cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shield-toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield-toads
form: shieldtoad
form: shield toad
form: shelt-toad
Etymology: From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).
Senses: examples: text: But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.
ref: 2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shield-toad.
glosses: A turtle or tortoise.
shellpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell-pad
form: shell padde
form: shelpad
form: shilpad
form: shellpot
Etymology: From earlier shell padde, equivalent to shell + pad (“toad”). Compare Saterland Frisian Skildpudde (“turtle, tortoise”), West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”), Middle Dutch schildpadde (Dutch schildpad, Afrikaans skilpad), Middle Low German schildpadde, Danish skildpadde. See also shield-toad.
Senses: examples: text: Of other he was called shilpad, that is to say, shelt-toad; for that he, being a short grundy, and of little stature, did ride commonly with a great broad hat, as a churl of the country.
ref: 1868, John Foxe, The Church Historians of England:
glosses: A turtle or tortoise.
Derived terms: shell-paddock
shell-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell-pads
Etymology: From earlier shell padde (“tortoise”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shellpad.
shell-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell-pads
form: shell pad
Etymology: From shell + pad.
Senses: glosses: A pad made or consisting of shells.
yuppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpi
Forms: form: yuppies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yuppie.
besay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besays
form: besaying
form: besaid
form: besaid
Etymology: From Middle English besayen, biseggen, from Old English beseċġan (“to announce, introduce; defend, excuse oneself; accuse”), from Proto-Germanic *bisagjaną, equivalent to be- (“about, concerning, across”) + say. Cognate with Dutch bezeggen, German besagen (“to say”).
Senses: examples: text: "Laughter," reproved Najib, cut to the soul by his chief's ridicule, "laughter is for hyenas — and for women! as I have besaid of often.
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:
text: The 'besaid' are articulate with words and with silence.
ref: 2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology:
text: "How did this Elf child come to be here, Luna?", Methusem besaid. "I granted their ship permission to berth in the bay," Luna projected this with apology.
ref: 2005, Lara Elf Princess Prendville, Screams BeNeath Pandora:
glosses: To say about (someone or something); get something across verbally or by saying; relay; signify; declare.
bituminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bituminate
selfname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfnames
form: self-name
form: self name
Etymology: From self (“own, proper”) + name. The autonym sense is possibly a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”), which are the ultimate roots of English autonym itself.
Senses: examples: text: Surnames are, with a few exceptions, monosyllabic. Selfnames can be either monosyllabic or bisyllabic.
ref: 1986, Nikukua Sai Nagkiariien Nininife: - Issues 94-95; Issue 110, page 181:
text: "Oh, Elements," she finally managed to say, sitting back against the seat cushion of the pilot's chair, "is that truly your selfname?" "James, actually."
ref: 2000, Diane Duane, My Enemy, My Ally:
text: But first of all came Lystra with her selfname.
ref: 2000, Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean:
glosses: A proper name; a name for one's own self, as opposed to one's family; one's real name.
examples: text: Mina is the selfname of the language referred to in the literature as Hina or Besleri.
ref: 2005, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Eric Johnston, A Grammar of Mina:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A name given to oneself; a self-denomination or self-appellation.
examples: text: In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century, [...]
ref: 2009, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea:
glosses: An autonym.
nighen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nighens
form: nighening
form: nighened
form: nighened
Etymology: From Middle English neiȝnen, equivalent to nigh + -en. Cognate with German nähnen.
Senses: examples: text: [...] with so horrible countenance, that no man dare not nighen towards him.
ref: 1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers:
glosses: To come near; approach.
examples: text: If you take an apple from the table you (1) reach forth the hand to it, (2) you close your fingers on it, (3) you nighen or bring back your hand with it.
ref: 1886, William Barnes, A glossary of the Dorset dialect:
glosses: To bring near; appropriate.
nighsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nighsome
form: most nighsome
Etymology: From nigh + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And embittered Winter, fury consumed By thoughts of Spring's nighsome 'proach, can compass.
ref: 1922, Charles Edwin Hewes, Songs of the Rockies:
glosses: Favourable; gracious.
Derived terms: nighsomeness
nighwhat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nigh + what. Compare somewhat.
Senses: glosses: Almost; nearly.
Synonyms: almost
littoral zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littoral zones
Senses: glosses: The intertidal zone
raw_tags: of a tidal coast
qualifier: non-tidal body of water
glosses: The zone of shallow water to the limit at which plants root.
raw_tags: of a non-flowing
JSDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Japan Self-Defense Forces (the military of Japan).
low on the totem pole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Derived from totem poles, traditional sculptures of wood made by American Indians, usually with several figures carved one above the other. The vertical order was mistakenly perceived by the non-Indians to correspond with the figures' rank of importance.
Senses: examples: text: 1965, 7th of April, Washington Observer, King Defends Alabama Boycott, Answers Critics
Gaston said, however, that the boycott would not substantially affect Negroes because they are "so low on the totem pole."
text: He's new to the Pianta syndicate. I think he's still the low man on the totem pole.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: Accorded relatively little importance.
rapines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rapine
withdrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: withdrives
form: withdriving
form: withdrove
form: withdriven
Etymology: From Middle English *withdriven, from Old English wiþdrīfan (“to repel”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþidrīban (“to drive back”), equivalent to with- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian withdrīva (“to restore”). Compare also Old High German widartrīban (“to drive back, refute”), whence archaic German widertreiben (“to drive back, prevent, thwart”).
Senses: examples: text: The same [Sorell] water withdryueth impetigines.
ref: 1527, L. Andrewe tr. H. von Braunschweig Vertuose Bk. Distyllacyon ii. ii. sig. Aij/2
text: […] would result in a reduction in the numbers of this vector of disease, proportionate to the thoroughness and persistence with which the procedures were carried out. Centuries ago wise men taught, that to 'withdrive' THE GREAT FAMINE.
ref: 1976, Robert Dudley Edwards, Thomas Desmond Williams, The great famine: studies in Irish history, 1845-52:
text: If somebody bought sex from prostitute it is not his sex if prostitute withdrove consent? But if i withdrove consent i wont get my money back?
ref: 2012, New rule for 2012:
glosses: To drive away, repel.
gnolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnoll
inner diameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inner diameter
pressiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressiometers
Etymology: From French pressiomètre.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used to measure the stress in soil under pressure
Mithraeums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mithraea
Senses: glosses: plural of Mithraeum
Mithraea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mithraeums
Senses: glosses: plural of Mithraeum
rhexistasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
antonyms: biosatsy
glosses: A period of intense erosion due to the absence of a cover of vegetation.
rhizolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizolites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of tectite meteorite
rheotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more rheotropic
form: most rheotropic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or exhibiting rheotropism.
rheotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheotropisms
Etymology: From rheo- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Movement stimulated by a current of water.
Related terms: rheotropic
dinged-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dinged-up
form: most dinged-up
form: dinged up
Etymology: see ding (v.)
Senses: examples: text: “Besides the possible concussion, I'm going to guess at least two dinged-up ribs—” She paused, probing, while he did his best not to lose his dignity and throw up on her very clean, white athletic shoes.
ref: 2008, Shadow Hawk, by Jill Shalvis, page 54
text: You have a concussion and are more use to the Navy with a working brain than without, plus you're 'bout as dinged up as that ship is. Look at your shoulder.”
ref: 2011, The Beautiful Mistake, by Steve Zingerman, page 1
text: 2012, New York Times, 31st of July, by Adam Davidson
"The Dinged-Up, Broken-Down, Fender-Bended Economic Recovery Plan" (the name of the article)
glosses: battered, dented by blows, injured
ding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dings up
form: dinging up
form: dinged up
form: dinged up
Senses: examples: text: A horse threw me last night and I dinged up my goddamn ribs
ref: 1983, The Right Stuff, 00:14:25
glosses: To dent, bend, or injure.
Surtseyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Surtsey + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Surtsey
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: that takes place in shallow seas or lakes
raw_tags: of a volcanic eruption
Surtsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of the mythological giant Surtr and ey (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island that emerged in 1963 off the coast of Iceland
Derived terms: Surtseyan
synsedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + sedimentary.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: That forms or grows within a sediment during sedimentation
raw_tags: of a fault or fold
tiltmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiltmeters
Etymology: From tilt + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: ■ 36: More widely adopt wireless tiltmeter systems on critical earthwork slopes.
ref: 2021 April 7, “Lord Mair: earthworks recommendations”, in RAIL, number 928, page 11:
glosses: An instrument designed to measure very small changes from the horizontal level.
trainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: train + -age
Senses: glosses: Conveyance by train.
glosses: A fee charged for conveying goods by train.
transpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more transpressive
form: most transpressive
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or causing transpression
transpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpressions
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Simultaneous occurrence of a strike-slip fault with compression.
up the spout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I think the left speaker is up the spout.
text: That idea of yours for using the church hall seems to have gone up the spout.
glosses: Broken; not functional or workable; kaput.
examples: text: He went into the attack with his rifle cocked and with one up the spout.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In the chamber, having an ammunition round in a weapon's chamber.
examples: text: Did you know that she's up the spout?
glosses: Pregnant.
examples: to put/shove/pop something up the spout
glosses: At the pawnbroker's shop (in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles).
morphographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphography
Utrechter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Utrechters
Etymology: From Utrecht + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from, or residing in, Utrecht.
box model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box models
Etymology: So called because the padding, border, and margin can be visualised as three levels of boxes surrounding an element.
Senses: glosses: The set of CSS rules that govern the size, shape, spacing, borders, and margins of web page elements.
utilitarianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˌtɪlɪˈtɛəɹi.ənli/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /juˌtɪləˈtɛɹi.ənli/
Forms: form: more utilitarianly
form: most utilitarianly
Etymology: From utilitarian + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a utilitarian manner; practically; functionally
feelth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feel + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Feeling; sensation.
fuddy-duddery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuddy-duddy + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The ban on splitting infinitives is fuddy-duddery, pure and simple.
text: Now nothing would have been easier than to let all this sag into a compendium of antiquarian fuddy-duddery. Instead, the dry bones stir into flesh-and-blood issues vital to our time.
ref: 1936, “The Man of the Month: Samuel Eliot Morison”, in The Atlantic, volume 158, page 384:
text: Thank you and congratulations for your invigorating articles on decimal coinage and the reform of our national accounts (January 18th issue) - two notable blows in the fight against fuddy-duddery!
ref: 1958, N. K. Easton, “Appreciation”, in The Accountant, volume 138, page 135:
text: "Do you believe in this outmoded piece of fuddy-duddery called monogamy, eh? Or would you agree that some men should have more than one wife?"
ref: 1973, Fergus Macpherson, One Finger, page 175:
glosses: An action or view associated with a fuddy-duddy.
Proto-Indo-Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Indo-Germanic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Proto-Indo-European
ROP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROPs
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Render Output unit or raster operations pipeline.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of return-oriented programming.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of run of paper.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
coordinate_terms: ROM
ROW
ROY
glosses: Initialism of run of press.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of retinopathy of prematurity.
Chagas disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chagas' disease.
blotchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blotching
leaf-raking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Sense regarding employment: from the nature of some of the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the US.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of raking leaves.
examples: text: Relief was essential and began under Hoover; then, under Roosevelt, relief turned into leaf-raking, and leaf-raking turned into constructive enterprise.
ref: 1955, Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economists, page 225:
text: public agencies were to plan building programs that would do the job and preserve communities from “the necessity of feeding hungry men through the expediency of 'leaf-raking' projects or the dole or soup lines.
ref: 1991, Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, volume 1:
text: Yet neither man came close to realizing his early political promise, or to forgiving the tendency of the average voter to sell his birthright for a leaf-raking job or Social Security card.
ref: 2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, page 63:
glosses: Marginally productive government-financed employment.
draculin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæk.jəl.ɪn/
Etymology: From Dracula + -in, named after Count Dracula.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
zoology
glosses: A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.
pratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pratique.
germanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germanic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: germanium dioxide, GeO₂
apposers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apposer
selenographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selenographical
form: most selenographical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of selenographic.
windlestraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windlestraws
form: windlestrae
Etymology: From windle + straw.
Senses: examples: text: Grey rocks did peep from the square moss, and stemmed / The struggling brook: tall spires of windlestrae / Threw their thin shadows down the rugged slope, / And nought but gnarlèd roots of ancient pines, / Branchless and blasted, clenched with grasping roots / The unwilling soil.
ref: 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor:
glosses: A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
windlestraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windlestraw
windlestrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windlestraes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windlestraw.
windlestraes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windlestrae
ductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ductor
housane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From house + -ane, named for the molecule's resemblance to a house.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic alkane bicyclo[2.1.0]pentane (C₅H₈).
Related terms: basketane
churchane
pagodane
doctorands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorand
bickeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bickeringly
form: most bickeringly
Etymology: From bickering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With bickering or quarrelling.
GI tracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GI tract
traumatic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for its role in healing trauma damage in plants.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a dicarboxylic acid found in plants
basketane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From basket + -ane, because of the molecule's resemblance to a basket.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic alkane with the chemical formula C₁₀H₁₂.
Related terms: churchane
housane
f-worded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of f-word
f-wording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of f-word
churchane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From church + -ane, named for the molecule's resemblance to a church.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic alkane with the chemical formula C₁₁H₁₂.
Related terms: basketane
housane
F word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F words
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of f-word.
F words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F word
feta cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feta cheeses
form: Feta cheese
Senses: glosses: feta
feta cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feta cheese
fetta cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetta cheeses
form: Fetta cheese
Senses: glosses: feta
fetta cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetta cheese
Church of Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of Ireland
Senses: glosses: The Anglican church body active in Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
Fetta cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fetta cheeses
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of fetta cheese.
Fetta cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fetta cheese
Feta cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feta cheeses
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of feta cheese.
Feta cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feta cheese
Blue Banana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blue Banana
Etymology: Named from its shape on a map.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Golden Banana
glosses: A discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western Europe, stretching from northwest England to Milan.
relationshiply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From relationship + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I think I've mentioned that although I'm relationshiply retarded, I'm pretty good at the friend thing.
ref: 2007, It's either this or therapy.: Goodbye, 2007
text: Relatively raw, relationshiply raw, as explained in the second paragraph of this chapter.
ref: 2009, John Llewelyn, Margins of Religion:
text: I think one of my friends is relationshiply interested in me.
ref: 2010, LiveWire!
glosses: In a manner concerning a relationship or relationships; relationally.
pudknocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudknockers
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you. We got two categories of pilots around here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes. And we got you pudknockers who dream about getting the hot planes.
ref: 1983, The Right Stuff, 00:31:20
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pretentious but unskilled pilot.
table apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table apples
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eating apple (“any apple cultivar grown for eating raw”)
synonyms: word: eating apple
extra: any apple cultivar grown for eating raw
scoubidou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskuːbiˈduː/
homophone: Scooby-Doo
Forms: form: scoubidous
Etymology: From French scoubidou.
Senses: synonyms: craftlace
glosses: A plait woven from multi-coloured strips of coloured plastic.
Related terms: boondoggle
sectorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sectoral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By sectors.
sectorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectorisations
Etymology: From sectorise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: It's a full circle. Over the past 43 years, RAIL has reported on how the railways have gone from uncertainty under government control to sectorisation, privatisation, and back to uncertainty under government control.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of sectorization.
sectorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sectorises
form: sectorising
form: sectorised
form: sectorised
Etymology: From sector + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sectorize.
Derived terms: sectorisation
sectorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sectorise
trachel-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /tɹəkiːl/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trachelo-.
cervix uteri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervices uteri
form: cervices uterorum
Senses: glosses: The neck of the womb; the uterine cervix.
-rrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɹəfɪ/
/ɹəfi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -ρραφία (-rrhaphía), from ῥάπτω (rháptō, “I sew”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: suture
COI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of conflict of interest.
COI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Central Office of Information, a UK government agency closed in December 2011.
hierarchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hierarchial
form: most hierarchial
Etymology: From hierarchy + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hierarchical.
Tyrsenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɜː(ɹ)ˈsiːniən/
Forms: form: more Tyrsenian
form: most Tyrsenian
Etymology: From Ionic Greek Τυρσηνός (Tursēnós) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tyrrhenian.
Tyrsenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɜː(ɹ)ˈsiːniən/
Forms: form: Tyrsenians
Etymology: From Ionic Greek Τυρσηνός (Tursēnós) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tyrrhenian.
poriferologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poriferologists
Etymology: From translingual Porifera + -ology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Besides Dr. Nigrelli the party included Dr. Martin F. Stempien, Jr., of the Aquarium staff, Dr. Gustavo Pulitzer, a marine ecologist and poriferologist of Portofino, Italy
ref: 1964, Animal kingdom, volumes 67-68, New York Zoological Society:
text: Poriferologists generally agree that a sponge mass bounded by pinacocytes is an individual rather than a colony.
ref: 1978, Monographs on oceanographic methodology, volume 5, Unesco:
text: The great variability in sponge morphology and the difficulty in precisely setting the limits of a sponge species have probably driven many potential poriferologists to frustration (and to other taxa) early in their careers.
ref: 1990, Richard C. Brusca, Gary J. Brusca, Invertebrates:
glosses: A biologist whose specialty is the study of poriferans (sponges of the phylum Porifera).
Related terms: poriferan
Norroway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Norway.
thigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiggers
form: thiggar
Etymology: From Middle English *thiggere, equivalent to thig + -er. Cognate with Shetlandic tiggar (“beggar”), Danish tigger (“beggar”), Swedish tiggare (“beggar”).
Senses: glosses: One who thigs or solicits subsistence from others; a beggar.
Related terms: thigster
Tyrrhenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹiːniən/
ipa: /taɪˈɹiːniən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: Tyrsenian
Etymology: From Tyrrhene + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Tyrrhene
glosses: Etruscan; of Etruria.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of the languages of the Tyrrhenian family: Etruscan, Raetic or Lemnian.
examples: text: This word [mufrone, 'mouflon'] has no Latin etymology and, especially since it specifically refers to animals endemic to the Tyrrhenian islands, it is suspect of being of pre-Roman origin.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 273:
glosses: Of or relating to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Derived terms: Tyrrhenian Sea
Tyrrhenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹiːniən/
ipa: /taɪˈɹiːniən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: Tyrrhenians
form: Tyrsenian
Etymology: From Tyrrhene + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ancient Tyrrhenians also mixoscopy was prevalent.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 157:
synonyms: Tyrrhene
glosses: An Etruscan.
Tyrrhenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹiːniən/
ipa: /taɪˈɹiːniən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: Tyrsenian
Etymology: From Tyrrhene + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia. More specifically, the putative introduction of Tyrrhenian in these places, as well as in Corsica, the Balearic islands and the Iberian Peninsula is connected to a so-called "thalassocracy" and ensuing colonization by the Lydian people of Anatolia.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 21:
glosses: A proposed extinct language family consisting of Etruscan, Raetic and Lemnian.
poriferologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poriferologist
serpolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French serpolet.
Senses: glosses: wild thyme
scoubidous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoubidou
outyield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outyields
form: outyielding
form: outyielded
form: outyielded
Etymology: From out- + yield.
Senses: examples: text: In summer plantings, double rows outyield single rows.
ref: 1971, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin:
text: Similarly, experiments on sandy (low nutrient soils) from North Africa show that triticale outyields wheat and barley by about 33%.
ref: 2008, Ashenafi Gedamu-Gobena, Triticale Production in Ethiopia:
glosses: To exceed or surpass in yielding.
only Nixon could go to China
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: only Nixon can go to China
form: it took Nixon to go to China
Etymology: A reference to U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 establishment of direct diplomatic relations with, and personal visit to, the People's Republic of China. Nixon's unyielding opposition to Communism had been well-known.
Senses: glosses: Only a politician or leader with an impeccable reputation of upholding particular political values could perform an action in seeming defiance of them without jeopardizing his support or credibility.
wikipedia: People's Republic of China
Richard Nixon
Related terms: Nixon in China
Nixon to China
Nixon goes to China
it took Nixon to go to China
dilatation and curettage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dilation and curettage.
nobuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of nobody.
everybuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of everybody.
somebuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
anybuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From any + buddy.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of anybody.
striated muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striated muscles
Senses: synonyms: word: striped muscle
antonyms: smooth muscle
glosses: Muscle tissue that appears striped under the microscope as a result of the myofibrils being organized into regular units (sarcomeres).
striated muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striated muscle
wery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wery
form: most wery
Senses: examples: text: 'Wery,' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a wery bad 'un,' says my father.
ref: 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 176:
text: There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!
ref: 1837, William Burton, Burton's comic songster, page 59:
text: It was jest sich a night as this— wery cold — wery. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's wery cloudy — wery. ... I come and stood on this 'ere wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.
ref: 1844, Lawrence Ladree, Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post, page 25:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of very.
wery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wery
form: most wery
Senses: examples: text: 'Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.
ref: 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 85:
text: ... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...
ref: 1897, Walter Rye, The Pickwick Papers, page 144:
text: 'Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'
ref: 1903, Charles Longman, Longman's magazine, Vol. 41, page 232:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of very.
off one's feed
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Nothing serious," the veterinarian added. "He was just off his feed a trifle."
ref: 1915, Jack London, chapter 12, in The Little Lady of the Big House:
text: "My dairy farmers tell me that because of the heat the cows are just off their feed."
ref: 1998 August 12, Rick Lyman, “Drought in Texas and Oklahoma Stunting Crops and Economies”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Aug 2012:
glosses: Not eating normally.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: “He wos took wery bad one arternoon, arter having been off his feed, and wery shaky on his legs for some veeks.”
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Master Humphrey's Clock:
text: I asked some questions about Jack Benton, and one of the men told me that he was off his feed, and hardly ate anything, and swallowed all the coffee he could lay his hands on, and had used up all his own tobacco and had begun on what his brother had left.
ref: 1903, F. Marion Crawford, Man Overboard!:
text: ‘Something is the matter with Psmith. He is off his feed. He should try Blenkinsop's Balm for the Bilious.’
ref: 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 24, in Psmith, Journalist:
text: The heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. . . . Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops.
ref: 1954 June 28, “Sport: Bumbling Champ”, in Time:
glosses: Rather unwell, especially with a reduced or altered appetite; somewhat disoriented or disconcerted.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: in veterinary medicine, of an animal
word: inappetent
sense: rather unwell
word: out of sorts
sense: rather unwell
word: under the weather
Related terms: off one's game
zooterkins
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Embellished form of zounds, gadzooks. Reputedly from the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: They hold us all to be heretics." "Zooterkins."
ref: 1993, Judith French, Fortune's Mistress, page 71:
text: Allegro seemed shocked. "Zooterkins! What has happened to this era of young folk?"
ref: 2003, Gloria Harchar, Kissed by Magic, page 21:
text: 6/8/2008, The Medway Handyman (username), "Re:Timber basics article", uk.d-i-y
Ah. Someone else with a love of English!
Zooterkins!
glosses: Blimey!
beshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshares
form: besharing
form: beshared
form: beshared
Etymology: From be- + share. Compare Swedish beskära (“to give; donate; apportion; assign”) and German bescheren (“to give; present with; bestowe”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] now lodges in, with bedding and furniture of the same chamber, with the use of six diaper napkins, six flaxen towels, two table cloths, two pair of sheets, one pair of pillows (beshares), during his natural life, for his own lodging and use only.
ref: 1862, James Phippen, Descriptive sketches of Rochester, Chatham, and their vicinities:
text: Rose, my wife, was convinced that things do not happen by chance, that they are “beshared," meant to be.
ref: 2004, Academy of Orthomolecular Medicine, Journal of orthomolecular medicine:
text: We shall see men that by the world were cut in pieces, burnt in flames, and drowned in the seas, for the love they bear to the Lord of the place. Pliable. This is enough to delight one's heart. How shall we get to beshare these joys?
ref: 2005, L. P. Leavell, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come:
glosses: To share about; share across or share with; distribute among others; share.
striped bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped bass
Senses: glosses: A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, Morone saxatilis.
Synonyms: sense: Morone saxatalis
word: Atlantic striped bass
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: striper
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: linesider
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: rock
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: pimpfish
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: rockfish
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: greenhead
sense: Morone saxatalis
word: squid-hound
brain bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: eye bleach
mind bleach
glosses: A notional substance that is used to clean the mind of disturbing imagery.
Related terms: wash one's brain out with soap
what has been seen cannot be unseen
mind bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brain bleach.
synonyms: word: brain bleach
assbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assbrains
Etymology: From ass + brain.
Senses: examples: text: Back in a few hours, assbrain.
ref: 2002, Andre Perkowski, Along the Edges of Electric Disgust: An Exciting Novel of Tomorrow, page 4:
text: You, me, all those other assbrains in there, throwing our dollars at Max Hunter.
ref: 1993, James W. Hall, Hard Aground, page 4:
text: It was in the newspapers and on TV how cops all over the country were looking for Buddy, and here this assbrain wanted to know if he was sending postcards, or calling up to chat, or whatever dumb fucking thing she thought.
ref: 1993, James Neal Harvey, The Headsman, page 218:
qualifier: sometimes considered
glosses: An idiot; a fool.
assbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assbrain
articular facet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articular facets
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a surface where two anatomical structures (usually bones) meet
press forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses forward
form: pressing forward
form: pressed forward
form: pressed forward
Senses: glosses: To proceed or move forward with more urgency, especially when facing adversity.
rattener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratteners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ratter (“traitor”).
Anno Hegirae
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the Latin annō Hegirae (“in the year of the Hijra”), from annō (“in the year”) (the ablative of annus (“year”)) + Hegirae (“of the Hijra”) (genitive of Hegira (“the Hijra”)). Formed in imitation of the Christian Anno Domini.
Senses: examples: text: This valuable manuscript was copied Anno Hegirae 1100 (a.d. 1688).
ref: 1859, Guillaume Libri, Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts, page 154:
glosses: In the year of the Hijra (counted by the Islamic calendar).
Synonyms: word: A.H.
word: AH
Related terms: Anno Domini
anno mundi
Mulao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mulao
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group found mostly in Guangxi province in southern China.
Mulao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tai-Kadai language spoken by the Mulao people.
Haunebu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haunebus
form: Haunebu
Senses: examples: text: It has been suggested that the Haunebu, an “ethnic” name known from most periods, were a partly assimilated group living in this environment and reported in recognizable form only in Classical texts.
ref: 1996, John Baines, Jerrold S. Cooper, Glenn M. Schwartz, editors, The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference, Eisenbrauns, page 362:
text: He studied ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic records and in Atlantis of the North (New York, Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, 1980) he discussed the mystery of the Haunebu or North People. The Haunebu were mentioned in texts dating to 2400 B.C.
ref: 1997, Jon Douglas Singer, Lost lands and cities beneath the sea: legends, folklore, and facts of the North Atlantic, page 5:
text: They were called Haunebu, and a treasurer of the Eleventh Dynasty, whose duty was the maintenance of safe frontier ports, boasts of himself as one “who quells the Haunebu.”
ref: 2003, James Henry Breasted, History of Egypt from the Earliest Time to the Persian Conquest, Kessinger Publishing, page 188:
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: plural "Haunebu"
glosses: A member of a people from the Aegean Sea.
examples: text: This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:
text: […] and what crashed at Roswell was most likely a Haunebu.
ref: 2007, James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 17:
text: However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.
ref: 2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
qualifier: plural "Haunebus"
glosses: Any of a class of flying saucers supposedly built by the Nazis.
Coordinate terms: sense: Nazi flying saucer
word: Vril
atmosphæres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmosphære
Vril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: vril
Etymology: Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.
Senses: examples: text: These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call ‘atmospheric magnetism,’ they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; […]
ref: 1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 47:
text: It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half.
ref: 2003, John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, Llewellyn Publications, page 506:
text: I have written a second book, Vrilology, which explores the historic background of the Life Force, which we refer to as Vril, and another simple book explaining just what Vril is and how it can help people improve their lives, filling them with happiness, joy and prosperity.
ref: 2010, Robert Blumetti, Vril: The Life Force of the Gods, iUniverse, page 7:
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: A controllable form of energy.
examples: text: This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:
text: However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.
ref: 2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165
text: Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.
ref: 2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
coordinate_terms: Haunebu
glosses: A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.
Derived terms: Bovril
chelate complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelate complexes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a complex where a metal ion is bound to two or more atoms of the chelant
prims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prim
Sinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sino- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sinology.
Sinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sinological
form: most Sinological
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sinological.
MSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The company shard specific data from today’s flight on social media, revealing that the New Shepard capsule that carried Katy Perry, Gayle King and their crewmates to space hit 346,802 feet above ground level (AGL) and 350,449 above mean sea level (MSL).
ref: 2025 April 14, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland and Taylor Nicioli, “Blue Origin launches star-studded crew on space tourism rocket”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mean sea level.
MSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Mars Science Laboratory.
the whole world
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Everybody; all the world.
Related terms: word: the whole world and his dog
english: whole ___; everything / the whole thing
translation: whole ___; everything / the whole thing
word: for a list of terms that mean
word: the whole nine yards
bouffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bouffy
form: most bouffy
Senses: glosses: in a bouffant style
raw_tags: of hair
yakisoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjɑkiˈsoʊbə/
Forms: form: yakisobas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 焼きそば (literally “fried noodle”).
Senses: examples: text: Yakisoba is one of those dishes with roots in several countries. Although it’s from Japan, it is Chinese influenced, similar to chow mein and lo mein. However you define it, there are thousands of ways to make yakisoba, many of them good.
ref: 2010 February 26, Mark Bittman, “Yakisoba: Leeway Among the Noodles”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A Japanese stir-fried dish made of fried wheat flour noodles, pork, vegetables, and a sweet sauce.
Related terms: soba
Aftonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æfˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /æfˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Afton + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: During the first interglacial period in North America, between the Kansan and Nebraskan glacial periods.
Sangamonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæŋ(ɡ)əˈməʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌsæŋ(ɡ)əˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Sangamon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Sangamon
glosses: During the last interglacial period in North America, between the Wisconsinan and Illinoian glacial periods.