cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossings
Senses: examples: text: And it was in this university that the doctors began to sharpen their wits in matters of Holy Writ; they rejected the glossings and musings of interpreters and took the biblical writings to hand, preaching and writing thereof.
ref: 2012, C. Scott Dixon, Contesting the Reformation:
glosses: The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.
glossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloss
trichologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichologists
Etymology: From trichology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: All hairstylists are not trichologists, but most trichologists have been professional hairstylists. Many stylists become trichologists due to their years of experience working with normal and abnormal hair conditions.
ref: 2007, Anthony Dickey, Hair Rules!: The Ultimate Hair-Care Guide for Women with Kinky, Curly, or Wavy Hair:
glosses: A professional who helps people with hair or scalp problems; a practitioner of trichology.
riempie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪmpi/
ipa: /ˈɹiːmpi/
Forms: form: riempies
Etymology: From South African Dutch riempje, later Afrikaans riempie, diminutive form of riem.
Senses: glosses: A strip of worked leather, especially as used to form crisscrossed patterns on the back of chairs etc.
riempie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪmpi/
ipa: /ˈɹiːmpi/
Etymology: From South African Dutch riempje, later Afrikaans riempie, diminutive form of riem.
Senses: examples: text: But back on the farm he submitted obediently to the routine of his parents: morning prayers, evening prayers – reading from his father's Dutch Bible, singing, kneeling at the riempie chairs until one's knees were aching […].
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 79:
glosses: Made of or featuring crisscrossed leather strips.
Helene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlˈiːn/
Forms: form: Helenes
Etymology: From French Hélène and from German Helene. Doublet of Helen, Helena, and Elaine.
Senses: examples: text: She lost only one battle - the pronunciation of her name. The people in Bottom refused to say Helene. They called her Helen Wright and left it at that.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Penguin, published 1973, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of the planet Saturn.
Kapelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Kapelle.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
chevaux de frise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheval de frise
Cayenne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈɛn/
ipa: /keɪˈɛn/
Etymology: From French Cayenne, a form of Guyana. But said by the French to be from French cayenne (“naval barracks, shore kitchen”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of French Guiana department.
Derived terms: Cayenne cherry
Cayenne linaloe oil
Cayenne porterweed
Cayenne snakeweed
Cayenne vervain
Related terms: cayenne
prosecutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosecutable
form: most prosecutable
Etymology: From prosecute + -able.
Senses: examples: a prosecutable offence
glosses: Able to be prosecuted.
Magdalena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mæɡdəˈlɛnə/
Senses: glosses: A department in northern Colombia.
glosses: A municipality of Honduras.
glosses: A municipality of Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: A village in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States.
Ilona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈləʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Hungarian Ilona. A rare variant of Helen or Helena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
wood pulp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood pulps
form: woodpulp
Senses: glosses: Pulp made from wood (most often softwood, but sometimes hardwood) that is used to make paper.
Ronja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ronjas
form: Ronia
form: Ronya
Etymology: * Swedish Ronja
* Russian Роня (Ronja)
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Ronia.
A female given name from Swedish, variant of Ronia.
glosses: A female given name, variant of Ronia.
A female given name from Russian, variant of Ronia.
Knut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cnut (“historical name”).
LCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCAs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of logic cell array.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of large commercial aircraft.
examples: text: Against the backdrop of these global and local climatic changes, the LCA of African apes and humans split into a gorilline clade and Pan-Homo clade, and the latter split again into panin and hominin clades.
ref: 2012, David R. Begun, A Companion to Paleoanthropology:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of last common ancestor.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Leber's congenital amaurosis.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Leucocyte common antigen.
glosses: Initialism of left coronary artery.
Related terms: LUCA
misapplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misapplications
Etymology: From mis- + application.
Senses: examples: text: Trying to open a paint can with a chisel is a misapplication of the tool.
text: Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.
misapplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misapplication
misdirection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: misdirections
Etymology: From mis- + direction.
Senses: examples: text: The magician used misdirection to get us to watch his left hand while he did something with his right hand.
glosses: An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
glosses: Movement or tendency in the wrong direction.
topics: law
glosses: An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court.
Derived terms: misdirectional
Related terms: misdirect
misdirections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdirection
multifamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + family.
Senses: examples: text: An apartment building is a multifamily structure.
text: Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquencies increased in the first quarter of 2023, according to a new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
ref: 2023 June 2, Anna Bahney, “Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquencies rose in the first part of 2023”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2023:
text: Applies only to health care providers that: (1) spent over $100,000,000 in any ten-year period on anything other than direct patient care; and (2) operated multifamily housing reported to have at least 500 high-severity health and safety violations.
ref: 2024, “November 5, 2024, General Election Voter Information Guide”, in California Secretary of State, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2025, page 46:
glosses: Of or relating to more than one family.
Related terms: multiplex
multiresidential
multiunit
multifamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multifamilies
Etymology: From multi- + family.
Senses: examples: text: Gipson Street has multifamilies that have risen over the last few years from the sites of teardowns; Beach Ninth Street’s condos, with narrow stoops and Juliet balconies, are also examples of “infill” housing.
ref: 2008 January 27, C. J. Hughes, “Beaten Down, and Not Only by Nature”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 May 2022:
glosses: A residence intended for more than one family.
muleskinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muleskinners
Etymology: From mule + skinner.
Senses: glosses: A mule driver; the whip used by such a driver.
Synonyms: muleteer
Derived terms: catskinner
muleskinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muleskinner
multiple-choice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: true-false
open-ended
glosses: Having more than one possible answer, to be chosen from a list provided.
Derived terms: multiple-choice question
Related terms: closed question
polar question
yes-no question
mudslinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudslingings
Etymology: From mud + slinging.
Senses: examples: text: The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.
text: The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.
text: Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas.
ref: 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck Rake:
glosses: Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
Derived terms: mudsling
Related terms: mud fight
throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
mudslingings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudslinging
spearphishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spear phishing
Etymology: From spear + phishing, modeled on spearfishing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Phishing against a small group of selected targets who are more likely to be attracted.
Related terms: phish
phisherman
spearphisher
novice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /ˈnɒvɪs/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈnɑvɪs/
ipa: /ˈnɔvɪs/
ipa: /ˈnɒvɪs/
Forms: form: novices
Etymology: From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers would avoid.
glosses: A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
examples: text: Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice, chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead […]
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 1137
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
novice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /ˈnɒvɪs/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈnɑvɪs/
ipa: /ˈnɔvɪs/
ipa: /ˈnɒvɪs/
Forms: form: more novice
form: most novice
Etymology: From Middle English novice, novys, from Anglo-Norman novice, Middle French novice, itself borrowed from Latin novīcius, later novitius (“new, newly arrived”) (in Late Latin as a noun, masculine novicius, feminine novicia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”)), from novus (“new”).
Senses: glosses: Of a beginner; unfamiliar or unexperienced in a particular subject.
Synonyms: sense: person new to an activity
word: amateur
sense: person new to an activity
word: greenhorn
sense: person new to an activity
word: learner
sense: person new to an activity
word: neophyte
sense: person new to an activity
word: newbie
sense: person new to an activity
word: newling
Derived terms: novicehood
novicelike
noviceship
novicey
Related terms: novel
novelisation
novelise
novelization
novelize
novella
novelty
novitiate
novices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novice
inexpert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpert
form: most inexpert
Etymology: From in- + expert.
Senses: examples: text: My inexpert attempts at repairing the hole with duct tape only made the problem worse.
synonyms: amateurish
clumsy
bungling
maladroit
antonyms: adept
proficient
professional
skillful
glosses: Inept or unskilled; not of expert ability or quality.
Derived terms: inexpertly
inexpertness
inexpert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inexperts
Etymology: From in- + expert.
Senses: glosses: An inept or unskilled person.
in-house
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: in house
Senses: examples: text: MUTV, United’s in-house channel, was so confused by all the changes it announced before kick-off that Matic would be playing as a centre-half.
ref: 2018 August 27, Daniel Taylor, “Lucas Moura double for Spurs deepens gloom at Manchester United”, in The Guardian (London):
text: 'My personal view is that the best way forward would be for Network Rail to build the junction with the main line as a conventional in-house project, while for the tunnels to the airport, NR would be best to act as client for a private sector builder' opines Ms Bagley.
ref: 2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 75:
text: The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.
ref: 2023 December 13, 'Industry Insider', “Delivering a robust timetable”, in RAIL, number 998, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of in house.
in-house
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: in house
Senses: examples: text: "We've also invested £500,000 in new machinery in the last two years, including the engraving machine, so that we can bring £250,000 worth of work in-house that we previously sub-contracted. That's great news for us as it means we have upskilled people and can offer more security of employment."
ref: 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in RAIL, page 61:
glosses: Alternative spelling of in house.
interdepartmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From inter- + department + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I sent the memo to the accounting department via interdepartmental mail.
glosses: Between departments; to do with the connection of departments.
examples: text: The memo discussed a new interdepartmental project that would require resources from nearly every group.
glosses: Involving multiple departments; multidepartmental.
Derived terms: interdepartmentally
take down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes down
form: taking down
form: took down
form: taken down
Senses: examples: text: He took down the picture and replaced it with the framed photograph.
glosses: To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
examples: text: We need to take down the curtains to be cleaned.
glosses: To remove something from a hanging position.
examples: text: We must take this fake news item down today.
glosses: To remove something from a website.
examples: text: If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
text: But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
ref: 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:
glosses: To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
examples: text: When everything else is packed, we can take down the tent.
glosses: To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
examples: text: The doctor asked me to take down my trousers.
glosses: To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
examples: text: You have been found guilty. Take the prisoner down.
text: We've got enough evidence now to take McFee down.
glosses: To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
examples: text: I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
text: Marcus Seltz, who can take down a bucket of crab legs like a freaking combine.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 121:
glosses: To swallow.
examples: text: It took me eight years to get enough on the asshole to try and take him down.
ref: 2012, Kira Sinclair, Take It Down, →ISBN, page 191:
text: They'd had occasion to see Peyton Armistead in all his righteous fury and she knew they wouldn't hesitate to take him down if she gave the word.
ref: 2014, Mallery Malone, Take Down, →ISBN:
text: So Marinus, me and a few other unthanked individuals - Atemporals for the most part, with some mortal collaborators — make it our business to ...take them down.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 431:
glosses: To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
qualifier: combat sports
glosses: To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
examples: text: "[…]I mind the year after we came, my father took down with the ague, and things looked dark enough for a while; but, when old Billy Slater, on the Clear Fork killed a fat cow, he loaded a lot of the choicest on to a horse and brought it to us;[…]"
ref: 1880, Albert Adams Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, page 254:
text: My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, / And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
ref: 1948, “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”, Woody Guthrie (lyrics):
glosses: To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
examples: text: to take the volume down a bit
glosses: To reduce.
JK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Various abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of the Special Capital Region of Jakarta: a province of Indonesia.
glosses: Initialism of Jammu and Kashmir: a union territory of India.
JK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JKs
Etymology: Various abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of junior kindergarten.
JK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Various abbreviations.
Senses: related: word: jk
word: j/k
glosses: Initialism of just kidding.
JK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JKs
Etymology: From Japanese JK (JK, “highschoolgirl”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A high school girl, a schoolgirl.
raw_tags: in Japanese contexts
signoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian signore (“lord”).
Senses: glosses: lordship, especially in medieval Italian city states
sporocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporocarps
Etymology: From sporo- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The structure on a fungus and some algae which houses the spore-producing organs.
Synonyms: fruiting body
Hyponyms: sense: fungus structure): basidiocarp, basidiome (in basidiomycete); ascocarp (in ascomycete
alt: epigeous sporocarp
word: mushroom
sense: fungus structure): basidiocarp, basidiome (in basidiomycete); ascocarp (in ascomycete
word: truffle
sense: fungus structure): basidiocarp, basidiome (in basidiomycete); ascocarp (in ascomycete
alt: hypogeous sporocarp
word: false truffle
Related terms: sporophore
injurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: injurers
Etymology: From injure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The court found the injurer liable for damages.
glosses: One who injures something.
Derived terms: self-injurer
backread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈbækˌɹɛd/
Forms: form: backreads
form: backreading
form: backread
form: backread
Etymology: From back + read.
Senses: topics: IRC
glosses: To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
examples: text: Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.
ref: 1980, Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud:
text: What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.
ref: 2001, Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices:
glosses: To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.
injurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of injurer
repoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rapport.
ineptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ineptnesses
Etymology: From inept + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
text: Today has been a day of folly, stupidity, and ineptness. The time is now eleven o'clock in the evening, and I am sitting in my room and thinking.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IV, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IV):
glosses: The quality or degree of being inept.
Synonyms: sense: quality or degree of being inept
word: awkwardness
sense: quality or degree of being inept
word: incompetence
sense: quality or degree of being inept
word: ineptitude
sense: quality or degree of being inept
word: unfitness
sense: quality or degree of being inept
word: unsuitability
ineligibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ineligibilities
Etymology: From French inéligibilité, from Middle French.
Senses: examples: text: His ineligibility as a contestant was due to his former employment by the sponsor.
glosses: The state or quality of being ineligible.
Synonyms: disqualification
invalidity
unfitness
unsuitability
inelegance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inelegances
Etymology: From Middle French inélégance, from Late Latin inelegantia.
Senses: examples: text: The inelegance of the ugly duckling stood in contrast to its ultimate life as a swan.
glosses: The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
Synonyms: sense: state or quality of being inelegant
word: awkwardness
sense: state or quality of being inelegant
word: bluntness
sense: state or quality of being inelegant
word: clumsiness
sense: state or quality of being inelegant
word: gracelessness
sense: state or quality of being inelegant
word: homeliness
inflationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflationary
form: most inflationary
Etymology: From inflation + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The rapid influx of precious metals from the new mines had an inflationary effect on the specie based economy.
text: For the period through 1984, there is weak support for accelerationism, though the linear fit is mainly due to the disinflationary impact of high unemployment, which no one disputes, not the inflationary effects of prosperity.
ref: 1998, James K. Galbraith, “Comments”, in Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy, page 66:
antonyms: deflationary
glosses: Causing or liable to cause inflation.
glosses: Of or relating to inflation.
Derived terms: anti-inflationary
counterinflationary
disinflationary
hyperinflationary
inflationarily
inflationary spiral
noninflationary
postinflationary
reinflationary
superinflationary
inadvisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + advisability.
Senses: examples: text: I had been warned of the inadvisability of disturbing sleeping dogs, so it did not surprise me when the wakened dog snarled at me.
glosses: The quality or state of being inadvisable.
Synonyms: sense: quality or state of being inadvisable
word: foolhardiness
sense: quality or state of being inadvisable
word: impropriety
sense: quality or state of being inadvisable
word: imprudence
sense: quality or state of being inadvisable
word: injudiciousness
sense: quality or state of being inadvisable
word: rashness
impeacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impeachers
Etymology: From impeach + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Although she was not ultimately removed from office, she still carried a grudge against her impeachers.
glosses: One who impeaches.
impeachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impeacher
homebody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homebodies
form: home-body
form: home body
Etymology: From home + body.
Senses: examples: text: Although my uncle likes to travel, my aunt is a homebody, so he usually comes with us while she stays home with her cats.
text: After Phillis left Mrs. Weston's room, she was on her way to her cabin, when she noticed Aunt Peggy sitting alone at the door. She was rather a homebody; yet she reproached herself with having neglected poor old Peggy, when she saw her looking so desolate and dejected.
ref: 1852, Mary Henderson Eastman, “chapter XIV”, in Aunt Phillis's Cabin:
text: Daddy did improve over the next few weeks, but it became apparent that he would be unable to live alone. I believe this must have been one of the most difficult times in his life. Not only had he lost his wife, he had lost his health and his home. He had always been a home body, insisting on being home by sundown. There were chores to do, his animals to tend. He was busy and happy.
ref: 2000, Roberta Zybach Yarbrough, A Trek in the Desert. Finding a Path Through Grief, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: sit-by-the-fire
stay-at-home#Noun
glosses: A person who prefers to remain at home, rather than participate in social events elsewhere.
Related terms: homebird
homebodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homebody
laicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.ɪ.sɪz.əm/
/ˈleɪ.ə.sɪz.əm/
Forms: form: laicisms
Etymology: From laic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In a speech in commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the insertion of the principle of laicism into the Turkish constitution, he gave the following ideal typical Kemalist account of laicism: National sovereignty is grounded in the foundation of laicism.
ref: 2010, L. Cady, Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, page 124:
text: As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
ref: 2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Secularism.
raw_tags: in reference to Turkey
Related terms: laicist
laicity
laicization
laicize
laity
lay
layman
lay person
laywoman
hotcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotcakes
form: hot cake
Etymology: From hot + cake.
Senses: examples: text: For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
glosses: A pancake.
examples: text: Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day.
ref: 1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Something that sells quickly in large volumes.
Related terms: like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
hotcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotcake
humpbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hump-backed
Etymology: From hump + backed.
Senses: examples: text: All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.
glosses: Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
examples: text: There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Being a humpback bridge.
Synonyms: sense: medical condition
word: hunchbacked
sense: medical condition
word: kyphotic
Derived terms: humpbacked salmon
humpbacked elves
Related terms: humpback
humpbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hump + backed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humpback
do-gooder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-gooders
form: dogooder
Etymology: From do good + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Prohibition in the United States was an unsuccessful attempt by do-gooders to save people from the dangers of alcohol, whether they wanted to be saved or not.
text: I was hopping along, minding my own business. All of a sudden, up he comes, cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! “You're cured mate.” Bloody do-gooder.
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Ex-Leper (Michael Palin):
glosses: One who advocates a certain course of action, often of political or social concern, and often with the naive conviction of their own moral superiority.
Derived terms: do-gooderism
do-goodery
Related terms: do-goodism
evildoer
goo-goo
welldoer
bleeding heart
moralist
political correctness
progressivist
self-righteous
social justice warrior
do-gooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-gooder
rearwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rearwards
form: most rearwards
Etymology: From rear + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Rearward.
rearwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rearwards
form: most rearwards
Etymology: From rear + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: "Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Rearward.
rearwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rear + -wards.
Senses: glosses: plural of rearward
dauphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dauphines
Etymology: Borrowed from French dauphine, equivalent to dauphin + -ine.
Senses: glosses: The wife of the dauphin; dauphiness.
redefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redefinitions
Etymology: From re- + definition.
Senses: examples: text: George Orwell's novel 1984 proposed that people's thoughts could be constrained by the redefinition of words in their language.
text: Although the value of the kilogram will not change, the redefinition of the kilogram using a constant will ensure it remains reliable, and enable far more accurate mass measurements in the future.
ref: 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN:
glosses: The act or event of redefining.
redefinitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redefinition
redrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-dro͞o′
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈdɹuː/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈdɹu/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: simple past of redraw
redraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redraw
redrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redraw
redrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redrawings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent drawing
renegotiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renegotiable
form: most renegotiable
Senses: examples: text: All contracts are renegotiable if one of the parties has sufficient leverage.
glosses: Able to be renegotiated.
bag-carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bag-carriers
Senses: glosses: A person who carries someone's bags
examples: text: Ryanair bag-carrier Peter Sherrard ranted Diary entry edited by Sophie Brodie
ref: 2007 August 24, Daily Telegraph, numbers 47, 344, page B8:
text: Gordon Brown's former bag-carrier Neal Lawson is in a state of ecstacy
ref: 2007 August 30, Private Eye, number 1191:
glosses: A relatively unimportant assistant or spokesman of a more important person
repairable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repairable
form: most repairable
Etymology: From repair + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, the damage from the accident was repairable.
text: Even though W.R. locomotives would always be maintained in W.R. territory, "foreign" depots must be capable of attending to any repairable defects that might occur while the Western units are "abroad"; [...].
ref: 1961 November, “Editorial: Inter-Regional diesel locomotive operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 641:
synonyms: reparable
fixable
mendable
rectifiable
glosses: Able to be repaired.
Derived terms: repairability
Edelstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Edelsteins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Edelstein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
nimrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nimrod
nightdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪt.dɹes/
ipa: /ˈnaɪt.dɹɛs/
Forms: form: nightdresses
form: night-dress
Etymology: From night + dress.
Senses: examples: text: She was too modest to come downstairs dressed only in her nightdress.
text: The window of the room was open, and beside the window, all huddled up, lay the body of a man in his nightdress.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter VII (Light in the Darkness), page 44:
glosses: A nightgown; (usually female) attire designed to be worn to bed.
Derived terms: nightdressed
nightdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightdress
niceties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicety
frequentative aspect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A subclass of imperfective verbs that denotes a continuously repeated action. An example in English would be the frequentative verb to crackle, as opposed to the nonfrequentative to crack.
Synonyms: iterative aspect
Related terms: aorist aspect
imperfective aspect
perfective aspect
semelfactive aspect
edgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of edgy: more edgy
edgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of edgy: most edgy
impenetrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impenetrabilities
Senses: examples: text: 1651, uncredited translator, Naturall Philosophie Reformed by Divine Light, or, A Synopsis of Physicks by J. A. Comenius, London: Thomas Pierrepont, Chapter 4, “Of the tangible quality,”
Humidity (or humour) is the liquidnesse of the parts of the body, and aptnesse to be penetrated by one another; siccity on the contrary is a consistency, and an impenetrability of the parts of the body.
text: What does Don Carlos Gould think of that? But, of course, with his English impenetrability, nobody can tell what he thinks.
ref: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter Five:
text: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part I, Chapter 7, in Parade's End, New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137,
He watched intently the place where she must appear; it would give him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye.
text: If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability.
ref: 1991, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (introduction to revised edition), Tor 1991
text: As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner’s name and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force itself upon him so that the plan he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.
ref: 2007, J. K. Rowling, chapter 13, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, New York: Scholastic, page 247:
glosses: The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.
molcajete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molcajetes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish molcajete, from Classical Nahuatl mōlcaxitl.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mexican stone tool, equivalent in function to a mortar and pestle, used for grinding food.
tejolote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌteɪhəˈloʊteɪ/
Forms: form: tejolotes
Etymology: From Spanish tejolote.
Senses: glosses: A stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete.
donzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donzel
germlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germline
homologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homology
superfamilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfamily
hoven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊvən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Forms: form: hove
form: heaved
Etymology: From Middle English hoven, from Old English hafen, ġehafen, from Proto-Germanic *habanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to hove + -en. Compare German Low German hoven (“hoven”, past participle), German gehoben (“hoven”, past participle). More at heave.
Senses: glosses: alternative past participle of heave
hoven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊvən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
ipa: /ˈhuːvən/
rhymes: -uːvən
ipa: /ˈhoʊvən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Etymology: From hoove + -en.
Senses: examples: hoven cattle
glosses: Affected with the disease called hoove.
oiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈɔɪlə/
rhymes: -ɔɪlə(ɹ)
homophone: Euler
Forms: form: oilers
Etymology: From Middle English oyler, equivalent to oil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which oils.
An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, mainly responsible for keeping machinery lubricated.
glosses: One who or that which oils.
Any of various automatic devices for oiling pneumatic tools or other tools.
examples: text: The order to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk – christened four years ago – is unusual but is in line with the White House mandate to reverse a number of military initiatives by Democratic presidents.
ref: 2025 June 4, Andy Rose, “Gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s legacy slighted by decision to rename Navy ship”, in CNN:
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: ship#Noun
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: collier
coaler
glosses: An oil tanker.
glosses: Synonym of oilcan.
synonyms: word: oilcan
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Synonym of oilcan.
A small (typically thumb-sized) metal container of oil, often containing an integral brush.
glosses: Synonym of oil well.
synonyms: word: oil well
glosses: An oilskin coat.
examples: text: Near-synonym: greaser
text: There were a lot of renegades down towards the Mexican line who made a raid once in a while, and a few oilers livin' near had water holes in the foothills, […]
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 4, in Arizona Nights:
glosses: A Mexican.
examples: text: He also said that it was just as difficult to make friends at Cheam School and at Cambridge because he couldn't be sure who 'genuinely liked him' and who were 'trying to suck up' to him because of who he was — 'oilers', Princess Diana once called such people.
ref: 2007, Mike Donaldson, Scott Poynting, Ruling Class Men: Money, Sex, Power, page 36:
glosses: A sycophant, which is someone who is oily (smarmy).
glosses: A heavy drinker; especially, an alcoholic.
Derived terms: auxiliary oiler
flange oiler
Related terms: bunker oil
oilish
oily
well-oiled
well-oiled machine
duplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being duplicated.
Synonyms: duplicatable
Derived terms: unduplicable
astragyromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly a joining of astragalomancy and gyromancy (spinning of the dice).
Senses: examples: text: Known as astragalomancy or astragyromancy, this method is supposed, righdy or wrongly, to make clear to man the designs of providence, the will of the gods, the decrees of fate.
ref: 1970, Richard Cavendish, Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural:
text: ASTRAGALOMANCY or ASTRAGYROMANCY: Divination with dice, ranging from crude bones with primitive markings to cubes bearing spots, letters, or cabalistic symbols, all interpreted by the bone caster.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 312:
text: This is an extremely simple form of sortilege related to astragalomancy or astragyromancy (from the Greek astragalos, meaning "vertebra, knucklebone"), which began about 5,000 years ago.
ref: 1992, Max Maven, Max Maven's book of fortunetelling, page 45:
glosses: Divination by dice.
Synonyms: astragalomancy
methaqualone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methaqualones
Etymology: From meth + aqua + -al + -one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sedative drug that has effects similar to barbiturates, also used recreationally.
Synonyms: Quaalude
lude
mandrax
soper
soaper
Derived terms: methylmethaqualone
heterotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Being a heterotroph.
glosses: Relating to heterotrophy.
Derived terms: autoheterotrophic
auxoheterotrophic
chemoheterotrophic
chemolithoheterotrophic
chemoorganoheterotrophic
chemoorganoheterotrophically
heterotrophically
lithoheterotrophic
microheterotrophic
myco-heterotrophic
mycoheterotrophic
nonheterotrophic
organoheterotrophic
osmoheterotrophic
photoheterotrophic
photoorganoheterotrophic
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Protestant Christian denomination that observes Saturday as the Sabbath
Related terms: Seventh Day
tempre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tempres
form: tempring
form: tempred
form: tempred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of temper.
tridua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triduum
Marsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Marsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Platine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Plate (“the River Plate”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The Platine War was fought between August of 1851 and February of 1852.
text: Paranhos, father of the Barão do Rio Branco, was a foremost statesman of the monarchy and celebrated for his Platine diplomacy.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the River Plate (Río de la Plata) or its basin.
molluscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylum name Mollusca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: There are various ways of dealing with the fact that you are suddenly surrounded by creature who can see and would like to eat you, but one way, a molluscan specialty, is to grow a hard shell and live within or beneath it.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 45:
glosses: Pertaining to molluscs.
Derived terms: intramolluscan
molluscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molluscans
Etymology: From phylum name Mollusca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A mollusc.
molluskan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of molluscan.
mom-and-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mom and pop
form: Mom and Pop
form: Mom-and-Pop
Senses: examples: text: Mom-and-pop diners are disappearing from American streets and being replaced by bland corporate giants.
synonyms: ma-and-pa
qualifier: typically of a business
glosses: Small and unsophisticated, typically because operated by a couple or a family.
mom-and-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mom-and-pops
form: mom and pop
form: Mom and Pop
form: Mom-and-Pop
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mom and pop (“a mom-and-pop operation”).
monopolizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopolizers
Etymology: From monopolize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't mean to be a conversational monopolizer, hogging a rare chance to talk to the company founder; I just found him the only interesting person in the room to talk to.
glosses: One who monopolizes.
monopolizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopolizer
mopey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊpɪ/
ipa: /ˈməʊpi/
ipa: /ˈmoʊpi/
ipa: /ˈmoːpi/
ipa: /ˈmoʊpi/
rhymes: -əʊpi
Forms: form: mopier
form: mopiest
form: mopy
Etymology: From mope + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
ref: 1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 14, in Beechcroft at Rockstone:
text: He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
ref: 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams:
text: In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey.
ref: 2003 October 13, Michael Kinsley, “Why Bush Angers Liberals”, in Time:
synonyms: word: listless
word: unhappy
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.