cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pufferfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pufferfish
rasboras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasbora
redfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redfish
remoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remora
play dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays dumb
form: playing dumb
form: played dumb
form: played dumb
Senses: examples: text: I played dumb 'cause I knew if I talked at all, being simple and guileless, you all would twist me up and have the whole thing in a jiffy.
ref: 1904, Rex Ellingwood Beach, “The Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute”, in Pardners:
glosses: To pretend to be dumb, either:
To feign muteness.
examples: text: Died. Virginia Hill, 49, redheaded, free-spending playmate of the underworld... who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends.
ref: 1966 April 1, “Milestones”, in Time:
text: Valchek: Kid, careers have been launched on a helluvalot less. Just... shut up and play dumb.
Hauk: I can do that, no problem.
ref: 2006 Sept. 17, David Mills, "Soft Eyes", The Wire, 00:35:20
glosses: To pretend to be dumb, either:
To feign stupidity or ignorance of some knowledge, usually in order to avoid responsibility or gain some advantage.
synonyms: play stupid
pornos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porno
Bikol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bicol
Senses: glosses: The language of the native inhabitants of the Bicol Region, Bikol Central.
Related terms: Bikol Central
rowdie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowdies
Senses: examples: text: But if no constable was to be had, or, worse still, if the constable was himself a rowdie, commend us to a Nehemiah who, to build the wall of Jerusalem in troublous times, can handle the sword as alertly as the trowel.
ref: 1860, Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod, Hartley Aspden, Good Words and Sunday Magazine, volume 1, page 126:
glosses: Archaic spelling of rowdy.
gwin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of go
bump and grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bump and grinds
form: bump-and-grind
form: bump-n'-grind
form: bump n' grind
Senses: examples: text: One of the oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind.
ref: 1982 August 9, Gerald Clarke, “Are the Stars Out Tonight?”, in Time:
glosses: A sexually suggestive dance involving exaggerated hip movements, especially a striptease dance.
examples: text: "There's inevitably a bump and grind when someone new comes into an established organization," says former senior adviser Rahm Emanuel.
ref: 1998 November 19, Lloyd Grove, John Harris, “Crisis Quarterback: Gregory Craig Is Calling the Plays On Clinton's Team”, in Washington Post, retrieved 07 Aug 2008, page D01:
text: The typical bump and grind of short-track racing at Bristol Motor Speedway met with the panicked push of the final races of the Nascar Nextel Cup.
ref: 2005 August 29, Viv Bernstein, “Victory Gives Kenseth a Shot at the Chase”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Aug 2008:
glosses: A combination of movements resembling such a dance, as in road racing, whitewater kayaking, or exercising; any activity involving prolonged jarring or shaking.
bump and grind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumps and grinds
form: bumping and grinding
form: bumped and ground
form: bumped and ground
form: bumped and grinded
form: bumped and grinded
form: bump-and-grind
form: bump-n'-grind
form: bump n' grind
Senses: examples: text: A dozen exercisers show up twice a week to "bump and grind," "do some belly rolls" and "loosen the hip joints."
ref: 2008 July 13, Stephen Regenold, “Ultrafit: Taking the pole position”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
glosses: To perform such a dance or such movements.
bump-and-grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bump and grind.
bump-n'-grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bump and grind.
bump-n'-grind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bump and grind.
bump n' grind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bump and grind.
bump n' grind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumps n' grinds
form: bumping n' grinding
form: bumped n' ground
form: bumped n' ground
form: bumped n' grinded
form: bumped n' grinded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bump and grind.
cantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of canteen.
cantoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantorias
Senses: glosses: A gallery, in an Italian church, occupied by the choir
sleep mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːp mɑːsk/
ipa: /slip mæsk/
Forms: form: sleep masks
Senses: glosses: a blindfold made to ease sleeping by covering the eyes to block all light.
Synonyms: eyeshade
Hypernyms: blindfold
personed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of person
personed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: three-personed God
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of people.
examples: text: He added: “That is why I'm in favour of manned, or should I say ‘personed’, space flight.”
ref: 2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Manned.
pentangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentangles
Etymology: From Middle English pentangel. By surface analysis, pent- + angle.
Senses: glosses: A pentagram.
glosses: A pentagon.
heptangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptangles
Etymology: From hept- + angle.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A seven-pointed star with the construction lines retained.
glosses: A heptagram (seven-pointed star inscribed in a circle).
glosses: A heptagon.
heptagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptagrams
Etymology: From hepta- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: page 15: The exercise may be varied by tracing the Heptagram, i. e., passing from one point to another of a regular Heptagon in this order — 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1.
page 81: If the hand is stiff, it may be loosened and trained into tune with Nature's formative processes by the practice of drawing the Pentagram and Heptagram.
ref: 1890, Mary Everest Boole, Logic Taught by Love, Alfred Mudge & Son
text: It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this heptagram [the weekday heptagram] was created.
ref: 1995, Carl G. Liungman, Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols: Western Idiograms, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 347:
text: Note that there are two different heptagrams, one goes around twice and the other thrice; moreover, the configuration at the core of the 3-heptagram is in fact a 2-heptagram and the figure at the core of that is an ordinary heptagon.
ref: 2009, John Barnes, Gems of Geometry, Springer, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Either of two regular seven-pointed stars, drawn with the construction lines retained; a heptangle.
glosses: A heptagon.
Related terms: sense: star shape
word: pentagram (5-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: hexagram (6-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: octogram (8-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: nonagram (9-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: decagram (10-pointed)
Brayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪˈjɔ̃/
Forms: form: Brayons
Etymology: From French brayer (“to break flax for spinning”).
Senses: glosses: A resident of Madawaska, in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada.
Brayon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪˈjɔ̃/
Forms: form: more Brayon
form: most Brayon
Etymology: From French brayer (“to break flax for spinning”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Brayons, their language, or their mixed French–English culture.
Brayons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brayon
helically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more helically
form: most helically
Etymology: From helical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a helical manner, spirally.
Derived terms: interhelically
isohelically
horseload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseloads
Etymology: From horse + load.
Senses: synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount, originally the amount that a horse could haul.
Coordinate terms: assload
homogeneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homogeneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homogeneity: the state of having a uniform composition.
synonyms: word: homogeneity
extra: the state of having a uniform composition
hypogeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπόγειος (hupógeios) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Existing or growing underground
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Remaining under the surface of the ground after having germinated
raw_tags: of a cotyledon
Synonyms: hypogean
hypogeous
Coordinate terms: epigeal
Derived terms: hypogeally
hypogean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin hypogaeus, hypogēus (from Ancient Greek ὑπόγειος (hupógeios)) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Existing or growing underground.
Synonyms: hypogeal
hypogeous
subterraneous
subterrene
underground
subterranean
Coordinate terms: epigean
Related terms: chthonic
hypogee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogees
Senses: glosses: An underground room, a cellar, a vault.
hypogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See hypo- + -gene (variant of more common -gen).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed underground, often by ascending solutions.
Related terms: hypogenic
agarwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agarwoods
Etymology: From agar + wood (agar ultimately from Dravidian, probably Tamil அகில் (akil)).
Senses: glosses: Heartwood from trees of genus Aquilaria, especially Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. A. agallocha), infected with mold (Phialophora parasitica), which produce an aromatic resin in response to this infestation.
Synonyms: sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: agalloch
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: agallochum
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: agalwood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: agilawood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: aloewood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: aloeswood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: aloes
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: aguila wood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: aquilawood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: eaglewood
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: jinko
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: lignaloe
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: oud
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: gaharu
sense: Aquilaria heartwood
word: xylaloe
hypogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Hypogenic caves are formed by water rising from below ground.
glosses: Of or relating to a process that acts from below.
Related terms: hypogene
Canadiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Canadienne
Syeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syedas
form: Sayyida
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida).
* (female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An honorific title borne by female descendants of the prophet Muhammad.
glosses: From Arabic, a form of address for a female dignitary, equivalent to Miss, Mrs., or Lady. feminine of Sayyid
Syeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Syedas
form: Sayyida
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida).
* (female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Urdu; feminine of Syed
Related terms: El Cid
Sayyid
Syed
unfeignedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfeɪ.nɪd.li/
Forms: form: more unfeignedly
form: most unfeignedly
Etymology: From unfeigned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Of the intervening weeks I will say little, but my admiration and sympathy went out unfeignedly to Mary Cavendish. She ranged herself passionately on her husband’s side, scorning the mere idea of his guilt, and fought for him tooth and nail.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 149:
glosses: In an unfeigned manner; genuinely.
pluvials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluvial
eustasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eustasy
clasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clast
megafaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafauna
miswrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miswrite
miswriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miswrite
miswriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miswritings
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; writo; typo; misprint
text: The form mrkws of the Istanbul manuscript is certainly a miswriting of a spelling variant of jārkūn.
ref: 2020, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 191 (fol. 18v,3), page 377:
english: On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs
translation: On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs
coordinate_terms: misspeaking#Noun
misspeech
speako
;
spello
;
copy-pasto
;
scanno
;
thinko
glosses: A miswritten word.
miswrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of miswrite
longtail boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longtail boats
form: long-tail boat
Senses: glosses: A type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia, which uses a common automotive engine as a powerplant; there is much variation among them, and in rural areas they may be improvised from bamboo and traditional materials with the sole defining characteristic being a secondhand car or truck engine.
longtail boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longtail boat
miswritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of miswrite
long-tail boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tail boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of longtail boat.
long-tail boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-tail boat (alternative spelling of longtail boats).
massifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of massify
massifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of massify
massified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of massify
case-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case-book
make or break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes or breaks
form: making or breaking
form: made or broke
form: made or broken
Senses: examples: text: Vince knew that his ability to come up with a catchy hook would make or break his song.
glosses: To be a crucial factor in determining the success of something.
Related terms: make-or-break
do or die
sink or swim
defining moment
multitheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + theism.
Senses: examples: text: But for rudeness of manners, idolatry, and multitheism, no people in the world ever went beyond them.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 574:
text: This led to multitheism and idolatry, a condition which would have grown increasingly confused, had God not decided to give mankind some better direction.
ref: 1990, Edward Malcolm Batley, Catalyst of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, page 317:
text: But I am convinced that it is time for us to understand all our theisms as aspects of a global multitheism.
ref: 2001, Diana L. Eck, "Honest to God:The Universe of Faith" in Marcus J. Borg, Ross Mackenzie, God at 2000, p. 48
text: By the unprecedented intensity of the finale's rhetoric, by the multitheism of its symbolism — the Greek mythic signposts, the Christian-medieval gestures embedded in the Andante maestoso, and the orientalism of the Alla marcia's "Turkish Music".
ref: 2003, Maynard Solomon, Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination, page 226:
glosses: The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
examples: text: This forceful imposition of monotheism and impossibly high moral standards on the slow evolutionary process of multitheism in which people were still learning to live with their gods created guilt, anxiety and fear of the new god.
ref: 1933, Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way, p. 90
glosses: Polytheism.
Derived terms: multitheist
multitheistic
multitheistically
Related terms: monotheism
omnitheism
polytheism
standing ovations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing ovation
staple characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staple character
edutain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: edutains
form: edutaining
form: edutained
form: edutained
Etymology: Back-formation from edutainment. In use in 1985.
Senses: examples: text: Voices whose work and whose expression of her work continues to inform and (in a phrase borrowed from Black performance poetry of the period) 'edutain'.
ref: 2003, Jane De Gay, Lizbeth Goodman, Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women: Theory and Practice, page 89:
text: Let Me "Edutain You...
ref: 2005, Farrah Gray, Fran Harris., Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out, page 163:
text: Edutain Me / The "risk" of Deep Springs is largely up to the students' shaping.
ref: 2008, Yale Daily News, Yale Daily News Staff, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2008, 34th edition, page 125:
glosses: To educate in an entertaining manner.
Derived terms: edutainer
mitralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mitral + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting the mitral valves
juniper bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juniper bushes
Senses: glosses: a bush, shrub, or smaller tree of any of the species within the genus Juniperus.
Related terms: juniper berry
juniper
orthosympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + sympathetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system
Related terms: parasympathetic
nighty night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: nighty-night
Senses: glosses: Good night.
propago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propagines
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōpāgō.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A layer or branch laid down to root.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bulblet.
film making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As we saw with Housing Problems, this 'telling one's own story' is an ethos Edgar Anstey would have applauded, and it was an ethos that has fed into Network Rail's work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Green explains: "COVID has produced huge challenges for us, but it showed there is such a need for film-making at a time like this."
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 49:
glosses: Alternative spelling of filmmaking.
film-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film-makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of filmmaker.
film maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of filmmaker.
sap fagot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap fagots
form: sap faggot
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A short fascine, approximately three feet in length, employed in sapping operations to fill gaps between gabions prior to the construction of a parapet.
sap roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap rollers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.
sap ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap balls
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
sap green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap greens
Senses: glosses: A dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus cathartica, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
sap rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap rots
Senses: glosses: dry rot
off course
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
text: Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Not following the planned, or intended, route.
Derived terms: blow off course
off course
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of of course.
sap-wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap-woods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapwood.
sap tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sap tubes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a vessel that conveys sap
apiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlɪt
Forms: form: more apiculate
form: most apiculate
Etymology: Latin apiculatus
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a short, sharply pointed tip.
Related terms: apiculata
clingstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clingstones
Etymology: From cling + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that clings to the flesh.
Coordinate terms: freestone
supraventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supraventricular
form: most supraventricular
Etymology: From supra- + ventricular.
Senses: examples: text: I was called to see a patient in supraventricular tachycardia – a very fast heart rhythm, which if left untreated can be fatal.
ref: 2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 204:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located above the ventricles of the heart.
Derived terms: supraventricular crest
supraventricular tachycardia
sternocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sterno- + costal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both the sternum and the ribs
Derived terms: sternocostal triangle
camp followers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camp follower
telediastolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + diastolic.
Senses: glosses: Occurring towards the end of ventricular diastole
Related terms: telediastole
tricuspid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈkʌspɪd/
Forms: form: more tricuspid
form: most tricuspid
Etymology: From tri- + cuspid.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having three cusps, e.g. a molar tooth
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the valve, between the right atrium and ventricle of the heart, that has three triangular segments
Derived terms: tricuspid atrasia
tricuspid insufficiency
tricuspid murmur
tricuspid valve
Related terms: bicuspid
tricuspid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈkʌspɪd/
Forms: form: tricuspids
Etymology: From tri- + cuspid.
Senses: glosses: A molar tooth that has three cusps
vasoformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + formative.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the formation and development of blood vessels and blood cells
striata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striatum
bepity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈpɪti/
Forms: form: bepities
form: bepitying
form: bepitied
form: bepitied
Etymology: From be- + pity.
Senses: examples: text: I bepitied him, so I did, when he when he used to hug his pillow, and call it his dear Madam Sophia.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 380:
glosses: To pity greatly.
bacterialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacterializations
Etymology: From bacterial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of a crop with bacteria in order to promote growth, nutrient uptake etc.
case books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case book
woodchipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchippings
Etymology: From wood + chipping.
Senses: glosses: The mechanized conversion of wood (especially trunks and branches of felled trees) to woodchips.
examples: text: If you thought wood-chippings masquerading as seeds in strawberry jam were bad, take a look at "pink slime", the consolidated debris of butcher's waste now added to your beef burgers, or the gelatine added to your "fresh" meat […]
ref: 2014, Malcolm Coxall, Guy Caswell, Ethical Eating: A Complete Guide to Sustainable Food:
glosses: A woodchip.
Related terms: woodchipper
mycorrhization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycorrhizations
Etymology: From mycorrhiza + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of mycorrhiza on the roots of a plant
glosses: The inoculation of a plant's roots with mycorrhiza
MITM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MITMs
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of man-in-the-middle attack: Computer network crime where the criminal passes on messages between two communicating parties without them knowing it. The victims e.g. think they use a secure connection, but they don't know that this connection leads to the 'man in the middle' who relays the messages.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of meet-in-the-middle attack: Cryptographic attack that attempts to find a value in each of the ranges and domains of the composition of two functions such that the forward mapping of one through the first function is the same as the inverse image of the other through the second function.
Irun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Gipuzkoa province, Basque Country, Spain, on the border with France.
Jacobine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacobines
Etymology: From French Jacobine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jacobin, especially as a feminine form.
synonyms: word: Jacobin
extra: especially as a feminine form
Lill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lills
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lill.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Linette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In modern use a spelling variant of Lynette, though it is also identical with a rare French name, diminutive of Line, from Caroline, Pauline and other female names ending in -line.
Senses: examples: text: When Damian addressed the wild flower, perhaps you are not aware that Linné is the name of a beautiful weed, originally selected by a great botanist to bear his appellation, and that it is also the endearing abbreviation for Linette. - - - The roses still continued to bloom on the grave, whose headstone recorded the name of "Linette".
ref: 1850 Linne, the Woodland Flower, from Gazette of the Union, The Golden Rule, Vol. 12, J. D. Stewart & W. B. Smith, page 270
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Lita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A parish in Ibarra canton, Imbabura province, Ecuador.
Lyssy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lyssys
Etymology: Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Lysý, a nickname from lysý (“bald”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Majlis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Majlises
form: Majlis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of majlis.
Nelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Olin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Iowa.
glosses: A village in Poland.
Olly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.
multitheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitheistic
form: most multitheistic
Etymology: From multi- + theistic.
Senses: examples: text: No ingenuity can show a method of constructing a pantheistic or multitheistic system, on any other base than that of revelation.
ref: 1889, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 441:
text: The people of Kaleva and Pohja do not represent primitiveness in this development, for with their varied occupations, highly-developed social systems and multitheistic religious concepts they already stand for a diverse culture.
ref: 1990, Lauri Honko, Religion, Myth, and Folklore in the World's Epics, page 176:
text: Since the purpose of the logo is to reach a multicultural and multitheistic audience, different color interpretations were considered.
ref: 2003, Gregory Thomas, How to Design Logos, Symbols and Icons, page 29:
text: Judaism was also monotheistic in a culture that that was multitheistic.
ref: 2006, Ron McDonald, The Spirituality of Community Life: When We Come 'Round Right, page 68:
glosses: Of or relating to multitheism.
scabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scabbles
form: scabbling
form: scabbled
form: scabbled
form: scapple
form: scrapple
Etymology: From Middle English scaplen, from Old French escapler (“to dress timber”), from es- (“off”) (from Latin ex-) + capler (“to cut”) (from Vulgar Latin *capulre, *cappulre).
Senses: glosses: To roughly dress stone.
salivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salivation
salinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salinization
saliencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saliency
salesmanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesmanship
pussiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rocky was a three-tour Marine Vietnam vet who, I later learned from him, thought guard duty at Eglin was about the pussiest job he could imagine.
ref: 1993, Robert Mason, Chickenhawk: Back in the World : Life After Vietnam:
glosses: superlative form of pussy: most pussy
Sella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Asturias, starting in the Picos de Europa and flowing into the Bay of Biscay.
glosses: A municipality of Marina Baixa, Alicante, Valencia, Spain.
Solin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Croatia.
Taran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Andersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈændə(ɹ)sən/
homophone: Anderson
Forms: form: Andersens
Etymology: From Danish or Norwegian Andersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish [in turn originating as a patronymic] of Danish and Norwegian origin.
Derived terms: Andersen syndrome
Andersen-Tawil syndrome
Amundsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish and Norwegian Amundsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname of Danish and Norwegian origin.
glosses: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole (1911).
glosses: An impact crater near the southern pole of the Moon, named after the Norwegian explorer.
Derived terms: Amundsen Gulf
Amundsen Sea
Andersson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anderssons
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Andersson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Austad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Austads
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Austad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Abdi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Abdul.
Angell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Angells
Etymology: English variant spelling of Angel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former settlement in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.
Aagaard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aagaards
form: Agard
form: Aagard
form: Agaard
Etymology: From North Germanic (Scandinavian), from Danish Aagaard, Norwegian Aagaard.
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian surname from Danish.
Ashraf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unknown-gender given name from Arabic.
Amin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ameen
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَمِين (ʔamīn).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Related terms: word: Amina
word: Aminah
Anwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَنْوَر (ʔanwar, “most luminous”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Anwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَنْوَار (ʔanwār, “lights”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Aurdal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Nord-Aurdal municipality, Innlandet, Norway.
glosses: A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States, named after Aurdal, Norway.
Derived terms: Nord-Aurdal
Sør-Aurdal
Ahmadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ahmadis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَدِيّ (ʔaḥmadiyy) or Persian احمدی.
Senses: examples: text: Several of my Ahmadi friends are fasting because it's Ramadan.
glosses: A follower of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (a religious movement based on Sunni Islam).
glosses: A follower of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (a new religious movement based on Twelver Shia Islam).
Related terms: Lahori
Ahmadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَدِيّ (ʔaḥmadiyy) or Persian احمدی.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic
glosses: A surname from Persian
falcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfælkeɪt/
Forms: form: more falcate
form: most falcate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin falcātus (“curved, sickle-shaped”), from falx (“sickle”, oblique stem in falc-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a sickle.
Synonyms: falcated
falciform
falcular
drepaniform
Derived terms: defalcate
falcation
subfalcate
Taos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Etymology: From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Taos people or language.
Derived terms: Taos County
Taos Mountains
Taos Pueblo
Taos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Etymology: From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).
Senses: glosses: An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking Pueblo people of northern New Mexico.
Taos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Etymology: From Spanish Taos (“Taos”), from Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”).
Senses: glosses: The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
hypernyms: Tiwa
Tanoan
glosses: The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
glosses: A city and town in Missouri.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Taos terms
bush pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush pilots
Senses: examples: text: Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push—the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller.
ref: 1959 July 13, “‘The Great One’”, in Time:
qualifier: New Guinea
glosses: A pilot who flies small aircraft to and from remote locations, over expanses of relatively unpopulated territory.
glosses: A person who guides people through bushland.
Related terms: bushcraft
bushman
bushmanship
bushperson
leading-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading-strings
Senses: examples: text: her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 396:
text: Power is a debt to the people: but as yet we walk with the leading-strings of prejudice, strong to confine the steps, which they never should attempt to guide.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 247:
text: Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days. The young man’s life is just beginning: the boy’s leading-strings are cut, and he has all the novel delights and dignities of freedom.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 18, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Highly protective – Louis wore leading strings until he was seven, a corset for his posture until he was ten – his guardians cocooned him from a wide range of normal childhood experiences.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 74:
glosses: Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk.
pericranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹɪˈkɹeɪnɪəm/
Forms: form: pericraniums
form: pericrania
Etymology: From late Latin pericranium, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek περικράνιον (perikránion), noun use of the neuter form of περικράνιος (perikránios, “around the skull”), from περί (perí, “around”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”).
Senses: examples: text: After making the incision, the pericranium must be raised a little from the bone with the edge of the knife, to clear the bone, and the scalprum employed.
ref: 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The membrane (or periosteum) which covers the outer surface of the skull.
examples: text: If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
ref: 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:
text: Now, Mrs Honour had unluckily poured so much of this liquid fire down her throat, that the smoke of it began to ascend into her pericranium, and blinded the eyes of Reason […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 411:
glosses: The head, skull; one's mind.
Derived terms: pericranial
Related terms: postcranium
cryptocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: cryptocracies
Etymology: From crypto- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A form of government where the real leaders are hidden, or merely unknown.
Synonyms: puppet government
Coordinate terms: aristocracy
democracy
plutocracy
theocracy
cryptocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptocracy
O-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O-levels
Etymology: Clipping of ordinary level.
Senses: glosses: A subject-based qualification superseded in England by GCSEs, but still available as an international examination.
agonisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agonisingly
form: most agonisingly
Etymology: From agonising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The hour while I waited for the pain medication to take effect dragged on agonisingly.
text: Bradley Johnson could not find his team-mate with a through ball but Antonio Valencia slipped, putting Pilkington clean through, only for the former Huddersfield man to shoot agonisingly wide.
ref: 2011 October 1, Alistair Magowan, “Man Utd 2 - 0 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
text: We were shooting in Pittsburgh, and there were some rudeboys looking at us, like [agonisingly broad Jamaican accent]: “Ya shoodent be shoe-ting ere.” So we’re driving around in this grim area of Pittsburgh and I start talking in this over-the-top Jamaican accent.
ref: 2014 March 6, Stuart Heritage, “Man v Food's Adam Richman – now causing Fandemonium”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of agonizingly.
actualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actualisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of actualization.
Derived terms: self-actualisation
apoplexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoplexy
brocades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brocade
brocades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brocade
brocading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brocadings
Senses: examples: text: the opening of the robe shows an under-dress of very beautiful shaded lutestring, the ground of which is white, but it is enriched with shades and brocadings of every possible colour.
ref: 1864, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 218:
text: "Versions of Herat rugs made in Isfahan in the time of Shah Abbas have, in most cases, deep colors-dark red in the field, dark blue in the border-and a brocading of metal threads"
ref: 1973, Dimand and Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 71:
glosses: The pattern or decoration made by brocading.
brocading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brocade
burgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burg
die hard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies hard
form: dying hard
form: died hard
form: died hard
Senses: glosses: To die only after a desperate struggle for life. (of a living being)
examples: text: Already, however, in this earliest phase, new types cease to be invented; technical skill lingers on and dies hard, but inspiration has gone.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 99:
text: In Scotland, though, some of the Caledonian products have died hard. They were mostly good straightforward engines.
ref: 1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
text: Another incentive to Glaswegians to make full use of their new facilities is that road-rail competition has died hard in this area and the prevailing fare levels, even though rail rates were recently increased, are somewhat low by standards elsewhere in Britain—[...].
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
glosses: To be slow in changing or disappearing. (of a custom, idea etc)
Derived terms: word: die-hard
word: diehard
word: old habits die hard
Related terms: you can't teach an old dog new tricks
done deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: done deals
Senses: examples: text: “You get a win and suddenly the crowd’s on your side again. It was a shot in the arm for two reasons. First, when we work together, we are stronger. Second, this isn’t a done deal.”
ref: 2018 April 28, Dorian Lynskey, quoting James McGrory, “‘It’s not a done deal’: inside the battle to stop Brexit”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An agreement that has been finally resolved or decided.
Synonyms: word: fait accompli
word: done dotta
placcate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placcates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placket (“type of armour plate”).
nerka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜːkə/
ipa: /ˈnɝkə/
Forms: form: nerkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian не́рка (nérka) from Finnish nieriä (“arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus”).
Senses: examples: text: This Salmon was a Nerka, and was a tame fish indeed.
ref: 1892, W. A. Perry, American Game Fishes, page 78:
glosses: A sockeye salmon.
lose one's touch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses one's touch
form: losing one's touch
form: lost one's touch
form: lost one's touch
form: lose touch
Senses: examples: text: They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch.
glosses: To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.
light clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Straw-clay, a mixture of straw with a dressing of dilute liquid clay or clay slip. This natural material, making use of an agricultural by-product with an abundant component of soil, has good insulating qualities but is not suitable for load-bearing structural elements.
Related terms: chip slip