cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nominal variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal variable
categorical variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categorical variable
ordinal variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinal variable
interval variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interval variable
ratio variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratio variable
quasi-reorganizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasi-reorganization
quail-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quail-pipe
quail pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quail pipe
coffee bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee bar
coffee beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee bean
coffee breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee break
water breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water break
coffee grinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee grinder
coffee klatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee klatch
coffee makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee maker
coffee pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee pot
coffee tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee table
late bloomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of late bloomer
sinuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinuation
gayeties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayety
ironice
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: ironically
inexpugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɛkˈspʌɡnəbəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnɪkˈspʌɡnəbəl/
Forms: form: more inexpugnable
form: most inexpugnable
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin inexpugnābilis. Morphologically, from in- + expugn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering.
ref: 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship:
text: It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors...
ref: 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:
text: This seemed to be an inexpugnable refuge, where we could live untroubled and learn to know each other."
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory:
glosses: Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
Derived terms: inexpugnability
inexpugnableness
inexpugnably
achlorophyllaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more achlorophyllaceous
form: most achlorophyllaceous
Etymology: From a- + chlorophyllaceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking chlorophyll; hence colourless
wanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanters
Etymology: From want + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Witless hizzie, e'en 's you like, The ne'er a doit I 'm carin'; But men maun be the first to speak, An' wanters maun be speerin'.
ref: 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:
text: But if Donald McFarlane wants money, he's got kin that can accommodate him, James; wanters arena always that fortunate.
ref: 1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches:
text: You see, the trouble with Americans is that they are the greatest wanters of cake after they've eaten it the world has ever seen.
ref: 1921, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story:
text: She’s continually the wanter in a relationship but dreams of being the one wanted, which is to say she’s continually powerless, dreaming of power.
ref: 2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: One who wants, or who wants something
wanter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Contraction of want to
Senses: examples: text: I reckon it weighs about a ton by the weight of it if yer wanter know.
ref: 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:
text: Here, lift over them crates o' oranges I wanter fix 'em in the winder."
ref: 1925, Amy Lowell, Men, Women and Ghosts:
text: My birthday over, I wanter go right home to Heaven.
ref: 1936-1938, Works Projects Administration, Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of want to.
wanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanter
hap'orth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪpə(ɹ)θ/
Forms: form: hap'orths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ha'p'orth.
spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spoils the ship for a hap'orth of tar
form: spoiling the ship for a hap'orth of tar
form: spoiled the ship for a hap'orth of tar
form: spoiled the ship for a hap'orth of tar
form: spoilt the ship for a hap'orth of tar
form: spoilt the ship for a hap'orth of tar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.
gray iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray irons
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon that contains 1.7 to 4.5% carbon and 1 to 3% silicon.
white iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white irons
Senses: glosses: A kind of cast iron that contains carbon as cementite, unlike gray iron, which contains carbon as graphite.
noodlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodling
turnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being turned.
Synonyms: rotatable
rotateable
echino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From combining form of Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Forming compound terms denoting something prickly or, specifically, indicating the sea urchin.
intelligential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin intelligentia (“intelligence”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] in at his mouth
The Devil entered; and his brutal sense,
In heart or head, possessing, soon inspired
With act intelligential; but his sleep
Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: Nor demonstration physical alone,
Or more intelligential and abstruse,
Persuades me to this faith; but from that truth
It cometh to me rather, which is shed
Through Moses, the rapt Prophets, and the Psalms.
ref: 1814, The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., The Vision of Paradise, Part 3.:
text: In the line of light bringers who pass from hand to hand the torch of intelligential fire, there are men of most unequal stature, and a giant may stoop to take the precious flambeau from a dwarf.
ref: 1918, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century:
glosses: Of or pertaining to intelligence.
Derived terms: intelligentially
if, as and when
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: 1944, Thomas Reed Powell, letter to William O. Douglas, quoted in Melvin I. Urofsky (1989), '"Dear Teacher": The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell', Law and History Review 7(2), page 364,
No one cares about what a judge thinks, if, as and when. All that counts is what he says.
text: The whole thing, Tyne decided, would make a nice problem to mull over in his old age -- if, as, and when.
ref: 1988, Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun, →ISBN, page 75:
text: We'll talk about appeals if, as and when.
ref: 2001, The Man Who Wasn't There, spoken by Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub):
topics: law
glosses: In the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass.
Cyrenaicism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪriˌneɪəsɪzm/
/ˈkaɪrəˌneɪəsɪzm/
Etymology: From Cyrenaic + -ism, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: This reads like an avowal of Epicureanism or of the more selfish philosophy of pleasure known as Cyrenaicism.
ref: 1882 August, Contemporary Review, p. 214
glosses: Synonym of hedonism, particularly (ethics, chiefly historical) the specific beliefs of the philosophical school of Aristippus of Cyrene, advocating pursuit of sensual pleasure as the highest good.
synonyms: word: hedonism
extra: (ethics, chiefly historical) the specific beliefs of the philosophical school of Aristippus of Cyrene, advocating pursuit of sensual pleasure as the highest good
word: particularly
extra: (ethics, chiefly historical) the specific beliefs of the philosophical school of Aristippus of Cyrene, advocating pursuit of sensual pleasure as the highest good
Related terms: Cyrenaic
phrasal prepositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrasal preposition
webumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webumentary
coups de maitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup de maitre
ACPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
ACPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACPAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibody.
no-host
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: At which guests are required to pay for their own drinks.
raw_tags: of a social gathering
Related terms: cash bar
seponation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Danish seponering (“discontinuation”), + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Discontinuation, especially of a psychoactive drug.
citrullines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citrulline
nondating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dating.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Not dating (going on romantic outings with a partner).
hardnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardnosed
form: most hardnosed
Senses: examples: text: it is a period romp that sees Johnson play Frank Wolff, a hardnosed but noble captain of a steamboat in the early 20th Century transporting a British scientist (Emily Blunt) down the Amazon river on a quest for the mythical Tree of Life.
ref: 2021 July 28, Sam Moore, “Dwayne Johnson and why wrestlers make ideal Hollywood stars”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of hard-nosed.
ultratraditionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultratraditionalists
form: ultra-traditionalist
Etymology: From ultra- + traditionalist.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes traditionalist principles to an extreme.
ultratraditionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultratraditionalist
cyberwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: At noon, she'll take off her cyberwear and enjoy a sensual, tasty lunch with her family in their nonelectronic kitchen.
ref: 1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: life in the trenches of hyperspace:
text: Consider David Warner, who makes his rounds in a "cyberwear" buzz suit that captures information from his patients' monitors...
ref: 1997, “More than screen deep”, in U.S, National Research Council:
text: Taking off our cyberwear to confront another with naked eyeballs will be a precious personal appearance.
ref: 2000, Sarah L Holloway, Gill Valentine, Children's geographies: playing, living, learning:
text: These essays project trends in networked technologies, cyberwear, virtual beings, ubiquitous user-aware software, and a host of other futuristic tools...
ref: 2002, Sheila P Englebardt, Ramona Nelson, Health care informatics: an interdisciplinary approach:
glosses: Clothing and accessories that offer cyber features or capabilities.
relitigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relitigates
form: relitigating
form: relitigated
form: relitigated
form: re-litigate
Etymology: From re- + litigate.
Senses: glosses: To litigate again; to sue or pursue legal remedy a second or further time.
examples: text: Like Mr bin Laden, Mr Gingrich is apparently still relitigating the victories and defeats of religious wars fought in Europe and the Middle East centuries ago.
ref: 2010 August 5, Lexington, The Economist:
glosses: To dispute, debate, contest again.
relitigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relitigate
relitigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relitigate
relitigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relitigate
decoupages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decoupage
decoupaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decoupage
decoupaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decoupage
pitmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitmasters
Etymology: From pit + master.
Senses: glosses: One who operates a barbecue pit. Sometimes a term of respect for someone who is skilled at barbecuing.
pitmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitmaster
impingements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impingement
drenchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drenchingly
form: most drenchingly
Etymology: From drenching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The rain came down drenchingly and we were soaked to the skin in mere seconds.
glosses: In a drenching manner.
shotmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotmakers
Etymology: From shot + maker.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who is skilled at making shots and scoring even against skilled defense.
Related terms: playmaker
shotmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotmaker
extracontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + continental.
Senses: glosses: Beyond or outside a continent.
tetanuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetanurans
Etymology: Tetanurae + -an
Senses: examples: text: The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.
ref: 1999 June 25, Paul C. Sereno, “The Evolution of Dinosaurs”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2137–2147:
glosses: Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.
tetanuran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Tetanurae + -an
Senses: examples: text: During Late Cretaceous times, the top predators in most Laurasian terrestrial ecosystems were the large-bodied tyrannosaurids, which suggests that this tetanuran clade may have originated after the split between Laurasia and Gondwana.
ref: 1998 May 15, Scott D. Sampson et al., “Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of Gondwana”, in Science, volume 280, number 5366, →DOI, pages 1048–1051:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the dinosaurs of the clade Tetanurae.
authentic cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authentic cadences
Etymology: From authentic + cadence.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: perfect cadence
word: closed cadence
glosses: A cadence involving the resolution of the dominant chord (V) to the root chord (I).
Derived terms: imperfect authentic cadence
perfect authentic cadence
lapillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapilli
Etymology: From Latin lapillus.
Senses: examples: text: They also found rounded granules that are probably accretionary lapilli — volcanic hailstones, formed as material gathers in the air.
ref: 2007 May 8, Henry Fountain, “It’s Still Dark Out, So Why Are the Birds Singing Away?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fragment of lava ejected from a volcano.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the otoliths in finfish.
Hypernyms: tephra
eudaemonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eudaimonia.
hyperaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperaemias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”), equivalent to hyper- + -aemia.
Senses: examples: text: However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
ref: 2024, Jennifer Davidson, Beth Shepherd, Sunderarajan Jayaraman, Practice Long Cases for the Part B Final FRCR Examination:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperemia.
protopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location.
glosses: Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias
workboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workboots
Etymology: From work + boot.
Senses: examples: text: Hugh said nothing. With a mighty effort he had restrained himself from putting one scuffed yellow workboot right through Henry Beaufort's damned old Rock-Ola as he went by. Then, with his head down, he had passed out into darkness.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A sturdy boot intended as workwear.
workboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workboot
lustreware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lustrewares
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lusterware.
tetanurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetanuran
nonflier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfliers
Etymology: From non- + flier.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, does not fly, especially a person who does not travel by aeroplane.
nonfliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonflier
breadthwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breadthwise
form: most breadthwise
Etymology: From breadth + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Make a breadthwise cut.
glosses: directed across the breadth of an object or place.
breadthwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more breadthwise
form: most breadthwise
Etymology: From breadth + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The tubes should be placed breadthwise inside the box.
glosses: Across the breadth of an object or place.
contraclockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From contra- + clockwise.
Senses: glosses: counterclockwise
contraclockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + clockwise.
Senses: glosses: counterclockwise
well-oiled machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well-oiled machines
Etymology: The figurative sense is an extension from the literal sense.
Senses: examples: text: run like a well-oiled machine
text: Our office runs like a well-oiled machine.
text: Our office is a well-oiled machine.
text: Trevor was the firm's facilities manager and it was his job to make sure that their office ran like a well-oiled machine and that the partners, attorneys, and staff were comfortable.
ref: 2008, Zane, Succulent: Chocolate Flava II, page 2:
text: A movie studio in the so-called golden era was a well-oiled machine with everything needed to make movies right in place on the studio lot.
ref: 2007, Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine, page 13:
text: Contrary to this dismal picture is the popular concept of the classroom that runs like a well-oiled machine, smoothly, flawlessly, functioning at full capacity, producing maximum output.
ref: 2004, Carolyn Orange, 44 Smart Strategies for Avoiding Classroom Mistakes, page 16:
text: The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.
ref: 1850, The Knickerbocker; or, New-York monthly magazine, "Editor's Table", p. 573
glosses: Something that operates capably through the effective coordination of many parts.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well-oiled, machine.
Related terms: oilcan
oiler
well-oiled
well-oiled machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-oiled machine
willowware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From willow + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from willow.
technopeasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛknəʊˌpɛzənt/
Forms: form: technopeasants
Etymology: From techno- + peasant.
Senses: examples: text: “You would be able to, if only you′d — ”
Jim cut him off in mid-grumble. “I know. ‘If only I′d stop being a technopeasant and open my eyes.’ OK, I know I′ve been a technopeasant, but now I want to open my eyes, and I need you to help me do it.”
ref: 1994, Stewart Wieck, When Will You Rage?, page 86:
text: Being a technopeasant, I took his word for it and bought the rabbit ears for an additional sum. When I got home and uncrated the set, I discovered it had a built-in antenna and that I did not need the extra one.
ref: 1997, Ruth H. Jacobs, Be an Outrageous Older Woman, page 111:
text: In his vision people will be divided into two classes; “the Knows” and the “Know-Nots,” the digirati and the technopeasants.
ref: 1999, William A. Stahl (William Austin), God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology, page 47:
text: In his other statements it is clear that he regards computer programmers as technopeasants, and this is how many corporations do treat them with programming outsourced to low-wage countries like India.
ref: 2001, Ruth Cohen, Alien Invasion: How The Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario, page 182:
glosses: One who is disadvantaged or exploited within a modern technological society, especially through inability to use computer technology.
Related terms: technopeasantry
technopeasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technopeasant
clayware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claywares
Etymology: From clay + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from clay.
claywares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clayware
ovenware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovenwares
Etymology: From oven + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Cooking utensils that can be safely used in an oven.
ovenwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovenware
lordlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lordlike
form: most lordlike
Etymology: From lord + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a lord; lordly.
cyberfashion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + fashion.
Senses: examples: text: What makes cyberfashion possible today is the convergence of several technologies.
ref: 1997, Business Week:
text: A "cyberfashion show" vets the latest ideas in wearable computing and techno paraphernalia. This year's theme for the STUDIO is Utopia/Dystopia.
ref: 2002, Association for Computing Machinery, Conference abstracts and applications:
glosses: Fashion (popular trends) in cyberwear.
cybercreature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercreatures
Etymology: From cyber- + creature.
Senses: glosses: A creature that exists only in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cybercreatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercreature
cybersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + sexual.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cybersex (sexual acts in cyberspace).
Synonyms: cybererotic
Derived terms: cybersexually
cybermedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + medicine.
Senses: glosses: Telemedicine by means of cyberspace or the Internet.
snakewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From snake + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a snake; serpentine, with twisting or wriggling motions.
serpentinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more serpentinely
form: most serpentinely
Etymology: From serpentine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a serpentine manner.
snakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From snaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The anonymous writer asserts that the definition was inserted into the preamble only of the Act of 1643, and "subtilly and snakingly" made statutory in 1655 "all to gratify the conjobling^([sic]) of a Linsy Winsy Apothecary-Surgeons."
ref: 1905, The Practitioner, volume 75, page 107:
text: Amazonian in build, with a pretty face, Bindu often called herself an actress and snakingly pointed to a string of films where she was not clawed, pawed or jawed by her boss.
ref: 1985, Sûrya India, page 55:
text: The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also.
ref: 2012, Fran Brearton, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, page 578:
glosses: In a snaking manner; serpentinely.
fecundist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fecund + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fecundism.
fecundities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fecundity
fecundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fecundly
form: most fecundly
Etymology: From fecund + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fecund manner.
pregnantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pregnantly
form: most pregnantly
Etymology: From pregnant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pregnant manner.
examples: text: A thousand moral paintings I can show / That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's / More pregnantly than words.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 95:
glosses: unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly, evidently
Synonyms: fruitfully
significantly
ecolabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecolabels
Etymology: From eco- + label.
Senses: glosses: A label on a product that states that it has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
thuswise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðʌswʌɪz/
Etymology: From thus + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Butt God which shewed before by the mougth off all hys prophetes that Christ shulde suffre, hath thuswyse fulfilled it.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: The atoms, as their own weight bears them down / Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, / In scarce determined places, from their course / Decline a little – call it, so to speak, / Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont / Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, / Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; / And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows / Among the primal elements; and thus / Nature would never have created aught.
ref: 1916, William Ellery Leonard, transl., On the Nature of Things, New York: E. P. Dutton, translation of De rerum natura by Lucretius, →OCLC, Book 2, line 218–227:
glosses: In this way.
Related terms: thiswise
ecolabels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecolabel
randomwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From random + -wise.
Senses: glosses: randomly
randomwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From random + -wise.
Senses: glosses: random
forestries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestry
ecoforestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + forestry.
Senses: glosses: A sustainable, eco-friendly form of forestry.
subserviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subserviates
form: subserviating
form: subserviated
form: subserviated
Senses: glosses: To make subservient
glosses: To subordinate
slovenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slovenlike
form: most slovenlike
Etymology: From sloven + -like.
Senses: glosses: slovenly
kidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kidlike
form: most kidlike
Etymology: From kid + -like. Compare kidly.
Senses: glosses: Resembling kid (the material).
examples: text: He suspected they had done the most kidlike thing, regardless of the consequences for them; they had given up and gone home.
ref: 1977, Stephen King, Children of the Corn:
glosses: Childlike.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kid (juvenile goat); haedine.
dactylectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dăktĭlĕkʹtəmĭ
ipa: /ˌdæktɪˈlɛktəmɪ/
rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: dactylectomies
Etymology: From dactyl- + (from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”)) + -ectomy (from Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ, “excision”)).
Senses: examples: text: […] it would appear that amputation or dactylectomy is definitely contraindicated. Of the four patients whose digits were amputated (and who were not included in this series), no change in the prognosis of their general condition was found […]
ref: 1947, C.V. Mosby, “American Academy of Pediatrics”, in The Journal of Pediatrics, volume 30, page 156:
text: There was also criticism of Clover, the foremost anæsthetist of his day, who had laid down the rules of administering anæsthæsia since the first use of it under his direction in November 1847, by chloroform, for a dactylectomy.
ref: 1995–9?, Roman Golicz, “1871–1873: The Last Visit” (chapter 12), in The English Life of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: The Life of Napoleon III in the context of Anglo-French Relations:
text: Did you consider multiple dactylectomy? Perhaps if she could only count to 2…
ref: 2000, Brian M. Scott, “Why are Headers Screwing Up?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The amputation of a finger.
retropharyngeally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retropharyngeal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a retropharyngeal manner.
unenshrined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enshrined.
Senses: glosses: Not enshrined.
unshrunken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shrunken.
Senses: glosses: Not shrunken.
unshrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shrunk.
Senses: glosses: Not shrunk.
unpuritanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpuritanical
form: most unpuritanical
form: un-Puritanical
Etymology: From un- + puritanical.
Senses: glosses: Not puritanical.
Cromwellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cromwellian
pulselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulselike
form: most pulselike
form: pulse-like
Etymology: From pulse + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pulse.
lenticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lenticularly
form: most lenticularly
Etymology: From lenticular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lenticular manner.
sagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagelike
form: most sagelike
Etymology: From sage + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a sage (wise person).
testicularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more testicularly
form: most testicularly
Etymology: From testicular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a testicular manner.
desmethyldoxylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desmethyl + doxylamine.
Senses: glosses: One of the two main metabolites of doxylamine (the other being didesmethyldoxylamine).
didesmethyldoxylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪdɛzˌmɛθɪldɒkˈsɪləmiːn/
Senses: glosses: One of the two main metabolites of doxylamine (the other being desmethyldoxylamine).
procyonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procyonids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Procyonidae, a New World family of the order Carnivora, including the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles.
procyonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procyonid
olingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olingos
Etymology: From American Spanish olingo.
Senses: glosses: A small procyonid of most species of the genus Bassaricyon, resembling the kinkajou, native to the rainforests of Central and South America.
Related terms: taxonomic: Bassaricyon neblina
word: olinguito
olingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olingo
devil's strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's strips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of devil strip.
econo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: economics; economy.
examples: text: She bought the econo-brand groceries instead of the name brand ones.
glosses: economical; affordable.
key set identifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key set identifier
devil strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil strips
form: devil's strip
Etymology: From devil + strip, from the area’s status as a no man's land between private and public property, devil or devil's in place names meaning
“barren, unproductive and unused”.
Compare devil's lane (“narrow area between two parallel fences”), devil's footstep (“barren spot of land”).
Senses: qualifier: Akron; Ohio; Akron; Ohio
glosses: The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street.
Synonyms: list at tree lawn
Related terms: hell strip
no man's land
Bevin Boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bevin Boys
Etymology: After Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition British government.
Senses: glosses: Any of the young British men conscripted to work in the coal mines between 1943 and 1948.
cheve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheves
form: cheving
form: cheved
form: cheved
Etymology: From Middle English cheven, from Old French chevir. See chievance.
Senses: examples: text: to cheve well in an enterprise
text: All things went well and chieved prosperously
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.
Mito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: capital city of Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.
primidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪm.əd.əʊn/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪ.məˌdoʊn/
ipa: /ˈpɹɪm.əˌdoʊn/
Etymology: Blend of p(y)rimid(ine) + d(i)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anticonvulsant drug chemically related (and partially metabolized) to phenobarbital, used in the treatment of epilepsy and essential (idiopathic) tremor.
pyrimidinedione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrimidinediones
Etymology: From pyrimidine + dione?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of chemical compounds characterized by a pyrimidine ring substituted with two carbonyl groups.
pyrimidinediones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrimidinedione
idoxuridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antiviral drug used to combat herpesvirus.
phenylethylmalonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɛnɪlˌɛθɪlməˈlɒnəmaɪd/
Senses: glosses: A metabolite of primidone.
hyperhomocysteinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperhomocysteinemia.
Maebashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 前橋 (Maebashi).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
parcelwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parcel + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In parcels or allotments; piecemeal, fragmented.
parcelwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From parcel + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a parcelwise fashion.
Kofu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kōfu
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Kōfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kofu.
steelware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelwares
Etymology: From steel + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from steel.
Otsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ōtsu
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Shiga prefecture, Japan.
Ōtsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Romaji spelling of Otsu.
saltirewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From saltire + -wise.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In the form of a saltire; crossing diagonally.
wikipedia: Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen
Tsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 津 (Tsu).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Mie Prefecture, Japan.
doated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doat
chromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromo
Matsue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Shimane prefecture, Japan.
crimsoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crimson
furder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For first Mr. Dier's opinion was that the ancient custom for exportation was by the common laws; and goeth furder, that that ancient custom was the custom upon wools, woolfells, and leather.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “A.D. 1610. Ætat. 50.”, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 194:
text: "Yes," rejoined Mr. De Younge; "things are gitting mighty critical even in dese 'ere parts; and I wouldn't live furder down town if you was to give me a house rent-free.
ref: 1857, Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends:
text: They're a good deal furder off than they look.
ref: 1888, Frank R. Stockton, Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences:
text: "La!" said he, "I'll go no furder if they turn me to a goose.
ref: 1897, John Bennett, Master Skylark:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of further, comparative form of far: more far.
fule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fules
Senses: examples: text: That army gent, Major Boston, as is agent for all the College lands down the valley, he be a poor weak fule, and when all these tinants come to him and say that they must either hev the land at five shillings an acre or go, he gits scared, he du, and down goes the rent of some of the best meadow land in the country from thirty-five shillings to five.
ref: 1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch, V.C.:
text: "Why, you dog-goned old fule, you cain't hit thet bawl."
ref: 1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars:
glosses: fool
Derived terms: any fule kno
fule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you.
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2:
glosses: fool
tan lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tan line
windoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windoids
Etymology: From window + -oid.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Macintosh
glosses: A small, less adorned, floating window or palette of tools that remains on top of other windows.
præmarital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The absurdly low sentences against men convicted of assault, the utterly inadequate protection against seduction, the tolerance by society of a double standard of morals in the præmarital state, the advocacy, even by an eminent Judge, of an inequality between man and woman in the laws of divorce — these are the things which give the lie to Sir Almroth Wright’s complacent assumption that “under this covenant a full half of the programme of Christianity has been realized.”
ref: 1913, William Durran, The Lawyer, Our Old-Man-of-the-Sea, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, page 433:
text: If it is so, it is hard to understand why those people who allow præmarital freedom and do not enforce conjugal fidelity, should marry at all.
ref: 1915, Folklore Society of Great Britain, Publications, volume 75, page 123:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of premarital.
cancaneuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cancaneuse
comunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comuna
temporal bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal bone
temporal hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal hour
temporal lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal lobe
frontal lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontal lobe
occipital lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occipital lobe
walk-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk-in
walks in the snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk in the snow
opinion polls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinion poll
cults of personality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cult of personality
cross-benchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-bencher
verrugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verruga
sicilianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siciliano
sicilianas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siciliana
acrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrophones
Etymology: From acro- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: There were three classes of predicted knowledge sources: (a) induced sublexical relations (i.e., induction of orthographic–phonological relations from the experience of print words), (b) acrophones from letter names, and (c) transfer from spelling experience.
ref: 1999, G. Brian Thompson et al., “Learning correspondences between letters and phonemes without explicit instruction”, in Applied Psycholinguistics, →DOI:
text: Where there are no certain cognates to an acrophone, but the identity of its letter is secure, I shall reconstruct the translation in square brackets.
ref: 2006, Gordon James Hamilton, The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts, page 26:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents
Derived terms: acrophony
idiomatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.
ref: 1919, H.A. Rose, “Comparative "Idiomatology"”, in Man, page 133:
text: His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology.
ref: 1952, Claire Eileen Craddock, Style theories as found in stylistic studies of Romance scholars, 1900-1950, page 32:
text: If we were to identify the langue strictly with the object of linguistic description then one aspect of the problem of defining the langue would involve drawing the line between that aspect of the speakers’ knowledge of X which is relevant to a linguistic description of X and those aspects (the idiomatology) which are not.
ref: 1978 June 9, George W. Grace, “The Langue”, in Ethnolinguistic Notes, number 2:
glosses: The study of idioms and idiomatic language
metalexicography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From meta- + lexicography.
Senses: examples: text: Metalexicography can be divided into five fields of interest; the first is lexicographic theory […]
ref: 1986, Robert Ilson, Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession, page 101:
text: This is a bibliography of works that deal with the theory, methods, and procedures of lexicography (in short, with what is called in French and German metalexicography)
ref: 1988, Ladislav Zgusta et al., Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography of the Theory of Lexicography, page 7:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of lexicography
Derived terms: metalexicographer
metalexicographical
metalexicographically
Related terms: metadictionary
metalanguage
metalexicon
metalinguistics
terminography
metatypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.
Senses: examples: text: The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin.
ref: 1996, Malcolm Ross, “Contact-induced change and the comparative method”, in The comparative method reviewed: regularity and irregularity in language change, page 209:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.
foregather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foregathers
form: foregathering
form: foregathered
form: foregathered
Senses: examples: text: One morning the twins foregathered in the parlor.
ref: 1908, Emerson Hough, Heart's Desire:
text: These were the same people with whom the judges who rendered these decisions were apt to foregather at social clubs, or dinners, or in private life.
ref: 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt:
text: A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them.
ref: 1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith:
text: The six drivers foregathered and the rather surprising discovery was made that five out of the six were teetotallers.
ref: 1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:
text: I was hoping for some further improvement when we were suddenly brought to a stand on the 1 in 125 before Stanley Junction, where a couple of freights and the 8.40 a.m. slow from Struan all had foregathered and helped to block the road.
ref: 1964 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of forgather.
graphemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæˈfiː.mɪks/
ipa: /ɡɹæˈfi.mɪks/
Etymology: By analogy with phonemics. By surface analysis, graphemic + -s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of the graphemes, or writing units, of a script, and of their relation to the phonemes of the spoken language.
Hypernyms: grammatology
graphology
Coordinate terms: graphetics
foregathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foregather