cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
robotise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: robotises
form: robotising
form: robotised
form: robotised
Etymology: From robot + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The "Becoming Real" remix of the track adds dubby space and bleeps to the mix and computerises the draggy beat and robotises the vocals – Veronica appears to be chanting "black lesbian" over and over, which is cool.
ref: 2010 June 15, Paul Lester, “Teeth (No 808)”, in The Guardian:
text: "We robotise events, you might say. What we don't like is journalists trying to write beautifully. […]
ref: 2012 June 8, Joris Luyendijk, “Salesman for software company selling to HFT firms: 'We robotise events'”, in The Guardian:
text: Journalism is not equivalent to hiring a taxi or robotising a repetitive assembly line task or renting a holiday home. It is a creative activity that cherishes democracy by holding power to account.
ref: 2015 April 7, Roy Greenslade, “Democracy will die if professional journalists go to the wall”, in The Guardian:
text: I put in my card, pressed a few buttons and the robotised order-picking system delivered my coffee. Not a barista in sight.
ref: 2017 February 2, Giles Fraser, “Robots can take our jobs, but they will never render obsolete our love”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of robotize.
robotising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of robotise
robotised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of robotise
refashioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refashioners
Etymology: From refashion + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who refashions.
refashioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refashioner
depoliticalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depoliticalizations
Etymology: From de- + politicalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of depoliticization.
depoliticalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depoliticalization
depoliticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depoliticization
depoliticalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depoliticalizes
form: depoliticalizing
form: depoliticalized
form: depoliticalized
Etymology: From de- + politicalize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of depoliticize.
depoliticalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depoliticalize
depoliticalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depoliticalize
dehistoricize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehistoricizes
form: dehistoricizing
form: dehistoricized
form: dehistoricized
Etymology: From de- + historicize.
Senses: examples: text: Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
glosses: To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
Derived terms: dehistoricization
dehistoricizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehistoricize
dehistoricized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehistoricize
dehistoricizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehistoricize
dehistoricization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + historic + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The website of the Iranian Book House also indicates that nowadays self-help books, which offer the most superficial perception of human personality to their audience, have become the second most popular book genre in Iran. […] Using the mechanisms of dehistoricization, social indifference, and focusing on individual success, these books make the audience introspective, encourage them into self-interest and indifference, and soothe them by separating them from the external environment and the social contradictions. There is no critique of inflation, unemployment, the lack of social liberty, and the environmental crisis in such books. One only has to think of their own individual success, calmness and attitude.
ref: 2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 35, →DOI, page 510 of 500–516:
glosses: The process or result of dehistoricizing.
degradational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃənəɫ/
Etymology: From degradation + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
Related terms: aggradational
aggradational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aggradation + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or formed by aggradation.
Related terms: degradational
isobole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoboles
Senses: glosses: A line on an isobologram joining points of equal activity
quiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quillers
Etymology: From quill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This is very much more becoming to the majority of women than any white linen or muslin, and it is quite a pretty bit of fancy work to run the edging on a long but narrow piece of silk, then pleat it up, and when it is soiled, remove the stitches so that it can be washed and ironed out quite straight, and then quilled up afresh. Professional quillers always work at the top with the lace, edge held downwards.
ref: 1911 July 15, The Manila Express, page 3, column 3:
glosses: One who works with a quill.
examples: text: Make a start in Sydney — Hugh Macdonald, Holman, Hughes would surely need little pressure to assist — and you needn't fear the cordial co-operation of the country quillers!
ref: 1905 February 25, The Worker, page 1, column 4:
glosses: One who writes with a quill; a professional writer; a journalist.
examples: text: Some quillers make small wooden stands resembling trees, with horizontal "branches" over which they hang the strips.
ref: 1999, Malinda Johnston, Paper quilling: beautiful paper filigree to make in a weekend, page 6:
glosses: One who creates decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
Related terms: quilling
quillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiller
isoboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isobole
isobolograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isobologram
highth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪθ/
Forms: form: highths
Etymology: From Old English hēahþu, hīehþu, equivalent to high + -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte (“height”).
Senses: examples: text: Amidſt thir highth of noon,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 45, line 684:
text: Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor highth, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall he able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ref: 1840, Julius Charles Hare, The Victory of Faith, and Other Sermons, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 178:
glosses: Obsolete form of height.
highths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highth
turfless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turf + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The company cooking utensils were scoured every day, and the camp was as clean as bare, turfless earth could be.
ref: 1867, J. W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty:
glosses: Without turf.
pick and place
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many assembly lines use pick-and-place robots to do repetitive tasks such as placing small components onto circuit boards.
glosses: Of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.
conceders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceder
serratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serrati
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin serratus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several muscles of the vertebral or costal region that produce a serrated border.
Derived terms: infraserratus
serratus anterior
serratus anticus
serratus magnus
serratus posterior
supraserratus
chevisances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevisance
parapolice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + police; compare paramilitary, paramedic, paralegal.
Senses: glosses: Law enforcement agents considered ancillary or subsidiary to the regular police force.
serret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serrets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serrette.
covermeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covermeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cover meter.
covermeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covermeter
cover meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover meters
form: covermeter
Senses: glosses: An instrument for locating rebars and measuring the depth of concrete that covers them.
cover meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cover meter
plashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plashing
Filadelfia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Boquerón department, Paraguay.
glosses: A town and municipality of Caldas department, Colombia.
glosses: A district and city in Carrillo canton, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
glosses: A town and municipality of the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy.
Filippi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Filippis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Filippi. Doublet of Philippi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
no way, José
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, almost any girl, specifically one with a full head of hair, would help you stave off this creeping sense of mortality. You remember the Bolivian Marching Powder and realize you’re not down yet. No way, José. First you have to get rid of this bald girl.
ref: 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of no way Jose.
no way José
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no way Jose.
term-limit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: term-limits
form: term-limiting
form: term-limited
form: term-limited
form: term limit
Senses: examples: text: Should we start being sad that he is being term-limited out of office at the end of the year?
ref: 2010 September, Ray Hartmann, "They Started the Revolution Without Us", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 69
text: Ms. Spanberger, 44, is seen as among the strongest Democratic contenders to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who is term-limited.
ref: 2023 November 13, Luke Broadwater, “Spanberger Announces Run for Governor in Virginia, Leaving House Seat in Play”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To remove (someone) from an elected position by limiting the number of terms they can serve.
term-limited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of term-limit
multikilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilometer.
Senses: glosses: Of more than one kilometer.
multikilobase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilobase.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one kilobase.
nondilutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dilutive.
Senses: glosses: Not dilutive.
sexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual
stainlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stainlessly
form: most stainlessly
Etymology: From stainless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without a stain; in unspoiled purity.
ommatidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ommatidium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ommatidia.
Derived terms: interommatidial
disjunctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From disjunctive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disjunctive manner.
wintersome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.
ref: 1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255:
glosses: A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
wintersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.
ref: 2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321:
glosses: Wintry.
reinduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinduces
form: reinducing
form: reinduced
form: reinduced
Etymology: From re- + induce.
Senses: glosses: To induce again or anew.
Related terms: reinduction
reinduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinduce
reinducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinduce
reinduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinduce
reintroducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reintroducers
Etymology: From reintroduce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Gassendi was the first of the seventeenth century reintroducers of Greek atomism to reject Aristotelian physics in its entirety...
ref: 1981, Marie Boas Hall, The mechanical philosophy, page 429:
glosses: One who reintroduces something.
reintroducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reintroducer
unspiked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪkt
Etymology: From un- + spiked.
Senses: glosses: Not spiked.
morphometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morphometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, morphometrics.
Duk-Duk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Duk-Duks
Etymology: Origin unclear, but believed to derive from the Tolai Douk (“cruel”). Possibly related to dekdek (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: The Duk-Duks organised the law in New Britain.
glosses: A member of a masked secret society of the Tolai, carrying out local extortion and terrorism and dressing in leaves.
Related terms: douk-douk
helichryse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑλίχρῡσος (helíkhrūsos, “gold flower”).
Senses: examples: text: And of wild flowers, there are the helichryse, and that species of anemone called the meadow anemone, and the gladiolus, and the hyacinth.
ref: 1854, Athenaeus (translated by Charles Duke Yonge), The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the learned, Volume 3, page 1087:
glosses: An unidentified plant with yellow flowers, anciently used in garlands.
fibroplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibroplasias
Etymology: From fibro- + -plasia.
Senses: examples: text: The important relationship between arterial blood oxygen (PO²^([sic])), the respiratory distress syndrome, and retrolental fibroplasia is now well established.
ref: 2007, Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, Encyclopedia of Special Education: P-Z, page 1744:
glosses: The generation of fibrous tissue (especially in wound healing)
Related terms: dysplasia
fibrodysplasia
Tolai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolais
form: Tolai
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, who speak Kuanua and are divided into moieties.
Tolai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kuanua language.
Tolais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolai
Duk-Duks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Duk-Duk
imbrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbrews
form: imbrewing
form: imbrewed
form: imbrewed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of imbrue.
imbrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbrew
imbrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbrew
imbrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbrew
phoneword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonewords
Etymology: From phone + word.
Senses: glosses: An alphanumeric word or phrase representing a telephone number, its letters corresponding to those on a telephone keypad.
phonewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoneword
chiclet keyboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiclet keyboard
francization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɑːnsaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Francization
form: francisation
form: Francisation
Etymology: From francize + -ation, particularly as a calque of French francisation.
Senses: examples: text: But in Algeria, because a century and a quarter of francisation had destroyed the native cadres, there existed no ready-made interlocuteurs valables with whom Mendès-France could negotiate, if and when he so wished.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 99:
text: Francization of the workplace was an important element in language policy.
ref: 1991, Paul-André Linteau, Québec since 1930, page 446:
qualifier: uncommon except Quebec
glosses: Synonym of Frenchification (“the act or process of making or becoming more French, particularly in Quebecois contexts”).
synonyms: word: Frenchification
extra: the act or process of making or becoming more French, particularly in Quebecois contexts
qualifier: uncommon except Quebec
glosses: Synonym of Gallicization (“translation into French”).
synonyms: word: Gallicization
extra: translation into French
Intereuropean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + European.
Senses: examples: text: an Intereuropean regional conference
glosses: Between countries of Europe.
slitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slitter
afterburthen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterburthens
form: afterburden
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], equivalent to after- + burthen.
Senses: glosses: Afterbirth.
afterburden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterburdens
Etymology: From after- + burden.
Senses: examples: text: The child neither cried nor seemed to breathe, but he could be given no succour until the womb was freed of its afterburden; and all efforts were centred upon this.
ref: 1937, Alan Frank Guttmacher -, Into this Universe: The Story of Human Birth, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of afterburthen.
nonmicroscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmicroscopists
Etymology: From non- + microscopist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a microscopist.
nonmicroscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmicroscopist
shadowcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shadow + casting.
Senses: examples: text: A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane. In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective.
ref: 1979, Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture, page 191:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: A technique in which an incident ray at a small angle to the horizontal casts a shadow, thus making an object easier to see.
examples: text: One of the most common of these gay male participations with Rocky Horror is 'shadowcasting', a type of camp performance in which the actor dresses in costume as a character and mimics his or her actions in front of the screen.
ref: 2020, Darren Elliott-Smith, John Edgar Browning, New Queer Horror Film and Television, page 35:
glosses: The live amateur performance of a film by a group of people at the same time as watching the film.
afterclap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæftə(ɹ)klæp/
note: trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈɑːftə(ɹ)klæp/
Forms: form: afterclaps
form: after-clap
Etymology: From Afrikaans agterklap < agter (“rear, after”) + klap (“flap”).
Senses: examples: text: And now the “after-clap” of the wagon was hurriedly drawn aside, and three young faces were seen peeping forth.
ref: 1856, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 13, in The Bush-Boys,, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 93:
text: 1905, Reginald Fenton, A Peculiar People in a Pleasant Land, Girard, KS: The Pretoria Publishing Company, Chapter 7, p. 98,
[…] he felt for his gun, and began fumbling at the fastenings of the afterclap.
text: He was mending the afterclap of the wagon, stitching it up where it was torn, and they [the children] were helping him and playing about him.
ref: 1941, Stuart Cloete, chapter 19, in A Hill of Doves,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1942, page 392:
text: They slept late on Sunday mornings, hearing each other wake as the sun shone through the chinks in the afterclap.
ref: 2003, Wilbur Smith, The Blue Horizon, New York: St. Martin’s, published 2004, page 263:
coordinate_terms: foreclap
glosses: A canvas curtain or tailboard at the rear of a covered wagon.
Related terms: clap back
afterclaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterclap
go-live
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-lives
Senses: examples: text: In the weeks building up to the go-live, we began to fix problems as fast as possible.
glosses: The date on which a system goes live.
go-lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-live
aftercoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercomings
Etymology: From Middle English aftercomyng, aftircomyng, equivalent to after- + coming.
Senses: glosses: A following state, sequel, consequence, or result; an aftercome.
Synonyms: aftercome
aftercoming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English after comyng, afthercomende, equivalent to after- + coming.
Senses: examples: text: They establish (saith he) by the reason of their judgement, that whatsoever is reported of hell, or of after-comming paines, is but a fiction[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I set them down here, that their names may be a stink and ill-savour to aftercoming generations, as apostate from the way of God[…].
ref: 1718, John H Thompson, A Cloud of Witnesses:
glosses: Succeeding, following.
examples: text: The most important aspect of an assisted vaginal breech delivery is careful delivery of the aftercoming head.
ref: 2003, Pitkin, Peattie & Macgowan, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, page 41:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: Specifically, of a baby's head: following the rest of the body out of the womb, rather than (as is usual) preceding it.
Moorish Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Andalusian Arabic.
Modern Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of Portuguese spoken since the sixteenth century.
old soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old souls
Senses: examples: text: An old soul will often change jobs not because of an inability to perform, but rather because the job is unfulfilling.
ref: 2010, Laurel Phelan, Healing Through Time, page 57:
glosses: A reincarnated person.
glosses: A person of unusual maturity.
after-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: after-eyes
form: after-eyeing
form: after-eying
form: after-eyed
form: after-eyed
Etymology: From after- + eye.
Senses: examples: text: Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To keep in view or sight.
old souls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old soul
longicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longicorn
cerambycid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɚˈɹæm.bɪ.sɪd/
rhymes: -æmbɪsɪd
Forms: form: cerambycids
Etymology: From translingual Cerambycidae.
Senses: examples: text: The branch was obviously infested and showed a few emergence holes indicative of both buprestids and cerambycids, and when I broke into it I found two unemerged adult Agrilus (different species), which caused me to cut and bundle the branch to being back for rearing.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the family Cerambycidae of longhorn beetles.
cerambycids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerambycid
ceramals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceramal
afterhind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more afterhind
form: most afterhind
form: afterhin
form: afterhint
Etymology: From after- + hind.
Senses: glosses: Afterward.
circulatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circulate + -able.
Senses: synonyms: circulable
glosses: Capable of being circulated.
downpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downpresses
form: downpressing
form: downpressed
form: downpressed
Etymology: From down + press.
Senses: glosses: To push or press downwards.
examples: text: That’s why the white man just downpress you so.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 156:
glosses: To oppress.
Related terms: downpressor
downpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downpress
downpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downpress
downpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downpress
ESRD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of end-stage renal disease.
hypercoagulabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercoagulability
endstage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endstages
Etymology: From end + stage.
Senses: examples: text: the endstages of Soviet decline
text: endstage renal disease
glosses: A final stage.
endstages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endstage
endspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endspan
Urn of Fate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Italian Christmas tradition in which boxes are selected from an urn, only some of them containing presents.
wordfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordfests
Etymology: From word + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Writing at a time of a general resurgence in Australian creative writing, Anderson has maintained a certain aloofness from critical fashions, academic circuits, and literary wordfests.
ref: 1992, Elaine Barry, Fabricating the self: the fictions of Jessica Anderson:
glosses: A literary event for writers.
wordfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordfest
after-wit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-wits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of afterwit.
Interamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + American.
Senses: glosses: Between countries of the American continent.
forewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: forewits
form: fore-wit
Etymology: From Middle English forwit, from Old English *forewit, *forewitt (attested in derivative forewitiġ, forewittiġ (“foreknowing”)), equivalent to fore- + wit (“knowledge, understanding”).
Senses: examples: One good forewit is worth two afterwits.
glosses: Timely knowledge; precaution; foresight.
forewit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: forewot
form: forewitting
form: forewist
form: forewist
form: fore-wit
Etymology: From Middle English forwiten, from Old English fōrewitan (“to foreknow”), equivalent to fore- + wit (“to know”).
Senses: glosses: To foreknow.
forewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: forewits
form: fore-wit
Etymology: From fore- (“prominent, out in front”) + wit (“a clever man”).
Senses: glosses: One who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.
fore-wit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-wits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forewit.
diving ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diving duck
dabbling ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dabbling duck
ruddy shelducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruddy shelduck
goon squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goon squad
Oshikwanyama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kwanyama language.
forfare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forfares
form: forfaring
form: forfared
form: forfore
form: forfared
form: forfore
form: forfaren
Etymology: From Middle English forfaren, from Old English forfaran (“to pass away, perish, lose, destroy, ruin, cause to perish, intercept, obstruct”), from Proto-Germanic *frafaraną, equivalent to for- + fare. Cognate with Scots forfar (“to go amiss, decay, perish”), Old Frisian forfara (“to die”), German verfahren (“to use up, spend, lose one's way”), Old Danish forfare (“to perish”).
Senses: glosses: To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
glosses: To destroy; ruin.
Related terms: forfairn
Hottentot teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hottentot teals
Senses: glosses: Anas hottentota, a species of dabbling duck.
Hottentot teals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hottentot teal
barrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bar + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The doctrine of perpetuity was excluded not because the remainder was legal but because it was barrable.
ref: 1876, Sir Henry Studdy Theobald, A concise treatise on the construction of wills:
text: The question then is brought to this, is it barrable by common deed?
ref: 1883, Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals and the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, page 229:
topics: law
glosses: Capable of being barred (prevented).
Derived terms: unbarrable
Kagyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kagyü
Etymology: From Tibetan བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud).
Senses: glosses: One of four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Derived terms: Drukpa Kagyu
shagnasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shagnasties
Senses: examples: text: That would put her directly next to the pair of shagnasties, removing me as a barrier of at least age if not dignity.
ref: 1990, Ivan Doig, Ride with me, Mariah Montana:
text: Do you reckon Hissing Sid realises what a shagnasty that Mary is?
ref: 2004, Pip Granger, The Widow Ginger:
text: "Shagnasties," she muttered. "What are they doing, Dad?"
ref: 2004, Scott Philip Stewart, The Healing of Ryne O'Casey, page 116:
glosses: A vile person.
Lynchian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪntʃiːən/
Forms: form: more Lynchian
form: most Lynchian
Etymology: From Lynch + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Potter Stewart-type words that’s definable only ostensively—i.e. we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn’t particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victim’s various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: Lynchian "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter."
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian. I think they are disgusting. Just imagine. Aren't these some kind of, how do you call it, vagina dentata, dental vaginas threatening to swallow you?
ref: 2006, Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema:
glosses: Of or pertaining to David Keith Lynch (1946–2025), American filmmaker and director whose surrealist films are characterized by dream imagery and meticulous sound design.
tshegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsheg
technical analyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical analysts
Senses: glosses: A financial analyst involved in technical analysis.
technical analysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical analyst
semi-zero grazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of grazing in which cattle are kept in enclosures some of the time and allowed outside to graze at other times.
Related terms: free grazing
open grazing
zero grazing
zero-grazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The group also has two zero-grazed cows that provide milk for sale. The group obtained the cows from a church project in 1993.
ref: 2002, Frances Cleaver, Masculinities matter!: men, gender, and development, page 152:
glosses: Kept in enclosures and never let out to graze.
raw_tags: of cattle
Related terms: semi-zero grazing
zero grazing
red-crested pochard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-crested pochards
Etymology: From red + crested + pochard.
Senses: glosses: Netta rufina, a large diving duck.
red-crested pochards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-crested pochard
harlequin ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harlequin duck
Zeelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zeelandic
form: most Zeelandic
form: Zealandic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Zeeland.
Zeelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zealandic
Senses: glosses: A regional language similar to Dutch, spoken in the Dutch province of Zeeland and on the South Holland island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
cybershopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + shopping.
Senses: glosses: Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
cybershopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybershoppers
Etymology: From cyber- + shopper.
Senses: glosses: One who shops by means of computers or the Internet.
cybershoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybershopper
cybersexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cybersexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although little data is available on the ISST, it has been administered to over 900 self-identified cybersexually concerned individuals.
ref: 2002, Patrick Carnes, Kenneth M. Adams, Clinical management of sex addiction, page 249:
text: Often, there is a deterioration in the primary relationship: The cybersexually involved partner may become more withdrawn and sexually avoidant and display less interest in his wife and children.
ref: 2002, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: a guidebook for clinicians, page 25:
text: Those who owned up to being experienced, cybersexually, claimed that individuals were vulnerable in both domains, and that the degree of vulnerability was related to the amount of individual engagement with the other...
ref: 2002, Lelia Green, Communication, technology and society, page 188:
glosses: In a cybersexual manner or context.
rake together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rakes together
form: raking together
form: raked together
form: raked together
Senses: glosses: To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty
Synonyms: scrape together
scratch together
cyberslacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberslackers
Etymology: From cyber- + slacker.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in cyberslacking.
cyberslackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberslacker
ADS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Dialect Society.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Active Denial System.
ADS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of automated decision support.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: TIS
glosses: Initialism of automatic dependent surveillance.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of adult-directed speech.
Derived terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-A
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-B
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-C
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-R
ADS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of aim down sights.
rake over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rakes over
form: raking over
form: raked over
form: raked over
Senses: examples: text: Tristam Darling [the narrator character] describes Florence by saying, among other things, "She had no bosom, a deficiency I always thought in a woman like a bed without a pillow."(!) Gordon [the author] rakes over every female character in the book in a similar way. No woman is treated positively without being abused.
ref: 1979 April 28, Flame B. James, “Still Private”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: To discuss something unpleasant from the past.
Related terms: dig up
rally around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rallies around
form: rallying around
form: rallied around
form: rallied around
Senses: glosses: rally round
Muscovy ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muscovy duck
rally round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rallies round
form: rallying round
form: rallied round
form: rallied round
Senses: glosses: To unite in order to support a fellow group member.
raw_tags: said of a group of people
Synonyms: rally around
Derived terms: rally round the flag
metasediments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasediment
rallycross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rally-cross
form: rally cross
Etymology: From rally + -cross. From being like a blend of rallying and motocross, using rally-style cars on motocross-style tracks.
Senses: glosses: A format of car racing in which drivers race over wild terrain and specially designed roads, meant to simulate a cross-country ride within a purpose-built circuit.
Synonyms: word: RX
Related terms: autocross
motocross
rally
snocross
supercross
cherty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜɹti/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: chertier
form: chertiest
Etymology: From chert + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759.
ref: 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879:
text: Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
ref: 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World:
text: It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite.
ref: 1998 February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., “Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures”, in Science, volume 279, number 5352, →DOI, pages 879–882:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing chert.
Derived terms: chertiness
uncherubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncherubic
form: most uncherubic
Etymology: From un- + cherubic.
Senses: glosses: Not cherubic.
Synonyms: unangelic
segregational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From segregation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to segregation.
Derived terms: antisegregational
nonsegregational
postsegregational
presegregational
prosegregational
segregationalism
segregationalist
segregationally
Related terms: antisegregation
nonsegregation
postsegregation
presegregation
prosegregation
nonsegregational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + segregational.
Senses: glosses: Not segregational.
nonsegregating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + segregating.
Senses: glosses: Not segregating.
sarcastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɑɹˈkæstɪkəl/
Forms: form: more sarcastical
form: most sarcastical
Senses: examples: text: Several, in their Books, have many sarcastical and spiteful Strokes at Religion in general, while others make themselves pleasant with the Principles of the Christian.
ref: 1716, Sir Richard Blackmore, Essay upon Wit:
text: But I never met with very warm support in carrying on this object, but was often exposed to some sarcastical insinuations or sardonic smiles from those who thought the attempt to ameliorate the condition of the Gipsies, only Quixotic.
ref: 1831, James Crabb, The Gipsies' Advocate:
text: "Look here, Mr. Funnysides, I didn't bring you up here to listen to no sarcastical remarks," retorted the man, with the sudden fury of a heavy drinker.
ref: 1920, Arthur J. Rees, The Hand in the Dark:
glosses: sarcastic
ramiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ramiform
form: most ramiform
Etymology: Latin ramus (“branch”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a branch.
ramiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramiforms
Etymology: Latin ramus (“branch”) + -form
Senses: examples: text: Bloomcnthal has produced some magnificent branching structures (ramiforms) based on a spline primitive (Figure 17) [Bloo88b].
ref: 2001, David F. Rogers, Rae Earnshaw, Computer Graphics Techniques: Theory and Practice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: A symbol or structure that is shaped like a branch, or which branches.
noncremated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cremated.
Senses: glosses: Not cremated.
uncremated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cremated.
Senses: glosses: Not cremated.
urnless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urn + -less.
Senses: examples: an urnless cremation
glosses: Without an urn.
coffinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coffin + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a coffinless burial
text: Well, Bengal, thy famish'd dead, / (Victim-millions o'er thee spread,) / Forespoke of Erin coffinless!
ref: 1847 April 24, Ebenezer Elliott, “Erin. A Dirge.”, in John Saunders, editor, The People’s Journal, volume III, number 69, London: People’s Journal Office, […], →OCLC, page 230, column 1:
glosses: Without a coffin.
pisciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pisciform
form: most pisciform
Etymology: Latin piscis (“fish”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a fish.
Synonyms: ichthyomorph
ichthyomorphic
piliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piliform
form: most piliform
Etymology: Latin pilus (“hair”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Resembling hair.
piliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piliform
form: most piliform
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pileus or cap.
pediform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pediform
form: most pediform
Etymology: Latin pes (“foot”), + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a foot.
patelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patelliform
form: most patelliform
Etymology: From patelli- + form.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a patella.
glosses: Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.
racemiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more racemiform
form: most racemiform
Etymology: From raceme + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a raceme.
storyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From story + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Still, I wonder if there is not a more profound message in these storyless inventions.
ref: 2006, Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today, page 43:
glosses: Without a story.
rotiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rotiform
form: most rotiform
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a wheel.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a short tube and spreading limb.
setiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.təˌfɔɹm/
Etymology: From Latin saeta (“bristle”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or structure of bristles.
squamiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamiform
form: most squamiform
Etymology: Latin squama (“scale”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or structure of a scale.
Synonyms: scalelike
squamoid
hosings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊzɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈhoʊzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hosing
stilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stilliform
form: most stilliform
Etymology: Latin stilla (“drop”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or structure of a drop.
dentiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentiform
form: most dentiform
Etymology: Latin dens (“tooth”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or structure of a tooth.
ampulliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ampulliform
form: most ampulliform
Etymology: From Latin ampulla (“vessel with a swollen middle”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a flask.
nondenticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + denticulate.
Senses: glosses: Not denticulate.
snowfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowfighter
rainstormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rainstormy
form: most rainstormy
Etymology: From rainstorm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was a rainstormy night.
glosses: Undergoing a rainstorm.
Wagiman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wageman.
Wakiman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wageman.
rat on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rats on
form: ratting on
form: ratted on
form: ratted on
Senses: examples: text: Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends?
ref: 1984 May 23, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, spoken by Beefy (Frank Gio), Regency Enterprises & The Ladd Company, distributed by Warner Bros. & Titanus:
glosses: To tattle, squeal about (someone)
Synonyms: tell on