cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blindsiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: blindsidings
Senses: examples: text: I grew a mantle of radar, sensitized to the blindsidings and the character-ambush attempts.
ref: 2012, Joachim Kempin, Resolve and Fortitude, page 83:
glosses: The act by which a person is blindsided, or caught off guard.
borderlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borderline
bluenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluenose
bookmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookmaker
smooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth
smooths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smooth
kronen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krone
smoothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoothes
form: smoothing
form: smoothed
form: smoothed
Senses: examples: text: And I suppose thou can’st smoothe almost any seams and dents; never mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Forge”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 541:
text: […] smoothe the lower or bottom surface. We are informed that usually a moulding machine has four heads or cylinders, one in front and another at the tale end, as just mentioned, and one on each side.[…]
ref: 1902, Louisiana. Supreme Court, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, page 518:
text: […] smoothe the mixture with her fingers.
ref: 2012 May 28, Jennie Lindon, What does it mean to be three?: A practical guide to child development in the Early Years Foundation Stage, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of smooth.
smoothe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoothe
form: most smoothe
Senses: examples: text: Garden peas are divided into three clases, the wrinkled, the smoothe and the sugar peas or those with edible pods. The wrinkled sorts are conceded to be sweeter and better flavored than the smoothe ones, but the smoothe varieties are considered hardier and therefore better for extra early planting.
ref: 1890, E.S. Richman, Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, Time of Watering Horses: Whole Versus Ground Grain for Horses, page 5:
glosses: Archaic form of smooth.
pensées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensée
Rhodesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rhodesian
standardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: standardises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of standardize
Misesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Misesian.
subtends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtend
subtending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subtend
subtended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subtend
riding crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding crops
Senses: glosses: A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.
riding crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riding crop
romanticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanticises
form: romanticising
form: romanticised
form: romanticised
Etymology: From romantic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticize.
romanticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of romanticise
romanticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of romanticize
romanticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanticising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of romanticize
romanticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanticizings
form: romanticising
Senses: glosses: The act of one who romanticizes; a making romantic.
romanticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanticizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of romanticise
romanticising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanticisings
form: romanticizing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of romanticizing.
romanticised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romanticised
form: most romanticised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticized.
romanticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of romanticise
foxtrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxtrot
foxtrots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foxtrot
urbanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urbanite
wibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪb.əl/
ipa: /wɪb.l̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Etymology: Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.
Senses: synonyms: word: babble
word: bavardage
word: bibble-babble
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blabbing
word: blather
word: blathering
word: chatter
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: claver
word: clepe
word: gabble
word: hot air
word: mardle
word: natter
word: palaver
word: prate
word: prattle
word: scuttlebutt
word: small talk
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: yackety-yak
word: yap
word: yatter
word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.
wibble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪb.əl/
ipa: /wɪb.l̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: wibbles
form: wibbling
form: wibbled
form: wibbled
Etymology: Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.
Senses: glosses: To make meaningless comments.
wibble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪb.əl/
ipa: /wɪb.l̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: wibbles
form: wibbling
form: wibbled
form: wibbled
Etymology: See wobble.
Senses: examples: text: Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped.
ref: 2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: To wobble.
Related terms: wibble-wobble
redefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redefine
redefined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redefine
rescuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescuer
real valued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Used to describe a mathematical entity, like a function, that takes values from the real numbers (as opposed to, for instance, from the complex numbers).
real-estate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Referring or relating to real estate.
reinsure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinsures
form: reinsuring
form: reinsured
form: reinsured
Etymology: From re- + insure.
Senses: glosses: To insure again (extending or replacing prior insurance).
glosses: To place insurance on the contract that insures something (allowing the insurer to offset risk in the same way the insuree did).
reinsures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinsure
reinsuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinsure
reinsured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinsure
insuree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌʃʊəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: insurees
Etymology: From insure + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insured.
synonyms: word: insured
insurees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insuree
reservoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reservoir
reservoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reservoir
roughens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roughen
roughening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughen
roughened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roughen
malignly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malignly
form: most malignly
Etymology: From malign + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a malign manner.
buttressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buttress
Yehudit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yehudis
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדִית (y'hudít, “Judith”). Doublet of Judith.
Senses: examples: text: My mother was called Yehudit by her Russian Jewish parents when she was born in England, but the intransigent Englishman in the registry office had changed it first to Judith and then to Edith ( "good English names" ) - leaving the resultant impression that Jews were not even allowed to keep their own names.
ref: 1994, Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty, page 61:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Judah
Judith
Yehuda
bushwhackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushwhacker
busies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of busy
busies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busy
busying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of busy
busying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busyings
Senses: examples: text: All of you have some business or other to do in the world. Are not your thoughts, and talkings, and busyings, and anxieties, and cares, altogether about the business you have to do?
ref: 1853, The Cottage Lamp, an aid to happiness in this world and the next:
text: And as other dreams come from the multitude of business, so from such like busyings of the mind, we shall pray but dreamingly and distemperedly.
ref: 1856, Thomas Cobbet, Gospel Incense Or a Practical Treatise on Prayer, page 296:
glosses: busyness; making oneself busy with something
briefings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːfɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of briefing
somewhere along the line
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: somewhere down the line
Senses: examples: text: [I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] "Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.
ref: 1913, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 1, in Constance Dunlap:
text: "I think it is quite obvious," he said, "that the current atomic-arms race can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line […] we will have acquired all the weapons we would possibly need."
ref: 1952 September 29, “The Atom: Enough Bombs?”, in Time, retrieved 17 Jun 2019:
text: Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: Somewhere along the line, Christmas became the year's fattest festival. It lost its already tenuous association with the sacred and became a wham-bam, all-u-can-eat, deep-fill stufferama.
ref: 2004 December 5, Mimi Spencer, “Chanel bag. Tick. Fauchon chocs. Tick. Pata Negra ham. Tick.”, in The Guardian (UK), retrieved 17 Jun 2019:
text: I don’t think people even realise they are doing this. Somewhere along the line this became normal – almost certainly during the pandemic, when we collectively decided that every conscious moment had to be filled with visual and audio content, before we were told to return to society.
ref: 2024 July 27, Hannah Ewens, “‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.
Synonyms: at some point
somewhen
sometime
dankish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dankish
form: most dankish
Etymology: From dank + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Somewhat dank.
Derived terms: dankishness
dareful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dareful
form: most dareful
Etymology: From dare + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of daring or defiance; adventurous.
debile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕbēlʹ
ipa: /dɛˈbiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: more debile
form: most debile
Etymology: From Middle French débile (“weak”), from Latin dēbilis.
Senses: examples: text: So, then, it was no surprise to the ranchhold when the buckboard spun to the door, and Raidler took up his debile protégé like a handful of rags and set him down upon the gallery.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1:
glosses: Weak; feeble.
examples: text: Being a little debile and unclear of mind he did not realize the risks he was running by passing all his nights in the same bed as the daughter, while he himself was suffering continually from a dammed-up sexual drive.
ref: 1935, Olof Kinberg, Basic Problems of Criminology, William Heinemann, page 181:
text: Cretins are debile, hard of hearing, and small in stature.
ref: 1979, E[rnst] Rudolf Froesch, translated by Terry Telger, “Endocrinology”, in Albert A[lois] Buehlmann, E[rnst] Rudolf Froesch, editors, Pathophysiology, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 202:
text: ‘Debile’ patients suffered from moderate mental retardation or learning difficulty.
ref: 1999, Andrew Boyd, Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless, Lion, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Having debilism.
Related terms: debilism
debilitate
debilitating
debilitation
debility
ANS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANSs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of autonomic nervous system.
deathsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathsmen
Etymology: From death + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
deathsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathsman
decayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decayers
Etymology: From decay + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which causes decay.
defunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈfʌŋkʃən/
Forms: form: defunctions
Senses: examples: text: Until four hundred one-and-twenty years / After defunction of King Pharamond […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Death.
Derived terms: defunctioning
Related terms: defunct
despiteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despiteful
form: most despiteful
form: despightful
form: despightfull
Etymology: From despite + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]
ref: 1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21:
glosses: Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
Derived terms: despitefully
despitefulness
debranch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹɑːntʃ/
Forms: form: debranches
form: debranching
form: debranched
form: debranched
Etymology: From de- + branch.
Senses: glosses: To remove the branches from.
glosses: To tear off.
Derived terms: debrancher
disjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈdʒɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: disjoins
form: disjoining
form: disjoined
form: disjoined
Etymology: From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere (“to separate”), from dis-, di- (“apart”) + iungere (“to join”).
Senses: examples: text: That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
ref: 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:
text: Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
ref: 1790, Thomas Pennant, Account Of London:
glosses: To separate; to disunite.
glosses: To become separated.
Synonyms: word: differentiate
word: disaggregate
word: disassemble
word: discriminate
word: disjoin
word: disunify
word: disunite
word: divide
word: peel off
word: pick off
word: separate
word: single out
word: unjoin
Hyponyms: word: deadhere
word: disconnect
word: unmix
Derived terms: disjoinable
disjoiner
Related terms: word: disjoint
word: disjointed
word: disjunct
word: disjunction
dissentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛn.ʃi.əs/
/dɪˈsɛn.ʃəs/
Forms: form: more dissentious
form: most dissentious
Etymology: From dissent + -ious.
Senses: glosses: Marked by dissensions; contentious
glosses: dissenting
Derived terms: dissentiously
tourne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of torn.
coulée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coulées
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coulee.
coulés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulé
coulées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulée
foulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foulants
Senses: glosses: Any material that causes fouling
Derived terms: antifoulant
biofoulant
macrofoulant
réchauffé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: réchauffés
form: rechauffe
Etymology: Borrowed from French réchauffé (“reheated”).
Senses: glosses: A dish of food that has been reheated.
examples: F. W. H. Myers
It is merely a réchauffé of ancient philosophies.
glosses: Something made up from old material; a rehash.
réchauffés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of réchauffé
microbio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: university slang
glosses: Abbreviation of microbiology.
flottant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] gules; second, Azure, a sinister hand a paumee, couped, in pale, argent; third, Or, a galley, sails furled, oars in action, sable, flags flottant, gules; fourth, Argent, out of a mount in base, an oak-tree, vert[…]
ref: 1856, David MacGregor Peter, The baronage of Angus and Mearns, page 96:
text: […] with tassels flottant upwards or; […]
ref: 1881, Scottish Arms, Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings A. D. 1370-1678, page 264:
text: […] each surrounded by a banner flottant from the sides, the dexter flag charged with a cross, the sinister with a saltire, gules. The badge of the Order of St. Patrick is prescribed by the statutes of the Order, 28th February, 1783, wherein the saltire gules[…]
ref: 1903, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 417:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of flotant.
effectless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effectless
form: most effectless
Etymology: From effect + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In In a Year of Thirteen Moons the transsexual Elvira makes every attempt to negate her/his will and render her/his-self effectless.
ref: 1981 February 7, Michael Bronski, “Fassbinder On Terrorism”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 10:
glosses: Having no effect or advantage.
Derived terms: effectlessly
effectlessness
empoison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empoisons
form: empoisoning
form: empoisoned
form: empoisoned
Etymology: From Middle English empoisounen, impoisounen, from Old French empoisoner, equivalent to em- + poison.
Senses: examples: text: And therfore who someuer dyned or feested syre Gawayne wold comynly purueye for good fruyte for hym / and soo dyd the quene for to please sir Gawayne / she lete purueye for hym al maner of fruyte /[…]/ and this Pyonel hated syre Gawayne[…]for pure enuy & hate sir Pyonel enpoysond certayn appels for to enpoysonne sir Gawayn
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
text: She, with sweet words and false enticing smiles, / Infused love among the dainties set, / And with empoison'd cups our souls beguiles, / And made each knight himself and God forget.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lxv
text: In Cæsars civill warres, Lutius Domitius taken in Prussia, having empoysoned himselfe, did afterward rue and repent his deede.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Shooting somebody, empoisoning him or hanging him give quite often more or less the same results.
ref: 2000 September 1, Jerzy Karczmarczuk, “Separating algorithms from implementations (long)”, in comp.graphics.algorithms (Usenet):
text: Mag and Maureen do not represent an idealized, sentimentalized mother-and-child relationship; they are two unhappy, malignant harpies tearing and empoisoning each other.
ref: 2006, Lilian Chambers, Eamonn Jordan, The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: To poison.
Derived terms: unempoisoned
encave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encaves
form: encaving
form: encaved
form: encaved
Etymology: From en- + cave.
Senses: glosses: To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.
ripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripe
ripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ripe
ripons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripon
cytokeratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytokeratins
Etymology: From cyto- + keratin.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
Derived terms: anticytokeratin
pancytokeratin
intracytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From intra- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Located in the cytoplasm of a cell
cessant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛsənt/
Forms: form: more cessant
form: most cessant
Etymology: From Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.
Senses: examples: text: […] God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a juſtifiable intermiſsion of my ſecular Duties, and by ſuch a vvay, as renders even this ceſſant ſtate in ſome ſort active, and diſcharging my Obligations: […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “To the Most Sacred Majesty of Henrietta Maria, Daughter of France, and Queen of Great Britain”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: abeyant
word: latent
word: torpid
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
glosses: Dormant, inactive.
Related terms: incessant
roule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roules
form: rouling
form: rouled
form: rouled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of roll.
roule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of roll.
roules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roule
roules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roule
Milagros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Spanish milagros (“miracles”)
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Masbate, Philippines.
crown princess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown princesses
Senses: glosses: The heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.
glosses: The wife of a crown prince.
Related terms: crown prince
codons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codon
crown princesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown princess
nappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of napa (Chinese cabbage or napa leather)
Related terms: nappa leather
bloques
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bloque
Agia Napa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.əˌnæp.ə/
rhymes: -æpə
Forms: form: Ayia Napa
Senses: glosses: A coastal resort in eastern Cyprus.
renverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪnˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: renverses
form: renversing
form: renversed
form: renversed
Etymology: From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.
Senses: examples: text: whose shield he bears renverst
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41:
glosses: Obsolete form of reverse.
renverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪnˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Etymology: From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.
Senses: examples: text: Samuel Coggan. Lisbon, May 19, 1712; letter to David Jeffries de Co. Round seal, a lion rampant renversé.
ref: 1877, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 58:
text: The arms [on the 1790 Gelderland duit] may be thus blazoned: Party per pale, 1. azure, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, 2. or, a lion rampant renverse sable, armed and langued as before.
ref: 1909, Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, page 218:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Backwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.
Synonyms: topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: renversé
renverses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renverse
terminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin terminans, present participle of terminare.
Senses: glosses: terminal; terminating
terminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin terminans, present participle of terminare.
Senses: examples: text: neither of both are of like terminant , either by good orthography or in naturall sound , therfore such rime is strained
ref: 1588, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:
glosses: termination; ending
progresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progressers
Etymology: From progress + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of progressor.
brises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brise
brisés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brisé
hausses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hausse
triplons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triplon
lapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappers
Etymology: From lap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.
ref: 1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, page ?:
text: The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.
ref: 1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 470:
glosses: One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
examples: text: […] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.
ref: 2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King, page ?:
glosses: Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
examples: June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
glosses: One who wraps or folds.
glosses: A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A headsail that overlaps the mast.
Derived terms: cunt-lapper
cuntlapper
gap-lapper
gap lapper
lapper-milk
lapper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lappers
form: lappering
form: lappered
form: lappered
Senses: examples: text: There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.
ref: 1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
ruine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruines
Senses: examples: text: Sin in its own nature tendeth to nothing, but the ruine and eternal destruction of a Soul […]
ref: 1678, John Collinges, Several Discourses Concerning the Actual Providence of God:
glosses: Obsolete form of ruin.
malaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malax
biomolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + molecular.
Senses: examples: text: Do you remember learning about cell diagrams in high school biology? The cell wall, the organelles, the nucleus. The real picture is turning out to be much more complicated, and interesting, than we were taught. Cells are filled with teensy, phase-shifting blobs that often contain protein and RNA, and in the past several years they’ve taken over cellular biology. In our cover story on page 22, science writer Philip Ball dives into the world of these specks, known as biomolecular condensates, which play astounding roles in cellular functioning across all domains of life.
ref: 2025 February 1, Jeanna Bryner, “In this issue: From the editor: Blobs and Green Monsters”, in Scientific American, page 4:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to biomolecules (especially macromolecules)
Derived terms: biomolecular condensate
biomolecularly
sporulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sporulate
sporulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporulating
form: most sporulating
Senses: glosses: Producing spores
Related terms: sporulation
sporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sporulates
form: sporulating
form: sporulated
form: sporulated
Etymology: From sporule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), pages 95–96:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To produce spores.
examples: text: A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium.
ref: 1885, Edwin Ray Lankester, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume vol. XIX. 854/1:
glosses: To convert into spores.
Derived terms: endosporulate
Related terms: sporulation
sporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sporul(e) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That produces spores
chylomicron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chylomicrons
Etymology: From chylo- (“juice”) + micron (“small”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: ULDL
hypernyms: lipoprotein
coordinate_terms: VLDL
LDL
IDL
HDL
glosses: A microscopic globule of lipoprotein, found in blood and lymph, that is associated with the digestion of fats.
Derived terms: chylomicronemia
prechylomicron
retirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retirants
Etymology: From retire + -ant.
Senses: glosses: One who has retired from work; a retiree.
bouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouche
bouchée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouchées
Etymology: Borrowed from French bouchée (“mouthful”).
Senses: glosses: A small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture, served as an hors d'oeuvre.
bouchées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouchée
pop a cap in someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops a cap in someone's ass
form: popping a cap in someone's ass
form: popped a cap in someone's ass
form: popped a cap in someone's ass
Etymology: From cap (“bullet”).
Senses: examples: text: I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):
text: The older teen was coming from "Tilt," the second floor arcade, when the shooter confronted him, threatened to "pop a cap in (his) ass," and, after the victim assumed what eyewitnesses say was a fighting stance, apparently did.
ref: 2007 November 19, “'Cover me, I'm going to Starbucks'”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2009:
text: “I'll give you thirty seconds to get out of here before I pop a cap in your ass. C'mon, move it. I'm counting now, one, two, three—better get your ass movin', four…”
Carter started running, expecting to hear the shot and feel the rip of a bullet in his back.
ref: 2004, R. Micharl Sullivan, The Dead of Winter, page 130:
synonyms: cap
glosses: To shoot someone with a gun.
Rügen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, located in the Baltic Sea; the largest island of Germany.
Synonyms: word: Rugia
attires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attire
attires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attire
farnesoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From farnesol + -oid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to farnesol or its derivatives, especially to the metabolically active farnesyl pyrophosphate
Derived terms: farnesoid X receptor
farnesol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farnesols
Etymology: From Farnese + -ol. Ultimately, from Farnese acacia, its original plant source.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene alcohol that is present in many essential oils and is involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol
Derived terms: farnesene
Related terms: farnesoid
farnesyl
sphingomyelinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphingomyelinases
Etymology: From sphingomyelin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that catalyzes the cleavage of phosphodiester bonds in sphingomyelin
phosphodiester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphodiesters
Etymology: From phospho- + diester.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of many biologically active compounds in which two alcohols form ester bonds with phosphate
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any phospholipid, such as lecithin, that has two ester groups
Derived terms: phosphodiesterase
poché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɔˈʃe(ɪ)/
Forms: form: pochés
Etymology: From French poché.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Areas of an architectural plan or section that are filled in, often by cross-hatching or solid black, to show wall thicknesses, floor thicknesses and all other solid areas that intersect the plane of the section cut.
poché
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɔˈʃe(ɪ)/
Forms: form: pochés
form: pochéing
form: pochéed
form: pochéed
form: pochéd
form: pochéd
Etymology: From French poché.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: To fill (areas of an architectural plan or section) in this manner.
pochés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poché
Jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jean
Jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.
Derived terms: Jeans escape
Rayleigh-Jeans law
encyclopedist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopedists
form: encyclopaedist
form: encyclopediast
form: encyclopædist
Etymology: From encyclopedia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of French authors who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot.
examples: text: The root of the mallow in goat's milk excites the sexual urge, according to Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist of the first century A.D.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 144:
glosses: An author of, or contributor to, an encyclopedia.
Related terms: encyclopedia
encyclopedic
colles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colle
Backstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A German cheese similar to Limburger cheese, produced in a brick shape.
mend one's pace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mends one's pace
form: mending one's pace
form: mended one's pace
form: mended one's pace
Senses: examples: text: The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
glosses: To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
Related terms: modulate
regulate
synchronize
notelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notelets
Etymology: From note + -let.
Senses: glosses: A brief letter or note; a billet.
glosses: A notecard; a small folded sheet of notepaper, often with a decorative design on the front, intended for a short letter or note.
consommes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consomme
consommés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consommé
Athene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Athena
souffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souffle
souffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of souffle
linha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linhas
Etymology: From Portuguese linha (“line”), from Old Galician-Portuguese linha, from Latin līnea (“thread, line”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Doublet of line, linea, and ligne.
Senses: qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 2.3 mm.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese line
english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: line
Coordinate terms: english: traditional English equivalent
translation: traditional English equivalent
word: line
word: ponto (1⁄12 linha)
word: grao (2 linhas)
word: dedo (8 linhas)
word: polegada (12 linhas)
soufflés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soufflé
soufflés
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soufflé
durions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durion
contes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conte
ultra-Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + Orthodox.
Senses: glosses: Very strictly observant; Haredi; being either Hasidic or Litvish (Misnagdic).
raw_tags: of a Jew
sarcomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑː.kəʊˌmɪə/
ipa: /ˈsɑː.kəˌmɪə/
ipa: /ˈsɑɹ.koʊˌmɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɑɹ.kəˌmɪɹ/
Forms: form: sarcomeres
Etymology: From sarco- (“flesh”) + -mere (“component”), from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx) and μέρος (méros).
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Kenneth Axen, Kathleen Vermitsky Axen, The Princeton Review Physiology Coloring Workbook, Princeton Review Publishing, Random House, page 51,
The sarcomere determines the amount of overlap between the actin and myosin filaments and thus, the number of cross-bridges that participate in a given contraction. Since each cross bridge contributes to the contraction, sarcomeres generate their maximal force when their contraction employs the maximal number of cross-bridges between the actin and myosin filaments.
text: Specific proteins are responsible for the bands and zones within each sarcomere.
ref: 2006, Brian R. MacIntosh, Phillip F. Gardiner, Alan J. McComas, Skeletal Muscle: Form and Function, page 5:
text: Of particular importance was the confirmation that the sarcomere lengths are instantaneously unstable for any reasonable assignment of parameters and number of sarcomeres, even as low as 100.
ref: 2012, D. Morgan, “3: Modeling of Lengthening Muscle: The Role of Inter-Sarcomere Dynamics”, in Jack M. Winters, Savio L-Y. Woo, editors, Multiple Muscle Systems, Springer, page 50:
glosses: The contractile unit of the myofibril of a striated muscle.
Derived terms: sarcomeric
sarcomerization
sarcometric
intracoronary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + coronary.
Senses: glosses: Into or within the coronary artery or the heart.
Derived terms: intracoronary stent
postintracoronary
intramyocardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + myocardial.
Senses: glosses: Into or within the myocardium
Derived terms: intramyocardially
trabeculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trabeculations
Etymology: From trabecula + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The formation of trabeculae
Derived terms: hypertrabeculation
hypotrabeculation
trabecula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /trəˈbɛkjʊlə/
rhymes: -ɛkjʊlə
Forms: form: trabeculae
form: trabeculas
Etymology: From Latin trabēcula (“small beam”), diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber”).
Senses: glosses: A small supporting beam.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.
Derived terms: trabecular
trabeculation
trabeculitis
Related terms: word: trabeated
word: stroma
mineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mineralize
mineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mineralized
form: most mineralized
Senses: glosses: Converted to, or impregnated with minerals; petrified
Derived terms: demineralized
hypermineralized
hypomineralized
nonmineralized
semimineralized
undermineralized
unmineralized