only had to show me the ball gag in her hand.
ref: 2004 April 2, Lord Bumblebee, “Getting Tickled by Bubbles”, in The GW Hatchet, Washington, retrieved 30 Jan 2022:
text: I would explain it's because you aid and abet my skeezy ex, the Blowpipe! Devil Girl! The Cum Dumpster! Motorhole!
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Intellectual, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 143:
synonyms: cumdump
;
cumbucket
cum guzzler
cumhole
cumslut
cumwhore
;
cocksocket
hypernyms: slut
whore
glosses: A sexually promiscuous person, usually a woman or bottom, who has sexual relations with men who often ejaculate in their body cavities.
blow smoke up someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows smoke up someone's ass
form: blowing smoke up someone's ass
form: blew smoke up someone's ass
form: blown smoke up someone's ass
form: blow smoke up someone's arse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blow smoke.
Related terms: Tobacco smoke enema
Hapsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhæps.bɜːɹɡ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Habsburg.
Hapsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæps.bɜːɹɡ/
Forms: form: Hapsburgs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Habsburg.
bioarchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioarchitectures
Etymology: From bio- + architecture.
Senses: glosses: The design and construction of buildings in an ecologically-friendly manner
glosses: The design and construction of buildings that reflect structures found in nature
stenotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛnə(ʊ)ˈtɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more stenotopic
form: most stenotopic
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
antonyms: eurytopic
glosses: Able to tolerate or adapt to only a small range of environmental conditions
Related terms: stenotopy
specialist
examinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more examinable
form: most examinable
Etymology: From examine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be examined.
examples: text: Revise all of the examinable material.
glosses: Eligible to appear in an examination.
Derived terms: unexaminable
Related terms: examinability
examinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From examine + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being examinable.
internal medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of internal organ systems.
Synonyms: word: internal medicine
Meronyms: word: cardiology
word: endocrinology
word: gastroenterology
word: hematology
word: oncology
word: nephrology
word: pulmonology
word: rheumatology
Related terms: word: internist
word: physician
latitudinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlatɪtjuːdɪˈnɛːɹɪən/
ipa: /lædɪtuːdəˈnɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more latitudinarian
form: most latitudinarian
Etymology: From latitude + -in- + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
examples: text: ’Tis probable, that the Account here given of the Religion of the Natives of Madagascar, may, by Some, be thought a mere Fiction, and inserted with no other View, than to advance some Latitudinarian Principles […]
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London: Preface, page v:
text: 1859, S. Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, Volume I, under the entry “Franklin, Benjamin,” p. 630,
It is not to be doubted that intimacies with English freethinkers at this period, and with French deists and atheists at a later stage in his life, did much to engender those latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects which Franklin is known to have entertained.
text: […] their political tactics were to be more closely coordinated with Moscow and their latitudinarian approach to cultural affairs was to be replaced by Zdanov’s uncompromising thesis of the ‘two cultures’.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: Tolerant, especially of other people's religious views.
glosses: Lax in moral or religious principles.
Derived terms: antilatitudinarian
latitudinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlatɪtjuːdɪˈnɛːɹɪən/
ipa: /lædɪtuːdəˈnɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: latitudinarians
Etymology: From latitude + -in- + -arian.
Senses: glosses: A person who is tolerant of others' religious views.
Derived terms: latitudinarianism
demandeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demandeurs
Etymology: From French demandeur.
Senses: qualifier: international relations
glosses: The party, generally a state, that seeks to forestall or respond to noncompliance with or violation of an international law or treaty.
demandeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demandeur
ar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Extracted from the word aromatic.
Senses: examples: text: Potassium permanganate oxidizes ac-tetrahydronaphtylamine to o-hydrocinnam-carboxylic acid (p. 245); ar-tetrahydronaphthylamine, however, because of the oxidation of its amided benzene nucleus, is changed to adipic acid together with oxalic acid (B. 22, 767): […]
ref: 1900, Edgar Fahs Smith (English translator), R. Anschütz (German editor), Victor von Richter's Organic Chemistry: or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds, Third American Edition, Volume II, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., page 393
text: ar-Tetrahydro-α-carbamidonaphthalene, C₁₁H₁₄ON₂, crystallized in square plates from alc., soften at 198° and melts at about 206° (quickly heated, at 212°).
ref: 1919 January 10, C. J. West, abstract of G. Schroeter and K. Thomas, “Transformation of tetrahydronaphthalene (tetralin) in the animal body”; in American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts, Volume 13, Number 1, page 43
text: 1-Naphthylamine is reduced by sodium and isopentanol to ar'''-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine; the prefix ar- is the abbreviation of aromatic and indicates that the four hydrogen atoms are not in the ring containing the amino-group: […]
ref: 2006, Amit Arora, Aromatic Organic Chemistry, Discovery Publishing House, published 2007, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming classification names for classes of organic compounds that contain a carbon skeleton and one or more aromatic rings.
ar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Shortened from area (because the function describes the area under a hyperbola), by analogy with arc-, the corresponding prefix for the circular trigonometric functions.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
synonyms: word: arc-
word: a-
word: -1
glosses: Used to form the names of inverse hyperbolic functions, and the symbols for these functions.
meth-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /mɛθ/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of metho-.
eth-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From ethyl. Ultimately from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “ether”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used as a combining form to denote the presence of 2 carbon atoms in the parent chain when forming names of organic compounds.
Derived terms: ethane
ethanol
ethyl
Related terms: metho-
prop-
but-
but-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From butyl. Ultimately from Ancient Greek βούτυρος (boúturos, “butter”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Denotes the presence of four carbon atoms in the parent chain when forming names of organic compounds.
Coordinate terms: metho-
eth-
prop-
Derived terms: butane
butanol
butyl
prop-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: By false splitting from propionic or directly from French propionique. Ultimately from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) and πίων (píōn, “fat”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Denoting the presence of 3 carbon atoms in the parent chain when forming names of organic compounds.
wikipedia: false splitting
Related terms: propane
propanol
propyl
metho-
eth-
but-
alk-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: First syllable of alcohol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form classification names for classes of organic compounds which contain a carbon skeleton but no aromatic rings. See e.g. alkyl, alkane.
-oate
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form the names of salts and esters of carboxylic acids e.g. benzoate, hexanoate
Related terms: -oic
hexanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexanoates
Etymology: From hexanoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of hexanoic acid.
Derived terms: ethyl hexanoate
gabexate
perfluorohexanoate
aza-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Derived from shortening the word azote (“nitrogen”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form names of organic compounds where a carbon atom is replaced by a nitrogen atom.
Coordinate terms: sense: heterocyclic element
word: fluora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: chlora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: broma-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: ioda-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: thia-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: selena-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: tellura-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: phospha-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: arsa-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: stiba-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: bisma-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: sila-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: germa-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: stanna-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: plumba-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: bora-
sense: heterocyclic element
word: mercura-
concrete term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete terms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A term which expresses material facts, actions and events in physical reality relating to possible causes and means.
chillaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chillax
chillaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chillax
lacunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacune
Kaprekar number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaprekar numbers
Etymology: After the Indian mathematician Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905-1986).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A non-negative integer, the representation of whose square in its base can be split into two parts that add up to itself (such as 297, whose square, 88209, can be split into 88 and 209, totalling 297).