cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
awhirl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɜː(ɹ)l/
ipa: /əˈʍɜː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: more awhirl
form: most awhirl
Etymology: From a- + whirl.
Senses: examples: text: […] did you think
I was so fair when we played boy and girl,
Where blue forget-me-nots bloomed on the brink
Of our stream which the mill-wheel sent awhirl?
ref: 1866, Christina Rossetti, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems,, London: Macmillan, page 104:
text: The music rippled and ran and the dancers danced till the hall was awhirl with the rhythm of their dancing,
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 3, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: Dorrigo’s mind was awhirl with how he would get out of Warradale without permission, where he would find a vehicle, where they might secretly meet.
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Vintage Books, page 167:
glosses: Whirling.
basilosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basilosauruses
Senses: glosses: Any species of several huge extinct cetaceans belonging to the genus †Basilosaurus, of the family †Basilosauridae, from the late Eocene, with two species B. isis (found in Egypt and Tunisia) and B. cetoides (found in the southern and eastern US).
basinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basinets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bascinet.
batchmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batchmates
Etymology: From batch + mate.
Senses: glosses: classmate
examples: text: He and several of his medical school batchmates were helping, he explained.
ref: 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 78:
glosses: A member of the same graduation school class as another.
glosses: A member of a batch.
bistort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪs.tɔːt/
ipa: /ˈbɪs.tɔɹt/
Forms: form: bistorts
Etymology: From Latin bistorta, from bis (“twice”) and torta (“twisted”), in reference to its twisting roots.
Senses: glosses: Any of several perennial herbs, classified in genera Bistorta, Persicaria, or Polygonum, having spikes of pink flowers.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bistorta officinalis
word: common bistort
biternate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + ternate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having ternate leaves, each division of which is itself ternate
Derived terms: biternately
ternate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːnət/
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three divisions (or leaflets)
Derived terms: ternate-pinnate
bodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of body
bodyworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyworkers
Etymology: From body + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person who builds the bodywork of a car.
examples: text: Gay Print Publications Outside of physical establishments like stripper/hustler clubs, male sex work resides within gay ... devoted to “online classified advertising service for gay male escorts and bodyworkers to promote themselves.
ref: 2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes, page 162:
text: Men providing massage and bodywork exemplify a gray zone between a legal personal service and a sexualized...
ref: 2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In The Company of Men, page 15:
text: The bodyworker should explicitly tell the client that sexual touch or sexual stimulation will not be a part of their relationship.
ref: 1995, Adrienne Crowder, Rob Hawkings, Opening the door, page 99:
glosses: A person who performs erotic massage for payment, and sometimes also prostitution.
broomie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomies
Etymology: From broom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Two players are named broomies, and each is positioned at either end of the court. Each has two brooms.
ref: 2005, Bernie DeKoven, Junkyard Sports, page 37:
glosses: A person who wields a broom.
examples: text: In some big single-board sheds, where pickers-up and broomies have to dodge shearers who are continually crossing the board, plenty of space is necessary, and the board should not be less than 10 feet wide.
ref: 1913, New South Wales Dept of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 23, page 872:
text: The ′broomie′, or board boy, should keep the wool pushed up to the lamb being shorn.
ref: 1990, John Bernard D′Arcy, Sheep Management and Wool Technology, page 103:
glosses: A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed.
examples: text: In the lead of the broomies ran a beautiful cream buckskin, with black mane flying proudly!
ref: 1927, David M. Newell, Cougars & Cowboys, page 134:
text: 1972 August, Adrienne Richard, Sundance and the Princess, Boys' Life, page 22,
A broomtail, we called it, and usually broomies had their tails “pulled,” trimmed up, when they were broken to saddle, but I didn't want Sundance′s tail cut.
text: One day after corralling a bunch of broomies in a pole corral, I roped a big blue-roan mare that wore a brand.
ref: 1989, Stella Hughes, Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes, page 165:
glosses: A broomtail (unbroken range mare).
bodyworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyworker
broomrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomrapes
form: broom-rape
form: broom rape
Etymology: From broom + rape, a partial calque of translingual Orobanche rapum-genistae, where Latin rapum means turnip and genista means broom. Orobanche rapum-genistae is parasitic on broom plants. Compare rapeseed. Cognates include Dutch bremraap.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants, of the genus Orobanche, that are parasitic on the roots of other plants.
Derived terms: naked broomrape
bumfluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmflʌf/
Forms: form: bum fluff
form: bum-fluff
Etymology: From bum + fluff, from its resemblance to the sparse hair on the buttocks.
Senses: examples: text: He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the mirror as he went to work on the bumfluff.
ref: 1983, John Carroll, Token Soldiers, Boronia, Vic.: Wildgrass Books, →ISBN, page 247:
text: Dad'd kill me for doing this. It's so obvious that I mustn't touch his shaver, he's never even told me not to. […] His shaver came closer to the bumfluff on my upper lip ... closer ... It bit me! I unplugged it. Oh God. Now my bumfluff had a ridiculous patch missing.
ref: 2006, David Mitchell, Black Swan Green: A Novel, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: There was a basic core of twelve: hard, canny females, with a few young males coming into their strength, just beginning to grow manes: bumfluff lions.
ref: 2008, Simon Barnes, How to be Wild, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 18:
text: In my peer group I looked the oldest because I had bum fluff. Who can forget bum fluff? Wispy growths of hair around your chin that you thought made you look like Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
ref: 2008, Christian O'Connell, The Men Commandments: The Bible for Blokes from the Daddy of Breakfast Radio, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: Sometimes the post-pubertal life stage of a young male figure is indicated by the appearance on his cheeks of ‘bum fluff’ or an incipient beard. […] The pictorial context would, therefore, suggest that the representation of ‘bum fluff’ on the cheeks of a male youth usually indicates that he has passed beyond the limits of minority status and has already reached at least his eighteenth year when in civic, legal, military and social terms he was accorded new roles and responsibilities not appropriate to the status of those who were still paides, or boys.
ref: 2012, Lesley A. Beaumont, Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 27:
text: There was me, Eddie, Wilco and a guy called Bobby Thomlinson who we never went around with much because he wore a lot of crushed velvet and had bumfluff. Our thinking was he could get the tickets because, thanks to the bumfluff on his face, he looked much, much older than the fourteen-years-old that he was.
ref: 2013, Rikki Brown, Frankie Vaughan Ate My Hamster: Growing Up in the East End, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:
text: There was no way I was twenty-one. I looked nineteen at a push. Maybe sixteen-and-a-half, which is what I was. Big though – not fat – but tall. No baby-face and no bum-fluff moustache. The fisher boys had their bum-fluff moustaches and they looked total pricks.
ref: 2016, James Yorkston, Three Craws, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The first, sparse beard growth of an adolescent.
broomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomie
bumiputra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumiputras
Etymology: From Sanskrit भूमि (bhūmi) + पुत्र (putra); via Malay bumiputera (“son of the soil”).
Senses: glosses: a citizen of Malaysia having indigenous Malayan or Borneo ancestry.
bummalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bummalos
form: bumalo
form: bumbelo
form: bumbolo
form: bummalow
form: bummelo
Etymology: Probably modification of Marathi [script needed] (bombīlā), oblique case form of बोंबील (bombīl).
Senses: glosses: Bombay duck (flesh of the edible lizardfish)
bummaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bummarees
Senses: examples: text: The bummaree is the jobber or speculator on the fish-exchange. Perhaps on every busy morning 100 men buy a quantity of fish, which they account likely to be remunerative, and retail it, or dispose of it in lots to the fishmongers or costermongers. Few if any of these dealers, however, are merely bummarees. A salesman, if he have disposed of the fish consigned to himself, will turn bummaree if any bargain tempt him. Or a fishmonger may purchase twice the quantity he requires for his own trade, in order to procure a cheaper stock, and “bummaree” what he does not require.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Forestalling of Markets and the Billingsgate Bummarees”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: A porter or dealer of fish at Billingsgate Fish Market in London.
glosses: A person fulfilling a similar function at the Smithfield Meat Market in London.
caryophyllaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Caryophyllaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pinks (of family Caryophyllaceae), especially describing plants that have their distinctive corollas
chaology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaologies
Etymology: From chao- + -logy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: chaos theory
Derived terms: chaological
Related terms: chaologist
chickling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicklings
Etymology: From chick + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small chick or chicken; a baby chick.
chickling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicklings
Etymology: Nativized spelling of chichling.
Senses: glosses: The leguminous plant Lathyrus sativus as well as other Lathyrus species.
Derived terms: word: chickling pea
taxonomic: Lathyrus sativus
word: chickling vetch
chiropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiropterans
Etymology: From Chiroptera + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any mammal, of the order Chiroptera, that has forelimbs modified to form wings; a bat.
Synonyms: bat
chiropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chiropteran
form: most chiropteran
Etymology: From Chiroptera + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the order Chiroptera.
commonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From common + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste there, in consequence of which, he has been unable to make use of his commonable profits in as ample and beneficial a manner as he otherwise might.
ref: 1824, Humphry W[illiam] Woolrych, “Of Pleading Rights of Common, etc.”, in A Treatise on the Law of Rights of Common, London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, law booksellers, 43, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 278:
glosses: Owned, managed or used in common.
raw_tags: of land
glosses: Of an animal: that may be pastured on common land.
Derived terms: noncommonable
uncommonable
commonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonages
Etymology: Compare Old French communage.
Senses: glosses: The condition of land that is held in common.
glosses: The right to pasture animals on common land.
glosses: Shared land; a common or commons.
connectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: connexional
Etymology: From connection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to connections.
glosses: Of or pertaining to connectionalism.
Derived terms: connectionalist
connectionally
contractural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contracture + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to contractures.
Derived terms: congenital contractural arachnodactyly
cottonweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonweeds
Etymology: From cotton + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several not closely related plants that have downy heads
especially such plants of the genus Froelichia.
glosses: Any of several not closely related plants that have downy heads
Cottontop, a plant of genus Micropus.
synonyms: cottonseed
countrymade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From country + made.
Senses: glosses: Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry
raw_tags: in India
cresyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cresyls
Etymology: From cresol + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric univalent radical derived from a cresol; tolyl
Derived terms: tricresyl
crotched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crotched
form: most crotched
Etymology: From crotch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a crotch or fork; forked.
examples: text: When so crotched, only three counts are allowed, unless one or both object balls are forced out of the crotch.
ref: 1909, John Huston Finley, “Billiards”, in Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia, volume 2, page 83B:
text: The object-balls shall be considered crotched whenever the centers of both lie within a 4 1/2 inch square at either corner of the table, and when so crotched, but three counts are allowed unless one or both object-balls be forced out of the crotch.
ref: 1911, William Brisbane Dick, The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, page 463:
text: The balls are said to be crotched, a crotch being the term used to describe the inner corner of a table . It's a perfect situation for scoring caroms . You simply tap the cue ball into both crotched balls simultaneously, driving them deeper and deeper into the corner.
ref: 1979, George Sullivan, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Pool and Other Billiard Games, page 149:
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Lying within one of the crotches on the table.
examples: text: She was well known for wearing short pleated skirts with knitted and crotched sleeveless tops.
ref: 2009, Thokozile Gurganious, The Government's Child, page 47:
text: It was a red and white crotched shawl, so my diarrhea even went through the holes as it wasn't crotched very close like a carpet but more like a jersey.
ref: 2011, Julia Britou, Seipone: The Mirror, page 23:
text: In respect of women's roles in producing tourism in the city this is mainly manifest in terms of handicraft working and the provision of knitted, woven, crotched and embroidered bed sets, clothes, hats and sharis (a local shawl made from wool).
ref: 2021, Nataša Slak Valek, Hamed Almuhrzi, Women in Tourism in Asian Muslim Countries, page 89:
glosses: Misspelling of crocheted.
crotched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From crotch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crotch
crotched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crotched
form: most crotched
Etymology: Possibly related to crotchety.
Senses: examples: text: Are you, madam, '(returned the officious chamber-maid)' then determined to go moping with that crotched old woman into the country?
ref: 1754, Miss Smythies, The History of Lucy Wellers, page 42:
text: The officer is away about the guagin' business, and the men have Billy Short in with them, purtendin' to be crotched with some sperrits from an ould run, that he gives to them, to have the evening a hearty one;
ref: 1843 January, “The Smuggling Run”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 21, page 85:
text: "You telling me the crotched old merc actually gives a crap now?" he asked.
ref: 2011, General Rage, When There Was a Tomorrow:
glosses: cross; peevish
cruelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cruel
cruelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cruel
cubital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cubit + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cubitus and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
glosses: Measured in cubits.
examples: text: towers of that city being so high, that unto men below they appeared in a cubital stature
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of the length of a cubit.
Derived terms: antecubital
anterocubital
brachiocubital
cubital fossa
humerocubital
mediocubital
postcubital
quincubital
cubital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubitals
Etymology: From cubit + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Second cubital cell irregularly quadrangular, trapezoid, placed in a direct line with the first and third cubitals
ref: 1865, The record of zoological literature:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cubitus.
synonyms: word: cubitus
customaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of customary
deckhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deckheads
Etymology: From deck + head.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: bulkhead
glosses: The underside of a deck (equivalent to a ceiling).
glosses: dickhead.
desuperheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desuperheaters
Etymology: From de- + superheater.
Senses: glosses: A device that reduces the temperature of superheated steam, and recovers useful heat in the process
nondiligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + diligence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of diligence.
dichromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichromatisms
Etymology: From di- + chromatism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dichromatic
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of colourblindness in which only two of the three primary colours can be distinguished
examples: text: There long had been a bias among researchers to think of the evolution of sexual dichromatism as driven by changes in male coloration.
ref: 2010, Geoffrey E. Hill, Geoffrey Edward Hill, National Geographic Bird Coloration:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition when male and female birds have different plumage colors.
Derived terms: sexual dichromatism
Related terms: monochromatism
trichromatism
dieffenbachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dieffenbachias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dieffenbachia.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Dieffenbachia, cultivated as houseplants
diethylstilboestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌɪˌiː.θʌɪl.stɪlˈbiː.stɹɒl/
ipa: /dʌɪˌɛθ.ɪl.stɪlˈbiː.stɹɒl/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: UK spelling of diethylstilbestrol.
nonlegitimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + legitimacy.
Senses: glosses: Lack of legitimacy; the quality of being nonlegitimate.
diminishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diminishable
form: most diminishable
Etymology: From diminish + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be diminished
Derived terms: indiminishable
undiminishable
dimorphotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimorphothecas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dimorphotheca.
Senses: glosses: Any of several composite plants, of the genus Dimorphotheca, Cape marigolds.
diseconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: diseconomies
Etymology: From dis- + economy.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A financial drawback or cost arising from a process
disembroil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disembroils
form: disembroiling
form: disembroiled
form: disembroiled
Etymology: From dis- + embroil.
Senses: glosses: To free or extricate from confusion
distantiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: distantiates
form: distantiating
form: distantiated
form: distantiated
Senses: examples: text: Extend from some fewe Maine Angls Base lines for Boundaries […] and from conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By.
ref: 1610, Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. v. 55
text: It deviates, however, in having the coils more distantiated.
ref: 1884, Gustaf Lindström, On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland, page 167:
text: If cities are more and more decentralized and distantiated, emergent and networked, full of automatic activities and surface manifestations[,] this works against the rational city in a number of ways.
ref: 2005, Gary Bridge, Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The first hypothesis stems from an acute awareness of how performances today are more than frequently scripted and of the extent to which actors are by and large separated from their real life personas. The distantiating verisimilitude that characterizes the bulk of what passes for reality entertainment, though, is obviously absent in Jackass.
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 77:
glosses: To distance (to put or keep at a literal or metaphorical or mental distance).
Related terms: distantiation
divisionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divisionalizes
form: divisionalizing
form: divisionalized
form: divisionalized
Etymology: From divisional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide or organize in divisions
documentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: documentalists
Etymology: From documental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a librarian, who is an expert in documents and documentation.
Related terms: documentalism
documentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From document + -ative.
Senses: synonyms: documentational
documentary#Adjective
glosses: Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
synonyms: documentational
documentary#Adjective
glosses: Serving to document (information).
unsuccessfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsuccessful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Through the blessing of Divine Providence her husband was restored to her, but not through any relief obtained from his father. Such was the more than unsuccessfulness of her intercessions:[…]
ref: 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: The state or condition of being unsuccessful.
bacilluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bacillo- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The discharge of urine containing bacilli.
Derived terms: colibacilluria
incorporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incorporation
cuticulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuticula
cuticulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuticula
nonmonatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monatomic.
Senses: glosses: Not monatomic.
between the ears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: To scratch a cat between the ears.
glosses: On the head.
examples: text: Tinnitus feels like a ringing between the ears.
glosses: Inside the head.
examples: text: Age is between the ears.
text: The best sex organ sits between the ears.
text: If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI:
glosses: In the brain or in the mind.
Derived terms: have cotton between the ears
have nothing between the ears
low-hanging fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-hanging fruit
low hanging fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low hanging fruit
ethical Ten Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Two of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. These lists include both ritual and moral imperatives, as opposed to the third, which includes mostly ritual imperatives.
Synonyms: Ethical Decalogue
ritual Ten Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.
Synonyms: Ritual Decalogue
Ritual Decalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The lists of Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 5 are called "ten commandments" in the biblical text [...], and that title, or the equivalent Latin term Decalogue, has traditionally been applied to the list of Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5. Biblical scholars often distinguish the Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5 list from the Exodus 34 list on the basis of content by referring to the former as the Ethical Decalogue and the latter as the Ritual Decalogue.
ref: 2008, Norman Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction, page 118:
glosses: One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.
Synonyms: ritual Ten Commandments
cultic decalogue
Ethical Decalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ethical Decalogue
Senses: examples: text: The lists of Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 5 are called "ten commandments" in the biblical text [...], and that title, or the equivalent Latin term Decalogue, has traditionally been applied to the list of Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5. Biblical scholars often distinguish the Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5 list from the Exodus 34 list on the basis of content by referring to the former as the Ethical Decalogue and the latter as the Ritual Decalogue.
ref: 2008, Norman Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction, page 118:
glosses: Two of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. These lists include both ritual and moral imperatives, as opposed to the third, which includes mostly ritual imperatives.
Synonyms: ethical Ten Commandments
appletini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp(ə)lˈtini/
ipa: /ˌæpl̩ˈtiːni/
Forms: form: appletinis
Etymology: Blend of apple + martini
Senses: examples: text: It was all downhill from there. Now you've got the pickletini, the appletini, the choclatini, and even—good heavens—the bacontini. As different types of alcohol were used in place of gin, that began to shift the name too. In addition to the vodkatini, there's the sakitini, the whiskitini (more commonly known as a smokey martini, but I'm on a roll, here), and the taqini. If you substitute beer for the gin, you've got a mantini.
ref: 2011 October 11, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity - Paperback, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 44:
text: “Ooh, somebody's been working out.” “Oh, are you kidding? I practically live at the gym.” “Oh. [giggles] I'm called Vespertina.” “Well, I call you adorable. Girlfriend, that costume is to die for. Barkeep, two appletinis, s'il vous plait.”
ref: 2013 July 14, Jackson Publick, “Bot Seeks Bot” (13:55 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 5, episode 7, spoken by Shore Leave (Doc Hammer):
text: Today so many almost ridiculous versions of this drink exist that some drink menus actually have a special martini page. Varieties include the appletini, hazeltini, cherry martini, Cajun martini, habanero martini, pometini, chocolatini, and even a bacontini! Lest it be buried forever in this avalanche of new "exoticatinis," here is a classic recipe from a very old bartender's manual.
ref: 2015 April 30, Edie Hall, Cooking with Oma: A Link with the Past, a Bridge to the Future, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: "I don't know what you like, so I brought a variety," he said. "We have appletinis, berrytinis, even a bananatini, and, of course, the highly coveted chocotini. I've heard it gives women orgasms." He winked. "Oh ! I'll be careful with that one." "Let's find a place to sit and get to know each other," Cory said, leading her to a high table surrounded by stools.
ref: 2015 May 26, Carol Pavliska, Color Me Crazy, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
synonyms: apple martini
glosses: A cocktail of vodka and either apple juice, apple cider, or apple liqueur.
appletinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appletini
gruntle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gruntles
form: gruntling
form: gruntled
form: gruntled
Etymology: From grunt + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To utter small, low grunts.
glosses: To complain; to grumble
Derived terms: begruntle
disgruntle
gruntle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gruntles
Etymology: From grunt + -le (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A grunting sound.
glosses: A snort.
gruntle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gruntles
form: gruntling
form: gruntled
form: gruntled
Etymology: Back-formation from disgruntled.
Senses: synonyms: word: humour
word: regruntle
glosses: To humour; to induce the opposite effect of causing a person to become disgruntled.
downwarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downwarps
Etymology: From down + warp.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A segment of the crust of the Earth that bends downward
downwinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downwinders
Etymology: From downwind + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person (or community) that lives downwind from a potential hazard (such as a nuclear power station)
earlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From early + -s.
Senses: glosses: Potatoes that are harvested before the main crop.
examples: text: I'm on earlies next week.
glosses: Early shifts, in a job with a shift rotation.
enkephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enkephalins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “brain”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the more marginal players start in as early as maybe twelve, I'm sorry to say, particularly 'drines before matches and then enkephaline after […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of pentapeptide endorphins that have opiate-like effects
Derived terms: enkephalinase
enkephalinergic
leuenkephalin
metenkephalin
met-enkephalin
proenkephalin
epicondyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicondyles
Etymology: From epi- + condyle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A protuberance above the condyle of a bone to which ligaments or tendons are attached.
Derived terms: ectepicondyle
entepicondyle
epicondylalgia
epicondylar
epicondylectomy
epicondylic
epicondylitis
epicondylopathy
epicondylosis
episternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: episternums
form: episterna
Etymology: From epi- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: interclavicle
glosses: The upper segment of the sternum
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the pleuron of an insect.
Synonyms: manubrium
presternum
Hyponyms: anepisternum
katepisternum
Derived terms: episternal
preepisternum
proepisternum
essentialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From essential + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being essential; essentiality
evolutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evolutionally
form: most evolutionally
Etymology: From evolutional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an evolutional manner
glosses: With regard to evolution
exampled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of example
Derived terms: unexampled
executant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtənt/
Forms: form: executants
Etymology: From French exécutant. By surface analysis, execute + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: […] no composer or dramatic poet has ever pretended to be able to perform all the parts he writes for the singers, actors and players who are his executants.
ref: 1987, Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah:
glosses: A person who executes a dance or piece of music; a performer.
examples: text: Also of importance are the other theatricians - the costume designer and/or executant, the lighting designer and/or executant, the technical director, […]
ref: 1991, Olusola Aderounmu, Jibola Dedenuola, Management and problems of media practices in Nigeria, page 120:
text: After all, Cave speaks about orders being so manifestly illegal that the person carrying them out must or ought to have been aware of their unlawfulness. From this alone, one can draw the conclusion that, if the executant of the order actually knows of its unlawfulness, he ought to be convicted, no matter whether the order is or, as in John Doe's case, is not manifestly illegal.
ref: 2012, Yoram Dinstein, The Defence of 'Obedience to Superior Orders' in International Law:
glosses: A person who puts something into action, such as a plan or design.
Derived terms: coexecutant
exteriorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪɹi.əˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪɹi.əˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: exteriorizes
form: exteriorizing
form: exteriorized
form: exteriorized
form: exteriorise
Etymology: From exterior + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To externalize.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To expose (an internal organ) for observation or surgery.
Derived terms: exteriorization
extrafloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
-ɒɹəl
Etymology: From extra- + floral.
Senses: examples: text: Bullhorn acacia ants live off extrafloral nectar […] and protein-rich Beltian bodies […] of the host tree.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a nectary: situated on a leaf or stem rather than in a flower.
factorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factorages
Etymology: From factor + -age.
Senses: glosses: The commission paid to a factor
glosses: The business of a factor.
fairwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairwaters
Etymology: From fair + water.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A device that improves the streamlining of a vessel.
Derived terms: fairwater plane
fattish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfætɪʃ/
Etymology: From Middle English fattisshe, fattyssh; equivalent to fat + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms […]
ref: 1949, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, part 1:
glosses: Somewhat fat
Derived terms: fattishness
fecundability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fecundabilities
Etymology: From fecund + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fecund.
glosses: The probability of a person in a group becoming pregnant in a certain timeframe.
Derived terms: infecundability
flarepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flarepaths
form: flare path
Etymology: From flare + path.
Senses: glosses: A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
flavorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavorous
form: most flavorous
form: flavourous
Senses: glosses: Having flavour; flavorsome.
fleshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Presently one of the performers, with a gilt crown on his well greased locks, descended from the staircase, his fleshings covered by a dingy dressing-gown, and mixed with the mob, shaking hands with old acquaintances.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: Flesh-coloured tights (worn by actors or dancers)
folkloristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folkloristic
form: most folkloristic
Etymology: From folklore + -istic.
Senses: glosses: about the traditions and stories of a country or community; Characteristic of folklore.
Derived terms: folkloristically
folkloristics
folkweave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From folk + weave.
Senses: glosses: Rough, loosely-woven fabric, often in traditional designs
footbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbeds
Etymology: From foot + bed.
Senses: glosses: A removable insole for a shoe.
footbrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbrakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foot brake.
footstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footstalks
Etymology: From foot + stalk.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A stalk (such as a peduncle or pedicel) that supports another structure.
formulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That can be formulated
Derived terms: unformulable
Related terms: formulability
formwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formworks
Etymology: From form + work.
Senses: examples: text: The floor and walls for Copthall tunnel have already been constructed using formwork into which rebar (reinforcing bar) was placed, and then concrete poured.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: word: shuttering
alt: chiefly British
glosses: A temporary mold, made from planks, into which concrete is poured.
Derived terms: formworker
formwork carpenter
gibberbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibberbirds
Etymology: From gibber + bird.
Senses: glosses: An Australian chat (bird), of the genus Ashbyia, that lives in the gibber plains
girdler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girdlers
Etymology: From Middle English girdeler; equivalent to girdle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who made girdles.
glosses: Any of several insects that remove rings of bark for nest material.
Derived terms: hickory girdler
groupage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groupages
Etymology: From group + -age.
Senses: glosses: The consolidation of several small shipments into a single container.
gyral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɹəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a gyrus
glosses: Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling.
Derived terms: audiogyral
corticogyral
gyrally
intergyral
intragyral
oculogyral
somatogyral
subgyral
sulcogyral
gyroplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroplanes
Etymology: From gyro- + plane.
Senses: glosses: Any aircraft that obtains lift from both rotating blades and small wings.
glosses: An autogyro.
heliozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliozoans
Etymology: Heliozoa + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of aquatic protozoans, of the order Heliozoa, that have spherical bodies from which radiate spindlelike pseudopods
hourglass figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hourglass figure
aperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apery
coenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːnəʊs/
Forms: form: coenoses
Etymology: From ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”).
Senses: glosses: A collection of life forms that are found together, interacting as a community within an ecosystem.
Derived terms: biocoenose
coenology
coenological
coenopopulation
coenotype
coprocoenosis
phytocoenose
thanatocoenose
coenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenose
biocoenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocoenoses
Etymology: From bio- + coenose.
Senses: glosses: A living collection of life forms that are found together, interacting as a community within an ecosystem.
Derived terms: biocoenology
biocoenological
biocoenologically
Related terms: phytocoenose
thanatocoenose
biocoenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocoenose
thanatocoenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəˌnætəʊˈsiːnəʊs/
Forms: form: thanatocoenoses
Etymology: From thanato- + coenose.
Senses: examples: text: This sort of thanatocoenose is typical of lakes with a semi-arid climate (Early Triassic period in the Kuznetsk Basin, Middle Jurassic- Lower Cretaceous of Middle Asia).
ref: 1977, H. Löffler, D. Danielopol, Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda, page 454:
text: The fossil diatom assemblage or thanatocoenose found in sediments typially represents as little as 1-5% of the original living assemblage or biocoenose.
ref: 1989, Hans M. Bolli, John B. Saunders, Katharina Perch-Nielsen, Plankton Stratigraphy, volume 2, page 764:
text: Given that paleozoologists sample the geological record (i.e., where faunal remains are deposited as a particular kind of sedimentary particle), they don't always have a complete thanatocoenose lying on the lab table.
ref: 2008, R. Lee Lyman, Quantitative Paleozoology, page 23:
glosses: A collection of dead life forms that are found together, having previously interacted as a community within an ecosystem.
Synonyms: thanatocoenosis
death assemblage
Related terms: biocoenose
phytocoenose
phytocoenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytocoenoses
Etymology: From phyto- + coenose.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phytocoenosis.
Derived terms: phytocoenology
phytocoenological
phytocoenologically
Related terms: biocoenose
thanatocoenose
phytocoenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytocoenose
phytocoenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of phytocoenoses
Related terms: phytocoenological
phytocoenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytocoenological
form: most phytocoenological
Etymology: From phytocoenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to phytocoenology, the study of phytocoenoses.
Derived terms: phytocoenologically
phytocoenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phytocoenologically
form: most phytocoenologically
Etymology: From phytocoenological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a phytocoenological manner; in a manner relating to phytocoenology, the study of phytocoenoses.
coenopopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenopopulations
Etymology: From coeno- + population.
Senses: glosses: The population within a coenose.
coenopopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenopopulation
biocoenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biocoenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to biocoenology, the study of biocoenoses.
Derived terms: biocoenologically
biocoenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biocoenological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biocoenological manner; in a manner relating to biocoenology, the study of biocoenoses.
thanatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thanatographies
Etymology: From thanato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An account, usually written, of the death of a person.
thanatographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thanatography
halloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hallo
halloing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halloings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hallooing.
animal fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: French fries that are served with melted cheese, grilled onions, and Thousand Island dressing or special sauce instead of ketchup.
chili cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of chili + cheese.
Senses: glosses: A topping of chili con carne and melted cheese that is served atop hot dogs, french fries or hamburgers, or as a dip.
Synonyms: chili con queso
Related terms: chili dog
cangue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: cangues
Etymology: From French cangue, from Portuguese canga.
Senses: glosses: A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in East Asia to punish thieves and other criminals.
brills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brill
brills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (“spectacles”).
Senses: glosses: Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
examples: text: PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.
ref: 1820, William Carver, Practical Horse Farrier: Or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion, page 233:
text: Let waving locks adown his foretop fly,
And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;
ref: 1830, Thomas Brown, editor, Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses, The Sportsman’s Choice, page 308:
glosses: The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
acollinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + collinearity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being acollinear
acollinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acollinear
form: most acollinear
Etymology: From a- + collinear.
Senses: glosses: Not collinear
acyclicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acyclic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being acyclic.