cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unwracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wracked.
Senses: examples: text: Unwracked by cares that vexed an earlier birth.
ref: 1862?, Alexander B. Bagnold, Mary Queen of Scots (poem)
glosses: Not wracked.
Mayan arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mayan arches
form: Maya arch
Senses: glosses: A form of corbel arch with small regular corbels.
Maya arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maya arches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mayan arch.
Mayan arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mayan arch
Maya arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maya arch
domicil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domicils
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of domicile.
domicils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domicil
mule killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule killers
Senses: glosses: Any of various unrelated arthropods, including whip scorpions, velvet ants, mantises, wheel bugs, and walking stick insects, that have been erroneously believed to kill livestock by stinging them or being swallowed.
mule killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mule killer
Morris chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morris chairs
Etymology: The design was adapted by William Morris's firm, Morris & Company.
Senses: examples: text: The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
ref: 1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:
glosses: A kind of chair with a reclining back and moderately high armrests.
Morris chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morris chair
mountain spectre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain spectres
Senses: synonyms: Brocken spectre
glosses: An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summits of mountains when the observer is between the Sun and a mass of cloud or fog. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colours.
mountain spectres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain spectre
melinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melinite
dhur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhurs
form: dhoor
Senses: glosses: A unit of area in parts of Asia, one twentieth of a katha.
Related terms: dhurki
Wpg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: WPG
form: Wpg.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Winnipeg.
Rhodiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhodiots
Etymology: From Rhodes + -iot.
Senses: glosses: A Rhodian.
Rhodiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rhodes + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Rhodian
Rhodiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rhodiot
Istriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Istriot
Euboeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euboean
Naxiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naxiots
Etymology: From Naxos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Naxos.
Naxiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Naxos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Naxos or its inhabitants.
Naxiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naxiot
Lemniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lemniots
form: Limniot
Etymology: From Lemnos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lemnos.
Lemniot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Limniot
Etymology: From Lemnos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lemnos or its inhabitants.
Lemniots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lemniot
Limniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limniots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lemniot.
Limniot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lemniot.
Limniots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Limniot
Imbriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Imbriots
Etymology: From Imbros + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Turkish island of Imbros.
Imbriot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Imbros + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Imbros or its inhabitants.
Imbriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Imbriot
Patmiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patmiots
Etymology: From Patmos + -iot.
Senses: examples: text: “One of the reasons I bought the house was that it had more cisterns than any other building in town. I dug another two for good measure.” As every Patmiot knows, the island's main problem is its shortage of water. On Patmos, cisterns represent real wealth.
ref: Architectural Digest v.57, p.274, Condé Nast (2000)
glosses: An inhabitant of the Greek island of Patmos.
Patmiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patmiot
Zante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzænti/
rhymes: -ænti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Zante, from Ancient Greek Ζάκυνθος (Zákunthos), possibly through Latin Zacynthus. Doublet of Zakynthos.
Senses: glosses: Zakynthos (an island of Greece).
Derived terms: Zante currant
Zantiot
Zakynthiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zakynthiots
form: Zakinthiot
Etymology: From Zakynthos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: A Zantiot.
Zakynthiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Zakinthiot
Etymology: From Zakynthos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Zantiot
Zakynthiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zakynthiot
Cephalonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cephalonian
Cephaloniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cephaloniots
Etymology: From Cephalonia + -iot.
Senses: glosses: A Cephalonian
Cephaloniot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cephalonia + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Cephalonian
Cephaloniots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cephaloniot
Skyriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiː.ɹi.ət/
ipa: /ˈski.ɹi.ət/
Forms: form: Skyriots
Etymology: From Skyros + -iot.
Senses: examples: text: Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and buried him with honour in the place he had loved and chosen so many years before.
ref: 1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished as An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009, →ISBN, page 69:
text: He launched into a long rigmarole of which I understood no word: the Skyriots speak a language all their own, and are unintelligible even to the Psariots, who inhabit the next island. But his tone, and the uninhibited delight of his expression, were eloquence enough.
ref: 1965, “Strangers on Skyros”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 297, London: William Blackwood, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 312:
glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.
Skyriot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiː.ɹi.ət/
ipa: /ˈski.ɹi.ət/
Etymology: From Skyros + -iot.
Senses: examples: text: Skyriot wares are hardly exported at all, except to Athens for the benefit of the folk-art enthusiasts. I have never met them outside the island except at the little town of Kyme on the east coast of Euboea opposite Skyros. Here it is natural to expect them, for Kyme is the nearest mainland town to the island.
ref: 1938 December, Stanley Casson, “The Modern Pottery Trade in the Aegean”, in O[sbert] G[uy] S[tanhope] Crawford, Roland Austin, editors, Antiquity: A Quarterly Review of Archaeology, volume XII, number 48, Gloucester, Gloucestershire: Printed by John Bellows Ltd., →OCLC, page 472:
text: The [Rupert] Brooke legend has grown its own Skyriot trappings. We were told in Linaria how it had all happened, how before the war the poet was visiting Greece and came to Skyros; how he found the olive grove in this little valley and spent the whole night there in the company of his closest friends, drinking much wine, talking and making merry. He loved the place so much, he said, he wanted to be buried here.
ref: 1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished in An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009, →ISBN, pages 68–69:
text: I never saw the little Skyriot horses which lived in the mountains all the winter and came down to do farm work and be raced on the sands in the summer. They weren't ponies, I was told, but real horses – the strain being of great antiquity.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Jane Howard, “Part Three”, in Slipstream: A Memoir, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Macmillan, 2003, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: Of or relating to Skyros or its inhabitants.
Skyriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skyriot
Miliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miliots
Etymology: From Milos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Milos.
Miliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miliot
aerodonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aerodonetics.
Melos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Milos.
Alb Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, so called because, in the early church, those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Psara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ipsara
Etymology: From Greek Ψαρά (Psará), from Ancient Greek Ψυρά (Psurá), Ψύρα (Psúra), or Ψυρίαν (Psurían).
Senses: glosses: A Greek island in the Aegean Sea.
Derived terms: Psarian
Psariot
Psarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Psarians
Etymology: From Psara + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Psara.
Psarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Psara + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Psara or its inhabitants.
Synonyms: word: Psariot
Psarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Psarian
algometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to algometry.
algometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to algometry.
Derived terms: autoalgometric
Psariot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Psariots
Etymology: From Psara + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Psarian
Psariot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Psara + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Psarian
Psariots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Psariot
algometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli.
Derived terms: algometric
algometrical
autoalgometry
Related terms: algometer
odynometer
pain score
pain threshold
alligator wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator wrenches
Senses: glosses: A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
alligator wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alligator wrench
ambary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambaree
form: ambari
Etymology: From Marathi अंबाडी (ambāḍī).
Senses: synonyms: kenaf
Deccan hemp
Java jute
wild stockrose
glosses: A fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), whose fiber is used for making various items, including rope, canvas and paper.
Moreot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moreots
Etymology: From Morea + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of Morea.
Moreot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Morea + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Morea or its inhabitants.
Moreots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moreot
aminol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amine + -ol.
Senses: glosses: A colourless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.
equisetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its presence in the plant called horsetail; see Equisetaceae.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aconitic acid.
synonyms: word: aconitic acid
pyrocitric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + citric acid.
Senses: glosses: aconitic acid
achilleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: aconitic acid
achilleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achilleates
Senses: glosses: aconitate
pyrocitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrocitrates
Senses: glosses: aconitate
achilleates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achilleate
pyrocitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrocitrate
Javanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Javanees
Senses: examples: text: The Javanee is like the spaniel in his fondness for water. When possible he plants his house on the river's edge and runs a ladder-like stair from the back door to the stream.
ref: 1905, Outing, volume 46, page 312:
glosses: A Javanese person.
Javanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Javanee
amylolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amylo- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of starch into sugar by the action of acids or enzymes such as amylase.
anaseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ana- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: Moving up and down; said of earthquake shocks.
Kalymniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kalymniots
Etymology: From Kalymnos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Kalymnos.
Kalymniot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kalymnos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Kalymnos or its inhabitants.
Kalymniots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalymniot
anchor light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor lights
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor.
anchor lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchor light
anchor shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
anchor shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchor shot
Kalymnos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Κάλυμνος (Kálymnos).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
Derived terms: Kalymniot
anchor space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor spaces
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 × 3½ inches, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
anchor spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchor space
Anglo-Catholicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo- + Catholicism.
Senses: glosses: Anglo-Catholic beliefs and practices.
Aivaliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aivaliots
Etymology: From Aivali + -iot.
Senses: glosses: One of the Greek inhabitants of Ayvalık.
glosses: Their dialect of Greek.
Aivaliot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aivali + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Aivaliots.
Aivaliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aivaliot
angusticlave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angusticlaves
Etymology: From Latin angustus (“narrow”) and clavus (“nail, stripe”).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank
Related terms: angusticlavia
angusticlaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angusticlave
anito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anitos
Etymology: From Spanish anito, Tagalog anito, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu.
Senses: hyponyms: taotao
glosses: ancestor spirit in Indigenous Philippine folk religions
glosses: Synonym of anitism (“folk religion of the Philippines”).
synonyms: word: anitism
extra: folk religion of the Philippines
anitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anito
Corfiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Corfiot
tunnel disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acylostomiasis.
anoxaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anoxaemic
form: most anoxaemic
Etymology: From anoxaemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, anoxaemia.
anoxemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anoxemic
form: most anoxemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anoxaemic.
aplanogamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplanogametes
Etymology: From a- + plano- + gamete.
Senses: glosses: A non-motile gamete found in certain lower algae.
aplanogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplanogamete
Ardois system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ardois system
Senses: glosses: A system used by the US Navy in the late 19th century to enable ship-to-ship communications at night. Each installation used a series of eight double lamps (four red and four white) hung from a mast and used to transmit visual codes.
Paros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πάρος (Páros).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
Derived terms: Parian
parianware
argentalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin argentum (“silver”), and English aluminium.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of aluminium and silver.
arthrochondritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arthro- + chondritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: chondritis of a joint
atmiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmo- + -iatry.
Senses: glosses: treatment of disease by vapours or gases, as by inhalation
autocoherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocoherers
Etymology: From auto- + coherer.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
wireless-telegraphy
glosses: A self-restoring coherer, such as a microphonic detector.
autocoherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocoherer
autostability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + stability.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ability to keep a stable poise, either by virtue of shape and proportions, or by some mechanism.
automixte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A system of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power, the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power, the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor.
secret ballots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret ballot
acutorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.
leveche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dry sirocco of Spain.
yarner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarners
Etymology: From yarn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tells yarns or stories.
glosses: A yarn spinner.
yarners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarner
hyparchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Whose action is affected by adjacent, especially by adjacent epistatic, genes
raw_tags: of a gene
Related terms: autarchic
likin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌliːˈkɪn/
Forms: form: likins
form: lekin
form: lijin
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 釐金 (líjīn).
Senses: examples: text: The main theme of the conference was to levy the 2.5 per cent surtax in exchange for abolition of likin, which would benefit the powers and the Beijing government. The Beijing government proposed to abolish the likin no later than 1 January 1929, for which the powers would allow the interim surtax on ordinary goods and a higher percentage on luxury goods such as wine and tobacco.
ref: 2013, Chihyun Chang, Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China: The Maritime Customs Service and Its Chinese Staff:
glosses: A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.
likins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of likin
American lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American lions
Senses: glosses: A puma or cougar.
glosses: An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.
American lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American lion
Ladins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ladin
diaphonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diaphoneme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to diaphonemes.
lion ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion ants
Senses: glosses: antlion
lion ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion ant
enting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ent
ented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ent
lion lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion lizards
Senses: glosses: basilisk (tree-dwelling lizard)
lion lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion lizard
hippodromed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hippodrome
Hittorf tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hittorf tubes
Etymology: Named after Johann Wilhelm Hittorf.
Senses: glosses: An early form of vacuum tube.
wikipedia: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
Hittorf tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hittorf tube
hook it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hooks it
form: hooking it
form: hooked it
form: hooked it
Senses: examples: text: Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co./A Little Prep.:
text: ‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.’
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:
synonyms: take one's hook
glosses: To depart in a hurry; to clear out.
haematolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haemato- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: hemolytic
hematolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hemolytic
haphtarahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haphtarah
haphtaroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haphtarah
haphtarot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haphtarah
haftarah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haftarahs
form: haftarot
form: haftaroth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haftarah.
haftaroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haftarah
haftarahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haftarah
haftarot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haftarah
Heckerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hecker + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1888), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people.
Harvey process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey.
Senses: glosses: A process for hardening the face of steel, involving the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low-carbon steel by heaping a solid carbon-rich fuel (such as charcoal) on the face of the steel and then subjecting this to very high heat at high pressure for a prolonged period of time, followed by a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This results in a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.
Coordinate terms: Krupp process
Related terms: harveyize
Heppelwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the cabinet-maker George Hepplewhite.
Senses: glosses: A light and elegant style of furniture developed in England during the reign of George III.
wikipedia: George Hepplewhite
Hallstattian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hallstatt + -ian. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the Celts was found in Hallstatt.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hallstatt culture, often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800–450 BC.
heemraad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heemraden
form: heemraads
Etymology: From Dutch heemraad (“village council”).
Senses: glosses: In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts.
glosses: A member of such a council.
heemraads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heemraad
Cape Colony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former British colony in present-day South Africa and Namibia, named for the Cape of Good Hope, existing from 1795 to 1802 and 1806 to 1910.
Henrietta cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Henrietta cloths
Senses: glosses: A woollen fabric much used for women's dresses.
Henrietta cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Henrietta cloth
hammer break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer breaks
Senses: examples: text: […] a form of contact device was adopted of the commutator and brush type, having rubbing contacts only, and doing away with all platinum points and hammer breaks.
ref: 1903, The Horseless Age, volume 11, page 645:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
hammer breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammer break
moorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorns
Senses: examples: text: Wheea is she that leuks forth as the moorn, fair as the moon, clear as the sun […]
ref: 1860, The Song of Solomon in the North Yorkshire Dialect, page 15:
glosses: morn; morning
heteroecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quality of being heteroecious.
degases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degas
degras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French dégras
Senses: glosses: A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly used as a dressing for hides.
thanks a heap
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thanks a lot.
synonyms: word: thanks a lot
thanks a ton
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thanks a lot.
synonyms: word: thanks a lot
Soudanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Soudanese
form: most Soudanese
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Sudanese.
team building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teambuilding.
tar pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tar pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tarpit.
disappearing carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disappearing carriages
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: gun carriage
glosses: A carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection.
Related terms: nondisappearing
disappearing carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disappearing carriage
divinity calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: calfskin stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books
Dobell's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerine, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.
temper temper
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Used to tell someone to mind their (bad) temper
Dongolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dongola
Dongola leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leather made by the Dongola process
Dongola process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A process of tanning goatskin, calfskin or sheepskin, with a combination of vegetable and mineral agents, so that it resembles kid leather.
Dongola kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dongola leather
Dongola race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dongola races
Senses: glosses: A boat race in which the crews are composed of a number of pairs, usually of men and women.
Dongola races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dongola race
nolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noll
post-Panamax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + Panamax.
Senses: synonyms: over-Panamax
glosses: Of a ship, that exceeds the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship.
domino whist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A card game in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, and the first player to get rid of his or her cards is the winner.
Aframax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From AFRA + -max.
Senses: glosses: Describes a size of freight ship, maximum Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA). Generally being too large to pass through the Panama Canal.
Related terms: Panamax
New Panamax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: Neopanamax
glosses: Of a ship: exceeding the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship, but still conforming to the maximum dimensions laid down for the New Panama Canal.
peanutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peanut + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without peanuts, peanut-free
Capesize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: capesize
Etymology: From cape + size, in reference to the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn.
Senses: synonyms: capesized
glosses: Of a freight ship or oil tanker: exceeding the maximum dimensions of all major canals (Panama, Suez, etc.), therefore having to use one of the Cape routes to pass from ocean to ocean.
Chinamax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From China + -max.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted width, length, and draft allowed in Chinese ports.
Suezmax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Suez + -max.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted width, length, and draft allowed to pass through the Suez Canal.
Related terms: Aframax
Capesize
Chinamax
Malaccamax
Panamax
Seawaymax
handymax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From handy + -max.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: which has a small cargo capacity (40,000 - 50,000 DWT). Member of the handysize class.
Related terms: handy
handysize
supramax
whasisname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatshisname.
supramax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + -max.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: which has a small cargo capacity (50,000 - 60,000 DWT). Larger than handymax. Member of the handysize class.
Related terms: handy
handysize
handymax
handysize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: handy + size
Senses: glosses: Of a class of freight ships which have a small cargo capacity. Divided into size dependent sub-category descriptions including handy, handymax, supramax.
thingmajig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamajig.
doo-hickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doo-hickeys
Senses: glosses: Rare form of doohickey.
Malaccamax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malacca + -max.
Senses: glosses: Description applied to freight ships, conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted draft allowed to pass through the Malacca Straits.
Seawaymax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seaway + -max.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Panamax
glosses: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft allowed to pass through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
frammis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frammises
Etymology: Unknown. Originated in the US in the 1930s; perhaps merely a nonsense word.
Senses: examples: text: Right now all his spare time is spent at Moseleys, roller skating for hours on end. "Foozle the frammis snaffle," says Bob, "or don't you like it?"
ref: 1938, The Year Book of the Class of 1938: Dedham High School, page 33, column 1:
text: Are you satisfied that your multiplicative inverse rests securely on its Cartesian coordinates with its cosecant separated from the frammis by the rigid transformation of its orthogonal projection?
ref: 1938, The American Biology Teacher, volume 24, page 341, column 2:
text: "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
ref: 1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:
text: "Listen, I caulderoled the nurse for a minute and sneaked down the frammis." "What?" "I had to talk to you."
ref: 1949 January 1, Collier's Magazine, page 56, column 4:
text: But how can they react helpfully to orders that sound like, "Shift the shackle on the frammis to the glotz"?
ref: 1963 May 24, Mademoiselle, page 225, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of gizmo.
synonyms: word: gizmo
examples: text: And what they added up to was curtains - for him. He'd really stepped into something this time: a Grade-A jam, an honest-to-Hannah, double-distilled frammis.
ref: 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 18, column 1:
glosses: A confidence trick; a swindle.
frobnitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frobnitzes
Etymology: Coined c. 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) as a fanciful name for model railroad parts, perhaps originally as a proper noun. More general use presumably dates from the 1960s, as it is not found in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gizmo.
synonyms: word: gizmo
wikipedia: Peter Samson
Tech Model Railroad Club
Derived terms: frob
frobnicate
Gainsborough hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gainsborough hats
Senses: synonyms: picture hat
glosses: A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), English artist.
Gainsborough hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gainsborough hat
sheerleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheerlegs
Senses: glosses: A floating crane, commonly used for ship salvage, loading and unloading large cargo, and the construction of bridges and ships.
Ganz system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ganz system
Etymology: From the company name Ganz & Co.
Senses: glosses: A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.
genoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genoise
Genoa cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Genoa cakes
Etymology: From its origins in 16th-century Genoa as a Christmas cake.
Senses: glosses: A fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar.
Genoa cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Genoa cake
weltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welting
garter stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garter stitches
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: the most basic form of welting, produced in the round by knitting and purling alternate rows, or in the flat by knitting (or purling) every stitch
gesso duro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gesso (“mixture of plaster of Paris and glue”) duro (“hard”).
Senses: glosses: A variety of gesso that becomes hard and durable when dried, often used in making bas-relief casts.
Gibaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gibaros
Etymology: From an American Spanish [Term?] word meaning "wild".
Senses: glosses: The offspring of a Spaniard and a Native American.
Gibaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibaro
Glengarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glengarry
go-devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-devil
duck egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck eggs
form: duck's egg
Etymology: From the shape of an egg, resembling the digit 0. Compare goose egg.
Senses: glosses: Zero; nothing.
Gongorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gongorism
special snowflake syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that every snowflake has a unique structure. Compare snowflake (“someone who believes they are as unique and special as a snowflake”).
Senses: examples: text: Although we all like to think we are unique and experience the world in our own way—we all have a touch of the Special Snowflake Syndrome—people are in fact more alike than different.
ref: 2014, Douglas O. Linder, Nancy Levit, The Good Lawyer: Seeking Quality in the Practice of Law, page 181:
text: America is plagued by the disease of Special Snowflake Syndrome. This is a contracted condition that afflicts the ego; it's where we believe ourselves to be utterly unique and better than everyone else.
ref: 2015, Jacob D. Myers, Making Love with Scripture:
text: Ah, the Tumblrfication of queer spaces... Maybe we'll finally get the courage to start speaking up against and calling this out without fear of Internet lynch mobs...
ref: 2015, Mattew Henry, “Special Snowflake Syndrome is ruining the progressive LGBTQ movement”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
glosses: The conviction that one (or often one's child) is, in some way, special and should therefore be treated differently from others.
guide rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guide ropes
Senses: glosses: A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as to trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
guinea pig director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guinea pig directors
Senses: examples: text: We wish all men were equally conscientious, and we should get rid of that useless animal, the guinea-pig Director—a greater abomination to good management than which does not exist.
ref: 1858 May 8, Herapath's Railway Journal, page 491:
glosses: A company director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance.
guinea pig directors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guinea pig director
mainstreamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainstreamists
Etymology: From mainstream + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone in the mainstream.
mainstreamness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mainstream + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mainstream.
mainstreamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainstreamist
mainstreamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mainstreamish
form: most mainstreamish
Etymology: From mainstream + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat mainstream.
personal identification numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal identification number
unyouthfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unyouthful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of not being youthful.
grobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grobian
Washoe process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Washoe district in Nevada.
Senses: glosses: The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
sociography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociographies
Etymology: From socio- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The branch of sociology that concentrates on the descriptive analysis of social phenomena.
Derived terms: sociographic
sociographical
sociographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sociography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sociography.
Synonyms: sociographical
sociographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sociography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sociography.
Synonyms: sociographic
untheorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + theorized.
Senses: examples: text: Law, however, is by no means an untheorized concept for Foucault. To the contrary, law is at the heart of Foucault's project.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
text: Jafari seems to be opening a new chapter in sociographical imagination, which is deeply needed within the contemporary balkanized world of value systems. Of course, this approach is immensely untheorized, and the founding patrons or matrons of the primordial school of social theory are sadly unknown within leading discourses on social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies around the globe.
ref: 2010, Seyed Javad Miri, chapter 3, in Reflections on the Social Thought of Allama M. T. Jafari, page 40:
glosses: That has not been explained by a theory.
Wallack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wallacks
Senses: glosses: A Wallachian.
Wallack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wallacks
Etymology: Variant of German Wallach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wallacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wallack
water tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water tenders
Senses: glosses: A specialized firefighting apparatus designed for transporting water from a water source, such as a lake or hydrant, to a fire scene.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom, who supplies the boilers with water, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc.
Synonyms: sense: apparatus
word: tanker
water tenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water tender
undertheorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undertheorized
form: most undertheorized
Etymology: From under- + theorized.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, there are many undertheorized grounds that need to be reconstructed, and Allama Jafari himself confessed (Jafari 1387, 145) to various shortcomings which one may come across within his theoretical paradigm, which we have termed as primordial school of social theory.
ref: 2010, Seyed Javad Miri, chapter 3, in Reflections on the Social Thought of Allama M. T. Jafari, page 40:
glosses: Insufficiently theoretically studied or researched.
Watteau bodice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Watteau bodices
Etymology: After the 18th-century French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bodice with short ruffled sleeves.
wikipedia: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Watteau bodices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Watteau bodice
Watteau back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Watteau backs
Etymology: After the 18th-century French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
Senses: glosses: The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.
wikipedia: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Watteau backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Watteau back
Weismannist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weismannists
Etymology: From Weismann + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Weismannism.
Weismannists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weismannist
otta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ottah
Etymology: From Hindi आटा (āṭā).
Senses: glosses: Flour.
weld steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weld steels
Senses: glosses: A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.
Welsbach burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsbach burners
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Auer von Welsbach.
Senses: glosses: A burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapour is used to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium, drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash.
Welsbach burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welsbach burner
white slavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white slaver