cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
egg dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg dances
Senses: glosses: A traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them, damaging as few as possible.
egg dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg dance
eagle dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle dances
Senses: glosses: A kind of ritual dance practised by some American Indians.
eagle dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eagle dance
dyotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duotheism.
dyotheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duotheistic.
dying breed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dying breeds
Senses: examples: text: Book lovers are a dying breed; now people just watch online videos.
glosses: A group of people or things that is becoming less numerous over time.
dying breeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dying breed
dusting down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dust down
dusts down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dust down
dustooree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustoorees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dasturi.
dustoorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustooree
dunsiekte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Ragwort (Senecio) poisoning in horses.
dum palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dum palms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doum palm.
dum palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dum palm
dukely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dukely
form: most dukely
Etymology: From duke + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or befitting, a duke; ducal.
dstspn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dstspns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of dessertspoon.
dstspns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dstspn
dry heaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dry heave
dry heaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dry heave
dry heaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry heave
dry heaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry heave
drugola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drug + -ola; compare payola.
Senses: examples: text: Some six months after the firing of Clive Davis and the excessive media coverage of drugola the issue was quietly laid to rest.
ref: 2020, R. Serge Denisoff, Solid Gold: Popular Record Industry:
glosses: A bribe, in the form of recreational drugs, given to a disk jockey to play a record.
drugs of choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug of choice
drudgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drudging
drosophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drosophilists
Etymology: From translingual Drosophila + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies drosophilas.
drosophilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drosophilist
dom palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dom palms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doum palm.
dom palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dom palm
domsiekte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A disease of sheep, mainly pregnant ewes, characterized by emaciation and turning round in circles; pregnancy toxemia, sheep pregnancy ketosis.
divorce mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divorce mills
Senses: glosses: A jurisdiction that grants divorces quickly and easily.
divorce mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divorce mill
decausativize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decausativizes
form: decausativizing
form: decausativized
form: decausativized
form: decausativise
Etymology: From de- + causative + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Levin and Rappaport (1995) argue that causative verbs can decausativize when the eventualities described come about spontaneously without the external intervention of an agent.
ref: 1998, Lexical Network Approach to Verbal Semantics, page 219:
text: Now I am ready to answer the first question — which causative verbs decausativize and which don't.
ref: 2004, Journal of Slavic Linguistics: JSL. - Volume 11, Issue 1, page 181:
text: Conversely, in order to decausativize, the non-causative event must be be^([sic]) able to occur without an external cause (unlike, for example, being cut or being amused, which require an agent or instrument).
ref: 2013, Angeliek Van Hout, Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations, page 243:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To function in manner that is not causative (e.g. The causative verb "melt" in He melts the ice decausativizes in The ice melts).
raw_tags: of a causative verb
decausativizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decausativize
decausativizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decausativize
decausativized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decausativize
decausativise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decausativises
form: decausativising
form: decausativised
form: decausativised
Senses: examples: text: For example, a verb such as oxidar specifies the external cause in Spanish (it decausativises or intransitivises into oxidarse), whereas the English equivalent is encoded as a process of internal causality.
ref: 2009, Rolf Kailuweit, Eva Staudinger, Björn Wiemer, New applications of Role & Reference Grammar, page 292:
glosses: Alternative form of decausativize.
decausativises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decausativise
decausativising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decausativise
decausativised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decausativise
pseudoair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + air.
Senses: examples: text: […] in which the air or pseudoair is thick and viscous; in which the only substance common to both sets of dimensions and thus available for combat purposes is a synthetic material so treated and so saturated as to be of enormous mass and inertia.
ref: 1942 January, E[dward] E[lmer] Smith, “Second Stage Lensmen”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 28, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Street and Smith Publications, page 99:
text: One electrode is a Pt electrode exposed directly to a sample gas, while the other is a Pt pseudoair electrode which is covered with a CO oxidation catalyst.
ref: 1980 August, H. Okamoto, H. Obayashi, T. Kudo, “Carbon monoxide gas sensor made of stabilized zirconia”, in Solid State Ionics, volume 1, numbers 3–4, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 319:
text: The two idealized test gases could be considered pseudoair and pseudohelium; both follow the gamma-law and have the same specific heat ratio.
ref: 2005, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing:
text: There was a brief burst of disorientation, nausea and vertigo, followed by a second rush of pseudo-air, and then I was standing.
ref: 2015, Alex Hansen, Dying in Reverse:
glosses: An artificially created gas that mimics air.
examples: text: That is to say, he talks a man's language without any of the pseudoair of condescension that confuses the non-articulate.
ref: 1945, Lancer - Volume 2, page 6:
text: She now exuded a pseudoair of sanctimony and sophistication.
ref: 1964, E. Malcolm Collins, Angel Blood, page 169:
glosses: A false appearance or seeming.
degradating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degradate
degradated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degradate
pseudoannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoannual
form: most pseudoannual
form: pseudo-annual
Etymology: From pseudo- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: In the pseudoannual rings of the root, the zones of tracheal tubes are separated from each other by rows of lignified tracheids.
ref: 1933 March, Digital Library Of India, “Morphology and Anatomy of Mollugo verticillata L.”, in The Kansas University Science Bulletin, volume XXI, number 12, Lawrence, K.S.: University of Kansas, page 410:
text: Having detected pseudoannual growth zones by the methods already described, an attempt was made to find out how to identify them in nature.
ref: 1939, Copeia, page 91:
text: A few red oak species have pseudoannual fruit maturation, that is, the fruit appears annual because the branches bearing the fruit did not elongate the following year ( Engelman , 1876-1877 ; Nixon , 1993 ) .
ref: 2001, María Lucía Vázquez, Molecular Andmorphological Studies on Mexican Red Oaks (Quercus Sect. Lobatae), page 247:
glosses: Having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.
pseudoannual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoannuals
form: pseudo-annual
Etymology: From pseudo- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: These so-called pseudoannual species are characterized by the absence of a persisting shoot system that connects shoots longer than one vegetation period. One of these pseudoannuals is T. europaea.
ref: 2009 February 10, Kathrin Kirchner, Sabine Kammermeier, Helge Bruelheide, “The response of the pseudoannual species Trientalis europaea L. to forest gap dynamics in a near-natural spruce forest”, in Forest Ecology and Management, volume 257, number 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1071:
glosses: A pseudoannual species.
pseudoannuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoannual
pseudoheterosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + heterosexuality.
Senses: examples: text: Homosexuality is one of the possible consequences of failing to work out these negative oedipal feelings. Another is pseudoheterosexuality. A man, for instance, might choose a wife (and she needn't look or act "masculine") because she has certain qualities which make her, for him, a stand-in for a male lover.
ref: 1986, Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Behaviour which appears to be heterosexual but is really homosexual.
Related terms: pseudoheterosexual
tarentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarento
pseudoheterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoheterosexual
form: most pseudoheterosexual
Etymology: From pseudo- + heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: Squidward twice has pseudoheterosexual moments. Once, he delightedly exclaims, "I've got a date with a lovely lady tonight, and her name is clarinet!"
ref: 2004, Heather Hendershot, editor, Nickelodeon Nation, pages 202–203:
text: Teenagers are sexually active only in a "pseudoheterosexual way."
ref: 1979, Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality:
glosses: Something which appears to be heterosexual but is in fact homosexual in nature.
Related terms: pseudoheterosexuality
two-forty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2:40
form: two forty
Etymology: Referring to the sport of trotting (harness racing), in which running a mile in two minutes and forty seconds was considered a very fast pace in 19th-century America.
Senses: glosses: A very fast speed.
Derived terms: two-forty on a plank road
Young Englander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Young Englanders
Etymology: From Young England + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In a related but more obviously nostalgic way the Young Englanders looked back to an earlier England: Disraeli lamented in his 1845 novel Sybil, or the Two Nations, that “there is no community in England” and proposed the medievalising of the aristocracy as a solution.
ref: 2015, David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History, →ISBN, page 56:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of Young England, a group of neofeudalist 19th-century Tories.
Young Englanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Young Englander
homocurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homocurious
form: most homocurious
Etymology: From homo- (“pertaining to homosexuals or homosexuality”) + curious.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I am the subject of homocurious speculation because of my association with Tommy "the gay" Knutson.
ref: 2008, Lauren McLaughlin, Cycler, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Unfamiliar heads popped in and out, sometimes with some excuse to check on us, sometimes without. Not homophobia but a kind of homocurious buzz was swirling around us, turning us into objects of gossip but also of generosity and attention.
ref: 2015, Joshua Gamson, “My New Kentucky Baby”, in Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 164:
text: A girl gets raped, oh yeah, that happens. A guy gets penetrated, even though he asks for it, well that spurred all kinds of anxious and titillated homocurious responses.
ref: 2019, Laurie Stone, “Was It Good for You?”, in The Women's Review of Books, volume 36, number 2, Wellesley, M.A.: Wellesley College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 3:
glosses: Questioning whether someone is homosexual.
Related terms: bi-curiosity
bi-curious
heteroflexible
homoflexible
lesbiflexible
trans-curious
entrigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrigue
corn law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn laws
form: Corn Law
form: corn-law
form: cornlaw
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One of the tariffs and protectionist regulations on imported grain and other foodstuffs enforced in the United Kingdom from 1815 until their abolition in 1846.
corn laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn law
cornlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornlaws
Senses: examples: text: When I became a Freetrade agitator in 1824, I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the cornlaws an evil.
ref: 1849 October 17, Ebenezer Elliott, “Preface”, in More Verse and Prose by the Cornlaw Rhymer, volume 1, published 1850, page v:
text: Another poem of this time, The Golden Year published in 1846, gives in antithetical form the hopeful liberal point of view founded on […] repeal of the cornlaws and freeing of commerce and Press […]
ref: 1963, Charles Tennyson, Tennyson and His Times, page 6:
text: He started away from the protection of agriculture on which Tory landowners depended for prosperity. They wanted the cornlaws and he moved step by step towards repeal.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 223:
glosses: Rare spelling of corn law.
cornlaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornlaw
toilet break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet breaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bathroom break.
synonyms: word: bathroom break
toilet breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet break
exit fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit fees
Senses: glosses: A fee charged for early withdrawal from a contract, or upon withdrawal from an investment fund.
exit fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exit fee
postmedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: premedia
glosses: A postmedian vein.
premedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: postmedia
glosses: A premedian vein.
preludize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preludizes
form: preludizing
form: preludized
form: preludized
Etymology: From prelude + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prelude (“introduce something as a prelude”).
synonyms: word: prelude
extra: introduce something as a prelude
glosses: Synonym of prelude (“play an introduction or prelude”).
synonyms: word: prelude
extra: play an introduction or prelude
preludized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preludize
preludizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preludize
preludizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preludize
nonhabitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + habitational.
Senses: glosses: Not habitational.
preperceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preperceives
form: preperceiving
form: preperceived
form: preperceived
Etymology: From pre- + perceive.
Senses: glosses: To perceive in advance.
preperceived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preperceive
preperceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preperceive
preperceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preperceive
presentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentors
Senses: glosses: Dated form of presenter.
presentors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentor
fodder melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodder melons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of citron melon.
synonyms: word: citron melon
jam melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jam melons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of citron melon.
synonyms: word: citron melon
preserving melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preserving melons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of citron melon.
synonyms: word: citron melon
Derived terms: Chinese preserving melon
stock melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock melons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of citron melon.
synonyms: word: citron melon
fodder melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fodder melon
jam melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jam melon
preserving melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserving melon
stock melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock melon
rhyme dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyme dictionary
self-governance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + governance.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-government.
synonyms: word: self-government
self-identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + identity.
Senses: examples: text: It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
ref: 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: For LDS Church members, that history is taught from a young age as part of their self-identity.
ref: 2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being the same thing as itself.
Related terms: self-identical
self-recording
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + recording.
Senses: examples: text: Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: Of an instrument: capable of automatically recording its measurements.
semicha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semichot
form: semichoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semikhah.
semikhot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semikhah
semichoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicha
semichot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicha
semikah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semikhah.
semidehydrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dehydrated.
Senses: glosses: Partially dehydrated.
sentimental comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimental comedies
Senses: glosses: An 18th-century dramatic genre in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials.
glosses: A work in this genre.
sentimental comedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentimental comedy
sensibilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sensibilize
sensibilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sensibilize
sensibilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensibilizers
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: a sensitizer.
sensibilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensibilizer
separate the men from the boys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: separates the men from the boys
form: separating the men from the boys
form: separated the men from the boys
form: separated the men from the boys
Senses: hypernyms: separate the wheat from the chaff
glosses: To identify (by means of a challenge or ordeal) which of a group of males are mature, courageous or masculine, and which are not.
Border City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet on the border of the city of Geneva, Ontario County and the town of Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, United States; the name refers to the former Massachusetts-New York border.
examples: text: Rebuilt "Royal Scots" Nos. 46115, "Scots Guardsman" […] and 46105 "Cameron Highlander", at Carlisle Citadel Station, in April, 1949
ref: 1949 November and December, “"Royal Scots" at the Border City”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered, frontispiece:
glosses: A nickname for Carlisle, Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the border with Scotland.
septular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a septulum.
serimpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serimpis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of srimpi.
serimpis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serimpi
srimpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: srimpis
form: serimpi
Senses: glosses: A ritual dance of Java in Indonesia, associated with the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
glosses: A girl who performs this dance.
srimpis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of srimpi
Gröbner bases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gröbner basis
bedhaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedhayas
form: bedaya
form: bedoyo
Etymology: From Javanese ꦧꦼꦝꦪ (bedhaya).
Senses: glosses: A sacred ritual Javanese dance, associated with the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
glosses: A performer of this dance.
bedoyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedoyos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedhaya.
bedaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedayas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedhaya.
bedhayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedhaya
bedoyos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedoyo
bedayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedaya
sermonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of sermons.
serradella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serradellas
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Ornithopus sativus.
serradellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serradella
servitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a servitor.
servt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of servant.
servts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servt.
lay store by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays store by
form: laying store by
form: laid store by
form: laid store by
Senses: glosses: Synonym of set store by.
synonyms: word: set store by
Garifuna Settlement Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An annual public holiday celebrated in Belize on November 19, commemorating the settlement of the Garifuna people in Belize after their deportation from the Grenadines by the British, and involving parades, music, and dance.
several fishery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: several fisheries
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A site where a person has an exclusive right of fishery, whether on his/her own property or another person's.
several fisheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of several fishery
sevearest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of seveare: most seveare
sevearer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of seveare: more seveare
seven-card stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: seven-toed Pete
hyponyms: razz
glosses: A version of stud poker where each individual receives seven cards, three face down and four face up.
seven arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The traditional subdivision of the arts into music, sculpture, painting, literature, architecture, performing, and film.
glosses: The trivium and quadrivium of liberal arts, consisting of grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
Related terms: seventh art
seven-toed Pete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of seven-card stud.
synonyms: word: seven-card stud
sevenfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sevenfold.
bubble baby syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bubble boy disease.
synonyms: word: bubble boy disease
severe combined immunodeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severe combined immunodeficiencies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: SCID
word: bubble boy disease
word: bubble boy syndrome
word: bubble baby disease
word: bubble baby syndrome
glosses: A genetic disorder characterized by the disturbed development of functional T cells and B cells, resulting in extreme vulnerability to infectious diseases.
Seyyed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seyyeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Seyyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seyyids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Seyyit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seyyits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Seyyeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seyyed
Seyyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seyyid
Seyyits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seyyit
empty barrels make the most noise
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empty vessels make the most sound.
empty cans make the most noise
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empty vessels make the most sound.
shacharit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːxəriːt/
Forms: form: shacharis
form: shaharis
form: shaharith
form: shaharit
form: Shacharit
form: shacharith
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שַׁחֲרִית (shakharít).
Senses: glosses: The daily morning prayer.
shacharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shacharit.
cope and stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A frame-and-panel joinery technique used to make doors, wainscoting, etc., involving a molded edge with a cut along the inside of the frame where it is to be joined to the panel. The panel piece that meets the molding at a right angle must be "coped", or given a cope cut, across the end grain of the wood to match the molding's profile.
shadow cabinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow cabinet
shaftie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shafties
Etymology: From shaft + -ie.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of shafty.
shafties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaftie
glosses: plural of shafty
shafty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shafties
form: shaftie
Etymology: From shaft + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.
ref: 1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bicycle that uses a driveshaft instead of a chain to transmit power from the pedals to the wheel.
shaggy dog tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggy dog tales
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shaggy dog story.
synonyms: word: shaggy dog story
shaggy dog tales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaggy dog tale
shahzadahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahzadah
shazada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shazadas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shahzada.
shazadah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shazadahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shahzada.
shazadahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shazadah
shazadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shazada
shaharit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shacharit.
shaharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shacharit.
shaharith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shacharit.
Shehecheyanu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃɛˌhɛxiˈjɑːnuː/
/ʃə-/
/-xə-/
Forms: form: Sheheheyanu
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ (shehekheyánu), a Jewish blessing for special occasions.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish prayer to express gratitude for special occasions and new experiences.
Sheheheyanu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shehecheyanu.
sheitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheitans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shaitan.
sheitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheitan
shelf mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shelfmark.
shelf marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelf mark
sheltopusic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheltopusik.
bunkermate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkermates
Etymology: From bunker + mate.
Senses: glosses: A person with whom one shares a bunker (type of shelter).
bunkermates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunkermate
shmitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmita
shemittah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shemittahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shmita.
shmitah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmitahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shmita.
shmittah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmittahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shmita.
shemittahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shemittah
shmitahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmitah
shmittahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmittah
shetadlanut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shtadlanut.
shtadlanut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shetadlanut
Senses: glosses: The work of a shtadlan; intercession on behalf of a local European Jewish community.
shetadlan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shetadlanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shtadlan.
shetadlanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shetadlan
shtadlan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtadlans
form: shtadlanim
form: shetadlan
Etymology: From Hebrew שְׁתַדְּלָן.
Senses: glosses: An intercessor for a local European Jewish community on behalf of the authorities.
Related terms: shtadlanut
shtadlans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtadlan
shtadlanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtadlan
worlds to come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world to come
Brzesko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Brzesko.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
puzzle canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzle canons
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: enigma canon
enigmatical canon
enigmatic canon
riddle canon
glosses: A canon in which only one voice is notated and the rules for determining the remaining parts and the time intervals of their entrances must be guessed.
puzzle canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzle canon
riddle canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riddle canons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puzzle canon.
synonyms: word: puzzle canon
enigma canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enigma canons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puzzle canon.
synonyms: word: puzzle canon
enigmatical canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enigmatical canons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puzzle canon.
synonyms: word: puzzle canon
enigmatic canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enigmatic canons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puzzle canon.
synonyms: word: puzzle canon
riddle canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riddle canon
enigma canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigma canon
enigmatical canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigmatical canon
enigmatic canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigmatic canon
enigmatographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enigmatographers
Senses: glosses: A person who makes or solves puzzles.
enigmatographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigmatographer
dungchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungchens
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan དུང་ཆེན (dung chen).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian Buddhist ceremonies.
dungchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungchen
Brzeszcze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Brzeszcze.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
Ajo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːhoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from O'odham oʼoho (“paint”), possibly under influence from Spanish ajo (“garlic”). The Tohono O'odham people obtained red paint pigments from the area.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States.
Related terms: Ajo Peak
mammisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammisis
Etymology: Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̀misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̀- (ǹ-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).
Senses: topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god
wikipedia: Jean-François Champollion
mammisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammisi
attachment of earnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attachments of earnings
Senses: examples: text: Attachment of earnings is administered by the county courts; the procedure can be used for High Court judgments, but they must be transferred to the county court for the purpose.
ref: 1989, J. R. Spencer, editor, Jackson’s Machinery of Justice, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: law
glosses: A legal process by which a creditor may take funds directly from the debtor’s wages.
Derived terms: english: attachment of earnings order
translation: attachment of earnings order
word: AEO
attachments of earnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attachment of earnings
unbusinesslikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbusinesslike + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Hill is killing herself with conscientiousness and, as you so truly said, with unbusinesslikeness, and to no purpose for anybody.
ref: 1874 May 14, Florence Nightingale, “Letter to Henry Bonham Carter”, in Lynn McDonald, editor, Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing, Waterloo, O.N.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 653:
text: They complain, it is true, not so much of actual wilful dishonesty—though of that, too, they affirm there is plenty—as of pettiness, constant shillyshallying, unbusinesslikeness almost passing belief.
ref: 1890, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., page 184:
text: You will no more avoid failure by systematic unbusinesslikeness, than you will secure success by strict attention to business.
ref: 1895, George Saintsbury, “Three Mid-Century Novelists”, in Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers, 2nd edition, London: William Heinemann, pages 176–177:
text: The unbusinesslikeness of the profession of prostitution is considered very amusing by men. At a fire in the whorehouse, the Madam screams: "Where's that wench with the towels? If she's gone, my accounting system is shot to hell!"
ref: 1968, G[ershon] Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, New York, N.Y.: Bell Publishing Company, published 1975, page 232:
text: When elected officials saw their loss reduction decisions from within the frame of "unbusinesslikeness," they quickly approved spending money on uniform business cards.
ref: 1999 June, Dennis Gilbride, Robert Stensrud, “Demand-Side Job Development and System Change”, in Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, volume 42, number 4, Alexandria, V.A.: American Rehabilitation Counseling Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 338:
antonyms: businesslikeness
glosses: The quality or condition of being unbusinesslike.
alternative episcopal oversight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AEO
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: extended episcopal care
text: Alternative episcopal oversight breaks this strong link between the local bishop and the geographical diocese; moreover, it undermines the bishop as a symbol of unity for the local church.
ref: 2018, Christopher Craig Brittain, Andrew McKinnon, The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads: The Crises of a Global Church, →ISBN, page 184:
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A system allowing parishes that reject the theological permissibility of the ordination or consecration of women to receive ministration from a bishop other than that of their respective geographical diocese, known as a provincial episcopal visitor or “flying bishop”.
unretweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unretweets
form: unretweeting
form: unretweeted
form: unretweeted
Etymology: From un- + retweet.
Senses: examples: text: The British version of Politwoops is amongst the sites affected. Its Twitter account, @deletedbyMPs, has not posted since Friday evening as a result of the closure. Its website, however, continues to archive deleted tweets, with the most recent example being a retweet by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne, unretweeted on Saturday.
ref: 2015 August 24, Alex Hern, “Twitter blocks access to political transparency organisation Politwoops”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022:
text: A good way to soften the embarrassment that can follow too many self-retweets is to undo the retweet after a few minutes or only leave it up for a short time. This keeps your timeline from looking less desperate, and let's face it, if you're going to retweet the tweet again, you're going to have to unretweet it at some point.
ref: 2017 July 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In praise of retweeting yourself”, in Mic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
text: Most people are guessing there's something in the works with Grande and Hudson, though it's just speculation. Fans spotted Grande's photographer bestie Alfredo Flores retweet Carey's photo (and since unretweeted it), which seems to be a good sign.
ref: 2020 October 12, Natalie Morin, “Did Mariah Carey Just Announce A Christmas Collab With Ariana Grande?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2023:
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: To undo the action of retweeting.
unretweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unretweet
unretweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unretweet
unretweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unretweet
protochronist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protochronist
form: most protochronist
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or supporting protochronism ("the idea that Latin or other languages are descended from Romanian").
protochronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protochronists
Senses: glosses: Someone who believes in protochronism.
Related terms: protochronism
protochronists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protochronist
cyclomastopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclomastopathy
cyclooligopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclooligopeptide
cyclopentabenzopyrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopentabenzopyran
cyclopesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopess
cyclophorases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclophorase
cyclopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopyrimidine
cyclotraxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclotraxin
cycloxydims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloxydim
cystoduodenostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystoduodenostomy
cystoenterostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystoenterostomy
cystopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystopexy
cytolocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytolocation
cytopigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytopigment
Glaciergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From glacier + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: But no one, it seems, is more embarrassed by "Glaciergate" than Dr Pachauri himself, whose expanding worldwide business connections since he became chairman of the IPCC have recently been the subject of articles in these pages by Dr North and myself.
ref: 2010 January 23, Christopher Booker, “Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023:
text: And don't forget that this mistake was highlighted not by deniers but by scientists themselves. Glaciergate actually shows we can police ourselves, say researchers.
ref: 2010 January 24, Robin McKie, “Glaciergate was a blunder, but it’s the sceptics who dissemble”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022:
text: Asked if he had any regrets over "Glaciergate", he [Rajendra Pachauri] said: "Well, we obviously made an error which we have corrected, and it's there on the website of the IPCC. We did that as soon as it came to our attention."
ref: 2011 December 7, Michael McCarthy, “Glaciergate part II: climate chief reheats Himalayas row”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2022:
text: In a 2007 report, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change alarmingly stated that the mountain glaciers of the Himalayan region could be gone by the year 2035. But the statement turned out to be in error, leading to an IPCC acknowledgement of inadequate vetting of the material and many criticisms of the climate science body — as well as the dubbing of the incident "Glaciergate."
ref: [2015 May 27, Chris Mooney, “Climate change could shrink Mount Everest’s glaciers by 70 percent, study finds”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
glosses: A 2010 controversy resulting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly claiming in a 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas would melt by 2035.
daahlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daahling
dacines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacine
dacoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacoid
chime whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chime whistles
Senses: examples: text: With a toot on her chime whistle, No. 6 set her 3 ft. 9 in. drivers [driving wheels] turning and we were off round the curve through Pennyburn works.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A steam whistle with at least two simultaneous tones.
Daghistanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daghistani
dairy bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairy bar
daishos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daisho
daleks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalek
d'Alembertians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d'Alembertian
dam breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dam break
damagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damagement
data managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data manager