cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
good folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the good folk
Senses: synonyms: good people
glosses: Fairies, brownies, pixies, etc.; magical humanoid creatures.
watch and watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And Mr. Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.
angle brace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle braces
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypotenuse and securing the two side pieces together.
angle shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle shafts
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
rope dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rope darts
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 繩鏢／绳镖 (shéngbiāo).
Senses: glosses: A weapon that originated in ancient China, consisting of a long rope with a metal dart at the end, used to attack long-range targets repeatedly.
Related terms: meteor hammer
globe of compression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globes of compression
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of mine producing a wide crater.
in full feather
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In full dress or in one's best clothes.
glosses: In good condition or high spirits.
watch gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch guns
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A gun sometimes fired on ship at to mark the start of end of a watch.
service road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service roads
Senses: examples: text: [I]t can only pinpoint phones to within a few hundred feet. That makes it difficult to tell if a signal is coming from a vehicle on the highway or from one on a parallel service road.
ref: 2006 December 3, John R. Quain, “Real-Time Traffic Reports? Get Real”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jul 2014:
text: RCMP issued a news release reporting that a passing motorist had found a woman's body in a ditch next to a service road adjacent to Highway 16.
ref: 2014 April 30, Hannah Spray, “GPS tracking led police to Woods's body”, in Faceoff.com, Canada, retrieved 28 Jul 2014:
glosses: A relatively narrow road which runs alongside a major transportation route, such as a canal, a railway line, or a controlled-access highway.
examples: text: From the day-use area behind Longmire Lodge, we walked up the service road behind the ranger station and employee housing.
ref: 2004 December 8, Karen Skyes, “Hike Of The Week”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 28 Jul 2014:
text: Large steel columns from the fallen World Trade Center have been found beneath a service road being excavated at Ground Zero.
ref: 2007 February 1, “Pieces of WTC found beneath road”, in USA Today, retrieved 28 Jul 2014:
text: We walk the service road, past the stables, up the slope, to where the watermill stands.
ref: 2012 May 12, Laura Barton, “A walk in the grounds of Dunham Massey”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 28 Jul 2014:
glosses: A route which enters or circulates through an institution, compound, land area, etc. for purposes of private access, maintenance, or security.
Synonyms: sense: road alongside a major transportation route
word: frontage road
sense: road alongside a major transportation route
word: parallel road
sense: road which enters or circulates through a defined area
word: access road
sense: road which enters or circulates through a defined area
word: driveway
prince's feather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Amaranthus hypochondriacus, an ornamental plant.
prince's pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prince's pines
Senses: synonyms: king-cure
glosses: Chimaphila umbellata, a small perennial flowering plant.
Guinea grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guinea grasses
Senses: glosses: Megathyrsus maximus, a large perennial bunchgrass native to Africa, Palestine, and Yemen.
shirataki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirataki
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 白滝 (shirataki).
Senses: glosses: Thin, translucent, gelatinous traditional Japanese noodles made from the Asian plant konjac.
Noriko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese のりこ (Noriko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
diamond beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond beetles
Senses: glosses: Chrysolopus spectabilis, a weevil found in south-eastern Australia, with metallic green patterns on its body.
indemnitees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indemnitee
rockmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + meal.
Senses: glosses: A light powdery variety of calcite occurring as an efflorescence.
paradisefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradisefishes
form: paradisefish
Etymology: From paradise + fish.
Senses: glosses: Macropodus opercularis, a freshwater gourami of East Asia.
paradisefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradisefish
landblink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From land + blink; compare iceblink.
Senses: glosses: An atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions.
right and left screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right and left screws
Senses: glosses: A screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.
tiger wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger wolves
Senses: glosses: spotted hyena
glosses: thylacine
tiger wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger wolf
queen conch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen conchs
form: queen conches
Senses: glosses: Aliger gigas, a large edible sea snail.
queen of the meadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Filipendula ulmaria, the meadowsweet.
glosses: Eutrochium purpureum, sweet joe-pye weed.
quarter gunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter gunners
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A petty officer who assists the gunner.
widow's chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled.
tiger grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger grasses
Senses: glosses: The grass Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane).
glosses: The grass Thysanolaena latifolia (synonym Thysanolaena maxima.
glosses: The flowering plant Centella asiatica.
glosses: mazari palm (Nannorrhops ritchiana)
ground beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground beetles
Senses: synonyms: carabid
glosses: Any of a large cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, beetle.
Derived terms: blue ground beetle
ground annual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An estate created in land by a vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge upon the land.
boobied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Did you ever see any place filled with so many big-boobied blondes, and dressed in those string bikini things?
ref: 1977, Laurence Delaney, The Triton Ultimatum, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Stupid bleeding-eyed fake-boobied cow... Duh, like I got a choice.
ref: 2006, Scott Ciencin, Nick Stakal, Silent Hill: Dead/Alive, page 41:
glosses: Having breasts
raw_tags: of a woman
boobied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booby
ski lodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski lodge
statuvolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staˈtʃuːvəlɪzm̩/
Etymology: From Latin status + (stem form of) velle (“to will”).
Senses: examples: text: I have selected the word Statuvolism, from two Latin words—Status, a state or condition, and Volo, the will—meaning thereby, a state produced by an act of the will.
ref: 1871, William Baker Fahnestock, Statuvolism, page 39:
text: The dictum of Lord Bacon: “The human mind can be placed in communication with other minds and transmit their impressions,” is not inclusive enough to cover the phenomena of statuvolism, animal magnetism, electro-biology, mesmerism, or by whatsoever name we may indicate the use of this mysterious agent.
ref: 1911, Sepharial, A Manual of Occultism, page 200:
text: Psychometry lead^([sic]) to the discovery of “Statuvolism” which is a peculiar condition produced by the will, in which a person can “throw their mind” to any distant place and see, hear, feel, smell, and taste what is going on there.
ref: 2013, John Robertson, Winning the Battles in Spiritual Warfare, page 409:
glosses: Self-hypnosis.
vernalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vernalized.
die away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies away
form: dying away
form: died away
form: died away
Senses: glosses: To die gradually or slowly.
examples: text: So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
They cannot see the sun on high:
The wind hath blown a gale all day;
At evening it hath died away.
ref: 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
synonyms: fade away
glosses: To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
examples: text: By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death[…]God dies away in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 45, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to die; to do away with.
dies away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die away
dying away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die away
died away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die away
oignon vert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oignons verts
Etymology: From French oignon vert (“green onion”).
Senses: glosses: meter maid
oignons verts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oignon vert
Isratine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isratin
Etymology: Blend of Israel + Palestine.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical joint state of Israel and Palestine.
Synonyms: word: Israelstine
word: Israelestine
word: Palesrael
corflu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.
Senses: examples: text: Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.
ref: 1960, John Bristol Speer, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190:
text: She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.
ref: 1983, Cathy Ball, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
skiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪfi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Etymology: A phonetic spelling of sci-fi to convey its deliberate mispronunciation (with "sc" being read as /sk/ and "i" being read as short vowel /i/ instead of diphthong /aɪ/).
Senses: examples: text: The science fiction reader sneers at fake SF, artificially produced film tie-in novels and stories, most SF films, most TV SF. This he calls sci-fi (or "skiffy")—junk no right-thinking omnivore or chronic should read, watch, or support.
ref: 1984, David Hartwell, “The Golden Age of Science Fiction is Twelve”, in Age of Wonders, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Many of the best new writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality.
ref: 1989 July, Bruce Sterling, SF Eye, number 5, page 77:
text: Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term "skiffy". In 1980s-1990s usage "skiffy", which sounds friendlier than "sci fi", has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. Skiffy is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk sf: Star Wars is skiffy.
ref: 1993, Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, →ISBN, page 1079:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Low-quality science fiction.
collective punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collective punishments
Senses: examples: text: The Israeli army claims that its offensive, now being stepped up is a “war on terror”; UN experts say it amounts to collective punishment.
ref: 2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: group punishment
glosses: A form of punishment whereby a suspected perpetrator's peers are targeted.
Related terms: collective responsibility
collective guilt
Sippenhaft
unpreceded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + preceded.
Senses: glosses: Not preceded.
unprecedentedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unprecedented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unprecedented.
Phaedra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːdɹə/
Etymology: From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.
Senses: examples: text: We notice that Racine's Phaedra, like Euripides', displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for Hippolytus to be abominable.
ref: 1981, Normand Berlin, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, page 46:
text: Why did Seneca decide to postpone his own Phaedra’s suicide until after Hippolytus' death? The question is by no means as futile as it may sound.
ref: 1993, Albert S. Gérard, The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama, page 20:
text: I may add that the notion that Aphrodite is especially cruel because she destroyed Phaedra, who was an innocent victim, since she had no choice, is not a perception that would have been shared by the ancient audience. Not only is it at the very least arguable—in fact likely—that in ancient eyes Phaedra did have a choice,¹⁶⁶ but also the very notions "innocent victim since she had no choice" and "cruel because destroying an innocent victim" are unstable cultural concepts.
ref: 2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion, page 331:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The asteroid 174 Phaedra.
Derived terms: word: Phaedra complex
word: Fedra
MOBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊbə/
Forms: form: MOBAs
Senses: examples: text: The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust.
ref: 2022 November 17, Carver Fisher, “League of Legends preseason 13 has made tanks unkillable”, in Dexerto:
text: Although many of the traditional MOBA features have all but vanished from Supervive over the course of development, a few have still made it into the early access version.
ref: 2024 November 21, Nathan Warby, “What is Supervive? New MOBA gameplay, platforms, more”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
glosses: Acronym of multiplayer online battle arena.
Hypernyms: RTS
bell trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell traps
Senses: glosses: A kind of bell-shaped stench trap.
bell punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell punches
Senses: examples: text: All local tickets were issued in the cars by the conductor, and were of the usual tramway bell-punch type.
ref: 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
text: The guard performs athletic feats in jumping from coach to coach while the train is in motion, taking orders for tickets, punching them on a bell punch in his van, and then returning to distribute them to passengers.
ref: 1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 842:
glosses: A kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.
bell cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell cots
form: bellcot
form: bellcote
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbelled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.
bear away the bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears away the bell
form: bearing away the bell
form: bore away the bell
form: borne away the bell
Etymology: A bell was once a traditional prize in races.
Senses: examples: text: And as these western men do bear away the bell for might and sleight in wrestling , so the scholars here have always acquitted themselves with credit in palæstrâ literariâ
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To be superior in something.
steerike
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: By epenthesis.
Senses: glosses: Emphatic form of strike (usually associated with umpires in baseball).
lanternfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanternflies
Etymology: From lantern + fly. The name came about because of claims that some Fulgoridae are luminous at night. European and Euro-American writers, including Maria Sibylla Merian and Carl Linnaeus, said that the claims came from Indigenous peoples in South America. (Merian had visited Suriname.) Various names, including lanternfly, the specific name laternaria, and various other (current or former) scientific names, came out of this belief. Compare firefly and lightning bug, names for insects that do in fact glow at night.
Senses: glosses: Any of various insects in the family Fulgoridae, especially in the genera Fulgora and Pyrops, with brilliant coloration.
wikipedia: Carl Linnaeus
Maria Sibylla Merian
Derived terms: taxonomic: Fulgora laternaria
word: peanut-headed lanternfly
alt: Lycorma delicatula
word: spotted lanternfly
lanternflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanternfly
Land o' Cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Land o' Cakes
Etymology: In reference to the oatmeal cakes for which the country is famous.
Senses: glosses: Scotland
feather spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel.
silkgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silk + grass.
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Yucca filamentosa.
red liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because used originally for red dyestuffs.
Senses: topics: business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber.
Synonyms: red mordant
gold-of-pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: camelina
false flax
glosses: Camelina sativa, a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, or other species in the genus Camelina.
Mary Worth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mary Worths
Senses: examples: text: "She was the Mary Worth of the district," says her grandson. Edward McCormack Jr. "The one whom everybody came to with their troubles, arbiter of disputes, nurse of the sick, comforter of the oppressed."
ref: 1962, Time, volume 79, numbers 1-13, page 17:
text: But Orwell's portrayal of dark-jowled KGB-type Thought Police so alerted us to that type of threat that we've been left wide open to be preyed upon by the Ellsworth Tooheys and Mary Worths of the world, those insidious manipulators whose soliticious omnipresence has created the same incentive-crushing bureaucracy which Orwell so vividly depicted.
ref: 1973, Car and Driver, editorial, volume 19 page 8:
text: Jessica Fletcher, the widowed detective of Murder She Wrote (1984-1996), extended the Mary Worth tradition of kindly meddling to the criminal scene.
ref: 2002, John Shelton Lawrence, Robert Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero, Wm. B. Eerdmans, page 75:
text: You're hung up that personal gratification can't be combined with helping other people. The Mary Worth syndrome—is a euphemism for not facing your own devils.
ref: 2010, Bill Blanchet, The Reform Plan, Trafford Publishing, page 125:
glosses: An American comic strip character, noted for her kindly role in solving other people's problems.
examples: text: Generally known as a girls' tradition common in elementary school, Mary Worth rituals invoke the atmosphere of the seance, but surround that custom in a particular legend.
ref: 1988, Simon J. Bronner, American Children's Folklore, August House, page 168:
text: There was another face in the mirror. ... Mary Worth.
ref: 1999, Bentley Little, The House, Penguin:
text: “I believe in Mary Worth. I believe in Mary Worth.” Maria's tone was serious as she repeated the phrase.
ref: 2008, JC Conrad-Ellis, Boys, Beauty and Betrayal, Nightengale Press, page 28:
glosses: A spirit of folklore that can be summoned in a mirror, known by various "Mary" names.
Kutchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kachchi.
mountain meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A figurative use of the word meal, prompted by fancied resemblance.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: bergmeal
glosses: A light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence.
mountain milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime.
wood carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood carpets
Senses: glosses: A floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, such as cloth.
egoscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egoscans
Etymology: From ego + scan.
Senses: examples: text: *blush* I peek my nose in to r.a.sf.f for the first time in ages, and get a BINGO on the egoscan! Wowie zowie!
ref: 1996 January 19, Fred A. Levy Haskell, “Re: E-mail and Posting”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <falh.822035840@maroon.tc.umn.edu>:
text: Nice to see my article on running into all the wonderful Vegans down in LA. I must admit to doing an egoscan to see how it turned out, and of course, it was wonderfully done.
ref: 2005 December 10, Chris Garcia, “ChatBack”, in Vegas Fandom Weekly, volume 2, number 2 (whole number 56), page 11:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A brief search of a publication for one's name.
egoscan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: egoscans
form: egoscanning
form: egoscanned
form: egoscanned
Etymology: From ego + scan.
Senses: examples: text: Egoscan: To check through a fanzine for references [...] concerning oneself.
ref: 1975, Elliot Weinstein, The Fillostrated Fan Dictionary, page 43:
text: Every now and then I egoscan, as more and more people have been asking my permission to use excerpts from my reviews in their letters column.
ref: 1996 April 18, Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, “Re: Who Reads Letters Columns?”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <4l5sok$50c@panix.com>:
text: Bit disappointed by the lack of mention in this issue. I haven't actually read any issue of Broken Toys since my own letter in #2 (the rest remains on my 'to be read' shelf, which I have only recently realized is short for "to be read when I retire") but thanks to the wonders of the "find" command, took the liberty of egoscanning the last ten issues and did not find myself mentioned once.
ref: 2013 March, Robert Runte, “Left-Over Pieces”, in Broken Toys, number 14, page 10:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To quickly search a publication for one's name.
Related terms: egoboo
egosurf
on the mending hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: convalescent; improving in health
egoscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egoscan
egoscans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of egoscan
egoscanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egoscan
egoscanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of egoscan
Irish reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish reefs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The head of a sail tied up.
Synonyms: Irishman's reef
Aloha shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aloha shirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of aloha shirt.
shorthead redhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorthead redhorses
Senses: glosses: Moxostoma macrolepidotum, a fish native to central and eastern North America.
queen's delight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: queenroot
glosses: The plant Stillingia sylvatica.
chiroform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chiroform
form: most chiroform
Etymology: From chiro- + -form.
Senses: examples: text: They support their argument with elaborate engravings from the Messak bearing chiroform patterns resembling the "open woman".
ref: 2004, Sahara, number 15:
glosses: Shaped like a hand.
Synonyms: palmate
biautomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + automatic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having two multiplier automata
raw_tags: of a group
dress shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress shirts
form: dress-shirt
Senses: synonyms: word: button-down
word: button-up
word: polo
word: work shirt
hyponyms: word: blouse
english: tailored for women's use
translation: tailored for women's use
glosses: A collared shirt with buttons worn as part of a formal, business or business casual outfit.
examples: text: First off, you certainly wouldn’t want to rock up to work sporting a dress shirt. Not unless you’re the Queen’s butler or one of those gents who holds the doors open at posh department stores. No, a dress shirt is to be worn exclusively as part of a black-tie outfit, most commonly a tuxedo.
ref: 2024 July 30, “The Complete Guide To Men’s Dress Shirts”, in FashionBeans:
synonyms: evening shirt
tuxedo shirt
meronyms: bib
double cuff
placket
pleat
ruffle
wing collar
glosses: A formal, eveningwear shirt with buttons, often worn as part of a black tie or white tie dress code.
Derived terms: dress-shirted
dress shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dress shirt
checkboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of checkerboard (design)
chignolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic decapeptide that folds into a beta-hairpin structure in water.
eigenline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenlines
Etymology: From eigen- + line.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional eigenspace.
eigenlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenline
jungle green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Keir, in jungle green, sneered up at Nabby Adams[.]
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:
glosses: A dark bluish-green colour, like the vegetation in a tropical jungle.
jungle green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a dark bluish-green color, like the plants in a jungle
harmonichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonichords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of upright piano whose strings are set in vibration not by the blow of the hammer but by indirectly transmitted friction.
harmonichords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonichord
apotelesmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apotelesmatical
form: most apotelesmatical
Senses: glosses: apotelesmatic
apothecaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothecaryships
Etymology: From apothecary + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of working as an apothecary.
apothecaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apothecaryship
appalment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appalments
Etymology: From appal + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: One patient, in walking through the street, may be quite appalled at the approach of a runaway horse. The degree of appalment in another may be quite trifling.
ref: 1834, John Ashburner, On dentition and some coincident disorders, page 226:
glosses: The state of being appalled or alarmed.
appalments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appalment
applausively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more applausively
form: most applausively
Etymology: From applausive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an applausive manner.
applauseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applauseful
form: most applauseful
Etymology: From applause + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of applause.
appetited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appetite + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having an appetite (of a specified kind or size).
appeaseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appeaseless
form: most appeaseless
Etymology: From appease + -less.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be appeased.
motorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From motor + -ial.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: motor
apprehendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apprehendingly
form: most apprehendingly
Etymology: From apprehending + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With apprehension or understanding.
aquafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquafers
Etymology: From aqua + -fer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aquifer.
aquafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquafer
aquake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪk/
Forms: form: more aquake
form: most aquake
Etymology: From a- + quake.
Senses: examples: text: I was all aquake with fear.
glosses: quaking
aqueously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aqueously
form: most aqueously
Etymology: From aqueous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aqueous manner.
Arabdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arab + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of Arabs.
Arabianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Arabianizes
form: Arabianizing
form: Arabianized
form: Arabianized
form: Arabianise
Etymology: From Arabian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Arabian.
Arabianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Arabianize
Arabianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Arabianize
Arabianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Arabianize
Arabianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabianisation
Etymology: From Arabian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making Arabian.
Arabicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Arabicizes
form: Arabicizing
form: Arabicized
form: Arabicized
Etymology: From Arabic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Arabic.
Synonyms: Arabize
Arabicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabicizations
Etymology: From Arabic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of making Arabic.
Arabicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Arabicize
Arabicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Arabicize
Arabicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Arabicize
arachniphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arachnophobia.
antisuit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + suit.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Being or relating to an injunction that prevents an opposing party from commencing or continuing a proceeding in another jurisdiction or forum.
antiarbitration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiarbitration
form: most antiarbitration
Etymology: From anti- + arbitration.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing arbitration.
archaistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more archaistically
form: most archaistically
Etymology: From archaistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an archaistic fashion.
archangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin archangelicus + -al. By surface analysis, arch- + angelical or archangel + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: […] we have had the prediction of Christ and his Apostles, of above fifteene hundred yeeres standing; besides the daily sound of those Evangelicall Trumpets, that tell us of that Archangelicall Trumpet in their Pulpits.
ref: 1633, Thomas Adams, A Commentary or, Exposition upon the Divine Second Epistle Generall, Written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter, London: Jacob Bloome, Chapter 3, verse 7, p. 1237:
text: […] they see in their conscience-blasted minds a barrier to a return home, high as the Archangelical gate behind Mother Eve […]
ref: 1894, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Lord Ormont and His Aminta,, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 241:
text: With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the archangelical trumpet the brazen death of time.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: archangelic
glosses: Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.
areophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably a misspelling of synonymous aerophane.
Senses: glosses: A thin crepe fabric.
archlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archlets
Etymology: From arch + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small arch.
pillarlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillarlets
Etymology: From pillar + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small pillar.
archlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archlet
pillarlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillarlet
Arkansian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arkansian
form: most Arkansian
Senses: glosses: Of or from Arkansas.
Arkansian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arkansians
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Arkansas.
Arkansians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arkansian
argentometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From argentometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to argentometry.
Derived terms: argentometrically
argentometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From argentometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of argentometry.
argentometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argentometers
Etymology: From argento- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: The measuring instrument used in argentometry.
argentometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argentometer
architectonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From architectonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of architectonics.
Derived terms: chemoarchitectonically
cytoarchitectonically
myeloarchitectonically
Arthurianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arthurian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of Arthurian legend in literature, history, etc.
arksutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chiolite
asperously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asperously
form: most asperously
Etymology: From asperous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an asperous manner.
assassinatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assassinatresses
Etymology: From assassinator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female assassin.
assassinatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assassinatress
asphyxiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphyxiators
Etymology: From asphyxiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which asphyxiates.
asphyxiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asphyxiator
aspergillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Aspergillus + -in
Senses: glosses: A black pigment obtained from Aspergillus.
askeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + skeletal.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a skeleton.
asparagusate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asparagus(ic acid) + -ate.
Senses: glosses: The conjugate base of asparagusic acid; any salt or ester of it.
Related terms: asparaginate
asparagus
aspartate
asparagusic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: asparagusate
glosses: The organosulfur compound with chemical formula S₂(CH₂)₂CHCO₂H, found in asparagus.
Related terms: asparaginase
asparaginate
asparagine
aspargine
asparaginic
asparaginic acid
asparaginyl
asparagus
aspartate
aspartic
aspartic acid
isoasparagine
polyasparagine
asparagolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: apatite
Burley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English burh (“burg”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2103).
glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8810).
glosses: A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2780).
glosses: A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire; see Burley in Wharfedale.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Cassia County, Idaho, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms: Burley in Wharfedale
uncertificated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + certificated.
Senses: examples: text: The shares of the Company shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board may provide that some of its stock shall be uncertificated shares.
glosses: That has not been subject to certification.
ascogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascogonium
ascogonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ascogonia.
askingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more askingly
form: most askingly
Etymology: From Middle English askingli, axingly, equivalent to asking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How askingly It’s footsteps t’ward me bend?
It seems to say, “And have I then one Friend?”
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To a Young Ass”, in Poems on Various Subjects, London: G.G. and J. Robinsons, page 92:
text: “I don’t know whether this is something your wife ever knew about or not?” he began askingly.
ref: 1890, William Dean Howells, The Shadow of a Dream, New York: Harper, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 87:
text: Aspiration is looking askingly; to reach a desirable result one must look askingly toward that which can fulfill.
ref: 1916, Arthur Adolphus Lindsay, Scientific Man Building Through Thought Force, Detroit: A. A. Lindsay Publishing Company, page 12:
text: “That can’t possibly be true,” I say. But he looks at me so sadly, askingly, across his desk—
ref: 1983, Joyce Johnson, chapter 9, in Minor Characters, New York: Pocket Books, published 1984, page 150:
synonyms: questioningly
requestingly
glosses: In an asking manner; so as to ask.
Ashqelon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ashkelon.
ascensionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascensionists
Etymology: From ascension + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out ascents, such as a balloonist or mountaineer.
ascensionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascensionist
artophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, “bread”) + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: Artophagous Frenchmen complain that, at Dutch hotels, the bits of bread beside your plate are absurdly small, and as light as sponge cake, but no penalty is incurred by asking for more.
ref: 1877, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 463:
text: To the artophagous, that is, bread-eating professions, bread is the staple diet. Tailors and teachers are often dedicated artolaters, refusing to eat anything else.
ref: 2001, Salah M. Hassan, Olu Oguibe, Siemon Allen, Authentic, ex-centric:
glosses: bread-eating
artistess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artistesses
Etymology: From artist + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female artist.
artistesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artistess
arrowlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowlets
Etymology: From arrow + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small arrow.
arrowlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowlet
arkansite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ward has presented me with specimens of the Arkansite, and also with specimens of the Thermalite, and I have recently received from him at two different times, via New Orleans, various other geologicacl specimens of great interest, and also an aqualogical specimen, being a bottle of the water of the Hot Springs, which when taken from the spring was of the temperature of 148° of Farenheit.
ref: 1846 April 2, “The Arkansite & Thermalite”, in New York Municipal Gazette, volume 1, number 40, page 545:
text: Some crystals of arkansite from Magnet Cove, which I obtained some time ago through Mr. B. Hurtz, are in many respects very remarkable, and different from those usually obtained at the above locality.
ref: 1880, Catalogue of Minerals & Tables of the Species:
text: One of the rare minerals found in Magnet Cove, which has attracted wide attention among students of geology, is Arkansite (Titanic acid or Brookite).
ref: 1920, Outlines of the Geology, Soils and Minerals of the State of Arkansas:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of brookite.
synonyms: word: brookite
drop D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alternate (scordatura) guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down ("dropped") from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step, to D.
resistents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistent
mom jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In light of Jumbo Jessica's adventures in high-waisted "mom" jeans and ill-fitting leather pants, we bring you the 101 Best Celebrity Legs.
ref: 1999 November 30, “101 Best Celebrity Legs”, in NYPost.com, retrieved 30 Jul 2014:
text: Mom Jeans fit Mom just the way she likes it. She'll love the nine inch zipper and casual front pleats.
ref: 2003 October 5, “Mom Jeans: Support - Saturday Night Live”, in Saturday Night Live, season 28, via NBC:
text: This ad shows a daughter narrowly escaping a "mom jeans" fiasco with the help of eBay's shopping app.
ref: 2014 July 24, Ann-Christine Diaz, “Rewind: From Mom Jeans to Musicals, a Look Back at eBay Advertising”, in Ad Age:
glosses: Jeans, especially those for women, considered unfashionable and unflattering.
glosses: high-waisted bluejeans for women
bilgeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilgeways
Etymology: From bilge + way.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Either of a pair of rails down which a ship is launched.
bilgeways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilgeway
groundways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundway
dishrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishracks
Etymology: From dish + rack.
Senses: examples: text: This modification of the soiled-dish table will enable waiters to remove glasses, cups, and pitchers from the tray and to place them in the overhead dishracks.
ref: 1973, Marketing Research Report, number 1003, page 23:
glosses: A rack for holding dishes.
dishracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishrack
true bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true bill
true bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true bills
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A grand jury's document endorsing the indictment it was to decide on, indicating that a criminal trial is appropriate.
copros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copro
horsebalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + balm.
Senses: glosses: A strong-scented labiate plant (Collinsonia canadensis) with large leaves and yellowish flowers.
leaf sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf sights
Senses: glosses: A hinged sight on a firearm, which can be raised or folded down.
rockfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockfoils
Etymology: From rock + foil.
Senses: glosses: saxifrage
rockfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockfoil
black plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sheet iron before it is tinned.
noncarotenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carotenoid.
Senses: glosses: Not of or relating to carotenoids.
noncarotenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncarotenoids
Etymology: From non- + carotenoid.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is not a carotenoid.
noncarotenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncarotenoid
azafrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azafranillo + -in?
Senses: glosses: An orange pigment with chemical formula C₂₇H₃₈O₄, found in azafranillo root (Escobedia scabrifolia).
auroxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular carotenoid.
neurosporaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carotenoid present in fungi of the genus Neurospora.
taraxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular carotenoid found in Taraxacum.
echinenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular xanthophyll.
kryptoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cryptoxanthin.
synonyms: word: cryptoxanthin
loraxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular carotenoid.
flavaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular carotenoid.