cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
rhymes: -aɪv
ipa: /slɪv/
ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: slives
form: sliving
form: slived
form: slived
Etymology: Back-formation from sliving, equivalent to blend of slay + live.
Senses: glosses: To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.
walk back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks back
form: walking back
form: walked back
form: walked back
Senses: examples: text: Did Obama walk back his support of Cordoba House? As you know, the Internets are alive with the claim that Obama has now walked back his support of Cordoba House, and I've gotten tons of emails telling me that my earlier praise of the speech is no longer operative. But did he really walk back what he said last night?
ref: 2010, Greg Sargent, The Plumb Line:
text: That seemed comforting — but then the president over the weekend walked back his promise.
ref: 2021 June 30, Farhad Manjoo, “Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: retract
unsay
unspeak
take back
glosses: To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, back.
Derived terms: word: walkback
Related terms: word: rollback
word: roll back
manpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manpages
form: man page
Etymology: From man (“short for manual and a Unix command to display help pages”) + page.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A block of user documentation.
manpages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manpage
tuis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tui
manometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manometry
megasporogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasporogenesis
nonobjectifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + objectifiable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be objectified.
nonobjectified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + objectified.
Senses: glosses: Not objectified.
unobjectified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + objectified.
Senses: glosses: Not objectified.
vivificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivificators
Senses: glosses: That which gives life or animates.
slove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: simple past of slive
sliven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of slive
cauliculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauliculi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cauliculus (“little stalk”). Doublet of caulicle.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: caulicole
glosses: In the Corinthian capital, any of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes.
terrorstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrorstricken
form: most terrorstricken
form: terror-stricken
Etymology: From terror + stricken.
Senses: examples: text: How terror-stricken she would have been that night had she known that the wild jungle beast squatted outside her window, watching her every move.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 96:
glosses: Stricken with terror; utterly terrified.
Synonyms: terrorstruck
terrorstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrorstruck
form: most terrorstruck
Etymology: From terror + struck.
Senses: glosses: Stricken with terror; utterly terrified.
Synonyms: terrorstricken
fundoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundoplasties
Etymology: From fundus + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: Achalasia was diagnosed postpartum and myotomy-fundoplasty was performed.
ref: 2000, Yasumasa Ohno, Michiyasu Kawai, Yoshihisa Shibata, Yoshihisa Shibata, “Esophageal achalasia in pregnancy”, in American journal of perinatology, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure in which the upper portion of the stomach is wrapped around the lower end of the esophagus.
bells and smells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We were a liberal Catholic bells-and-smells congregation with a strong but small worshipping core, plus frequent visitors, because of our geographical location and a professional choir in a beautiful Butterfield church.
ref: 2017 June 2, Mike Lawlor, “Letters to the Editor”, in Church Times:
glosses: A style of religious worship emphasising high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially in high church Anglicanism and Catholicism.
securitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From security + -arian.
Senses: glosses: With security as an absolute priority; inordinately obsessed with security.
doan
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: doan'
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of don't.
pastel de nata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastéis de natas
form: pastel de natas
Etymology: From Portuguese pastel de nata.
Senses: examples: text: On the way to Belem, we stopped and ate pastel de natas, and afterwards Melanie was sick in a bin on the street.
ref: 2022, Rosie Brooks, Flo, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Portuguese custard tart
egg tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg tarts
Senses: glosses: A baked pastry commonly made in Hong Kong, Macau and other parts of Asia consisting of an outer pastry crust that is filled with egg custard.
Derived terms: english: 蛋撻／蛋挞 (dàntà)
translation: 蛋撻／蛋挞 (dàntà)
alt: dan tat
word: Hong Kong-style egg tart
english: 葡撻／葡挞 (pútà)
translation: 葡撻／葡挞 (pútà)
alt: po tat
word: Macau-style egg tart
Related terms: pastel de nata
discutient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discutient
form: most discutient
Etymology: From Latin discutiens, the present participle of discutere. See discuss.
Senses: examples: text: a discutient application
text: The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſms.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XVIII. Of an Oedema.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC, page 89:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
discutient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discutients
Etymology: From Latin discutiens, the present participle of discutere. See discuss.
Senses: examples: text: The next day I fomented vvith Diſcutients, to vvhich vvas added ſpir. vini.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XV. Of an Ecchymosis.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: An agent, such as a medicinal application, that serves to disperse morbid matter.
explorational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exploration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or by means of exploration
famousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From famous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being famous; fame
exercitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercitants
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who practises spiritual exercises, especially those of Ignatius of Loyola.
retreatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retreatants
Etymology: From retreat + -ant.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a participant in a religious or similar retreat
obsecration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsecrations
Senses: glosses: An earnest supplication made in the name of God
wricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrick
revaccinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revaccinates
form: revaccinating
form: revaccinated
form: revaccinated
Etymology: From re- + vaccinate.
Senses: glosses: To vaccinate again
supernaturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernaturalists
Etymology: From supernatural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who believes in the supernatural.
glosses: An advocate of supernaturalism.
Derived terms: anti-supernaturalist
revaccinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revaccinate
revaccinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revaccinate
revaccinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revaccinate
carinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both upper and lower crowns have carinae fore and aft but are otherwise smooth and remarkably stout (Fig. 2 E).
ref: 2001 November 16, Paul C. Sereno et al., “The Giant Crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1516–1519:
text: The teeth are devoid of carinae, lacking any kind of ornamentation.
ref: 1997 June 6, Jose L. Sanz et al., “A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution”, in Science, volume 276, number 5318, →DOI, pages 1543–1546:
text: Yellow; the antennae fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinae on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk.
ref: 1859, Various, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3:
glosses: plural of carina
carinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carina
cibarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈbɛə.ɹi.əm/
ipa: /sɪˈbɛ.ɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: cibaria
form: cibariums
Senses: examples: text: The cibarial element is developed by the cells of the enlarged posterior portion of the cibarium and it fits snugly in position just anterior to the pharyngeal opening (Figure 58A)-
ref: 1949, Microentomology:
text: The drawing of the cibarium accompanying the original description shows very delicate teeth, and it seems possible that apparent differences in the cibaria of the two forms are largely due to methods of staining and mounting.
ref: 1962, Journal of Entomology: Taxonomy. Series B.:
text: According to Coscaron & Coscaron Arias (2007) in species of the BICOLORATUM group the cibarium is "smooth with a thin, sclerotised rim between cornuae while in all other species in the remaining groups the cibariums are armed.
ref: 2010, Simúlidoes (Diptera: Simuliidae) de Brasil, page 365:
glosses: A pouchy space in front of the mouth cavity of some insects, used to store and chew food.
Derived terms: cibarial
cibarian
precibarium
bichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + chrome.
Senses: synonyms: bicolour
bicoloured
dichromatic
duocolor
two-tone
glosses: Having two colours
paywalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paywall + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] suggesting that the paywalled online news models currently pursued by the Australian News Ltd and its international parent NewsCorp were unworkable and based on outdated ideas […]
ref: 2012, Eugenia Siapera, Andreas Veglis, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, page 415:
glosses: Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.
paywalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From paywall + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paywall
ding-dong ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ding dong ditch
form: ding-dong-ditch
form: ding-dong-ditch-it
form: Ding Dong Ditch
Etymology: From ding-dong (“sound made by a door bell”) + ditch (“to abandon”).
Senses: synonyms: knick-knock
nigger knocking
glosses: A children's prank in which a doorbell of a home is rung, and then the pranksters run or cycle away before the occupants of the home open the door.
ding-dong ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ding-dong ditches
form: ding-dong ditching
form: ding-dong ditched
form: ding-dong ditched
form: ding dong ditch
form: ding-dong-ditch
form: ding-dong-ditch-it
form: Ding Dong Ditch
Etymology: From ding-dong (“sound made by a door bell”) + ditch (“to abandon”).
Senses: glosses: To perform such a prank.
Synonyms: word: knock-knock ginger
word: nicky-nicky-nine-doors
word: knicky-knocky-nine-doors
ding-dong ditching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ding-dong ditch
ding-dong ditched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ding-dong ditch
ding-dong ditches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ding-dong ditch
culture wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture war
Mannaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mannaeans
form: Mannaian
Etymology: From Mannai + -ean.
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of ancient Mannea
Mannaean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mannaian
Etymology: From Mannai + -ean.
Senses: glosses: the language of these people, possibly related to Hurrian
Mannaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mannaean
Mannai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mannea.
extract the Michael
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extracts the Michael
form: extracting the Michael
form: extracted the Michael
form: extracted the Michael
Etymology: Facetious alteration of take the mickey.
Senses: examples: text: We've had some fun this month extracting the Michael from the Software Editor. Playing on his kind, easy going temperament we handed him a copy of Firebird's Don't Buy This and persuaded him that it was a collection of megabrill games.
ref: 1985, "Don't Buy This" (video game review) in Crash (issue 17, pages 46-47)
glosses: Synonym of take the mickey.
synonyms: word: take the mickey
flued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flue + -ed.
Senses: examples: an open-flued boiler
glosses: Having a flue or flues (of a specified kind).
Derived terms: multiflued
unflued
cnx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cancel.
glosses: Abbreviation of cancelled.
intricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intricate
intricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intricate
intricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intricate
warsh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warshes
form: warshing
form: warshed
form: warshed
Senses: glosses: Appalachia, Midland, Ozarks, and Northern Ireland form of wash.
Sta.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Santa (“saint”).
glosses: Alternative form of Sta (abbreviation)
Coordinate terms: english: Saint
translation: Saint
word: St.
english: Sainte; saint; abbreviation of female from French, found in some English placenames
translation: Sainte; saint; abbreviation of female from French, found in some English placenames
word: Ste.
teethbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teethbrushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toothbrush.
teethbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothbrush
sudser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudsers
Etymology: From suds + -er.
Senses: glosses: A foaming agent used in detergents etc.
sudser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudsers
Etymology: From suds + -er (“Variety -er”), with an allusion to soap in soap opera.
Senses: topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: A soap opera.
icer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icers
Etymology: From ice + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He got talking to the cake-icer's husband and that was what they did: talked about this fabulous birthday cake they were going to deliver to your party.
ref: 2010, Gregory Dark, Titus and Roni, page 209:
glosses: One who ices.
icer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icers
Etymology: From ice + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: An ice show.
Related terms: anti-icer
flasque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French flasque.
Senses: examples: text: a flasque sheaf
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: flabby
printanier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: printanière
Etymology: Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).
Senses: examples: text: Today, for example, he had dined on the finest entrecôte steak he had ever tasted; lunched on a superb braised oxtail printanière; breakfasted on broiled kippers and Wiltshire bacon.
ref: 1985, Marshall Jevons, chapter 16, in The Fatal Equilibrium, page 173:
glosses: Prepared with spring vegetables.
printanier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printaniers
form: printanière
Etymology: Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).
Senses: glosses: A soup made with spring vegetables.
printanière
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of printanier.
printanière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of printanier.
double down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubles down
form: double downs
form: doubling down
form: double downing
form: doubled down
form: doubled down
form: double downed
form: double downed
form: double-down
Senses: examples: text: He'd bet three thousand and double down to six thousand, all of it hanging on the turn of the next card.
ref: 1999, Frederick Barthelme, Steven Barthelme, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, →ISBN, page 66:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.
examples: text: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all want to get out of Iraq. They all want to double down in Afghanistan.
ref: 2007 April 12, Peter Beinart, “The Kosovo Conundrum”, in Time:
text: While 007 has been on extended annual leave as a result of Daniel Craig’s cold feet, Taron Egerton’s thoroughly less urbane secret agent Eggsy Unwin has managed to thoroughly outdo him, with Matthew Vaughn’s sequel to his hit 2015 comedy-thriller doubling down on the qualities that marked its predecessor out from the superspy pack: more star-filled, more gleefully grisly, and reaching new heights of skyscraping silliness.
ref: 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:
text: [Tucker] Carlson, in his keynote, doubled down on Trump’s recent attacks on Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
text: [Entertainment Company] Blizzard Doubles Down, Says It Will Continue to Silence Players on 'Official Channels'.
ref: 2019 October 12, Jason Koebler, “Blizzard Doubles Down, Says It Will Continue to Silence Players on 'Official Channels'”, in Vice:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
‘something’
expansion: [with on ‘something’]
coordinate_terms: triple down
glosses: To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it.
double-down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubles-down
form: doubling-down
form: doubled-down
form: doubled-down
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double down.
gamemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gamemasters
form: gamemastering
form: gamemastered
form: gamemastered
Etymology: From the noun game master.
Senses: examples: text: A few weeks before Wesley had asked me to gamemaster a role-playing narrative, I had purchased the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set.
ref: 2001, Daniel Mackay, The fantasy role-playing game: a new performing art, McFarland, page 39:
glosses: To run a roleplaying game; to act as a game master
gamemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamemasters
Etymology: From the noun game master.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of game master.
Related terms: master of game
gamemastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gamemaster
gamemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gamemaster
gamemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamemaster
gamemastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gamemaster
all ages
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ellipsis of for people of all ages
Senses: examples: text: There are some all ages contests at the fair.
glosses: open to people of all ages, particularly to children under the age of 18 (of an entertainment event, particularly music or dance)
Coordinate terms: 18+
21+
Related terms: family friendly
connivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈnaɪˌvɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: The accursed odor of fresh baking wafts into your newfound nostrils. Something is brewing in the KITCHEN. It must be the connivings of your arch nemesis, BETTY CROCKER, and the rich, buttery aroma of her plot stinks to high heaven.
ref: 2009 April 18, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021:
glosses: plural of conniving
photophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photophases
Etymology: From photo- + phase.
Senses: glosses: The period of light during a day-night cycle.
Derived terms: photophasic
exsufflicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exsufflicate
form: most exsufflicate
Etymology: From Latin ex + sufflāre.
Senses: examples: text: […] exchange me for a goat, / When I shall turn the business of my soul / To such exsufflicate and blown surmises […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: empty and inflated; frivolous
harses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harse
ESTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Entertainment Services and Technology Association.
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: Acronym of Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority.
glosses: Acronym of European Science and Technology Assembly.
glosses: Acronym of Electronic System for Travel Authorization.
Related terms: ETA
nonsocializing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + socializing.
Senses: glosses: Not socializing.
metabolic syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
zol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zols
form: zoll
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans zol.
Senses: examples: text: An important man as he was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols.
ref: 1983, Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977, page 176:
text: Look, you can't smoke four hundred zols a day...
ref: 2001, K. Sello Duiker, The quiet violence of dreams, page 9:
text: "All right, where's the zol?" Raju asked.
"Why?"
"You want to go in, we've got to give him dagga."
ref: 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow people, page 43:
text: Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol.
ref: 2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer:
text: Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.
ref: 2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:
glosses: A cannabis cigarette.
zols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zol
equidecomposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + decomposable.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being decomposed into a number of pieces that can be reassembled into either of the two.
raw_tags: of two forms
Related terms: equidecomposability
equidecomposition
equidecomposability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + decomposability.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being equidecomposable.
invoicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invoicers
Etymology: From invoice + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who issues an invoice.
invoicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invoicer
watching paint dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of watch paint dry
nonacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acetate.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to acetate.
refractory period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refractory periods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The period, after excitation, during which a membrane recovers its polarization and is not able to respond to a second stimulus.
glosses: A recovery phase after orgasm, during which it is physiologically impossible for an individual to have additional orgasms.
shieldwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shieldwise
form: most shieldwise
Etymology: From shield + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The dog immediately bristled up, and I had just time to take off my hat, and hold it shieldwise in self-defence, when he came on and made directly at it.
ref: 1844, Charles Waterton, Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology, page 114:
glosses: In the manner of a shield; as a protective barrier.
meatshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatshots
Etymology: From meat + shot.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A shot, from a shotgun or scattergun, all of whose bullets strike the enemy, usually from a very short to point-blank range.
raw_tags: in online FPS gaming
denaturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denaturable
form: most denaturable
Etymology: From denature + -able.
Senses: examples: a denaturable protein
glosses: Capable of becoming denatured.
unshining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshining
form: most unshining
Etymology: From un- + shining.
Senses: examples: text: Heyst noticed the good form of her brow, the dignity of its width, its unshining whiteness. It was a sculptural forehead.
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory:
glosses: Not shining.
bayplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayplans
Etymology: From bay + plan.
Senses: glosses: A map of a storage bay in a ship, used to determine where various containers will be placed.
bayplans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayplan
siftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siftable
form: most siftable
Etymology: From sift + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Most soils have been shown to be suitable for topinambur cultivation, though the soil should be siftable so excessively clayey soils should be avoided.
ref: 1998, Nasir El Bassam, Energy plant species: their use and impact on environment and development, page 273:
glosses: Capable of being sifted.
siftability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sift + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being siftable.
degree-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degree-days
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of degree day.
unprevented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prevented.
Senses: examples: text: Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace; And shall grace not find means, that finds her way, The speediest of thy winged messengers, To visit all thy creatures, and to all Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought?
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: It need only be said that the contrast of the two is striking and unmistakable; and that Webster evidently meant in the one to indicate the punishment of female vice, in the other to draw pity and terror by the exhibition of the unprevented but not unavenged sufferings of female virtue.
ref: 1880, George Saintsbury, A History of English Literature:
text: To complete the strangeness of this strange trial, when sentence had been passed, Raleigh advanced quickly up the court, unprevented, and spoke to Cecil and one or two other commissioners, asking, as a favour, that the King would permit Cobham to die first.
ref: 1886, Edmund Gosse, Raleigh:
glosses: Not having been prevented.
acardiacus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acardiaci
Etymology: See a-, cardiac.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformed fetus having developed no heart, connected as a parasite to another fetus.
Derived terms: acardiacus acephalus
acardiacus amorphus
acardiacus anceps
acardiacus acephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin; see a-, cardiac, cephalic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformed fetus having developed no heart, a stunted head, and a rudimentary thorax, but with a perfectly formed pelvis and contiguous parts, connected as a parasite to another fetus.
acardiacus amorphus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformed fetus having developed no heart, and otherwise being a shapeless lump with only rudiments of organs, connected as a parasite to another fetus.
acardiacus anceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformed fetus for which development of the heart, head and extremities are all rudimentary, connected as a parasite to another fetus.
superdiamagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdiamagnetic
form: most superdiamagnetic
Etymology: From super- + diamagnetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting superdiamagnetism.
microgravities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgravity
osteopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteopenia
encouragingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From encouraging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being encouraging.
vicarious liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal liability imputed to the superior for the acts of their subordinate, even though the superior is not personally at fault.
Related terms: enterprise liability
respondeat superior
secondary liability
shruggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shruggingly
form: most shruggingly
Etymology: From shrugging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But the young girl discards it, displeased by its scent, and the rose is tossed to the ground and hardly noticed by the student as he shruggingly steps over the nightingale’s body.
ref: 2007 June 11, Jennifer Dunning, “The Night Christopher Wheeldon Met Oscar Wilde”, in New York Times:
glosses: With a shrugging gesture.
secondary liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal responsibility arising when a party materially contributes to, facilitates, induces or is otherwise responsible for directly infringing acts carried out by another party.
Synonyms: indirect infringement
Related terms: enterprise liability
respondeat superior
vicarious liability
showup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showups
Senses: examples: text: Following arrest, the most commonly used identification procedures are lineups, showups, photographic arrays, fingerprinting, DNA, […]
ref: 2008, Ronald J. Bacigal, Criminal Law and Procedure: An Overview, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of show-up.
showups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showup
enterprise liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine and form of secondary liability under which individual entities can be held jointly liable for some action on the basis of being part of a shared enterprise.
Related terms: respondeat superior
secondary liability
vicarious liability
eleutherodactyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eleutherodactylines
Senses: examples: text: Scientists at Penn State have penciled in the branches of the evolutionary tree of a major group of frogs, the eleutherodactylines, in the process making a surprising discovery: the species dispersed from South America to Central America and the Caribbean over water, not land.
ref: 2007 June 12, Henry Fountain, “Warming in the Arctic? Blame the Snow. The Dirty Snow, That Is.”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the frogs of the family Eleutherodactylidae.
Related terms: eleutherodactylid
eleutherodactylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eleutherodactyline
midjump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + jump.
Senses: examples: text: I love the way it makes its dancers look ahead and then behind them in series, sometimes in midjump (future, past).
ref: 2007 June 12, Alastair Macaulay, “Save the Last Dance for Covent Garden”, in New York Times:
glosses: The midpoint of a jump.
midpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midpiece
missileer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missileers
Etymology: From missile + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists at the Center are quick to point out that in launching of missiles, the missileer must be right
ref: July 1956, Naval Aviation News page 5
glosses: One who launches missiles.
examples: text: Launch officers, or missileers, entrusted with the keys to the missiles did poorly and, on their own, would have flunked, the records show.
ref: 13 March 2014, US air force documents reveal 'rot' in culture of nuclear weapons officers, The Guardian
text: Two missileers rush to the console; strap into their seats; notice their hearts are racing but choose to ignore that; whip out classified codebooks; chip away at a decryption to confirm the command; think of loved ones above off to school or home from work; steady frantic fingers; wake silos from their sleep; place a left hand on a switch and a right hand on a key (if the commander); place two hands on two separate switches (if the deputy); focus on the mission, the mission, the mission; and should one missileer object, two other crews, miles from here, will step in and authorize the launch.
ref: 2025 February 14, Sarah Matusek, Alfredo Sosa, “Deep underground, missileers watch over America’s nuclear weapons”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: One who designs or works with missiles.
Synonyms: missileman
superspecialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superspecializations
Etymology: From super- + specialization.
Senses: examples: text: As the scientists who study male germ cells will readily attest, sperm are some of the most extraordinary cells of the body, a triumph of efficient packaging, sleek design and superspecialization.
ref: 2007 June 12, Natalie Angier, “Sleek, Fast and Focused: The Cells That Make Dad Dad”, in New York Times:
glosses: Specialization to a great degree.
superspecializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superspecialization
korrigum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: korrigums
Senses: glosses: Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.
Synonyms: tiang
korrigums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of korrigum
milfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milfoil
watermilfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermilfoils
form: water milfoil
Etymology: From water + milfoil.
Senses: examples: text: At Augur Lake, where Mr. LaMere was hired to combat its Eurasian watermilfoil infestation, hundreds of sterile grass carp were released several years ago to eat the plants.
ref: 2007 June 12, Lisa W. Foderaro, “Battling a Nasty Green Invader From the Deep”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the freshwater plants of the genus Myriophyllum.
watermilfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watermilfoil
Catholicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catholicism
shortbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortbread
Boston lettuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boston lettuces
Senses: glosses: A variety of soft lettuce.
Synonyms: sense: variety of lettuce
word: Bibb lettuce
sense: variety of lettuce
word: butterhead lettuce
butterheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterhead
butterflyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterflyfish
dicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪsɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dicing
deviationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deviationists
Etymology: From deviation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Hsicheng District CCP Committee in Peking Municipality has fully mobilized the masses and led all middle schools in the district to conduct mass debates on the revolution in education, dealing fierce counterblows to the absurd arguments aimed at stirring up the right deviationist wind to reverse previous verdicts in education.
ref: 1976 February 10 [1976 February 8], “Peking Schools Engage in Education Debate”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 1:
text: Theirs was the confession, and Mr. Kang turned them out by the dozen throughout his life, expiating one supposed crime after another by denouncing himself as a reactionary element, a deviationist and whatever else was on the political menu that day.
ref: 2007 June 13, William Grimes, “Surviving Under Mao: A Slacker’s Guide”, in New York Times:
text: For the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, he recalled the ride in the "black crow," the prison truck in which he was accompanied by other "deviationists . . . terrorists, Trotskyites, ex-Social Democrats."
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
Related terms: deviationism
deviationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deviationist
piperade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piperades
Senses: examples: text: For piperade, heat oven to 450 degrees.
ref: 2007 June 13, “Recipe: Confit Byaldi”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pipérade.
piperades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piperade
reinaugurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinaugurates
form: reinaugurating
form: reinaugurated
form: reinaugurated
Etymology: From re- + inaugurate.
Senses: examples: text: LONDON, June 12 — All four of the resident orchestras at the Royal Festival Hall — the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment — took part in the grand and substantive gala concert on Monday night to reinaugurate the hall after a major two-year, $234 million renovation.
ref: 2007 June 13, Anthony Tommasini, “Amid Alleluias, Festival Hall Resurrected”, in New York Times:
glosses: To inaugurate again or anew.
Related terms: reinauguration
reinaugurates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinaugurate
reinaugurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinaugurate
reinaugurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinaugurate
reinaugurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinauguration
upskirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upskirt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: 2018, The Independent, Upskirting to be made criminal offense with two-year prison sentence under proposed law
The new law would bring the punishment for upskirting in line with existing voyeurism offenses
text: In addition to web sites that display the "public" voyeurism of upskirting, other sexual voyeurism sites show pictures of women as they shower at home […]
ref: 2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture, page 201:
text: To someone who is used to running the show, there’s something much scarier about that than upskirting, even.
ref: 2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People’s Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times:
text: The same upskirting technique mentioned above is used on children, only the preferred locations for seeking out victims are different. The prime locations for upskirting children are playgrounds where there are an abundance of swings, slides and jungle gyms that provide the ideal opportunity to film the preferred targets.
ref: 2012, Senator Bill Diamond, The Evil and the Innocent, page 117:
glosses: The covert, voyeuristic photographing of a woman's underwear up her skirt.
sequesterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sequesterable
form: most sequesterable
Etymology: From sequester + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being sequestered.
anticounterfeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + counterfeit.
Senses: examples: text: “We are very pleased with our anticounterfeit efforts,” she said.
ref: 2007 June 14, Brad Stone, “EBay Says Fraud Crackdown Has Worked”, in New York Times:
glosses: The prevention or combat of counterfeiting.
Synonyms: anticounterfeiting
antifood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifood
form: most antifood
Etymology: From anti- + food.
Senses: examples: text: Our planes in Vietnam spray herbicides on the rice and vegetable crops of the Vietnamese in an antifood campaign.
ref: 1969, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates (volume 115, part 21, page 28441)
text: If you've tried to lose weight before, you probably sensed intuitively that such an antifood approach would be a problem.
ref: 2006, Connie Guttersen, The Sonoma Diet, page 42:
text: “It’s not that I’m antifood or against preparing it,” he said, “or that I don’t know how.
ref: 2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “When the Real Estate Market Sizzles, the Oven Stays Cold”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing food.
scalpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalping
antiscalping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiscalping
form: most antiscalping
Etymology: From anti- + scalping.
Senses: examples: text: Then it sued StubHub in Massachusetts state court, arguing that it had encouraged fans to flout the state’s antiscalping law and the team’s own contract with ticket holders.
ref: 2007 June 14, Brad Stone, “Fighting the Web, Sports Teams Seek to Control Ticket Resales”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or preventing scalping (the resale of tickets etc. at a higher price).
biomechanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomechanists
Etymology: From bio- + mechanist.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s no longer just the geeky runner going to technical stores and learning about form,” said Sean Murphy, a biomechanist with New Balance.
ref: 2007 June 14, Sarah Tuff, “Who, Me Take Running Class?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies or works in biomechanics.
biomechanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomechanist
cardboard boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardboard box
kapellen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapelle
coit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪt/
Forms: form: coits
Etymology: See quoit.
Senses: examples: text: children make use of in playing at coits
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of quoit.
coit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪt/
Forms: form: coits
form: coiting
form: coited
form: coited
Etymology: See quoit.
Senses: examples: text: to coit a stone
glosses: To throw.
coit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪt/
Etymology: Back-formation from coitus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coition.
synonyms: word: coition
coit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪt/
Forms: form: coits
form: coiting
form: coited
form: coited
Etymology: Back-formation from coitus.
Senses: glosses: to copulate; to mate
Synonyms: coitize
go to bed with
sleep with
copulate with
bouncing bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncing bombs
Senses: glosses: A bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner, in order to avoid obstacles and allow the bomb's speed and detonation time to be pre-determined.
Related terms: dambuster
bouncing bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncing bomb
yayness
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From yay + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Wooo, yayness for you also! :)
ref: 2000, Miss Sparkle, “Much yayness of the yay variety!”, in alt.uk.penpals (Usenet):
text: I finally have Aliens Special Edition! Yayness!
ref: 2001, Belegdel, “ten for ten [poll]”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
glosses: yay; hooray
unweetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unweetingly
form: most unweetingly
Etymology: Equivalent to unweeting + -ly or un- + weetingly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unwittingly.
fallacy fallacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallacy fallacy
give one's eye-teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives one's eye-teeth
form: giving one's eye-teeth
form: gave one's eye-teeth
form: given one's eye-teeth
form: give an eye-tooth
Senses: examples: text: Your real sea-dog will give his eye-teeth for a glass of grog; it is a fact, that many a tooth has been drawn in exchange for rum.
ref: 1836, James B. Dow, The Way-Mark, Chapter VI, The end of the Drunkard, page 133
text: Sandy Flash burst into a roaring laugh. “Him! Ah-ha! you think we go snacks, eh? Do I look like a fool? Barton'd give his eye-teeth to put the halter round my neck with his own hands! No, no, young man; I have ways and ways o' learnin' things that you nor him'll never guess.”
ref: 1866, Bayard Taylor, The Story of Kennett, Chapter XXVI, The Last of Sandy Flash, page 311
synonyms: give one's left nut
give one's right arm
glosses: To sacrifice something valuable.
backcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + care.
Senses: examples: text: Proper backcare includes sleeping on a suitable mattress.
glosses: The care of the back.
blade server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blade servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.