cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lesb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lesbian.
lesb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbs
Senses: examples: text: Suppress the queers, the fairies, the lesbs, the fags, the queens, the fruits, the abnormal.
ref: 2001, Rossella Giangrande, Raymond Federman: la disgregazione del romanzo, page 91:
text: […] the fat one with the dimples on her knees... the one that was a bit of a lesb... she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.
ref: 2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady:
glosses: Abbreviation of lesbian.
osphresiolagnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄσφρησις (ósphrēsis, “sense of smell”) (from ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”)) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust, coition”).
Senses: examples: text: 1910, Karl Abraham, Douglas Bryan, Alix Strachey (translators), The Man who Loved Corsets, reprinted in 1959, Harold Greenwald, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, 1987, page 45,
In the present case it turned out that the patient had passed through a stage which corresponded to smell-fetishism, and that after this a peculiar modification had taken place by which his osphresiolagnia (abnormal interest in odors [Ed.]) had been repressed and his pleasure in looking had been sublimated to pleasure in seeing foot-wear which had an æsthetic value.
text: In the Hindu theory of ojas and sublimation, we may have an interesting complement to the Freudian hypothesis about osphresiolagnia and its 'repression'.
ref: 1950, Swami Smaranananda, Awakened India, volume 60, page 87:
text: This instance belongs to the field of osphresiolagnia, the fetishistic-libidinal attachment to odors, especially those emanating from some part of the loved one's body.
ref: 1964, Benjamin Karpman, The Sexual Offender and His Offenses: Etiology, Pathology, Psychodynamics, and Treatment, page 496:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.
Synonyms: osmophilia
olfactophilia
alkaligen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alkali + -gen.
Senses: glosses: The name first proposed for nitrogen, as being a chief constituent of ammonia or volatile alkali.
alkaligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alkaligenous
form: most alkaligenous
Etymology: From alkali + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Producing or generating alkali.
all-heal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-heals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of allheal.
all-heals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all-heal
almander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almanders
Etymology: From Middle English almander, almaunder, from Old French almandier, a modification of amandier. See almond.
Senses: glosses: almond tree
almanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almander
almight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more almight
form: most almight
Etymology: From Middle English almight, almyght, almyȝt, almiht, from Old English ælmiht, eallmiht (“almighty”) from eall (“all”) + miht (“might”).
Senses: glosses: almighty
almightyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From almighty + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being almighty; omnipotence.
almond-furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond-furnaces
Etymology: Probably from Almain + furnace.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A furnace in which slags of litharge left in refining silver are reduced to lead by being heated with charcoal.
almond-furnaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond-furnace
alms-fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alms-fees
Etymology: From Old English ælmes-feoh, from ælmesse (“alms”) + feoh (“money”). See fee.
Senses: glosses: An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII.
Synonyms: Rome-scot
Rome-fee
Peter's pence
alms-folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alms + folk.
Senses: glosses: Persons supported by alms.
alms-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alms-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of almshouse.
alms-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alms-house
O.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OD.
O.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OD.
pot au feu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pot-au-feu.
pol. cons.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of political consultation(s).
glosses: Abbreviation of police constable.
Cons. Pol.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of (De) Consolatio(ne) ad Polybium.
caffeinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffeinators
Etymology: From caffeinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: I’m not a regular morning caffeinator, but today I need a boost, so I stop at my favorite corner café.
ref: 2007, Andrea Meyer, chapter III, in Room for Love, St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 45, →ISBN:
glosses: One who consumes caffeine.
examples: text: It’s not the movie’s fault — // though I’m told the boat from the film // is moored in the bay — // nor the sense that this is where // the octopus Microsoft began — // home to the inventive caffeinator // Starbucks.
ref: 2009, David Gilbey, Death and the Motorway, Accessible Publishing Systems PTY Ltd. (ReadHowYouWant edition set in 16 pt. Verdana), “Sleepless in Seattle”, page 87
glosses: A distributor of caffeinated beverages.
resenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resender
recleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recleaner
VLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLSs
form: VLSes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of vertical launching system.
gsg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of genitive singular.
oligarchize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oligarchizes
form: oligarchizing
form: oligarchized
form: oligarchized
Etymology: From oligarch + -ize.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To make (a political system) oligarchic.
Derived terms: oligarchization
oligarchizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oligarchize
oligarchizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oligarchize
oligarchized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oligarchize
oligarchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oligarchises
form: oligarchising
form: oligarchised
form: oligarchised
Senses: glosses: To make oligarchic.
oligarchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oligarchise
oligarchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oligarchise
oligarchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oligarchise
oligarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligarchists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of oligarchism
oligarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligarch + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles or spirit of an oligarchy.
oligarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligarchist
scythe down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scythes down
form: scything down
form: scythed down
form: scythed down
Senses: examples: text: For that Smalling will have to do his time grazing in the scapegoat’s paddock because his contribution here supplied hard evidence of a player lacking the football intelligence that is needed at the highest level. He has previous on that front and it is difficult to find any mitigation for the way he scythed down James Milner when the first rule for a defender on a yellow card is not to dive in unless it is absolutely necessary.
ref: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in guardian.co.uk:
glosses: To violently cause to fall down.
splendider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of splendid: more splendid
promag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promags
Etymology: Blend of professional + magazine.
Senses: examples: text: The new pro mag, STARTLING STORIES lets itself in for a big time with the fast typers and hit and run spellers. 'NEW FANDOM' is the first, so far, to call it "STRATTLING STORIES", or words & music to that effect.
ref: 1939 January, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Fun Dept”, in Le Zombie, number 2, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016, page 2:
text: I guess that intangible something is closeness to perfection which makes my favorite science-fiction promag so easy to take with nary a word.
ref: 1941 April, Joe Fortier, “Brass Tacks”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 2, page 156:
text: Jackson's 'Still Small Voice' was 'worthy of a promag' thought NORMAN ASHFIELD
ref: 1950 Spring, Walter Alexander Willis, “On The Level”, in Slant, number 3, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: prozine
antonyms: fanmag
fanzine
glosses: A professionally published magazine.
promags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promag
tingsha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tingshas
Etymology: From Tibetan ཏིང་ཤགས.
Senses: glosses: One of a pair of small cymbals bound by a strap or chain, used in prayer and rituals by Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.
tingshas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tingsha
door-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door-bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doorbell.
door-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door-keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doorkeeper.
door-mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door-mats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doormat.
door-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-bell; alternative form of doorbells
door-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-keeper; alternative form of doorkeepers
door-mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door-mat; alternative form of doormats
down-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down-turns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downturn.
down-turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down-turn; alternative form of downturns
dum-dums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dum-dum; alternative form of dumdums
demolishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demolishable
form: most demolishable
Etymology: From demolish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be demolished; destructible.
Derived terms: undemolishable
Yasui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yasuis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 安井 or 安居 (Yasui).
Senses: examples: text: Minoru Yasui was a trained army officer with a legal education who worked in the Japanese consular office.
ref: 2012, Karen Latchana Kenney, Korematsu v. the United States: World War II Japanese-American Internment Camps, ABDO Publishing Company, 89
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
almyghty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more almyghty
form: most almyghty
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of almighty.
de Havilland Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after actress Olivia de Havilland, whose 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros clarified the legal situation.
Senses: glosses: California Labor Code Section 2855, a law which prevents a court from enforcing specific performance of an exclusive personal services contract beyond the term of seven calendar years from the commencement of service.
alnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alnights
Etymology: From all + night.
Senses: glosses: A great cake of wax with a wick in the midst, intended to burn all night.
alnights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alnight
aloedary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aloedaries
Etymology: From New Latin aloēdarium, from Ancient Greek ἀλοηδάριον (aloēdárion), from ἀλόη (alóē, “aloes”).
Senses: glosses: A compound purgative medicine of which aloes is a chief ingredient.
aloedaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloedary
fly ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪ æʃ/
ipa: /ˈflaɪ ˌæʃ/
Etymology: From fly (“(obsolete) act of flying”, noun) + ash.
Senses: examples: text: Heat exchangers should be kept free of debris to minimize the possibility of fire. Fly ash deposited in heat exchangers may cause nonuniform temperatures. Therefore, the exchangers should be disconnected and cleaned out regularly.
ref: 1956 December, Edmund F. Rasmussen [et al.], “Heating System”, in Inspection and Maintenance of Lumber Dry Kilns and Equipment: Information on Ways and Means of Keeping Lumber Dry Kilns Operating Efficiently (Report no. 1900-4), Madison, Wis.: Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture in association with the University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Among new freight vehicles was a prototype 21-ton wagon with pressure discharge for the conveyance of fly ash from power stations, […]
ref: 1964 August, “BR [British Rail] in 1963 – ‘We have Turned the Financial Corner’”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Furnaces and boilers with horizontal heating surfaces require frequent cleaning, because fly ash (fine powdery ash) collects on these surfaces.
ref: 1975 May, Joseph W[inslow] Simons, “Fuels and Burners”, in Home Heating: Systems, Fuels, Controls (Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 2235), Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 19, column 2:
text: Besides our sending out of cement by rail, we also bring in pulverised fly-ash, typically once a week, which comes from Drax Power Station and is used in the cement manufacturing process, […]
ref: 2022 September 7, Gareth David, “Class 20 Stronghold in the Peak District”, in Rail, number 965, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45:
synonyms: flue ash
hypernyms: ash
coordinate_terms: bottom ash
potash
glosses: A residue generated in the combustion of powdered coal or other materials, comprising the fine particles that rise with the flue gases; when generated industrially it is usually captured and can be recycled for use in construction materials.
Hypernyms: coal ash
perceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptics
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A sense; a perceiving faculty.
Related terms: percept
perception
perceptual
perceptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perceptic
Tolstoyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolstoyesque
form: most Tolstoyesque
Etymology: From Tolstoy + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer.
Sammamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /səˈmæmɪʃ/
Senses: glosses: A city in King County, Washington, United States.
Sammamish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈmæmɪʃ/
Senses: glosses: A Coast Salish Native American tribe in the Sammamish River Valley in central King County, Washington.
Renton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛn.tən/
rhymes: -ɛntən
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3878).
glosses: A city in King County, Washington, United States.
Maple Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Washington.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
Maple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mapel
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
glosses: An urban community in Vaughan, York Region, Ontario, Canada.
examples: text: i'm asking these questions for my friend who has mac, and i want him to be able to play maple.
ref: 2007 February 5, Gold Dust Woman, “The Truth Is Finally Coming Out!!!”, in Anime Otakus (Google Groups), archived from the original on 31 Oct 2025:
text: Because when i try to play it, there is always a pop-up that tells me that i can't play maple because my window isnt compatible.
ref: 2007 April 4, Paul Smith, quoting Making my window^([sic]) compatible to games, “Re: Playing Maple Story”, in microsoft.public.windows.vista.games (Usenet), archived from the original on 31 Oct 2025:
text: free maple hacks
ref: 2010 July 13, Erma FIERRO, “FREE HACKS”, in alt.business.home.pc (Usenet), archived from the original on 31 Oct 2025:
text: 1. Researcher: So you can switch between characters? Switch between dinosaurs and humans? 2. Ken: No. But since you, when gather^([sic]) the DNA, then you can change to the dinosaurs. 3. Weibin: Use it as a mount. Can ride on it… 4. Ken: Maple! / In this excerpt, Weibin in turn #3 suggested another idea of using the dinosaur as a “mount”, a common item in popular online games, such as MapleStory and WOW.
ref: 2014, Beaumie Kim, Lynde Tan, Seng Chee Tan, “‘Perhaps This Can Be For Education’: […]”, in Michael Orey, Stephanie A. Jones, Robert Maribe Branch, editors, Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, volume 38, Cham: Springer, →ISBN, part I (Trends and Issues in Learning, Design, and Technology), page 36:
topics: video-games
glosses: Clipping of MapleStory.
Related terms: Mapler
Kenova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Kentucky + Ohio + Virginia
Senses: glosses: A city in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
Ceredo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
glosses: A city in West Virginia.
Smithers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪðɚz/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A city in West Virginia.
cathecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cathect
cathects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cathect
caffeinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffeinator
Farber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑɹ bəɹ/
Etymology: Anglicized form of Färber, meaning "a dyer" from German Farbe "colour".
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Farber's lipogranulomatosis
finds fault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of find fault
alopecist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alopecists
Etymology: From alopecia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who undertakes to cure or prevent baldness.
alopecists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alopecist
alphabetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin alphabetarius, from Late Latin alphabētum. See alphabet.
Senses: glosses: alphabetic; rudimentary
rubber duck debugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
hypernyms: confessional debugging
glosses: The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.
wikipedia: The Pragmatic Programmer
Synonyms: rubber ducking
lays into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay into
laying into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay into
laid into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay into
alphenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphenics
Etymology: From French alphénic, alfénic, from Spanish alfeñique, from Arabic فَانِيد (fānīd), from Persian پانید (pânid, “sugar candy”).
Senses: examples: text: There was Patella — wise as any owl — promising to cure me with his "Alphenic" ; but him I quickly showed the door; for here (laying his hand on the book), in here, I found this learned word is Arabic for sugar-candy!
ref: 1881, I.M.L.W., The bag of gold:
text: The white sugar, or alphenic, is its best quality.
ref: 1980, Tien-kung-kai-wu, page 189:
text: A popular Arab treatment for the common cold was al fanad or al panad, small sugar twists made from congealed syrup, which became known in English as alphenics or penides.
ref: 2016, John McQuaid, Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat, page 114:
glosses: White barley sugar
chickenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chicken + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: For me, I could not give a stuff who is vegetarian, chickenarian or what. It is up to them, just hope they make a good judgement.
ref: 2000 August 4, JAID [username], “Re: Lighten up”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet):
text: Most of the Turks are vegetarian and/or chickenarian (Chicken meat is preferred to red meat because of the price tags).
ref: 2005 March 26, Alistair Sim (quoting Baris Sanli), “Semranim for Dummies”, in soc.culture.turkish (Usenet):
text: Plus, there are salads for those who don't eat meat. As Nando's says: "Vegetarians are just as welcome as our Chickenarian customers.
ref: 2008 January 16, J. Smith, “Hot chicks”, in Gulf News:
glosses: Eating chicken and/or eggs, especially in conjunction with an otherwise vegetarian diet.
chickenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenarians
Etymology: From chicken + -arian.
Senses: glosses: A person who has such a diet.
Bolon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (lake in Russia): Transliteration of Russian Болонь (Bolonʹ), probably from Nanai [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A Manding language spoken in Burkina Faso.
glosses: A lake in Russia, located nearby the Amur River 50 miles south of Komsomolsk city
Bolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: (lake in Russia): Transliteration of Russian Болонь (Bolonʹ), probably from Nanai [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group in Mali.
YouPube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of YouTube + pube
Senses: examples: text: Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube
ref: 2007 January 1, Hypodeemic Nerdle, “Festivities”, in uk.misc (Usenet):
text: just being looking around on youpube etc. jan hammer stuff and the Dx7...god i wanted one of those!!
ref: 2009 January 19, Jules, “dragon 32 + freecycle + stupid woman”, in uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s (Usenet):
text: Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people
ref: 2010 August 27, The Patrick Michael Sullivan UCM Repost Project, “Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming libel and drivel on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):
text: erm you mean arrange your will to include whoever finds your remains to post said video on youpube?
ref: 2012 April 30, JimK, “White spirit won't burn?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):
glosses: The video-sharing site YouTube.
lluellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fluellin.
fluellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluellins
form: lluellin
Etymology: From Welsh llysiau Llewellyn, literally Llewellyn's herbs.
Senses: examples: text: There is another sort of Lluellin which has longer branches wholly trailing upon the ground two or three foot long and sometimes more, thinner set with leaves thereon, upon small footstalks.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:
text: Round-leaved female fluellin, or speedwell. It grows among the corn, flowering in July or August, in England.
ref: 1770, Charles Alston, Lectures on the Materia Medica, Lecture LVII:
glosses: Any of various varieties of Veronica, especially Veronica officinalis; speedwell.
glosses: Alternative form of fluellen (Kickxia spp.)
oneship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Unity; oneness.
glosses: Aloneness; solitude.
hoistroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoistrooms
Etymology: From hoist + room.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A space at the top of a mineshaft that holds the elevator to lift humans and equipment using a pulley and cable.
hoistrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoistroom
workstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workstyles
Etymology: From work + style.
Senses: glosses: A working lifestyle; the way in which somebody integrates their occupation into their life.
workstyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workstyle
Isocracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A proprietary name, from iso- + cracking; developed in 1959.
Senses: glosses: A process that uses catalysts to rearrange the existing molecules of heavy fuel oils to remove sulfur and convert low-value fuel oils into higher-yield products such as gasoline.
immunoproteasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoproteasome
pupilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupilometers
Etymology: From pupil + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the distance between the pupils of the eyes.
glosses: A device that measures the pupil's response to visual stimuli.
Related terms: pupilometric
pupilometry
pupilometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupilometer
multipored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pored.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple pores.
hydel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: hydroelectric
dermatomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermatome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a dermatome; as
examples: text: dermatomal distribution
glosses: Relating to a dermatome; as:
Distributed within the boundaries of a dermatome.
Synonyms: dermatomic
Derived terms: multidermatomal
CTFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of chlorotrifluoroethylene.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of compile-time function execution.
perfluorocyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: octafluorocyclobutane
octafluorocyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + fluoro- + cyclobutane.
Senses: glosses: The organofluorine compound C₄F₈, related to cyclobutane by replacement of all C–H bonds with C–F bonds, and used as a deposition gas and etchant in semiconductor manufacture.
Synonyms: perfluorocyclobutane
componence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From component + -ence.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The composition of a grammatical structure in terms of the components it contains, without regard to their arrangement.
antistrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistrips
Etymology: From anti- + strip.
Senses: glosses: An antistripping agent.
antistripping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + stripping.
Senses: examples: an antistripping agent
glosses: Preventing the detachment of asphalt from the surface to which it has been applied.
Related terms: antistrip
antistrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antistrip
black ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black ashes
Senses: glosses: Any tree of species Fraxinus nigra, native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
glosses: Any tree of species Acer negundo (ash-leaved maple), of North America.
glosses: Any tree of species Eucalyptus sieberi, of Australia.
geofoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geofoams
Etymology: From geo- + foam.
Senses: glosses: Expanded or extruded polystyrene manufactured into large lightweight blocks used to fill the void below a built structure.
geofoams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geofoam
split pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split pins
Senses: glosses: A metal fastener with two tines, the ends of which project through an object being fastened and are bent back to hold it in place.
glosses: A stationery fastener that is inserted into punched holes in a stack of paper before being bent to secure them.
Synonyms: sense: metal fastener
word: cotter pin
sense: metal fastener
word: cotter key
sense: stationery fastener
word: brad
sense: stationery fastener
word: brass fastener
sense: stationery fastener
word: butterfly clip
sense: stationery fastener
word: paper fastener
Related terms: rivet
staple
split pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split pin
tandemocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of tandem + democracy or tandem + -ocracy, a calque of Russian тандемократия (tandemokratija) originally in reference to the office-trading of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diarchy, especially involving alternation of offices in an allegedly democratic context.
synonyms: word: diarchy
extra: especially involving alternation of offices in an allegedly democratic context
wikipedia: Medvedev–Putin tandemocracy
Putinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Putinesque
form: most Putinesque
Etymology: From Putin + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance.
ref: 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Putinian
glosses: Reminiscent of the beliefs or policies of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia since 2012.
skive off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skives off
form: skiving off
form: skived off
form: skived off
Senses: synonyms: bump off
bunk out
bunk off
play hooky
glosses: To skive; to play truant; to slack off.
so-manieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From so many + -eth.
Senses: glosses: Ordinal form of so many; occurring at a certain unspecified position or rank.
on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The proposed new bill will soon be on the table in Parliament.
text: It is also important to note that union shops were the first workplaces in the country to win domestic partnership — and it wasn't won because management put it on the table, but because lesbian and gay unionized workers fought for it.
ref: 1994 October, Harneen Chernow, Andrea Demajewski, Herbst, “Understanding Unions, Class and Power”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Up for formal discussion; tabled.
examples: text: now everything is on the table
text: "We made an offer about two weeks ago, which is still on the table," he said. "We have not withdrawn it, and hope they will consider it."
ref: 1994 June 30, Kenneth N. Gilpin, “Dart Family Files Lawsuit To Nudge Brazilian Bank”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2016, retrieved 06 Apr 2014:
text: Israeli intelligence minister Yuval Steinitz said all options were open for Israel. "If we have no choice, we have no choice...the military option is on the table," he said.
ref: 2015 April 3, Jonathan Broder, Matthew Cooper, “Iran Was the Easy Part: Obama Takes His Nuke Deal to Congress”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2015:
coordinate_terms: on one's plate
;
in play
glosses: Open or available for further attention or action.
examples: text: I placed the book on the table.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, table.
UHMWPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene.
Related terms: HDPE
HMW
HMWPE
HPPE
LDPE
PE
UHDPE
UHMW
chintzified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chintzified
form: most chintzified
Etymology: From chintz + -ify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made chintzy.
Antonovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antonovkas
Senses: examples: text: She looked at some apples, turned a few over, took a whiff of some others, but just couldn't make up her mind which to buy — it was as though her whole fate depended on it. She finally spied some golden ones with the fragrance of champagne — smooth round Antonovkas. And above them was the smiling, golden face of a Korean farmer.
ref: 2003, David Shraer-Petrov, Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: It was easy: a quick jump over a low stone wall, a dash past a few rows of berry bushes, and there it was— the cursed tree with its absurd apples. Large poison-green spheres with deeply scalloped bottoms: Antonovkas. They were a good eating apple, but Jarmo had no interest in them.
ref: 2004, Sven A. Linholm, Orbits. Volume I : on Becoming a Man : a Novel, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
text: With the appearance of scab races 6 and 7, major attention has been focused on other scab resistance factors, particularly the “Antonovka” selections and apple genotype R12740-7A (“Russian seedling”, RS), which are currently used in several apple-breeding programs.
ref: 2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: An apple cultivar, noted for a strong acidic flavour and ability to sustain harsh winters.
Conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conferences
Etymology: After the National British Pear Conference in London in 1885, at which this cultivar won the first prize.
Senses: glosses: An autumn cultivar of the European pear Pyrus communis.
moneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monemes
Etymology: From mono- + -eme?
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: morpheme
monemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneme
man plans and God laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Things do not always work out as they are planned.
Synonyms: man proposes, God disposes
the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
animalhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From animal + -hood.
Senses: examples: August 13, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher, "My Yoke is Easy", in Plymouth Pulpit
The moral development of man is manhood; and all below that is animalhood, which we have in common with the brute creation. All our duties, then, are in accordance with our nature.
glosses: The state or period of being an animal.
bolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolons
Senses: glosses: A traditional harp played in Mali.
bolons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolon
crostatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crostata
acrobalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acro-balance
form: acro
Etymology: From acro- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I feel like there is also spiritual dimension in acrobalance, when Bridget and I are working together, very focused on one another, and when our breathing is in sync.
ref: 2008, Therese Schmid, Promoting Health Through Creativity: For professionals in health, arts and education, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: A form of exercise or performance involving two or more people performing balances without the use of any props.
Related terms: hand-to-hand
acro-balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acrobalance.
kumdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 검도(劍道) (geomdo). Doublet of kendo.
Senses: glosses: A Korean martial art originating from Japanese kendo.
leafling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaflings
Etymology: From leaf + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] 'Twas a garnet leaf of the richest hue, A smooth, bright rose, with a shadow or two, And a silky, rose-petal feel. And all alive seemed this leafling to be, For it trembled and quivered at a touch, As if from a possible hurt it would flee.
ref: 1905, Book News:
text: The sun found its way between the fresh leaflings overhead, and in order to inspect the splinter more effectually I went down on my knees at Felicia's feet.
ref: 1907, Thomas Cobb, The amateur emigrants:
glosses: A small, tiny, miniature, or immature leaf; a leaflet.
leaflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafling
idoliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolisers
Etymology: From idolise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of idolizer.
idolisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idoliser
gugglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guggling
dungings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunging
azasteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azasteroid
nyloned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nylon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, she turned around and walked to the sofa across the room. The warm afternoon sunlight poured through the lounge window, its beams resting on the tan sheen of her nyloned legs.
ref: 2005, Roger Selegue, No Sun Without Shadow, page 8:
glosses: Covered by nylon clothing.
IMX
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Acronym of in my experience.
leafful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leafful
form: most leafful
Etymology: From Middle English leful, leafful, lefful, from Old English lēaffull, ġelēafful (“believing, faithful, full of faith”), equivalent to leaf + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaful.
leafful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaffuls
form: leavesful
Etymology: From leaf + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “And here goes too!” cried Abraham; and we both, without hesitating any longer, emptied our bowls to the bottom; and so pure and delicious was the water that we emptied half a dozen leavesful more, and never felt a bit afraid that it would hurt us;[…]
ref: 1864, J[ohn] Ross Browne, “Ramble into the Interior”, in Crusoe’s Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe., New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 75:
text: […]mulberries, served by leavesful, crushed with their own lusciousness;[…]
ref: 1891, Laura Daintrey, “A Fallen Queen”, in Murray’s Magazine. A Home and Colonial Periodical for the General Reader., volume X, London: John Murray, […], page 607:
text: When night came, and the village was quiet, some old woman brought me a leafful of rice.
ref: 1906, Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain:
text: How can one give any hint of the wonder of the bazaars, as we brush past the overhanging branches of the pipal tree, and long pugarees of many colours hanging on a line across the narrow ways to dry, the cook shops, with the appetising smell of frizzling meat, the bowls of boiling milk, the leavesful of strange confections of sugar and spice;[…]
ref: 1916 February 15, “Letters from India (Nᵒ. 4). From the Top of the Elephant. A Survey of Lahore.”, in The Western Daily Press, volume 116, number 18,097, Bristol, page 9:
text: The lemonade was just sweet enough, and Janey drank two large leavesful.
ref: 1922, Johnny Gruelle, “Johnny and Janey Meet the Strange Man”, in The Magical Land of Noom, New York; Boston; Toronto; Chicago: P. F. Volland Company, page 29:
text: So overcome was a large tree at the corner of Mayfield-road, Leicester, that it gulped in a few leavesful of reviving rain, and then sank slowly to the ground.
ref: 1929 July 4, “Long May It Keep Raining! Thunderstorm Ends Great Drought. People Caught Coatless. Lunch-Hour Rush for Shelter and Tramcars Besieged.”, in Leicester Mercury, section “Every Little Helps”, page 1:
text: Three leavesful of sap are poured on a cut to stop bleeding.
ref: 1974, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 245:
text: "[…] Better than anything I've had for a long time.” He settled to breaking and eating the rest while Akin brought another leafful to Iriarte.
ref: 2012, Octavia E. Butler, Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago:
glosses: The amount or measure held by a leaf.
carissin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Carissa + -in.
Senses: glosses: A toxic cardioactive glucoside obtained from a shrub in the genus Carissa.
leaffuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafful
displaceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displaceabilities
Etymology: From displace + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The process of making and marking members of the nation as “foreign” or “strange”—this alienation and alienization—is clearly embodied by those migrants who are targeted by state policies. But the effects of displaceability are far-reaching.
ref: 2016, Deborah Boehm, Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation, page 30:
text: As the soft tissues are represented by dental stone on the models, the different displaceabilities would render any record inaccurate.
ref: 2018, P. D. Wilson, Manual of Clinical Procedures in Dentistry, page 396:
glosses: The quality or degree of being displaceable.
displaceabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displaceability
leaful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaful
form: most leaful
form: leafful
Etymology: From Middle English leful, lefful, leafful, from Old English lēaffull, ġelēafful (“full of belief, full of faith, believing, faithful”), equivalent to leave + -ful. Cognate with Scots leful, levefull (“right, permissible, legal, just”).
Senses: glosses: Full of faith; believing.
glosses: Faithful.
sapeca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapecas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”).
Muwahhidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Muwahhid + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Also like Ibn Tumart's Muwahhidism, his Mahdism first served as a means of excoriating, then later delegitimizing […]
ref: 2005, Timothy Furnish, Holiest Wars p 57
glosses: The doctrines associated with the Muwahhid movement
8x8 rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The x represents multiplication.
Senses: glosses: The recommendation that a person should drink eight servings of eight ounces of water each day.
glosses: The recommendation that each slide in a presentation should contain a maximum of eight lines of text with a maximum of eight words in each line.
Sunnize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sunnizes
form: Sunnizing
form: Sunnized
form: Sunnized
form: sunnize
form: Sunnise
Etymology: From Sunni + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In this regard it must be noted that the PKK operations in Hatay have targeted the Sunni Turkmen that Turkey settled in the province after it was annexed in 1939 in order to Sunnize the region. The bulk of the population in 1939 was comprised of Alawite Arabs as is 10 to 11 percent of Syrian population.
ref: 1997, Akin, “Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang!”, in cl.nahost.kurdistan (Usenet):
text: […] was really of the same category as the pirs and murshids of popular Sufism, regardless of Shia extrapolations from a more Sunnized epoch that in turn had elements in common with earlier forms of Shi'ism.
ref: 1988, Kevin R. D. Shepherd, From oppression to freedom, page 32:
text: How can the diverse constituents of Iraq be brought together without returning to a Sunnized Baathist situation […]
ref: 2006, Donald K. Swearer, Religion and Nationalism in Iraq, page 76:
glosses: To make or become Sunni
Sunnizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sunnize
Sunnizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sunnize
Sunnized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sunnize
sunnize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sunnizes
form: sunnizing
form: sunnized
form: sunnized
Etymology: From Sunni + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The author may appears in the eyes of some Alevi spokesmen as the example ofa “sunnized Alevi”, as he defends the fulfilment of the five pillars of Islam. Pamukçu argues for an autonomy of the Zazaspeaking Alevi from the Kurds (1992).
ref: 2005 Tord Olsson, Alevi Identity, p 47
text: Four other extremely popular Alawi shrines are not yet "sunnized" but have received the compulsory honor of a Sunni mosque nearby.
ref: 2010, Stephan Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets, p 155
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sunnize.
sunnizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sunnize
keep body and soul together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps body and soul together
form: keeping body and soul together
form: kept body and soul together
form: kept body and soul together
form: keep soul and body together
Senses: examples: text: How did you keep body and soul together before you got your first paying job as an actor?
text: Trout lives in a rented basement in Ilium, about two miles from Billy’s nice white home. He himself has no idea how many novels he has written—possibly seventy-five of the things. Not one of them has made money. So Trout keeps body and soul together as a circulation man for the Ilium Gazette, manages newspaper delivery boys, bullies and flatters and cheats little kids.
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Of a person: to survive; to continue living.
Related terms: body and soul
sunnizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunnize
sunnized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunnize
Sunnization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunnization
form: Sunnisation
Etymology: From Sunni + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making or becoming Sunni.