cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fig rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fig roll
be wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is wrong
form: being wrong
form: was wrong
form: been wrong
Senses: glosses: To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Synonyms: be mistaken
err
Shackerstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK3706).
Longtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Arthuret parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in the City of Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY3868).
glosses: A linear village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3229).
glosses: A village in Perry County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Panola County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States.
Related terms: Longton
cobalt green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobalt greens
Senses: glosses: Any of various green inorganic pigments obtained by doping cobalt(II) oxide into colorless host oxides.
cobalt greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobalt green
Lenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8952).
Derived terms: Lenham Heath
ten-speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-speed
showran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of showrun
showruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of showrun
Cornholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Todmorden parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9026).
Barnetby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Barnetby le Wold.
spoon-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon-hooks
Senses: examples: text: This was done with a rod and a small spoon-hook, and the favorable spots were whipped from the end of the canoe, just as one would cast for trout in a lake.
ref: 1991, John Charles Van Dyke, The open spaces: incidents of nights and days under the blue sky, page 185:
text: On the end is a monster spoon-hook, gaily ornamented with gaudy feathers.
ref: 2010, Nick Lyons, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, page 143:
text: There had been a good deal of discussion of the fishing question between the two young friends, for Two Arrows knew nothing of the powers of a "spoon-hook."
ref: 2017, William Stoddard, Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White:
glosses: Alternative form of spoon hook.
spoon-hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon-hook
spoon hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon hooks
form: spoonhook
form: spoon-hook
Senses: examples: text: When a pickerel seizes a spoon hook it is either well hooked or lost at the moment of contact, as the fish knows at once that it has made a mistake, and will get rid of the combination of steel and other ingredients if possible.
ref: 1898, Forest and Stream - Volume 50:
text: The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it.
ref: 2008, Popular Mechanics, How to Tempt a Fish: A Complete Guide to Fishing, page 20:
text: Tie a 6- to 8-inch piece of light mono to the spoon hook then add a 1/64- or 1/32-ounce crappie jig to the tag end.
ref: 2012, Keith Sutton, The Crappie Fishing Handbook:
glosses: Synonym of spoon lure.
synonyms: word: spoon lure
spoon hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon hook
Tweedbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Tweed + bank.
Senses: glosses: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5134).
spoonhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonhooks
Senses: examples: text: He caught six or eight fine connies on a stout hand line and spoonhook, simply by throwing the spoonhook out as far as he could and pulling it in hand over hand.
ref: 1916, Emerson Hough, Let Us Go Afield, page 77:
text: Early in the season, they take the spoonhook freely, but by the middle of July or the first of August they retire into deep water.
ref: 1923, Dietrich Lange, Good Times in the Woods, page 127:
text: The carp had, in some time past, swallowed a No. 4 spoonhook.
ref: 1928, Fins, Feathers and Fur, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of spoon hook.
spoonhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonhook
spoonering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spooner
spoonered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spooner
sharkskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sharkskin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing sharkskin.
overmoisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmoistens
form: overmoistening
form: overmoistened
form: overmoistened
Etymology: From over- + moisten.
Senses: examples: text: The technologist must be careful not to overmoisten the disk, as false negative results can occur due to dilution of the end product.
ref: 1990, Ellen Jo Baron, Sydney M. Finegold, Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, page 418:
text: Sweet alyssum seedlings are particularly prone to damping off, so do not overmoisten the soil.
ref: 1991, Complete Guide to Gardening and Landscaping, page 213:
text: If the mixture is too dry to incorporate all the flour, a bit at a time, stir in just enough more ice water to blend the ingredients; don't overmoisten, as the dough should be stiff.
ref: 2011, Nancy Baggett, Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads:
glosses: To add too much liquid when moistening; to make overly moist.
overmoistens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmoisten
overmoistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmoisten
overmoistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmoisten
convivify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: convivifies
form: convivifying
form: convivified
form: convivified
Etymology: From con- + vivify.
Senses: examples: text: The believer was purified and, united with Christ, convivified with Him, even as, in the Eucharist, the body of the church, was concorporated, unified, sanctified, and offered in sacrifice with Christ its head.
ref: 1987, Richard Eugene Sullivan, Thomas F. X. Noble, John J. Contreni, Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages, page 230:
text: They knew that spiritual consolations were given them because they were convivified with Christ, and raised with Him [Eph 2].
ref: 2005, Frederick A. Homann, Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels:
text: He “convivified” men with Christ, by love.
ref: 2006, Ceslaus Spicq, Agape in the New Testament, Volume 2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To gain (eternal) life as a result of joining one's life to
convivifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convivify
convivifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convivify
convivified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convivify
uncolor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncolors
form: uncoloring
form: uncolored
form: uncolored
form: uncolour
Etymology: From un- + color.
Senses: glosses: To remove the color from.
glosses: To become uncoloured.
uncolour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncolours
form: uncolouring
form: uncoloured
form: uncoloured
Etymology: From un- + colour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncolor.
disco perm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disco perms
Senses: examples: text: The choices included a Bobby Charlton special, a 70s Disco perm, Bald is Beautiful and last but not least Elvis is Alive.
ref: 2004, Unity - Volume 16, page 83:
text: He was neat, he was tidy, he had a substantial moustache, a big disco perm and he was lean and muscular.
ref: 2006, John Nicholson, Footy Rocks, page 52:
text: Officially, I started practicing therapy right after I cut my long hippie hair (the Jewish version of the Cher, “I Got You Babe” years) and got my first Donna Summers disco perm.
ref: 2008, Susan Pomeranz, Open Your Heart and Say Ahhh, page xii:
glosses: A hairstyle that was popular in the 1970s that consisted of long hair that has been permed into tight curls in imitation of an afro.
disco perms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disco perm
tauting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taut
tauted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taut
whips off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whip off
whipping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whip off
whipped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whip off
indolent lesion of epithelial origin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indolent lesions of epithelial origin
Etymology: From indolent + lesion + epithelial.
Coined in 2015 by the research team of Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F. Ransohoff, H. Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A. Berry, Kenneth W. Kinzler, William C. Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim
Synonyms: word: IDLE
Hypernyms: tumour
tumor
malignancy
cancer
flatlay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatlays
Etymology: From flat + lay.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A kind of photograph where objects are laid out on a flat surface and photographed perpendicularly from above.
replievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Order to sheriff of Craven Co. is to attach the estate of Sarah N. GREEN, or as much of it as is replievable on security, as shall be of value to satisfy the debt and costs and have it before the next term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.
ref: 1839, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Able to be replevied.
Newcraighall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Scots Newcraighauch.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village on the eastern edge of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3271).
quinvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Etymology: From quin- + vigintillion.
Senses: examples: text: The number 1004 is 100 million (100,000,000), not much time at all for today's computers, while the more naive approach of trying all matchings would yield about two quinvigintillion (2 followed by seventy-eight zeros) computation steps.
ref: 2017, Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, page 36:
text: In Figure 6.4, you can see that I earned $460 quinvigintillion in the six or so hours that I was away from the game.
ref: 2018, Nicholas Lovell, The Pyramid of Game Design:
text: In fact, the chance of two irides (yes, this is the plural of the word "iris" — go figure?) being identical is estimated to be one in a quinvigintillion. For the record, that is a crazy huge number—a one with seventy-eight zeroes after it!
ref: 2019, Ella Schwartz, Can You Crack the Code?::
qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10⁷⁸.
Synonyms: sense: a long scale tredecillion
word: 1078
Related terms: Previous: quattuorvigintillion: short scale 1075
long scale 10144
Next: sexvigintillion: short scale 1081
long scale 10156
sexvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Etymology: From sex- + vigintillion.
Senses: qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10⁸¹.
Related terms: Previous: quinvigintillion: short scale 1078
long scale 10150
Next: septenvigintillion: short scale 1084
long scale 10162
septenvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Senses: qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10⁸⁴.
Synonyms: sense: a long scale quattuordecillion
word: 1084
Related terms: Previous: sexvigintillion: short scale 1081
long scale 10156
Next: octovigintillion: short scale 1087
long scale 10168
octovigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Etymology: From octo- + vigintillion.
Senses: qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10⁸⁷.
Related terms: Previous: septenvigintillion: short scale 1084
long scale 10162
Next: novemvigintillion: short scale 1090
long scale 10174
Gorebridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gore + bridge, after Gore Water, a minor tributary.
Senses: glosses: A large village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3461).
novemvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Senses: qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10⁹⁰.
Synonyms: sense: a long scale quindecillion
word: 1090
Related terms: Previous: octovigintillion: short scale 1087
long scale 10168
Next: trigintillion: short scale 1093
long scale 10180
mortido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdəʊ
Etymology: From Latin mors (“death”), modeled after libido.
Senses: examples: text: One primitive need of mortido is to eliminate another human being, usually one of the same sex. Even among birds, fishes, and non-human mammals, this sexual distinction between the objects of libido and mortido can be seen.
ref: 1957, Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 49:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: destrudo
antonyms: libido
glosses: The energy of the death instinct.
flag state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag states
Senses: glosses: The country in which a ship is registered.
Related terms: flag of convenience
Bengal almond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal almonds
Senses: glosses: The Indian almond, Terminalia catappa.
Bengal almonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengal almond
Brunstane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3172).
Zwergspitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zwergspitzes
form: Zwergspitze
Etymology: Borrowing from German Zwergspitz (literally “dwarf spitz”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pomeranian (“a dog breed”).
synonyms: word: Pomeranian
extra: a dog breed
Eskbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Esk + bank.
Senses: glosses: An urban area of Dalkeith, Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ST3266).
Zwergspitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zwergspitz
Zwergspitze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zwergspitz
Dalkeith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *dol (“meadow”) + *cɛ̄d (“wood, forest”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3367).
glosses: A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
glosses: A village in the township of North Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gulf County, Florida, United States.
ANUG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
St Boswells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saint Boisil, a monk.
Senses: glosses: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5930).
wikipedia: Boisil
Derived terms: Newtown St Boswells
Newtown St Boswells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newtown Saint Boswells
Senses: glosses: A village in and the administrative centre of the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5731).
ionic toothbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionic toothbrushes
Senses: glosses: A kind of electric toothbrush that releases ions, causing the teeth to repel plaque.
ionic toothbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionic toothbrush
electrencephalographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electroencephalographic.
Maslovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maslovian
form: most Maslovian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Maslowian.
Maslow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmazləʊ/
ipa: /ˈmæzloʊ/
enpr: măz􂀽'lō
Forms: form: Maslows
Etymology: A shortened variant of Maslowski, from Polish Masłowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Derived terms: Maslowian
Maslowism
Maslow's hammer
THEED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of tetrahydroxyethylethylenediamine.
tetrahydroxyethylethylenediamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tubes were packed with tetrahydroxyethylethylenediamine-on-Chromosorb (THEED) and the effluent gas was led through a 1/8 in. stainless steel line […]
ref: 1961, Journal of the American Chemical Society, page 4955:
text: Thus, the ethyleneamine may include such compounds as ethylenediamine, N-hydroxyethylethylenediamine, triethylenetetramine, tetraethylenepentamine, tetrahydroxyethylethylenediamine and N-dodecyl-diethylenetriamine.
ref: 1978, Robert C. Eliot, Boiler fuel additives for pollution reduction and energy saving:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: THEED
glosses: A synthetic derivative of ethylenediamine containing four hydroxyl groups and a C₂H₅ radical used in the preparation of detergents, emulsifiers, resins, plasticizers, toxicants, chelating agents, germicides, de-emulsifiers, and pharmaceuticals.
semi-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛmi.fɑːst/
Etymology: From semi- + fast.
Senses: examples: text: Detailed route and timetable assessments undertaken by CBR [...] have shown that a service of two stopping trains per hour to Gorebridge, plus two semi-fast trains to Tweedbank, could be accommodated after the implementation of only three infrastructure projects.
ref: 2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 44:
glosses: Moderately fast; often used to describe a train service which doesn't stop at every station.
unseelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unseelie
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.
unseelie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseelie
form: most unseelie
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.
seelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of seely: more seely
seeliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of seely: most seely
anticulturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticulturally
form: most anticulturally
Etymology: From anticultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anticultural manner.
aeroplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aeroplane
aeroplaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aeroplane
airplaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airplane
airplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airplane
aeroplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + planktonic or aeroplankton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to aeroplankton.
Hynes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /haɪnz/
Forms: form: Hyneses
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Eidhin (“descendant of Eidhin”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A former town, now part of Paramount, California.
LCMV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
Bedlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛd.lɪŋ.tən/
Senses: glosses: A town in West Bedlington parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2581).
Derived terms: word: Bedlington terrier
english: civil parish
translation: civil parish
word: East Bedlington
english: civil parish
translation: civil parish
word: West Bedlington
by vice of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: By analogy with by virtue of.
Senses: glosses: Because of (something unfavorable, immoral, negative, etc.)
light line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹlīn
Forms: form: light lines
Etymology: From light (“lacking weight”, adjective) + line (noun).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The waterline at which a vessel floats when at light displacement; the light waterline.
Related terms: word: load line
bharta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhartas
form: bartha
form: bhurta
Etymology: From Hindi भरता (bhartā) / भुरता (bhurtā) (cf. Bengali ভর্তা (bhorta)).
Senses: examples: text: I love her chicken curry, chicken bharta, chicken kasha.
ref: 2021, Arindam Sen, Money for Nothing, page 50:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A South Asian dish of seasoned mashed vegetables or eggs.
bhartas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bharta
mumfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumfluencers
form: momfluencer
Etymology: Blend of mum + influencer, equivalent to mum + -fluencer.
Senses: examples: text: She'd spent the weekend replying to the PRs offering money for branded content, setting up meetings and feverishly researching the 'mumfluencer' thing.
ref: 2019, Sophie White, Filter This:
text: She is a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, writes a column for Mother & Baby magazine, and was recently crowned the Number 1 Mumfluencer in the magazine.
ref: 2019, Louise Pentland, Wilde Women:
glosses: A mother who is an influencer on social media, typically using this platform to promote consumer products, offer parenting advice, or document her child's upbringing.
Related terms: Instamom
mommy blogger
mumpreneur
mumfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mumfluencer
NOVAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NOVA
kitchen island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen islands
Senses: synonyms: floating island
glosses: A freestanding work area with worktop, cabinets, etc. in the middle of a kitchen, not against any outer wall.
kitchen islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchen island
throw something in someone's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws something in someone's teeth
form: throwing something in someone's teeth
form: threw something in someone's teeth
form: thrown something in someone's teeth
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cast something in someone's teeth.
synonyms: word: cast something in someone's teeth
Lynemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪnməθ/
rhymes: -aɪnməθ
Etymology: From Lyne + mouth; situated alongside the (Northumberland) River Lyne and near its mouth.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2991).
Robloxian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robloxians
form: ROBLOXian
Etymology: From Roblox + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He is proud to be a Robloxian.
topics: video-games
synonyms: Robloxer
glosses: A player of video games on the platform Roblox.
Robloxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Robloxian
form: most Robloxian
form: ROBLOXian
Etymology: From Roblox + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Members who have played Roblox for one year or longer earn the Veteran Badge. Roblox considers these players to be loyal members who have stuck with the community and helped make it the game it is today. According to Roblox, “These medalists are the true steel, the core of Robloxian history…and its future.”
ref: 2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 40, column 1:
topics: video-games
glosses: Of or pertaining to Roblox.
Robloxians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robloxian
cirrhopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirrhopods
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cirriped.
cirrhopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirrhopod
next time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: On the following occasion (as opposed to this time).
next time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In the future.
Seaton Delaval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Seaton Valley parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ3075).
old as the Pyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: older than the Pyramids
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely ancient.
older than the Pyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of old as the Pyramids.
synonyms: word: old as the Pyramids
teletourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: Tourism stimulated by the promotion of a destination on television.
glosses: A proposed form of tourism using teleoperation, where the tourist controls a remote device and observes its surroundings, e.g. in space.
Newsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Blyth, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ3080).
glosses: A small village in Newsham with Breckenbrough parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE3884)
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ1010).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: South Newsham
Related terms: english: esp. Northumberland
translation: esp. Northumberland
word: Newham
red flag law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red flag laws
Senses: examples: text: However, as with most federal legislation as it relates to guns, it will be left up to individual states to determine if they want to adopt “red flag laws.”
ref: 2023, Laura W. Perna, Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, volume 38, page 577:
glosses: A gun control law permitting police or family members to petition a state court to order the temporary removal of firearms from a person who may present a danger to others or themselves.
glosses: A law enacted in the late 19th century, requiring drivers of early automobiles to take certain safety precautions, including waving a red flag in front of the vehicle as a warning.
red flag laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red flag law
close the book on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes the book on
form: closing the book on
form: closed the book on
form: closed the book on
Etymology: By analogy to closing an accounting journal.
Senses: examples: text: Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career.
ref: 2011, David Gooblar, The Major Phases of Philip Roth, page 157:
text: What greater pleasure for a child than to be able to close the book on all his terrors and go to sleep.
ref: 2012, J.M Masson, The Oceanic Feeling:
text: I guess it would take a genius to figure that out and perhaps that is why Pilot Insurance Company and General Accident were so content to close the book on this subject.
ref: 2014, Chris Porter, Scapegoat - Scales of Justice Burning, page 37:
glosses: To stop worrying about or trying to do something about; to ignore.
examples: text: We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.
ref: 2007, Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun, The Evolution of Thought:
text: Michael X's execution seemed to close the book on the revolution that rock stars and radicals alike had been awaiting for the previous decade.
ref: 2009, Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On:
text: The gathering, an unprecedented convocation of rulers, influential diplomats and their entourages, was meant to be a grand ending and a grand beginning—the movers and shakers were looking to close the book on the strife and upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and begin a new chapter of world peace.
ref: 2011, Andrea Penrose, The Cocoa Conspiracy:
glosses: To finish; to bring to an end.
closes the book on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close the book on
closing the book on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close the book on
closed the book on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of close the book on
wishfulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wishfulfilling
form: most wishfulfilling
Senses: examples: text: They take the form of excessive intellectualization, an unbalanced critical attitude, constriction, neurotic qualifications, and wishfulfilling fantasy activity of a pathological nature.
ref: 1954, Pennsylvania State University, Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education and Doctor of Philosophy, page 582:
text: They also possessed the wishfulfilling jewel and the wishfulfilling cow and great wealth.
ref: 1994, Chö-yang - Issue 6, page 121:
text: A wishfulfilling jewel is something very serious in the Tibetan culture.
ref: 2011, Lojong Mind Training in Eight Verses:
glosses: Alternative form of wish-fulfilling.
wish-fulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wish-fulfilling
form: most wish-fulfilling
form: wishfulfilling
Senses: examples: text: That precious wish-fulfilling jewel, although it has no thought, if it is placed on top of a victory banner, will rain down jewels, food, and clothing.
ref: 2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317:
text: This is actually a safety measure because if the wish-fulfilling mantras were easily chanted, there would no doubt be many people who would misuse them.
ref: 2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408:
text: The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi
ref: 2006, The Great Kagyu Masters:
glosses: Able to grant wishes.
examples: text: And their dreams were the ones that prompted Freud in 1933 to acknowledge an exception to his 1900 thesis that manifest dream contents universally feature wish-fulfilling scenarios in more or less disguised forms.
ref: 1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273:
text: Earlier we saw that, at the level of the individual sentence, the novel is usually in the indicative or flatly descriptive mode; at the level of plot itself, however, the mood is often 'optative' or wish-fulfilling.
ref: 2011, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context:
text: This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.
ref: 2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene:
glosses: Satisfying a wish.
real nappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: real nappies
Senses: synonyms: real diaper
glosses: A washable cloth nappy.
real nappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real nappy
Bebside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Blyth parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2881).
potchkies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potchky
grapefruit spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapefruit spoon
pickle forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle fork
cocktail forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocktail fork
egg spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg spoon
Ashington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2787).
glosses: A hamlet in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole borough, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0098).
glosses: A small village in Chilton Cantelo parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5621).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1316).
newshen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newshens
Etymology: From news + hen.
Senses: examples: text: Tuding Guinto, the first Filipino newshen to see the Korean front, had the usual curiosity of a person with a nose for news.
ref: 1954, Juan F. Villasanta, Dateline Korea: Stories of the Philippine Battalion, page 164:
text: This is not the Texas coming out. It's the newshen coming out.
ref: 2001, Dan Jenkins, Fast Copy: A Novel, page 152:
text: She had also refused to talk to reporters, but a newshen from the Post had finally got enough out of her for a spread, making some fur fly at the Gazette.
ref: 2010, Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang, page 60:
glosses: A female investigative reporter.
Related terms: newshound
newshens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newshen
unterrifiedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unterrifiedly
form: most unterrifiedly
Etymology: From un- + terrified + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long?
ref: 1871, William Rounseville Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 547:
text: For he who wants to be the right kind of preacher, and faithfully perform his duty, must retain and assert his liberty unterrifiedly to tell the truth, without respect of persons, and rebuking if necessary great and small, rich, poor, powerful, friend and foe.
ref: 1892, Martin Luther, Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, page 348:
text: He embraced unterrifiedly a foreign policy "which recognizes the principle of compromise and rejects the compromise of principle."
ref: 1969, Bert Cochran, Adlai Stevenson: Patrician Among the Politicians, page 155:
glosses: In an unterrified manner.
lightpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightposts
Etymology: From light + post.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lamppost.
synonyms: word: lamppost
lightposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightpost
Northumberland Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3491).
glosses: A modern estate in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3071).
light waterline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light waterlines
form: light water line
Etymology: From light (“lacking weight”, adjective) + waterline (noun).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The waterline at which a vessel floats when light or unladen.
Synonyms: word: light line
Related terms: word: deep waterline
word: light displacement
word: load waterline
as much sinning as sinned against
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From William Shakespeare's King Lear: "I am a man more sinned against than sinning."
Senses: glosses: . Whose bad acts are possibly outweighed by the bad actions of others towards them.
raw_tags: of a person
circularing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circular
circulared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circular
encover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkʌvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: encovers
form: encovering
form: encovered
form: encovered
Senses: examples: text: A series of interrupted sutures of No. 1 catgut are now inserted into the fascia layer immediately below the vaginal epithelium. These encover the thread sutures and further reinforce the action of the thread "sling".
ref: 1961, Berichte - Volume 2:
text: The difference between the two is that the Kānvas conclude with only the statement that by ācamana, the prāṇa itself is encovered or enclothed, while the Mādhyandinas further add the injuction.
ref: 1998, Journal of the Oriental Institute - Volume 47, page 63:
text: The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy. For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.
ref: 2008, Donald E. Wagner, Kenneth Cragg, Dying in the Land of Promise, page 116:
text: Finally, awareness of context and of what concepts can signify or encover in relation to it, requires that we critically examine ...
ref: 2010, Olga Sicilia, There Is No Such Thing As a Spirit in the Stone!, page 110:
glosses: To cover.
encovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encover
encovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encover
encovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encover
telebroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebrokers
Etymology: From tele- + broker.
Senses: glosses: A stockbroker who carries out telebroking.
telebrokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebroker
telebroking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + broking.
Senses: glosses: stockbroking carried out via telecommunication network
telebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebookings
Etymology: From tele- + booking.
Senses: glosses: The placing of reservations via telecommunication network.
glosses: A reservation thus placed.
telebookings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebooking
telebus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebuses
Etymology: From tele- + bus.
Senses: glosses: A bus that can be summoned by telephone, rather than travelling a fixed route.
telebuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebus
televersity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: televersities
Etymology: Blend of tele- + university
Senses: examples: text: Televersities could deliver cost-effective, individualized, higher or career-long engineering education of improved quality to traditional university students as well as to students previously excluded because of distance, employment, location, […]
ref: 1988, Thomas Lyle Martin, Focus on the Future, page 32:
glosses: A university offering distance learning by means of telecommunication networks.
televersities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televersity
ambassatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassatrices
Senses: examples: text: The French ambassador, goeing out in his gundola this last week, to take the aire in the euening, with his lady and niepce, did incounter with a barke of insolent sergeants, who would nees haue searched his gundola; and being repelled by the ambassador, who did keepe them of with a halberd and a pistol, they made a battery of stones against the gundola, with which the ambassatrice was hurt in the head, and the neipce in a showlder. It was much feared, that the ambassatrice might haue miscarried, either with the hurt or affright, because shee is within a month of her time ; but she doth bearc it out well, although the hurt be great.
ref: 1740, Thomas Roe, The negociations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte from the year 1621 to 1628, Inclusive, page 428:
text: The viscountess of Effingham standing to her woman's right, and possessed already of her proper place (as she called it), would not remove lower, so held the hand of the ambassatrice, till after dinner, when the French ambassador, informed of the difference and opposition, called out for his wife's coach !
ref: 1877, William Tegg, Meetings and Greetings, page 70:
text: The ambassatrice in the mean tyme thought fit in discretion to absent herself from court for some tyme after, as being eyther discountenanced with the deceyt of her expectation, or apprehending perhaps that none of our great ladyes would give her place, though her tytle was marquise and theyrs but countess, a tytle which here (in regard ours do wear coronets and are styled by the king cosens) is iudged more noble then that of marquis in France, where such titles were alienable with the manor or seignury that bare them.
ref: 1987, Sir John Finet, Albert Joseph Loomie, Ceremonies of Charles I: The Note Books of John Finet, 1628-1641, page 84:
glosses: Alternative form of ambassatrix.
ambassatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambassatrice
glosses: plural of ambassatrix
ambassatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassatrices
form: ambassatrice
Senses: examples: text: Here Jove's ambassatrix enter' d, and softly to Priam Came and bespoke him, for alarm on his whole body fasten'd :
ref: 1877, Homer (C.B. Cayley, translator), The Iliad of Homer, page 397:
text: Well, here she is now. Our little ambassatrix from the fountain head with my pink squirrel.
ref: 2003, John Douglas Miller, The Greek Summer, page 175:
text: (see title)
ref: 2017, Lynda Schuster, Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix, →ISBN:
glosses: Ambassadress
Reiss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reisses
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Balcombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balcombes
Etymology: Recorded as Baldecombe (1279) and Balecumba (late 11th century). Probably from the Old English personal name *Bealda + cumb (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3030).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Skipp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skipps
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Surridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Surridges
Senses: glosses: A surname.
deghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deghan
alcoometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoometers
form: alcoömeter
Etymology: From alco- + -ometer.
Senses: examples: text: In a further series of experiments he applies to the distilled urines which have been vainly tested by the alcoometer the chromic acid test, and obtains decided indications of the presence of alcohol, either immediately or after a longer or shorter time.
ref: 1864, Francis Edmund Anstie, Stimulants and Narcotics, page 419:
text: The quantity is so minute that the alcoometer is not in the least affected by it, and it requires the chromic acid test even to reveal its presence.
ref: 1868, John Fiske, Tobacco and Alcohol:
text: On the principle of the alcoometer, a great variety of areometers are constructed, for determining the strength of wines, syrups, and other liquids employed in the arts.
ref: 1887, William Guy Peck, Elementary Treatise on Analytical Mechanics, page 246:
text: Testimony as to the results of a test made on an alcoometer falls within the classification of expert testimony, and in order to be competent, the person so testifying must be skilled in the mechanics and use of the machine.
ref: 1957, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 137, page 573:
glosses: A hydrometer or aerometer calibrated to measure the percentage of alcohol in a mixture of alcohol and water.
alcoometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoometer
alcoömeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoömeters
Senses: examples: text: Practically, indeed, the same aureole-heights for the same gas-percentages are obtained with mixtures of wood-spirit of different description and various densities, some pure, others impure and dilute, provided the mixture gives in the alcoömeter exactly the degree above mentioned.
ref: 1864, Francis Edmund Anstie, Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations, page 157:
text: Old alcohol should therefore be cleared, if necessary, before testing with the alcoömeter ; but filtration will not, of course, remove materials which are in real solution.
ref: 1886, Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat, page 114:
text: In an alcoömeter of the class described, a vessel for containing the liquid, a thermometric body attached to said vessel within it, a dial movable about the same axis as the alcoömeter, a connection between the thermometric body and said dial, an independent pointer mounted oncentrically with the alcoömeter, a pawl thereon, and means on said dial adapted to raise the pawl on the pointer at each passage of the latter before the zero of the dial, substantially as described.
ref: 1914, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 237:
glosses: Dated spelling of alcoometer.
alcoömeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoömeter
alco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of alcohol
Senses: glosses: alcohol
mad as a wet hen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.
ref: 1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very angry; furious.
Related terms: angry as a wet hen
miserable as a wet hen
wild as a wet hen
duoprisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duoprism
duoprism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duoprisms
Etymology: From duo- + prism.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes.
feedpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedpoints
form: feed point
Etymology: From feed + point.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The location on an antenna where radio frequency electrical power is applied.
feedpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedpoint
at speed
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: With speed; quickly; rapidly.
at speed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Courant, in full chase: running, at full stride with its legs in the air.
chanting goshawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanting goshawks
Senses: glosses: Any of the African hawks in the genus Melierax
chanting goshawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chanting goshawk
hydroxyaluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyaluminates
Etymology: From hydroxy + aluminate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or anion containing aluminium and hydroxide groups, Al(OH)₄⁻
orthoaluminates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoaluminate