cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
warfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warfighters
Etymology: From war + fighter.
Senses: examples: text: Training excellence inevitably returns to the leader— the warfighter. The warfighter is a special breed of soldier. From squad leader to corps commander, the warfighter knows how to fight on the battlefield.
ref: 1986, Military Review, volume 66, page 11:
text: Shay also wrote eloquently, from his experience treating Vietnam veterans with traumatic stress injuries, how the betrayal in war of the moral order—of basic beliefs about right and wrong—can ruin the character of young warfighters.
ref: 2011, Charles R. Figley, William P. Nash, Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management, page 54:
text: Military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) present many unique and challenging conditions for the warfighter.
ref: 2011, Borko Furht, Handbook of Augmented Reality, page 681:
text: What will the future warfighter be like? What are the characteristics of the future battlefield on which he or she will fight? How must changes in military health care work to address emerging needs?
ref: 2013, Peter Ramsaroop, Marion J. Ball, David Beaulieu, Advancing Federal Sector Health Care: A Model for Technology Transfer:
text: The U.S. Military's Food Processing, Engineering & Technology Team is responsible for keeping warfighters fed and healthy in the field.
ref: 2014 June 10, “Food to fuel warfighters”, in CNN:
text: But a Navy account of that test said there was no plan to get it into the hands of warfighters, adding that it “offers a glimpse into the future of laser weapons.” […] “In a world of evolving threats we know that our focus must be on getting capability to the warfighter and we will look to accelerate this next phase of activity,” Shimon Fhima, director strategic programs for the UK Defense Ministry, said in a statement.
ref: 2024 March 13, Brad Lendon, “Air defense for $13 a shot? How lasers could revolutionize the way militaries counter enemy missiles and drones”, in CNN:
glosses: A soldier (especially of the United States military).
Related terms: warfighting
warfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warfighter
echinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: echinuses
form: echini
Etymology: From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).
Senses: examples: text: 'It is a sea-urchin - a common echinus. Nature repeats itself in many forms regardless of the size. This echinus is a model, a prototype, of the world.'
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: A sea urchin.
topics: architecture
glosses: The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
topics: architecture
glosses: The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
topics: architecture
glosses: The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.
anons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anon
fill music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Music broadcast as an interlude between formally scheduled programming, or to fill in during an unscheduled interruption, in order to forestall listener abandonment of the station.
stock exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock exchange
past simple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: past simples
Senses: glosses: simple past
Dobermanns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dobermann
coneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coney
dassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dassie
exonarthexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exonarthex
hand press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand presses
Senses: examples: text: More powerful versions of the traditional hand-presses were introduced during the first decades of the nineteenth century, but they did not materially alter the rate of production of the printed sheet.
ref: 2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 164:
glosses: A press operated by hand, especially a printing press.
angaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /æŋˈɡɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: angarias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angary.
angariate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: angariates
form: angariating
form: angariated
form: angariated
Etymology: From Latin angariō, angariāte (“to compel”).
Senses: examples: text: Howſoeuer, if parting with a peece of money be ſuch a Preſſure to the husband for the Wines wilfulnes, what a miſerable Preſſing Crueltie was that to burne a woman great with Childe, which opening the wombe in the torments , and comming foorth, was Angariated as throwen backe into the fire, to bee conſumed with the Mother?
ref: 1609, William Barlow, An Ansvver to a Catholike English-man, London: […] Thomas Haneland for Mathew Law, page 140:
text: Wherefore I could not but with Iacobs Angel giue them leaue to prevaile, & yeeld ſo farre unto their earneſt requeſt, that being angariated to goe but one mile, I was notwithstanding content to goe with them more then twaine , preaching(before my departure thence)divers ſermons vnto them.
ref: 1635, Iohn Downe, “To the Reader”, in A Treatise of the Trve Natvre and Definition of Justifying Faith, […] Iohn Lichfield for Edward Foreſt, page A2:
text: Therefore,though Chriſt hath commanded his Followers (ſo it be not I ſuppoſe out of his Way) that if any man preſs them to go one mile, they ſhould go two, yet it is not wiſdom in the Church to pretend to, or however to exerciſe, that Power of Angariating men further than their occaſions or underſtandings will permit.
ref: 1676, Andreas Rivetus [i.e., André Rivet], Mr. Smirke, or, the Divine in Mode, page 12:
text: Accordingly, he made up his mind to acquire a knowledge of the Hungarian dialects. Later on he sought to do the same with Italian; and he angariated his assistant at the church into becoming interested in the same studies.
ref: 1918, “Other Sheep Not of This Fold” (chapter XVII), in Pastor Halloft: A Story of Clerical Life, Longmans, Green and Co., page 157:
glosses: To compel or force (someone).
subitem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subitems
Etymology: From sub- + item.
Senses: glosses: An item that is subordinated to another item.
coprolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coprolitic
form: most coprolitic
Etymology: From coprolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: Pemberton, S. George and Robert W. Frey 1991. "William Buckland and his Coprolitic vision". Ichnos, 1: 317–325. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0/dung.html
glosses: Of or pertaining to coprolites.
antidoping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-doping
Etymology: From anti- + doping.
Senses: examples: text: The league recently announced tough new antidoping measures.
text: That has left the Olympic and antidoping movements unsettled as the Summer Games prepare to open on Friday in Paris and raised new questions about the reach of U.S. law enforcement powers abroad.
ref: 2024 July 25, Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja, “How a U.S. Antidoping Law Fueled Global Tensions”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2024:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Proscribing or combating doping.
knock around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks around
form: knocking around
form: knocked around
form: knocked around
Etymology: From knock + around.
Senses: examples: text: I like to knock around the garden on Saturdays.
text: I used to knock around with John when we were younger.
text: I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.
text: It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking.
text: He moved to go. / ― Well, glad to see you looking fit, he said. Meet you knocking around.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 72:
text: Film-making seems to run in the family. Charlie Spencer Chaplin and my great-grandmother were siblings, and my grandad used to knock around London with Charlie when they were lads.
ref: 2021 December 1, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, number 945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: And Sylvia Beach, a fellow American and the fearless publisher of Ulysses, was still knocking around Paris willing to entertain questions.
ref: 2025 June 16, Eric Bulson, “Yes I Will Read ‘Ulysses’ Yes”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of knock about.
synonyms: word: knock about
Derived terms: word: knockaround
hang about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs about
form: hanging about
form: hung about
form: hung about
Senses: examples: text: If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.
text: The stranger kept hanging about just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Black Dog Appears and Disappears”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 12:
text: He was taken into the mountain by the fairies, and had been with them for many years, and at last they wanted him to marry their daughter, who was always hanging about after him.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 253:
text: Although unusual in the Dublin area, he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:
synonyms: hang around
hang out
glosses: To linger, loiter, or stay.
examples: text: My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.
synonyms: hang around
hang out
glosses: Especially in the form to hang about with (someone): to spend time or be friends with.
hang about
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: wait a minute; hold on
gradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdəbəl/
Etymology: From grade + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to form degrees or grades
examples: text: Hot and cold are gradable antonyms.
ref: 2007, James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith, Semantics: A Coursebook:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: comparable
antonyms: non-gradable
ungradable
glosses: Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase
glosses: steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle
Derived terms: gradability
gradable antonym
gradably
non-gradable
gradable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdəbəl/
Forms: form: gradables
Etymology: From grade + -able.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.
dast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dæst/
Etymology: Variant of darst, from Middle English darst, from Old English dearst.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody dast blame this man.
ref: 1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, II.ix:
text: Damon Runyon, The Lily of St. Pierre
So I only go to Good Time Charley's to talk with him, and to sing in quartet with him. […] But just before five o'clock it is okay, as only the hostesses are there, and of course none of them dast to join in our singing, or Good Time Charley will run them plumb out of the joint.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dare; dares.
examples: text: They don't dast.
ref: 1951, Louis L'Amour, The Rustlers of West Fork, page 96:
glosses: dare (infinitive).
then-and-now
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: then and now
Senses: glosses: before-and-after
polyarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑlˈjɑɹk/
ipa: /ˌpɒlˈjɑːk/
Forms: form: polyarchs
form: polyarches
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning”).
Senses: synonyms: polyarchy
glosses: A state of many rulers, many leaders.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A root that has many xylem bundles.
Synonyms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: polyembryony
compression fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compression fractures
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any fracture of a bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as a vertebra) caused by compression
potter about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potters about
form: pottering about
form: pottered about
form: pottered about
Senses: examples: text: I like to relax pottering about the house doing this and that at the weekends.
text: So after "pottering about" and "daudling" a little, we moved up State Street, still attended by the same honorary retinue.
ref: 1835, Dorah Mahony, Six Months in a House of Correction:
text: Each man helps himself, potters about the little place, and lounges on the bed with perfect freedom, as if in the habit of doing the same thing nightly, and so periodically reimbursed the landlord in a lump sum.
ref: 1884, Hartmann Henry Sultzberger, editor, All about Opium, page 176:
text: Slowly the hours crawled. His father got up; he heard him pottering about.
ref: 1913, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 12, in Sons and Lovers:
text: "I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that."
ref: 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 15, in The Moon and Sixpence:
text: Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Drivers' Reprisals”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
text: [...] indeed, in April of that year five "E4s" were pottering about the port, [...].
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
glosses: To potter, to be gently active doing various things in an almost aimless manner.
Synonyms: potter around
Related terms: potter
potter around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potters around
form: pottering around
form: pottered around
form: pottered around
form: putter around
Senses: examples: text: I like to relax pottering around the house doing this and that at the weekends.
glosses: To potter, to be gently active doing various things in an almost aimless manner.
Synonyms: potter about
Related terms: potter
goldeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldeyes
form: goldeye
Etymology: From gold + eye, from the fish's characteristic iris.
Senses: glosses: A North American freshwater fish of the mooneye family, Hiodon alosoides, usually eaten smoked.
Synonyms: Winnipeg goldeye
western goldeye
yellow herring
toothed herring
shad mooneye
la Queche
weepicheesis
Winnipeg goldeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winnipeg goldeye
form: Winnipeg goldeyes
Etymology: Originally named after Lake Winnipeg, but now associated with the city.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goldeye.
synonyms: word: goldeye
pitstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitstops
Senses: examples: text: When a driver is told to 'box, box', they're being instructed to make a pitstop. This is because 'box' sounds more distinct than 'pit' over the team radio, so there's less chance of confusion leading to an error. The word itself refers to the painted box outside a team's garage where pit stops take place, although some argue that it hails from 'boxenstopp', which is German for 'pit stop'.
ref: 2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport:
glosses: Alternative form of pit stop.
love-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-children
Etymology: From love + child.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love child.
trashbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trashbags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trash bag.
Apennine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæpənaɪn/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Apennines
Derived terms: Apennine wolf
track lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of lightbulbs that are affixed movably to tracks.
Related terms: track light
blocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑk.i/
ipa: /ˈblɒk.i/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: blockier
form: blockiest
Etymology: From block + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The oldest video games had crude, blocky graphics.
text: So, per se, you've been launched into a blocky world, where a seed has been generated and every block no longer gives what it usually does in the old Minecraft.
ref: 2022 May 20, ISP, quoting iSorrowproductions, What Happens When You Randomise EVERYTHING In Minecraft:
glosses: Resembling a block in shape.
Derived terms: blockily
blockiness
unblocky
uncountables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncountable
cryptanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptanalysis
put on weight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on weight
form: putting on weight
form: put on weight
form: put on weight
Senses: glosses: To experience a weight gain, to increase in weight.
Synonyms: gain weight
fiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fiːfs/
Senses: glosses: plural of fief
animal-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animal-like
form: most animal-like
form: animallike
Etymology: From animal + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an animal.
animallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animallike
form: most animallike
form: animal-like
form: animalike
Senses: examples: text: for example, animallike motion will suffice for us to recognize he his an animal
ref: 1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of animal-like.
fall behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls behind
form: falling behind
form: fell behind
form: fallen behind
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
examples: text: You're falling behind with the rent.
glosses: To be late (for a regular event)
examples: text: You could lose your job if you keep falling behind with your work.
text: It's not like John to fall behind in maths.
glosses: To be progressively below average in performance.
glosses: to fail to keep up (with)
hiney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hineys
Senses: examples: text: I've sat out there so much my hiney's sore.
ref: 1939, Barry Benefield, April was when it began, Reynal & Hitchcock, page 34:
glosses: Alternative spelling of heinie.
speedful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speedful
form: most speedful
Etymology: From Middle English speedful, spedeful, spedful (“successful, prosperous”), equivalent to speed + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Successful, effectual, efficient.
glosses: Full of speed; hasty; fast.
Derived terms: speedfulness
Related terms: speed
speedfully
grandmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmasters
form: grand master
Etymology: From grand + master.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Grandmaster.
glosses: A master in a field, whose skills or accomplishments exceed those of other masters.
Derived terms: archgrandmaster
great grandmaster
international grandmaster
supergrandmaster
to-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-falls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tofall.
Grand Master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grand Masters
Senses: glosses: A title, especially of chivalric orders, fraternal orders and fraternal organizations.
pelmanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pelman + -ism. Named after the Pelman Institute, founded in London in 1898.
Senses: examples: text: Leamas who normally read nothing, read newspapers slowly and with concentration. He remembered details, like the names and addresses of people who were the subject of small news items. He did it almost unconsciously as a kind of private pelmanism, and it absorbed him entirely.
ref: 1963, John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Penguin Canada, published 2009, page 87:
glosses: A system of training to improve the memory.
synonyms: concentration
memory
pairs
glosses: A memory card game in which a pack of cards is spread out face-down and players try to turn up pairs with the same symbol.
fall into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls into
form: falling into
form: fell into
form: fallen into
Senses: examples: text: The cat might fall into the pool if you're not careful.
glosses: To go into something by falling.
examples: text: I hope to see her whenever I next fall into the area.
glosses: To visit (a place or a person).
examples: text: After it closed, the old mall fell into disrepair.
text: Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
text: Since her husband died, the patient has fallen into a deep depression.
glosses: To enter a condition or state, especially a negative one.
examples: text: Most of us didn't plan to be designers; we just fell into the job.
glosses: To enter something (especially a profession) without having planned it.
examples: text: Trees fall into two main categories: deciduous and evergreen.
glosses: To be classified as; to fall under.
Related terms: fall into oneself
kajava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kajavas
Etymology: From Hindi कजावा (kajāvā).
Senses: examples: text: She rides only in a kajava, or basket, or in a closed takhterawan, or horse litter, or, as she sits perched high up, astride a man's saddle, looking in her balloon garments, and doubtless feeling, more insecure than Humpty Dumpty on the wall.
ref: 1907, Annie van Sommer et al., Our Moslem Sisters..., page 210:
glosses: Alternative form of kajawah.
beerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.
ref: 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
glosses: Without beer; lacking beer.
Derived terms: beerlessness
beeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beery.
beerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Tasting of beer, beery
Derived terms: beerishly
beered-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Actually he looks much like what is depicted in American movies as the typical pre-war Bavarian who sits goodhumoredly drinking beer out of a giant stein, bellowing ebulliently in beered-up delight as a blonde-braided girl and a lederhosened man dance to the accompaniment of a merry accordion.
ref: 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 264:
text: Cardiff is a legendary boozing town, and right up there with Dublin and Prague when it comes to hen and stag parties – most Friday and Saturday nights see the city centre invaded by hordes of beered-up lads dressed in ladies’ underwear, and sparkly stetsoned, stilettoed ladettes tottering from club to karaoke bar to kebab shop.
ref: 2007, David Atkinson, Neil Wilson, Wales, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 98, column 1:
glosses: intoxicated on beer.
Synonyms: drunk
mind's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪndz ˌaɪ/
Forms: form: mind's eyes
Senses: examples: text: He who would see it with his mind's eye must begin by very little, and then by little and little climb nigher and nigher, and stepmeal, as if he were climbing on a ladder, and would be up on some sea'cliff; […]
ref: 1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great
text: My father put on a brave face in spite of his injuries, and took full part in the wedding. As I think of it, I can even today call before my mind's eye the places where he sat as he went through the different details of the ceremony. Little did I dream then that one day I should severely criticize my father for having married me as a child.
ref: 1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter 3, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
text: The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences.
ref: 2021 June 8, Carl Zimmer, “Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The ability to picture an image mentally through imagination.
Coordinate terms: aphantasia
aphantasiac
hyperphantasia
hyperphantasiac
hyperphantasic
mind's ear
orichalcum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɹɪˈkælkəm/
Forms: form: aurichalchum
form: aurichalcum
form: orichalc
form: orichalch
form: orichalchum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin orichalcum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρείχαλκος (oreíkhalkos), from dative singular of ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) + χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”).
Senses: examples: text: Many walls were coated with metals – with brass, tin and a red ^([sic]) metal, unknown to us, called orichalcum.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Black, A Secret History of the World, Quercus, published 2008, page 162:
glosses: A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance.
chirpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirpy
featurefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From featureful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being full of features (often used of computer software).
paraphyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- (“near”) + Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, race”) + -etic.
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: Of a defined group of taxa: not including all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of all members.
Derived terms: paraphyletically
Related terms: monophyletic
holophyletic
polyphyletic
paraphyly
bacterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.tə.ɹɪn/
Forms: form: bacterins
Etymology: From bacteria + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Any of the above may result in an improper bacterin being given[…]
ref: 1914, Franklin Henry Martin, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, page 258:
text: […] the object of bacterin therapy is to produce an active resistance […]
ref: 1918, James William White, White and Martin's Genito-urinary surgery and venereal diseases, page 86:
glosses: A suspension of killed or attenuated bacteria for use as a vaccine.
centavos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centavo
ferreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferreous
form: most ferreous
Senses: glosses: Containing or resembling iron.
trashbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trashbag
ferriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ferriferous
form: most ferriferous
Etymology: From ferri- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: a ferriferous rock
glosses: Containing iron.
ferruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹudʒənəs/
Forms: form: more ferruginous
form: most ferruginous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ferrūgineus, from ferrūgo (“rust”).
Senses: glosses: Containing iron.
glosses: Rusty.
examples: text: A few miles north of Coquimbo, I met with the ferruginous, balaniferous mass (E) with many silicified bones; I was informed that these silicified bones occur also at Tonguay, south of Coquimbo […]
ref: 1846, Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on South America:
glosses: Rust-colored.
Derived terms: ferruginous duck
ferruginous hawk
nonferruginous
rufoferruginous
ferrugineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferrugineous
form: most ferrugineous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ferruginous.
in two shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: by George! we would souse the Lords o' the Admiralty themselves, if they were here, in a couple of shakes
ref: 1833, J. E. Alexander, chapter 18, in Transatlantic Sketches, volume I:
text: She tried to get the case open. . . . "I wish Father was here," said Phyllis; "he'd get it open in two shakes."
ref: 1906, Edith Nesbit, chapter 2, in The Railway Children:
text: I'll have coffee ready in two shakes of a cow's tail.
ref: 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 5, in A Texas Ranger:
text: I'll be back in two shakes of a dog's tail.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 19, in The Secret Adversary:
text: In two shakes of a duck's tail Gussie, with all that lapping about inside him, will be distributing the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: Skilled sheep shearers can get the wool off a ewe in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
ref: 2005 December 15, Adrian Higgins, “And All the Trimmings”, in Washington Post, page H01:
glosses: Very quickly; without delay.
Synonyms: in a brace of shakes
in a couple of shakes
in a few shakes
in two shakes of a cow's tail
in two shakes of a dog's tail
in two shakes of a duck's tail
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
in two shakes of a rabbit's ass
in two shakes of a cow's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in two shakes.
synonyms: word: in two shakes
in two shakes of a dog's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in two shakes.
synonyms: word: in two shakes
in two shakes of a duck's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in two shakes.
synonyms: word: in two shakes
Fallopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈloʊpi.ən/
Forms: form: fallopian
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Discovered (reputedly) by Fallopius (mainly as in Fallopian tube).
Derived terms: Fallopian tube
leader board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leader boards
Senses: examples: text: The region is usually at the bottom of the leader board even for lottery money from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
ref: 2020 December 30, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “All eyes are on HS2's eastern leg”, in Rail, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of leaderboard.
arrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹoʊv/
ipa: /əˈɹəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Etymology: By analogy with class 1 strong verbs such as drive : drove; compare nearly standard American English dove as the past tense of dive.
Senses: examples: text: Arter we arrove there Jabez axed me whether Ide be married there or wait till we got to Higgins Patent.
ref: 1867, Frances M. Whitcher, Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches:
text: I arrove about sunrise at the 'Planter's' jest as the 'Powhatan' was a steaming up to the wharf; and so I druv on to de wharf to see if de judge and his darter was a-board, and sure nuff dere dey was!
ref: 1884, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Ishmael: Or, In the Depths, page 448:
text: About two years ago I arrove in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin is whare the celebrated college is. In lack, Oberlin is the college, everything else in that air vicinity resolvin around excloosivly for the benefit of that institution.
ref: 1898, The complete works of Artemus Ward:
text: The sawmill man called everyone Buster, and when he had Finlay seated on one of the pilings of a wharf he explained: "Cattle been breedin' free in Texas since the Creation, or as some say, since the Spaniards arrove."
ref: 1985, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel, page 390:
glosses: simple past of arrive
arrove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹoʊv/
ipa: /əˈɹəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Forms: form: arroves
Senses: examples: text: And it is to be observ'd, That these Pipes are to be of the size appointed by the Orginances of Sevil, which are to hold 27 Arroves a Pipe, an Arrove liquid being 32 Pounds.
ref: 1711, J. Stevens, The rule established in Spain for the trade in the West Indies:
text: Damaged biscuit is now sold for upwars of two reals the pound; firewood, three dollars the quintal; charcoal, two dollars the arrove; onions, four reals the pound; an old ox was killed lately, and fold for eight reals the pound.
ref: 1785, An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar, page 75:
text: The King's Weight at the Custom House at Alicant is the Castile Quintal of 4 Arroves; and the Arrove contains 25 pounds of 16 Ounces each, goldd and silver weight.
ref: 1821, Patrick Kelly, The Universal Cambist, and commercial instructor, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of arroba (Spanish unit of measure)
arriven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of arrive
flight of fancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flights of fancy
Senses: examples: text: And, whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and Bridle to his Thoughts, doth never ſtop, but naturally ſallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil, his first Flight of Fancy commonly tranſports Him to Idea's of what is moſt Perfect, finiſhed, and exalted; [...]
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section VIII”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 154:
text: Who might not, by a very easy flight of fancy, have believed that everything about him took this haunted tone, and that he lived on haunted ground?
ref: 1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain:
text: No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.
ref: 1939 November 20, “Canadian Secrecy”, in Time:
text: Aguilar-Millan et al. published an ambitious flight of fancy which explored the “post-scarcity world” of 2050 in light of technical advancements which they argue will decrease costs to providers until almost everything becomes free to the end user.
ref: 2016, Paul Gooding, Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: daydream
reverie
glosses: An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc., which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.
Related terms: chase rainbows
pie in the sky
pipe dream
polemicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polemicize
polemicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polemicizes
form: polemicizing
form: polemicized
form: polemicized
form: polemicise
Etymology: From polemic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To engage in argument.
intervenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intervene
independencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of independency
independency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independencies
Etymology: From independent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: All young creatures, thought I, more or less, covet independency […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XIX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: A printed copy of this Declaration of Independency came accidentally to our hands a few days after the dispatch of the Mercury packet, and we have the honor to enclose it.
ref: 1776 August 11, William Howe and Richard Howe, letter sent from North America to Europe with a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence
text: I found myself in possession of a small independency
ref: 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Lovel, the Widower:
glosses: Independence.
glosses: An independent territory or state.
Independency
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
glosses: The principle that each individual religious congregation is free from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.
jambalayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambalaya
metabolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabolism
olorosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oloroso
front organizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front organization
rulebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rulebook
front group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front groups
form: frontgroup
Senses: examples: text: Black Matters was one of many fake activist groups, such as Blacktivist and the police brutality tracker DoNotShoot.us, created to mimic and influence American protesters. RBC discovered around 120 Facebook, Twitter and Instagram frontgroup accounts with a combined total of 6 million followers and likes.
ref: 2017 November 2, Micah White, “I started Occupy Wall Street. Russia tried to co-opt me”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: front company
glosses: A front organization that appears to be an independent voluntary association or charitable organization.
front groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front group
louching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of louche
viscacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈskatʃə/
enpr: vĭ-skăchʹə
ipa: /vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/
enpr: vĭ-skäʹchə
rhymes: -ætʃə
Forms: form: viscachas
form: vizcacha
form: biscacha
form: biscacho
form: bizcacha
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vizcacha, from Quechua wisk'acha.
Senses: examples: text: From the tenderness of its covering, it is not, though a stronger and larger animal, so able to bear the severity of winter in the Andes as the Chinchilla, though it is not so decidedly an animal of the plains as the viscacha of Paraguay.
ref: 1836, Charles Frederick Partington, “Chinchillidae”, in The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History, page 27:
text: The guanaco, the viscacha, and the hare of the Pampas, are found in Patagonia.
ref: 1837, Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot, A System of Universal Geography, page 316:
text: A guard viscacha watches for predators. This guard sounds an alarm if it spots danger. Then the quick-moving viscachas scramble into their dens in the rocks or burrow into the ground.
ref: 2003, Elaine Egbert, Nature in a Nutshell: Daily Devotions for Juniors, page 236:
text: The Andean cat's prey is small mammals such as the mountain viscacha, which look very much like a common North American cottontail rabbit. Mountain viscachas eat coarse spikegrass that is found near small mountain streams.
ref: 2013, James G. Sanderson, Patrick Watson, Small Wild Cats: The Animal Answer Guide, unnumbered page:
glosses: Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus.
Synonyms: chinchillon
Derived terms: alt: Lagidium viscacia or Lagidium ahuacaense
word: mountain viscacha
taxonomic: Lagidium peruanum
word: northern viscacha
taxonomic: Lagostomus maximus
word: plains viscacha
taxonomic: Lagidium viscacia
word: southern viscacha
taxonomic: Octomys mimax
word: viscacha rat
taxonomic: Lagidium wolffsohni
word: Wolffsohn's viscacha
Related terms: viscachera
heddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdəl/
Forms: form: heddles
Etymology: From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
Senses: examples: text: The only other table, generally used by operative weavers, is that for setting the heddles, so as to correspond with the reed. Few weavers are in possession of a sufficient variety of heddles, to suit every reed in which they may be employed to weave cloth.
ref: 1808, John Duncan, Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Art of Weaving, volume 1, page 72:
text: The heddles and heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.
ref: 1948 January, “Make Weaving Your Hobby”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 89, number 1, page 190:
text: If errors have occurred in threading the heddles, it is usually expedient to remove all threads from the begining^([sic]) of the error and re-thread them correctly.
ref: 1980, US Department of the Army, Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, page 7-22:
glosses: A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
glosses: One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
Synonyms: heald
Derived terms: heddle hook
repair heddle
Related terms: word: heddled
heddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdəl/
Forms: form: heddles
form: heddling
form: heddled
form: heddled
Etymology: From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
Senses: examples: text: After each frame has been heddled, stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.
ref: 1947, Rayon Textile Monthly, volume 28, page 377:
text: This, of course, discounts the idea that the system of heddling based on Icelandic descriptions (Hoffmann, 1964, 188, fig. 91) has been used for all time, although it could in theory have been used for any of the 2/2 twills in the York collection.
ref: 1982, Arthur MacGregor, Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank, Pavement, and Other Sites, volume 17, part 3, page 118:
text: 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hyŏng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116,
After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.
glosses: To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
Related terms: word: unheddled
cits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cit
rickshawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rickshaw
director general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directors general
form: director generals
form: directors generals
form: director-general
Etymology: A calque of French directeur général, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Senses: glosses: The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.
weeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: weaker
Forms: form: weekers
Etymology: From week + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most holidaymakers are two-weekers, but a few are three-weekers.
glosses: Someone who participates in something for a certain number of weeks.
raw_tags: with a number
kipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipas
form: kipot
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kippah.
kippa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kippas
form: kippot
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kippah.
cock a snook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocks a snook
form: cocking a snook
form: cocked a snook
form: cocked a snook
Senses: glosses: To perform a snook, a gesture of disrespect.
examples: text: to cock a snook at authority
glosses: To flout or show disrespect to.
Synonyms: sense: perform the gesture
word: take a sight
sense: perform the gesture
word: thumb one's nose
lemon curd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon curds
Senses: examples: text: ‘Hi. I brought some lemon curd.’
‘Lemon curd!’ said Adrian. ‘And what was I saying only this minute, Tom?’ “If only we had some lemon curd for our guests.” You’re a mind-reader, Bollocks.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
glosses: A thick preserve made from lemons (juice and zest), egg yolk, butter and sugar.
weason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weasons
Senses: examples: text: No pressure should be placed on the bum or the weason.
ref: Mr Purcell: His Ground (opera)
text: He fell: the shaft that slightly was impress'd / Now from his heavy fall with weight increas'd / Drove through his neck aslant, he spurns the ground; - And the sould issues through the weason's wound.
ref: 1717, John Dryden, transl., Metamorphoses, book xii, translation of original by Ovid:
glosses: Obsolete form of weasand.
dipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bipartite.
synonyms: word: bipartite
term logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: term logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An approach to logic that splits propositions into two terms—subject and predicate.
Synonyms: traditional logic
Related terms: predicate logic
mascaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mascara
1000th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 1,000th
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thousandth.
Smithian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Smithian
form: most Smithian
Etymology: From Smith + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a person bearing the surname Smith.
examples: text: Smith's ideas inform Austen's most beloved novel too. In Pride and Prejudice, the idea of pride is Smithian.
ref: 2025 May 17, Henry Oliver, “Without prejudice”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or characteristic of the theories of the political economist Adam Smith (1723–1790).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a regional geological stage of the Early Triassic epoch (249.7 – 247.4 Ma; preceded by the Dienerian and followed by the Spathian).
Related terms: Malakovian
azyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Widely spread classification of conjugated radicals, based on the formal structural sign of "key" atom is evidently not satisfactory enough, because the delocalization of unpaired electrons cloud different in their origin radicals, for example, aroxyls, classical nitroxyls, aromatic azyls and verdazyls, can be formally united into one and the same group of compounds of trivalent carbon.
ref: 2008, Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov, Progress in Chemical and Biochemical Physics, Kinetics and Thermodynamics, page 63:
glosses: An organic radical containing the functional group -N=N-O•, where the nitrogen atom is bonded to an oxygen atom and a carbon-centered radical.
Derived terms: azylene