cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
springe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: springes
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spreng, a variant of spring with the form of sprengen.
Senses: examples: text: Ay, springes to catch woodcocks
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 114:
text: Look how a mavis, or a pigeòn, / In any grove caught with a springe or net […]
ref: 1614: The Odysses of Homer by George Chapman, book 23 line 594
text: With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray
ref: 1714: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, 2nd edn., canto 2 line 25
text: ’twas my joy / With store of springes o’er my shoulder hung / To range the open heights where woodcocks run / Along the smooth green turf.
ref: c. 1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 16:
glosses: A snare.
springe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: springes
form: springing
form: springeing
form: springed
form: springed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spreng, a variant of spring with the form of sprengen.
Senses: examples: text: By an active poacher who had hit a hare / From the other barrel, tired of springeing game
ref: 1866, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, and Other Poems, page 310:
glosses: To catch in a springe; to ensnare.
big enchilada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big enchiladas
Senses: examples: text: The detectives were trying to identify the big enchilada who controlled the entire criminal network.
synonyms: word: big man
word: big cheese
word: big kahuna
word: bigwig
word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A very important person, especially the highest-ranking individual in an organization.
examples: text: When the lottery results were announced, he was stunned to learn that the big enchilada was all his.
synonyms: brass ring
glosses: Some item of high value, especially a top prize or reward.
devolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devolvers
Etymology: From devolve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is on more traditional political attitudes where devolvers and reinventors draw on very different constituencies, creating two distinct packages of views toward government.
ref: 1999, Paul Charles Light, The True Size of Government, page 55:
glosses: A devolutionist.
mutual admiration society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutual admiration societies
Senses: examples: text: Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society!
text: And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little "mutual admiration society" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.
ref: 1824, The Westminster Review, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 400:
text: The note is from a special friend of yours; indeed I think you form a little mutual-admiration society.
ref: 1872, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 32, in Barriers Burned Away:
text: Vandeloup smiled at this, and came to the conclusion that the Wopples family was a mutual admiration society.
ref: 1889, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in Madame Midas:
text: If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
ref: 1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 26, in Night and Day:
text: Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays had a mutual admiration society and the Clipper was happy to put his respect into writing.
ref: 2007 July 17, Bill Gallo, “Signs of DiMaggio's greatness”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
Synonyms: sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: circle jerk
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: echo chamber
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: filter bubble
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: hugbox
unhouseled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unhouselled
Etymology: From un- + houseled.
Senses: examples: text: Vnhouzzled, diſappointed, vnnaneld
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], line 77:
glosses: Not having received Eucharist.
gambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.bəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡæm.boʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: gambos
Senses: glosses: A low, flat cart, typically two-wheeled and with the sides consisting only of poles, used for carrying hay, corn, etc., over fields or uneven ground.
unaneled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unanealed
Etymology: From un- + aneled.
Senses: examples: text: Vnhouzzled, diſappointed, vnnaneld,
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], line 77:
glosses: in the Christian faith, not having taken the sacred unction before dying
macchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macchia (“shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries”).
volume CT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical-imaging modality, similar to traditional computed tomography imaging, which acquires data via a two-dimensional detector array and reconstructs the images directly into a volume representation of the patient.
low-dose CT scanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A CT system (computed tomography) that limits the radiation exposure to the patient and produces high-resolution three-dimensional images.
in-office imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of medical diagnostic devices in the office of a treating physician, not relying on an outside service.
eleventeen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -iːn
Etymology: From eleven + -teen.
Senses: examples: text: Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.
ref: 1600s, Wither, Weakness:
glosses: Twenty-one (21).
examples: text: "He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."
ref: 1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air:
text: Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.
ref: 2001, Rick D. Ellison, Gamble to Win: Craps:
text: I can make the locals laugh at my attempts in a few other languages, such as Swedish, but I'm certainly not like the average European who seems to speak "eleventeen" languages
ref: 2004, Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures:
glosses: A relatively large number, not precisely specified.
examples: text: Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this.
Calvin: Imaginary numbers?!
Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those.
ref: 1988 January 6, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
glosses: A nonsense number.
Synonyms: word: umpteen
Derived terms: eleventeenth
Related terms: eleventy
microcosms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcosm
interstate compact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstate compacts
Senses: glosses: Any of several agreements, comparable to treaties, between states of the United States.
discovered check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discovered checks
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A check by means of a discovered attack against the opponent's king.
Synonyms: revealed check
Hypernyms: check
discovered attack
keeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: keeves
form: kieve
form: kive
Etymology: From Middle English kive, from Old English cȳf (“vat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Related to French cuve. Doublet of coupe, cup, and hive.
Senses: qualifier: bleaching
glosses: A bleaching vat; a kier.
examples: text: In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the vvork more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […]
ref: 1753, Hugh Stafford, “Sect. VI. Of Proper Vessels for Receiving the Cyder for Its Fermentation; the Vigilance, Exact Care, and Attention Required in the First Fermentation of Cyder for Making It Sweet, and as Long as It Continues in a Fermenting State.”, in A Treatise on Cyder-making, Founded on Long Practice and Experience; […], London: […] E[dward] Cave, […], →OCLC, page 48:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A large vat used in dressing ores.
keeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: keeves
form: keeving
form: keeved
form: keeved
form: kieve
form: kive
Etymology: From Middle English kive, from Old English cȳf (“vat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Related to French cuve. Doublet of coupe, cup, and hive.
Senses: glosses: To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
glosses: To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
chess clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess clocks
form: chessclock
Senses: synonyms: chess timer
glosses: A device consisting of two clocks and a switch for running one at a time, used in chess and other games to measure how much time each player takes.
leaderboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaderboards
Etymology: From leader + board.
Senses: glosses: A board showing the ranking of leaders in a competition.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.
Related terms: league table
necktie party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necktie parties
form: necktie-party
Senses: examples: text: "I expect I'll have an invite to a necktie-party some day. . . . I'm always afraid the wrong necktie will be mine. Were you ever lynched?"
ref: 1904, B. M. Bower, “The Lamb”, in The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:
text: I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party.
ref: 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger:
text: One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang me."
ref: 1958 July 21, “Foreign Relations: Back from Russia”, in Time:
text: Last week, my 17-year-old son and I went to see the movie True Grit. . . . A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows. The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence.
ref: 2011 January 17, Paul Andersen, “Cultural necrophilia”, in Aspen Times, USA, retrieved 30 Jun 2011:
glosses: An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.
one's jig is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: 1836, Horatio Hastings Weld, "The Martyr to Science", in Corrected Proofs, Russell, Shattuck & Co., page 74,
P.S. C'est en fait—my jig is up! While under the barber's hands this morning, a boy posted up in the shop the programme of a course of Phrenological Lectures!
1920, Ethel and James Dorrance, Glory Rides the Range, The Macaulay Company, page 272,
"You tell the lie!" she accused. "And you'd better quit, for your jig is up. I've got you right. […]"
2006, Derrick Parker and Matt Diehl, Notorious C.O.P.: the inside story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay investigations from the NYPD's first "hip-hop cop", St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 102,
But I'd convinced a witness to come in, […] Sure enough, when we brought Marshall in for the lineup, she picked him right away. ¶ Marshall was naturally upset that his jig was up, […]
glosses: Alternative form of the jig is up [for one].
chay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chā
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: chays
Senses: glosses: A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
chay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chā
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: chays
Etymology: From Pitman jay, which it is related to graphically, and the sound it represents.
Senses: glosses: The letter ⟨/⟩, which stands for the ch sound /tʃ/, in Pitman shorthand.
CVI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic venous insufficiency.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cortical visual impairment.
hampering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamper
hampering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamperings
Senses: examples: 25 February 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Letter to Isabel Simmons
I still love you, in spite of the hamperings of your married state and I think Francis is a grand guy and that you married damned well […]
glosses: That which hampers; an impediment.
computed tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computed tomographies
Senses: synonyms: CT
hypernyms: tomography#Noun
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imaging#Noun
glosses: A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
Such imaging applied to health care.
synonyms: CT
hypernyms: tomography#Noun
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imaging#Noun
glosses: A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
Such imaging applied to industrial inspection or to security at airports, seaports, large public venues, and so on.
Related terms: CBCT
CT
CT scan
XRCT
MRI
fMRI
PET
SPECT
fluoroscopy
McCarthyite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more McCarthyite
form: most McCarthyite
Etymology: From McCarthy + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: By that late date, however, the golden age of the lurid paperback book was pretty much over, and the sort of punishment meted out to Aday and Maxey for flaunting the sexual mores of a McCarthyite culture would soon be a thing of the past.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 22:
glosses: Of or pertaining to McCarthyism
McCarthyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McCarthyites
Etymology: From McCarthy + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of McCarthyism; a McCarthyist
Reichstag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reichstag (“imperial parliament”).
Senses: glosses: The diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
examples: text: Another is on the right, to turn his murder into a justification for an all-out war, a Reichstag fire for our time.
ref: 2025 September 11, Ezra Klein, “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
glosses: The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it.
examples: text: It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the facade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain.
ref: 2017 February 7, Oliver Wainwright, “How we made the Wrapped Reichstag”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2017:
glosses: The building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag of modern Germany.
Related terms: Bundestag
hearsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hearse
hearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hearse
sillabub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillabubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of syllabub.
wallpress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallpresses
Etymology: From wall + press.
Senses: glosses: An area for storage that is recessed into a wall.
glosses: A piece of furniture for storage set into a recess.
Synonyms: sense: area for storage
word: cupboard
sense: piece of furniture
word: ambry
sense: piece of furniture
word: dresser
wallpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallpress
wallpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wallpress
ars gratia artis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin translation of French l'art pour l'art. See the main entry for more.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of art for art's sake.
discreditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discreditable
form: most discreditable
Etymology: From discredit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be discredited.
glosses: Low, mean, bringing discredit.
Derived terms: discreditableness
discreditably
hatchways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchway
cornigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin cornu (“horn”) + -gerous.
Senses: glosses: Horned, having a horn or horns.
delved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlvd/
rhymes: -ɛlvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delve
delves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlvz/
rhymes: -ɛlvz
Etymology: From delve + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delve
delves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlvz/
rhymes: -ɛlvz
Etymology: From delve + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of delve
delves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlvz/
rhymes: -ɛlvz
Etymology: From Middle English delves.
Senses: glosses: plural of delf
delving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlvɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delve
delving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlvɪŋ/
Forms: form: delvings
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: Doubtless, as has happened to others, her motives were sometimes misunderstood by those who may have looked with suspicion upon these delvings into pagan practice and belief, but they have been fully justified.
ref: 1968, E. Dora Earthy, Valenge Women:
glosses: The act of one who delves.
glosses: Alternative form of dilving.
nudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nudge
nudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nudge
nudging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudgings
Senses: glosses: The act of giving a nudge; pushing, touching.
examples: text: It has been remarked that nudging is also a euphemism for psychological manipulation as practiced in social engineering.
glosses: Hinting or influencing people's choices (according to nudge theory); softly controlling.
kindlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kindly: more kindly
kindliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kindly: most kindly
mulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulos
form: muli
form: mullo
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).
Senses: glosses: A vampire.
raw_tags: in Roma folklore
gaunter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gaunt: more gaunt
gauntest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gaunt: most gaunt
risographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risograph
breakouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakout
process color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: process colors
form: process colour
Etymology: Short for four color printing process.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: spot color
glosses: A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.
Synonyms: CMYK
four color
full process
full color
chemical bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical bombs
Senses: glosses: Any explosive device that releases a noxious chemical compound (such as chlorine) upon detonation.
chemical compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: elementary substance
glosses: Any substance formed by the union of two or more chemical elements in a fixed ratio, the union being a chemical bond.
synonyms: chemical
glosses: Any single substance, either compound or element.
Synonyms: word: chemical compound
word: compound
Hypernyms: word: chemical substance
Hyponyms: word: organic compound
word: inorganic compound
word: ionic compound
word: acid
word: alkali
word: carbohydrate
Related terms: word: molecule
resoluteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolutenesses
Etymology: From resolute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.
Synonyms: fortitude
inner strength
resolve
sticktoitiveness
tenacity
immanent critique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immanent critiques
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The criticism of a philosophy using its own standpoint
quangocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwaŋˈɡɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: quangocracies
Etymology: From quango + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: This vicious and unjust slur is handed down from on high by a back-slapping quangocracy that's "in agreement about everything".
ref: 2014 May 22, Will Self, “Selfish, Whining Monkeys by Rod Liddle review – why is he so angry?”, in The Guardian:
text: The dark forces arrayed against her – what she once dubbed the “anti-growth coalition” and now calls, depending on her audience, the “quangocracy” or “communists” – were determined that she wouldn’t succeed.
ref: 2024 March 30, David Runciman, “‘She still carries an aura of spectacular failure’: why hasn’t Liz Truss gone away?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies.
Related terms: bureaucracy
transcendental critique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcendental critiques
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A criticism of a philosophy from a religious (or transcendent) standpoint.
unawareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn.əˈwɛə.nəs/
ipa: /ʌn.əˈwɛɚ.nəs/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: unawarenesses
Etymology: From unaware + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being unaware.
Derived terms: self-unawareness
empty nester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty nesters
Etymology: From empty nest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, however, the “syndrome” aspect of becoming an empty nester has receded to the background as Ageless Explorers have begun to embrace the years when they are free to play and do as they want again.
ref: 2005, Ken Dychtwald, Daniel J. Kadlec, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 31:
text: “When empty nesters talk about the teenagers,” the comedian Jim Gaffigan quipped, “they always sound like they’re describing a hurricane: ‘My wife and I thought we were prepared; we lost everything!’”
ref: 2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN:
glosses: A person whose children have grown up and left home.
Related terms: empty nest
empty nest syndrome
tasso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Cajun-seasoned, cured pork.
gazzetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazzettas
form: gazzette
Etymology: From Italian gazzetta. Doublet of gazette.
Senses: glosses: An old Venetian coin, equal to a halfpenny.
destinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: dĕs′tĭ-nāt′
Forms: form: destinates
form: destinating
form: destinated
form: destinated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15th century, the verb in 1490, both in Middle English; borrowed from Latin dēstinātus, perfect passive participle of dēstinō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix); doublet of destine. Computing/postal use by analogy with originate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: To destine, to choose.
examples: text: Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.
ref: 1997 September 11, Tom Watson, “Hoe does FX work?”, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech (Usenet):
synonyms: originate
glosses: To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
examples: text: Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.
ref: 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States:
glosses: To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
Synonyms: sense: choose, set destination
word: destine
destinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: dĕs′tĭ-nāt′
Forms: form: more destinate
form: most destinate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15th century, the verb in 1490, both in Middle English; borrowed from Latin dēstinātus, perfect passive participle of dēstinō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix); doublet of destine. Computing/postal use by analogy with originate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Determined, destined.
raw_tags: as a participial adjective
examples: text: But because Christe dwelleth in you (as he doth by faithe) therfore stirreth he vp his first begoten sonne, the world, to seke how to disquiet you, to robbe you, to spoile you, to destroy you: and perchance your deare father, to trye and to make knowen vnto you, and to þe world, that ye are destinate to an other dwellyng then here on earthe, to an other citye then mannes eyes hath sene at any tyme: […]
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “Certain Letters vvritten by M. Bradford to Other of His Frendes”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page [1262]:
glosses: Destined, destinated; ordained, fated.
raw_tags: as a participle
Related terms: destination
destine
destiny
arts and crafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: All the handicrafts based upon making decorative and useful things manually.
Derived terms: artsy-craftsy
Related terms: Arts and Crafts movement
flaunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flaunch
flaunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaunchings
Senses: glosses: The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
glosses: A mortar fillet at the junction of the chimney stack and the roof; superseded in modern times by lead flashing.
plucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pluck
geddit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: geddid
Senses: examples: text: Ya gotta keep yer eye on the ball, son. Eye. Ball. Eyeball. Geddit?
text: The current political joke is that 'Mbeki shot himself in the kneepad' (Nepad geddit?) over Zimbabwe.
ref: 2005, Patrick Bond, Fanons Warning: a civil society reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, page 79:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of get it, often with the meaning "Do you understand the humour?".
Related terms: gerrit
chocolatey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chocolatier
form: chocolatiest
Senses: examples: text: Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. And every time he went by, he would begin to walk very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him.
ref: 1964, Roald Dahl, “Here Comes Charlie”, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, pages 9–10:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chocolaty.
get the hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the hint
form: getting the hint
form: got the hint
form: got the hint
form: gotten the hint
Senses: glosses: To take a hint.
take a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a hint
form: taking a hint
form: took a hint
form: taken a hint
Senses: glosses: To understand an indirect suggestion, and to act on it
Synonyms: get the hint
take the hint
high-ranking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-ranking
form: highest-ranking
Senses: examples: text: She is a high-ranking official in the government.
text: Interviews with high-ranking railway managers now took precedence to reports about locomotives - […].
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 31:
glosses: At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.
self control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-control.
felid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːlɪd/
ipa: /ˈfilɪd/
Forms: form: felids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Felidae, from the type genus Felis, itself borrowed from Latin felis (“cat, feline”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the cat family (Felidae).
Derived terms: felidomancy
megafelid
nonfelid
felids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felid
pleasurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pleasure + -ization.
Senses: examples: 1987, Robert MacCarter, Building Machines, Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN, page 62,
The transit of a nail through a plank, the compression of a column of steel, the tense stretch of aluminum skin, the modulation of a breeze, the framing of a view, the pleasurization of a place form the metrics of the built machine.
2002, Richard Dyer, Only Entertainment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179,
For entertainment to wax, do we need drudgery, pain and dreariness to expand, to provide a base from which to escape? Should we not welcome the pleasurization of all aspects of life, even if only, for now, for a minority of the world's population?
2005, Steven Digman, The Art of Women...and other troubles, Digman's Violin & Publishing Co, →ISBN, pages 34-35,
Abnormally, Helen would never accept any unsolicited material, but this one, "Samuel's Fantasy," had somehow found its way onto Helen's bed (the bed being where she read). So Helen (making herself comfortable) - read. Certainly the title was neither profound nor unique but the first chapter definitely was: The Pleasurization Process...
2007, Rick Douglass, Broken Families, Broken Homes: Protecting your Family from the Epidemic of Divorce, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54,
Self pleasurization (new word for Mr. Webster) in favor of a sexual relationship.
glosses: The act of pleasurizing.
druther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: druthers
Etymology: A corruption of I‘d rather or ‘d rather.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher told Martha that she had invited a neighboring planter to send his children to her school, but "he said 'Me & my wife had no eddication, nor any of my gals, but I would rather they never would have any, than go to school with niggers.' So he had his druther!"⁴⁸
ref: 2004, Sherry H. Penney, James D. Livingston, A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights:
glosses: singular of druthers
Related terms: druthers
druther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tenses
form: participles
Etymology: A corruption of I‘d rather or ‘d rather.
Senses: examples: text: I druther stay home today.
text: We druther go swimming than go to school.
text: The old gentleman was for going along with me, but I said no, I could drive the horse myself, and I druther he wouldn't take no trouble about me.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: "He's no slouch at dog-breakin', that's wot I say," one of the men on the wall cried enthusiastically. / "Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays," was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Would rather; would prefer to.
drabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drab
macrocheilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medical condition resulting in very large lips
demi-tasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-tasses
Senses: examples: text: He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.
ref: 1876 July, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVIII, number CCXXV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, chapter IV, page 17, column 2:
text: The lady in this painting obviously is not in the mood for coffee; she looks away from her demi-tasse with disarming absent-mindedness, her expression is wistfully, even painfully contemplative, though somewhat marred by the loss of an eye.
ref: 1933 January, Maurice J. Valency, “The Art World”, in F[ilippo] Cassola, editor, Atlantica, volume XIV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: F. Cassola, page 175, column 2:
text: At four-thirty the diners relinquished their demi-tasses to Carrington and returned to the living room for the afternoon session.
ref: 1979, Archibald Rogers, The Monticello Fault, Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 275:
text: At another time, we lunched at a café where ladies sat alone at tables smoking cigarettes with their demi-tasses while men in the back of the room sang passionate Italian love songs.
ref: 1987, Malcolm W. Greenough, Jr., Dear Lily: A Love Story, Dublin, N.H.: Yankee Books, →ISBN, page 164:
text: After dinner, they were in the habit of taking their demi-tasses into the drawingroom where green logs, smouldering thinly in the grate, gave ample reason for those damp patches on walls and ceiling, […]
ref: 1987, Sheila MacLeod Smith, chapter 1, in The Transplanted, Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, pages 3–4:
text: Others had gone to the cellar but when the dukes continued to calmly sip their demi-tasses, Mary had decided she would, too.
ref: 1992, Sybil Downing, Jane Valentine Barker, chapter 11, in Crown of Life: The Story of Mary Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Frau Volk and Frau Schönherr had abandoned their demi-tasses of espresso and were scanning the crowd of skaters, their faces pinched in cold disapproval.
ref: 2005, John Meaney, Resolution (The Nulapeiron Sequence; 3), London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: She sipped from the demi-tasse.
ref: 2008, Barbara P. Parsons, A Blonde in the Works: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Bunim & Bannigan, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of demitasse.
macrodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: megadontia
megadonty
megadontism
megalodontia
antonyms: microdontia
glosses: The medical condition of having unusually large teeth.
macroesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: A psychological perception that objects are larger than they really are
parametrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parametrizations
Etymology: From parameter + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of parametrizing: alternative form of parameterization.
Derived terms: overparametrization
reparametrization
parametrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parametrize
down-gyved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: downgyved
Etymology: From down (“from a higher position to a lower one”) + gyved (“to shackle, fetter, chain”). A Shakespearan coinage.
Senses: examples: text: his stockings fouled, / Ungartered and down-gyved to his ankle,
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 77:
glosses: Hanging down, like gyves or fetters.
Synonyms: dangling
hanging
pendulous
parametrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parametrizes
form: parametrizing
form: parametrized
form: parametrized
form: parametrise
form: parameterise
form: parameterize
Etymology: From parameter + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parameterize.
Derived terms: overparametrize
parametrizable
parametrization
reparametrize
flying buttresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying buttress
newsreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsreaders
Etymology: From news + reader.
Senses: glosses: An anchorman in a news program, a news anchor, newscaster.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program for reading and posting to newsgroups.
Derived terms: newsreaderess
perpend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpɛnd/
ipa: /pɚˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: perpends
form: perpending
form: perpended
form: perpended
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin perpendere, from per- + pendere (“to weigh”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Perpend, / I have a daughter - have while she is mine […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], lines 104-15:
glosses: To ponder, consider.
perpend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpɛnd/
ipa: /pɚˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: perpends
form: parpane
form: parpen
form: parpend
form: parpent
form: parpoint
form: perpeyn
form: perpin
Etymology: From Middle French parpain, see etymology of French parpaing.
Senses: glosses: A brick or stone that has its longest dimension perpendicular to the face of a wall, especially one that extends through the wall's entire thickness.
glosses: A vertical joint (usually mortar) between bricks or blocks in a horizontal course.
Derived terms: perpend stone
Luan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 欒 /栾 (Luán).
Senses: examples: text: Luan Cheng (欒丞), an officer from the Jhonghe Second Police Precinct, on Tuesday approached 19-year-old Yen Ju-yi (顏如憶) who was selling betel nuts at a small shop in Jhonghe City (中和), Taipei County, and told her she was showing too much skin and may have violated the law.[…]
While Yen has accused Luan of causing bodily harm, Luan said that Yen prevented an officer of the law from exercising his duties and slandered him.
ref: 2010 April 9, Loa Iok-sin, “Jiang backs betel ‘justice’”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2010, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
Luan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: All prefectures and municipalities in Anhwei have held mass rallies to acclaim the instructions of Chariman Hua, Vice Chairman Yeh and leading comrades of the central authorities on solving the leadership problem in the provincial CCP committee and to expose and criticize the mistakes of the former principal leading person of the provincial CCP committee.[…]
Some 40,000 people attended a Luan Prefecture rally on 30 June. (Hu Tan), secretary of the prefectural CCP committee; (Wang Min-hsueh), political commissar of Luan Military Subdistrict, and others addressed the rally.
ref: 1977 July 7 [1977 July 2], “Anhwei Rallies Denounce Former Provincial Leader”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 130, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page G 1:
text: A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight,[…]
ref: 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2014, China Insider:
glosses: Alternative form of Lu'an.
chimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimists
Etymology: From chime + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the chimes.
mammal-like reptile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammal-like reptiles
Senses: examples: text: The mammal-like reptiles, constituting the subclass Synapsida, were among the earliest to appear of known reptilian groups and had passed the peak of their career before the first dinosaur appeared on the earth.
ref: 1966 — Alfred S. Romer, Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed.; ch 14, p 173
text: Synapsida: amniotes with one lower temporal fenestra, surrounded by the postorbital, jugal and squamosal. Includes the extinct mammal-like reptiles and the mammals.
ref: 1997 — Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Paleontology, 2nd ed.; ch 5, p 109
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any basal member of the Synapsida, related to the mammals but superficially resembling reptiles.
mammal-like reptiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammal-like reptile
consonancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consonancies
Etymology: From Latin cōnsonantia. Doublet of consonance.
Senses: examples: text: But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer can charge you withal, be even and direct with me whether you were sent for or no.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: All wᶜʰ I have thus largely ſet down to ſhew the perfect conſonancie of our perſecuted Church to the doctrine of Scripture and Antiquity in this point, whereon ſo much depends for the ſtating & determining other differences, which have alſo a ſpecial influence on practiſe.
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, “Of Christ’s Dying for None but the Elect”, in Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, §. 7, page 135:
text: [Justices] daily in Term-time Converſe and Conſult with one another; […] and by this Means their Judgments and their Adminiſtrations of Common Juſtice carry a Conſonancy, Congruity, and Uniformity one to another, whereby both the Laws and the Adminiſtrations thereof are preſerved from that Confuſion and Diſparity that would unavoidably enſue, if the Adminiſtration was by ſeveral incommunicating Hands, or by provincial Eſtabliſhments: […]
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching Trials by Jury”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, pages 255–256:
glosses: Congruity; consistency.
cephalothoraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalothorax
cephalothoraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalothorax
cephalothoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cephalo- + thoracic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or resembling a cephalothorax.
X-ray spectrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-ray spectrometer
-atim
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -ātĭm
ipa: /-eɪtɪm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin -ātim.
Senses: glosses: Changes a component into an adverb meaning "by that component."
Derived terms: capitatim
gradatim
literatim
seriatim
verbatim
colourimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourimetries
Etymology: From colour + -metry.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Alternative spelling of colorimetry.
volumetric analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volumetric analysis
titrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titration
titrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of titrate
titrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of titrate
titrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titrators
Etymology: From titrate + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that titrates, such as an automatic titrator.
glosses: Synonym of titrant.
synonyms: word: titrant
titrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titrator
titratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From titrate + -able.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Able to be titrated.
titrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titrant