cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
superload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superloads
Etymology: From super- + load.
Senses: examples: text: For loads over 500,000 lb (superloads), any other vehicles may not pass under the structure the permit vehicle is crossing.
ref: 2006, Gongkang Fu, Clementine Fu, Bridge Rating Practices and Policies for Overweight Vehicles, page 75:
text: The superload permits were approved based on conservative analyses, recommending crossing of the bridge in two patterns[…]
ref: 2011, Mohammed M. Ettouney, Sreenivas Alampalli, Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering, page 434:
glosses: A very heavy load.
superloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superload
superloyalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superloyalists
Etymology: From super- + loyalist.
Senses: examples: text: Koch […] was a superloyalist when it came to his Jewish heritage.
ref: 2012, Wayne Dawkins, City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn, page 125:
glosses: A very committed loyalist.
superloyalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superloyalist
supermilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermilitant
form: most supermilitant
Etymology: From super- + militant.
Senses: glosses: Very militant.
supermilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermilitants
Etymology: From super- + militant.
Senses: examples: text: But I left captivated by qualities that cannot easily be faked and ran counter to characteristics that some of America's supermilitants of the period were claiming are necessary for true revolutionaries.
ref: 1993, David T. Dellinger, From Yale to jail: the life story of a moral dissenter, page 251:
glosses: One who is very militant.
supermilitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermilitant
militances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of militance
eigenpair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenpairs
Etymology: From eigen- + pair.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The mathematical pair of an eigenvector (ẕ), and its associated eigenvalue (λ). This is written as (λ,ẕ)
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The mathematical pair of an eigenelement (ẕ), and its associated eigenvalue (λ). This is written as (λ,ẕ)
Related terms: eigenbasis
eigendecomposition
eigen decomposition
eigenface
eigenfunction
eigenmode
eigenspace
eigenspinor
eigenstate
eigensystem
eigentheory
eigenvalue
eigenvector
vinewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vine + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Kindle large fires of vinewood, green laurel, or other green wood.
ref: 1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The Crime of Credulity:
text: He carries a vinewood stick (the mark of a centurion) and his helmet, with the crest placed sideways.
ref: 2001, Tom Tierney, Greek and Roman Fashions, page 33:
glosses: wood from a vine
have the world by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the world by the tail
form: having the world by the tail
form: had the world by the tail
form: had the world by the tail
form: have the world by the bag
form: have the world by the balls
form: have the world by the neck
form: have the world by the nuts
form: have the world by the testicles
form: have the world on a string
form: have the world by the tail on a downhill pull
Senses: examples: text: "Webb thinks he's got the world by the tail for a downhill pull. I'll show him."
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 15, in A Man Four-Square:
text: No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp.
ref: 1938 February 28, “Give Us Colonies!!”, in Time, retrieved 07 Aug 2013:
text: "You think you're set. You think everything's taken care of. I thought I had the world by the tail."
ref: 1992 September 24, Sara Rimer, “Company News: Hearing the Fears, With No Answers”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Aug 2013:
glosses: To possess great influence and opportunity.
Related terms: have someone by the short hairs
laagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laager
grysboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grysbok
skaapstekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skaapsteker
Afrikanerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrikanerisms
form: Africanderism
form: Afrikanderism
Etymology: From Afrikaner + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase characteristic of Afrikaners.
glosses: Afrikaner beliefs and politics generally.
Afrikanerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrikanerism
leverager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leveragers
Etymology: From leverage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The fact is, MTV is one of the best leveragers of the dual cultural passport among youth marketers.
ref: 2000, Elissa Moses, The $100 Billion Allowance: Accessing the Global Teen Market, page 170:
glosses: One who leverages.
leveragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leverager
padloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padlopers
Etymology: Afrikaans, literally "path-walker".
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Homopus of tiny tortoises, indigenous and endemic to southern Africa.
padlopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padloper
bergwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergwinds
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans bergwind (“mountain wind”), from Dutch bergwind, equivalent to berg + wind.
Senses: glosses: A hot dry wind blowing from the mountainous interior to the coast.
bergwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergwind
bergshrunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergshrund
duodecemvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misspelling of duodecimvirate after Latin decem.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duodecimvirate.
rinkhals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinkhalses
form: ringhals
Etymology: From Afrikaans rinkhals (“ring throat”).
Senses: glosses: A venomous elapid, Hemachatus haemachatus, found in parts of southern Africa.
ringhals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringhalses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rinkhals.
ringhalses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringhals
rinkhalses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rinkhals
COPDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of COPD
eigenprojection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenprojections
Etymology: From eigen- + projection.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The linear operator projecting onto an eigenspace.
Related terms: eigenprojector
eigenpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenpath
servosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servosystem
dominicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominickers
Senses: glosses: A Dominique (breed of chicken).
dominecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domineckers
form: domineck
Senses: glosses: A Dominique (breed of chicken).
dominickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominicker
domineckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominecker
Dominiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dominique
supraordinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supraordinal
form: most supraordinal
Etymology: From supra- + ordinal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Of or relating to a grouping above that of order.
Synonyms: superordinal
superordinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superordinal
form: most superordinal
Etymology: From super- + ordinal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: supraordinal
four-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-tops
Senses: examples: text: When I walked into Rosie's, I headed for an empty four-top, where I placed my shoulder bag....
ref: 2015, Sue Grafton, X:
qualifier: restaurants
glosses: A table seating four diners.
Related terms: deuce
eight-top
six-top
two-top
six-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six-tops
Senses: qualifier: restaurants
glosses: A table seating six diners.
Related terms: deuce
eight-top
four-top
eight-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eight-tops
Senses: qualifier: restaurants
glosses: A table seating eight diners.
Related terms: deuce
four-top
six-top
eight-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eight-top
four-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-top
six-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six-top
eigenbranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenbrane
eigenbrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenbranes
Etymology: From eigen- + brane.
Senses: examples: text: In the physical description of this program D-modules enter in the description of eigenbranes of the magnetic 't Hooft operator in a reduction of 4-dimensional N = 4 gauge theory down to a 2- dimensional sigma model.
ref: 2009, Lotte Hollands, Topological Strings and Quantum Curves, page 188:
glosses: An operator that, when applied to the boundary of a brane, produces that same brane tensored with a fixed vector space.
teletypist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletypists
Etymology: From teletype + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A teletype operator.
teletypists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletypist
't Hooft operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 't Hooft operators
Etymology: Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual Aᵐᵃᵍ, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of Aᵐᵃᵍ.
wikipedia: Gerard 't Hooft
't Hooft operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 't Hooft operator
Pickwickian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pickwickian
form: most Pickwickian
form: pickwickian
Etymology: From Pickwick + -ian, from The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens, in which members of the Pickwick Club explain away unparliamentary language as having been uttered "in the Pickwickian sense".
Senses: examples: text: The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand of the honourable gentleman, whether he had used the expression which had just escaped him in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
text: But let us defend the poor battered old language against those who use words in private Pickwickian senses of their own[…]
ref: 1977, Christopher Derrick, Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education As If Truth Mattered:
text: But we are prisoners in a Pickwickian sense; if we try we can break out of our frameworks at any time.
ref: 1995, John Hassard, Sociology and Organization Theory, page 80:
glosses: Arbitrary or meaningless (of the usage of a word or phrase).
examples: text: This pattern of EEG and respiratory changes has been observed during both diurnal and nocturnal sleep in Pickwickian patients.
ref: 1975, Morton F. Reiser, Organic disorders and psychosomatic medicine, volume 4, page 866:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having, or relating to, Pickwickian syndrome.
examples: text: Calverley's test of Pickwickian scholarship has been followed by similar tests with which students of the Holmesian chronicles may put their knowledge of their hero's exploits to the proof.
ref: 1960, George Frederick McCleary, On detective fiction and other things, page 60:
glosses: Of or relating to The Pickwick Papers, its storyline, or its characters (chiefly Samuel Pickwick himself).
Derived terms: Pickwickianism
Pickwickianly
Pickwickian syndrome
Pickwickian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pickwickians
form: pickwickian
Etymology: From Pickwick + -ian, from The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens, in which members of the Pickwick Club explain away unparliamentary language as having been uttered "in the Pickwickian sense".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who has Pickwickian syndrome.
Related terms: Humpty Dumptyism
chlorospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chloro- + spermous.
Senses: examples: text: chlorospermous algae
text: The ulvas belong to the chlorospermous class of seaweeds, distinguished by their green spores, and the generally green color of their fronds.
ref: 1875, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia, page 774:
glosses: Having green seeds or spores.
Related terms: xanthospermous
obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obesity hypoventilation syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Pickwickian syndrome
glosses: A condition in which a severely overweight person fails to breathe rapidly or deeply enough, resulting in low blood oxygen levels and high blood carbon dioxide levels.
obesity hypoventilation syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obesity hypoventilation syndrome
poufed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pouf + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A very handsome lace-covered silk-taffeta dinner suit (straight skirt, peplum jacket with large, poufed sleeves) was magnificently crafted[…]
ref: 1991 April 1, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 13, page 46:
topics: business
dressmaking
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Having a pouf.
poufed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pouf + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pouf
epitheliopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitheliopathies
Etymology: From epithelio- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: disease of the epithelium
Derived terms: keratoepitheliopathy
epitheliopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitheliopathy
white dot syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white dot syndromes
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of inflammatory diseases characterized by the presence of white dots on the fundus, the interior surface of the eye.
white dot syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white dot syndrome
untowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: untoweled
Etymology: From un- + towelled.
Senses: examples: text: A lint-and-gauze dressing stained with dark yellow antiseptic had replaced the previous day's helmet of bandages, and a fleck of shaving soap lay untowelled beneath one ear.
ref: 1996, Luke Jennings, Atlantic, page 220:
glosses: Not dried with a towel.
untoweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + toweled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of untowelled.
short dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short dozens
Etymology: For the sense "ten", compare the relationship of one "short hundred" (100) to one "long hundred" (120).
For the sense "eleven", contrast a "long dozen" (13).
Senses: examples: text: Ten women are considered by Mr. Rogers, of various nationalities and from various social strata […]. Inez Montez, Irish by birth but Spanish by choice and adding for years to the color of the California Gold Coast, makes up the tenth of this short dozen of Gallant Ladies.
ref: 1928, Commonweal, volume 8, page 397:
text: Speaking of marketing, Willard, along with apparently many standard growers across the country, recently went to the "short dozen" mum count. He packs ten flowers, not twelve, markets them at the same price as the old dozen.
ref: 1976, Grower Talks, volume 39, page 22:
glosses: Ten.
examples: text: Our short dozen of Aristophanic dramas may be taken to represent the fittest among the hundreds of other comedies which have perished.
ref: 1898, Aristophanes. I. The Acharnians. II. The knights. III. The clouds, page x:
text: Mrs. Van Slyke has chosen as her special field of interest the Syrian quarter of Brooklyn, and the result of her observations she has given us in a short dozen of stories, grouped under the title, Eve's Other Children.
ref: 1913, Mary Bannister Willard, The Survey: social, charitable, civic: a journal of constructive philanthropy, volume 30, page 147:
text: Written on the Wind is a terrifying book, at least for a reviewer, because it consists of a short dozen (eleven) of personal […]
ref: 1976, Jeremy Addis, Books Ireland, numbers 1-19, page 180:
glosses: Eleven.
superating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superate
superates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superate
superated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superate
dismissable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dismissable
form: most dismissable
Etymology: From dismiss + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Most of their arguments were dismissable as obvious fallacies.
glosses: Capable of being dismissed.
superation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superations
Senses: glosses: The act of superating or surmounting.
glosses: The apparent passing of one planet by another in longitude.
superations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superation
oegopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oegopsids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the squid order Oegopsida or suborder Oegopsina.
oegopsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oegopsid
intragender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: intragender homicide
text: Socrates' Symposium on eros leaves no doubt about the Greek passion for intra-gender love.
ref: 1979 February 10, Charley Shively, “The Glory That Was Greece”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 10:
glosses: Within a single gender.
supersex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersexes
Etymology: From super- + sex.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The result of an abnormal combination of sex chromosomes.
Related terms: intersex
supersexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersex
supersound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersounds
Etymology: From super- + sound.
Senses: examples: text: The most promising industrial application of supersounds lies in what the scientist calls colloid chemistry[…] In the laboratory, supersounds speed up chemical reactions, mix substances that in the past would not join together[…]
ref: 1946, Amacom, American Management Association, Management Review, volumes 35-36, page 155:
text: Bats use supersounds as a substitute for eyes. When a maze of silk threads was strung across a room, bats negotiated the maze at high speed without touching a thread.
ref: 1947, Science Illustrated, volume 2, page 32:
text: If an unexposed photographic plate is submerged in distilled water, subjected to the action of supersound and then developed, the plate will be found to have darkened as if it had been exposed.
ref: 2001, B. Kudryavtsev, Sounds We Cannot Hear, page 80:
glosses: ultrasonic sound
supersounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersound
reenactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reenactable
form: most reenactable
Etymology: From reenact + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reenacted.
serjeantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serjeantships
Etymology: From serjeant + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sergeantship.
serjeancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serjeancies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sergeancy.
serjeantships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serjeantship
serjeancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serjeancy
Fulcrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-29 aircraft.
supersubtile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersubtile
form: most supersubtile
Etymology: From super- + subtile.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of supersubtle.
supersubtle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersubtle
form: most supersubtle
Etymology: From super- + subtle.
Senses: examples: text: She was introduced to Madame Grandoni, and tea was immediately served; Hyacinth being gratefully conscious the while of the supersubtle way in which Lady Aurora forebore to appear bewildered at meeting him in such society.
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: Very tenuous or rarefied.
supersubtlety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersubtleties
Etymology: From super- + subtlety.
Senses: glosses: extreme subtlety
supersubtleties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersubtlety
boss rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss rush
boss keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss key
black blocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black bloc
backwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwashings
Etymology: From back + washing.
Senses: glosses: A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
Related terms: backwash
backwashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwashing
backwasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwashers
Etymology: From back + washer.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
Related terms: backwash
backwashing
backwashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwasher
palinacousis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palinacusis
Etymology: From palin- + -acousis.
Senses: examples: text: Palinacousis is often associated with lesions of the temporal lobe.
glosses: An auditory form of perseveration: continuing to hear a sound after the physical noise has disappeared.
palinacusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palinacousis.
intrasex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: Although other factors may also contribute to intrasex variation in physical appearance, the argument remains that sex is not a rigidly determined or uniform trait.
ref: 2000, Michael R. Kauth, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction, page 206:
glosses: Within or among a single sex.
hideousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hideousness
unprofitablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unprofitableness
amnioinfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnioinfusions
Etymology: From amnio- + infusion.
Senses: glosses: A method of thinning thick meconium that has passed into the amniotic fluid.
amnioinfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnioinfusion
braggables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braggable
supererogators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supererogator
Bantams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bantam
Harrovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harrovians
Etymology: From New Latin Harrovia (“Harrow”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, from 1857 forty or fifty Harrovians met and played every Wednesday and matches were often arranged between particular colleges, the teams being made up entirely of Harrovians.
ref: 2005, Adrian Harvey, Football: The First Hundred Years, page 43:
glosses: A pupil of Harrow School, England.
Harrovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Harrovian
form: most Harrovian
Etymology: From New Latin Harrovia (“Harrow”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: a Harrovian straw hat
glosses: Of or relating to Harrow School, England.
Harrovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harrovian
teichoic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teichoic acid
anticartel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticartel
form: most anticartel
Etymology: From anti- + cartel.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering cartels.
cybercasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercaster
pumps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pump out
pumping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pump out
pumped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pump out
railroad trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railroad truck
eye fillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye fillet
sword hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sword hand
sword arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sword arm
loony lefties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loony leftie
glosses: plural of loony lefty
low waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low water
scorpioidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorpioidal
form: most scorpioidal
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of scorpioid.
synonyms: word: scorpioid
natural products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural product
schlichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlich
tin anniversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn ænɪˌvɜɹsəɹi/
ipa: /ˈtɪn ænəˌvɜɹsəɹi/
Forms: form: tin anniversaries
Etymology: From the practice, popularised during the Victorian era, of giving gifts made out of specific materials on particular wedding anniversaries, such as tin for the tenth.
Senses: examples: text: And a couple marrying at age 65 today can look forward to their tin anniversary, or at least 10 years of marriage.
ref: 1977 September 9, “The Golden Landmark”, in The Sumter Daily Item:
text: Their tin anniversary [Prince Charles and Princess Diana's] today has been kicked around by Fleet Street so hard it almost rattles, but millions of Britons and other royal-watchers around the world are wont to hear all the dirt, making publishers of racy newspapers and glossy magazines rich.
ref: 1991 July 30, Craig R. Whitney, “An Anniversary Dinner That's a Feast for Gossips”, in The New York Times:
text: The connection to a possible launch is that Apple opened its first two retail stores on that date in 2001; suggesting the Cupertino, Calif.-based company might be planning something special to celebrate its tin anniversary.
ref: 2011 May 17, Jameson Berkow, “Bootup: Major Apple product launch rumoured for Thursday”, in Financial Post:
glosses: The tenth anniversary of something, especially a wedding.
wikipedia: Victorian era
Synonyms: word: decaversary
word: decennial
hassocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hassock + -ed.
Senses: examples: their richly-carpeted and well-hassocked pew
glosses: Provided with a hassock; cushioned.
tin anniversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin anniversary
bassock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassocks
Etymology: See bass
Senses: examples: text: In a small recess, illuminated by a taper, were disposed two bassocks of velvet and gold, corresponding with the bed furniture
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A hassock.
bassocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bassock
bicorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bicornis + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having two horns; bicorn.
columbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystalline, bitter substance.
Related terms: calumbin
saggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagger
saggers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sagger
segger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saggar.
seggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of segger
seggar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seggars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saggar.
seggars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seggar
surtouted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surtout + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a surtout.
ovism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ovum (“egg”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Above all, ovism seems to us utterly impossible: how could every human being that ever existed or ever will exist be contained, fully formed, within Eve's ovaries?
ref: 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 238:
text: ovulism
glosses: The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.
Coordinate terms: preformationism
spermism
Related terms: ovist
ovum
ova
spermism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sperm + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting to dismiss spermism as a quaint curiosity in the history of ideas, on a par, say, with believing that the Earth is flat.
ref: 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 62:
glosses: The belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.
hypoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypodermata
Etymology: From hypo- + -derma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
hypodermata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoderma
servanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of servant
servanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of servant
nominalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nominalize + -able.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being nominalized.
teddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tedder
teddered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tedder
clavated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clavated
form: most clavated
Senses: glosses: clavate; club-shaped
ballastless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ballast + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without ballast.
simagre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simagres
Etymology: From French simagrée.
Senses: examples: text: Now in the crystal stream he looks, to try / His simagres[…]
ref: 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, “Book XIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A grimace.
simagres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simagre
antliae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antlia
decaversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaversaries
Etymology: Blend of deca- + anniversary.
Senses: examples: text: where Rick and Dara took their vows. The priest
was good, and the cake was good, and the wine so kickass special
that they saved a liter to share on their decaversary.
ref: 2003, Albert Goldbarth, Combinations of the Universe, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 122:
text: The annual summer concert series is marking its decaversary by bringing back blink-182, the inaugural artist from the first Honda Civic Tour in 2001, along with My Chemical Romance, for a 40-plus date nationwide.
ref: 2011 October, Susan Segal, “Coast Calendar”, in Coast Magazine:
glosses: The tenth anniversary of something.
Synonyms: word: decennial
word: tin anniversary
decaversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaversary
pallae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palla
stipulaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French stipulacé.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: stipular; of or relating to stipules
stipulatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stipulate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stipulated.
stipulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stipulated.
unstipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stipulated.
Senses: glosses: Not having been stipulated.
pedometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedometric.
pedometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“foot; soil”) + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured by, a pedometer
glosses: Relating to pedometrics
Thibet cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thibet cloths
form: Tibet cloth
Senses: glosses: A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
glosses: A kind of fine woollen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.
Thibet cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thibet cloth
camlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camlet
cauliculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauliculus
subordinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subordinances
form: subordinancy
Senses: glosses: subordinacy; subordination
subordinances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subordinance
sopited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sopite
sopiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sopite
sopites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sopite
sonants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonant
dodecandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Dodecandria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
Synonyms: dodecandrous
short hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short hundreds
Senses: glosses: One hundred (100), 10 x 10, especially when contrasted with one long hundred.
Synonyms: teenty
petala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petalum
petalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petala
Etymology: From New Latin petalum, from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”). Doublet of petal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A petal.
copps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of copse.
coppses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copps
short hundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short hundred
feather boa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛðə(ɹ)ˈbəʊə/
Forms: form: feather boas
Senses: examples: text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: A decorative scarf made of feathers, either real or synthetic.
synonyms: feather boa kelp
glosses: A lessoniaceous kelp of species Egregia menziesii, found in intertidal water along the western coastline of North America.
feature-length
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Having the length of a feature film, generally in the range of about 1½ to 3 hours.
wood anniversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood anniversaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wooden anniversary.
wood anniversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood anniversary
federal district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal districts
Senses: glosses: A type of federal subdivision, often composed of a capital city.
glosses: In Russia, a grouping of federal subjects (top-level administrative divisions), created for the purpose of ensuring compliance of the containing federal subjects with national law.
Derived terms: Central Federal District
Far Eastern Federal District
North Caucasian Federal District
Northwestern Federal District
Siberian Federal District
Southern Federal District
Ural Federal District
Volga Federal District
Related terms: District of Columbia
federal territory
union territory
Tangerang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indonesian Tangerang.
Senses: glosses: A city in Banten, Indonesia.
Derived terms: South Tangerang
Feeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feebs
Senses: examples: text: He's a Feeb, but he's not my buddy.
ref: 1996, Robert Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, page 299:
text: Mark and the agents crowded into the MODIS room, the Feeb in charge looking very annoyed at both me and Mark.
ref: 2002, Prescribed Danger, page 203:
text: Was she a Feeb, too ? Why were FBI agents interested in a local boy who had shot his foster father?
ref: 2004, Gwen Hunter, Grave Concerns, page 41:
synonyms: Feebie
Fibber
glosses: A member of the FBI.
Feeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Bomb Squad got a tip from the Feeb and rolled in with Metro.
ref: 2006, Robert Crais, The Two Minute Rule, page 288:
text: Maybe on some level she was doing the same job as one of the Feeb's Investigative Support Unit shrinks, but she resisted the comparison.
ref: 2007, Alan Russell, Shame, page 54:
text: The first thing Joe noticed was the seating arrangements — Katz at the head of the long antique cherry wood table, John Nagoshi to his right, Peter Nagoshi next to his father (and Joe could not help but study the younger Nagoshhi as he entered the room, his smooth expressionless face barely turning to acknowledge their entrance), and across the table FBI Boston Field Office Special Agent in Charge Leo King and Special Agent Ned Jacobs — the Feeb's resident profiler.
ref: 2009, Sydney Bauer, Alibi, page 103:
glosses: The FBI.
Depok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Jakarta Raya, Indonesia.
feed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds up
form: feeding up
form: fed up
form: fed up
Senses: glosses: To feed (a person or animal) until they are at a healthy weight.
palesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of palsy.
palesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of palsy.
analogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analoga
form: analogons
Etymology: From the neuter of Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos).
Senses: examples: text: The rectilineal as opposed to curvature is an analogon of worthiness as opposed to happiness; as opposed to obliquity, it is an analogon of equity as opposed to partiality.
ref: 1853, Laurens Perseus Hickok, A System of Moral Science, page 58:
glosses: An analogue.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: According to Sartre, an equivalent of perception (such as a painting or a mental image) that is necessary for the process of imagination to take place.
Related terms: analogate
Congo snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congo snakes
Senses: synonyms: amphiuma
conger eel
Congo eel
glosses: An aquatic salamander of the genus Amphiuma.
Congo snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Congo snake
Fezzan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛˈzɑːn/
ipa: /fɛˈzæn/
ipa: /fəˈzæn/
Forms: form: Fazzan
form: Fazzān
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَزَّان (fazzān), from Latin Phazānia. Doublet of Phazania.
Senses: synonyms: Phazania
glosses: The southwestern region of Libya.
sosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soss
short dozens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short dozen
fidayee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidayees
form: fidayeen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fedayee.
sea adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea adders
form: sea-adder
Etymology: From sea + adder. Compare Old English mere-næddra (“sea-adder, lamprey”).
Senses: glosses: A European fifteen-spined stickleback, a fish of species Spinachia spinachia (syn. Gasterosteus spinachia).
glosses: A tanglefish, or greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
sea adders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea adder
fidayees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidayee
fidayeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidayee
listicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of listicle
striatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striature
maidmarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidmarians
Etymology: From maid + Marian, perhaps relating to the Virgin Mary.
Senses: examples: text: ten men who danced a maid Marian
ref: c. 1673, William Temple, An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland:
glosses: A kind of dance.
maidmarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidmarian
protistological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protistology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to protistology.
scape-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scape-wheels
Senses: topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
synonyms: escape wheel
glosses: The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into whose teeth the pallets play.
scape-wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scape-wheel
phanerogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: phanerogamic
fidelity card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidelity cards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of loyalty card.
synonyms: word: loyalty card
loyalty card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loyalty cards
Senses: synonyms: courtesy card
fidelity card
glosses: A card used in a company's loyalty program, which rewards customers who make regular purchases.
Related terms: discount card
membership card
buck's-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: buck's-horn plantain
glosses: Plantago coronopus, a plant with leaves branched somewhat like the horn of a buck.
synonyms: buck's-horn lobelia
glosses: The plant Lobelia coronopifolia.
Related terms: buckhorn
coloquintida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coloquintidas
Senses: examples: text: […] the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
coloquintidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloquintida
colocolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colocolo
field lacrosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From field (“open field”) + lacrosse (“la crosse”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variety of lacrosse played on a grassy field, outdoors.
Hypernyms: lacrosse
Coordinate terms: arena lacrosse
box lacrosse
indoor lacrosse
cyclostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclostome + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyclostomatous.
relooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relook
figure-hugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more figure-hugging
form: most figure-hugging
Senses: glosses: Tight-fitting.
raw_tags: of clothing
Synonyms: close-fitting
form-fitting
slinky
snug
tight
tight-fitting
cat-harpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-harpins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat-harping.
cat-harpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-harpin
fill-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill-ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fillup.
cryptogamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptogam + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the cryptogams.
Synonyms: cryptogamic
cryptogamous
phyllosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllosomas
form: phyllosomata
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: glass crab
glosses: The thin, flat, transparent larval stage of certain lobsters.
phyllosomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllosoma
phyllosomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllosoma
hugag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hugags
Senses: glosses: A large herbivorous mammal in North American folklore, supposed to have jointless legs that prevent it from lying down.
hugags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hugag
fink out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finks out
form: finking out
form: finked out
form: finked out
Senses: glosses: To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
Related terms: fink
Beloochee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beloochees
Senses: examples: text: Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.
ref: 1888, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
glosses: An inhabitant of Beloochistan.
Beloochees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beloochee
threadjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: threadjacks
form: threadjacking
form: threadjacked
form: threadjacked
Etymology: Blend of thread + hijack.
Senses: glosses: To take over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.