cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
animal welfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The protection of animals' health with appropriate accommodation, nutrition and care.
glosses: The safeguarding of animals in a laboratory or similar environment with a code of practice, enforced by legislation or regulation.
Related terms: animal liberation
animal rights
humaniac
battery cage
factory farm
foie gras
shark fin soup
vivisection
whaling
lepidotrichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidotrichium
lobeliads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobeliad
lobeliad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobeliads
Etymology: From translingual Lobelia + -ad.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Lobelia
lobopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobopods
Etymology: Shortened form of lobopodium.
Senses: examples: text: Onychophorans […] have cylindrical segmented bodies with many pairs of legs called lobopods, which are essentially fluid-filled bags.
ref: 2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the numerous stub-legs of a lobopodian; a lobopodium.
examples: text: The early lobopods have a melange of characteristics that makes their position on the tree of life difficult to pin down.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 261:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the extinct panarthropods of the phylum Lobopodia.
lobopodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lobopod + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the lobopods
lobopodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobopodians
Etymology: From lobopod + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the phylum Lobopodia of panarthropods.
loriciferans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loriciferan
loriciferan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loriciferans
Etymology: Loricifera + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
photo shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photo shoot
photo shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo shoots
Senses: glosses: A session in which a photographer takes shots of an individual or group.
Derived terms: word: photo-shoot
discoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disco
macrobiota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobiotas
form: macrobiota
Etymology: From macro- + biota.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The macroscopic flora and fauna of a region.
mascon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mascons
Etymology: From Blend of mass + concentration.
Senses: glosses: A region within a solid astronomical body that is of higher density than the surrounding material.
glosses: A lunar mare that has a greater density of rock than the surrounding area.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: mass concentration
mascons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mascon
mayoralties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayoralty
mechanogated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mechano-gated.
mechano-gated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + gated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mechanically gated
sluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slŭf
ipa: /slʌf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: sluffs
form: slough
Etymology: From Middle English slough (“skin, husk, rind; cocoon; scales; cyst”), akin to Middle High German slûch (“slough”) (whence German Schlauch (“tube, hose”)).
Senses: examples: text: That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
glosses: Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
examples: text: This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
glosses: Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
examples: text: The Scouts learned from expert Keith Burke that snow avalanches come in different forms. A powder or "sluff" avalanche starts at a single point and fans out as surface snow slides downhill. These avalanches are not as violent as slab avalanches. Slab avalanches are very dangerous. They occur when a whole hillside of snow breaks loose in a giant slab, which then breaks into snow blocks that tumble downhill faster and faster.
ref: 2001 Mar, Buck Tilton, “Cold Comfort”, in Boys Life, volume 91, number 3, page 18:
text: At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.
ref: 2002 March 2, Sid Perkins, “Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow.”, in The Free Library:
glosses: An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
sluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slŭf
ipa: /slʌf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: sluffs
form: sluffing
form: sluffed
form: sluffed
form: slough
Etymology: From Middle English slough (“skin, husk, rind; cocoon; scales; cyst”), akin to Middle High German slûch (“slough”) (whence German Schlauch (“tube, hose”)).
Senses: examples: text: While I found wonderfully soft and untracked snow near the top, I ended up surprised by the firmer stuff in the chutes near the bottom, where small slides had sluffed away the soft, top layer.
ref: 1995 Jan, Peter Oliver, “Easy Doesn't Do It”, in Skiing, volume 47, number 5, page 24:
text: After temperatures warm up a little, however, the snow will "sluff", or slide, down the front of the windshield, often in small slabs.
ref: 2011 October 10, “Anatomy of an avalanche”, in Encyclopedia of Earth:
glosses: Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
examples: text: Blaser, for whom the rumored death of his program has been an annual affair, recalled the other day how nervous he was the first time he heard swimming might be cut his freshman year and how it became easier to sluff off the rumors.
ref: 1996 January 29, Kevin Acee, “Several coaches are worried over what will happen to their sports”, in The Free Library, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2013:
glosses: ignore, shrug (off)
examples: text: If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.
ref: 2009 February 16, Phillip Alder, “At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
examples: He's sluffing off somewhere.
glosses: to avoid working
examples: Sunshine for the Latter-Day Saint Mother's Soul
Both calls told her the same thing — that her son had been sluffing school. She felt betrayed. She had trusted this child.
qualifier: Utah; Idaho; Utah; Idaho
glosses: To play truant from (school).
Derived terms: sluffy
budgeteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: budgeteers
Etymology: From budget + -eer. Doublet of budgetary.
Senses: examples: text: Repurposing has become hot, and not only among drug manufacturers and federal budgeteers.
ref: 2009 February 15, William Safire, “Rifacimento”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person knowledgeable about the law, accounting, and regulation affecting budgets, especially governmental.
megacheiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacheirans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any arthropod with a relatively large appendage
budgeteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budgeteer
megacheirans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacheiran
megaprimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaprimers
Etymology: From mega- + primer.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutagenesis technique that uses three oligonucleotide primers to perform two rounds of polymerase chain reaction
melanogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melanogenic
form: most melanogenic
Etymology: From melano- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That produces melanin
Derived terms: antimelanogenic
promelanogenic
Related terms: melanogenesis
hypermiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermilers
Etymology: From hyper- + mile + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This herky-jerky driving style is, according to Wayne Gerdes, a Chicago-based fuel economy expert, a variation of what hypermilers call the “high-speed pulse and glide.”
ref: 2009 February 15, Jerry Garrett, “Pulsing and Gliding to 65 M.P.G.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: But when asked which of his achievements he is most proud of, he says: “Actually those of others hypermilers behind the wheel, thanks to my tutelage or simply inspiration.” […] “I’m a huge fan of autonomous cars: they will allow everyone to become a hypermiler.
ref: 2016 July 21, Jacopo Prisco, “How ‘hypermiling’ can save you a lot of fuel (and the planet)”, in CNN:
glosses: One who uses special driving techniques to achieve unusually good fuel economy.
Related terms: hypermiling
hypermilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermiler
merons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meron
levelest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Our retail sales floor is the levelest playing field I’ve yet seen.
ref: 2009 February 15, Caitlin Kelly, “My Retail Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane”, in New York Times:
glosses: superlative form of level: most level
meron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merons
Etymology: From mero- (“part, portion”) + -on. Coined by American scientists Curtis G. Allan Jr., Roger Dashen, and David J. Gross, in 1977.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: half-instanton
glosses: Either of the pair of entities that together make up an instanton.
meron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merons
Etymology: Back-formation from epimeron, ultimately from Ancient Greek μῆρος (mêros, “thigh”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sclerite on the side of the thorax of an insect, above the coxae of the mid and hind legs.
meron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merons
Etymology: From meronomy, by analogy with taxon.
Senses: glosses: The unit of classification in meronomy.
Related terms: holon
mesonephros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesonephroi
form: mesonephroses
Etymology: From meso- + nephros.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The second of the three excretory organs of the developing embryo; the Wolffian body.
Derived terms: mesonephric
mesopodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesopodial
form: most mesopodial
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia (the bones of the carpus and tarsus)
mesopodialia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bones of the carpus and tarsus.
Related terms: mesopodial
Tasmanian wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tasmanian wolf
metabolomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metabolomics.
Derived terms: exometabolomic
metabolomical
metametabolomic
pharmacometabolomic
phosphometabolomic
submeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submeters
Etymology: From sub- + meter.
Senses: examples: text: Proponents say residential submeters encourage tenants to reduce their energy consumption by making households that never had to worry about electricity costs take financial responsibility for the power they use.
ref: 2009 February 15, Manny Fernandez, “State Freezes Plan to Have Tenants Pay Electric Bills”, in New York Times:
glosses: A utility meter, especially for electricity, that allows for the monitoring of usage on a portion of a distribution network, especially not owned by a utility, past a main meter.
submeter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: submeters
form: submetering
form: submetered
form: submetered
Etymology: From sub- + meter.
Senses: examples: text: “The submetering program is intended to help conserve energy, which is something that we remain committed to,” he said.
ref: 2009 February 15, Manny Fernandez, “State Freezes Plan to Have Tenants Pay Electric Bills”, in New York Times:
glosses: To install a submeter for.
glosses: To charge for electricity usage measured by a submeter.
submeter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + meter.
Senses: glosses: On a scale based on units smaller than meters.
submeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submeter
submeters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of submeter
submetering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submeter
submetered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of submeter
butching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from butcher.
Senses: glosses: The trade of a butcher.
euclidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdiən
Senses: examples: text: If (#92;alpha#95;1,#92;dots,#92;alpha#95;n) is an orthonormal basis of a euclidean space V, then for all #92;alpha,#92;beta in V#92;alpha#61;#92;sum#95;#123;i#61;1#125;ⁿ(#92;alpha#92;vert#92;alpha#95;i)#92;alpha#95;i#92;quad#92;text#123;and#125;#92;quad(#92;alpha#92;vert#92;beta)#61;#92;sum#95;#123;i#61;1#125;ⁿ(#92;alpha#92;vert#92;alpha#95;i)(#92;beta#92;vert#92;alpha#95;i).We turn now to a somewhat more profound matter. Suppose that we partially order by inclusion the collection of all orthonormal sets of vectors in a euclidean space V. A maximal element of this set is called a maximal orthonormal set.
ref: 1968, Robert R. Stoll, Edward T. Wong, Linear Algebra, London: Academic Press, →LCCN, page 76:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Euclidean.
treasonably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more treasonably
form: most treasonably
Etymology: From treasonable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a treasonable manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a treasonable manner
word: treasonously
methyltryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl- + tryptamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A psychedelic alkaloid obtained from the leaves of several plants
Derived terms: alphamethyltryptamine
alpha-methyltryptamine
methyltyramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + tyramine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A metabolite of amphetamines that has some sympathomimetic effect.
methyltrienolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛθɪltɹaɪˈiːnəloʊn/
/ˌmiːθ(a)ɪltɹaɪˈiːnəloʊn/
Senses: glosses: The androgen metribolone
metribolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anabolic steroid 17β-17-hydroxy-17-methyl-estra-4,9,11-trien-3-one
Stolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Stoli.
Stolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stollies
Senses: examples: text: "Bring us two Stollies," said Peabody, pronouncing the name of the drink in an unusual way that frankly made me wince. Not that I would dream of correcting a fellow with an English accent.
ref: 1996, Bruce Jay Friedman, A father's kisses:
glosses: A serving of Stolichnaya vodka.
scannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænəbəl/
ipa: /ˈskænəbl̩/
rhymes: -ænəbəl
Forms: form: more scannable
form: most scannable
Etymology: From scan + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be scanned; suitable for scanning.
railfanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From railfan + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The activities of railfans.
Synonyms: train spotting
gunzelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gunzel
gunzelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gunzel
Peircean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Peircean
form: most Peircean
form: Peirceian
form: Peircian
Etymology: From Peirce + -an.
Senses: examples: 2000, Torben Braüner, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhstrøm, "Determinism and the Origins of Temporal Logic", pages 185-206 in Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov Gabbay, and Graham Gough, editors, Advances in Temporal Logic, Applied Logic Series 16, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Furthermore, the treatment of determinism in two of Prior's proposed temporal systems, namely the Ockhamistic and Peircean systems, is investigated.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Charles S. Peirce, 19th-20th century American logician, mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, founder of pragmatism.
Ockhamistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ockhamistic
form: most Ockhamistic
Etymology: From Ockham + -istic.
Senses: examples: 2000, Torben Braüner, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhstrøm, "Determinism and the Origins of Temporal Logic", pages 185-206 in Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov Gabbay, and Graham Gough, editors, Advances in Temporal Logic, Applied Logic Series 16, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Furthermore, the treatment of determinism in two of Prior's proposed temporal systems, namely the Ockhamistic and Peircean systems, is investigated.
glosses: Of or pertaining to William of Ockham, 13th-14th century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.
Related terms: Ockhamist
quicksilvery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quicksilvery
form: most quicksilvery
Etymology: From quicksilver + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like quicksilver.
unbeautiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeautiful
form: most unbeautiful
Etymology: From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.
Senses: examples: text: From here, over the low summit at Clay Cross and down the Erewash Valley, was one long and unbeautiful replica of the road from Leeds.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:
text: The movie looks like battlefield documentary, grainy and (purposely) unbeautiful.
ref: 1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
glosses: Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
Synonyms: nonbeautiful
magic eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic eye
indulger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indulgers
Etymology: From indulge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In short, he is an indulger, a manipulator of texture, and ultimately counterproductive to this group’s strengths.
ref: 2009 February 16, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who indulges.
Related terms: indulge
indulgently
indulgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indulger
magic cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic cookie
magic circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic circle
magic cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic cube
magic lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic lantern
magic markers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic marker
untradeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tradeable.
Senses: examples: text: He is virtually untradeable because of a contract that had three years and $21 million left when the season began.
ref: 2009 February 16, Howard Beck, “N.B.A. Players Union Backs Tinsley, Possibly Setting Precedent”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not able to be traded.
Related terms: trade
tradeable
magic numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic number
teamwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From team + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: He would not single out anyone, because whatever has plagued the Rangers over the past two weeks is a teamwide affliction.
ref: 2009 February 16, Joshua Robinson, “Time Grows Short for Slumping Rangers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring or extending throughout a team.
magics up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of magic up
magicking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of magic up
magicked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of magic up
amphostat B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A water soluble form of the fungicide Amphotericin B.
microclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a microclimate
Derived terms: microclimatically
microevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + evolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microevolution
urologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: There's been a lot of screening, and people still die," says Ian Thompson, a urologic oncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
ref: 2009 February 13, Jennifer Couzin, “BIOMARKERS: Metabolite in Urine May Point To High-Risk Prostate Cancer”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to urology.
Related terms: urology
urological
urologist
subviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + viral.
Senses: examples: text: Consider a typical definition for "virus": a transmissible agent that in extracellular form consists of a DNA or RNA genome minimally packaged within a protein coat, replicating by the coordinated assembly of subviral components, rather than by growth and division. "
ref: 2009 February 13, Donald B. Stoltz, James B. Whitfield, “VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI, pages 884–885:
glosses: Pertaining to a structural part of a virus.
polydnavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydnaviruses
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance.
ref: 2009 February 13, Donald B. Stoltz, James B. Whitfield, “VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI, pages 884–885:
glosses: An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
Derived terms: polydnavirion
polydnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydnavirus
microgastroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgastroids
Senses: glosses: Any of the subfamily Microgastrinae of wasps.
micromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micromagnetic
form: most micromagnetic
Etymology: From micro- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to micromagnetism
Derived terms: micromagnetically
micromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale
dry spells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry spell
rain cheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain cheque
rain gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain gauge
microparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropart
rains cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rain cats and dogs
rained cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rain cats and dogs
micropart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microparts
Etymology: From micro- + part.
Senses: glosses: Any part (of a fabricated assembly) having a dimension much less than a millimeter.
rains pitchforks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rain pitchforks
raining pitchforks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rain pitchforks
rained pitchforks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rain pitchforks
rainwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainwater
microsaccadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microsaccadic
form: most microsaccadic
Etymology: From microsaccade + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microsaccades
deep waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep water
drinking waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinking water
water balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water balloon
water baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bath
water beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bed
water beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water beetle
water births
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water birth
water biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water biscuit
water bombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bomber
water buffalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water buffalo
water cannons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water cannon
water chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water chestnut
water closets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water closet
water coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water cooler
water cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water cycle
water diviners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water diviner
water dumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water dumping
microtitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtitres
Etymology: From micro- + titre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microtiter.
Related terms: picotitre
water guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water gun
water gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water gauge
water heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water heater
water-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-hole
water holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water hole
water ices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water ice
watering cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watering can
waterleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterleaf
water levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water level
water lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of water line
waterlogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waterlog
waterlogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waterlog
waterlogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterloggings
Senses: glosses: The situation where something becomes waterlogged.
water mains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water main
water-meadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-meadow
water meadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water meadow
water monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water monitor
water opossums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water opossum
water pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pipe
water pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pistol
squirt guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirt gun
water vapors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water vapor
water taxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water taxi
water softeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water softener
water-skiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-skier
water skied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of water ski
water skis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of water ski
water skis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water ski
water scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water scorpion
water bailiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bailiff
Tifinagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French tifinagh, from a Berber language.
Senses: glosses: A script used by some Berber peoples to write their languages, in a historical abjad mode as well as a modern alphabetic mode.
Derived terms: Neo-Tifinagh
water powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water power
waterpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterpower
routinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of routinize
goofinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goofiness
goofily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goofily
form: most goofily
Etymology: From goofy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a goofy manner.
righter than rain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right as rain.
rollerbladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rollerblade
thealogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thealogy
boldens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bolden
boldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bolden
boldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bolden
right handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right handed
form: most right handed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right-handed.
inaccurateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inaccurate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inaccurate.
outwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtwədnɪs/
ipa: /-nəs/
ipa: /ˈaʊtwɚdnɪs/
ipa: /-nəs/
Forms: form: outwardnesses
Etymology: From outward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being outward.
glosses: The result or product of being outward.
outwardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outwardness
outermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English uttermore, outermere, ottermore, uttermor, equivalent to outer + -more. Doublet of uttermore.
Senses: examples: text: […] the outer two of which are displaced outwards so as to correspond with the outermore of four bays on the two main storeys; […]
ref: 2008, Andor Harvey Gomme, Austin Harvey Gomme, Alison Maguire, Design and Plan in the Country House:
text: Precisely, the user is not involved directly but through one of their personas, expressed through the outermore layer.
ref: 2012, Dimitris Gritzalis, Steven Furnell, Marianthi Theoharidou, Information Security and Privacy Research:
text: This is due to the fact that the 5f shell is more diffuse than the 4f shell, so that the contraction of the outermore valence shells is increased by relativity to a larger extent in the case of the 6d elements as compared to the 5d elements.
ref: 2013, Matthias Schädel, Dawn Shaughnessy, The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements, page 162:
glosses: comparative form of outer: more outer
outers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outer
outerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outer + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being outer.
innerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innernesses
Etymology: From inner + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inner.
glosses: The result or product of being inner.
innernesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innerness
importantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From important + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was need also of an institution for savings that would reach the poorer classes of colored people, teach them the importantness of being industrious, of seeking steady employment.
ref: 1885; reprinted 1996 in Richard Germain, Dollars Through the Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America, page 112
text: This word "essential" is too easily made a convenience for the forceful indication of a primary quality of importantness;
ref: 1997, Schuyler B. Jackson, William Harmon, Rational Meaning, page 273:
text: Their time is in most demand; they earn stature, prestige, and importantness for this.
ref: 2005, Kerry Temple, Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Soul, page 17:
glosses: The quality of being important; importance.
kulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kula
covertape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covertapes
Etymology: From cover + tape.
Senses: examples: text: In a couple of months I'll be putting a covertape, featuring several bands, on my fanzine 'Blind Youth'. I'm currently looking for unsigned bands/artists […]
ref: 1996, Adie Nunn, “bands wanted for fanzine covertape”, in alt.music.uk (Usenet):
text: This game was an amazing Boulderdash clone/ripoff which was released on a YS [Your Sinclair] covertape in about 1991 […]
ref: 2003, Weetomuncher, “Earth Shaker (YS Covertape)”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
coordinate_terms: coverdisk
glosses: A cassette tape offered as a covermount, containing music or computer software.
covertapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covertape
coverdisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverdiscs
Etymology: From cover + disc.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coverdisk.
coverdiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coverdisc
coverdisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverdisks
Etymology: From cover + disk.
Senses: coordinate_terms: covertape
glosses: A floppy disk offered as a covermount, containing video games or other software.
coverdisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coverdisk
quadratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quadratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In this work we show that, in presence of another nonminimally coupled scalar field, that is both quadratically and quartically coupled to the Ricci scalar, inflation naturally ends, representing an elegant solution to the graceful exit problem of topological inflation.
ref: 2015, Anja Marunović, Tomislav Prokopec, “Topological inflation with graceful exit”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a quadratic way.
clean house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleans house
form: cleaning house
form: cleaned house
form: cleaned house
Senses: glosses: To clean the interior of a house.
examples: text: Francis was elected in March 2013 after the resignation of Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to step down in nearly six centuries, amid turmoil and intrigue about secret lobbies and financial chicanery. The cardinal electors sought a reformer with a strong administrative hand, but few anticipated how Francis, then the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, would blend reformist zeal and folksy charm in a push to clean house and transform the church.
ref: 2025 April 21, Jason Horowitz, Jim Yardley, “Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To reform a workplace, organization, etc. by removing undesirable personnel or procedures.
examples: text: Time to clean some house,
be a man or a mouse,
waste those who make it tough to get around.
ref: 1981 September 16, Devo, “Through Being Cool”, in New Traditionalists:
text: Some companies that others perceived as being late to the party really cleaned house: Facebook was after MySpace […]
ref: 2012, Erika Napoletano, The Power of Unpopular:
glosses: To win overwhelmingly.
Related terms: clean sweep
clean up
dead wood
put one's house in order
dead wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]. If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a senioentrity list, because then you can say it's out of your control.
ref: 2001, Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau, The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.
Derived terms: put the dead wood on
Related terms: chainsaw consultant
clean house
deadwood
Deadwood
housecleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housecleaners
Etymology: From house + cleaner.
Senses: examples: text: Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted.
ref: 2009 February 15, Dan Bilefsky, “In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: cleaner
glosses: Someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.
Related terms: clean house
houseclean
housecleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housecleaner
menschy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: menschier
form: menschiest
Etymology: From mensch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And although menschier folk would have offered to pay for the damage, you’re lucky these boys didn’t burn down your house.
ref: 2009 February 15, Philip Galanes, “Piggy Bank for Mom and Dad”, in New York Times:
text: This validated my decision to stay in touch with my menschy men of yesteryear, none of whom has ever made anything resembling an attempt on my life.
ref: 2025 February 28, Laura Esther Wolfson, “Rules for Staying Close to Exes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Upstanding; having integrity and responsibility.
Derived terms: menschiness
menschier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of menschy: more menschy
misdialings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdialing
roamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roaming
passagemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passagemakers
form: passage maker
Etymology: From passage + maker.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel designed for, or capable of, making a long-distance voyage.
passage maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of passagemaker.
flip flops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flip flop
flip flops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip flop
Krasnoyarsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, Russia.
Derived terms: Krasnoyarsk Time
krai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪ̯/
homophone: cry
Forms: form: krais
form: kraia
form: kray
Etymology: From Russian край (kraj, “province, edge”).
Senses: examples: text: Organised similarly on a territorial basis, their tasks were formulated as follows: ‘they should know by whom party propaganda is being conducted in the corresponding oblasti and kraia,[…]’
ref: 1996, Bohdan Harasymiw, “Republic and CC CPSU Apparatchiki”, in Soviet Communist Party Officials: A Study in Organizational Roles and Change, Commack, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 198:
text: For example, in 1937 there were 11 union republics, 39 oblasti and kraia, 22 autonomous republics, 52 autonomous regions and okrugs, 3307 districts and 62,484 village soviets (Davies et al. 2003, xviii).
ref: 2017, Roland Boer, “From Creative Naming to Cultural Revolution”, in Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Towards a Theory of the Socialist State), section 2 (Affirmative Action), footnote 44, page 163:
text: The heads of the newly established kraia within the RSFSR were in a rather privileged position. Nikolai Eizmont, party secretary in what would become North Caucasus Krai, laid claim to about 15,000 square versta (17,000 square kilometers) with approximately 600,000 inhabitants in eastern Ukraine.
ref: 2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Ukraine and the RSFSR: How to Find a Common Border”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, pages 68–69:
qualifier: administrative division
glosses: A region or province in Russia.
Related terms: word: oblast
topics: etymology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Ukraine
stormwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormwaters
Etymology: From storm + water.
Senses: examples: text: Community groups have collected 12,000 signatures demanding that New York City permanently lower the levels of the Cannonsville, Pepacton and Neversink Reservoirs to 80 percent of capacity so that stormwater runoff can have a place to go rather than charging down the river in flash floods.
ref: 2007 October 2, Anthony Depalma, “City Agrees to Help Regulate Delaware River by Releasing Water From Reservoirs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
text: Coverage under the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Construction Stormwater General Permit is required for stormwater discharges associated with construction activities disturbing one or more acres.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 26:
synonyms: surface runoff
runoff[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous>
glosses: Water that is not absorbed into soil and rapidly flows downstream, increasing the level of waterways. In some municipal systems it intermixes with wastewater, increasing the volume of the latter.
shit show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪt ʃoʊ/
Forms: form: shit shows
form: shit-show
form: shitshow
Etymology: From shit + show. First use appears c. 1976. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: There is that swine again. We don't want this shit-show any longer...
ref: 1976, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, page 410:
text: I was too busy helping Laura clean up for this shit show.
ref: 1999, Jamie Harrison, An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence: a Blue Deer mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 330:
text: The primary cause of the customer directed apathy was the servers' preoccupations with getting drunk and creating a script for the nightly shit show.
ref: 2003, Aironius French, The Adventures of Waiterman, Lord of the Restaurant Jungle, Trafford Publishing, vol. 1, no. 1, →ISBN, page 186:
text: Things can't possibly be so bad at work that you'd volunteer for another trip to this shit show.
ref: 2008, Thomas Holland, KIA: A Dr. Kel McKelvey Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: crapshow
glosses: A messy situation, especially involving drunkenness and partying.
synonyms: word: hot mess
coordinate_terms: shitstorm
glosses: A situation characterized by chaos, confusion, or incompetence.
Related terms: shit sandwich
hydrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogen
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: protium
paralogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralogism
deconflict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈflɪkt/
Forms: form: deconflicts
form: deconflicting
form: deconflicted
form: deconflicted
Etymology: From de- + conflict.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To change the flight path of a craft or weapon to reduce the chance of an accidental collision or conflict with other obstacles, the terrain or weather.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To provide information to a military force in order to prevent escalation of a conflict.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: To resolve contradictory conclusions or responses to queries in a rule-based or deductive reasoning system.
examples: text: We need to deconflict our schedules to find a time when we can all meet.
glosses: To alter (something) to avoid conflicting with something else.
Derived terms: deconfliction
doncha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: don't you
harbourside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harboursides
Etymology: From harbour + -side.
Senses: glosses: An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc)
Related terms: seaside
lakeside
riverside
harbourside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From harbour + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, after passing more lochs and calling at several delightful little stations such as Dalmally (a well-preserved Victorian gem housing a B&B), we swing around the back of Oban to arrive at the harbourside station and journey's end - seven days and 81 trains after first leaving Halifax!
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 9&!, page 79:
glosses: Located on or near a harbour.
laboriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laborious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being laborious.
permissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permissibilities
Etymology: From permissible + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: permissibleness
antonyms: impermissibility
glosses: The condition of being permissible; legitimacy; allowability.
glosses: A permissible act.
reshowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshow
reshowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshowings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent showing
reshow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshows
form: reshowing
form: reshowed
form: reshown
Etymology: From re- + show.
Senses: glosses: To show again.