cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disagreeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disagreeably
form: most disagreeably
Etymology: From disagreeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Detie was really far from easy in her mind about what she was doing, which is why she spoke so disagreeably[.]
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 48:
text: Should the Court simply read abortion rights out of the Constitution, so that other institutions of society are free and able to make policy on procreation? Or, has America long since adapted, even if disagreeably, to the precedents?
ref: 2021, Lyle Denniston: The abortion rights reckoning, in: Lyle Denniston Law News, November 24 2021
glosses: In a disagreeable manner.
disappointingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disappointingly
form: most disappointingly
Etymology: From disappointing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam.
text: The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a disappointing manner.
disapprovingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disapprovingly
form: most disapprovingly
Etymology: From disapproving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disapproving manner
disarmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disarmingly
form: most disarmingly
Etymology: From disarming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The reporter smiled disarmingly.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 81:
text: At that moment the elevator doors open at basement level 8. Alastair Grey is waiting, still smiling disarmingly. He steps forward.
ref: 2015–2021, qntm, “Introductory Antimemetics”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: In a disarming manner.
disbelievingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disbelievingly
form: most disbelievingly
Etymology: From disbelieving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "How much do you want?" I looked at him disbelievingly.
ref: 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 51:
glosses: In a disbelieving manner.
disconnectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disconnectedly
form: most disconnectedly
Etymology: From disconnected + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know why I lied; my thoughts fluttered about disconnectedly and inspired me with many singular whims, more than I knew what to do with.
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: In a disconnected manner.
Related terms: disconnect
disconnected
disconnectedness
discreditably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discreditably
form: most discreditably
Etymology: From discreditable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discreditable manner
disgracefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disgracefully
form: most disgracefully
Etymology: From disgraceful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'I have been disgracefully imposed upon.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 94:
glosses: In a disgraceful manner.
guillemet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡiˈmeɪ/
ipa: /ˌɡi.(j)əˈmeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɪl.əˌmɛt/
Forms: form: guillemets
Etymology: From French guillemet, diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) who supposedly invented the marks.
Senses: examples: text: Guillemets, however, proved popular and remain the key method of indicating quotations in French, Arabic, Italian, Greek and many other languages.
ref: 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 49:
glosses: Either of the punctuation marks « or » (or ‹ or ›), used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language, such as “ and ”.
Synonyms: word: angle quote
topics: typography
publishing
media
word: chevron
word: duckfoot quote
english: Unicode name
translation: Unicode name
word: double angle quotation mark
disinterestedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɪnt(ə)ɹɛstɪdli/
Forms: form: more disinterestedly
form: most disinterestedly
Etymology: From disinterested + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe, however, she thinks him simply disinterestedly interested in human virtue but unable to regard it, as so many do, as a guarantee against The Thing – cruel fate which is indifferent to theological distinctions.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 929:
glosses: In a disinterested manner; impartially, dispassionately.
disjointedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disjointedly
form: most disjointedly
Etymology: From disjointed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On the thirteenth day I drank some more water, and dozed and thought disjointedly of eating and of vague impossible plans of escape.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 236:
glosses: In a disjointed manner.
disloyally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disloyally
form: most disloyally
Etymology: From disloyal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disloyal manner.
dismally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪz.mə.li/
Forms: form: more dismally
form: most dismally
Etymology: From dismal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ribs of the few horses showed dismally.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 291:
text: Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Sunday May 10 was rambly, incoherent, and he failed dismally in his attempt to sound Churchillian.
ref: 2020 May 20, Christian Wolmar, “Clarity is required on social distancing and the railways”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: In a dismal manner.
disobediently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disobediently
form: most disobediently
Etymology: From disobedient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disobedient manner.
disreputably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disreputably
form: most disreputably
Etymology: From disreputable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disreputable manner
disruptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disruptively
form: most disruptively
Etymology: From disruptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disruptive manner
dissolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissolutely
form: most dissolutely
Etymology: From dissolute + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissolute manner
distally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distally
form: most distally
Etymology: From distal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Towards a distal part.
Derived terms: caudodistally
dorsodistally
laterodistally
linguodistally
Related terms: distal
distantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distantly
form: most distantly
Etymology: From distant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The horizon was distantly visible in the grey light of dawn.
text: I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.
ref: 2014 August 20, Mark Potok, “What’s in a Name?”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:
glosses: At a distance.
examples: text: "What do you want?" she said distantly.
text: "Don't go," he implored. "I must," said Millie distantly.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 116:
synonyms: aloofly
glosses: In a distant manner; with detachment.
distastefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distastefully
form: most distastefully
Etymology: From distasteful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: unpleasantly
text: The soup was distastefully crammed with every spice from the spice cabinet.
text: The meeting was distastefully crammed with trivial agenda items.
antonyms: word: tastily
word: deliciously
word: scrumptiously
word: ;
word: improperly
word: offputtingly
glosses: In a distasteful manner.
Related terms: untastefully
distractedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distractedly
form: most distractedly
Etymology: From distracted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he flaps distractedly past us in a splather of muddy spume.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 147:
text: Bradly had laid out rice, potatoes, tomatoes and cheese, and was juggling distractedly among these matters.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: In a distracted manner.
distressingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distressingly
form: most distressingly
Etymology: From distressing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It shook the girl distressingly, but she made no sign; only she took one swift look at Andrew, and noted that he had suddenly changed from a boy into a man, with a brave, grave face.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 203:
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.
distributively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distributively
form: most distributively
Etymology: From distributive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distributive manner
distrustfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distrustfully
form: most distrustfully
Etymology: From distrustful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distrustful manner
divisively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more divisively
form: most divisively
Etymology: From divisive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a divisive manner
dizzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dizzily
form: most dizzily
Etymology: From dizzy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.
ref: 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:
text: The Australians had seen it coming—Singapore's fall and the inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland […]. But it had happened dizzily fast.
ref: 1942 March 2, “Feeling the Crunch”, in Time:
text: 1977, Hansard, Scotland and Wales Bill, 15 February, 1977, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The Lord President can not avoid our pointing out that the Government's position has shifted dizzily from point to point during these debates.
glosses: In a dizzy manner.
dogmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔɡˈmætɪcli/
ipa: /dɑɡˈmætɪcli/
Forms: form: more dogmatically
form: most dogmatically
Etymology: From dogmatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a dogmatic manner.
dolefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dolefully
form: most dolefully
Etymology: From Middle English dolfully, dolefulliche, deolfulliche, equivalent to doleful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a doleful manner
Synonyms: deplorably
dolorously
grievously
lamentably
lugubriously
mournfully
plaintively
regrettably
ruefully
sadly
sorrowfully
woefully
dolorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dolorously
form: most dolorously
form: dolourously
Etymology: From Middle English dolerousely, dolorouxly, dolorusly; equivalent to dolorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dolorous manner.
doltishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doltishly
form: most doltishly
Etymology: From doltish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a doltish manner
domestically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more domestically
form: most domestically
Etymology: From domestic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The wind-down of OPIC is also consistent with the President’s commitment to focus less overseas and more domestically, and will achieve savings in OPIC’s administrative and subsidy expenses.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
glosses: In a domestic manner.
examples: text: Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: At home, playing in one's home ground.
Derived terms: intradomestically
peridomestically
dominantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dominantly
form: most dominantly
Etymology: From dominant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dominant manner.
Derived terms: antidominantly
codominantly
immunodominantly
phenodominantly
semidominantly
subdominantly
dorsally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dorsally
form: most dorsally
Etymology: From dorsal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The origin of each tube is situated closer to the older of each two consecutive varices, and the tube is bent dorsally and slightly posteriorly.
ref: 1976, George E. Radwin, Murex Shells of the World: An Illustrated Guide to the Muricidae:
glosses: Towards the dorsal side.
Derived terms: anteriodorsally
labiodorsally
mesodorsally
middorsally
proximodorsally
retrodorsally
superodorsally
temporodorsally
dotingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dotingly
form: most dotingly
form: doatingly
Etymology: From doting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a doting manner
doubtingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doubtingly
form: most doubtingly
Etymology: From doubting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a doubting manner.
flying brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying bricks
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft which is too heavy and lacks sufficient power to be maneuvered easily.
glosses: A fictional character who has superstrength, invulnerability and the ability to fly.
Related terms: flying wing
dowdily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dowdily
form: most dowdily
Etymology: From dowdy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dowdy manner
downheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downheartedly
form: most downheartedly
Etymology: From downhearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a downhearted manner
drearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drearily
form: most drearily
Etymology: From Middle English drerily, from Old English drēoriġlīċe; equivalent to dreary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dreary manner
drily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drily
form: most drily
Senses: examples: text: “Anybody been here, Sammy?” asked Mr. Weller senior, drily, after a long silence.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Samuel Weller Makes a Pilgrimage to Dorking, and Beholds His Mother-in-Law”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 279:
text: Füssli […] gives an account of the painter which is largely occupied with a consideration of his masterpiece, the ‘Battle of Waterloo.’ He comments upon the prominence given to Wellington in the picture, and rather drily remarks […] that the rearward position assigned Blücher is not an ungraceful tribute to Germany ! the intention undoubtedly being ‘der deutschen Bescheidenheit ein Compliment zu machen.’
ref: 1900, Ernest William Radford, “ATKINSON, John Augustus”, in Dictionary of National Biography, volume 2, page 224:
text: It was not until 1889, however, that Nat Goodwin's talent as a comedian of the “legitimate” type began to be recognized. From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as Brander Matthews' and George H. Jessop's A Gold Mine, Henry Guy Carleton's A Gilded Fool and Ambition, Clyde Fitch’s Nathan Hale, H. V. Esmond's When We Were Twenty-one, &c.
ref: 1911, “Goodwin, Nathaniel Carl”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 12, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 239:
text: Haines, who had been laughing guardedly, walked on beside Stephen and said:
— We oughtn’t to laugh, I suppose. He’s rather blasphemous. I’m not a believer myself, that is to say. Still his gaiety takes the harm out of it somehow, doesn’t it? What did he call it? Joseph the Joiner?
— The ballad of Joking Jesus, Stephen answered.
— O, Haines said, you have heard it before?
— Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dryly.
drowsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drowsily
form: most drowsily
Etymology: From drowsy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: In a drowsy manner.
drunkenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drunkenly
form: most drunkenly
Etymology: From drunken + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
For that I was his father Edward's son;
That blood already, like the pelican,
Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: In a drunken manner.
Synonyms: bibulously
intoxicatedly
leglessly
winefully
zip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zips up
form: zipping up
form: zipped up
form: zipped up
Senses: examples: text: Always check if you've zipped up your fly before you go out.
glosses: To close with a zip fastener.
examples: text: I'll zip up my lip.
text: I'll zip up.
glosses: To close as if with a zip fastener, especially one's mouth; to stop talking.
glosses: To convert a computer file into a smaller package.
Synonyms: do up
zip
Derived terms: zip up one's lip
Related terms: zip-up
berated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of berate
spiffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spiffy: more spiffy
spiffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spiffy: most spiffy
cont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of continuous.
cont
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: cont knitting across 2nd and 3rd needle of instep
ref: 2010, Margaret Hubert, The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting, page 68:
glosses: Abbreviation of continue.
glosses: Abbreviation of continued.
reap what one sows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːp(h)wɒt wʌn ˈsəʊz/
ipa: /ˌɹip wɑt wʌn ˈsoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: reaps what one sows
form: reaping what one sows
form: reaped what one sowed
form: reaped what one had sown
form: reaped what one has sown
form: reaped what one had sown
Etymology: From Galatians 6:7 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Senses: examples: text: "We will reap what we sow; live with what we do not act to change," he said.
ref: 2005 November 15, Tony Blair, The Guardian:
glosses: To receive as a return or reward in the same measure as one's exertions or intentions, in a good or a bad sense; to receive justice or one's just deserts.
Related terms: as you sow, so shall you reap
bring one's own hide to market
chickens come home to roost
every man is the architect of his own fortune
fuck around and find out
Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
like turkeys voting for Christmas
make one's bed and lie in it
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
sow dragon's teeth
sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
step on a rake
stew in one's juices
what goes around comes around
spivvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spivvish
form: most spivvish
Etymology: From spiv + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spivish.
nutriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nutriates
form: nutriating
form: nutriated
form: nutriated
Senses: examples: text: This implies that a considerable amount of the glucose and adenine, added in order to nutriate the red cells, were removed and contained in the plasma.
ref: 1991, James R. Harris, Blood Separation and Plasma Fractionation:
glosses: To supply with nutrients.
auto racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Any of various sports in which automobiles (motor cars) are raced, either around a track, on roads or across country
Synonyms: automobile racing
autosport
car racing
motor racing
motorsport
autosport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autosports
Senses: glosses: motorsport
Synonyms: auto racing
motorsport
motorsport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorsports
Etymology: From motor + sport.
Senses: glosses: auto racing
glosses: Any sport involving automobiles (motor cars) other than racing; e.g. time trials
glosses: Any sport involving motor vehicles
Hyponyms: auto racing
Coordinate terms: powersport
automobile racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: auto racing
motor racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hyponyms: auto racing
motorsport
glosses: Racing in motor vehicles, such as cars, motorboats, or motorbikes.
car hire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: car rental
car rental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car rentals
Senses: glosses: The hiring of automobiles (motor cars) for relatively short periods.
glosses: A business that hires out automobiles.
Synonyms: word: car hire
Related terms: rental car
leasing
portal vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portal veins
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A short, wide vein located in the abdominal cavity formed by the union of the superior mesenteric and splenic veins that channels blood from the gastrointestinal tract and spleen to capillary beds in the liver.
Synonyms: hepatic portal vein
impartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impartite
form: most impartite
Senses: examples: text: To the (philosophically) trained Pantheist, the abstraction, or the noumenon,
is the ever to be unknown Deity, the on eternal reality, formless, because homogeneous
and impartite; ...
ref: 1888, H.P.Blavatsky, Mabel Collins, Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine:
glosses: undivided
freight-only
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Describing a railway line that is used only by freight trains
sequenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sequence
sequenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Whose sequence (of bases or genes) has been determined
fox terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox terrier
arborescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborescences
Etymology: Borrowed from French arborescence.
Senses: glosses: A tree-like structure.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A directed rooted tree in which all vertices can be reached from the root.
more equal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by George Orwell in 1945; see Animal Farm quotation below.
Senses: examples: text: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: ... men who supposedly enjoyed equality and freedom, but in fact did not. The rich more equal than the poor at Strasbourg? ... is there a gap between what human rights say they do and what they actually do?
ref: 2006, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Who Believes in Human Rights?, p. 122
text: 2007, Mark Knoller, President Bush Rides In Style, CBS News
All the world leaders at the G-8 Summit are supposed to be equal in stature. But in some ways, President George W. Bush is more equal than others.
text: He clearly believes some states are more equal than others.
ref: 2007, Neil Clark, Monday May 21, 2007, The Guardian, If the world is his oyster (discussing Bernard Kouchner)
glosses: Ostensibly equal, but more privileged in reality.
bleu cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞o chēzʹ
ipa: /blu ˈtʃiz/
Forms: form: bleu cheeses
Etymology: Influenced by the French bleu.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue cheese.
smell the barn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsmɛl ðə ˈbaːn/
ipa: /ˌsmɛl ðə ˈbaɹn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: smells the barn
form: smelling the barn
form: smelled the barn
form: smelled the barn
form: smelt the barn
form: smelt the barn
Etymology: A reference to a livestock animal returning to its barn at the end of the day, especially a horse drawing a carriage which is on the way back home.
Senses: examples: text: We’ll get home right quick—old Dobbin knows the way better than you and I do, and he can smell the barn besides.
text: Anyhow, Congress, like the old horse that starts into a long deferred trot when she "smells the barn," began to show action and as hearts on Capitol Hill leaned homeward, thoughts in the White House turned to the open road—or at least the railroad.
ref: 1935 August 12, H[ilmar] R[obert] Baukhage, “In the Executive Offices”, in David Lawrence, editor, The United States News: The Weekly Newsmagazine of National Affairs, volume 3, number 32, Washington, D.C., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: […] Charlie Company could leave as early as mid-October—which is soon but not quite soon enough for them. "The horses smell the barn right now," said Capt. Clark D. Carr, the battalion's Protestant chaplain, who knows perhaps better than anyone how badly they want to leave.
ref: 1996 August 11, Ian Fisher, “To U.S. troops in Bosnia, home looks closer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2021, page 18:
text: Smelling the barn can result in driving too fast, not clearing weapons properly, and bypassing ammunition-recovery procedures.
ref: 2001 summer, Bryan P. McCoy, “Identify and Combat Five Treacherous Phenomena”, in Ground Warrior, Norfolk, Va.: Naval Safety Center, United States Navy, →OCLC:
text: Antyllus leaned his ear closer to the slave at his feet without taking his eyes off his over-eager team [of horses], which already smelt the barn ahead of them.
ref: 2005, Helena P. Schrader, chapter 3, in The Olympic Charioteer, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:
text: [H]e [Douglas MacArthur] had smelled the gunpowder again and in old age was once again the dashing young brigadier of World War I; […] This close, he simply couldn't abide sitting still. Like a horse, he smelled the barn and was determined to push ahead.
ref: 2016 May, Walter R. Borneman, “Return to Manila”, in MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 465:
glosses: To act with renewed energy or speed or to experience heightened anticipation as one approaches a destination, goal, or other desired outcome.
Related terms: home stretch
smelling the barn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell the barn.
jingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jingle
jingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jingle
prealbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + albumin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Transthyretin
outdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outdraw
Alabaman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alabaman
form: most Alabaman
Etymology: From Alabama + -n.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Alabamian.
synonyms: word: Alabamian
Alabaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alabamans
Etymology: From Alabama + -n.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Alabamian.
synonyms: word: Alabamian
Jefferson City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Missouri, United States, and the county seat of Cole County.
glosses: A town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A census designated place in Jefferson County, Montana, United States.
subdwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdwarfs
Etymology: From sub- + dwarf.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star that is dimmer than a main-sequence star of same temperature; located below the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Synonyms: subdwarf star
pliancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪənsi/
Forms: form: pliancies
Senses: examples: text: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
ref: 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:
synonyms: pliantness
glosses: The quality of being pliant.
subgiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgiants
Etymology: From sub- + giant.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star that has left the main sequence but has not yet become a true giant star.
Synonyms: subgiant star
myocardial infarct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myocardial infarcts
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of myocardial infarction.
synonyms: word: myocardial infarction
hypergiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypergiants
Etymology: From hyper- + giant.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
Derived terms: blue hypergiant
red hypergiant
yellow hypergiant
myocardial infarcts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myocardial infarct
heart attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart attack
timing is everything
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: - Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob.
- You know what they say: "timing is everything." I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods.
text: “Timing Is Everything”. It certainly has been true in my life and chances are it's probably played a role in your life as well. As I look back there were moments where I missed out on something special because I either made the wrong ...
ref: 2015, Rob Couty, Timing Is Everything!: Joining The Right Company At The Right Time!, Rob Couty:
text: So when I'd hear people tell me – in many contexts – that timing is everything, I'd naturally feel uncomfortably constrained. Choked sometimes. Because I knew that I personally possessed virtually no sense of timing in the clock sense of time.
ref: 2017, Janice Presser, Timing Isn't Everything. Teaming Is., Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 35:
text: ... partnership in the new forest policy was one ingredient; but it was the pressing demands on government forestry from an increasingly vocal civil society – that brought a hesitant. Forestry tactics 9 Why now? Why this way? Timing is everything.
ref: 2001, Forestry Tactics: Lessons from Malawi's National Forestry Programme, IIED, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Consideration of other events can greatly influence some desired outcome (such as whether a joke is well received).
heartbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartbeat
daikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪkɒn/
Forms: form: daikons
form: daikon
Etymology: From Japanese 大根 (daikon, “big root”).
Senses: glosses: An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.
examples: text: Jiko was washing these big white daikons, and I was cutting them up and salting them and putting them into plastic freezer bags.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 188:
topics: cuisine
food
lifestyle
glosses: An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.
The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
glosses: Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.
Synonyms: word: Chinese radish
word: Chinese white radish
word: daikon radish
word: icicle radish
word: Japanese radish
word: lo bak
word: lo pak
word: long white radish
word: mooli
word: muli
word: moole
word: Oriental radish
word: oriental radish
word: Raphanus sativus subsp. Oleiferus
word: Raphanus sativus var. hortensis Backer
word: Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus L.H. Bailey
word: Raphanus sativus var. oleifera Stokes
word: Raphanus sativus var. oleiformis Pers.
word: white radish
word: fodder radish
word: forage radish
word: oil radish
word: oilseed radish
word: radish ripper
word: tillage radish
word: Sakurajima radish
sense: related green radishes
word: beauty heart radish
sense: related green radishes
word: Chinese green radish
sense: related green radishes
word: Chinese radish
sense: related green radishes
word: Korean radish
sense: related green radishes
word: lo bak
sense: related green radishes
word: lo pak
sense: related green radishes
word: Oriental radish
sense: related green radishes
word: oriental radish
sense: related green radishes
word: red daikon
sense: related green radishes
word: roseheart radish
sense: related green radishes
word: shinrimei
sense: related green radishes
word: shinrimei radish
sense: related green radishes
word: watermelon radish
Hyponyms: Korean radish
lo bak
Sakurajima radish
true daikon
fodder radish
watermelon radish
Derived terms: giant daikon
jumbo daikon
Sakurajima daikon
VATman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VATmen
Etymology: From VAT + man.
Senses: glosses: The embodiment of the VAT taxation department
presoak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presoaks
form: presoaking
form: presoaked
form: presoaked
Etymology: From pre- + soak.
Senses: examples: to presoak lentils before cooking
glosses: To soak in advance.
glosses: To soak laundry in cold water prior to washing, sometimes with the addition of a biological or other preparation.
presoak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presoaks
Etymology: From pre- + soak.
Senses: glosses: An initial soak.
glosses: A preparation used in such a soak.
glosses: A cycle of a washing machine during which this occurs.
morphologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphology
variabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variability
stonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stony: more stony
yo momma
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɒmə
Senses: examples: text: "where you git it?" asked Freddie. "Yo momma." "Aw, Rank, cut that shit out, man."
ref: 1973, Black World, page 55:
text: In order to keep the teacher from knowing what we were doing, we just cleared our throats and that meant “your mother" (yo momma) .
ref: 1991, Evelyn Baker Dandy, Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, page 87:
text: "I'm out stank man!" I said to the laughing gas man. "Yo momma."
ref: 2006, John H. Eaves, Speakers of the House, page 113:
text: In that vein, I would like to dedicate this book to the drivers of tonight's heat: to Aimee, Ben, Mike, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Ro, Chris, Anna, John, Alice, and Lauren—bad-to-the-bone outlaw crushers every last one of you—yo' momma.
ref: 2007, Marc Parent, Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, The Secret Society of Demolition Writers:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A general purpose insult.
stoniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stony: most stony
trainspotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainspotter
aborigines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of aborigine
aborigines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.
Senses: glosses: The original people of a location, originally Greek and Roman.
glosses: Indigenous flora and fauna.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The inhabitants of a location before colonization by the Europeans occurred.
Aborigines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Aborigines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: Original inhabitants, natives.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The earliest inhabitants of central Italy, from whom the Latins were said to have descended.
examples: text: AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: The native peoples of various regions, especially the Australian Aboriginal peoples, but also the original inhabitants of Canada and Argentina. Often considered offensive.
Aborigines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: plural of Aborigine
mitra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitras
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitrá, “friend”).
Senses: glosses: A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
declarative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-klâr′ə-tĭv
enpr: -klăr′-
ipa: /dɪˈklæɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈklɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈklɛɹ.ə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /dɪˈklæɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈklæɹ.ə.ɾɪv]
rhymes: -ɛəətɪv
rhymes: -ɛːətɪv
rhymes: -æɹətɪv
rhymes: -aɹətɪv
Etymology: Derived from Middle French déclaratif.
Senses: synonyms: declaratory
glosses: Serving to declare; having the quality of a declaration.
examples: text: Palmer (1986:26–28) suggested that all languages have a clear way of indicating that the speaker is making a statement which (s)he believes to be true. Such statements are usually expressed by the declarative grammatical structure and the respective mood is called either "declarative" or "indicative"...
ref: 2016, Irina Nikolaeva, “Analyses of the semantics of mood”, in Jan Nuyts, Johan van der Auwera, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: sentence; or mood; sentence; or mood
glosses: Expressing truth.
raw_tags: of a verb
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That declares a construct.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A way of programming that is most akin to just stating what is wanted, rather than having to describe how to do it. Declarative programming
Derived terms: declaratively
declarative memory
declarativeness
declarative programming
declarativity
nondeclarative
declarative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-klâr′ə-tĭv
enpr: -klăr′-
ipa: /dɪˈklæɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈklɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈklɛɹ.ə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /dɪˈklæɹ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈklæɹ.ə.ɾɪv]
rhymes: -ɛəətɪv
rhymes: -ɛːətɪv
rhymes: -æɹətɪv
rhymes: -aɹətɪv
Forms: form: declaratives
Etymology: Derived from Middle French déclaratif.
Senses: examples: text: A love declarative for my Sara. I love you like a soft symphony; a melody written in heart and pulse. I love you like a rock; a moments' fusing in perfect quiet. I love you like […]
ref: 1986 August 16, “I Love You, Sara K. (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of declaration (declarative statement)
synonyms: word: declaration
extra: declarative statement
qualifier: Ithkuil linguistics
glosses: Illocution: a “performative” statement which. by its utterance/publication, creates a change of state (at least psychologically) for the addressees (i.e., a declaration, announcement, edict, etc.)
juxtoposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of juxtaposition.
juxtapositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juxtaposition
juxtapositions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of juxtaposition
synching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synch
synched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synch
fall-off analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall-off analyses
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of archaeological analysis. Finds are plotted on a map and contoured in relation to the number of finds.
ranivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranivores
Etymology: From New Latin rānivorus.
Senses: glosses: A frog-eater; a creature that eats frogs.
Derived terms: ranivorous
ranivory
shoaling wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoaling waves
Senses: glosses: A wave that is shoaling, and shallow when it hits land.
proliferates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proliferate
proliferating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proliferate
proliferated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proliferate
elongates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elongate
elongating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elongate
alveolars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveolar
comfort woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfort women
Etymology: Calque from Japanese 慰(い)安(あん)婦(ふ) (ianfu).
Senses: examples: text: She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.
ref: 1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.
Related terms: comfort girl
sex slave
prostitute
comfort girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfort girls
Senses: glosses: A female sex slave; prostitute.
examples: text: Those who have met me taking their photos have seen nothing but yoga pants and a pony tail—and probably flip flops if it was a beach session! But although on the day to day I am a comfort girl through and through, especially when chasing littles and squatting at a seconds notice to “get the shot.”
ref: 2019 January 4, Life Now Photography, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2024:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A girl or woman who wears comfortable clothes.
Related terms: comfort woman
promoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promoter
refurbishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refurbishments
Etymology: From refurbish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of refurbishing; renovation.
refurbishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refurbishment
schizothymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizothymic
form: most schizothymic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to schizothymia.
schizothymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizothymics
Senses: glosses: A person exhibiting schizothymia.
raffishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From raffish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being raffish.
pouched egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouched eggs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poached egg.