cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Isla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪlə/
rhymes: -aɪlə
Forms: form: Islas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Isla. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
disambiguates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disambiguate
Esmeralda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛzməˈɹɑːldə/
/ɛzməˈɹɛldə/
Etymology: From Spanish esmeralda (“emerald”), as first used in the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: A barangay of Balungao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
Related terms: Esmeralda County
disambiguating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disambiguate
Giselle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʒɪˈzɛl/
/dʒɪˈzɛl/
Etymology: From French Giselle.
Senses: examples: text: "Giselle? That's not the name on the documents — "
"Oh no." Bob gave her a sad smile. "Her real name was Staci, but she once studied ballet, and Jeb thought she was so graceful, with her big brown eyes. Like Bambi. So the pet name went from Gazelle to Giselle. Giselle is a famous ballet," he added, in case A. P. Hill were culturally challenged.
ref: 1995, Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him, page 85:
glosses: A female given name from French.
Malinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Melinda, used since the eighteenth century.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Melinda.
Malinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malindi (“town in Kenya”).
Cecelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Cecilia.
shophouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shophouses
Etymology: From shop + house.
Senses: qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: A building that has both retail and domestic use.
wikipedia: Arab Street
Related terms: shopoffice
Oren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אורן.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, probably from the Bible (1 Chronicles 2:25), Hebrew "pine tree".
Orin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orrin
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish of obscure origin, possibly a variant of Oren or Oran.
Orin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orins
form: Orrin
Senses: glosses: An apple cultivar from Japan
Einstein field equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einstein field equations
form: EFE
Senses: examples: text: The Einstein field equation states that the energy-momentum tensor is directly proportional to the Ricci tensor minus half of the Ricci scalar times the metric tensor plus the cosmological constant times the metric tensor.
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A symmetric 4 × 4 tensor equation in general relativity in which the gravitational force is described as a curvature of spacetime caused by matter and energy.
Pharmageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑːməˈɡɛdə̆n/
Etymology: Blend of pharmaceutical + Armageddon; dates from the late 1990s.
Senses: glosses: A dystopian scenario wherein medicine and the pharmaceuticals industry have a net detrimental effect on human health and medical progress does more harm than good.
Einstein field equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Einstein field equation
hydronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɪdɹənɪm/
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹənɪm/
Forms: form: hydronyms
Etymology: From hydro- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous hydronyms of Asia Minor, attested in the historical Anatolian languages and going back to Proto-Anatolian, can be compared to the Indo-European derivational type of hydronyms in *-ntʰ-. […] Another hydronym of Proto-Anatolian origin and having wide Indo-European connections is Alda, a river in Asia Minor […]
ref: 1995, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Vjačeslav V. Ivanov, “Proto-Indo-European in Space and Time, Based on Linguistic and Culture-historical Data [part 2, chapter 11]”, in Johanna Nichols, transl., edited by Werner Winter, Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs; 80), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 760:
text: Dutch Zijpe, Zijp (and regional variants) is found in toponyms, e.g. the poulder De/Het Zijpe in the province of North-Holland, the name of the castle Sijpestein (Nieuw-Loosdrecht), […] We are dealing with an old hydronym.
ref: 2000, Dirk Boutan, Maarten Kossmann, “On the Etymology of Dutch Zijpe”, in Dirk Boutkan, Arend Quak, editors, Language Contact: Substratum, Superstratum, Adstratum in Germanic Languages (Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Älteren Germanistik; 54), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Considering the fact that the Yeneseic languages are historically spoken along almost the entire length of the Yenesei from the Minusinsk basin to the Arctic zone it is curious that no Common Yeneseic name for the river seems to have been preserved in the linguistic material. […] A hydronym that possibly belongs to this context is Kezes, which has been derived from Ket (*)qä-ses 'large water' […]
ref: 2012, Juha Janhunen, “Etymological and Ethnohistorical Aspects of the Yenesei”, in Marek Stachowski, editor, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, volume 17, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 73:
text: A river name is a hydronym, a name of a body of water. The whole stock of hydronyms in a district, territory, country, or the like is called its hydronymy.
ref: 2016, Svante Strandberg, “River Names”, in Carole Hough, Daria Izdebska, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
hypernyms: toponym
coordinate_terms: oronym
glosses: The name of a river, lake, sea or any other body of water.
Derived terms: hydronymy
Samikshavad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An indigenous modern art movement in India.
modern art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Any of very many genres of art from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries, especially those forms that move away from a traditional narrative towards experimentation and conceptual art.
Related terms: abstract art
abstract expressionism
art nouveau
collage
conceptual art
constructivism
cubism
Dada
expressionism
fauvism
futurism
impressionism
installation art
minimalism
neoimpressionism
op art
performance art
photorealism
pop art
postimpressionism
neoimpressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-impressionism
Etymology: From neo- + impressionism.
Senses: examples: text: The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?
ref: 2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
glosses: A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
Derived terms: neoimpressionist
Related terms: postimpressionism
neo-impressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neoimpressionism.
performance art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performance arts
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of art in which the artist creates a live performance, often using a variety of media.
Derived terms: performance artist
Related terms: visual art
plastic art
photorealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo-realism
Etymology: From photo- + realism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An extremely realistic style distinguished by paintings, drawings, etc. that are nearly indistinguishable from photographs, frequently produced by tracing and emulating an original photograph.
Derived terms: photoreal
photorealist
photorealistic
postimpressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-impressionism
Etymology: From post- + impressionism. Coined by English artist and art critic Roger Fry to describe the (mostly French) art presented in an exhibition at the London Grafton Galleries in 1910.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism, using colour and form in more expressive manners.
wikipedia: Grafton Galleries
Derived terms: postimpressionist
Related terms: neoimpressionism
post-impressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-impressionisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postimpressionism.
Abstract Expressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ɪkˈspɹɜʃ.n̩ˌɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ɪkˈspɹɜʃ.n̩ˌɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: abstract expressionism
Senses: glosses: An American genre of modern art that used improvised techniques, such as sinuous linearity, to generate highly abstract forms while allowing the artist spontaneity.
Related terms: action painting
action painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action paintings
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting produced in this style.
Related terms: abstract expressionism
art nouveau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Precise herbed-lamb packets amid art nouveau swirls of asparagus noodles, a lacy tuile that adds a peekaboo seductivity to potato gnocchi — [Anthony] Martin’s presentations are bold and beautiful, yet his flavor pairings are almost maddeningly subtle, driving overanalytical foodies to despair.
ref: 2011 January 13, Phil Vettel, “Chef of the Year: Anthomy Martin”, in Chicago Tribune, 164th year, number 13, section 5, page 4:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Art Nouveau.
photobioreactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobioreactors
Etymology: From photo- + bioreactor.
Senses: glosses: A bioreactor in which photofermentation takes place.
Related terms: photobioreaction
naysay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naysays
Etymology: From nay + say.
Senses: examples: text: And her bare feet fell to telling her clad sides of the sweet coolness of the water, and waited for no naysay, ...
ref: 1897, William Morris, “Chapter XII. Birdalone Cometh Again to the Isle of Queens, and Findeth a Perilous Adventure Therein”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nay-say.
naysay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naysays
form: naysaying
form: naysaid
form: naysaid
Etymology: From nay + say.
Senses: examples: text: I shall nowise naysay thee this, for I love thee, and now and ever shalt thou be unto me as a brother, ...
ref: 1897, William Morris, “Chapter VI. Of the Sundering of Birdalone from Gerard and His Sons”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005:
text: He advises that board members must have solid knowledge of business in general and be independent enough to naysay the owner at times.
ref: 2008 Jan, Arden Dale, “Want to Sell a Business? You May Not Be Ready.”, in Wall Street Journal:
text: This amount of bureaucratic surveillance and cross-referencing is very resonant of East Germany (whatever the paranoia accusing naysayers naysay) ...
ref: 2009 Nov, Nicholas, “The March of the Surveillance State, comments”, in Spectator, UK, column by Alex Massie:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nay-say (“say no to; deny, disagree, or oppose”)
Synonyms: gainsay
Derived terms: naysayer
nay-saying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naysaying
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nay-say
nay-saying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nay-sayings
form: naysaying
Senses: examples: text: We need a tool to extract from the risk assessment and intervention contingency tables any bias toward yea-saying or nay-saying.
ref: 2000, John F. McGrew, John G. Bilotta, “The effectiveness of risk management: measuring what didn't happen”, in Management Decision, volume 38, number 4, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of naysaying.
moderated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moderate
bum chum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum chums
Senses: examples: text: 1989, Joseph Mills, Towards the End, Polygon, →ISBN, page 120,
‘That’s his pal,’ Beeny said to Doreen. ¶ ‘Bum-chum more like,’ John added.
text: 2004, Phil Ferguson, Discontent, M-Y Books, →ISBN, page 83,
He was too busy playing the big, important businessman to care about anyone but himself, preferring the company of his bum chum, Pete, to me.
text: ‘Gaylord!’ ¶ ‘Bum-chum!’ ¶ ‘Chutney Ferret!’
ref: 2005, S.J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: A male homosexual's partner; a male homosexual.
examples: text: Rich isn't eating with us today: he's hanging out in the office with his bum chums.
glosses: A member of a group of sycophants; a social climber.
Synonyms: male homosexual
frisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frisses
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:frisse.
glosses: Alternative spelling of frisée.
blast furnaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blast furnace
envies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envy
envies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envy
envying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envy
envying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envyings
Senses: examples: text: Their moderation may perhaps keep them from the bitter envyings and hatred, to which ambitious worldlings are subject […]
ref: 1737, Edmund Law, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection:
text: "What a small, worthless thing," exclaimed Henrietta, "is our existence, filled with mean envyings, paltry hopes! and, if for one instant redeemed by a true affection, or a generous emotion, what wretchedness is sure to follow the indulgence of either!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: A feeling of envy.
in the face of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: in the face of growing pressure, the company changed its logo
text: Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
ref: 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
text: Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to list in New York in the face of US political opposition.
ref: 2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
glosses: When confronted with.
examples: text: They declare ringing confirmation for their theories even in the face of feeble data.
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
text: 2018, Vassilis Vassilikos, ... And Dreams Are Dreams
His daughters were serious. In fact the elder one had joined the Communist Youth, where the kids were almost puritanical, growing up with principles in the face of the triple enemy: capitalism-imperialism-Americanocracy.
glosses: Despite; against; contrary to.
topics: law
glosses: On the face of.
Derived terms: fly in the face of
in face of
spit in the face of
canonicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌnɒnɪk(ə)laɪ̯ˈzeɪ̯ʃən/
ipa: /kəˌnɑnɪk(ə)laɪ̯ˈzeɪ̯ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: canonicalizations
Etymology: From canonicalize + -ation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: standardization, normalization
n00bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːbz/
ipa: /njuːbz/
rhymes: -uːbz
Senses: glosses: plural of n00b
Platten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plattens
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A diminutive of the surname Platt.
* From Old French platon (“metal plate”), a metonymic occupational surname for a platemaker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Platten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Platten.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
soffritto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈfɹiːtəʊ/
ipa: /səʊˈfɹiːtəʊ/
Forms: form: soffrittos
form: soffrito
form: sofritto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soffritto (literally “gently fried”). Doublet of sofrito.
Senses: examples: text: Most European cultures use a patiently chopped, heated and stirred vegetable mixture, such as a mirepoix or soffritto, always including members of the onion family, and Pollan explores the chemistry of these, as well as their adaptive value.
ref: 2013 May 22, Paul Levy, “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan – review”, in The Guardian:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: mirepoix
coordinate_terms: sofrito
glosses: A fried mixture of chopped onions, carrots and celery, used as the beginning point of a dish, especially in Italian cuisine; may also contain garlic, shallot, and leek.
funge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funges
Etymology: From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.
Senses: glosses: A fungus.
examples: text: Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
glosses: A fool or simpleton.
funge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌnd͜ʒ/
Forms: form: funges
form: funging
form: funged
form: funged
Etymology: Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:funge.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit
to be substituted thus
examples: text: The most expensive NFT to date was sold for $91.8 million. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, regain your composure, then enlist in the noble crusade to funge tokens until the day you die, then I’m afraid you’re already a willing prisoner to the blockchain and my sworn enemy.
ref: 2022 February 1, “I Will Funge These Tokens If It's the Last Thing I Do”, in Points In Case:
text: Look, here's 15 memes about non-fungible tokens, and I guess technically the memes themselves have been funged because they all come from places on the internet, but really, that's getting into the weeds.
ref: 2022 April 2, Aiden Walker, “15 Freshly Funged Memes About NFTs”, in Know Your Meme:
text: Python script to Funge NFTs. It scrapes OpenSea for a given list of NFT collections and downloads a certain number of NFTs from each collection or the entire collections.
ref: 2022 October 2, dmonea, “nft-stealer”, in GitHub:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT.
examples: text: GET FUNGED
ref: 2022 December 2, Blake Montgomery, “NFT Shop Flooded With Fakes Stops Nearly All Transactions”, in The Daily Beast:
text: Luckily, MSNBC reported in May that NFTs are in low demand and high supply, which means the entire non-fungible market is non-fungibly funged up.
ref: 2022 July 25, Ana Valens, “I Can’t Get Over VTuber Ironmouse Making Fun of NFTs”, in The Mary Sue:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck.
examples: text: Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?
ref: 2021 December 3, Nick Miller, “The world’s gone mad for NFTs. But what are they?”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: True Love Will Funge You in the End
ref: 2021 April 16, Rachel Rascoe, “Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines”, in The Austin Chronicle:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs.
funga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: fauna
flora
glosses: The fungi of a specific region, habitat, or geological period.
funga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fungee (“cornmeal dish”).
coups d'état
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup d'état
alate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌleɪt/
enpr: āʹlāt'
Forms: form: more alate
form: most alate
Etymology: From Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”).
Senses: examples: text: Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having wings or winglike extensions or parts; winged.
Synonyms: alated
Derived terms: alation
bialate
dealate
exalate
quadrialate
subalate
trialate
alate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌleɪt/
enpr: āʹlāt'
Forms: form: alates
Etymology: From Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”).
Senses: glosses: A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.
alate
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌleɪt/
enpr: āʹlāt'
Etymology: From a- + late.
Senses: examples: text: There hathe bene alate ſuche tales ſpreade abroade, and moſt vntruly, ſuch falſe taletellers ſhal haue a greuous puniſhement of the Lord whan he ſhall come to rewarde euerye one according vnto his deſertes.
ref: 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, recto:
glosses: recently; lately; of late.
clear up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clears up
form: clearing up
form: cleared up
form: cleared up
Senses: glosses: To clarify, to correct a misconception.
examples: text: All of their symptoms cleared up after the mold was removed.
glosses: To depart or disappear.
examples: text: With the new cleanser, his skin cleared up in two weeks.
text: His lung X-rays cleared up after they moved to Arizona.
glosses: To become free of certain blemishes.
raw_tags: of skin or medical images
examples: text: Advise him to stay a little longer till the weather clears up.
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
examples: text: Accepting that incidents will always happen, what then matters is how quickly we can clear up the mess, something British Rail was better at. [...] I would turn up as quickly as possible in the on-call Hillman Avenger and assess how quickly we could clear up.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43:
glosses: To clean up.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.
stur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: sturs
form: sturring
form: sturred
form: sturred
Senses: qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative spelling of stir.
butter dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter dishes
Senses: glosses: A specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.
Related terms: butter keeper
diplomate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplomates
Etymology: From diploma + -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?
ref: 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16:
glosses: A professional who has earned a diploma.
diplomate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diplomates
form: diplomating
form: diplomated
form: diplomated
Etymology: From diploma + -ate (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: glosses: To award a diploma to.
incompatibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incompatibly
form: most incompatibly
Etymology: From incompatible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incompatible manner.
cauterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cauterises
form: cauterising
form: cauterised
form: cauterised
form: cauterize
Senses: examples: text: […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
ref: 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:
text: Just when you think you are extricating yourself, just when you think you are cauterised and ready to leave, it resurfaces. Once you've been infected, you're never again completely free.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 198:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.
Derived terms: electrocauterise
recauterise
uncauterised
lg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of landing gear.
examples: text: For some, this interest in a Lolita persona feeds into a sexual role-playing game (often called dd/lg, short for Daddy [and] little girl […] The role of the dd is to punish and protect while the lg is charming, needy, mildly disobedient, and in wont of a spanking.
ref: 2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 82:
text: ABOUT THIS BOOK […] Hey Readers – Warning: This is a sexy, over the top romance with two folks engaged in age play and the DD/lg lifestyle.
ref: 2019, Cassandra Dee, Daddy's Pretty Baby: A DD/lg Forbidden Romance:
glosses: Initialism of little girl (in DD/lg (dd/lg) kink).
spinifex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinifexes
Etymology: From translingual Spinifex (genus name), from Latin spina (“spine”) + Latin -fex (“maker”) (from Latin facere (“to make”)).
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of grass in genus Spinifex, growing in sand dunes.
examples: text: And there will be Ethel watching, just standing there, stirring something on the kitchen stove, or dusting the mahogany sideboard, or polishing the silver, and looking out the window, staring, just staring, as though she were watching the spinifex growing, or the sky hanging there, just staring with that terrible effrontery of someone who will not deign to react.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 269:
glosses: Any of several spiny grass species of the genus Triodia, endemic to arid outback Australia.
Derived terms: buck spinifex
spinifexbird
spinifex mouse
spinifex pigeon
spinifex termite
Related terms: mulga
spinifex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinifex
form: most spinifex
Etymology: From translingual Spinifex (genus name), from Latin spina (“spine”) + Latin -fex (“maker”) (from Latin facere (“to make”)).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of dendritic plates, which present as the scored texture of bundled, spine-like structures typical of komatiites.
railroad crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad crossings
Senses: glosses: An area on a road where a train crosses.
Synonyms: level crossing
grade crossing
sheeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How many sheeps can you see?
ref: 2025 May 28, Minecraft, YouTube:
glosses: plural of sheep
examples: text: THe firſt and moſt Ordinary Helpe is Stercoration. The Sheeps-Dung is one of the beſt; And next, the Dung of Kine: And thirdly, that of Horſes: […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 595, page 145:
text: [T]heir came tovvards me one of theſe ſeemingly deuout Abdals, in his ſheeps skin & horne about his necke and bare-footed, eſpying me, hee bleſt himſelfe and ſuddenly began to mutter his prayer to Mahomet vvith feruent ardencie, […]
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Description of Syam”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 196:
text: [T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], […] are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhevvn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then vvringing it hard to force it out; […]
ref: 1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Animal Bodies. Chapter III.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith […], →OCLC, pages 10–11:
glosses: genitive of sheep
pustular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustular
form: most pustular
Etymology: From pustule + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing pustules.
Derived terms: papulopustular
vesiculopustular
pusillanimously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pusillanimously
form: most pusillanimously
Etymology: From pusillanimous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pusillanimous manner
only if
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: The company will succeed only if it has sufficient backing.
text: Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 21:8:
text: 1965 June 4, John W. Tukey, Data Analysis and the Frontiers of Geophysics, in Science New Series, 148(3675), page 1288, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2819650604%293%3A148%3A3675%3C1283%3ADAATFO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
This is a somewhat paradoxical conclusion, and we can be happy to learn that it follows only if we can trust, precisely and in detail, the assumed way in which the probability of occurrence of a deviation decreases as the size of that deviation increases.
text: This option is available only if the client supports it.
ref: 2005, Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins, Linux in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, page 802:
glosses: Not unless; used to introduce a necessary condition.
Derived terms: if and only if
interlard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈlɑːd/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈlɑɹd/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ-]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English interlarden (“to mix fat into (something)”), borrowed from Old French entrelarder (modern French entrelarder (“to smear with lard or fat, to lard”)), from entre- (prefix meaning ‘to each other, reciprocally’) (from Latin inter-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (“between”)) + larder (“to smear with lard or fat, to lard”) (from lard (“bacon fat, lard”) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming verbs))). Lard is from Latin lārdum (“bacon fat, lard”); further etymology uncertain, probably borrowed from or related to Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fat, fatted”, adjective), possibly from λᾱρός (lārós, “delicious; sweet”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“to gain; to seize; benefit, prize”)) + -ινός (-inós) (a variant of -ῐνος (-ĭnos, suffix forming adjectives)). By surface analysis, inter- (prefix meaning ‘between’) + lard (verb).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English interlarde (“abdominal fat”), from interlarden (verb) (see above).
Senses: examples: text: My ſoule ſhal be ſatiſfyed as it wer with interlarde and fatnes, and my mouth ſhall prayſe thee with lippes full of ioye.
ref: 1588, “The .LXII. Psalme”, in The Primer in Englysh after Salysburie Vse: […], London: […] [T]he assygnes of John Wayland, […], →OCLC, signature E, verso:
glosses: The abdominal fat of an animal.
interlards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlard
interlarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interlard
interlarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlard
interlarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlardings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is interlarded.
examples: text: I wrote out a passage from Shakespeare—it may have been the very one I quoted a while ago, I don't remember—and riddled it with his wild steamboatful interlardings.
ref: 1909, Mark Twain, “chapter 1”, in Is Shakespeare Dead?:
glosses: Something that is interlarded.
indulto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indultos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indult.
indulgiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indulgiates
form: indulgiating
form: indulgiated
form: indulgiated
Senses: examples: text: Sergius Oratus vvas the firſt that made pits for them [oysters] about his houſe here; more for profit, then to indulgiate his gluttony.
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “The Fourth Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 293:
text: indulgiating of the flesh
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To indulge.
pina colada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pina coladas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piña colada.
diffract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diffracts
form: diffracting
form: diffracted
form: diffracted
Etymology: From Latin diffractus (“past participle of diffringo (“to shatter, to break into pieces”)”).
Senses: examples: text: Dave frowned as he tried to answer. "Well, I suppose the atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen, mostly; then there's the ionosphere and the ozone layer. As I remember, the color of the sky is due to the scattering of light—light rays being diffracted in the air."
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
glosses: To cause diffraction
glosses: To undergo diffraction
Derived terms: diffractable
diffractometer
diffractometry
diffractor
nondiffracting
undiffracted
franga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Albanian franga, from French franc. Doublet of franc.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete unit of currency in Albania, equal to 5 lek.
franga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frangas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of franger.
y'allself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlf
Etymology: From y'all + -self.
Senses: examples: text: Just what y’all call y’allself doing? That’s what I want to know. So tell me that. Just tell me that. Don’t say a word. Don’t you say one word. Don’t you say a goddamn mumbling word to me. Neither one of you.
ref: 1985, Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade Jennings, Fictions, page 912:
text: HARRY WASHINGTON† shrieks out of an internal orgy of psychic pain: “Niggers‼ Keep my family’s name outcha mouf! Ya freaks! Ya filth! Ya racist garbage! All my family believe in God! Keep your twisted Satanic filth to y’allself! Keep my family’s name outch’all nasty mouf!”
ref: 2001: Mumia Abu-Jamal, All Things Censored, CH. IV: “On Tilt” by State Design, p38
text: “E got kids! Damn, time flies. Cept when you on lockdown. Time go by slower’n a muthafuckah then. That’s nice. I mean it. That’s real nice. It does a niggah proud seein’ you boys doin’ good for y’allself. Doin’ y’all thing and shit. I member when y’all was this high. Now look at y’all, you taller’n me, muthafuckah. I’ll still fuck you up, though. Believe that. I’m just fuckin’ with you. But I’m sayin’, y’all runnin’ shit. E got his family; you got your girlie and shit. She got you all whipped — bumpin’ into niggahs and shit. I’m just fuckin’ with you, man. You got some kids?”
ref: 2007, G. Andi Rhos, And It Goes Like This…, page 56:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Yourselves.
Related terms: y’allselves
actional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈækʃənəl/
Etymology: From action + -al.
Senses: examples: text: There is his view discussed earlier, for instance, that the actional realm is inimical to human purpose.
ref: 1999, Bruce Bashford, Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist, page 133:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or depicting action, especially physical action.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Depicting an action having an agent and a patient.
raw_tags: of a verb
Derived terms: actionality
actionally
nobodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nobody
detersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more detersive
form: most detersive
Etymology: Compare French détersif.
Senses: examples: text: The powdered roots of the Guayacan (lignum vitae) have detersive properties, and were once used as a household cleaning agent.
glosses: Having cleansing abilities
Derived terms: detersively
detersiveness
Related terms: detergent
detersive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: detersives
Etymology: Compare French détersif.
Senses: glosses: A cleansing agent; a detergent.
varech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varec.
catenative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.neɪ.tɪv/
Etymology: From Latin catēnātus (“chained”), from catēnāre, from catēna (“chain”).
Senses: examples: text: In this section we shall investigate some of the basic properties of D0L systems that generate locally catenative sequences. These locally catenative D0L systems form one of the mathematically most natural subclasses of the class of D0L systems.
ref: 1980, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa, The Mathematical Theory of L Systems, page 20:
text: Nonfinite complements which refer to a time before that of the main or catenative predicator are exclusively expressed by {-ing} forms (e.g. I remember doing it; She admits going; They deny being there).
ref: 2004, Stephan Gramley, Kurt-Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, 2nd edition, page 135:
text: An example of catenative construction of the infinitive has already been observed in (10), where the present infinitive λέγειν is used as a complement or object of the verb θέλοι.
ref: 2009, Toshikazu S. Foley, Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek: Verbal Aspect in Theory and Practice, page 213:
glosses: Having the ability to catenate, or form chains.
Derived terms: catenative verb
noncatenative
Related terms: catenation
concatenate
concatenative
catenative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.neɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: catenatives
Etymology: From Latin catēnātus (“chained”), from catēnāre, from catēna (“chain”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a certain arbitrariness in the way catenatives work. For example, we can use the verb like with either a gerund or an infinitive as its object:[…].
ref: 1982, Martha Kolln, Understanding English Grammar, page 229:
text: Just as many catenatives are followed by the infinitive, so others take the gerund.
ref: 2010, Peter Fenn, A Student's Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE), page 492:
text: Unlike periphrastics, however, catenatives combine certain verbs (e.g., impersonal δεῖ) with an infinitive.
ref: 2010, Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek, page 351:
text: Sentences containing catenatives (e.g., gonna, wanna, haveta, etc.) have one proposition, coded by the main verb following these.
ref: 2014, Paula Menyuk, Jacqueline W. Liebergott, Martin C. Schultz, Early Language Development in Full-term and Premature Infants, page 225:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A catenative verb.
Related terms: copulative
Tabasaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tabassaran
Senses: glosses: A Northeast-Caucasian language spoken by the Tabasaran people who live in southern Dagestan.
Tabasaran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tabasarans
form: Tabassaran
Senses: glosses: A person who belongs to this people.
Related terms: Caucasian
tangibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangibilities
Senses: glosses: The property of being tangible.
glosses: Something that is tangible.
taunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taunters
Etymology: From taunt + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who taunts.
tautly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tautly
form: most tautly
Etymology: From taut + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The wire was held tautly, until it was so taut it broke; then there were two wires held slackly.
glosses: In a taut manner, tightly, tensely.
tautness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautnesses
Etymology: From taut + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being taut.
tawdriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawdrinesses
Etymology: From tawdry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tawdry.
tax-deferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having tax due only at a later time; having the tax duty deferred.
tenderheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tenderheartedly
form: most tenderheartedly
Etymology: From tenderhearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tenderhearted manner, with caring and compassion.
tensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnsli/
Forms: form: more tensely
form: most tensely
Etymology: From tense + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61:
glosses: In a tense manner.
tenuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tenuously
form: most tenuously
Etymology: From tenuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is a world where nothing is lost, where all is accounted for and yet the mystery of things is preserved; a world where they may live, however briefly, however tenuously, in the failing evening of the self, solitary and yet together somehow here in this place, dying as they may be and yet fixed forever in a luminous, unending instant.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: In a tenuous manner.
tepidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tepid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tepid.
terminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English terminable (“resolvable”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French terminable and their etymon Latin terminābilis. By surface analysis, termine + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Is the contract rescindable? — Yes, it's terminable at any time.
text: This agreement was scheduled to the N.B.R. Act of 1908, and was terminable by either side at the expiration of ten years from the opening of the line. [the line was never built]
ref: 1951 April, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Falkland Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 287:
glosses: Able to be terminated.
glosses: Having an ending; finite.
Related terms: terminate
textured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.st͡ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈtɛk.ʃt͡ʃɚd/
Forms: form: more textured
form: most textured
Etymology: From texture + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: texturous
glosses: Having texture, not smooth.
Derived terms: Afro-textured
lean finely textured beef
open-textured
textured vegetable protein
textured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.st͡ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈtɛk.ʃt͡ʃɚd/
Etymology: From texture + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of texture
distension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: distensions
form: distention
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French; cf. Latin distentio.
Senses: glosses: The act of distending.
Derived terms: hydrodistension
hyperdistension
overdistension
distention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: distentions
Etymology: From Middle French distension.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of distension (“the act of distending”).
Derived terms: hydrodistention
hyperdistention
overdistention
meta-ethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metaethical.
tantalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantalizations
Etymology: From tantalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of tantalizing.
tastily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tastily
form: most tastily
Etymology: From tasty + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: deliciously
scrumptiously
antonyms: distastefully
glosses: In a tasty way.
tax-exempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As a religious charity it is tax-exempt, so all money collected goes to its good works.
text: Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.
ref: 2023 November 18, Murtaza Hussein, “Meet the Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Trips for Congress”, in The Intercept:
glosses: Exempt from paying tax; not subject to taxation.
Related terms: tax exemption
teensy-weensy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: teensy-weeniest
form: teensy weensy
Senses: examples: text: ... Rose was no longer a funny teensy-weensy of an infant pig, but was now a half-grown, solid, fat porker ...
ref: 1872, Gail Hamilton, “Our Nan and her dumb friend”, in J.T. Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks, an illustrated magazine for boys and girls, volume 8, page 411:
text: And there was a big-bellied jar in which the Queen's Henchman used to hide, and spring up at her, and frighten her, when she was but a teensy-weensy Princess like you.
ref: 1900, Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, The queen's garden, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of teeny-weeny.