cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plural noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plural nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A plural form of a common noun
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun that inherently refers to multiple items
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Plurale tantum
bridegift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridegifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bride gift.
Parisine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A typeface developed for the Paris Metro by Jean-François Porchez
end-all and be-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of be-all and end-all.
osteotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteotomies
Etymology: From osteo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure of cutting a bone. This is often performed to either lengthen, shorten, or straighten a bone.
Related terms: osteotomist
osteotomize
pneumotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotomies
Etymology: From pneumo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pneumonectomy.
synonyms: word: pneumonectomy
pneumonotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumonotomies
form: pneumotomy
Etymology: From pneumon- + o + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure of making an incision in the lung.
bungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bung
bungs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bung
bunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bung
bunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bung
last word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last words
Senses: examples: text: Little Joe's mother's cake was the last word in cakes; [...]
ref: 1917, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Captain Jim Crosses the Bar”, in Anne’s House of Dreams, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, published 1920, →OCLC, page 332:
text: Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
synonyms: exemplar
qualifier: often preceded by the and followed by in
glosses: The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.
examples: text: ["]I have got my leave, and that is all I want." / "You had better receive the last word from my mother," said the marquis. / "Very good; I will go and get it," said Newman; and he prepared to return to the drawing-room.
ref: 1876 October, Henry James, Jr., chapter XII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 205:
text: [W]hen we had grasped hands for the last time and had said our last good-bye, he added this one more last word: "Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know."
ref: 1918, W. H. Hudson, chapter 24, in Far Away and Long Ago:
glosses: A concluding remark; final advice, instructions, or observation.
examples: text: Benjamin Franklin [...] pondered over his last words for as much as two weeks, and then when the time came, he said, "None but the brave deserve the fair," and died happy.
ref: 1889 September 11, Mark Twain, “Last words of great men”, in Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N.Y.:
text: This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 109:
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: The final statement uttered by a person before death.
examples: text: have the last word
text: get the last word
text: An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have the last word.
ref: 2008 July 9, Jeff Israely, “Where Is the Afghan Female Runner?”, in Time, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2008:
glosses: A final decision or remark, or the right to make one.
Derived terms: last-wordism
Related terms: final say
last laugh
last words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of last word
last words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The alleged last words would have been "More beating" had one of the assailants failed to notice the victim's true intent.
glosses: The final remarks uttered by a person before death.
Derived terms: famous last words
bounderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bounderish
form: most bounderish
Etymology: From bounder + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish—notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction.
ref: 1967 March 3, "The War of Total Paper" (book review of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell), Time
glosses: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
Related terms: bounderishly
bounderishness
colourblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌləblaɪnd/
Forms: form: more colourblind
form: most colourblind
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colour blind.
inexpressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpressable
form: most inexpressable
Etymology: From in- + expressable.
Senses: glosses: Very rare spelling of inexpressible.
expressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From express + -able.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of expressible.
inextensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inextensible
form: most inextensible
Etymology: From in- + extensible.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being extended.
mirabelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirabelles
Senses: glosses: mirabelle plum
Related terms: mirabelle prune
securability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secure + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or degree of being securable, especially the ability of a system to provide different levels of secure access
trekschuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛkskɔɪt/
Forms: form: trekschuits
form: trackschuyt
form: trackscout
form: treckschuyt
form: treckskuyt
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Senses: examples: text: And thou, much plumper Dame,[…]. Thee, I call; of whom in a Trachtchugt in ſome Dutch Canal the fat Ufrow Gelt, impregnated by a jolly Merchant of Amſterdam, was delivered:[…].
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “An Invocation”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, pages 2–3:
text: [H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague,[…].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LXIX, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254:
glosses: A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
tagine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagines
Senses: examples: text: [page 8] On a round table, food is served in a central platter or tagine or in shallow dishes so that it can be easily picked up with the fingers. [...] [page 14] Fresh broad beans are used when in season, the young beans added to tagines with the skin on; when more mature, the beans are blanched and skinned before cooking.
ref: 2005, Tess Mallos, Cooking Moroccan, Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, pages 8 and 14:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tajine.
tagines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagine
chrematophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῆμα (khrêma, “money”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, they are "cheap," and if fear of spending small amounts of money is a form of chrematophobia, then phobias abound in the world.
ref: 1999, David L. Weiner, Gilbert M. Hefter, Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 194:
text: While most would take wealth if it were offered, and chrematophobia (a morbid fear of money) is practically unheard of, most people limit their rise to riches by both their emotional immaturities and their sensibilities and humanness.
ref: 2001, Ron Jarrett, Discovering the Millionaire in Every Child: Mastering the Decisions That Define Your Life, Word Association Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
text: The fear of money, clinically named chrematophobia, is perhaps the most widely known financial fear. At its extreme, chrematophobia produces symptoms such as dizziness, perspiration, loss of breath, nausea, dry mouth, heart palpitations, and the inability to think clearly.
ref: 2006, Kelvin E. Boston, Who's Afraid to Be a Millionaire?: Mastering Financial and Emotional Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: The fear of money, spending money, or having too much or not enough money.
calefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calefacient
form: most calefacient
Senses: glosses: having heating or warming effects
calefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calefacients
Senses: glosses: A medical agent or substance which produces a feeling of warmth when applied to the body.
depopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depopulation
megapode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megapodes
Etymology: From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).
Senses: examples: text: In precocial species, such as megapodes, the young hatch with their eyes open and are ready to leave the nest within a short period of time.
ref: 2017 June 28, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:
glosses: Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.
Synonyms: brush-turkey
incubator bird
moundbird
mound-builder
scrubfowl
Derived terms: Biak megapode
Megapodius geelvinkianus
dusky megapode Megapodius freycinet
Forsten's megapode
Megapodius forstenii
Melanesian megapode
Megapodius eremita
Micronesian megapode
Megapodius laperouse
Moluccan megapode
Eulipoa wallacei
New Guinea megapode
Megapodius decollatus
Nicobar megapode
Megapodius nicobariensis
orange-footed megapode
Megapodius reinwardt
Philippine megapode
Megapodius cumingii
Polynesian megapode
Megapodius pritchardii
Sula megapode
Megapodius bernsteinii
Tanimbar megapode
Megapodius tenimberensis
Tongan megapode
Vanuatu megapode
Megapodius layardi
megapode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megapode
form: most megapode
Etymology: From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.
derecognises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derecognise
derecognising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derecognise
derecognised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derecognise
gonif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonifs
form: gonivim
Senses: examples: text: Well, what do you know about that, Gentile America? Supergoy, a gonif! Steals money. Covets money. Wants money, will do anything for it. Goodness gracious me, almost as bad as Jews - you sanctimonious WASPs!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:
glosses: Alternative form of ganef.
birthing chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthing chairs
form: birth chair
Senses: examples: text: Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.
ref: 1984, “Clinical News: Rebirth of the Birthing Chair,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 84, number 7, page 872:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth.
birth chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth chairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birthing chair.
megapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megapods
Senses: glosses: megapode
megapod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: megapode
ride cymbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ride cymbals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of cymbal, the function of which is to maintain a steady rhythmic pattern.
aerobiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: aerobioses
Etymology: From aero- + -biosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any form of life that is sustained by the presence of air (or oxygen)
Related terms: aerobiotic
microaerobiosis
capillarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillarizations
Etymology: From capillary + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Ren et al. 36 insisted that human MSC can differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells but do not accelerate the capillarization and venularization of hepatic sinusoids, finally leading to the partial improvement of liver function in mice with CCl4-mediated chronic liver fibrosis.
ref: 2013 February 28, Sang-Tae Choi et al., “Therapeutic potentials occurring during the early differentiation process of mesenchymal stem cells in a rats model with thioacetamide-induced liver fibrosis”, in Korean Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, volume 17, →DOI:
glosses: The formation and development of a network of capillaries to a part of the body; it is increased by aerobic exercise.
Derived terms: microcapillarization
recapillarization
Related terms: capillarize
xenophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛn.ə.fəʊn/
homophone: Xenophon
Forms: form: xenophones
Etymology: From xeno- + -phone.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language.
recency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːsənsi/
Forms: form: recencies
Etymology: From Latin recentia, from recens, equivalent to recent + -cy. See recent.
Senses: examples: text: Due to its recency, there are no used parts available for this model.
synonyms: recentness
glosses: The property of being recent; newness.
Derived terms: recency bias
recency effect
rebuildable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rebuild + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being rebuilt.
reales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real
get something over with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets something over with
form: getting something over with
form: got something over with
form: got something over with
form: gotten something over with
Etymology: get + over with
Senses: examples: text: I hate getting shots, but it's best just to get it over with.
text: Let's just get this over with. I'm sure we've all got things we'd rather be doing
ref: 2019, “One Bad Day” (50 seconds from the start), in Marvel's The Punisher, season 2, episode 7:
glosses: To proceed to do something as soon as possible, especially so as to have something unpleasant behind oneself.
Related terms: have something over with
dorsalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsalgias
Etymology: From dors- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: dorsodynia
notalgia
glosses: Pain in the (upper) back.
Related terms: dorsopathy
sphereing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphering
Etymology: From sphere + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Well with sphereing, you are that sock - a prisoner inside a huge inflatable spherical jail, travelling down hills at speeds of up to 30mph
ref: 2008 August 4, “Sphere we go again”, in Body Confidential:
glosses: The practice of humans traveling in a sphere, generally made of transparent plastic, usually for fun.
Synonyms: zorbing
sphering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphereing
Etymology: From sphere + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The gift set contains a video and a voucher entitling them to go either snowboarding, sphering, jet skiing or rapid running for pounds 85.
ref: 2001 December 13, “Your fool-proof guide to buying the perfect Christmas presents”, in Daily Post:
glosses: The practice of humans traveling in a sphere, generally made of transparent plastic, usually for fun.
Synonyms: zorbing
fremder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fremd: more fremd
moza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mozas
Etymology: From Urdu موضع (mauze', mauza'). Doublet of mouza.
Senses: glosses: A village or revenue estate.
ligamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more ligamental
form: most ligamental
Etymology: From ligament + -al.
Senses: synonyms: ligamentary
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament
Derived terms: juxtaligamental
musculoligamental
subligamental
hindwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindwings
Etymology: From hind + wing.
Senses: examples: text: the Amblypodia group presents a more or less elongated form of hindwing with some variety in the shape and caudation ;
ref: 1890, George Frederick Leycester Marshall, Lionel de Nicéville, The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon:
text: the hindwings are a little narrower and longer the light maculation of the upperside of the forewing is markedly reduced and the cellspot only faintly suggested.
ref: 2001, Oliver Schäffler et al, Butterflies of the World: Papilionidae. - 6:
text: As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.
ref: 2015 October 21, “Familial Clarification of Saucrosmylidae stat. nov. and New Saucrosmylids from Daohugou, China (Insecta, Neuroptera)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hind wing.
hind wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hind wings
form: hindwing
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either member of the pair of wings closer to the tail.
raw_tags: in an insect with two pairs of wings
fore wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore wings
form: forewing
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: hind wing
glosses: Of an insect, either member of the pair of wings closest to the head.
forewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forewings
Etymology: From fore- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: The ‘white-tailed’ kites in the genus Elanus (‘kite’) are small, gull-like, grey-and-white hawks with black forewing patches and varying amounts of black on the underwings.
ref: 2019, Stephen Debus, “Small Kites, Genus Elanus”, in Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide, 3rd edition, Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Handbook), page 113:
text: Noticeable features found in many of the owlets are two markings that often appear on the upper forewings.
ref: 2023, John Himmelman, Discovering Moths, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of fore wing.
Derived terms: forewinged
makeup artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeup artists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make-up artist.
make-up artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of make-up artist
makeup artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makeup artist (alternative spelling of make-up artists).
mutedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mutedly
form: most mutedly
Etymology: From muted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a muted manner.
national treasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national treasures
Senses: examples: text: [Marcel] Somerville was called a “national treasure” during the third season. But when he cheated on his Love Island partner, Gabby Allen, after leaving the villa, the U.K. media turned on him.
ref: 2022 June 2, Anna Peele, “Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols”, in Vanity Fair:
text: But drinking in the bath always feels slightly performative, as though I'm auditioning for the role of beloved boozy singleton and UK national treasure, Bridget Jones.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jo Ellison, “Breakfast in bath—yes or eurgh?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
glosses: A place, object, or person that is deemed to be of value to an entire nation, usually because of cultural significance.
national treasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national treasure
Sinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 思南.
Senses: examples: text: Commune members of Ssunan County in Kweichow Province have strengthened the management of rape fields, defeated natural disasters and increased rapeseed output by more than 70 percent compared with 1971.
ref: [1972 June 26 [1972 June 23], “Rapeseed Production Increases 20 Percent Over 1971”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 124, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B 3:
glosses: A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Sinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korean 신안(新安) (Sinan).
Senses: glosses: A county of South Jeolla Province, South Korea.
olive oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive oil
jellyfish tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jellyfish trees
Etymology: From jellyfish and tree; so called because the gynoecium of its flower resembles the tentacles of a jellyfish.
Senses: glosses: A rare tree, Medusagyne oppositifolia, indigenous to the island of Mahé in the Seychelles.
Hypernyms: tree
runner-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runner-up
audient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪ.ənt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audiēns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audiēns), the present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).
The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audiēns (“catechumen”), from the participle audiēns.
Senses: examples: text: The prosochist is that person whom the noun itself designates by means of an audient intonation, an audient indication, or an audient comma, as the paricular individual to whose notice the par-e-theme presents the different objects mntioned, or implied, in the sentence; as, Master, I have brought unto thee my son. (Master.)
ref: 1849, James Brown, An English Grammar, in Three Books. […], book II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by John T. Lange, […], →OCLC, part II, lesson II, section 2 (The Pronoun Denomination), footnote, page 113:
text: And, as we sate, we felt the old earth spin, / And all the starry turbulence of worlds / Swing round us in their audient circles, till / If that same golden moon were overhead / Or if beneath our feet, we did not know.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 398:
text: Nyarlathotep … the crawling chaos … I am the last … I will tell the audient void …
ref: 1920 November, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “Nyarlathotep”, in The United Amateur, volume 20, number 2, Spokane, Wash.: Published for the United Amateur Press Association by E. B. Ault, →OCLC, page 19; republished in The Doom that Came to Sarnath, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, February 1971 (May 1991 printing), →ISBN, page 57:
synonyms: word: attentive
word: reckful
glosses: Listening, paying attention.
Derived terms: audiently
Related terms: audibility
audible
audibleness
audibly
audience
audio-
audio
auditor
auditorily
auditorium
auditory
inaudibility
inaudible
inaudibleness
inaudibly
nonaudible
nonaudio
nonauditory
transaudient
con artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of con artist
sitting ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitting duck
paraphyletically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paraphyletic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a paraphyletic manner.
front end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front ends
form: front-end
form: frontend
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: user interface
antonyms: back end
glosses: That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see front, end.
Related terms: word: back end
word: front-end
front ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front end
front-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front end.
front-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: front-end developer
text: front-end framework
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: back-end
glosses: Relating to the front end or user interface of a hardware or software system.
examples: text: front-end fee
text: front-end expenditure
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a financial transaction, paid or charged first.
Derived terms: front-end loader
front-end processor
front-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front-end
duoplural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd(j)uː.əʊˈplʊə.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈplɔː.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌd(j)u.oʊˈplʊ(ə)ɹ.əl/
ipa: /-ˈplɜɹ.əl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From duo- + plural.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.
duoplural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd(j)uː.əʊˈplʊə.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈplɔː.ɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌd(j)u.oʊˈplʊ(ə)ɹ.əl/
ipa: /-ˈplɜɹ.əl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: duoplurals
Etymology: From duo- + plural.
Senses: examples: text: Languages that employ the duoplural include Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something.
Related terms: dual
paucal
plural
quadral
singular
singulative
trial
unal
back ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back end
back-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back end.
back-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: back-end database
text: back-end developer
text: DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active directory of personnel, the source told CNN.
ref: 2025 February 9, Matt Egan, “Consumer watchdog ordered to stop fighting financial abuse and to work from home as HQ temporarily shuts down”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: front-end
glosses: Relating to the back end part of a hardware or software system.
back-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-end
unredeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unredeemed
form: most unredeemed
Etymology: From un- + redeemed.
Senses: examples: text: “Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”
ref: 1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229:
text: The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix:
glosses: Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Its redeemability converts the redemptors into rent-chargers, and, according to an official report quoted in Mr. Dowell’s “History of Taxation in England,” ever since Pitt’s rearrangement the unredeemed amounts have been regarded as a fixed charge on properties, subject to which they have been bought and sold many times over.
ref: 1896 July 18, The Speaker: A Review of Politics, Letters, Science, and the Arts, volume XIV, London: […], page 53, column 2:
glosses: Unspent; not used in a purchase, and thus still usable.
raw_tags: of a coupon or offer
unredeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + redeemed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unredeem
backend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backends
Etymology: From back + end.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back end.
backends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backend
frontend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front end.
frontends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontend
Pan-theism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pantheism.
temperment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pɚ.mənt/
Forms: form: temperments
Etymology: Perhaps influenced by analysis as temper + -ment. (Attested since the 1470s.)
Senses: examples: text: […] it is possible, and probable, that the nervous temperment (as it is called) is inherited […]. Are men of nervous temperment found to be unfit […]? If not, why should women of the same temperment be unfit for them? The peculiarities of the temperment are, no doubt, within certain limits, an obstacle to success in some employments, though an aid to it in others. But when the occupation is suitable to the temperment, […] It is evident that people of this temperment are particularly apt for [leadership].
ref: 1873, The Mystic Star, volume 18, page 41:
text: What is disturbing to me is not the appearance per se but the attempt to cloak it as a non-political statement on judicial temperment. If judicial temperment were really the concern of the U.S. Attorney's office, they would provide the Committee with a full picture. Every lawyer who practices in D.C. Superior Court knows there are judges whose judicial temperment cries out for investigation […] The nub of the matter is not Judge Halleck's judicial temperment but the United States Attorney's dislike of the legal rulings of the judge.
ref: 1975-1976, Brian Lederer, in a letter printed in Nomination of an Associate Judge: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on Nomination of Charles W. Halleck to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (reappointment), December 3, 1975, page 166
glosses: Misconstruction of temperament.
temperments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temperment
petty theft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty thefts
Senses: synonyms: petty larceny
coordinate_terms: grand larceny
glosses: A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.
Related terms: grand theft
petty thefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty theft
obnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, apparently as a blend of observe + gnosis.
Senses: examples: text: Here you will find the Instructor's Code, Obnosis and the Tone Scale and one of the best descriptions of Assist processing ever published.
ref: 1958, Ability, Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International, page 12
text: Obnosis (observing the obvious) must be used at every moment to determine the best next step with any student.
ref: 1970, B. Robert Ross, A Parent's Guide to the Teaching of Reading: A Compilation of Old and New Methods of Teaching and a New View of the Reading Process: Upstat Pub. Co.
text: Hubbard created Scientology's language to be unique to its members. It includes words that are interpretations, or variations, of standard terms: "isness," for example, which Scientology's glossaries say, in essence, means "reality." But there are also words that are wholly made up, such as "obnosis," which means "observation of the obvious."
ref: [2006 February 23, Janet Reitman, “Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion”, in Rolling Stone:
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Observing the obvious.
Kazakhstani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kazakhstani
form: most Kazakhstani
form: Qazaqstani
Etymology: From Kazakhstan + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike Ali G Indahouse, Baron Cohen’s failed attempt to bring his most famous character into an entirely fictional universe, Borat found the comic tension in placing his Kazakhstani buffoon in delicate social situations, like a rodeo where he supports the “War Of Terror” a bit too zealously.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:
synonyms: Kazakh#Adjective
glosses: Of or pertaining to Kazakhstan, its people and culture.
Kazakhstani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kazakhstanis
form: Qazaqstani
Etymology: From Kazakhstan + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Kazakh#Noun
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan.
inflamedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflamed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being inflamed.
hypocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypocrisy.
plantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantages
Etymology: From plant + -age. In later use influenced by French plantage and Dutch plantage.
Senses: examples: text: As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: And thus from Maries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant proceeded,
Which neither setting, neither plantage needed.
ref: 1634, Charles Fitz-Geffry, The blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations, on the angels anthem, page 11:
text: The jealous matrone with suspitious eye,
Did read their common ill in every face,
Espyde the breach of their virginity,
And fear'd a plantage with an infant race.
ref: 1637, Nathaneel Whiting, The pleasant historie of Albino and Bellama, page 82:
text: And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]
ref: 1640, William Lithgow, The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes […] , page 14:
text: From 1890, when the McKinley bill passed, nursery products had steadily declined, until to-day many articles were being offered at rates below the actual cost of production, so that the people who favored the restoration of the duty have lived to see their prophesies falsified, because the result has not been to decrease the plantage and increase the price, but has had exactly the opposite effect.
ref: 1894 July, “The American Association: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting at Niagara Falls”, in The National Nurseryman, volume 2, number 6, page 74:
text: A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant stand in the first year. Due to this fact the plantage results in additional yields, but these are not so high as after the more proper transfer (or mixing) horizons[…]
ref: 1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, in Agrochimica, volume 11, number 2, page 164:
text: It seems to me relevant, too, that only a part of the Disputed Land belongs to Mrs Virdi. She is able to use that part by maintaining it, dealing with it as owner. So, for instance, she can grow a plant or trellis close to the fence (so long as it does not prevent parking); she could place bicycles on this land; she could alter the surface, replace and repaint the fencing, and so on.
ref: Virdi v Chana [2008] EWHC 2901 (Ch)
glosses: Plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.
pleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːɒn/
rhymes: -iɒn
Forms: form: pleons
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek πλέων (pléōn), present participle of πλεῖν (pleîn, “to sail”); from the fact that it bears the swimming limbs. Alternatively, perhaps in the sense of being longer or extended.
Senses: glosses: The abdomen of a crustacean.
Derived terms: pleonal
pleopod
thioxanthone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioxanthones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic ketone derivative of thioxanthene having a carbonyl group opposite the sulfur atom
Derived terms: diethylthioxanthone
hydroxythioxanthone
isopropylthioxanthone
ballbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ball + busting.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: cock and ball torture
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The beating or kicking of the testicles.
ballbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ball + busting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballbust
ballbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ballbusting
form: most ballbusting
Etymology: From ball + busting.
Senses: glosses: Having a violent or aggressive attitude towards men.
raw_tags: of women
radio collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio collars
Senses: glosses: A radio transmitter, fastened to a wild animal, (usually around the neck) so that the animal's movements may be tracked.
radio-collared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a radio collar
radio jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio jocks
Senses: glosses: A radio jockey
bewind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bəˈwaɪnd/
Forms: form: bewinds
form: bewinding
form: bewound
form: bewound
Etymology: From Middle English bewinden, biwinden, from Old English bewindan (“to wind round, clasp, entwine, envelop, encircle, surround, brandish (a sword), turn, wind, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *biwindaną (“to wind round”), equivalent to be- + wind. Cognate with Middle Low German bewinden (“to entwine, wrap”), German bewinden (“intertwine, wind around”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (biwindan, “to entwine, wrap”).
Senses: glosses: To wind (a thing) about; involve; envelop (with).
glosses: To wind or twine oneself round.
Related terms: bewend
radio jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio jockeys
Senses: examples: text: Across the border, in Delhi, a similar transistor radio was playing the same station. This one was sitting on Kao's desk, with Kao and Nair seated on either side. In Calcutta, the radio jockey checked the time and […]
ref: 2025 June 30, Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket, The War that Made R&AW, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: A disk jockey who hosts a radio talk show.
radioland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Radioland
Etymology: From radio + -land.
Senses: examples: text: The circus people might be a bit odd, but any discomfort along those lines tends to pale against being known in radioland as New York's version of Dogpatch.
ref: 1998 September 19, Glenn Collins, “A Little Town and the Big Top; After Months of Traveling, Circus Settles in New Home”, in The New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: The radio broadcasting industry.
examples: text: Hello, all my friends out there in Radioland—this is your friend Melba Melsing, here to sing melodious melodies from faraway lands just for you. . . .
ref: 1985, Gloria Vanderbilt, Once Upon a Time: A True Story, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: The notional place where an audience is listening to a radio program.
cazimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The position of the center of the sun in the sky.
fall foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls foul
form: falling foul
form: fell foul
form: fallen foul
Senses: examples: text: If they be any ways offended, […]they fall foul.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: He was, literally speaking, drunk; which circumstance, together with his natural impetuosity, could produce no other effect than his running immediately up to his daughter, upon whom he fell foul with his tongue in the most inveterate manner [...]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
glosses: To collide; to conflict with; to attack (+ on, of, upon)
examples: text: Sky News fell foul of its own woolly reporting on Tuesday, when it reported "human remains" had been found on Saddleworth Moor. Ever keen to spin a good yarn, they immediately linked the story to moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - only for the police to emerge seven hours later and announce that, after very careful inspection, they could confirm the carcass was not human …
ref: 2008, The Guardian, Media Monkey, 4 Aug 2008
text: If Chelsea were to fall foul of profit and sustainability, they would be expected to cite unforeseen circumstances, much as some clubs have claimed Covid writedowns: their books would have been sound but for the pandemic.
ref: March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
text: Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: To be defeated or thwarted (by); to suffer (+ of)
barbed wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbed wire
barbwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbwires
Etymology: From barb + wire.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barbed wire.
bacterioplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacterioplanktons
Etymology: From bacterio- + plankton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The bacterial component of marine plankton
bacterivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ingestion of bacteria as food or as an energy supply
Related terms: bacterivore
bacterivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacterivores
Etymology: From bacteria + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that ingests bacteria, whether as food or as a source of energy.
Related terms: bacterivory
eukaryovore
euphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
Etymology: From eu- + photic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible”).
synonyms: word: photic
extra: describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible
Derived terms: euphotic zone
euphotic zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphotic zones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of photic zone.
synonyms: word: photic zone
mixotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mixo- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: Mixoplanktons adopt the mixed trophic strategy called mixotrophy.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The derivation of metabolic energy from a combination of photosynthesis and an external energy source.
Related terms: mixotroph
mixotrophic
mixotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixotrophs
Etymology: From mixo- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: Any mixotrophic organism
mixotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mixo- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mixotrophy or mixotrophs
Derived terms: mixotrophically
photomixotrophic
mixotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mixotrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a mixotrophic manner; by the use of mixotrophy
Derived terms: photomixotrophically
multiscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + scale.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or operating across multiple scales.
nanotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanotechnology
superlenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlens
superlens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superlenses
Etymology: From super- + lens.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several lenses, often built using material with negative refractive index, that can resolve images having dimensions less than that of the wavelength of light used.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A kind of compound lenslet array system.
Related terms: superlensing