cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
first time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːst taɪm/
ipa: /fɜɹst taɪm/
Forms: form: first times
Senses: examples: text: Do you remember your first time?
glosses: An individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.
examples: text: I'm flying to Castile next week. It'll be the first time I’ve been there.
text: Just a minute or so before we left — it must have been about 1:30 p.m. — Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff came into the room and addressed me as "Mr. President." This was the first time anyone had called me that and I must have looked startled; I certainly felt strange.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: If its submission is approved, it would not be the first time TfL has taken over services from a train operating company.
ref: 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, time.
first time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːst taɪm/
ipa: /fɜɹst taɪm/
Forms: form: first times
form: first timing
form: first timed
form: first timed
Senses: examples: text: I'm first timing this game.
text: Looking forward to first time this champion in my ranked games.
topics: video-games
glosses: To try for the first time.
Related terms: first-time
movie star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movie stars
Senses: synonyms: film star
glosses: A leading actor in a movie, especially one perceived as a celebrity.
Related terms: star system
moviemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moviemakers
Etymology: From movie + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility.
ref: 2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times:
text: The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]
ref: 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
injectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inject + -able.
Senses: qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: Capable of being (or designed to be) injected
Derived terms: microinjectable
noninjectable
uninjectable
injectable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: injectables
Etymology: From inject + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Complex high-cost drug therapy, such as injectables and infusions, are close to a $70 billion sector.
ref: 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in New York Times:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A liquid, such as a medicine or a Botox solution, which is injected using a needle and syringe.
microchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microchannels
Etymology: From micro- + channel.
Senses: glosses: A television channel targeted at a small but specific audience
examples: text: microchannel heat sink
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A narrow cylinder of semiconductor that amplifies the flow of electrons
Iida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iidas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 飯田 (Īda).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
tramp stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramp stamps
Senses: examples: text: That's a text book definition of low-rent hoochie mama if I ever saw it. Guarantee you she's got her tramp stamp across her hips.
ref: 2005 August 11, Dave “Georgia Studebaker” Miller, “Re: Maybe I should have advertized^([sic]) Boomerang like this.....”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet):
text: 2006 May 31, “SyVyN11” (author), “Re: Rihanna's tiny Oz tattoo”, alt.gossip.celebrities and alt.showbiz.gossip, Usenet
I was hoping for a tramp stamp!
text: There's nothing quite like seeing a woman bend over and show her tramp stamp.
ref: 2006 October 31, Dillon Pyron, “Re: Starbuck & Ander's arm tattoos - Hideous or just plain ugly?”, in alt.battlestar-galactica (Usenet):
text: the tattoo parlor is across the street. I packed my drawings and am going to go over them with the owner. I want to get my mushroom as a tramp stamp, if it works, but we shall see what he says.
ref: 2007 August 15, “Valaama” from Alaska, “OT White Chocolate Soy Mocha at the Fly By (the other cafe of the Harborside)”, in alt.recovery.adult-children (Usenet):
text: This monkey has a thing for blond female zookeepers, but only if they have tattoos.... Sibu the orangutan likes Goldilocks with a tramp stamp.
ref: 2007 October 13, Peter Sagal, “Wait, wait...Don't tell me”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: A tattoo on a woman's lower back, stereotypically said to label her as promiscuous.
glosses: A hickey on a woman.
Synonyms: sense: tattoo
word: arse antlers
sense: tattoo
word: beer coaster
sense: tattoo
word: bitch tat
sense: tattoo
word: ho tag
sense: tattoo
word: slag tag
Related terms: fag tag
run someone ragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌn ˌsʌmwʌn ˈɹæɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈɹʌn ˌsʌmwʌn ˈɹæɡəd/
rhymes: -æɡɪd
Forms: form: runs someone ragged
form: running someone ragged
form: ran someone ragged
form: run someone ragged
Etymology: From run + ragged (“exhausted, tired, run down”).
Senses: examples: text: They’ve been running him ragged trying to keep up with the demand for new features.
text: A little man by modern-day goon-basketball standards, the five-foot ten-inch speedster [Ralph Beard] handles bigger opponents by running them ragged.
ref: 1950 January, Stanley Pashko, “Scanning the Sports Scene”, in Irving Crump, editor, Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume XL, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Boy Scouts of America, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:
text: Rebeca is busy with the children, who are busy getting into mischief. The baby runs her ragged.
ref: 1992, Teresa Kao, “Nikki”, in The Quality of the Light, West Linn, Or.: Gangor Press, →ISBN, page 166:
text: The choice of priorities he had chosen gave him the right to demand acceptance of his ways and ignore the needs of others. It gave him the power to insist on servitude and, without thought, dismiss Arnam's pride. It gave him the right to torment, the right to run him ragged when he chose, [...]
ref: 2010, Kaiser Jamal, chapter 1, in A Haunting of Shadows, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 24:
text: He's letting me hire four new rangers. Isn't that great? The increase in tourists are running us ragged.
ref: 2012, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, chapter 17, in Dinosaur Lake, [Scotts Valley, Calif.]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN; republished [Los Gatos, Calif.]: Smashwords Edition, 2014, →ISBN, page 346:
text: England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.
ref: 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2019:
synonyms: word: beleaguer
word: exhaust
word: fatigue
word: fordo
word: do for
word: gas out
word: get down
word: jade
word: knock up
word: poop
word: run someone ragged
word: tire
word: tire out
word: wear
word: wear down
word: wear out
word: weary
glosses: To exhaust; to demand excessive effort or work from somebody.
moviemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moviemaker
unpeels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpeel
misjudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misjudge
rex-pats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rex-pat (repeat expatriates)
underfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfeed
underuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underuse
dusty miller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dusty millers
Senses: examples: text: Hey, the dusty miller, / And his dusty coat! / He will win a shilling, / Ere he spend a groat. / Dusty was the coat, / Dusty was the colour; / Dusty was the kiss, / That I gat frae the miller.
ref: 1829, Robert Chambers, The Scottish Songs, page 539:
text: The stereotypical image of the "dusty miller", as depicted in popular legend and some traditional literature, is a barrier, and milling is seen by younger people as low-status. There is an urgent need to change this perception through measures such as changing the designation to something like "grain and feed processing technician" and improving training provision and prospects."
ref: 2005: Baitinger, A, CAB abstract of "Miller - a job with promotion and opportunities for the future!", Mühle + Mischfutter, (Vol. 142) (No. 8) 233-272
glosses: A formulaic phrase for a miller, related to the dust generated in the milling process.
glosses: Any of several species of plants with leaves of a dusty appearance: Centaurea cineraria, Jacobaea maritima, Artemisia stelleriana, Spyridium parvifolium, and Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria.
underusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underuse
hydrogen bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrogen bomb
hypermarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermarket
hyperspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersphere
hyperons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperon
hypogea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogeum
hydrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydron
cations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cation
unbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbolts
form: unbolting
form: unbolted
form: unbolted
Etymology: From un- + bolt.
Senses: examples: text: Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down;
He shall unbolt the gates.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Diesel engines roar, trailer trucks rumble over the streets and an air wrench screams as a worker at the tire repair shop on the corner unbolts a wheel from a sanitation truck.
ref: 1985 May 6, Anthony Depalma, “ABOUT REAL ESTATE; TRANSFORMING A WEST VILLAGE WAREHOUSE INTO OFFICES”, in The New York Times:
text: A young orangutan in the San Diego Zoo became famous for unbolting the screening of his crib, removing the wires, and moving through the zoo nursery, unscrewing lightbulbs.
ref: 2003 June 7, Edward Tenner, “'Our Own Devices'”, in The New York Times:
text: Then I hid the knife I kept under my pillow, cleaned the dust from my shoes, and carefully unbolted the door.
ref: 2006 December 11, Jeffrey Goldberg, “‘Prisoners’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
hydroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroscope
sordino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sordinos
form: sordini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sordino.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of sordine.
synonyms: word: sordine
unbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbolt
unbolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbolt
unbolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbolt
unbolted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
ref: 1779, Samuel Johnson, “Milton”, in Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets, volume 2, London: C. Bathurst, et al, page 46:
glosses: Not fastened with a bolt.
examples: text: unbolted flour
text: [The slave] toils that another may reap the fruit; he is industrious that another may live in idleness; he eats unbolted meal that another may eat the bread of fine flour; he labors in chains at home, under a burning sun and biting lash, that another may ride in ease and splendor abroad […]
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, “. Appendix.”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 430:
glosses: Not sifted.
examples: text: My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Coarse, uncultured, vulgar.
polarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polarity
hysterologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterology
hysteroscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteroscopy
hiatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiatus
acidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidity
rounded vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rounded vowels
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: unrounded vowel
glosses: A vowel that is pronounced with the lips drawn together and forming a circular opening.
hot tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot tub
horror movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horror movie
houses of cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house of cards
hoyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoya
houseguests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseguest
housemaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housemaid
housemaids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of housemaid
housemaiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of housemaid
housemaided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of housemaid
hot Jupiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot Jupiter
hotpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotpress
hotpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotpress
rounded vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rounded vowel
chinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of china
sequels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequel
prequels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prequel
sordine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sordines
Etymology: From Italian sordina.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: sordino
glosses: A mute for musical instruments.
searingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more searingly
form: most searingly
Etymology: From searing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a burning, blistering, hot manner.
examples: text: a searingly honest appraisal of her career prospects
text: Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
glosses: Harshly; mercilessly.
con sordini
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian con sordini.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: With the mutes.
resew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resews
form: resewing
form: resewed
form: resewed
form: resewn
Etymology: From re- + sew.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-sew.
senza sordini
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian senza sordini.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Without the mutes.
casette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casettes
Senses: examples: text: Navigational position is determined by electronic means, specifically a Motorola Mini-Ranger. This information is recorded digitally on an Endeco Type 156 data gathering system which includes a casette tape unit.
ref: 1911, Bulletin, volume 75, page 22:
glosses: Dated form of cassette.
healthy participant effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
medicine
sciences
statistics
glosses: A skewing of data in randomized medical studies that occurs when healthy participants are less likely to drop out of the study than sicker patients.
Muay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thai มวย (muay, “boxing”).
Senses: examples: text: ”Muay” is also one of the subjects taught in the temples.
ref: Countries and Territories of the World (page 659)
glosses: The sport of Muay Thai.
inspissation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspissations
Senses: glosses: The act of thickening.
glosses: The process by which something is inspissated.
tahri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tehri
form: tehari
Senses: glosses: A spiced yellow rice dish in Awadhi cuisine.
Unitarian Universalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to believers of Unitarian Universalism.
Unitarian Universalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unitarian Universalists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Unitarian Universalism.
Synonyms: UU
UUer
UUist
Universalist Unitarian
Universal Unitarian
abietes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbɪˈeɪtiːz/
rhymes: -eɪtiz
Senses: glosses: plural of abies
sinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sinophobia.
whiskey tango foxtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: whisky tango foxtrot
Etymology: From the NATO phonetic alphabet names for the letters W, T, and F.
Senses: glosses: What the fuck; an expression of shock.
Synonyms: WTF
Related terms: foxtrot oscar
confirmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/
ipa: /kənˈfɝ.məˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈfɜː.mə.tɹi/
Forms: form: more confirmatory
form: most confirmatory
Senses: examples: text: I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 41, in David Copperfield:
text: "Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […]"
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: 1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KGSxQ_-94J8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis.
glosses: Serving to confirm something.
Derived terms: confirmatorily
disconfirmatory
nonconfirmatory
congé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congés
form: conge
Etymology: Borrowed from French congé, from Latin commeātus (“a leave; permission for a leave”). As an architectural term, a French calque of ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ, “a leave, an escape; an architectural feature”).
Senses: examples: text: He took off his hat with much ceremony, made a low congé, and was just walking off, when Mick, my cousin, came up, whose ear had likewise been caught by the scream.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of congee: a leavetaking, a farewell, in various senses; a bow, a curtsey, or similar gestures whether or not used for taking leave.
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of apophyge or cavetto, supports at the top or bottom of pillars, particularly rings or ferrils in the extremities of wooden pillars, added to provide support and prevent splintering, their imitation in stone, or a molding in the form of a quarter round.
synonyms: word: apophyge or cavetto
word: supports at the top or bottom of pillars
word: particularly rings or ferrils in the extremities of wooden pillars
word: added to provide support and prevent splintering
word: their imitation in stone
word: or a molding in the form of a quarter round
Derived terms: congé d'élire
congé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: congés
form: congéing
form: conged
form: conged
form: conge
Etymology: Borrowed from French congé, from Latin commeātus (“a leave; permission for a leave”). As an architectural term, a French calque of ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ, “a leave, an escape; an architectural feature”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of congee: to take leave, to bid farewell, in various senses; to bow, curtsey, etc.
Derived terms: conge delire
saraphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saraphans
Senses: glosses: Dated form of sarafan.
fetoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetoscope
foetoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foetoscope
austringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: austringers
form: ostreger
form: ostringer
Etymology: From Middle English ostreger, ostringer, borrowed from Old French ostruchier, austruchier.
Senses: glosses: A keeper of goshawks.
examples: text: Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.
after-dinner speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-dinner speeches
Senses: glosses: A public address event that is traditionally spoken after a dinner, and meant to take an important topic and make greater sense of it through the use of humor that is relevant to the idea presented.
varvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varvels
form: vervelle
form: vervel
Etymology: From Old French vervelle (“falcon's leg fetter”), from Vulgar Latin derivation of Latin vertibulum (“joint”).
Senses: examples: 1894 — James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, s.v. Falcon.
To the jesses, it is said, are attached the varvels, sometimes written vervels, or rings.
topics: falconry
government
heraldry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A metal ring bearing the owner's name or coat of arms, attached to a hawk's jesses. Used for identifying birds.
varvels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varvel
clonotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clonotypes
Etymology: From clono- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The phenotype of a clone of a cell
Derived terms: clonotypic
clonotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clonotypes
form: clonotyping
form: clonotyped
form: clonotyped
Etymology: From clono- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To classify such phenotypes
cost avoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cost avoidances
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: An expense one has avoided incurring.
ressaldar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ressaldars
Etymology: From Hindustani contraction रिसालदार (risāldār) / رسالدار (risāldār), from रिसालादार (risālādār) / رسالہ دار (risāla-dār), from Persian رسالهدار (resâle-dâr), from Arabic رِسَالَة (risāla) + Persian agent suffix دار (dâr).
Senses: examples: text: Then up and spoke Mohammed Khan, the son of the Ressaldar:
"If ye know the track of the morning-mist, ye know where his pickets are. […]
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West:
glosses: The native captain of an Indian cavalry regiment.
Related terms: ressala
remint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remints
form: reminting
form: reminted
form: reminted
Etymology: From re- + mint.
Senses: glosses: To mint (create money) again or repeatedly.
Bel and the Dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A deuterocanonical, apocryphal book of the Bible.
remiped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remiped
form: most remiped
Etymology: French rémipède from Latin rēmi (“oar”) + ped(em) (“foot”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having oar-like feet.
remiped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remipeds
Etymology: French rémipède from Latin rēmi (“oar”) + ped(em) (“foot”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any small arthropod (usually crustacean or aquatic) with oar-shaped feet.
deuterocanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deutero- + canonical.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Being of the second canon of the Old Testament of the Bible, and not accepted by some Christians. Part of the Apocrypha.
qualifier: fandom
glosses: Of, within, or according to a decidedly lesser canon of installments in a franchise.
Coordinate terms: protocanonical
Related terms: sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Baruch
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: including the Letter of Jeremiah
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Ben Sira
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Sirach
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Ecclesiasticus
sense: Additions to Daniel
word: Song of the Three Children
sense: Additions to Daniel
word: Susanna
sense: Additions to Daniel
word: Bel and the Dragon
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 1 Esdras
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 3 Esdras
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 2 Esdras
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 4 Esdras
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Part of Esther
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Judith
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 1 Maccabees
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: 2 Maccabees
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Prayer of Manasses
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Tobit
sense: Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include
word: Wisdom
Bel & Dr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bel and the Dragon.
campylobacteriosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campylobacterioses
Etymology: From campylobacterium + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection by the bacteria campylobacter.
metropoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The three metropoli of Japan represented by beautiful women. On the left, the Plum of Naniwa for Osaka; in the center, the Moon of Musashi for Edo; and on the right, the Cherry of Kokono for Kyoto.
ref: 1921, The Notable Collection of Rare and Valuable Japanese Color Prints, the Property of Carl Schraubstadter:
text: […]; the great difficulties and high costs involved in introducing reliable sample studies of Jews, particularly because of their heavy concentration in the three metropoli — New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, which together account for about 40 percent of the total Jewish population in the United States.
ref: 1989, Eli Ginzberg, My Brother’s Keeper, Transaction Publishers, →LCCN, page 163:
text: Although there has been some filling out of the urban hierarchy in the last 30 years and some diminution in the dominance of Metro Manila, the latter has 10 million inhabitants, which along with the 1.8 million residing in Metro Cebu and 1.7 million in Metro Davao, means that the country’s three metropoli contain one-quarter of the urban population between them.
ref: 2007, Sylvia Chant, Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 206:
glosses: plural of metropolis
oceanic trench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oceanic trenches
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depression of the seabed.
arista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪstə/
Forms: form: aristae
form: aristas
Etymology: From New Latin arista. Doublet of arête.
Senses: examples: text: A very distinct species. Habit of Brachystephium scapigerum D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.
ref: 1848, Thomas Mitchell, Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia […] :
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
examples: text: The eyes of the male are separated by a distance equal to one-fourth of the diameter of the head, in the female by one-third. The frontal stripe is black, the cheeks and margins of the orbits silvery-white. The antennæ are black, the arista feathered on the upper side only.
ref: 1915, O. A. Johannsen, William A. Riley, Handbook of Medical Entomology:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.
Derived terms: aristaless
aristomere
banalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banalize
banalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banalize
banalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of banalize
automatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of automatize
automatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of automatize
automatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automatize
deadly sins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadly sin
blak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blakker
form: blakkest
form: Blak
Etymology: Coined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.
Senses: examples: text: blak identity
text: Every now and then a troll calls me white. It’s a violent colonial tactic: call me white if I identify as blak, call me blak if I wanted to identify as white. […] I am not quite white, not quite blak enough. I wish I was blakker on the outside; as blak on the outside as I feel on the inside.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
Derived terms: blakness
blak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blaks
form: Blak
Etymology: Coined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.
Senses: examples: text: The right-wing media, and even some of the more centrist media, draws an artificial line between the bush and the city, the urban blaks and the people from the bush. The division is often coded to skin colour, urban is shorthand for ‘not black enough’ and bush is shorthand for ‘real Aboriginal’.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: An Indigenous Australian.
immeadiately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of immediately.
fight a losing battle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights a losing battle
form: fighting a losing battle
form: fought a losing battle
form: fought a losing battle
Senses: glosses: To continue to wage war when it is clear that one is not going to win.
examples: text: The bus was oppressively warm and the air-conditioning was fighting a losing battle with the heat.
ref: 1984, Lucy Gore, Diary Of A Working Mum, page 18:
glosses: To attempt a task or other endeavor in which there is no chance that it will succeed.
Synonyms: fight a rearguard action
pujas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puja
pandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpændəl/
Forms: form: pandals
form: pandall
form: pandaul
form: pendaul
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பந்தல் (pantal)/பந்தர் (pantar).
Senses: glosses: a large temporary structure erected during various Hindu and Buddhist religious festivals
Related terms: shamiana
crabstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabsticks
form: crab-stick
form: crab stick
Etymology: From crab (“wild apple”) + stick.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne of them who appeared to have the most spirit had a knotted crab-stick in his hand, and insisted that the Irishman should not leave the company, till he had first given satisfaction for the insult he had committed on them all.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 106:
glosses: A cudgel, originally made of the wood of a crabapple tree, hence any similar club.
glosses: A crabby, ill-tempered person.
crabstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabsticks
form: crab-stick
form: crab stick
Etymology: From crab (“crustacean”) + stick.
Senses: glosses: A processed food, made of surimi to somewhat resemble the legs of a crab.
Synonyms: imitation crab stick
crab surimi stick
sea legs
Mexica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃikə/
Forms: form: Mexicas
form: Mexica
Etymology: From Spanish mexica, from Classical Nahuatl mēxihcah, absolutive plural form of mēxihcatl (“Mexica, Aztec”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of the Americas
Mexica
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃikə/
Etymology: From Spanish mexica, from Classical Nahuatl mēxihcah, absolutive plural form of mēxihcatl (“Mexica, Aztec”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Mexica.
Synonyms: word: Aztec
word: Mexican
spare the rod and spoil the child
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: spare the rod, spoil the child
form: spare the rod and you will spoil the child
Etymology: Commonly claimed to have come from the King James Version of the Bible, Book of Proverbs, 13:24: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
Due to the associated “spoil" concept which is not in the Bible, it more likely came from a 17th-century poem by Samuel Butler called Hudibras. In the poem, a love affair is likened to a child, and spanking is mockingly commended as a way to make the love grow stronger. The actual verse reads:
: What medicine else can cure the fits
Of lovers when they lose their wits?
Love is a boy by poets styled
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Senses: glosses: If one does not discipline a child, it will never learn obedience and good manners.
wikipedia: Book of Proverbs
King James Version of the Bible
Samuel Butler (poet)
spare the rod and spoil the child
Related terms: keep a rod in pickle
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
Orbilian
good manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In most countries, it is considered good manners to offer your seat to an elderly person on crowded public transport.
synonyms: etiquette
antonyms: bad manners
glosses: The treatment of other people with courtesy and politeness, and showing correct public behaviour.
bad manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In some cultures, it is considered to be bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
text: We walked out into the sunlight and rode from the church to Rose Hills Memorial Park. My mother was buried in the family plot, alongside my father, my brothers Arthur and Harold, her mother and father, and her sister Elizabeth, who died of cancer. Only one reporter had the bad manners to stick a microphone in my face and ask how I felt. I just walked past him.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 288:
antonyms: good manners
glosses: The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.
glottogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlɑt.oʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɡlɒt.əʊ.dʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From glotto- + genetic.
Senses: examples: text: The two layers of speech are also called — if one looks at speech from a glottogenetic point of view — 'impositions'.
ref: 1977, C.H.M. Versteegh, Greek Elements in Arabic Linguistic Thinking, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Even though evolutionary continuity implies the existence of an interface between the archaeolinguistic and glottogenetic stages, this interface has to be very differently structured from the ones between the other stages.
ref: 1994, I. Hegedüs, "Principles for palaeolinguistic reconstruction," in Archaeology and Language (edited by Roger M Blench and Matthew Spriggs, page 70
text: Modern interpreters have often branded the very notion of impositio as a sign of intellectualism (as if names could be invented 'on paper'!) or glottogenetic naïveté.
ref: 2004, Lia Formigari, A History of Language Philosophies, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the origin of speech.
Related terms: glossogenetic
glottogony
glottochronology
glottogenesis
Baagandji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaːɡəndʒiː/
Forms: form: Bagandji
form: Bagundji
form: Paakantyi
form: Paakantji
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken on the Darling River.
judiciaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judiciary
Bullen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bullens
form: Bollen
form: Bullins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rindfleisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rindfleisches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rindfleisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hühner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Hühner test
obtention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtentions
Senses: topics: law
sciences
synonyms: acquiral
acquiring
acquisition
getting
obtainment
obtainal
obtainance
glosses: The act of obtaining.
marmelade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of marmalade.
figurante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurantes
Etymology: From French figurante.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually the hedges and fields give way before long rows of houses; and a few single domiciles, with plats of turf cut into patterns, and bunches of daisies dusty and dry as if just dropped from the wreath of a figurante, are what the orientals call so pleasant and rural, so convenient for stages and Sunday.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:
glosses: A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
figurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From figure + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1880, Alex. Napier, translator, A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis, translation of, 1877, Paul Guttmann, [unknown title], third German edition; New York: William Wood & Company, page 296,
Normal urine is perfectly clear, containing neither crystalline nor any other organic figurate element, except possibly now and then traces of mucus.
text: Because large figurate lesions (cyclic, annular, or serpiginous) may exist[…]
ref: 1978, Lawrence Marvin Solomon, Nancy B. Esterly, E. Dorinda Loeffel, Adolescent Dermatology, Saunders, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: Forming a figure.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Florid.
Derived terms: figurate number
figurately
figurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: figurates
form: figurating
form: figurated
form: figurated
Etymology: From figure + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To shape; to give a figure.
Derived terms: prefigurate
refigurate
figuration
bass viol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass viols
Senses: examples: text: My piano teacher also plays the bass viol.
glosses: A fretted, bowed, stringed musical instrument from the viola da gamba family. It occupies the bass range and is the lowest instrument in the family. Similar to (but smaller than) a cello.
Synonyms: double bass
upright bass
string bass
bass fiddle
bass violin
doghouse bass
contrabass
stand-up bass
bull fiddle
Derived terms: bass violist
Related terms: english: bass viol; a viol that plays in the bass range, but not a
translation: bass viol; a viol that plays in the bass range, but not a
word: division viol
eyewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eye + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: American manufacturers are now describing spectacles as "eyewear".
ref: 1925, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman, editors, London charivari:
text: Use of safety eyewear by Jones saved his sight when he was holding a chisel, another employe lifted up a hammer to hit the chisel and accidentally struck Jones in the nose and safety glasses.
ref: 1974 October 14, “Wise Owl Club inducts two”, in St. Petersburg Times / Manatee Times, retrieved 01 Sep 2010, page 3:
text: ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays.
ref: 1988 July 4, Anastasia Toufexis et al., “Health & Fitness: Do Your Shades Do the Job?”, in Time:
text: When one of the daily robberies ends with him accidentally merking the robber (a real player, which the NPCs aren’t supposed to be able to attack), Guy gets his hands on the victim’s sunglasses—a pair of eyewear that allows him to see, like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in They Live, the secret messages (and, in this case, powerups and side missions and stats) scattered across his world.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles.
Ho Chi Minh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ tʃiː mɪn/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ho Chi Minh City.
Related terms: Ho Chi Minh Trail
Rembrandtesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rembrandtesque
form: most Rembrandtesque
Etymology: From Rembrandt + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: He turned upon the cool shadows within, and amidst spots and blurs of colour regarded the giant child amidst that Rembrandtesque gloom […]
ref: 1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, Book 2, Chapter 1:
text: A closer look might suggest classical influences: a Rembrandtesque play of light here, a Whistler-like arrangement of softly textural planes there, […]
ref: 1987 April 25, Tom Grabosky, “What Is a "Gay Artist"?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: Resembling the effects and/or techniques of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1609-69), especially in chiaroscuro.
remould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remoulds
form: remoulding
form: remoulded
form: remoulded
form: remold
Etymology: From re- + mould.
Senses: glosses: To mould or shape again.
examples: text: He could not change that which has remoulded itself to resist change.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 505:
glosses: To reshape or redesign.
remanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remanets
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: Parliament
glosses: A bill that has been postponed or deferred to another session.
drunk dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drunk dials
form: drunk dialing
form: drunk dialling
form: drunk dialed
form: drunk dialed
form: drunk dialled
form: drunk dialled
Senses: examples: text: My ex keeps harassing me, drunk dialing every other night.
glosses: To make a telephone call in an inebriated state against better judgement, typically to a close or former friend.
Related terms: drunk text
Gymnopaedia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gymnopaediae
form: Gymnopaidiai
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυμνοπαιδίαι (gumnopaidíai), a plural form whose singular is from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + παιδεία (paideía, “youth”).
Senses: glosses: An annual celebration in ancient Sparta, during which naked young men displayed their athletic and martial skills through dancing.
left-handed compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-handed compliments
Senses: examples: text: "We have sat through the whole of dinner and not once mentioned politics."
"You made us forget them," Tallente murmured.
"A left-handed compliment," Jane laughed.
ref: 1921, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 16, in Nobody's Man:
text: In a somewhat left-handed compliment, UN Secretary-General U Thant described Russia's new bosses as "competent and unpretentious."
ref: 1964 October 30, “The Morning After”, in Time, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
text: [C]alling someone a "neglected master" makes for one hell of a left-handed compliment.
ref: 2006 March 19, David Orr, “On Poetry: Samuel Menashe—New and Selected Poems”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
glosses: A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.
Synonyms: backhanded compliment
Related terms: damn with faint praise
drop backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop back