cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
after the Lord Mayor's show
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the proverb "After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dust-cart" (or "donkey-cart", or "shit-cart"). Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor's Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant's horses.
Senses: examples: text: as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that "after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,
ref: 1864, George Waters, Indian gleanings and thoughts of the past, G.H. Windeyer, Chatham, page 154:
text: The All Whites came into this match hotfoot from their stunning victory over Castres last Tuesday which took them into the semi-final of the prototype European Cup. ... For a while it looked as if it might be a case of after the Lord Mayor's show as Swansea struggled with one of their dozy moods, against Treorchy.
ref: 1995 December 10, Clem Thomas, “White hot Swansea”, in The Independent (UK):
text: "After the Lord Mayor's Show." Freddy looked up from reading Punch. "What is, old fruit?" "The excitement's gone. Back to dull monotony."
ref: 2006, Jeremy Carrad, Running on Empty, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event.
Related terms: anticlimax
hangover
swizzle sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swizzle stick
let-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of let-down
golden goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden goal
shibari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈbɑː.ɹi/
ipa: /ʃɪˈbɑ.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 縛(しば)り (shibari).
Senses: glosses: The artful use of twine to tie objects or packages.
examples: text: What if your slave needs to be spanked/caned/flogged to get warmed up before serious rough sex that involves face slapping, but your ideal evening consists of spending an hour or so tying up your slave in an elaborate shibari rope harness and then just sitting there watching him/her twist slowly from the suspension rig?
ref: 2006, Robert J. Rubel, Master/Slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice, page 36:
text: “She's not your subbie, Dominic,” I stated. “You left her hanging in the shibari room last night. […]
ref: 2014, Katherine Rhodes, Not Quite Juliet: Silver Soul 1:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A style of Japanese bondage.
Related terms: kinbaku
rigger
inversion therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A therapy in which the patient hangs upside down or at an inverted angle, claimed to treat backache etc.
eupraxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek εὐπραξία (eupraxía, “living well, acting well”).
Senses: examples: text: M. S. Adam’s whole man was ſanctified, and ſo fitted to obey, and to glorifie Juſtice: His free-will was not an indifferency, but (as Gib.) that noble virtue of his Soul, by which he could go above all created good, ſo that Liberty and Eupraxy or Obedience are all one: But we cannot ſtir an inch to God, above the Creature. Liberty is to imitate God, whoſe Will cloſeth with himſelf, and resteth in himſelf for ever: And mutability is but an adjunct of our Liberty.
ref: 1675, Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie, book 1, part 2, “A Premonition”, page 5
glosses: Right action.
anticorset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticorset
form: most anticorset
Etymology: From anti- + corset.
Senses: examples: text: From the Reverend Saltzmann, who offered a prize for the best anticorset essay in 1788, via Soemmerring's winning the award, via the burning of the corset by pan-Germanic student fraternities in 1817 […]
ref: 1979, New York Academy of Medicine, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (volume 55, issues 1-6)
text: Alcott, quite possibly influenced by his female colleagues, embraced a women's issue when he urged the founding of anticorset societies, whose members "signed the pledge" not to wear them.
ref: 1991, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, page 14:
text: The S-curve blunted the athleticism and mobility of the Gibson girl, and the obvious manipulation of the body necessary to create the S-curve silhouette was an easy target for anticorset agitation which defended the "natural" body.
ref: 2001, Philip Scranton, Beauty and business: commerce, gender, and culture in modern America, page 112:
glosses: Opposing the wearing of corsets.
eyehook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īˈ -ho͝okˌ
ipa: /ˈaɪˌhʊk/
Forms: form: eyehooks
Etymology: From eye + hook.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eye hook.
eyehooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īˈ-ho͝oksˌ
ipa: /ˈaɪˌhʊks/
Senses: glosses: plural of eyehook; alternative form of eye hooks.
pervertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pervertible
form: most pervertible
form: pervertable
Etymology: From pervert + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being perverted.
Derived terms: impervertible
pervertible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervertibles
form: pervertable
Etymology: From pervert + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: At the time it could scarcely be called a town but in years to come Sloane, Arkansas would be a mecca for gamblers and pervertibles, a veritable caldron of sin and perdition.
ref: 1997, Wynema McGowan, Beyond the River, page 155:
glosses: A person who is liable to corruption.
examples: text: Don't be surprised if your geek lover puts more thought into arranging the boudoir than you do, or if common household items ("pervertibles") soon take on a new dimension.
ref: 2009, Ethan Gilsdorf, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks:
text: The Wartenberg wheel was designed for medical use to test nerve endings, but with its 22 tiny, poky spikes, it's one of our favorite "pervertibles."
ref: 2023, Self Serve Toys, Sensation Toys: Wartenberg wheel:
glosses: An everyday or household object that can be used in sexual activity.
pervertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pervertable
form: most pervertable
Etymology: From pervert + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pervertible.
pervertable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervertables
Etymology: From pervert + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pervertible.
pervertest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pervert + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pervert
Timur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːˈmʊə/
ipa: /tɪˈmʊəɹ/
Etymology: From Turkish Timur and other languages, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: Alternative form of Tamerlane.
plasticuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of plastic + cuffs
Senses: examples: text: From the briefcase he took two pairs of plasticuffs, and handed them to the first — and now entirely compliant — bodyguard.
ref: 2003, Chris Ryan, The Hit List, page 230:
text: As he cut through my plasticuffs with a pair of scissors, the guy I'd shared a smile with spoke to the back of my head.
ref: 2004, Andy McNab, Deep Black, page 235:
glosses: plastic handcuffs
antiresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + resistance.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering a political resistance movement.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Countering the propensity of an organism (such as a fungus) to become resistant to something (such as a fungicide).
captionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caption + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a caption.
Derived terms: captionlessness
misassign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: misassigns
form: misassigning
form: misassigned
form: misassigned
Etymology: From mis- + assign.
Senses: glosses: to assign incorrectly
misassigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misassign
misassigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misassign
misassigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misassign
singletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singletails
Etymology: From single + tail.
Senses: glosses: A variety of goldfish with an undivided tail.
examples: text: Velvet also whips him, beats him and torments his cock and balls (by kicking, squeezing or the judicious use of a singletail whip) on a regular basis — as often as he needs and wants, but at least several times a week.
ref: 1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex:
text: Stopping her tapping, Angelica belted the singletail, and grasped Allison's lead pulling her tits up sharply to render her helpless.
ref: 2008, Jennifer Campbell, Allison's Training, page 110:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A whip with a single lash.
singletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singletail
crossdressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossdresser
sissyphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sissy + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.
ref: 1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions:
text: I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]
ref: 1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164:
text: Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia […]
ref: 2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)
text: “Galileo’s Middle Finger” is many things: a rant, a manifesto, a treasury of evocative new terms (sissyphobia, autogynephilia, phall-o-meter) and an account of the author’s transformation “from an activist going after establishment scientists into an aide-de-camp to scientists who found themselves the target of activists like me” — and back again.
ref: 2015 April 17, David Dobbs, “‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2015:
glosses: A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
Related terms: heteropatriarchy
homopatriarchy
liberal homophobia
effeminophobia
Sacksian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sacksian
form: most Sacksian
Etymology: From Sacks + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Harvey Sacks (1935–1975), American sociologist.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), British-American neurologist and writer.
refrigerator mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refrigerator mothers
form: refrigerator mom
Senses: examples: text: It was not until 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an American pschiatrist, first diagnosed the syndrome in 11 children. . . . Kanner and others once postulated that these children were the products of "refrigerator mothers," women who are overly cold and intellectual.
ref: 1979 April 7, Helen Kohl, “The Strange Ones" Autism can be brought into our world”, in Montreal Gazette, Canada, retrieved 18 Nov 2012:
text: No present-day researcher takes the idea of the refrigerator mother as the cause of autism seriously.
ref: 2010, John W. Oller Jr, Stephen D. Oller, Autism: The Diagnosis, Treatment, & Etiology of the Undeniable Epidemic, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An emotionally frigid mother, who does not exhibit normal care or love for her child or children.
refrigerator mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refrigerator mother
nonpsychogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + psychogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not psychogenic.
refringences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refringence
strappadoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strappado
strappadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strappado
strappados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strappado
strappadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strappado
tightlacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightlacers
Etymology: From tight + lacer.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in tightlacing.
tightlacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tightlacer
bethank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethanks
form: bethanking
form: bethanked
form: bethanked
Etymology: From be- + thank. Compare Dutch bedanken (“to thank”), German bedanken (“to thank”).
Senses: glosses: To bestow thanks upon; to thank.
stage-phoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage-phoner
betrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betrows
form: betrowing
form: betrowed
form: betrowed
Etymology: From be- + trow.
Senses: examples: text: If he may come secretly hither, I think it were good he were heard, and "betrowed," as the Scottishman saith, as he shall give cause.
ref: 1892, Salisbury (marquesses of), Calendar of the manuscripts of the ... marquis of Salisbury:
text: [...] it is also clear that Burghley had viewed the visit with the expectation that Standen could thereby be 'betrowed', his real loyalty tested out.
ref: 1992, University of London. Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Institute of Historical Research:
glosses: To trust.
Anglo-Indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglo-Indian
tax revenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax revenues
Senses: glosses: The total revenue that a state, municipality etc. gets from all taxes.
advaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advaunce
form: most advaunce
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advance.
advaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advance.
advaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: advaunces
form: advauncing
form: advaunced
form: advaunced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advance.
Derived terms: advauncer
abundaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abundaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abundance.
acquaintaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquaintaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of acquaintance.
admittaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admittaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of admittance.
advauncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advauncements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advancement.
advauncemente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advauncementes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advancement.
allowaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allowaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of allowance.
alliaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alliaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alliance.
appearaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appearaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of appearance.
assistaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assistaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of assistance.
arrogaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arrogance.
assuraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assuraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of assurance.
attendaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attendaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of attendance.
balaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of balance.
avoidaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avoidaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of avoidance.
braunche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braunches
Senses: examples: text: And on euery braun­che were iij. cuppes like vnto almondes, wyth knoppes and floures thorow out the ſixe bra­unches that proceded out of the candelſticke.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus xxxvij:[19], folio LXX, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of branch.
chauncelour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauncelours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chancellor.
chauncellour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauncellours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chancellor.
chauncel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauncels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chancel.
circumstaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumstaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of circumstance.
concordaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concordaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of concordance.
Clelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Cloelia.
Senses: examples: text: Clelia: the name, at first hearing, was so uncannily like Clara that Clara dispensed with the notion that she might have misheard the initial consonant, and that the girl might be supposed to be called Dahlia.
ref: 1967, Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden, Popular Library, published 1979, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Cloelia
Cloelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clœlia
Etymology: From Latin Cloelia, feminine form of the gens name Cloelius, Cluilius, from clueo.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A woman who saved Roman hostages from the Clusian camp.
Related terms: sense: English given name form
word: Clelia
Planck constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Planck constant
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Planck's constant.
sylphine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sylphine
form: most sylphine
Senses: glosses: sylphic
daysack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsæk/
Forms: form: daysacks
Etymology: From day + sack.
Senses: glosses: A daypack.
daysacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daysack
Konkanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Konkani
konjacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of konjac
conjunctivochalasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The symptoms of conjunctivochalasis range from dry eye, epiphora, and irritation, to localized pain, foreign body sensation, subconjunctival hemorrhage, and ulceration.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition where the eye surface has excess folds of the conjunctiva located between the globe of the eye and the eyelid margin.
Related terms: chalazion
cosmochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cosmochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, cosmochemistry.
eugenicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eugenic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the principles of eugenics.
Related terms: eugenicist
Lach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /læʃ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lassen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Derived terms: Lassen County
Ibsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ibsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Ibsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Ibsenesque
Ibsenian
Ibsenic
Ibsenish
Ibsenism
Ibsenite
Mathiesen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mathiesens
form: Matthiessen
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Mathiesen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mattis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mattises
Etymology: Patronymic surname from a pet form of the personal name Matthew.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
mesostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + static.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to mesostasis
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in uniformally moist conditions
raw_tags: of successive vegetations
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a fixed accent on the suffix
raw_tags: of a noun
teleutostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τελευτή (teleutḗ, “end”) + στατικός (statikós, “made stand”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a fixed accent on the ending
raw_tags: of a noun
proterokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protero- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘thought’ was proterokinetic: nominative singular *mén-ti-s, genitive *mn̥-téy-s.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having an accent that tends to shift rightward when weakened.
raw_tags: of a noun
Synonyms: proterodynamic
Coordinate terms: acrostatic
amphikinetic
hysterokinetic
amphikinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘lake’ was amphikinetic: nominative singular *léy-mon-s, genitive *li-mn-és, locative *li-mén-(i).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having an accent that tends to shift in the weak cases.
raw_tags: of a noun
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to amphikinesis.
Synonyms: amphidynamic
Coordinate terms: acrostatic
hysterokinetic
proterokinetic
OVP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Office of the Vice President.
ceramicware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceramicwares
Etymology: From ceramic + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Ceramic items.
ceramicwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceramicware
Noahidism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Noahide + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Biblical-Talmudic and monotheistic ideology based on the Seven Laws of Noah.
Related terms: Noahide
Noahite
Xueta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xuetes
Etymology: From Catalan xueta.
Senses: examples: text: I remember being insulted as a child, being called a Xueta fool by playmates, and once someone spit in my face. There has always existed a sense of community among Xuetas and from my grandparents I learned pride in being a Xueta[…]
ref: 1976, Kenneth Moore, Those of the street: the Catholic-Jews of Mallorca:
text: But maybe it is more relevant for my purpose, which is to show the creativity of alliances, to concentrate on the question of the ethnic boundary between Xuetes and Old Christians[…]
ref: 2009, Peter Wade, Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics, page 131:
glosses: One of a strictly endogamous social group on the island of Mallorca, descendants of Mallorcan Jews who either converted to Christianity or were forced to keep their religion hidden.
Xuetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xueta
multilobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, multi- + lobule + -ar or multi- + lobular.
Senses: examples: text: These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia [14 ].
ref: 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: multilobulate
multilobulated
coordinate_terms: bilobular
glosses: Having more than one lobule; especially, having more than two.
Related terms: english: lobes versus lobules
translation: lobes versus lobules
word: multilobar
word: multilobulation
word: bilobar
word: unilobar
word: multilocular
multilobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilobate
form: most multilobate
Etymology: From multi- + lobate.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one lobe.
multilobe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lobe.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one lobe.
multilobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilobes
Etymology: From multi- + lobe.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: unilobe
glosses: A kind of closed curve.
multilobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilobe
zincworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincworkers
Etymology: From zinc + worker.
Senses: glosses: One who works with zinc.
zincworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zincworker
lotioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lotion
lotioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lotion + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lotion
lotioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lotioned
form: most lotioned
Etymology: From lotion + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having had lotion applied.
raw_tags: of a body part or person
Derived terms: unlotioned
zirself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Etymology: From zir + -self.
Senses: examples: ref: 2002, Louise, “Anyone want to introduce zirself before APC9?”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):
text: I'm trying to point out that his 'help' would be seriously damaging to a person who lacks the ability to fix zirself through a sheer act of will.
ref: 2002, Lorremiddy, “Today is a great day.”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):
text: This is the pronoun that Carter uses to describe zirself.
ref: 2007, Sherryl Vint, Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction, page 213:
text: "End," zie said to zirself. Recalling the dream's authors, zie thought, At least they can still have them... Zie couldn't imagine a single thing.
ref: 2007, Colette Phair, Nightmare in Silicon: A Novel:
glosses: Zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
glosses: Ze; an intensive repetition of the gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
Coordinate terms: ze
zir
zirs
Derived terms: zirselves
Related terms: xyrself
postcrime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-crime
Etymology: From post- + crime.
Senses: examples: text: These men may seek out television, radio, and newspaper reports of the crime, they may save newspaper clippings, and they may even keep a written diary about the postcrime events.
ref: 1995, Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, John E. Douglas, Sexual homicide: patterns and motives, page 65:
glosses: After a crime.
precrime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-crime
Etymology: From pre- + crime.
Senses: examples: text: The precrime actions of the murderers in the days and hours before they killed provide clues to their mental states at the time of the murders.
ref: 1995, Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, John E. Douglas, Sexual homicide: patterns and motives, page 65:
glosses: Before a crime.
precrime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precrimes
form: pre-crime
Etymology: From pre- + crime.
Senses: examples: text: Held captive by society against their own free wills, the precogs are destined to foretell disturbing precrimes. Yet these precrimes will be committed by persons who are exercising their own free wills.
ref: 2002, Ethix: The Bulletin of the Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics, Issues 22-38:
glosses: The act that is close to, or is a precursor of a crime.
glosses: The tendency in criminal justice systems to focus on crimes not yet committed.
Indus Valley Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Indus Valley Language
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Harappan (language).
synonyms: word: Harappan
extra: language
nothing like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Ten years ago travel was nothing like as easy (as it is now)
text: Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
ref: 1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Not nearly.
annual report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annual reports
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In business law, a comprehensive report on a the activities of a company throughout the preceding year, generally produced in compliance with requirements established by government agencies.
Related terms: 10-K
wrap report
annual reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annual report
ROSCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROSCAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of rotating savings and credit association, a group of individuals who agree to meet for a defined period of time in order to save and borrow together; members all chip in regularly and take turns withdrawing accumulated sums.
Hyponyms: chama
chit fund
kameti
likelemba
ménage
motshelo
stokvel
susu
tanda
Freyja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪə/
rhymes: -eɪə
homophone: Freyr (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: Freya
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Freyja, from freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.
floxacillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: flucloxacillin
flucloxacillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floxacillin
Etymology: From flu(oro)- + cloxacillin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class, used to treat infections caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria.
dicloxacillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˌklɑk.səˈsɪl.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪlɪn
Etymology: From dichl(oro) + oxacillin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class, used in the form of its hydrated sodium salt C₁₉H₁₆Cl₂N₃NaO₅S·H₂O especially against beta-lactamase producing staphylococci.
tezampanel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular drug with neuroprotective and anticonvulsant effects.
dipolarophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dipolarophile + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Being or pertaining to a dipolarophile.
haloacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloacetates
Etymology: From haloacetic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of a haloacetic acid.
haloacetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haloacetate
trimethylsilylazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethylsilyl azide
Etymology: From trimethylsilyl + azide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound, (CH₃)₃SiN₃, used as a reagent in organic chemistry.
Mitsunobu reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mitsunobu reactions
Etymology: After its discoverer, Oyo Mitsunobu (1934–2003).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic reaction that converts an alcohol into a variety of functional groups, such as an ester, using triphenylphosphine and an azodicarboxylate.
diarylmaleimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarylmaleimide
spirolactams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirolactam
spirostans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirostan
hirsutisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hirsutism
spirometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spirometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to spirometry
spirometric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirometrics
Etymology: From spirometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Such a metric
spirometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spirometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, spirometry.
nonenantioselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enantioselective.
Senses: glosses: Not enantioselective.
continuaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of continuance.
conveyaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of conveyance.
daliaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daliaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of daliance.
defeasaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defeasaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of defeasance.
delivraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of deliverance.
subhallucinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hallucinogenic.
Senses: glosses: Below the dose that would cause hallucinations.
discordaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discordaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of discordance.
Noahite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noahites
Etymology: From Noah + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Noahide.
Noahide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊəˌhaɪd/
ipa: /ˈnəʊəˌhaɪd/
Forms: form: Noahides
form: Noahite
form: Noachide
form: Noachite
Etymology: From Noah + -ide (compare -ite, -id).
Senses: glosses: A descendant of Noah.
glosses: A subscriber to Noahidism.
Noahide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊəˌhaɪd/
ipa: /ˈnəʊəˌhaɪd/
Forms: form: more Noahide
form: most Noahide
form: Noahite
form: Noachide
form: Noachite
Etymology: From Noah + -ide (compare -ite, -id).
Senses: examples: text: [The] American tradition of religious toleration has always been more Noahide than Christian.
ref: 1997, Conservative Judaism, volume 50, page 28:
text: Noahide Laws
glosses: Of, pertaining to or deriving from Noah.
Noahides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noahide
Noahites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noahite
Tarantino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Taranto.
Senses: holonyms: Neapolitan
glosses: A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia.
Tarantino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tarantinos
Etymology: From Taranto.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Taranto.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tarantino terms
Tarantino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tarantinos
Etymology: From Taranto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Tarantinoesque
distaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distaunces
Senses: examples: text: [N]other perceaueth the concordaunt and diſcordante diſtaunces of ſoundes, and tunes […]
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “The Second Boke of the Communycacion of Raphael Hythlodaye, Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe: Cõteynyng the Discription of Utopia, with a Large Declaration of the Godly Gouernement, and of All the Good Lawes and Orders of the Same Ilande. Of Their Iourneyenge or Trauaylynge abrode, with Dyuers Other Matters Cunnyngly Reasoned & Wittilie Discussed.”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC, signature [M.vj.], verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of distance.
disturbaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disturbaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disturbance.
enhaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enhaunces
form: enhauncing
form: enhaunced
form: enhaunced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enhance.
inhaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inhaunces
form: inhauncing
form: inhaunced
form: inhaunced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enhance.
entraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of entrance.
finaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of finance.
addressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addressins
Etymology: From address + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extracellular protein of the endothelium of venules.
addressins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addressin
governaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of governance.
Derived terms: misgovernaunce
grievaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grievaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of grievance.
guidaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of guidance.
grievaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grievaunce
ignoraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignoraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ignorance.
antientest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Theſe Books mention only three Sects to have been in vogue in the World ; for of other Sects there is not the leaſt mention made. The firſt is the Sect of the Learned : The ſecond is called Sciequia : And the third Lancu. The firſt of theſe three is followed by all the Chineſes, and the adjacent People, which uſe the Chineſe Characters, as the Iſlanders of Japan, Corea, and Couchinchina : this Sect, which is that of the Learned, is taught to, and followed by none, but only thoſe and the Chineſes themſelves, and is the Antienteſt of all the Sects that were ever heard of in China : Out of this, about which a very great number of Books are writ, generally are choſen perſons fit for the Government of the Empire ; and therefore it is honoured and eſteemed above all others. The Doctrine of this Sect is not taught all at once, but they ſuck it in by degrees when they learn to Read or Write. The firſt Founder of this Sect was Confutius, the Prince of Chineſe Philoſophers, who is to this day honoured by all the Learned, with the Title of the The moſt Wiſe.
ref: 1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, “Of ſeveral SECTS in CHINA : Concerning PHILOSOPHY, and IDOL WORSHIP.”, in John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: superlative form of antient: most antient
antienter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of antient: more antient
antiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antiently
form: most antiently
Etymology: From antient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anciently.
skirt steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirt steaks
Senses: glosses: A long, flat cut of beef from the plate, prized for flavour rather than tenderness.
Coordinate terms: flank steak
hanger steak
antibike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibike
form: most antibike
Etymology: From anti- + bike.
Senses: examples: text: By this year Koch had become so antibike that he banned the cycles from several major Manhattan avenues.
ref: 1990, Elizabeth Cowan Neeld, Kate Kiefer, Writing:
glosses: Opposing the use of bicycles.
antiautomobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiautomobile
form: most antiautomobile
Etymology: From anti- + automobile.
Senses: examples: text: Politicians and antiautomobile groups are pushing this proposal.
ref: 1970 July, “Detroit's minis: how much muscle?”, in Popular Mechanics, page 84:
glosses: Opposing the use of automobiles.
Gotcha Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gotcha Days
Senses: synonyms: adoptaversary
glosses: A day celebrated by the family of an adopted child or pet to recognize the day they received the child or pet.
affrightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affrightful
form: most affrightful
Senses: examples: text: […]so when he awakes from sleep, and says to himself, "Shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now when I was asleep?" he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his melancholy fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions:
glosses: frightful
afrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afrayed
form: most afrayed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of afraid.
agrostis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrostises
Etymology: From New Latin agrōstis, via the genus name translingual Agrostis.
Senses: examples: text: Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings.
ref: 1891, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, The Lily of the Valley, translation of original by Honore de Balzac:
text: The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses--bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis, etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist.
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
glosses: Any grass of the genus Agrostis of bentgrasses.
agrostologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrostologists
Etymology: From agrostology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: graminologist
glosses: One who studies agrostology.
agrostological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agrostology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to agrostology.
agrostologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrostologist
ahind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: /əˈhaɪnd/
Etymology: From a- + hind.
Senses: examples: text: "You see, sir," said Mr. Smear, "that wherever that ere water has been it's left a dampness ahind it; the moistur' consekent upon such a dampness must be evaporated by ever-so-many applications of the warming-pan.
ref: 1841, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 9, 1841:
text: "Watch was drunk; I crawled down ahind the whiskey.
ref: 1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts:
text: "But, you see, he's been and gone and pulled back the board that you have to step on to git ahind your desk; he's been and gone and pulled back the board so as you can't help a-tippin' it up, and a-sowsin' right in ef you step there."
ref: 1871, Edward Eggleston, The Hoosier Schoolmaster:
text: [Porky Pine:] I'll duck ahind the tree an' pop out [...]
ref: 1959 January 27, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: behind
alanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alannas
Etymology: From Irish a leanbh (“O child”).
Senses: examples: text: He was sentenced to be hung without any trial worth speaking of; but as he was carted to the gallows an old woman cried out, "Ach, Jimmy alanna!
ref: 1872, John Fiske, Myths and Myth-Makers:
text: Well, alanna," he continued in an altered tone, "don't be frettin' yourself anyway.
ref: 1902, M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), North, South and Over the Sea:
text: Come here, alanna," said the voice, with mock fondness.
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:
glosses: child
yead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeads
Senses: examples: text: The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead."
ref: 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:
text: "Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead, and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me.
ref: 1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother:
text: Put 'v' for 'f'; for 's' put 'z'; 'Th' and 't' we change to 'd,'-- So dry an' kip this in thine yead, An' thou wills't talk as plain as we."
ref: 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
glosses: head
yeads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yead
wrencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrenchers
Etymology: From wrench + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, wrenches.
wrenchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrencher
wreckful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wreckful
form: most wreckful
Etymology: From wreck + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: […]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]
ref: 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
glosses: Causing wreckage; ruinous.
worldbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world beat
Etymology: From world + beat.
Senses: examples: text: DJ King Scratch will spin worldbeat music all night, including Byron Lee's calypso, Machito's salsa, and Segun Adawale's African high-life.
ref: 1989 May 26, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Diners sit amongst peaceful concrete trees and plastic leaves, listening to soothing worldbeat music; renderings of globes appear throughout, as do references to FoodlifeUs massive recycling program and the healthiness of the establishment's victuals.
ref: 1996 April 12, Tom Frank, “Capital Lies: Swallow it Whole”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Sawt El Atlas delivers what the worldbeat bands of the 80s couldn't: instead of being grafted onto native forms, the Western elements are seamlessly incorporated.
ref: 2001 July 13, Peter Margasak, “Sawt El Atlas”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music.
woolsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolsack