cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
affect display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affect displays
Senses: examples: text: We are not satisfied with this account (it is particularly weak in explaining the facial affect display of happiness) but Darwin also had trouble with […].
ref: 1970, Paul Ekman et al., “The Repertoire of Non-verbal Behavior”, in Mouton Classics: From Syntax to Cognition, from Phonology to Text, page 843:
text: […] Darwin (as is implicit in the title of his book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) saw facial affect display as the external expression of an internal emotional state, […].
ref: 1987, Donald L. Nathanson, The Many Faces of Shame, page 16:
text: The marked affect-display, remains, nevertheless, sufficiently similar to the parent's normative emotion expression for the infant to recognize the [….]
ref: 2002, Peter Fonagy, Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, page 178:
text: The face is a particularly rich source for affect display, although other parts of the body may also be involved.
ref: 2004, Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. Foss, Theories of Human Communication, page 107:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: External show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether voluntary or not.
Related terms: emotional expression
affect displays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affect display
winless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From win + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Rovers arrived in the Black Country in a certain amount of turmoil with Kean winless in his first two matches, including a home defeat to Stoke on Boxing Day,
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
glosses: Having never won; without a win; unsuccessful.
xenografts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenograft
pooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooch
anaesthesiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaesthesiologists
Etymology: From anaesthesiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anesthesiologist.
lidocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪd.ə(ʊ).keɪn/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.dəˌkeɪn/
Forms: form: lidocaines
Etymology: From (acetani)lid(e) + -o- + -caine, from cocaine.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, 0.5 ml of 1% lidocaine HCl was injected subcutaneously in the postauricular area for local anesthesia.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Intracochlear Bleeding Enhances Cochlear Fibrosis and Ossification: An Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A crystalline compound C₁₄H₂₂N₂O that is used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic and as an antiarrhythmic agent.
Synonyms: lignocaine
Coordinate terms: english: a similar compound with an additional benzyl group
translation: a similar compound with an additional benzyl group
word: denatonium
Derived terms: etidocaine
lidocaine hydrochloride
local anesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local anesthetics
form: local anaesthetic
Senses: examples: text: He used a local anaesthetic called something or other "snow," which froze the tissue and avoided pain until the probe, the scalpel or the forceps got below the frozen portion.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 15, in A Farewell to Arms:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
Related terms: general anesthetic
general anesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general anesthetics
form: general anaesthetic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.
Related terms: local anesthetic
general anesthesia
ridgeback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgebacks
Etymology: From ridge + back.
Senses: glosses: Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.
microhomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhomologies
Etymology: From micro- + homology.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The presence of the same short sequence of bases in different genes
Related terms: homology
microhomologous
microhomologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + homologous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting microhomology.
FOUO
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of for official use only.
noncrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crystalline.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: amorphous
glosses: Not crystalline.
nonrepresentational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + representational.
Senses: glosses: Not representational.
topics: art
arts
glosses: That does not represent a physical object realistically.
Related terms: nonrepresentationalism
nonrepresentationality
nonrepresentationally
abstract
redbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdbəːd/
Forms: form: redbirds
Etymology: From red + bird.
Senses: examples: text: Then she chanced to look up and catch sight of a redbird in a tree.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage.
glosses: Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage.
Synonym of red tanager.
synonyms: word: red tanager
glosses: Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage.
Synonym of northern cardinal.
synonyms: word: northern cardinal
examples: text: Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal ("yellow jackets").
ref: 1952 October 13, Richard L. Williams, “‘To sleep: perchance…’”, in Life, volume 33, number 15, page 110:
synonyms: red
red devil
glosses: A capsule of secobarbital.
glosses: Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system; or a train of such cars.
Derived terms: redbird cactus
redbreast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbreasts
Etymology: From Middle English redbreste, equivalent to red + breast.
Senses: examples: text: There was a pleasant frosty sun glittering through the twigs of the leafless shrubs, and flashing on the ripples and undulations of the Liffey, and the redbreasts and sparrows were picking up the crumbs which the housekeeper had thrown for them outside.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How a Gentleman Paid a Visit at the Brass Castle, and There Read a Paragraph in an Old Newspaper”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:
glosses: Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast
A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
glosses: Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast
An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
Derived terms: robin redbreast
red-carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Ostentatiously special; VIP
Related terms: red carpet
redolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd.ə.ləns/
ipa: /ˈɹɛd.əʊ.ləns/
ipa: /ˈɹɛd.ə.ləns/
ipa: /ˈɹed.ə.ləns/
Forms: form: redolences
Senses: examples: text: The air was wine and seltzer, perfumed, as they absorbed it, with the delicate redolence of prairie flowers.
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 173, column 2:
glosses: The quality of being redolent.
examples: text: Loola au naturel with a musky redolence which, on second thought, has something really rather fascinating about it.
ref: 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: An evocative fragrance.
points of view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point of view
SMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Small Magellanic Cloud.
glosses: Initialism of San Miguel Corporation.
SMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
glosses: Initialism of smooth muscle cell.
glosses: Initialism of structural maintenance of chromosomes.
glosses: Initialism of sliding mode control.
glosses: Initialism of sheet molding compound, a compound used to create sheet mold composites, containing glass fibre reinforced polyester.
glosses: Initialism of sheet mould composite, a composite made from sheet moulding compound, created by compression molding.
LMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Large Magellanic Cloud.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Lok Ma Chau in Hong Kong.
LMC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of let me see.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of let message (to) call (back).
LMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMCs
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: MMC
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of least material condition.
ducks on the pond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * (coded warning): Originally used in shearing sheds; later extended to other normally all-male environments, such as some pubs.
Senses: examples: text: Usually the wool presser calls first, because most visitors to a shed come through the wool room. ‘Ducks on the Pond!’ he calls, and the warning is taken up again down along the shearing board.
ref: 1982, Patsy Adam-Smith, The Shearers, Thomas Nelson Australia, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: A coded warning used by men to alert each other that female guests ("ducks") are present ("on the pond"), so that for politeness they should moderate their language.
examples: text: There are two ducks on the pond for the cleanup hitter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Members of a batting order who are on base; baserunners.
examples: Ducks on the pond. Who is up?
qualifier: Car Sales
glosses: There are customers arriving on the car lot.
Synonyms: sense: coded warning
word: ducks have landed
sense: coded warning
word: feathers flying
sense: coded warning
word: they're on the pond
incisure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incisures
Etymology: From Latin incisura.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A notch or indent.
glosses: A cut or incision.
Synonyms: sense: anatomical notch or indent
word: incisura
incisures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incisure
incisurae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incisura
upsell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsells
form: upselling
form: upsold
form: upsold
Etymology: From up- + sell.
Senses: examples: text: I gave up on subscribing to their SaaS because they wouldn't quit the constant attempts to upsell.
text: They were obsessed with trying to upsell me over and over again.
text: Communicate an amazing deal to get people into your store and then when that product is no longer available, switch them and upsell them to a more expensive product.
ref: 2018, Roddy Mullin, Promotional Marketing, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Even some of the benefits of kiosks touted by chains — they upsell customers by suggesting menu items and speed up orders — don’t always play out.
ref: 2024 September 20, Nathaniel Meyersohn, “McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened”, in CNN:
glosses: To persuade a customer to buy more items, or more expensive items, than they had intended.
Related terms: oversell
bait and switch
upsell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsells
Etymology: From up- + sell.
Senses: glosses: The act of making such a sale.
water injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: The process of squirting a small amount of water, in the form of a fine spray, into the air/fuel mixture going into a gasoline piston engine, in order to cool the engine cylinders, and, thereby, reduce detonation or knocking in high performance engines, especially when using a high compression ratio.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of squirting water into the combustion chamber of a jet engine to allow it to produce greater thrust, partly from the production of high-pressure steam and partly from the cooling effect of the water allowing the engine to burn a greater quantity of fuel without overheating.
Related terms: fuel injection
cell walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cell wall
troping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trope
troped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trope
arthritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: plural of arthritis
business as usual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business-as-usual
Etymology: Popularized by Winston Churchill as motto in World War I.
Senses: examples: text: The phase^([sic]) “Business as Usual” ran about the world, and the papers abounded in articles in which going on as though there was no war at all was demonstrated to be the truest form of patriotism. […] “Business as usual during Alterations to the Map of Europe” was the advertisement of one cheerful barber, widely quoted. . . .
ref: 1916, H. G. Wells, “Onlookers”, in Mr. Britling Sees It Through, New York: Macmillan, Book II, page 214:
text: In other words, it is business as usual on the Korean Peninsula. Perhaps, when the atmosphere cools down, an argument can be made for giving North Korea’s leaders some of the assistance they want, if they are willing to make concessions of their own.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
text: This was very well illustrated when Extinction Rebellion protests disrupted traffic in London in April 2019, and Mayor Sadiq Khan insisted that while he shared “the passion about tackling climate change of those protesting”[…] Londoners needed to be able to return to “business as usual”.
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, quoting Sadiq Khan, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
glosses: The normal course of an activity, particularly in circumstances that are out of the ordinary.
glosses: The normal execution of standard functional operations within an organisation, particularly in contrast to a project or program which would introduce change (although that change may itself become business as usual).
business as usual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: business-as-usual
Etymology: Popularized by Winston Churchill as motto in World War I.
Senses: examples: text: This vehicle would be likely to cost about $1,500 more at retail than the business as usual vehicle, which achieves 33 mpg.
ref: 1995, Advanced automotive technology : visions of a super-efficient family car.:
glosses: That is usual, expected, not extraordinary.
Related terms: the show must go on
four-master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-masters
Senses: glosses: A large four-masted sailboat.
get a room
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Suggesting that the couple rent a hotel or motel room to continue amorous activities in private.
Senses: examples: text: One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.
ref: 2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Used to instruct a couple to stop displaying romantic or physical affection in public.
Related terms: english: Initialism of public display of affection
translation: Initialism of public display of affection
word: PDA
urban crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition of hyperdensity, limited but enabling scale of communicative possibilities that converge opportunistically. It occurs when the pressure of an urban environment reaches a critical threshold in cities of developing countries.
WISA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Windows, Internet Information Services (web server), SQL Server, Active Server Pages: a Microsoft-based solution stack that can be used to create dynamic websites.
Related terms: LAMP
WAMP
Urheimat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Urheimats
form: Urheimaten
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of urheimat.
redecoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redecorations
Etymology: From re- + decoration.
Senses: glosses: The act of redecorating
glosses: A replacement decoration
redeployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeployments
Etymology: From re- + deployment.
Senses: glosses: The act of redeploying.
glosses: A new deployment.
redetermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redetermines
form: redetermining
form: redetermined
form: redetermined
Etymology: From re- + determine.
Senses: glosses: To determine again.
rediscovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rediscoveries
Etymology: From re- + discovery.
Senses: examples: text: The most important result of Mr. Mercer's work was the rediscovery of the tunnel, which had been buried, although still accessible through the partly blocked southern portal of the second and larger tunnel, built contiguously to the old one, about 1840.
ref: 1951 May, “Notes and News: The Penydarran Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
glosses: The act of rediscovering.
glosses: A second or subsequent discovery of the same thing.
bestselling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bestselling
form: most bestselling
Senses: examples: text: The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of best-selling.
nanochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale
Related terms: nanochemist
nanochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from nanochemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemist who specializes in nanochemistry
nanoengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoengineers
Etymology: From nano- + engineer.
Senses: examples: text: But in a new and very literal application of the phrase "magic bullet," nanoengineers and analytical chemists from the University of San Diego have built an "acoustic microcannon" -- an ultrasound-powered, needle-free drug delivery method that's meant to get medication straight to deep tissue, where we need it to do its work.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
glosses: An engineer who specializes in nanoengineering.
nanoengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + engineering.
Senses: examples: text: “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
ref: 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:
glosses: Engineering on the nanoscale.
Related terms: nanoengineer
cadmium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cadmium salt of hydrochloric acid, CdCl₂; it is used in photography and dyeing, and in the preparation of other cadmium compounds
emailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emailings
Senses: glosses: The sending of a message by electronic mail.
Derived terms: cold emailing
emailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of email
themed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more themed
form: most themed
Etymology: From theme + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a particular theme or topic
Derived terms: weather-themed
themed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From theme + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of theme
deixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪksiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of deixis
in-winter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: in-winters
form: in-wintering
form: in-wintered
form: in-wintered
form: inwinter
Senses: glosses: To keep (livestock) indoors during harsh weather.
Derived terms: in-wintered
in-wintering
assmonkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assmonkey
outwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwinters
form: outwintering
form: outwintered
form: outwintered
form: out-winter
Senses: glosses: To keep (livestock) outdoors during the winter.
Derived terms: outwintered
outwintering
out-winter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-winters
form: out-wintering
form: out-wintered
form: out-wintered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of outwinter.
winterberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.tə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: winterberries
Etymology: From winter + berry; from the berries' persistence throughout the winter.
Senses: glosses: A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata.
glosses: The fruit of this plant.
Synonyms: sense: plant
word: American winterberry
sense: plant
word: black alder
sense: plant
word: black alder winterberry
sense: plant
word: brook alder
sense: plant
word: coralberry
sense: plant
word: deciduous holly
sense: plant
word: deciduous winterberry
sense: plant
word: false alder
sense: plant
word: fever bush
sense: plant
word: inkberry
sense: plant
word: Michigan holly
sense: plant
word: possumhaw
sense: plant
word: striped alder
sense: plant
word: swamp holly
sense: plant
word: Virginian winterberry
sense: plant
word: white alder
sense: plant
word: winterberry holly
Derived terms: alder winterberry
American winterberry
black alder winterberry
common winterberry holly
deciduous winterberry
evergreen winterberry
mountain winterberry
smooth winterberry holly
Virginian winterberry
winterberry holly
winter fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter fallows
Senses: antonyms: summer fallow
hypernyms: layland
glosses: Land that is kept fallow during the winter.
Derived terms: word: winter-fallow
word: winter-fallowing
winter-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winter-feeds
form: winter-feeding
form: winter-fed
form: winter-fed
form: winterfeed
Senses: glosses: To feed (livestock) during the winter.
Derived terms: winter-feeding
winter-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winterfeed
Senses: glosses: Food given to livestock during the winter.
prescientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + scientific.
Senses: examples: text: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
ref: 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:
text: [Martin] Heidegger's concern […] was with ontology, the nature of beings, above all humans. The central question for him was "What is being? What is it for something to be?" He tackled this question not by way of the sciences, but by way of an examination of our prescientific daily life. We are, he argued, not cut off from the world by our mental processes: we are "in the world", in direct contact with our surroundings.
ref: 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R10:
antonyms: postscientific
coordinate_terms: protoscientific
;
scientific
;
pseudoscientific
;
nonscientific
unscientific
glosses: Before the development of modern science.
Related terms: protoscience
prescientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
winterfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winterfeeds
form: winterfeeding
form: winterfed
form: winterfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of winter-feed.
winterfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of winter-feed.
winter-hained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: winterhained
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Of pasture: having livestock removed from it so that it may recover from grazing.
Derived terms: winter-haining
winterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winterish
form: most winterish
form: wintrish
Etymology: From winter + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of winter.
Synonyms: sense: characteristic of winter
word: winterly
sense: characteristic of winter
word: wintery
sense: characteristic of winter
word: wintry
Derived terms: winterishly
classmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɑːs.meɪts/
/ˈklæs.meɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of classmate
winter-killed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of crops, having been killed by winter weather.
Derived terms: winter-kill
winterkill
winter-killing
winter storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭnʹtər
ipa: /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)stɔːm/
ipa: /ˈwɪntɚ stɔɹm/
Forms: form: winter storms
Etymology: From winter + storm.
Senses: glosses: A meteorological event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm in which ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form.
Derived terms: Operation Winter Storm
winter storm warning
winter storm watch
winterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winterly
form: most winterly
Etymology: From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to winter.
examples: text: One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way.
ref: 1913, Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem:
glosses: Happening in winter.
examples: text: If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
glosses: Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
Synonyms: sense: of or relating to winter
word: winter
sense: happening in winter
word: winter
sense: characteristic of winter
word: winterish
sense: characteristic of winter
word: wintery
sense: characteristic of winter
word: wintry
sense: characteristic of winter
word: hiemal
Derived terms: winterliness
Winter's bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice-admiral to Sir Francis Drake.
Senses: glosses: A tree (Drimys winteri) native to Chile and Argentina, grown as an ornamental plant for its reddish-brown bark, bright green, fragrant leaves and clusters of creamy white, jasmine-scented flowers.
glosses: Bark of this tree, formerly used medicinally.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: Winter's bark tree
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cinnamodendron corticosum
word: false Winter's bark
chemokyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemokynes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chemokine.
xeroderma pigmentosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) and Latin pigmentōsus (“pigmented, stained”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare genetic disorder in which DNA damaged by ultraviolet light is not repaired and the skin becomes sensitive to such light, in which a skin cancer can subsequently develop
incuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːs/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːz/
Etymology: From Latin incūsus, past participle of incūdō, from in- + cūdō.
Senses: examples: text: The back of the coin bears an incuse coat of arms.
glosses: Hammered or pressed in (usually on a coin).
Derived terms: incusely
incuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːs/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːz/
Forms: form: incuses
Etymology: From Latin incūsus, past participle of incūdō, from in- + cūdō.
Senses: examples: text: This coin's incuse is of a most curious design.
glosses: An impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin).
incuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːs/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkjuːz/
Forms: form: incuses
form: incusing
form: incused
form: incused
Etymology: From Latin incūsus, past participle of incūdō, from in- + cūdō.
Senses: examples: text: There is a long tradition of monarchs having their own figure incused in their kingdom's coins.
glosses: To hammer or press (usually onto a coin).
incused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incuse
incusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incuse
incuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incuse
incuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incuse
involutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more involutional
form: most involutional
Etymology: From involution + -al.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to involution
glosses: characterized by involution
korona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koronas
Etymology: From Hungarian korona. Doublet of corona, crown, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
Senses: glosses: The replacement currency of the Austro-Hungarian krone in Hungary after World War I.
pue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: pues
form: puing
form: pued
form: pued
form: pew
Senses: examples: text: The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.
Related terms: peevish
posttraumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-traumatic
Etymology: From post- + traumatic.
Senses: glosses: After, or as a result of, a trauma.
Derived terms: posttraumatic stress disorder
posttraumatic embitterment disorder
post-traumatic embitterment disorder
post-traumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of posttraumatic.
searchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more searchable
form: most searchable
Etymology: From search + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The new searchable database is much more useful than the old paper records.
glosses: Capable of being searched, especially something that has an automated search function included.
examples: text: Other searchable items were common or at least not infrequent.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:
glosses: Capable of being searched for.
searchable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: searchables
Etymology: From search + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A quite accurate but clumsy paraphrase of this rhetorical question could be “Your attempt to find out the searchables of the unsearchable God is doomed to failure”.
ref: 2015, Reuven Tsur, On the Shore of Nothingness:
glosses: Something that can be searched, or searched for.
glossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Senses: glosses: Having a gloss.
Derived terms: common purple-glossed snake
purple-glossed snake
unglossed
glossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloss
unbibium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌuːnbaɪˈbaɪəm/
Senses: glosses: The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 122 (symbol Ubb).
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous element
word: unbiunium
sense: Next element
word: unbitrium
etten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But we aren't etten yet, and there are some stout folk here with us.
ref: 1954, J R R Tolkien, “Lord of the Rings”, in The Fellowship of the Ring:
glosses: Alternative form of eaten, past participle of eat
interfix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfixes
Etymology: From inter- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).
ref: 2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: An empty morph inserted between two morphemes in the process of word formation, such as English -i- and -o-.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: A transfix.
examples: text: LOCANT, n. A number used in the Dyson cipher system for coding the position of substituents of carbon chain, i.e. an interfix.
ref: 1959, Frank S. Wagner, Jr., A Dictionary of Documentation Terms, page 19:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: information retrieval
glosses: An association link.
interfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interfixes
form: interfixing
form: interfixed
form: interfixed
Etymology: From inter- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Generally speaking the article is formed of two pieces which are interfixed for providing a pair of spring urged jaws...
ref: 1932, Elmer G. Koch, "Collar Fastener", United States Patent 1915250 http://www.google.com/patents?id=tpZPAAAAEBAJ, page 2
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To attach or anchor (two or more parts) together.
examples: text: Our goal in the construction of this task was to isolate and highlight the relationship between the interfixed and free forms of the initial constituent.
ref: 2001, Wolfgang U. Dressler et al., “The Processing of interfixed German compounds”, in Yearbook of Morphology 1999, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: To insert (an interfix) between two morphemes.
Derived terms: interfixation
Related terms: epenthesis
infix
interfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interfix
interfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interfix
technical term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical terms
Senses: examples: text: Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!:
synonyms: term of art
glosses: A word that has a specific meaning within a specific field of expertise.
technical terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical term
close down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊzˈdaʊn/
ipa: /kloʊzˈdaʊn/
ipa: /kləʉzˈdæɔn/
Forms: form: closes down
form: closing down
form: closed down
form: closed down
Senses: examples: text: The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.
text: They had to close the mine down as it was in a dangerous condition.
text: Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
ref: 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:
synonyms: close one's doors
close up
shut down
shutter#Verb
shut up
glosses: To stop trading as a business.
examples: text: If anyone passes to Smith, close him down.
synonyms: shut down
glosses: To surround someone, as to impede their movement.
Derived terms: word: closedown
Related terms: close out
joskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒs.kɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑs.kɪn/
rhymes: -ɒskɪn
Forms: form: joskins
Etymology: After bumpkin (“yokel”) — dialect joss (“bump”)
Senses: examples: text: — ‘But look at him,’ groaned Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Will any coach—’
— ‘I don’t mean that he thould go in the comic livery,’ said Sleary. ‘Thay the word, and I’ll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes.’
— ‘I don’t understand,’ said Mr. Gradgrind.
— ‘A Jothkin—a Carter. Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There’ll be beer to feth. I’ve never met with nothing but beer ath’ll ever clean a comic blackamoor.’
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A yokel, country bumpkin.
NJQSAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.
close up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊzˈʌp/
Forms: form: closes up
form: closing up
form: closed up
form: closed up
Etymology: Dissimilated from Middle English upclosen (“to close up, stop up, seal”).
Senses: examples: text: Some flowers close up at night to stay protected from the cold.
glosses: To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
examples: text: The crowd closed up and I couldn't get through to the train.
glosses: To move nearer together so that a gap is removed.
examples: text: We finally managed to close up the shop for the night at about 10 o'clock.
text: The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
synonyms: close
glosses: To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
examples: text: With stitches, the cut should close up in a week to ten days.
glosses: Of a cut or other wound: To heal.
examples: text: to close up emotionally
glosses: To become less 'open' or communicative; to shrink back.
glosses: To stop talking.
Derived terms: close up shop
alveoloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveoloplasties
Etymology: From alveolo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical modification of the alveolar ridges in preparation for the fitting of dentures.
Synonyms: alveoplasty
close off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes off
form: closing off
form: closed off
form: closed off
Senses: examples: text: The police closed off the street while they investigated the murder scene.
glosses: To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
myeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of myek
myekin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of myek
Wearmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪə(ɹ)məθ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)məθ
Etymology: From Old English Wiremūþa, equivalent to Wear + mouth.
Senses: glosses: The Saxon name for the area on each side of the mouth of the River Wear, including Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth, that later became Sunderland
glosses: A surname.
hepatoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatomas
form: hepatomata
Etymology: From hepato- (“liver”) + -oma (“tumor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cancer originating in the liver.
Synonyms: hepatocarcinoma
hepatocellular carcinoma
Derived terms: antihepatoma
cholangiohepatoma
incurvate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkə(ɹ)vɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪŋkə(ɹ)veɪt/
Forms: form: more incurvate
form: most incurvate
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1578, the adjective in 1647; borrowed from Latin incurvātus, perfect passive participle of incurvō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He noted that the flower's petals were incurvate.
glosses: bending inwards.
glosses: Curved; bent; crooked.
incurvate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkə(ɹ)vɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪŋkə(ɹ)veɪt/
Forms: form: incurvates
form: incurvating
form: incurvated
form: incurvated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1578, the adjective in 1647; borrowed from Latin incurvātus, perfect passive participle of incurvō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Flamsteed's measures were taken with a micrometer that pinches or clasps the opposite edges of a planet which would incurvate the rays one way
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
glosses: to have a curved or bent shape; to bend or curve inwards.
Related terms: curb
curve
spiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirans
form: spirane
Etymology: From German Spiran. By surface analysis, spiro- + -an.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of bicyclic hydrocarbons in which a carbon atom has two single bonds in each of two rings; a form of spiro compound
Derived terms: spiranic
Related terms: spirene
spiro-
so much
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: How could you eat so much?
text: There is only so much you can remember.
text: I've got so much to do, but so little time.
text: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A particular amount, often a large or excessive amount.
examples: text: "So much", he replied, sprinkling a small pile of the powder on the table.
glosses: A demonstrated amount.
so much
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Identical twins are so much alike, it is difficult to identify them.
text: I feel so much better.
text: It wasn't so much that I don’t want to, but I just didn't have the time.
glosses: To a certain degree or extent
so much
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There has been so much snow, I can't open the door.
glosses: To such a quantity, degree etc.
Related terms: so many
so much as
so much for
so much so
so much the better
only so much
incurve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incurves
form: incurving
form: incurved
form: incurved
Etymology: From in- + curve.
Senses: examples: text: A small amount of spin may incurve the ball.
glosses: To cause something to curve inwards.
glosses: To curve inwards.
Giardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of giardia.
spliceosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spliceosome + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The positions of some spliceosomal introns are conserved in orthologous genes from plants and animals.
ref: 1998, Roderick Page, Edward C. Holmes, Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occurring in a spliceosome.
combos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combo
hemodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /himoʊdaɪˈnæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmɪk
Forms: form: hemadynamic
form: haemodynamic
Etymology: From hemo- + dynamic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to hemodynamics, the circulation of blood in the body.
Derived terms: hemodynamically
hyperhemodynamic
macrohemodynamic
magnetohemodynamic
microhemodynamic
nonhemodynamic
oxyhemodynamic
hemodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhimoʊdaɪˈnæmɪks/
rhymes: -æmɪks
Forms: form: haemodynamics
Etymology: From hemo- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The circulation and movement of blood in the body, and the forces involved therein.
Synonyms: hemorheology
Derived terms: macrohemodynamics
microhemodynamics
Related terms: hemodynamicist
TMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Test Match Special.
TMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TMSs
form: TMSes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
coordinate_terms: CMS
glosses: Initialism of Translation Management System.
examples: text: With a specialty in logistics and final-mile delivery of big and bulky goods, Grasshopper is the only technology platform that incorporates an order management system (OMS), a warehouse management system (WMS), and a transportation management system (TMS) for a genuine end-to-end solution.
ref: 2023 April 4, “Deliveright Releases Grasshopper 3.0 to Power Logistics Operations for Retail and Delivery Companies”, in Business Wire, United States, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of transportation management system.
pantheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantheon
granulovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granuloviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of various baculoviruses in the genus Betabaculovirus; used in the control of insect pests.
Derived terms: granuloviral
granuloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulovirus