cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pseudoduality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + duality.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being pseudodual
Uab Meto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Malayo-Polynesian language of West Timor and Oecusse District of East Timor.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Uab Meto terms
subvalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subvalent
form: most subvalent
Etymology: From sub- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting a valency (oxidation number) that is less than normal
subvarieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvariety
unfoldome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfoldomes
Etymology: From unfold + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The totality of intrinsically disordered proteins in an organism
Related terms: unfoldomics
short corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short corners
Senses: examples: text: Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A short pass from a corner (the set piece).
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A penalty corner
penalty corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty corners
Senses: qualifier: field hockey
glosses: a particular penalty awarded against the defending team in certain circumstances
Synonyms: short corner
straight red card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight red cards
Senses: examples: text: A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: direct red card
straight red
glosses: A red card, signifying a player's instant dismissal from the game for a single major foul or misconduct, distinct from and graver than a second yellow card, which a player may receive for several minor fouls.
put to bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to bed
form: putting to bed
form: put to bed
form: put to bed
Senses: glosses: To help someone, for example a child, go to bed.
topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: go to bed
glosses: To prepare (a newspaper) for printing.
examples: text: Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To finalise the result, seal a win.
examples: text: I hope we can put those doubts to bed.
glosses: To dispel.
Related terms: bed down
go to bed
in bed
put to bed with a shovel
put to rest
tuck in
haul down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hauls down
form: hauling down
form: hauled down
form: hauled down
Senses: examples: text: But the visitors' win was all but sealed when Diouf was hauled down by Tamas as he raced towards goal late on and the Romanian was duly sent off.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
glosses: To violently cause to fall to the ground.
Internets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of internets.
factory reset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factory resets
Etymology: So called because such a reset would revert a device back to its original state, as it would have been when it was constructed in a factory.
Senses: examples: text: A factory reset returns your Android device to “out of the box” condition. It deletes all user data and settings.
ref: 2014, Mark Edward Soper, The PC and Gadget Help Desk, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 590:
text: Even so, Ms. Rogers contended that Ms. Patterson’s guilt was apparent in the various layers of deception in which she’d engaged[…]. She also forced a factory reset on her phone multiple times, according to testimony.
ref: 2025 July 7, Victoria Kim, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: hard reset
master reset
coordinate_terms: powerwash
glosses: A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.
factory reset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: factory resets
form: factory resetting
form: factory reset
form: factory reset
Etymology: So called because such a reset would revert a device back to its original state, as it would have been when it was constructed in a factory.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform a factory reset of (a device).
white maggots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white maggot
goal umpires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goal umpire
boundary umpires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundary umpire
rushed behinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushed behind
drop punts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop punt
stab passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stab pass
casula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casulae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin casula.
Senses: glosses: A chasuble.
casulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casula
claudicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more claudicant
form: most claudicant
Etymology: From Latin claudicans, present participle of claudico (“to limp”), from claudus (“crippled”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: limping
claudicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claudicants
Etymology: From Latin claudicans, present participle of claudico (“to limp”), from claudus (“crippled”).
Senses: examples: text: A patient who was previously a claudicant may now have acute limb-threatening ischaemia, which then forces the surgeon or radiologist to re-intervene.
ref: 2012, O. James Garden, Andrew W. Bradbury, John L. R. Forsythe, Principles and Practice of Surgery:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who limps.
hainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hainous
form: most hainous
Senses: examples: text: But be the fact never so hainous (Murther it self) they can put none to death.
ref: 1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies:
text: For the Minister of Justice who have hitherto lived in India, through their obscure and damnable blindness, were not much sollicitous about the punishment of the Crimes and Butcheries which have been and are still committed by these Tyrants, only they may say possibly because such a one, and such a one hath wickedly and barbarously dealt with the Indians, that is the reason so great a summ of Crowns in Money is diminished already or retrenched from His Majesties Annual Revenue, and this general and confused proof is sufficient (as they worthily conceive) to purge or repress such great and hainous Crimes.
ref: 1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
text: But he having in one year's time filled that place with principles of rigid separation, and tending to Anabaptistry, the prudent Magistrates of the Massachusetts Jurisdiction, sent to the Church of Salem, desiring them to forbear calling him to office, which they not hearkening to, was a cause of much disturbance; for Mr. Williams had begun, and then being in office, he proceeded more vigorously to vent many dangerous opinions, as amongst many others these were some; That it is not lawful for an unregenerate man to pray, nor to take an Oath, and in special, not the Oath of Fidelity to the Civil Government; nor was it lawful for a godly man to have communion either in Family Prayer, or in an Oath with such as they judged unregenerate: and therefore he himself refused the Oath of Fidelity, and taught others so to do; also, That it was not lawful so much as to hear the godly Ministers of England, when any occasionally went thither; & therefore he admonished any Church-members that had done so, as for hainous sin: also he spake dangerous words against the Patent, which was the foundation of the Government of the Massachusets Colony: also he affirmed, That the Magistrates had nothing to do in matters of the first Table [of the commandments], but only the second; and that there should be a general and unlimited Toleration of all Religions, and for any man to be punished for any matters of his Conscience, was persecution....
ref: 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of heinous.
unrun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + run, the past participle of run.
Senses: examples: text: Cautious, indeed,—with that giant of Pytchley fame running neck to neck by him; cautious,—with two-thirds of the course unrun, and all the yawners yet to come; cautious,—with the blood of Forest King lashing to boiling heat, and the wondrous greyhound stride stretching out faster and faster beneath him, ready at a touch to break away and take the lead: but he would be reckless enough by-and-by; reckless, as his nature was, under the indolent serenity of habit.
ref: 1884, Ouida, Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida:
text: This leaning on 'reaction' in the naturalist account implies that, whenever we intellectualize a relatively pure experience, we ought to do so for the sake of redescending to the purer or more concrete level again; and that if an intellect stays aloft among its abstract terms and generalized relations, and does not reinsert itself with its conclusions into some particular point of the immediate stream of life, it fails to finish out its function and leaves its normal race unrun.
ref: 1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe:
glosses: Not having been run.
Proto-Eskimo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Eskimo languages, including Yupik and Inuit.
Related terms: The category of Proto-Eskimo on Wiktionary
exacerbator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exacerbators
Etymology: From exacerbate + -or.
Senses: examples: exacerbators of pulmonary disease
glosses: One who, or that which, exacerbates or makes worse.
exordia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exordium
hieroglyphed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hieroglyph + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: So, while Rusticus will point out to you "the auld-fashioned standin' stane"--on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig,--Mr Urban will describe to you "a hieroglyphed monolith" in the terms following:— "The Buddhist triad is conspicuously symbolised by what the peasantry call a pair of spectacles.
ref: 1863, John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter:
glosses: Inscribed with hieroglyphs.
hieroglyphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hieroglyph + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hieroglyph
luxuriancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxuriancies
Etymology: From luxury + -ancy or luxuriant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The province abounds with vast forests of timber; the plains are covered with a surprising luxuriancy of vegetables, flowers, and flowering shrubs, diffusing the most delicious fragrance.
ref: 1688, Tobias Smollett, The History of England in Three Volumes, volume 2:
text: Olivia, now about eighteen, had that luxuriancy of beauty with which painters generally draw Hebe; open, sprightly, and commanding.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 1, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: In short, we should have been continually endeavoring, following the luxuriancy of female imagination, to render more charming the sweet abodes of love and friendship; whilst our heroes, changing their swords into plough-shares, and engaged in more substantial, more profitable labors, were clearing land, raising cattle and corn, and doing every thing becoming good farmers; or, to express it more poetically, "Taming the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as they conquer'd Spain:" By which I would be understood to mean the Havannah, where, vanity apart, I am told both of them did their duty, and a little more, if a man can in such a case be said to do more.
ref: 1769, Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague:
text: A great luxuriancy of trees of unknown species, was soon observed to overspread the land, whence unknown birds of beautiful plumage came off in flocks to the vessel, and gave the appearance of a pleasing dream to their unexpected deliverance.
ref: 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of luxuriance.
lunary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnəɹiː/
Senses: examples: text: [243] IV. THE MOON A WATER-DEITY. We design this chapter to be the completion of moon-worship, and at the same time an anticipation of those lunary superstitions which are but scattered leaves from luniolatry, the parent tree.
ref: 1885, Timothy Harley, Moon Lore:
text: He has moreover enriched his work by adding to it an ecclesiastic compute with all its indications; an orrery after the Copernican system, representing the mean tropical revolutions of each of the planets visible to the naked eye, the phases of the moon, the eclipses of the sun and moon, calculated for ever; the true time and the sideral time; a new celestial globe with the procession of the equinoxes, solar and lunary equations for the reduction of the mean geocentric ascension and declension of the sun and moon at true times and places.
ref: 1922, anonymous author, Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg:
text: This lunary sphere, lowest and basest to divine bodies, is first and highest to terrestrial bodies.
ref: 1944, Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry:
glosses: lunar; of the moon
Derived terms: sublunary
superlunary
translunary
lunary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnəɹiː/
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly she visits the witch, Dipsas, by whose magic aid the youth, found resting on a bank of lunary, is bewitched to sleep until old age.
ref: 1914, Arnold Wynne, The Growth of English Drama:
glosses: moonwort (Botrychium lunaria)
examples: text: [10] The aloe, by the Egyptians, is reputed to resist any baleful influence, and the lunary or "honesty" is by our own country people said to put every evil influence to flight.
ref: 1889, T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-lore of Plants:
glosses: honesty, any plant in the genus Lunaria
hydrometrocolpos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), + μήτρα (mḗtra, “uterus”), + κόλπος (kólpos, “any hollow space; womb”); essentially equivalent to a surface analysis of hydro- + metro- + colp- + -us.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Distention of the vagina and uterus by watery fluid other than blood or pus.
Related terms: colposcopy
colpotomy
metroscopy
metrotomy
Hermionë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Some literature uses a diaeresis over the e to show that it is pronounced: so Bronte, Terpsichore, Hermione, could be written as Brontë, Terpsichorë, Hermionë, but since diaereses take effort to put in there on English keyboards, writers typically leave out the optional, yet helpful, diacritical mark. I think Hermionë is a rather learnèd girl and will decide to use the diaeresis when writing her name; when people ask why, it will give her opportunity to say “So you’ll pronounce my name correctly, ninny.”
ref: 2002 March 7, "Sirius Black" (username), "Re: JKR is wrong!", in alt.fan.harry-potter, Usenet
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hermione.
cthonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then, denied official presence, this sexual material went underground, becoming again cthonic and the expression of the folk, rather than the establishment.
ref: 1990, Julia Bolton Holloway, Equally in God's image: women in the Middle Ages, Peter Lang Publishing, page 5:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chthonic.
semantics-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semantics-free
form: most semantics-free
Etymology: From semantics + -free.
Senses: examples: text: However, most of DHT systems focus strictly on handling semantics-free, large-granularity requests for objects by identifier (typically a name). They are limited to caching, pre-fetching, or pushing of content at the object level
ref: 2004, Weixiong Rao with Hui Song and Fanyuan Ma, “Querying XML data over DHT System using XPeer”, in Hai Jin, editor, Grid and cooperative computing: GCC 2004, page 559:
text: They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules
ref: 2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 131:
text: To date, such research has been impossible, since corpora have for the most part been annotated at a relatively shallow (semantics-free) level, forcing NLP researchers to choose between shallow approaches and hand-crafted approaches,
ref: 2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having no semantic content.
Synonyms: sense: having no semantic content
word: meaningless
sense: having no semantic content
word: s-free
heliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helium
inductura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inducturae
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In gastropod anatomy, a secondary layer of lamellar shell, usually situated along the inner lip of the aperture of a shell, and in some shells extending beyond.
deadweight ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadweight tons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A long ton (2,2240 pounds), as used to measure of a ship's carrying capacity, including bunker oil, fresh water, ballast water, crew, and provisions.
Synonyms: DWT
dwt
shoestring tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoestring tackles
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tackle made about the feet or ankles.
outwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outwalkers
Senses: glosses: A person who walks next to, in front of, or behind a parade float
muddle through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdl̩ θɹuː/
ipa: /ˈmʌd(ə)l θɹu/
Forms: form: muddles through
form: muddling through
form: muddled through
form: muddled through
Etymology: From muddle (“to think and act in a confused, aimless way”) + through.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.
text: Someday soon we all will be together / If the fates allow. / Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow. / So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
ref: 1943 (date written), “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, in Ralph Blane (lyrics), Hugh Martin (music), Meet Me in St. Louis (soundtrack; 1944), performed by Judy Garland:
text: If Labour's senior team thinks that it can just muddle through to the next election without a coherent plan about how to tackle the problems of the industry, it is making a big mistake.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 34:
synonyms: word: get along
word: get by
word: make do
word: muddle along
word: scrape along
word: scrape by
glosses: To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.
muddles through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muddle through
muddling through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muddle through
muddled through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muddle through
outwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outwalker
red ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red ant
unetymological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unetymological
form: most unetymological
form: un-etymological
Etymology: From un- + etymological.
Senses: glosses: Not etymological.
Synonyms: nonetymological
Derived terms: unetymologically
cast out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts out
form: casting out
form: cast out
form: cast out
Senses: examples: text: Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.
ref: 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
text: Cast out for criminal behavior or their actions during the uprising, exiles from the Nexus are no longer welcome at the station or Initiative outposts.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Outlaws: Outcasts Codex entry:
glosses: To drive out; to expel.
Derived terms: cast out the Devil with Beelzebub
cast out nines
unetymologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unetymologically
form: most unetymologically
Etymology: From unetymological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But while women were often not in touch with their own history—what feminists came to call, unetymologically but pertinently, 'herstory'—they were keenly aware of the immediate, oppressive past.
ref: 2012, Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminism:
glosses: In a way which is not etymological.
hamilton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamiltons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hamilton (slang: a United States ten-dollar bill).
NFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no fixed abode.
examples: text: The crew departed to conduct some NFA flying.
text: This mission is not part of our annual flying schedule; it will be NFA.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of non-forecast airlift.
glosses: Initialism of nondeterministic finite-state automaton.
NFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Food Authority.
glosses: Initialism of National Forestry Authority.
examples: text: The NFA has been a flashpoint for advocates, who say that silencers are not frequently used in crime and believe that the silencers and other weapons regulated under the law, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns, are protected by the Second Amendment.
ref: 2025 March 26, Hannah Rabinowitz, “DOJ considers abandoning the defense of federal restrictions on gun silencers”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Firearms Act.
NFA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Initialism of not for attribution.
NFA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said the case has been classified as "no further action" (NFA) due to lack of evidence.
ref: 2020 November 24, “Individuals linked to Chin Peng's ashes will not face charges - minister”, in Malaysiakini:
text: ACP Nik Ezanee closed the investigation by classifying it as no further action (NFA) after hearing about the woman's plight.
ref: 2021 January 31, Farik Zolkepli, “PJ police go the extra mile to help the needy”, in The Star:
text: Police have completed investigations into a Physical Education (PE) teacher who allegedly made a rape joke in front of his students at school, and have classified it as No Further Action (NFA).
ref: 2021 August 5, Muhaamad Hafis Nawawi, “Case of teacher who allegedly made rape joke classified as NFA”, in New Straits Times:
topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: Initialism of no further action; a potential outcome for a suspect from a police investigation.
NFA
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: NFAs
form: NFAing
form: NFA'ing
form: NFAd
form: NFAd
form: NFA'd
form: NFA'd
form: NFAed
form: NFAed
Senses: examples: text: After that interview, I think we can NFA him.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To formally end the police investigation of a suspect with no further action.
squat toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squat toilets
Senses: examples: text: The curious thing about squat toilets is that, whereas Anglo-Saxons often refer to them as ‘French toilets’, the French themselves call them ‘Turkish toilets’ (toilettes à la turque or WC turcs). But in Turkey they are known as ‘Greek toilets’, while the Greeks insist they are ‘Bulgarian’.
ref: 2014, Piu Marie Eatwell, They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 139:
synonyms: squatter
Turkish toilet
French toilet
glosses: A toilet, usually consisting of a hole in the ground and sometimes a tank, which is used while squatting instead of sitting.
Related terms: flush toilet
sitting toilet
sitting toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting toilets
Senses: glosses: A toilet used while sitting, as opposed to squatting, such as a flush toilet.
Related terms: flush toilet
squat toilet
anchal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchals
Etymology: From Nepali अञ्चल (añcal).
Senses: glosses: any administrative zone of Nepal
anchal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchals
Etymology: Likely from Malayalam അഞ്ചൽ (añcal). Compare Tamil அஞ்சல் (añcal).
Senses: qualifier: Travancore
glosses: Post; postage
anchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anchal
form: most anchal
Etymology: Likely from Malayalam അഞ്ചൽ (añcal). Compare Tamil அஞ்சல் (añcal).
Senses: glosses: Postal.
Mary Rose sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Marie Rose sauce.
egg mayonnaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg mayonnaises
Senses: glosses: A snack of salad topped with mayonnaise and a cold hard-boiled egg.
frondent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɒndənt/
ipa: /ˈfɹɑndənt/
rhymes: -ɒndənt
Forms: form: more frondent
form: most frondent
Etymology: From Latin frondens, present participle of frondere (“to put forth leaves”). See frond.
Senses: examples: text: a frondent tree
text: And near before us is Versailles, New and Old; with that broad frondent Avenue de Versailles between,—stately-frondent, broad, three hundred feet as men reckon, with four Rows of Elms
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 260:
glosses: Covered with leaves; leafy.
cod liver oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cod liver oils
form: cod-liver oil
form: codliver oil
Senses: glosses: Oil derived from the liver of codfish, often used as a nutritional supplement due to its high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, and very high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D.
Derived terms: haliver oil
Related terms: fish oil
ludibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludibria
Senses: glosses: A plaything or trivial game.
glosses: A laughing stock.
Related terms: ludibry
ludibria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ludibrium
alphabetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabetists
Senses: glosses: Someone who practices alphabetism, discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
mighter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of might: more might
alphabetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphabetist
sorbetières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorbetière
windhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windholds
form: wind hold
form: wind-hold
Etymology: From wind + hold.
Senses: examples: text: With today's fifty mile per hour winds, all the ski lifts are on windhold.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A state in which ski lifts must stop running due to extremely windy conditions.
ski lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski lift
windholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind holds
form: wind-holds
Senses: glosses: plural of windhold
wind holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-holds
form: windholds
Senses: glosses: plural of wind hold
wind-holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind holds
form: windholds
Senses: glosses: plural of wind-hold
wind hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind holds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of windhold.
wind-hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-holds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of windhold.
Medians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Median
inside straight draws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside straight draw
Kuanua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the language spoken by the Tolai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
kölsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kölsches
form: kölschs
Senses: examples: text: Top-fermenting ales are still brewed, notably the alts of Düsseldorf and kölsches of Cologne.
ref: 1999, Brian Glover, The Complete Guide to Beer, Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 146:
text: More kölschs and Pilseners: Pale in color? Yes! Light in flavor? No! Craft brewers launched kölschs, Pilseners and so-called “Pre-Prohibition” lagers by the dozen in 1998 and early 1999.[…]As kölsch is still a foreign word to the average beer drinker, new kölschs on the market Contract brewing company Great Beer carry different names,[…].
ref: 1999, The New Brewer, pages 21–22:
text: On average, the mash temperatures used in the NHC second-round alts and kölschs were higher, at 153 °F (67 °C) and 151 °F (66 °C) respectively.
ref: 2000, Ray Daniels, Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles, Brewers Publications:
text: It compares well to Shiner Summer Stock, one of the best American kölsches out there.
ref: 2003, Lew Bryson, New York Breweries, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:
text: Then they all got back to banging on about triples, and pale ales and kölsches and whatever.
ref: 2016, William McInnes, Full Bore, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
text: With several takes on traditional German styles like dunkels, pilsners, weizenbachs, and kölsches, plus some great domestic and craft beer, this place gives you that community feel you want in a Biergarten.
ref: 2016, Jason Frye, Moon North Carolina, →ISBN:
text: Ale yeasts are often described as top fermenting, but top cropping would probably be a better description: the yeast ferments at all levels throughout the liquid, but once its work is done it collects at the top of the fermenting vessel (traditionally these vessels would have been open at the top). Family members include bitters, porters, stouts, alts and kölschs.
ref: 2016, Tim Hampson, The 50 Greatest Beers of the World, Icon Books:
text: TOP FIVE LAGERED ALES/KÖLSCHS[…]A style of beer from Cologne in Germany, kölsch is a hybrid style of beer fermented at ale temperatures and then lagered.
ref: 2017, Robin LeBlanc, Jordan St. John, The Ontario Craft Beer Guide, 2nd edition, Dundurn Press, →ISBN:
text: Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like Imperial IPAs as well.
ref: 2019, Douglas Trattner, Moon Cleveland, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Kölsch (“style of beer”).
fursecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fur + persecution
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Hostility towards the furry subculture.
Derived terms: fursecute
Related terms: antifur
torses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torse
friendship with benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendships with benefits
Senses: glosses: A platonic friendship where the partners engage in sexual activities, but do not consider themselves a couple.
Related terms: friend with benefits
friendships with benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendship with benefits
undraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undraws
form: undrawing
form: undrew
form: undrawn
Etymology: From un- + draw.
Senses: examples: text: She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.
glosses: To draw aside or open; to pull back a layer of fabric, e.g. a curtain.
examples: text: It is easy to highlight graphics on a monochrome system. The simplest way is to set the GC to the GXxor logical function and draw your graphics once to draw them and again to undraw them.
ref: 1992, Adrian Nye, XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, page 205:
hyponyms: unplot
glosses: To clear or erase part of a drawing.
Synonyms: sense: draw aside
word: draw
two-way street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-way streets
Senses: glosses: A street in which traffic is allowed to proceed in two directions.
examples: text: A good friendship is a two-way street.
glosses: Any interaction in which both parties give and take equally.
Related terms: give and take
children's home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: children's homes
Senses: glosses: A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them.
brushmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushmakers
Etymology: From brush + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes brushes.
exh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of exhibit.
glosses: Abbreviation of exhibition.
Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A specialized vocabulary (perhaps not strictly a language) used in Haiti for religion, song, and dance purposes.
fordry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordries
form: fordrying
form: fordried
form: fordried
Etymology: From Middle English fordrien, fordruien, fordruȝen, from Old English fordrūgian (“to become dry, wither”), equivalent to for- + dry.
Senses: glosses: To dry up; become dry.
glosses: To dry up; make dry.
fordry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fordrier
form: fordriest
Etymology: From Middle English fordruye, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) + dry.
Senses: examples: 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale.
Amid a tree fordry, as white as chalk,
As Canacé was playing in her walk,
There sat a falcon o'er her head full high,
That with a piteous voice so gan to cry, […]
glosses: Very dry; withered.
die in the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies in the ass
form: dying in the ass
form: died in the ass
form: died in the ass
form: die in the arse
Senses: examples: text: My computer died in the ass yesterday when I tried to turn it on.
glosses: To fail to function properly.
examples: text: Our plans to go to France died in the ass.
glosses: To be left unresolved.
Synonyms: come to nought
come to nothing
go to shit
insectarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.sɛkˈtɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌɪn.sɛkˈtɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: insectaria
form: insectariums
Etymology: From insect + -arium.
Senses: glosses: A type of live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects and similar arthropods.
die in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies in the arse
form: dying in the arse
form: died in the arse
form: died in the arse
Senses: glosses: UK spelling of die in the ass.
minorat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Minorat.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A custom or right, analogous to borough English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, by which certain entailed estates, such as a homestead and adjacent land, descended to the youngest male heir.
Related terms: majorat
praepositi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praepositus
lods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lod
quantulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quantulum.
Senses: examples: text: […] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]
ref: 1832, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 98, page 198:
text: […] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.
ref: 1845, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, volume 60, page 52:
glosses: A very small amount.
Related terms: quantum
recogitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɑd͡ʒəˌteɪt/
Forms: form: recogitates
form: recogitating
form: recogitated
form: recogitated
Etymology: From Latin recōgitō.
Senses: glosses: To think or ponder.
examples: text: It is hardly possible, indeed, that your Lordship should not have given the subject a deep and attentive consideration; but it is surely not too much, in an affair of such immense importance, to ask of you to recogitate the matter. You have, no doubt, considered it as a religious man; and as a religious man I conjure you to consider it again: […]
ref: 1835, The Question of the Irish Church, page 5:
glosses: To cogitate again; reconsider.
repropitiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repropitiates
form: repropitiating
form: repropitiated
form: repropitiated
Etymology: From re- + propitiate.
Senses: glosses: To propitiate again.
propitiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propitiators
Etymology: From the Latin propitiātor.
Senses: glosses: One who propitiates or appeases.
copper ores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copper ore
tankmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankmates
Etymology: From tank + -mate.
Senses: glosses: An aquarium fish that shares the same tank as another.
tankmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankmate
bought off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy off
buys off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy off
buying off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy off
acclinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Profile of bill oval; of upper mandible narrowly oval; culmen gently convex, declinate, tomial edge more convex, acclinate, meeting at an obtuse tip;
ref: 1903, Elliott Coues, Key to North American birds, page 1069:
text: However, surface I9 is interrupted by an acclinate Y cam surface 2 extending the length of the knife and into the path of the slug travel approximately .005, after which the normal clearance angle is resumed.
ref: 1954 August 10, Herman E-. Freund, “US 2685959 A: Slug-trimming knife fob line casting”, in U.S. Patents:
text: 5-fid, pilose, the middle segment larger, broader, and 3-toothed, the pubescence longer and acclinate above, the venation hispid beneath;
ref: 1964, Alma L., Harold N. Moldenke, Phytologia - Volume 11, page 58:
glosses: Having an upward slope.
resubject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːsəbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: resubjects
form: resubjecting
form: resubjected
form: resubjected
Etymology: From re- + subject.
Senses: examples: text: Is it, that Congress shall resubject to their control those thousands of deeply wronged men?
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
text: All this time France was substantially as tranquil as England herself, and decidedly more prosperous, though annoyed and impeded by the incessant plottings of traitors in her councils and other exalted stations to resubject her to kingly sway.
ref: 1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe:
text: “And if the apartment has been deregulated, using a rent-stabilized lease form, or charging less than $2,000 a month, doesn’t resubject the apartment to regulation.”
ref: 2008 July 13, Jay Romano, “Can a Landlord Remove a Tenant’s Door Lock?”, in New York Times:
glosses: To subject again.
gardenhose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardenhoses
Senses: examples: text: Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation.
ref: 1957, United States. Court of Claims, District of Columbia. Court of Appeals, The Federal reporter, Volume 242, page 292:
text: President Roosevelt launched the Lend-Lease idea at a press conference in November 1940 with the parable “suppose my neighbor's house catches fire, and I have the length of a gardenhose...”
ref: 1961, Hermann Gottlieb Bieri, Kyklos: internationale Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften, Volume 14, page 590:
text: We can make artificial rainbows with a gardenhose and a sprinkler head adjusted for a very fine spray.
ref: 1962, Hans Hermann Neuberger, George W. Nicholas, Manual of lecture demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and observational equipment for teaching elementary meteorology in schools and colleges, page 120:
text: They hamper progress over the black, volcanic rubble of the Aleutian Island beaches but are handy in sea sprint. His tail, which looks like a piece of flattened gardenhose, serves as an oar.
ref: 1973, Jane H. Bailey, The sea otter's struggle, page 22:
text: “Now then about machine guns: They work sort of like a gardenhose except they spray death.” - Kurt Vonnegut (1970)
ref: 2010, Jackson Regina, Regina McClinton Jackson, My Favorite Book, page 52:
glosses: Alternative spelling of garden hose.
God's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the notion that God could compute the optimal solution of a puzzle and use it. Coined by David Singmaster in 1980 in connection with the Rubik's cube.
Senses: examples: text: Many people have worked on God's algorithm for the Rubik's Cube. For a while it was guessed that the superflip position is the position which is as far from ‘start’ (the solved position) as possible.
ref: 2008, David Joyner, Adventures in group theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine & other mathematical toys, →ISBN, page 149:
qualifier: combination puzzles
glosses: An optimal algorithm that finds the solution with the fewest moves.
wikipedia: David Singmaster
Related terms: God's number
shood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoods
Etymology: From Middle Low German schôde, from Old Saxon *skōda, from Proto-West Germanic *skaudā, from Proto-Germanic *skaudō (“sheath, husk”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ- (“to cover, surround, enwrap”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schode (“pod, shell, husk”), German Schote (“pod, hull”), Icelandic skauð (“a horse's sheath”).
Senses: glosses: The husk of oats after it has been threshed.
glosses: A feed mixture for horses consisting of chopped hay and beans.
shood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It ran thus:— "Deer Sur,—i thinks it unkomon 'ard that a man shood 'ave is beed sold under im wen anuther man oas im munny, speshally wen is wifes ill—praps a-dyin—the Law has washt yoo sur, but it do seam 'ard on me, if yoo cood spair ony a pownd or two id taik it kind.
ref: 1876, R M Ballantyne, Under the Waves:
text: And in case the estonishing site shood make him feel just a leetle dazed, the jolly old Copperashun has bin and gone and hired no less than three Millingterry Bands of Music to play to him, and cheer him up.
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891:
text: Aal the village know'd I wur a-gwain, an' sum sed as how I shood be murthur'd avoor I cum back.
ref: 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of should.
shood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoods
form: shooding
form: shooded
form: shooded
Senses: examples: text: "Look here, mine friendt," calmly said the Jew, as the crowd began to scatter to get out of the way of stray bullets, "uf you shood ad me, id vill profe dat you vas a plowhardt und a cowart.
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery:
text: "No," said the tender old man, "no, bud h-I am positeef dad de Madjor will shood you."
ref: 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
text: Subbose you shood us all, what then?
ref: 1915, Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shoot.
superflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superflips
Etymology: From super- + flip.
Senses: examples: text: Many people have worked on God's algorithm for the Rubik's Cube. For a while it was guessed that the superflip position is the position which is as far from ‘start’ (the solved position) as possible.
ref: 2008, David Joyner, Adventures in group theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine & other mathematical toys, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: The position on a Rubik's cube that has every corner cubie positioned and oriented correctly and every edge cubie positioned correctly but oriented wrong. That is to say, all the edges are flipped around.
self-rescuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-rescuers
Etymology: From self- + rescuer.
Senses: glosses: A self-contained device to generate oxygen for breathing.
self-rescuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-rescuer
God's number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare God's algorithm.
Senses: examples: text: Although invented in 1974, the number of moves required to solve any state of Rubik's Cube (the so-called God's number) is yet to be determined after 30 years.
ref: 2010, Cecilia di Chio et al., Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Part 1, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
qualifier: combination puzzles
glosses: The maximum number of moves needed to solve a puzzle using God's algorithm.