cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
CWPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CWP
CWMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CWM
CWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CW
deal a hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deals a hand
form: dealing a hand
form: dealt a hand
form: dealt a hand
Etymology: From the sense of a hand in card games, as the outcome of a game depends on the hands that are dealt.
Senses: glosses: To distribute a hand of cards at random to a player.
glosses: To assign circumstances in life to someone.
Derived terms: deal a bad hand
deal a good hand
citywides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citywide
domainwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From domain + -wide.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout a domain.
domainwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From domain + -wide.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout a domain.
forestwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forest + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a forest.
forestwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From forest + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a forest.
draw bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draw bridge
BWM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BWMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Biel water maze.
BWMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BWM
ENTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ENT
EOIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EOI
pastellic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pastellic
form: most pastellic
Etymology: From pastel + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Two other children play about her, and alongside the husband's strong, vigorous figure wrestles with his refractory horse. This decoration, purely pastellic in impression, is so soft and plastic that the clear colour seems ready to come off […]
ref: 1904, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 33, page 150:
text: 1990, Joseph Gaynor, SPSE - the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Hard copy and printing materials, media, and processes
Because of the unattractive colors of ordinary magnetic pigments it is possible to produce only dull, pastellic color toners, which were not very successful in the market.
glosses: Characteristic of pastels.
HVACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HVAC
resheet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resheets
form: resheeting
form: resheeted
form: resheeted
Etymology: From re- + sheet.
Senses: glosses: To apply another sheet to; cover with another sheet.
resheeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resheet
resheets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resheet
resheeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resheet
workpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workpapers
Etymology: From work + paper.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A document that records the evidence used in preparing an audit.
workpapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workpaper
Shockley-Queisser limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Shockley-Queisser limit
Etymology: First calculated by William Shockley and Hans-Joachim Queisser at Shockley Semiconductor in 1961.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell using a single p-n junction to collect power from the cell.
gaswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasworks
Senses: examples: text: Those who have inspected a gaswork will remember that the coal is thrown into a series of large cast-iron cylinders, or retorts, strongly heated by brick furnaces, into which they are built […]
ref: 1875, John Chalmers Morton, A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific:
glosses: A gasworks.
black boxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of black box
man o' war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men o' war
Etymology: From man + o' + war.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man-of-war.
men o' war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man o' war
Chimerica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of China + America, coined by British historian Niall Ferguson and German economist Moritz Schularick, with reference to chimera.
Senses: examples: text: As in all good marriages, the differences between the two halves of Chimerica are complementary. He concluded by saying "Chimerica, despite its name, is no chimera." In conclusion, shouldn't we view China's ascendancy as an opportunity […]
ref: 2007, Sheng-Wei Wang, China's Ascendancy: An Opportunity Or a Threat? : what Every American Should Know about China, →ISBN:
text: The losers were countries like Indonesia and Brazil, whose real trade-weighted exchange rates appreciated between January 2008 and November 2010 by, respectively, 18 per cent and 17 per cent. No doubt, Chimerica has passed its prime […]
ref: 2011, Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: G-2 suggests that China and the United States are deeply intertwined in their strategic interests, and should work out solutions to global problems together. The term Chimerica was invented by historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz […]
ref: 2014, Janet Hoskins, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field, Asian and Pacific American Tra:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The symbiotic relationship between China and the United States.
wikipedia: Niall Ferguson
Porsgrunn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway.
heritage interpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heritage interpretations
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage, used in museums, zoos, historic sites, galleries, etc.
Related terms: sense: Near synonyms
alt: Gallicism
word: mediation
sense: museum education, third place
word: Hypernyms
word: museum interpretation
word: cultural interpretation
word: science interpretation
word: first-person interpretation
word: animation
word: tour guiding
troggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trogs
Senses: glosses: clothes
albespyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of albespine.
albespine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albespyne
Etymology: From Old French albespine, aubespine (modern French aubépine), from Latin alba spina (“white thorn”).
Senses: glosses: whitethorn; hawthorn
sisters from another mister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister from another mister
sisters from other misters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister from another mister
raised beach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raised beaches
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A terrace of gravel etc. marking the margin of an ancient sea.
raised beaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raised beach
cains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cain
intersectionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intersectionalist
reconciliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconciliate
reconciliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconciliate
rooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rool
rools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rool
rooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rool
staring contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staring contests
Senses: glosses: a game in which two people maintain eye contact for as long as possible, the loser being the one who is the first to blink or look away.
glosses: a confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down.
yondermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.
Senses: examples: text: […] and resignation of himself to him, to be saved and guided by him, on his own terms, and in his own way, as the other, doth ; yet I say still, he hath not “precisely told us, what is the very yondermost step that the hypocrite may go, […]
ref: 1777, James Durham, The Law Unsealed:
text: ("I will sing the yondermost realms conterminous with the gliding world, which lie broadly open to spirits, which render to each the reward of his merits);" […]
ref: 1853, Dante Alighieri, Dante's Divine comedy:
glosses: Furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate
yondermost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.
Senses: examples: text: But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were sitting every one under his vine and fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a league and covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged it my duty to oppose to the yondermost.
ref: 1833, original 1650, Butler Leighton, Transaction of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 222:
text: Of this aspect of Buddhism, as citpresscd in the Saint Nipate, Nietzsche was aware: "When man, confined by views, holds in the world / A thing in worth and as the yondermost, / Then doth he say all else is lacking worth, / And hence he hath not passed beyond disputes."
ref: 2011, Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism:
text: The titles of these suttas – 'The Cave', 'Of Ill Will', 'Of the Cleansed', and 'Of the Yondermost' – give little indication of the spiritual significance of their contents, and no summary could do them justice.
ref: 2013, Sangharakshita, Eternal Legacy:
glosses: The utmost; ultimate
Blarney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑɹni/
ipa: /ˈblaːɹni/
ipa: /ˈblɑːni/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ni
Etymology: From Irish Blarna.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Cork, Ireland, location of Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone (Irish grid ref W 6175).
thorn-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorn-trees
Senses: examples: text: Thornthwaite [Cumb.] per pale, ar. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions' heads, erased, all counterchanged ; on a chief or, a thorn-tree ppr. —Crest, a lion's head, erased, gu. in the mouth a thorn-sprig vert, fructed ppr.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Earliest to the Present Time […] , page 10:
text: But the olives they were not blind to Him, / The little gray leaves were kind to Him: / The thorn-tree had a mind to Him / When into the woods He came. […]
ref: 1880, Sidney Lanier, A Ballad of Trees and the Master, lines 5–8:
text: Every country boy and girl knows the thorn-tree, with its mass of white bloom in May and mass of red fruit in the fall.
ref: 1892, John Burroughs, “The Scarlet Thorn”, in St. Nicholas, volume 19, number 2:
glosses: Alternative form of thorn tree.
thorn tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorn trees
form: thorn-tree
Etymology: From Middle English thornetre; equivalent to thorn + tree.
Senses: examples: text: They then came together to hear the preaching of the Gospel; but I postponed it till the evening, because I was then exceedingly wearied. The captain shewed me a large old thorn tree for a lodging.
ref: 1811, “Visit to the Great Namaquas”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 6, page 466:
text: Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.
ref: 2007 April 1, Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat: Book One of 'The Oath of Empire', page 294:
text: I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.
ref: 2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109:
glosses: Any tree with thorn-like leaves, especially the acacia.
Bohemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bohemism
ocean floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocean floors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of seabed.
synonyms: word: seabed
haw tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haw trees
Senses: glosses: A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.
omutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omutsu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese おむつ (omutsu).
Senses: examples: text: I finally got some omutsu covers from Japan. I really like them. They ended up costing me $55.00 each with shipping. I bought 3. Pics follow.
ref: 1997 November 10, BH, “~ my omutsu”, in alt.sex.fetish.diapers (Usenet):
text: I'm looking for a real Japanese made/style Omutsu cover (diaper cover/plastic pants) in adult size. Anybody there to help?
ref: 1999 July 22, ShinyGirl [Rita], “Omutsu Cover”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet):
text: I wonder if they can be exported? I love you[r] diaper/omutsu and omorashi art and mangas =^-^=
ref: 2013 October 1, @BetoWolfey, Twitter:
text: G-good... *Kenta walked beside you his shorts sag and you see his omutsu*
ref: 2014 July 3, @Kentas_Tweets, Twitter:
text: ABDL omutsu manufacturers will always sell either plastic-backed, or have both cloth-like and plastic available separately.
ref: 2017 March 17, @El_Omutsu_Snob, Twitter:
text: If you want to buy Japanese OMUTSU (diaper) covers, you can get them from this auction agency :)
ref: 2020 July 17, @FBabies_shop, Twitter:
text: I really wanna write Genji Shimada omutsu omorashi
ref: 2023 November 6, @cosmic_writer, Twitter:
text: I've been cooking up a new story, some #omorashi and #omutsu. But i don't really know where to share it. Either way, it has been exciting to write.
ref: 2025 January 22, @fubotv1.bsky.social, Bluesky:
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: word: gaming pants
word: pamp
word: pamps
word: diap
word: diapee
word: diapy
word: diapie
word: didee
word: didie
word: diddy
word: didy
word: dipe
word: hippins
word: napkin
word: nappy
word: pamper
word: Pampers
word: pampers
word: dip
word: gamer pants
word: gaming pants
word: omutsu
word: padding
word: pamp
word: pampie
word: pamps
glosses: A diaper.
antiquery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiqueries
Etymology: From anti- + query.
Senses: glosses: A query made in reply to a query; a counterquestion.
antiqueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquery
counterquery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterqueries
Etymology: From counter- + query.
Senses: glosses: A counterquestion.
counterqueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterquery
Pantagruelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pantagruelists
Etymology: Eponym from French character in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A satirist who employs Pantagruelism.
Pantagruelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pantagruelist
electrodepositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodepositors
Senses: glosses: One who carries out electrodeposition.
electrodepositors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodepositor
spiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiric
form: most spiric
Senses: glosses: Like a torus.
spiric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirics
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve, the plane section of a torus.
Related terms: spiricle
spirics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiric
roasting jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roasting jacks
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for turning the spit on which meat is roasted.
roasting jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roasting jack
kaliotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A neurotoxic peptide present in some scorpions
phrenoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phreno- + -plegia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Paralysis of the diaphragm.
kleptoplastidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to kleptoplastids or to kleptoplasty
subgraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgraduates
Etymology: From sub- + graduate.
Senses: synonyms: pregraduate
glosses: A student who has not yet graduated.
subgraduates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgraduate
subgrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subgrammatical
form: most subgrammatical
Etymology: From sub- + grammatical.
Senses: glosses: Using substandard grammar; less than grammatically correct.
glosses: Relating to a subgrammar.
wash sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash sales
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: bed-and-breakfast deal
glosses: The sale of a security at a loss, and repurchase of the same or substantially identical security shortly before or after; used in tax evasion.
Related terms: wash trade
matched order
wash sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash sale
wash one's mouth out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes one's mouth out
form: washing one's mouth out
form: washed one's mouth out
form: washed one's mouth out
form: wash out one's mouth
Etymology: From the formerly common practice of punishing children who have lied or used foul language by forcing them to wash their mouths using a cleansing substance, typically soap.
Senses: examples: text: Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty
ref: 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
text: Some Tory MPs think the Queen needs to wash her mouth out.
ref: 1999 November 19, “A pother of pedants”, in The Guardian:
text: But anybody who says Cameron was hedging his bets better had wash their mouth out; this was nothing more than the kind of away day where only the top names rock up.
ref: 2011 March 23, “James Cameron Shines like a star”, in The Guardian, retrieved 12 Nov 2021:
text: “What’s all this madness I’m hearing about there being no promotion or relegation from the PL?” he tweeted. “Wash your mouth out whoever suggested that.”
ref: 2011 October 19, Ben Smith, “Wigan ‘will quit’ if Premier League becomes closed shop”, in The Times:
text: All these references to named individuals are quite improper. […] He should wash his mouth out, and should refer to Ministers not by name but by title, which he is well able to do.
ref: 2019 October 8, John Bercow, “Preparations for Leaving the EU”, in parliamentary debates, volume 664, column 1674:
glosses: To stop using bad language, or atone for doing so.
examples: text: The foreigners content themselves with washing their hands. The Moors wash their mouths out with soap also, blowing bubbles and gargling happily.
ref: 1956, Encounter, volume 6, page 30:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wash out, mouth.
Related terms: mouthsoap
watch your mouth
lactocepins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactocepin
lactomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A copolymer of glycolide and lactide used as a suture
laryngostroboscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laryngo- + stroboscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to laryngostroboscopy or to a laryngostroboscope
Derived terms: videolaryngostroboscopic
laryngostroboscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laryngo- + stroboscopy.
Senses: glosses: The use of a laryngostroboscope
Derived terms: videolaryngostroboscopy
Related terms: laryngostroboscopic
my certy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of my certie.
leukotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leuko- + taxis.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being leukotactic
leukotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leuko- + -tactic.
Senses: glosses: That attracts leukocytes (in regions of injury and inflammation)
Related terms: leukotaxis
ligonberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligonberries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lingonberry.
ligonberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligonberry
lipofibrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Characteristic of lipofibromas
lipofibroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipofibromas
Etymology: From lipo- + fibroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign fibroma characterised by ectopic fatty tissue in the dermis
lipofibromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipofibroma
lipophorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipophorin
circulating medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circulating mediums
form: circulating media
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Forms of money that pass from hand to hand, such as coins and banknotes.
circulating mediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulating medium
circulating media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulating medium
locomoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of locomotor.
lomasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lomasome
ski sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski stick
phylloideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phylloideous
form: most phylloideous
Senses: glosses: phylloid; leaf-shaped
lumiaggregometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumiaggregometers
form: lumi-aggregometer
Senses: glosses: A device that simultaneously measures aggregation and secretion of ATP from the same sample of platelets
lumiaggregometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumiaggregometer
luminometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luminometric.
lymphosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphosomes
Etymology: From lymph (“body”) + -some.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A collection of lymph nodes
lymphosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphosome
lymphovenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnəs
Etymology: From lympho- + venous.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lymph and venous systems
sostrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒs.tɹəm/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῶστρον (sôstron), from σῴζω (sōízō, “to save”).
Senses: hypernyms: honorarium
glosses: A reward given for saving a person's life; a physician's fee.
cosmolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmolaters
Senses: glosses: One who worships the world or the cosmos.
Related terms: cosmolatry
cosmolaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmolater
flapperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flapperish
form: most flapperish
Etymology: From flapper + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
lairding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laird
lairded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laird
defect of one's qualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defects of one's qualities
Senses: glosses: A virtue carried to excess, or other fault apt to accompany or flow from good qualities.
defects of one's qualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defect of one's qualities
alloverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alloverish
form: most alloverish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all-overish.
alloverishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all-overishness.
have one's fingers all thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's fingers all thumbs
form: having one's fingers all thumbs
form: had one's fingers all thumbs
form: had one's fingers all thumbs
Senses: glosses: To be clumsy; to lack dexterity.
Related terms: all thumbs
finger in the pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They informed us that the cause of her committing this rash deed was a dispute with her mistress, but on further inquiry it appears that Cupid had a finger in the pie.
ref: 1842, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 26, page 261:
text: The Foundation had, however, decided to keep a finger in the pie and to pay its share in the running costs of the school.
ref: 2012, H. Liebaers, Mostly in the Line of Duty: Thirty Years with Books, page 73:
text: Another possibly more lucrative finger in India’s pie for Musk could be Starlink, the satellite internet technology operated by his SpaceX company.
ref: 2025 March 7, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Could Elon Musk’s newfound political influence help him finally crack India?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A share in the doing of something; involvement.
Related terms: have one's fingers in many pies
turpentine tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turpentine trees
Senses: glosses: A terebinth or Cyprus turpentine (Pistacia terebinthus), source of Cyprian turpentine.
glosses: Any of various other trees producing turpentine, now chiefly species of pine and fir.
examples: text: The Pajero sped past small clearings in the scrub floored by white earth […], overarched by the skinny limbs of twisted turpentine trees that might have been the desiccated remains of the dwelling houses of a species long vanished from this earth.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 269:
glosses: Any of various trees of the genus Syncarpia known for their aromatic or flammable resin or leaves, especially Syncarpia glomulifera of eastern New South Wales and Queensland.
glosses: A malara or native gardenia (Gardenia pyriformis), native to northern Australia.
qualifier: Virgin Islands
glosses: A West Indian birch (Bursera simaruba), native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
synonyms: mango bark, scrub turpentine, carrot wood, parsnip wood, Melville Island white beech
glosses: A brown cudgeree (Canarium australianum, family Burseraceae), native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
synonyms: balsam tree
black ironwood
butterfly tree
glosses: A mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane), of southern Africa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lophostemon confertus
alt: syn. Tristania conferta; Syncarpia laurifolia
word: Australian turpentine tree
taxonomic: Pistacia spp.
word: Persian turpentine tree
Related terms: alt: Choricarpia leptopetala, Rhodamnia rubescens
word: brush turpentine
taxonomic: Rhodamnia rubescens
word: scrub turpentine
english: and Ericameria laricifolia
translation: and Ericameria laricifolia
taxonomic: Acacia lysiphloia
word: turpentine bush
taxonomic: Cymbopogon spp.
word: turpentine grass
word: turpentine weed (Gutierrezia sarothrae, Silphium perfoliatum, Silphium terebinthinaceum, Trichostema lanceolatum, Trichostema laxum
turpentine trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turpentine tree
Massagetae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Massagetean
glosses: An ancient Eastern Iranian Saka people who inhabited the steppes of Central Asia and were part of the wider Scythian cultures.
selenotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seleno- + -tropism.
Senses: glosses: The property of some plants of turning under the influence of light from the Moon.
Coordinate terms: heliotropism
selenotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seleno- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to selenotropism.
Jewish Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is my conviction that the notion of Jewish Standard Time is essentially a canard. It is not that Jewish events universally start when they are announced. They don't. The point is, that neither do anyone else's. Well, almost anyone: The Germanic descendants of the Anglos and the Saxons and occasional eccentrics among widely scattered ethnic groups do, and that tends to intimidate the rest of us.
ref: 1993, Richard J. Israel, The Kosher Pig: And Other Curiosities of Modern Jewish Life:
text: The kid was on time, which would have been fine except that the students were on Jewish Standard Time.
ref: 2014, Faye Kellerman, chapter 2, in Murder 101: A Decker/Lazarus Novel:
text: I don't believe in Jewish Standard Time. That's complete bullshit and part of an agenda to advance the interests of inconsiderate assholes who can't keep time.
ref: 2015, Tasha Kaminsky, “Your Judaism”, in Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds:
glosses: later than the agreed-upon time
glumiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glume + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a glume.
glumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glume + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or relating to a glume.
glumose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glume + -ose.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or relating to a glume.
cushion tyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion tyres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cushion tire.
cushion tire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion tires
form: cushion tyre
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bicycle tire made of india-rubber tubing, with india-rubber stuffing.
cushion tyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion tyre
cushion tires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion tire
hair pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair pencils
Senses: glosses: An artist's brush made from a few fine hairs.
examples: example
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pheromone signalling structure found in lepidopteran males.
hair pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair pencil
hair powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair powders
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic powder for dusting the hair, to remove grease etc.
hair powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair powder
register plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪt
Forms: form: register plates
Senses: glosses: In rope-making, a disc having holes arranged so as to give the yarns passing through them their proper position for entering into the general twist.
register plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of register plate
spenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spense
nonprotectionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + protectionism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Absence of protectionism.
Cornish salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pollock.
bistred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bistred
form: most bistred
form: bistered
Etymology: From bistre + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of a brown colour like the pigment called bistre.
bistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bistered
form: most bistered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bistred.
Saxonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Saxonises
form: Saxonising
form: Saxonised
form: Saxonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saxonize.
Saxonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Saxonizes
form: Saxonizing
form: Saxonized
form: Saxonized
form: Saxonise
Etymology: From Saxon + -ize.
Senses: examples: to Saxonize the phonology
glosses: To make Saxon; to apply Saxon norms to.
Related terms: Anglo-Saxonize
Saxonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Saxonize
Saxonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Saxonize
Saxonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Saxonize
Saxonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Saxonise
Saxonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Saxonise
Saxonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Saxonise
supraordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supraordinate
form: most supraordinate
Senses: synonyms: superordinate
antonyms: subordinate
glosses: Greater or higher in degree, rank or position.
supraordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraordinates
Senses: synonyms: superordinate
antonyms: subordinate
glosses: That which is supraordinate.
state-run
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From state + run, past participle of run.
Senses: examples: text: In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper. The county's truck team had not even kept accounts for the past few years.
ref: 1991, The Poverty of Plenty, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
text: The power sharing deal came as ScotRail, which will be entirely state-run by March 2022, released its Fit for Purpose document that plans to axe 300 services per day compared with pre-pandemic levels [...].
ref: 2021 September 8, Tom Allett, “Network News: Scottish Greens primed to take major role in rail policy”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10:
glosses: which is run by the state
rabatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rabat
glosses: present participle and gerund of rabatte
rabatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rabat
glosses: simple past and past participle of rabatte
rabatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabatment
monostele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosteles
Etymology: From mono- + stele.
Senses: examples: text: Again, in ectophloic medullated monosteles the presence of an internal endodermis between xylem and central parenchyma is rare ; on the other hand when an amphiphloic condition obtains, an endodermis often cuts off the internal phloem from the central parenchyma.
ref: 1906, Sir Arthur George Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 66:
text: This is most readily done by reference to the sporeling: for there the axis is found to be traversed by a coherent monostele: and it is to the disintegration of this, together with the formation of commissural connections, that the complex structure of the adult is due.
ref: 1926, F.O. Bower, The ferns (filicales), page 102:
text: This condition be conceived to be derived by repeated division of the monostele.
ref: 1949, University of Toronto Studies: Biological series - Issues 1-10, page 103:
text: 'Monosteles' comprising a ring of alternating xylem and phloem elements surrounding parenchymatous pith; 'monosteles' occurring in most genera...
ref: 2014, William Louis Stern, Mary Gregory, David F. Cutler, Anatomy of the Monocotyledons Volume X: Orchidaceae, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of protostele.
synonyms: word: protostele
monosteles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monostele
scopoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopolines
Senses: examples: text: Attempts to obtain a hydrazone of scopoline were also unsuccessful.
ref: 1906, Pharmaceutical Science Series, page 84:
text: As shown in Scheme I, the hydrolytic decomposition of scopolamine produces scopoline and tropic acid (2).
ref: 1986, Kenneth A. Connors, Gordon L. Amidon, Valentino J. Stella, Chemical Stability of Pharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Pharmacists, →ISBN:
text: Aqueous extracts of leaves and culms contained scopolines, scopoletin, chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid (Abdul-Wahab and Al-Naib, 1972).
ref: 2012, S.S. Narwal, Allelopathy in Crop Production, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: A crystalline alkaloid, C₈H₁₃NO₂, with sedative properties, formed from scopine, ususally by hydrolysis of scopolamine.
uninstallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uninstallation.
synonyms: word: uninstallation
scopolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scopoline
cosmolining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosmoline
cosmolined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosmoline
paradigm levelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradigm leveling
neurocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurocoels
Senses: examples: text: The present study focuses on the mechanisms of occlusion of the spinal neurocoel.
ref: 1986, Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology:
text: The canal connecting the neurocoel and the enteron is called the neurenteric canal (Fig. 5.47C).
ref: 1989, S. N. Prasad, Vasantika Kashyap, A Textbook of Vertebrate Zoology, →ISBN, page 248:
text: The neurocoel, or canal, of the cord is a raphe-like vertical cleft, expanded somewhat basally into a small canal that bilaterally divides the cord (Figs. 189, 191).
ref: 1997, Frederick W. Harrison, Edward E. Ruppert, Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Hemichordata, Chaetognatha, and the Invertebrate Chordates, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of neurocoele.
neurocoels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocoel
knuckle joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckle joints
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A joint where the forked end of a connecting rod is joined by a bolt to another piece of the machinery.
knuckle joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckle joint
roast iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roast irons
Senses: glosses: A gridiron for cooking meat.
roast irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roast iron
percussors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percussor
responsors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsor
topcross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topcrosses
Senses: examples: text: In 1950 and 1951 records were available on 461 purebred and topcross litters at birth and weaning, on 1051 purebred and topcross pigs in the feedlot, and on 959 carcasses from purebred and topcross pigs.
ref: 1958, Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 18, page 1918:
text: In collaboration with the Stress Breeding Unit we evaluated a total of 787 topcrosses of various backgrounds under high and low nitrogen conditions, normal irrigation, and intermediate and severe drought stress.
ref: 1997, Maize research in 1995-96, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Early generation testing occurs around the S2 generation, which involves forming topcross hybrids between the S2 lines and an inbred line from each of the main heterotic patterns.
ref: 2009, Jeff L. Bennetzen, Sarah C. Hake, Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A hybrid produced by crossing a superior or purebred male with an inferior female.
topcrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topcross
macrosaccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosaccades
Etymology: From macro- + saccade.
Senses: glosses: An unusually large saccade
Derived terms: macrosaccadic
Related terms: microsaccade
macrosaccadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + saccadic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrosaccades
maltooligosyltrehalose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltooligosyltrehaloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomeric form of maltooligosaccharide with the glucose monomers linked as in trehalose
Derived terms: maltooligosyltrehalose synthase
maltooligosyltrehaloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltooligosyltrehalose
matrilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrilins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteoglycan-associated proteins that are major components of extracellular matrix of various tissues
matrilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrilin
matrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of matrilysin.
synonyms: word: matrilysin
mechanophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + physical.
Senses: glosses: mechanical and physical
Synonyms: physicomechanical
coigne of vantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coignes of vantage
Senses: examples: text: No Iutty, frieze
Buttrice, nor Coigne of vantage, but this Bird
Hath made his pendant bed
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
text: From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.
ref: 1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking"
glosses: Alternative form of coign of vantage.
coignes of vantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coigne of vantage
metallochlorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallochlorins
Etymology: From metallo- + chlorin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A coenzyme, related to the porphyrins, containing a metal
metallochlorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallochlorin
metallophillic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metallophilic.
metamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of methamphetamine.
methanobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methanobacteria
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Methanobacterium or the class Methanobacteria
methanobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methanobacterium
microangiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + angiogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of very small blood vessels
Related terms: microangiogenic
microangiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + angiogenic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microangiogenesis
microbivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The focus of this review is on meiofaunal microbivory, particularly the use of bacteria and microalgae by nematodes and harpacticoids.
ref: 1995, Paul A. Montagna, “Rates of Metazoan Meiofaunal Microbivory: A Review”, in Life and environment, volume 45:
text: Fungal biomass was not significantly affected by microbivory, but the addition of energy had a positive effect, irrespective of trophic length.
ref: 2015, Torrance C. Hanley, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Trophic Ecology, page 270:
text: Moreover, widespread microbivory in plants for nutrient acquisition from microbes could have far reaching consequences.
ref: 2018, Amit Kishore Singh, Ajay Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh, PGPR Amelioration in Sustainable Agriculture, page 168:
glosses: The condition of being microbivorous or of being a microbivore.
microdipole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdipoles
Etymology: From micro- + dipole.
Senses: glosses: A very small dipole
Related terms: macrodipole
microdipoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdipole
microexamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microexaminations
Etymology: From micro- + examination.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic examination
microfluorography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + fluorography.
Senses: glosses: fluorography on a microscopic scale
microglobule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microglobules
Etymology: From micro- + globule.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic globule
Derived terms: microglobular
microglobules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microglobule
Klausian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Klaus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Václav Klaus, a Czech economist, free markets supporting politician and president.
pomme puree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomme puree
form: pommes puree
form: pomme purees
form: pommes purees
form: pomme purée
Etymology: From French pomme purée.
Senses: glosses: A very smooth and creamy mashed potatoes dish/sidedish, usually requiring ricers/foodmills and chinois/strainers to make.
pomme purée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomme purée
form: pomme purées
form: pommes purée
form: pommes purées
Etymology: From French pomme purée.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pomme puree.
Molniya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Molniyas
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Molniya orbit.
microionophoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microiontophoretic.
microionophoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microiontophoretically.
microlipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlipids
Senses: glosses: An emulsion of safflower oil or other oil containing medium-chain fatty acids, supposed to have beneficial effects
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lipid that is present (in an organism) in very small amounts
Derived terms: microlipidome
microneurovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + neurovascular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the smallest nerves and blood vessels
microtether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtethers
Etymology: From micro- + tether.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A very small tether (that typically hold vesicles in place)
microtethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtether
midcondylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + condylar.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of a condyle