cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
optician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opticians
Etymology: Borrowed from French opticien.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes, dispenses or sells lenses, spectacles.
glosses: A person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment; an optometrist.
Derived terms: opticianry
Related terms: ophthalmologist
optometrist
optimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptɪməl/
ipa: /ˈɑptɪməl/
Etymology: From Latin optimus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Finding the optimal balance between features and price is a common problem.
text: Herewith, a brief primer in speaking basic North Carolinaese, meant to be read aloud for optimal effect.
ref: 2014 August 21, Susan Stafford Kelly, “What Say You”, in Our State:
glosses: The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
Synonyms: best
ideal
optimum
Derived terms: degree-optimal
infraoptimal
inoptimal
nonoptimal
optimalise
optimalism
optimality
optimally
Pareto-optimal
Pareto optimal
suboptimal
superoptimal
supraoptimal
time optimal control problem
Related terms: opt
optimise
optimism
optimist
optimistic
optimize
optimum
option
optionable
optional
suboptimal
optimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptɪməl/
ipa: /ˈɑptɪməl/
Forms: form: optimals
Etymology: From Latin optimus + -al.
Senses: glosses: The best of its kind
remote sensing scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remote sensing scientists
Senses: glosses: a scientist who studies objects or events using data collected without having to be in physical contact with the objects or events. This data is often collected by satellites.
esprit d'escalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘I knew not then,’ he confessed, ‘but now I think…’ It is not necessary to follow Goad along the path taken by his esprit d'escalier to see how sheer intellectual pleasure was the driving-force behind such efforts.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, “Astrology: Its Social and Intellectual Role”, in Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN; republished London: Folio Society, 2012, →OCLC, page 317:
glosses: Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier.
reprehend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnd/
Forms: form: reprehends
form: reprehending
form: reprehended
form: reprehended
Etymology: From Latin reprehendō (“I hold back, check, blame”), from re- (“back”) + prehendō (“I hold, seize”). Compare French reprendre (“to reprove”).
Senses: glosses: To criticize, to reprove.
Related terms: apprehend
comprehend
reprehensible
reprehension
reprise
reprisal
reprieve
criticize
rebuke
reprimand
reprove
deathbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/
Forms: form: deathbeds
form: death-bed
form: death bed
Etymology: From Middle English dethbed, from Old English dēaþbedd (“deathbed; grave”), equivalent to death + bed. Cognate with Swedish dödsbädd (“deathbed”). Compare also Dutch sterfbed (“deathbed”), German Sterbebett and Totenbett (both “deathbed”), Danish dødsleje (“deathbed”).
Senses: examples: text: He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 254:
coordinate_terms: birthbed
glosses: The bed on which someone dies.
glosses: The last hours before death.
examples: text: “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top. Let my deathbed rise high above Hronesnesse.”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47:
glosses: A grave; the site of a burial or entombment.
Derived terms: deathbed conversion
on one's deathbed
on one's deathbed
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Close to death.
Synonyms: at death’s door
knocking on heaven's door
with one foot in the grave
serenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹɛnɪti/
Forms: form: serenities
Etymology: From Middle English serenyte, from Old French serenité, from Latin serēnitās, equivalent to serene + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
text: There is no passion, there is serenity.
ref: 1987, Greg Costikyan, “The Jedi Code”, in Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, page 69, line 3:
glosses: The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
glosses: A lack of agitation or disturbance.
glosses: A title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary.
Synonyms: sereneness
tranquility
tranquillity
harmony
peace
Related terms: serene
calmness
gyve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪv/
ipa: /ɡaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
homophone: jive
Forms: form: gyves
form: give
Etymology: From Middle English *give, *gyve (found only in plural gives, gyves (“shackles; fetters”)). Of uncertain origin, possibly from low dialect taking from Celtic; compare Welsh gefyn (“fetter, shackle”), Irish geibbionn (“fetters”), geimheal (“fetter, chain, shackle”); these are from Proto-Celtic *gem- (“shackle, chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gem- (“to squeeze, grab, press”), see also Proto-Slavic *žęti, Ancient Greek γέντο (génto). The modern pronunciation with /dʒ/ is due to the spelling.
The verb is from Middle English given, gyven (“to shackle”), from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: […] I would have thee gone:
And yet no further than a wanton’s bird;
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: With head and heart and hand I’ll strive
To break the rod, and rend the gyve,—
The spoiler of his prey deprive,—
ref: 1845, William Lloyd Garrison, “The Triumph of Freedom”, in The Liberty Bell, Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, page 192:
text: Our gyves were removed and our possessions returned to us, except for my Banker’s Special.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, chapter 15, in Don’t Point That Thing at Me, New York: The Overlook Press, published 2004, page 126:
glosses: A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
Derived terms: downgyved
engyve
ungyve
gyve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪv/
ipa: /ɡaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
homophone: jive
Forms: form: gyves
form: gyving
form: gyved
form: gyved
form: give
Etymology: From Middle English *give, *gyve (found only in plural gives, gyves (“shackles; fetters”)). Of uncertain origin, possibly from low dialect taking from Celtic; compare Welsh gefyn (“fetter, shackle”), Irish geibbionn (“fetters”), geimheal (“fetter, chain, shackle”); these are from Proto-Celtic *gem- (“shackle, chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gem- (“to squeeze, grab, press”), see also Proto-Slavic *žęti, Ancient Greek γέντο (génto). The modern pronunciation with /dʒ/ is due to the spelling.
The verb is from Middle English given, gyven (“to shackle”), from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:
text: "Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton ...
ref: 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
text: Gyved to a squeaky swivel seat in my office, …
ref: 2008, LD Brodsky, “A Devotee of the Southern Way of Making Love”, in Sheri L. Vadermolen, editor, The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Four, 1981-1985, Time Being Books, →ISBN, page 419:
glosses: To shackle, fetter, chain.
Derived terms: down-gyved
infraclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraclasses
Etymology: From infra- + class.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A zoological classification sometimes inserted below subclass and above subterclass (rarely used) and superorder.
flatline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: flatlines
form: flat line
Etymology: From flat + line. Refers to a continuous straight line (asystole) on an ECG (EKG) or EEG, indicating death.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An asystole; the absence of heart contractions or brain waves.
The disappearance of the rhythmic peaks displayed on a heart monitor.
examples: text: When brain function ceases, the electroencephalogram shows flatline recordings.
ref: 1972, Louis Lasagna, “Aging and the field of medicine”, in Matilda White Riley, Anne Foner, editors, Aging and Society: Aging and the professions, page 68:
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An asystole; the absence of heart contractions or brain waves.
The disappearance of brain waves on an electroencephalogram.
examples: text: Thus, you hear words like "flatline recession," "improvement at a greatly reduced rate," "economic hiccup," "recessionette," "rolling readjustment" and "the economy is double clutching."
ref: 1967 June 17, “Business Outlook”, in Business Week, part 6, page 23:
glosses: An unchanging state, as indicated in a graph of a variable over time.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A line that is run low to the water from the rod tip, generally off a release clip of some type.
flatline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: flatlines
form: flatlining
form: flatlined
form: flatlined
Etymology: From flat + line. Refers to a continuous straight line (asystole) on an ECG (EKG) or EEG, indicating death.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To stop beating.
raw_tags: of the heart
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To die.
examples: text: If looks could kill, Mona's sharp gaze would have flatlined him in one second.
ref: 2013, Shobha Nihalani, Nine:
text: After all she'd been through, she needed sleep and food to heal, not endure a lovemaking session that was so passionate that it had pretty much flatlined him as well.
ref: 2017, Stephanie Rowe, Not Quite Dead:
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: The economy in Northern Ireland is flatlining and jobs are scarce.
ref: 2012, The Guardian, National Trust attempts to block £100m Giant's Causeway golf course:
text: But passenger numbers have since recovered to only 85% of pre-March 2020 levels, and growth has flatlined.
ref: 2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: West Midlands prioritises the return of passsengers”, in RAIL, number 970, page 24:
glosses: To remain at the same level, without development; or, to fall.
examples: text: Upon upload, the video got 1,000 views/day for the first week, then flatlined and started getting fewer than ten views/day.
glosses: To experience significantly decreased rates of change compared to previous rates of change.
raw_tags: of a graph
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish using a flatline.
Derived terms: english: adjectival form
translation: adjectival form
word: flatlined
word: flatliner
asystole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asystoles
Etymology: From a- + systole.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: cardiac arrest
cardiopulmonary arrest
flatline
glosses: An absence of a systole; a failure of the heart to contract.
Derived terms: asystolic
asystolism
systole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəli/
ipa: /ˈsəstəli/
homophone: sisterly (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: systoles
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: For neither could I rightly diſtinguiſh, vvhich vvay the Diaſtole and Systole came to be, nor vvhen nor vvhere the dilation and conſtriction had its exiſtence.
ref: 1653, William Harvey, “The Causes which Mov’d the Author to Write”, in [anonymous], transl., The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey […] Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. […], London: […] Francis Leach, for Richard Lownes […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
text: A double systole catapulted him into full consciousness again, and he promised his uncorrected self that he would limit his daily ration of cigarettes to a couple of heartbeats.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 78–9:
text: There is no essential virtue in comfort. To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of systole and diastole. Relaxation comes between phases of tenseness.
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The contraction of the contractile vesicles in certain algae, plasmodia, and zoospores.
Hypernyms: topics: prosody
phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: metaplasm
Derived terms: asystole
systolic
arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artery
rhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪð.mɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɪð.mək/
Forms: form: more rhythmic
form: most rhythmic
form: rythmic
form: rhythmick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós), from ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives), equivalent to rhythm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Beshtian School, faithful to this concept of song, was characterized primarily by happy-sounding and rhythmic melodies.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 226:
glosses: Of or relating to rhythm.
glosses: Characterized by rhythm.
glosses: Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
glosses: With regular, repetitive motion or sound.
Derived terms: arhythmic
arrhythmic
biorhythmic
dysrhythmic
idiorrhythmic
irrhythmic
isorhythmic
polyrhythmic
rhythmical
rhythmic contemporary
rhythmic gesture
rhythmic gymnast
rhythmic gymnastics
rhythmicize
rhythmic pattern
rhythmic unit
unrhythmic
cold reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold readings
Senses: examples: text: The self-described psychic was merely using cold reading.
glosses: The technique, or an instance, of using likely guesses and assumptions, then narrowing in on any positive responses, in order to give the impression of having information about a person or event.
examples: text: Acting auditions often include cold reading.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, reading.
remote sensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The capability to gain information about an object without coming in direct contact with it, for example via satellite imaging or thermal imaging.
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Remote viewing.
rummage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌm.ɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪdʒ
Forms: form: rummages
form: rummaging
form: rummaged
form: rummaged
Etymology: From Middle English ronage, from Old French arrumage (compare French arrimage), from arrumer (“to arrange the cargo in the hold”) (compare French arrimer and Spanish arrumar).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
examples: text: After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
examples: text: She rummaged her purse in search of the keys.
text: The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery.
text: He[…]searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mohun”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
text: What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
ref: 1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature:
text: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock.
text: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: ransack
rifle
glosses: To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
synonyms: ransack
rifle
glosses: To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly.
rummage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌm.ɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪdʒ
Forms: form: rummages
Etymology: From Middle English ronage, from Old French arrumage (compare French arrimage), from arrumer (“to arrange the cargo in the hold”) (compare French arrimer and Spanish arrumar).
Senses: examples: text: Have a rummage through the attic and see if you can find anything worth selling.
text: He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
ref: 1753 May 24, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway:
glosses: A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
glosses: Commotion; disturbance.
glosses: A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: romage
glosses: The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
Derived terms: rummage squad
Related terms: look
quarry
rake
search
rummage sale
indiscriminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.dɪsˈkɹɪm.ɪn.ət/
Forms: form: more indiscriminate
form: most indiscriminate
form: indiscriminant
Etymology: First attested in 1598; from in- + discriminate.
Senses: examples: text: Otanes […] commanded an indiscriminate slaughter, without regard to age or to place.
ref: 1838, Connop Thirwall, History of Greece, volume II. xiv. 195:
text: The UK's fishing industry has complained that Ocean is “indiscriminate” (arguably an ironic adjective for anyone involved in trawling).
ref: 2025 May 17, Henry Mance, “Now we are almost out of time”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 12:
glosses: Not marked by discrimination or discernment; (by extension) confused, promiscuous.
raw_tags: of things
examples: text: How can anyone be so indiscriminate in making friends as he is?
text: An animal so indiscriminate in its eating habits that it eats coal, boat cushions, and tomtoms, would be only too eager to taste a swimmer or a diver—which must look more edible than an unopened can of salmon.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Without care in making distinctions, thoughtless.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: promiscuous
Derived terms: indiscriminately
indiscriminateness
indiscriminative
genetic gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic gaps
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flaw in the DNA.
glass water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution of sodium silicate in water.
glottometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glotto- + -metrics.
Senses: glosses: The quantitative research of words and text.
gongoozle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gongoozles
form: gongoozling
form: gongoozled
form: gongoozled
Etymology: Possibly arose from Lincolnshire dialect, in which gawn and gooze both mean stare or gape. Popularised by L. T. C. Rolt in Narrow Boat (1944), a book on canal life.
Senses: glosses: To leisurely watch the passage of boats, from the bank of a canal, lock or bridge.
glosses: To observe things idly.
Derived terms: gongoozler
gooseneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡusˌnɛk/
Forms: form: goosenecks
Etymology: From goose + neck.
Senses: examples: text: A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.
text: The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone.
ref: 1961, James S. Holton, Sound Language Teaching: The State of the Art Today, page 77:
glosses: Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
examples: text: The port-brace, and immediately afterwards the starboard-brace, of the crojack-yard--carried away. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see. Next, the gooseneck of the truss, on which it pivoted, smashed away. Immediately the lifts and lower-topsail sheets parted, and with a fore-and-aft pitch of the ship the spar up-ended and crashed to the deck upon Number Three hatch, destroying that section of the bridge in its fall.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
glosses: Ellipsis of gooseneck barnacle.
glosses: Ellipsis of gooseneck loosestrife.
Related terms: gooseneck barnacle
gooseneck pediment
dandruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændɹʌf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹʊf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹəf/
ipa: [ˈdɛəndɹəf]
ipa: /ˈdændɹʌf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹəf/
Forms: form: dandruffs
form: dandriff
Etymology: The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare Yorkshire dialect, dander (skin scurf). The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff, hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3).
Senses: examples: text: Dandruff is on my collar again.
glosses: scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis
Synonyms: scurf
Derived terms: antidandruff
beardruff
dander
dandruffless
dandrufflike
dandruffy
devil's dandruff
leaping dandruff
ocean dandruff
dandruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændɹʌf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹʊf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹəf/
ipa: [ˈdɛəndɹəf]
ipa: /ˈdændɹʌf/
ipa: /ˈdændɹəf/
Forms: form: dandruffs
form: dandruffing
form: dandruffed
form: dandruffed
form: dandriff
Etymology: The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare Yorkshire dialect, dander (skin scurf). The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff, hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3).
Senses: examples: text: The toaster is broken and salt is dandruffing my wool sweater.
ref: 2014, Kaethe Schwehn, Tailings: A Memoir, page 82:
glosses: To fall or cover with white flakes, like dandruff.
grabass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/
Forms: form: grab ass
form: grab-ass
Etymology: From grab + ass.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that.
ref: 1976, Thomas Glynn, Temporary Sanity: A Novel, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice.
ref: 1997, Lee K. Abbott, “Chapter One of Wet Places at Noon”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Dec 2015:
text: "I'm thinking a rousing game of grabass is in my future while you load the dishwasher." . . .
"So y'all plannin' on grabbing my ass?"
"That and a few other tempting body parts."
ref: 2010, Regan Taylor, The Glass Cage, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.
raw_tags: used with the verb play
examples: text: There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box.
ref: 1967, Cool Hand Luke, spoken by Carr (Clifton James):
text: "Anything else? Yes, Lieutenant Lemmon?"
"Yes, sir," Lemmon drawled. "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?"
"Knock off the grabass, Glen. Okay, listen up. When you brief your people, make it clear that our mission is defensive only."
ref: 1977, Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (2014 Macmillan edition), p. 46 (Google preview)
glosses: Rowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery.
raw_tags: used with the verb play
grabass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/
Forms: form: grabasses
form: grabassing
form: grabassed
form: grabassed
form: grab ass
form: grab-ass
Etymology: From grab + ass.
Senses: examples: text: The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of ‘Adeste Fideles’: […] grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To fool around.
gray hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray hats
form: grayhat
form: grey hat
form: greyhat
Etymology: From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does sometimes commit crimes.
Related terms: black hat
white hat
habitué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/
Forms: form: habitués
form: habitue
Etymology: Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.
Senses: examples: text: A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.
ref: 2011 September 28, Greg Simmons, “The most rock'n'roll hotel in the world? Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont”, in The Guardian:
text: The live circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena.
ref: 2024 February 10, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “The age of the stage”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
synonyms: denizen
regular
glosses: One who frequents a place.
glosses: A devotee.
Related terms: habit
habitation
habituated
inhabitant
ha'nt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: ha'nts
Senses: examples: text: Joe-Bob and Nelly swore up and down that the thing that pushed their pick-up into the ditch wasn't a big brown bear, but a spectral ha'nt, most likely Joe-Bob's deceased ex-wife.
glosses: Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
ha'nt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: ha'nts
form: ha'nting
form: ha'nted
form: ha'nted
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Injun Joe’s ghost is round about there, certain.” “No it ain’t, Huck, no it ain’t. It would ha’nt the place where he died—away out at the mouth of the cave—five mile from here.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 259:
text: Riley and one of the others were so much afraid of the ghost that “ha’nted” the old house, that they set out straightway for Greenbank, leaving their boats.
ref: 1882 March, Edward Eggleston, “The Hoosier School-boy”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume IX, number 5, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., chapter XVIII (Ghosts), page 360, column 2:
text: It flickered out as he looked. “Ghost lights,” Cal Strenk whispered, awed. “Nobody up there now with Ol’ Pete dead. Ghost lights. That’s what. Ha’nting our ol’ cabin.”
ref: 1943, Brett Halliday [pseudonym; Davis Dresser], Murder Wears a Mummer’s Mask (Midnite Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Books, Inc., published 1946, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of haunt, haint
head-butting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of head-butt
escalator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/
enpr: esʹkə-lā-tər
ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: escalators
Etymology: From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin e (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency. See the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by escalate, and is equivalent to escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Senses: examples: text: Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.
ref: 2006, Dudley D. Cahn, Ruth Anna Abigail, Managing Conflict Through Communication, page xiv:
glosses: Anything that escalates.
examples: text: There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
text: It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.
ref: 1957 July 24, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 451:
text: I found the Tube trains morbidly fascinating, I had a simpler enthusiasm for the escalators. Everyone likes going on escalators as far as I know. It feels like a free ride, and the longer they are, the better. The only escalator in York was at Marks & Spencer's, and people would hesitate for ages before getting on, apparently waiting for the right stair to come rolling along, whereas Londoners would step on while reading a newspaper.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiv-xv, Preface:
text: Episode Guide: [...] Episode 1 (July 13): Exploration of both ends of the abandoned branch between Holborn and Aldwych, including an interview with the driver of the last train. And a trip to Holloway Road to find out about the Tube's only spiral escalator. [This escalator never entered service]
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 51:
synonyms: moving staircase
glosses: A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
examples: text: Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream
ref: 2009 February 19, Froma Harrop, “Housing aid may revive American dream for Latinos”, in Houston Chronicle:
glosses: An upward or progressive course.
examples: text: They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
glosses: An escalator clause.
Derived terms: downalator
escalator barrel
escalator clause
escalator school
escalefter
Related terms: escalate
escalator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/
enpr: esʹkə-lā-tər
ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: escalators
form: escalatoring
form: escalatored
form: escalatored
Etymology: From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin e (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency. See the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by escalate, and is equivalent to escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Senses: examples: text: We escalatored to the second floor.
synonyms: escalate
glosses: To move by escalator.
Related terms: movator
moving pavement
moving sidewalk
moving ramp
moving walkway
stairway
step
travelator
hondel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒndəl/
Forms: form: hondels
form: hondeling
form: hondelling
form: hondeled
form: hondeled
form: hondelled
form: hondelled
Etymology: From Yiddish האַנדלען (handlen, “to trade”), from German handeln. Doublet of handle.
Senses: examples: text: It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns.
ref: 1977, Janet Kaplan and Judy Stacey Goldman, The Underground Jerusalem Guide, Keter Pub. House
text: Some might call it religious hondeling, but Rabbi Rosenbaum finds himself doing just that, and more often than he cares to admit.
ref: 2000, Paul Wilkes, And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation, Grove Press, page 135:
text: The Rabbi began to hondel with God, like Abraham, only in reverse. He asked for permission to make a 100 mistakes, then a thousand.
ref: 2002, Zalman Velvel, What is a Jew?:
text: And I'll turn the offer down because it's a boss's kid, which Vince will understand: then we'll get down to the real hondeling.
ref: 2007, Don Winslow, The Winter of Frankie Machine, Vintage Books, page 53:
glosses: To bargain; to haggle.
Ian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.ən/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: Iain
Senses: examples: text: “If you want a Scotch name why don’t you call him Jock?” Macgregor looked disgusted. “Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian. If you want to call him Ian Fetch, I shall say no more”.
ref: 1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, →ISBN, page 736:
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic Eòin, equivalent to English John.
Derived terms: IDS
Related terms: word: Evan
word: Ivan
word: Jean
english: Jane; John; female Scottish form of from
translation: Jane; John; female Scottish form of from
word: Sìne
word: Jon
word: Sean
iceteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iceteroids
Etymology: Blend of ice + asteroid
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An asteroid made of ice.
whistle walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle walks
Senses: glosses: The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.
rag-chewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Among Morse code operators, a longer-than-usual conversation.
ramrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmɹɒd/
Forms: form: ramrods
Etymology: From ram + rod.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: gunstick
glosses: Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
glosses: Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
examples: text: Half a second after that, she had him totally pinned while he thrust at her crotch with his ramrod, going thud thud thud like a blind dog in a maze. Hitting everything but the entrance she craved.
ref: 2009, Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex, page 78:
glosses: An erect penis.
Derived terms: ramrod straight
straight as a ramrod
ramrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmɹɒd/
Forms: form: ramrods
form: ramrodding
form: ramrodded
form: ramrodded
Etymology: From ram + rod.
Senses: examples: text: That new project manager is just the one to ramrod this through to completion.
glosses: To force.
Related terms: word: wad-hook
english: rod for extracting charge from the gun
translation: rod for extracting charge from the gun
word: packing-worm
ryot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ət/
rhymes: -aɪət
homophone: riot
Forms: form: ryots
form: raiyot
form: riat
Etymology: 17th century. From Hindi रैयत (raiyat, “peasant”), from Urdu رعیت (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Classical Persian رَعِیَّت (ra'iyyat, “population, peasants”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya, “flock, herd”).
Senses: examples: text: We have seen, however, how the condition arose, namely, that the Government at first half-intended to make a permanent settlement direct with the ryots, but subsequently altered its intention and devolved this duty upon the zemindars.
ref: 1874, J. Westland, A Report on the District of Jessore: Its Antiquities, Its History, and Its Commerce:
text: Scattered about the grazing and arable country are now small towers of refuge, loop-holed for defense, to which ryots working in the fields, or shepherds tending their flocks, fled for safety in case of a sudden appearance of Turcoman marauders.
ref: 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter III, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] :
text: They are simply the rank and file — the food for fever — sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honor of being the plinth on which the State rests.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 28:
glosses: A farmer or tiller of the soil.
image consultant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: image consultants
Senses: glosses: A person whose occupation is to advise others on visual appearance, and verbal and non-verbal communication.
damsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæm.zəl/
ipa: /ˈdæm.zəl/
ipa: [ˈdɛəm.zɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈdæm.zəl/
ipa: [ˈdɛːm.zɫ̩]
Forms: form: damsels
form: damoisel
form: damoiselle
form: damosel
form: damozel
Etymology: From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh₂-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella.
Senses: glosses: A young woman (of noble birth).
glosses: A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience).
glosses: A young woman who is not married.
glosses: An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
examples: text: The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […]
ref: 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, volume 4, page 263:
glosses: A chattering damsel (component of a mill).
Derived terms: damsel bug
damselfish
damselfly
damselhood
damsel in distress
riverdamsel
impersonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impersonators
Etymology: From impersonate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who fraudulently impersonates another person.
glosses: An entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others.
Synonyms: sense: one who fraudulently impersonates
word: impostor
word: imitator
sense: entertainer
word: impressionist
word: mimic
word: mimicker
Derived terms: female impersonator
impersonatress
male impersonator
impulsivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulsivities
Etymology: From impulsive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments in which rewards are uncertain, such as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow right away may be beneficial. Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality.
ref: 2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions in Psychological Science, volume 29, number 3:
synonyms: impulsiveness
glosses: The quality of being impulsive, impulsiveness; inclination to act on impulse rather than thought.
Related terms: impulse
impulsive
impulsively
impulsiveness
infratentorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From infra- + tentorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the tentorium cerebelli.
inotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌiː.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌiː.nəˈtɹɑp.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon; strength, force”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions.
Derived terms: noninotropic
Related terms: inotrope
inotropicity
inotropism
inotropy
inotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌiː.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌiː.nəˈtɹɑp.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Forms: form: inotropics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon; strength, force”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An inotropic heart drug.
long pork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.
Senses: examples: text: […] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.
ref: 1896 October, Maxwell Gray, “An Old Song”, in Atalanta, volume X, number 1, London, E.C.: Marshall, Russell & Co., Ltd., page 11:
text: Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.
ref: 1929, Oscar Asche, his life, page 50:
text: They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".
ref: 1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369:
text: From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba. Ga gobba."
ref: 2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145:
glosses: Human flesh.
Synonyms: word: long pig
english: horror
translation: horror
word: the other white meat
word: man-meat
intrapreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ.ʃɪp/
Etymology: Blend of intra- + entrepreneurship
Senses: glosses: The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
glosses: Being creative with ideas and procedures
monotransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + transitive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
Derived terms: monotransitively
monotransitive verb
monotransitivity
Related terms: ditransitive
ditransitive verb
ditransitivity
tritransitive
monkey jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey jackets
Senses: examples: text: You bully boys of Liverpool, I'll have you to beware,
When you sail on them packet ships, no dungaree jumpers wear;
But have a big monkey jacket all ready to your hand,
For there blows some cold nor'westers on the Banks of Newfoundland.
ref: 1820, Francis Forbes, The Banks of Newfoundland:
text: We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: We did not even possess "two coats apiece" - our ordinary costume being waterproof monkey jackets, sailor hats with puggarees twined round them, and some simple white muslin or fresh cotton dresses.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 25:
glosses: A type of close-fitting jacket worn by sailors.
glosses: A semiformal lightweight jacket, usually made of nylon, with striped cuffs and neck, similar to an MA-1 flight jacket.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hospital gown.
Synonyms: sense: semiformal, lightweight jacket
word: mess jacket
Related terms: monkey suit
Irusha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a form of Jerusha.
glosses: A male given name, a common Sri Lankan name that dates back to 2000 B.C.E.
Joe Schmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joe Schmoe.