cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acetolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetolysis
acetic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetic anhydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid anhydride of acetic acid, (CH₃CO)₂O.
mensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnsjuəl/
ipa: /ˈmɛnʃuəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mēnsuālis (“monthly”).
Senses: synonyms: menstrual
monthly
glosses: Of or pertaining to a month.
Derived terms: mensually
start up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑːˈtʌp/
ipa: /stɑɹˈtʌp/
Forms: form: starts up
head_nr: 1
form: starting up
head_nr: 1
form: started up
head_nr: 1
form: started up
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: He started up when he heard the scream.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To rise suddenly.
examples: text: The four of them started up a law practice.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.
examples: text: The engine started up right away.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To begin to operate.
examples: text: The band started up playing.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To begin.
Derived terms: startup
Related terms: autostart
launch
trinocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By analogy with binocular; see tri-.
Senses: examples: trinocular microscope
trinocular stereovision
glosses: Using three points of vision, such as a microscope with two standard eyepieces and one camera eyepiece, or a camera rig with three cameras
Related terms: monocular
Not to be confused with trioculate
trinuclear
bistetrazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bistetrazoles
Etymology: From bis- + tetrazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many compounds containing two linked tetrazole rings.
dentelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dentelli, plural of dentello. Compare dentil, borrowed from French.
Senses: examples: text: in a cornice, if the gola or cynatium of the corona, the coping, the modillions or dentelli, make a noble show, by their graceful projections
ref: 1712 July 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, June 26, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 415; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: modillions
trioculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + oculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or appearing to have, three eyes
Related terms: binoculate
monoculate
triculate
trinocular
lamblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lamb + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a lamb; gentle; inoffensive.
Synonyms: meek
triculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triculates
form: triculating
form: triculated
form: triculated
Senses: examples: text: I ha' just finished triculating on her up like. She'll dew now.
ref: 1903, Charles Fielding Marsh, God's Scholars, page 109:
glosses: To beautify; to pretty
raw_tags: with "up"
glosses: To matriculate; to graduate
carenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carene
penurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penuries
Senses: examples: text: The Kyng vnderſtanding of theyr dealings, and beeing not only armed thoroughly with temporall force, but alſo endued with the ſpiritual power of his Archbiſhop Lanfranke, who aided him in all that hee might, for the ſuppreſſing of thoſe Rebels, waſted the countreys exceedingly, where hee vnderſtoode that they had gotten any releefe, minding vtterly to vanquiſh them with ſword, fire, and hunger, or by extreame penurie to bring them to ſome order.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The politique Conqueste of VVilliam the first”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 306, column 1:
text: His raw-bone cheekes through penurie and pine, / Were ſhronke into his iawes, as he did neuer dyne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 129:
text: To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)
ref: 1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington], Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede:
text: All which may be ſeen more largely proved in Lydiats Prælectio Astronomica: where having diſcourſed of the matter of the heavens and ſtarres, as alſo of the portions and tranſmutation of the elements, he proveth that there is ſuch a penurie of water here below, that it cannot be ſupplied (ad mundi, non dicit æternitatẽ, ſed diuturnitatẽ, propter inæquales elementorum tranſmutationes) not ſupplied without the conſumption of the aire, were not the waters divided.
ref: 1643, John Swan, Speculum Mundi. Or A Glasse Representing the Face of the World; […], 2nd edition, […] Roger Daniel […], page 312:
text: Here you a Muckworm of the Town might ſee, / At his dull Deſk, amid his Legers ſtall’d, / Eat up with carking Care and Penurie; / Moſt like to Carcaſe parch’d on Gallow-Tree.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza L, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete form of penury.
coltan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊlˌtæn/
Forms: form: coltans
Etymology: Blend of columbite + tantalite.
Senses: examples: text: Coltan is used for the production of tantalum capacitors.
text: […] as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Consider your mobile phone. Before it was assembled in a Chinese factory, the coltan in its capacitors may have been dug by miners in the Eastern Congo, where millions have died in a series of wars over ‘conflict minerals’, though we give this no more thought than previous generations of Westerners gave to the Congolese origins of the ivory in their piano keys, the rubber in their tyres, the copper in their bullet casings or the uranium in their bombs.
ref: 2014, Adam Schatz, ‘Ça va un peu’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 20:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: columbite-tantalite
glosses: A metallic ore, (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)₂O₆, from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted.
liverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liverish
form: most liverish
Etymology: From liver + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Not feeling well due to an upset digestive system; queasy.
Derived terms: liverishly
liverishness
hyperlexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + lexis + -ia.
Senses: glosses: The precocious ability to read single words at a very early age.
Related terms: hyperlexic
hyperlexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperlexic
form: most hyperlexic
Etymology: From hyperlexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to hyperlexia.
hyperlexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperlexics
Etymology: From hyperlexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has hyperlexia.
early day motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early day motions
form: early-day motion
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York, which he has said he will no longer use.
ref: 2025 October 21, Jessica Elgot, “MPs move to lodge parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of dukedom”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: EDM
glosses: A formal motion submitted for debate in the House of Commons.
pre-emptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pre-emptive
form: most pre-emptive
Senses: examples: text: The GNR made a pre-emptive attack in 1865 when it submitted a Bill to build a line from Bourne to Sleaford, purely to block any developments by the GNR.
ref: 2024 June 12, Richard Foster, “Joint venture to boost connectivity”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of preemptive.
Derived terms: pre-emptively
preemptive strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preemptive strikes
Senses: examples: text: In every war the salarians have fought, they struck first and without warning. For the salarians, to know an enemy plans to attack and to let it happen is folly. To announce their own plans to attack is insanity. They find the human moral concepts of "do not fire until fired upon" and "declare a war before prosecuting it" incredibly naive. In defensive wars, they execute devastating preemptive strikes hours before the enemy's own attacks.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Military Doctrine Codex entry:
glosses: An attack launched as a defensive measure.
Related terms: anticipatory retaliation
preemptive self-defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The concept of an armed attack on another state, when not at war, on the belief that the other state represents a real attack threat. It differs from a preemptive strike which applies to states which are already at war.
Belle Epoque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Belle Epoque
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Belle Époque.
belle époque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the belle époque
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Belle Époque.
belle epoque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the belle epoque
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Belle Époque.
bellicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlɪsɪzm̩/
Etymology: From Latin bellic(us) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: One cannot understand the causes of the First World War unless one appreciates the degree of bellicism in European society at that time, especially in Central Europe […].
ref: 1962, Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars, page 271:
text: Today the phrase "holy war" suggests a no holds barred fanaticism, a form of unbridled bellicism.
ref: 2003, Timothy Patrick Jackson, The Priority of Love, page 126:
text: Not all of France was inundated by the nationalist wave – it was predominantly young, intelligent Parisians who embraced the new bellicism […].
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 295:
glosses: An inclination to war; warlike policy or behaviour.
Synonyms: hawkism
militarism
warism
warmongerism
Related terms: bellicist
bellicose
possessionism
supremacistic
territorialist
governmentism
supervisionist
powerism
imperialistic
apartheidism
bloodthirster
mountant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mountant
form: most mountant
Etymology: From mount + -ant. Doublet of montant.
Senses: examples: text: Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens:
glosses: Rising
mountant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountants
Etymology: From mount + -ant. Doublet of montant.
Senses: examples: text: Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each.
ref: 2004, Cletus P. Kurzman, Jack W. Fell, “Yeasts”, in Biodiversity of Fungi, →ISBN, page 335:
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: The medium used for mounting a slide
examples: text: The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.
ref: 1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
Related terms: montant
mountants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountant
montants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montant
photodynamic therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photodynamic therapies
Senses: synonyms: word: PDT
word: photochemotherapy
glosses: Synonym of photochemotherapy.
operatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operatory
ultrastructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrastructure
anisodiametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anisodiametric
form: most anisodiametric
Etymology: From aniso- + diametric or an- + isodiametric.
Senses: glosses: Not isodiametric; in different directions
Derived terms: anisodiametrically
Related terms: anisometric
fiddler crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddler crab
ghost crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost crab
talk one's way out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks one's way out of
form: talking one's way out of
form: talked one's way out of
form: talked one's way out of
Senses: examples: text: He managed to talk his way out of painting the fence.
glosses: To avoid doing (something) by speaking to someone using (possibly false) logic and reasons.
Related terms: talk someone out of something
Dunsanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dʌnˈseɪni.ən/
Forms: form: more Dunsanian
form: most Dunsanian
Etymology: From Dunsany + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Lovecraft wrote many Dunsanian tales of dreams and gods.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author Lord Dunsany (1879-1957).
round-trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round-trip
gastroc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrocs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: The gastrocnemius muscle.
FCN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (as in the title of an international treaty or convention).
CNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of certified nursing assistant: a person employed to help a registered nurse care for a patient.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of cloud native architecture.
nuclear medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine that uses radioactive isotopes in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
PMSL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pissing myself laughing (used to indicate great amusement).
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: MSLP
glosses: Abbreviation of mean sea level pressure (derived from the notation P_(MSL)).
Related terms: IPML
LMAO
LOL
ROFL
ROFLMAO
mouf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moufs
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of mouth.
coverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverers
Etymology: From cover + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of cover: one who covers.
moufs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouf: pronunciation spelling of mouths.
coverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coverer
recoverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoverers
Etymology: From recover + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who recovers.
Related terms: recoveror
recoverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoverer
woid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woids
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of word.
uncoverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncoverers
Etymology: From uncover + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of uncover; one who uncovers.
woids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woid: pronunciation spelling of words.
uncoverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncoverer
powderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powderers
Etymology: From powder + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of powder; one who powders.
boid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
homophone: Boyd
homophone: buoyed stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: boids
Etymology: From Boids, an artificial life program developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986; derived from bird and -oid.
Senses: glosses: A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.
boid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
homophone: Boyd
homophone: buoyed stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɪd/
ipa: /bɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
homophone: Boyd
homophone: buoyed stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: boids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.
Related terms: boa
boid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
homophone: Boyd
homophone: buoyed stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɪd/
ipa: /bəɪd/
ipa: /bɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
homophone: Boyd
homophone: buoyed stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɪd/
Forms: form: boids
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of bird, representing the traditional New York City pronunciation.
powderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powderer
boids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boid: pronunciation spelling of birds.
preloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preloaders
Etymology: From preload + -er or pre- + loader.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of preload; one who, or that which, preloads.
qualifier: web development
glosses: In Flash animations, the loading screen that stalls for time while resources are downloaded.
preloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preloader
hard redirect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard redirects
Senses: examples: text: I'd prefer to use a hard redirect so that people don't even notice we've reorganised the site.
glosses: An automatic redirect.
unloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unloaders
Etymology: From unload + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Two ships can be accommodated on the berth, although a single-vessel discharge is the usual arrangement, and there are three 20-ton ore unloaders on the quay.
ref: 1963 June, B. Perren, “Colvilles iron ore traffic in the Glasgow area”, in Modern Railways, page 410:
glosses: One who or that which unloads.
Derived terms: self-unloader
unloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unloader
oleine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of olein.
upswings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upswing
protoboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoboard
down in the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down in the mouth
form: most down in the mouth
Senses: examples: text: "Is the old 'un here?" asked the robber. "Yes," replied the voice, "and precious down in the mouth he has been."
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 16, in Oliver Twist:
text: Said Chrysler's tough, dynamic boss, K. T. Keller: "Don't get down in the mouth about business in this country. There is going to be a lot of money spent here."
ref: 1940 July 15, “Wait Awhile”, in Time:
text: "He was down in the mouth and low on self-confidence," says his mother, Nina Engel.
ref: 2006 October 26, Howard Kurtz, “In Iraq, Journalist Richard Engel Sticks to the Story”, in Washington Post, retrieved 03 Nov 2008:
synonyms: word: dejected
word: disheartened
word: dispirited
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: Sad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance.
self-fulfilling prophecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-fulfilling prophecy
viss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: visses
form: vis
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).
Senses: glosses: A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).
Related terms: english: a unit of weight equal to 0.01 viss
translation: a unit of weight equal to 0.01 viss
word: tical
homogeneous number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous numbers
Senses: examples: text: It is easy to show that 12 and 18 are homogeneous numbers.
glosses: A number that shares its prime factors with another.
felinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more felinely
form: most felinely
Etymology: From feline (“catlike”) + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feline manner.
rain checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain check
co-agonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-agonist
sugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From "selling under the guise of research".
Senses: glosses: The process where a product marketer falsely pretends to be a market researcher conducting a survey, when in reality they are simply trying to sell the product.
sugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From "selling under the guise of research".
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sug
Related terms: frugging
soirées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soirée
frugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of fund-raising under the guise of research.
Senses: glosses: The process whereby a product marketer falsely purports to be a market researcher conducting a statistical survey, when in reality the "researcher" is attempting to solicit a donation.
Related terms: sugging
horloges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horloge
down on one's luck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down on one's luck
form: most down on one's luck
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry to hear you are down on your luck ;
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 14:
text: If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money.
ref: 1915, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 28, in The Rover Boys in Business:
text: --He is down on his luck. He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.
ref: , Episode 16
text: Willie "tries to resist"—being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany."
ref: 1954 April 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time:
text: Pitcher Kyle Lohse, 29, who has had unsuccessful stints with the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, seems to have found a home with the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that has a knack for turning around pitchers down on their luck.
ref: 2008 July 1, Mel Antonen, “Rays, A's using same formula for success”, in USA Today, retrieved 03 Nov 2008:
glosses: Unlucky or undergoing a period of bad luck, especially with respect to financial matters.
whimperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimperatives
Etymology: Blend of whimper + imperative. Coined by Jerrold Sadock in a 1970 essay.
Senses: examples: text: Since whimperatives look like questions, the lowest hypersentence must be interrogative.
ref: 1970, Jerrold Sadock, “Whimperatives”, in Studies Presented to Robert B. Lees by His Students, page 235:
text: We see this in the way that whimperatives use pro forma openings like Can you rather than other wordings with the same meaning, such as Are you capable of passing the salt?
ref: 2007, Stephen Pinker, The Stuff of Thought, →ISBN, page 388:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: An order or imperative phrased obliquely as a question, such as "would you mind closing the window?"
whimperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimperative
gangues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangue
Jacobite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
Forms: form: Jacobites
Etymology: From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Among the Jacobites the dismay was great
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:
glosses: A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
examples: text: Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.
ref: 2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
Synonyms: sense: Syrian Christianity
word: Jacobin
Related terms: Jacobitism
gramenivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of graminivorous.
aetat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.tat/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.tat/
Etymology: Shortened from Latin aetatis, genitive of aetas (“age”).
Senses: glosses: Aged; at the age of.
thematological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thematological
form: most thematological
Etymology: From thematology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thematology
Sup. Ct.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Supreme Court.
Sup.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of supreme.
Derived terms: Sup. Ct.
queimadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queimada
tenent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɛnt/
Forms: form: tenents
Etymology: From Latin tenent (“they hold”). Compare tenet.
Senses: examples: text: Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
text: I answer, if Queene Elizabeth according to the Answerers Tenent and Conſcience, did well to perſecute according to her conſcience, King Iames did not ill in perſecuting according to his[…]
ref: 1644, Roger Williams, chapter LXVI, in The Blovdy Tenent, of Perſecution […] , →ISBN, page 97:
text: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81:
glosses: A tenet.
gols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gol
paraconsistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pæɹəkənˈsɪstənt/
Etymology: Coined in 1976 by the Peruvian philosopher Francisco Miró Quesada, from para- + consistent.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Dealing with contradictions in a discriminating way, in order to avoid acceptance of one from entailing acceptance of all contradictions.
Derived terms: paraconsistentization
paraconsistent logic
paraconsistently
ground game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground games
Senses: examples: text: 1. Every occupier of land shall have, as incident to and inseparable from his occupation of the land, the right to kill and take ground game thereon, concurrently with any other person who may be entitled to kill and take ground game on the same land.
ref: 1880, Ground Game Act:
topics: law
glosses: Rabbits and hares
examples: text: He didn't show a lot of ground game in that fight, but his advantage was on the feet, so that's understandable.
ref: 2007 September 8, Scott Sherman, Gerald Harris, “Scott's UFC 75 picks”, in Salt Lake Tribune, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2008:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Hand-to-hand combat in which both fighters are on the ground, or skill in such combat
examples: text: Most golf courses built in the 1980s went away from the old-fashioned ground game and forced players to hit the ball high.
ref: 1999, Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, The Game for a Lifetime, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Putting; hitting the ball along the ground
examples: text: Notre Dame, with its option-type quarterback, Tony Rice, is committed to the ground game.
ref: 1988 November 26, Mal Florence, “They Take Case to Polls Today USC-Notre Dame Game Could Settle Score for No. 1”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page Sports 3:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Running with the ball, rather than passing
examples: text: While the Democratic "ground game" in Texas seems unusually strong, so is the Republicans'.
ref: 1988 August 8, Paul Taylor, “Texans Say Bentsen on Ticket Rejuvenates State's Democrats”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page A1:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Local political organization
vell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: vells
form: velling
form: velled
form: velled
Senses: examples: text: For velling, the share is made wide, with the angle or outer point of the wing or fin turned upward, to separate the turf entirely from the soil
ref: 1796, William Marshall, Rural Economy of the West of England:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To cut the turf from, as for burning.
vell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: vells
Etymology: Compare Latin vellus (“the skin of a sheep with the wool on it, a fleece, a hide or pelt”), or English fell (“a hide”).
Senses: glosses: The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
dissolutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissolutive
form: most dissolutive
Senses: examples: text: It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love.
ref: 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14:
glosses: Producing dissolution; dissolvent.
amorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorphisms
Etymology: From a- + -morphism.
Senses: glosses: An amorphous quality.
Derived terms: polyamorphism
eternize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eternizes
form: eternizing
form: eternized
form: eternized
Etymology: From Middle French éterniser.
Senses: glosses: To make or render eternal.
glosses: To prolong indefinitely.
examples: text: at leaſt admit vs libertie,
Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized,
By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
glosses: To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
Derived terms: eternization
ground games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground game
cotyledons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotyledon
dicotyledons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicotyledon
defocusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defocus
defocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defocus
noncommissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + commissioned.
Senses: examples: text: “Our ability as a warfighting nation to pivot at speed, to stay ahead of these emerging technologies, is going to be really important in the future,” Caine said. “There’s a whole bunch of things that we need to do better as a joint force and as a Department of Defense along the lines of acquisition reform so that we can make sure that those young (privates first class) and E-1s and E-2s and (noncommissioned officers) have the kit and capability that they need.”
ref: 2025 February 23, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, “How retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine became Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-commissioned.
great-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English gret- (“great-”), from gret (“great”). More at great.
Senses: examples: great-uncle (an uncle of one's mother or father)
great-grandfather (the father of one's grandfather)
great-great-grandfather (a grandfather of one's grandfather)
great-great-great-grandfather, etc.
(informal) fourth-great-granduncle, etc. (same as great-great-great-great-granduncle)
(informal) fourth-great-grandfather, etc. (same as great-great-great-great-grandfather)
glosses: With familial designations, used to denote a removal of one generation
Synonyms: grand-
sqrt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: sqr
word: sqrt.
word: sq.rt.
word: sq. rt.
glosses: Abbreviation of square root.
disunites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disunite
disuniting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disunite
disunited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disunite
disunited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disunited
form: most disunited
Senses: glosses: Lacking unity; not united.
Albanologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albanologists
Etymology: From Albanology + -ist.
Senses: examples: In 1987, a few years before her death, the great Russian Albanologist Agnija Vasil'evna Desnickaja published a study in Albanian literature and language, of which about half is devoted to the development of Albanian letters. Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, →ISBN.
glosses: An expert in Albanian studies.
anusvara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anusvaras
form: anusvāra
Etymology: From Sanskrit अनुस्वार (anusvā́ra).
Senses: glosses: A diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.
Related terms: candrabindu
sukun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sukuns
form: sukkun
form: sukūn
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: virama, halant
glosses: A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
Related terms: damma
ḍamma
fatha
fatḥa
kasra
shadda
šadda
tashkil
taškīl
mercuric sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sulfide of mercury, HgS, that occurs as the mineral cinnabar.
Synonyms: mercury sulfide
vermilion
indenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indene
damma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dammas
form: damma
form: ḍamma
form: Damma
form: dammah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
glosses: In Iranian Persian ـُ represents the vowel /o/. If the letter ـو immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ow/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ow/ did not occur.
Related terms: fatha
kasra
sukun
shadda
tashkil
shadda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃada/
ipa: /ˈʃadə/
ipa: /ˈʃadːa/
ipa: /ˈʃadːə/
ipa: /ˈʃɑ.dɑ/
Forms: form: shaddas
form: shaddah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شَدَّة (šadda).
Senses: glosses: A diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.
Related terms: english: provision of a shadda
translation: provision of a shadda
word: tashdid
word: fatḥa
word: kasra
word: ḍamma
word: sukūn
word: taškīl
valkyrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvælˌkɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈvɑl-/
Forms: form: valkyries
form: Valkyria
form: Valkyrie
form: Walkyrie
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrġe. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.
Senses: examples: text: Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (1853) famously features valkyries.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
Related terms: shieldmaiden
valeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvælərɪk/
Etymology: From valerian (“the plant”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from valeric acid
Synonyms: pentanoic
Bohemian waxwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohemian waxwings
Senses: glosses: Any of species Bombycilla garrulus, a waxwing of northern latitudes.
Synonyms: sense: Bombycilla garrulus
word: pepperbird
sense: Bombycilla garrulus
word: pepper-bird
sense: Bombycilla garrulus
word: pepper bird
mental illness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental illnesses
Senses: examples: text: Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us.
ref: 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 87:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
examples: text: Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.
ref: 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual, RCPsych Publications, →ISBN, page 70:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A mental disorder.
evidence-based medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the last decade, the health care field has been under the spell of evidence-based medicine—a social movement aimed to strengthen the scientific base of health care and determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions.
ref: 2004, S. Timmermans and E. S. Kolker, "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Reconfiguration of Medical Knowledge," Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 45, extra issue, p. 177
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Health care whose policies and practices are derived from the systematic, scientific study of the effectiveness of various treatments.
green beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green bean
psoas major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The psoas muscle involved in the flexion of the trunk and thigh.
Related terms: psoas minor
transmigrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmigrators
Etymology: From transmigrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A transmigrant.
Related terms: transmigrate
transmigration
transmigratory
streambed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streambeds
Etymology: From stream + bed. Compare Dutch stroombed (“channel, streambed”), German Strombett (“channel”), Swedish strömbädd (“gully, ditch”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: riverbed, creekbed
text: Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.
ref: 2007 April 1, Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat: Book One of 'The Oath of Empire', page 294:
text: The easement restricts construction and will keep cattle mostly away from sensitive streambeds.
ref: 2007 November 7, Felicity Barringer, “Private Efforts to Preserve the Coast”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: bed
<
site#Noun
place#Noun
location#Noun
coordinate_terms: lakebed#Noun
;
seabed#Noun
oceanbed#Noun
glosses: A channel through which a stream flows or used to flow.
sterols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sterol
preprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preprint
preprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That which is already printed; printed in advance.
preprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-printed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preprint
valvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valva
googlebombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of googlebomb
googlebombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of googlebomb
googlebombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of googlebomb
Manchurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mænˈt͡ʃʊəɹiən/
Forms: form: more Manchurian
form: most Manchurian
Etymology: From Manchuria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: But a fait accompli even more spectacular than this awaited the Chinese. For the naval officer Nevelskoi had surveyed the Manchurian coast down to the Korean border and had urged successfully that this, too, as far inland as the Ussuri River, must be included in the Tsar’s dominions. At the southern end, in particular, the town of Haishenwei with its harbour would make a splendid port.
ref: 1967, Henry McAleavy, “The Second Opium War”, in The Modern History of China, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: Pertaining to Manchuria.
Derived terms: Manchurian apricot
Manchurian candidate
Manchurian hare
Manchurian leopard
Manchurian Plain
Manchurian wild rice
Manchurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mænˈt͡ʃʊəɹiən/
Forms: form: Manchurians
Etymology: From Manchuria + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Manchuria, especially one who is not of Han Chinese origin.
Manchurian candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchurian candidates
Etymology: From the title of the 1959 novel or 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, in which the son of a prominent US political family is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a communist conspiracy.
Also comes from the infamous Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.
Senses: examples: text: Get outta my head 'cause I don't need this!
Why didn't I see this?
I'm a victim Manchurian Candidate
I have sinned by just
Making my mind up and taking your breath away
ref: 1997, “Wait and Bleed”, performed by Slipknot:
text: The attacks, mainly anonymous e-mails, have woven together various threads […] to portray Obama as the Muslim Manchurian candidate.
ref: 2008 February 11, Roger Cohen, “No Manchurian Candidate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Most of the conspiracies covered in this book are different. […
ref: 2009, Arthur Goldwag, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, Vintage Books, →ISBN, pages 108–109:
glosses: A person of influence, especially a politician, who is being manipulated by an enemy power to harm the interests of their own country, possibly without their own full awareness.
wikipedia: The Manchurian Candidate
Manchurian candidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manchurian candidate