cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
derailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derailments
Etymology: From French déraillement.
Senses: examples: text: The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:
text: In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs.
glosses: An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
examples: text: But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 186:
glosses: An instance of thwarting or frustrating something.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: knight's move thinking
glosses: A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
perceptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perceptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight
desert island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛz.ɚt.aɪlənd/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt.aɪlənd/
Forms: form: desert islands
Etymology: From the former sense of desert to mean deserted (“uninhabited”), particularly common on Spanish and Portuguese maps during the Age of Exploration as isla desierta, ilha deserta, and Medieval Latin isla deserta (“uninhabited island”). Now frequently misunderstood as simply desert (“dry, arid location”) and imagined as almost entirely sandy.
As an indispensable thing, from the idea of loving something to the point one would want it on a deserted island where it would be used ad infinitum but never ad nauseam. Popularized by the radio show Desert Island Discs (first broadcast 1942) which asked guests what they would take with them if marooned alone on an island.
Senses: examples: text: What would I take with me to a desert island?
text: Desert islands cannot harbour treachery, even from the enemy hidden within man himself.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and (now frequently misunderstood as) a small and almost entirely sandy desert.
examples: text: Why are you marooning me on a desert island? It's probably full of guano. Can't I go somewhere nice?
glosses: An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.
examples: text: No, no, no. It's a thought experiment. Your desert island books are the one or five or ten books that you could always learn from and never get sick of.
text: My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:[…]
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 9:
text: It would be my desert island book, this Love Life for Every Married Couple; marriage being to me the most obvious path to the hardest lesson we've all got to learn […]
ref: 2017, Alan Rifkin, Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir:
text: A roast dinner would be my desert island meal and I'd missed Dad's divine crispy King Edwards each Sunday.
ref: 2021, E. K. J. Wright, How Do You Stop a Magpie Mobbing Your Mind?:
glosses: Describing a thing considered so personally indispensable or beloved that one could never tire of it, used especially for books and music.
Synonyms: word: top five
word: favorite
insolubly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insolubly
form: most insolubly
Etymology: From insoluble + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
pressure point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure points
Senses: glosses: A point, spot where pressure is applied
A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
qualifier: therapy
examples: text: For this strike, if your thumb is tucked correctly, you should hit the pressure point where their arm meets their shoulder.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A point, spot where pressure is applied
A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
examples: text: If we are approaching the pressure points well into the second half of the season, then Arsenal can certainly regard themselves as very well placed on the shoulders of the leaders.
ref: 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A point, spot where pressure is applied
A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
watered down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of water down
Related terms: watered-down
bami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bammy (“Jamaican cassava flatbread”).
trebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of treble
kuskus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kuskus grass.
synonyms: word: kuskus grass
2-8-6
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-6s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels, eight coupled driving wheels, and six trailing wheels.
4-8-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-8-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels on a leading truck followed by four sets of coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
Hypernyms: Mastodon
Related terms: twelve-wheeler
bearlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bearlike
form: most bearlike
Etymology: From bear + -like. Compare bearly.
Senses: glosses: Having physical or temperamental characteristics like those of a bear.
examples: bearlike fur
bearlike pawprints
glosses: Like that of a bear
itis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: itises
Etymology: Back-formation from -itis (“disease characterized by inflammation”). Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, ism, from -ism, and ana, from -ana.
Senses: examples: 1973, April 16, “Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
“. . . Arthritis, tendinitis and all those other itises will eventually catch up with you.”
glosses: A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: Food coma.
uncontaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontaminated
form: most uncontaminated
Etymology: From un- + contaminated.
Senses: examples: text: These people, it may be noted, belong to a primitive race, uncontaminated by contact with white races, and practically still in the Stone Age.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
synonyms: noncontaminated
glosses: Not contaminated; unpolluted.
uncontaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncontaminate
unpolluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpolluted
form: most unpolluted
Etymology: From un- + polluted.
Senses: examples: text: "Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."
ref: 1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin, volume VI, number 4:
glosses: Not polluted; uncontaminated.
unpolluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpollute
proprioceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛptɪv
Etymology: Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling proprio-ceptive, from proprius + clipped receptive.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t’s becoming clear, as our understanding of it improves, that improving or maintaining our proprioceptive ability is key to our quality of life as we age.
ref: 2024 July 18, Joel Snape, “The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to proprioception.
Derived terms: graviproprioceptive
bullhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌhɔɹn/
Forms: form: bullhorns
form: bull horn
form: bull-horn
Etymology: From bull + horn, attested since the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: Iʼll press the trigger, and with a loud squeal of ear-piercing feedback, the bullhorn buzzes to staticky life.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 59:
text: [Mark Zuckerberg] didn’t found Facebook to manipulate elections; Jack Dorsey and the other Twitter founders didn’t intend to give Donald Trump a digital bullhorn.
ref: 2018 July 1, Katrina Brooker, ““I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets”, in Vanity Fair:
text: CNews, the news network created by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, topped the ratings in May by giving a new bullhorn for right-wing views on crime, immigration, climate and Covid.
ref: 2021 September 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: blowhorn
word: loudhailer
word: megaphone
glosses: A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
Related terms: amplifier
bullhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullhorn
bicameralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicameralisms
Etymology: From bicameral + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
coordinate_terms: tricameralism
unicameralism
glosses: The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
examples: text: 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted with permission in Kuijsten, 2016, page 134.
Coleridge...could not revert to bicameralism either.
text: As a result of this bicameralism, they were not conscious as we are today, and had no unified sense of self.
ref: 2016, Susan G. Josephson, From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture, →ISBN:
text: "...the evidence for bicameralism in early China." p. 2
"...to elucidate the evidence for bicameralism and the transition to consciousness..." p. 3
"...presents detailed evidence for bicameralism and the development of consciousness..." p. 14
ref: 2016, Marcel Kuijsten, Gods, Voices, Julian Jaynes and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, (Introduction)
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Ambiguous misnomer for Julian Jaynes's theory of bicamerality, probably never used by Jaynes, rarely used in academic literature based on his work, but often found informally (compare bicameral mind and bicameral mentality)
Related terms: bicameral
bicamerality
barnacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barnacled
form: most barnacled
Etymology: From barnacle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Crusted with barnacles.
glosses: Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
glosses: Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
glosses: Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
glosses: Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
glosses: Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.
Derived terms: unbarnacled
barnacled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From barnacle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barnacle
behaviorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behaviorists
form: behaviourist
Etymology: From behavior + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
Derived terms: neobehaviorist
Related terms: behaviorism
behaviourism
behavioristic
behaviouristic
behaviorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behaviorist
beekeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːˌkiːpɪŋ/
Etymology: From bee + keeping.
Senses: synonyms: apiculture
coordinate_terms: beekeeper
glosses: The practice or profession of keeping and caring for bees.
bashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bash
bashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: bashings
Senses: examples: text: I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
ref: 1960 [1959], Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, New York: Macmillan, page 34:
text: Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.
ref: 2018 May 31, Daniel Boffey, quoting Jean-Claude Juncker, “Russia-bashing must stop, says Jean-Claude Juncker”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: beating
glosses: An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
Derived terms: bit bashing
gay bashing
granny-bashing
Paki-bashing
queer-bashing
queer bashing
spud bashing
spud-bashing
square bashing
trans bashing
bejeweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bejeweled
form: most bejeweled
form: bejewelled
Etymology: From bejewel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It is their silly pope and the rich, bejeweled bishops who are to blame and not the Catholic people.
ref: 1990 February 11, S. Kelly, “How To Spell Respect”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 5:
text: Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.
Derived terms: overbejeweled
unbejeweled
bejeweled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bejewelled
Etymology: From bejewel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bejewel
effuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfjuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /ɪˈfjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: more effuse
form: most effuse
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).
Senses: examples: text: So should our joy be very effuse.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Nativity of our Lord tidings of great Joy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Poured out freely; profuse.
examples: text: No wanton waste amid effuse expence
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
examples: text: an effuse inflorescence
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
effuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfjuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /ɪˈfjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: effuses
form: effusing
form: effused
form: effused
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).
Senses: glosses: To emit; to give off.
glosses: To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
examples: text: With gushing blood effused.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
glosses: To leak out through a small hole.
effuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfjuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /ɪˈfjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).
Senses: examples: text: Much effuse of blood.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
glosses: effusion; loss
Derived terms: effusely
effuser
uneffused
erosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erosive
form: most erosive
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to erosion.
glosses: Causing or tending to cause erosion.
Derived terms: bioerosive
erosively
erosiveness
erosivity
nonerosive
fo'c's'le
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səl/
Forms: form: fo'c's'les
Senses: examples: ref: 1873, Thomas Edward Brown, Betsy Lee, a fo’c’s’le yarn, main title:
text: 1881, Thomas Edward Brown, Fo’c’s’le yarns: including Betsy Lee, and other poems (Macmillan, reprint of 1873 publication quoted above), main title
text: Now I had been expressly forbidden to go into the men’s quarters, the fo’c’s’le. It was so bad a place to be in — leaky, dark, and mephitic — that one would hardly have thought any prohibition necessary, but there was cheerfulness and animated conversation there.
Thus I became a fo’c’s’le hand, and never but once — and that only for a short passage — have I filled a steward’s place since.
In becoming a denizen of the fo’c’s’le I entered unconsciously upon the fourth great change in my life.
ref: 1900, Frank Thomas Bullen, With Christ at Sea: A Personal Record of Religious Experiences on Board Ship for Fifteen Years […] (Stokes), pages 20, 21, and 22
text: 1997, David Kasanof and Matthew P. Murphy, From the Fo’c’s’le, main title (Sheridan House, Inc.; ISBN 1‒57409‒034‒8)
glosses: Alternative form of fo'c'sle.
preventative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɛntətɪv/
Forms: form: more preventative
form: most preventative
Senses: examples: 1920, Lillien Jane Martin, Mental hygiene: two years' experience of a clinical psychologist, Warwick &York (1920), p. 78,
"That part of mental hygiene which has a prophylactic character falls into two classes, group preventative mental hygiene […]"
1968, G. Anthony Wedge, N. A. P.: New American Party, Geddes Press Printers (1968), p. 155,
"Preventative defense comes in two flavors […]"
2006, Robert Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, Repairing & Upgrading Your PC, O'Reilly (2006), p. 70,
"The goals of preventative maintenance are to reduce the likelihood of hardware failures, […]"
glosses: Alternative form of preventive.
Derived terms: preventative maintenance
preventative medicine
preventative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɛntətɪv/
Forms: form: preventatives
Senses: examples: text: The seeds and roots of the water lily are likewise considered a preventative against lechery.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of preventive.
Synonyms: prophylactic
grabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæbi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: grabbier
form: grabbiest
Etymology: From grab + -y.
Senses: synonyms: handsy
glosses: Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.
examples: text: Nearly every bookstore contains a designated Colleen Hoover table, display case or section, stuffed with vague but grabby titles, like “All Your Perfects” and “Ugly Love.” I slorped down three of them in one week.
ref: 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times:
text: By “this” he meant that the platform was filled with videos that have sensationalized titles, heavily edited content and grabby thumbnails, often featuring a person’s emotive face.
ref: 2024 May 23, Chris Almeida, “They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Attention-grabbing; striking, stimulating.
Derived terms: grabbily
grabbiness
grabby arm
grabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæbi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: grabbies
Etymology: From grab + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Look at that gerbil and his little grabbies! So cute.
glosses: Humanlike hand of some animals, mainly rodents and primates.
basset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
Forms: form: bassets
Etymology: From French bassette, from Italian bassetta.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
glosses: A basset hound.
examples: text: Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget / Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.
ref: 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
text: We are to go and see Pope's new grotto, opened for the first time; then try Hampton Court, and see if Mrs. Howard will stake a little princely gold on a pool of basset.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 173–174:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game resembling faro.
Derived terms: bagle
basset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsɪt/
rhymes: -æsɪt
Forms: form: bassets
form: basseting
form: basseted
form: basseted
Etymology: From French bassette, from Italian bassetta.
Senses: examples: text: A vein of coal bassets.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
Related terms: basset clarinet
basset hound
basset horn
basset oboe
basset recorder
prophylactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophylactic
plakat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plakats
Etymology: From Thai ปลากัด (bplaa gàt, “biting fish”)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Siamese fighting fish.
synonyms: word: Siamese fighting fish
rabblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabblements
Etymology: From rabble + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A crowd of common people; a rabble.
conubial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of connubial.
surpluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝˌplʌ.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of surplus
surpluses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝˌplʌ.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surplus
gloomier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlumiɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡluːmi.ə/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gloomy: more gloomy
gloomiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlumi.əst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gloomy: most gloomy
bedazzlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedazzlements
Etymology: From bedazzle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bedazzled.
bedazzlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedazzlement
leakproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈliːkpɹuf/
Forms: form: more leakproof
form: most leakproof
form: leak-proof
Etymology: From leak + -proof.
Senses: examples: 1904, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain), Bulletin, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) (1904), p. 22,
"In mining work difficult laying conditions, limited space, and movements of the ground, all combine to make the installation of a leakproof main with ordinary joints a very difficult matter."
1929, Victor Wilfred Pagé, Modern Aviation Engines: design-construction-operation and repair, […], Norman W. Henley Publishing Company (1929), p. 1589,
"Leakproof tanks shall be provided on all airplanes for service use unless the tanks are completely protected by armor."
1967, Edward Locker Delmar-Morgan, Maintenance of Inboard Engines, Newnes (1967), p. 115,
"There are two subdivisions in the flashlight dry cell range, the ordinary cheap one and the better-quality leakproof cell."
glosses: Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery.
Derived terms: leakproofness
leakproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈliːkpɹuf/
Forms: form: leakproofs
form: leakproofing
form: leakproofed
form: leakproofed
form: leak-proof
Etymology: From leak + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to leakage.
bedevilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedevilments
Etymology: From bedevil + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bedeviled.
bedevilments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedevilment
bedsore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsores
Etymology: From bed + sore.
Senses: examples: text: With the slightest movement shooting pain through her thin frame, she developed bedsores under her thighs and back that got infected.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 195:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lesion caused by unrelieved pressure to any part of the body, especially portions over bony or cartilaginous areas, such as frequently develops on a person confined to a bed by infirmity.
Synonyms: sense: lesion caused by pressure
word: pressure ulcer
sense: lesion caused by pressure
word: decubitus
bedsores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedsore
generativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generativities
Etymology: From generative + -ity. In the psychology sense coined by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson in 1950.
Senses: examples: text: Generativity is a broad property of systems that denotes the capacity of agents within them to connect to others and produce unanticipated outcomes and change.
ref: 2015, Daniel Araya, editor, Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: The ability to create or reproduce.
examples: text: Most broadly, Erikson (1975) considers generativity to mean any caring activity that contributes to the spirit of future generations, such as the generation of new or more mature persons, products, ideas, or works of art.
ref: 1995, Marc H. Bornstein, editor, Handbook of Parenting, volume 2, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: stagnation
qualifier: developmental psychology
glosses: The ability to transcend personal interests to provide care and concern for younger and older generations.
babied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbid/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baby
babied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbid/
Forms: form: more babied
form: most babied
Senses: glosses: Spoiled or coddled.
babying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baby
babying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyings
Senses: examples: text: She thought that if she had been beautiful instead of so plain then she might have made out better, but the plainness perhaps went the worst against her; it worked together with the babyings from an Indian; […]
ref: 1976, Jean Rikhoff, The sweetwater, page 159:
glosses: The act of coddling or pampering somebody.
Galapagos sea lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galápagos sea lion
form: Galapagos sea lions
form: Galápagos sea lion
Senses: examples: text: The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.
ref: 1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 34:
glosses: A small species of sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki (though sometimes considered a subspecies of the Californian sea lion), that breeds in the Galápagos islands.
beer nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer nuts
Etymology: Possibly from the US trademark Beer Nuts (named for their intended use as a snack with beer), though the US brand is not sold in Australia.
Senses: examples: text: Stanley crumbled the husk of a beer nut between his thumb and middle finger.
ref: 1984, Steve Katz, Mongolian Whiskey: Stolen Stories, page 37:
text: For instance, there's Phillip's opinion of chocolate: to him, it's just another snack—like beer nuts or a piece of fruit.
ref: 2006, Robin McGraw, Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose, page 28:
text: At the end of the party, the parents of the birthday boy handed me a party bag and my prize: a bag of beer nuts. I've since wondered what kind of parent would possibly give an eight-year-old beer nuts, but whatever. It was the seventies.
ref: 2008, Tim Schenck, What Size are God's Shoes?: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life, page 37:
glosses: A peanut served with its husk (but not its shell).
wikipedia: Beer Nuts
osteoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteoplasty
craton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪtɒn/
/ˈkɹætɒn/
/ˈkɹeɪtən/
Forms: form: cratons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “strength, might”). Shortened from original cratogen which was analogical to orogen.
Senses: examples: 1988, L. L. Sloss, Chapter 1: Introduction, L. L. Sloss (editor), Sedimentary Cover—North American Craton: U.S., Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Volume D-2, page 2,
Application of the concept of a craton circumscribed by surrounding miogeosynclines was particularly vexing to stratigraphers whose study areas extended across the line theoretically delineating distinct tectonic terranes.
2008, Nasser Ennih, Jean-Paul Liégeois, The boundaries of the West African craton, with reference to the basement of the Moroccan metacratonic Anti-Atlas belt, N. Ennih, J.-P. Liégeois (editors), The Boundaries of the West African Craton, Geological Society, Special Publication Number 297, page 1,
Although cratons are not tectonically active, they can be located near active margins, such as the Brazilian craton at the rear of the Andean active margin.
2009, Ram Sharma, Cratons and Fold Belts of India, Springer, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, LNES 127, page 58,
The Bastar craton (BC) is also called Bastar-Bhandara craton. It lies to ENE of the Dharwar craton (DC), separated from the latter by the Godavari rift (see Fig. 2.1).
glosses: A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents.
Derived terms: cratonic
cratonization
intracratonic
metacraton
metacratonic
pericratonic
Aari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aarai
form: Ari
Senses: glosses: An Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Synonyms: Ara
Aro
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Aari terms
word: aiz ⁠
sense: Note
english: code gyl
translation: code gyl
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=gyl
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=aiw
word: On 1
sense: Note
english: code gyl
translation: code gyl
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=gyl
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=aiw
word: 14
sense: Note
english: code gyl
translation: code gyl
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=gyl
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=aiw
word: 2008 SIL International split out Gayil as a separate language and gave Aari the new code aiw
Aklanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aklanons
form: Akeanon
Senses: glosses: A person who is from the Aklan province of the Philippines.
Aklanon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Akeanon
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian (Visayan) language spoken in the Philippines.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Aklanon terms
akl ⁠
tughra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tughras
form: toughra
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish tuğra, from Ottoman Turkish طغرا (tuğra).
Senses: glosses: A calligraphic signature of an Ottoman sultan (and some other rulers to the present day) that was affixed to official documents, carved on his seal, and stamped on coins and inscribed on some stamps issued during his reign.
wikipedia: Mahmud II
Related terms: royal cypher
imperial cypher
colorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorimetries
form: colourimetry
Etymology: From color + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values.
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour.
Derived terms: colorimetrist
immunocolorimetry
microcolorimetry
photocolorimetry
spectrocolorimetry
Related terms: colorimeter
colorimetric
colorimetrically
bedel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedels
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin pedellus, bedellus, bidellus, from Middle English bedel; cognate with beadle.
Senses: examples: text: Oxford today has four bedels, representing Divinity, Law, Medicine, and Arts.
text: Next came the bedels and minor-bedels of all the Faculties, who by some accident were so jumbled together, that it was impossible to determine or arrange any order of precedence.[…] These bedels or greffiers were jolly robustious souls, bending beneath the weight of their ponderous silver maces, and attired in gowns of black, blue, violet, or dark red, each colour denoting the Faculty to which the wearer pertained.
ref: 1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, “The Rector”, in Crichton, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 59:
glosses: An administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
Derived terms: bedelship
afta
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of after.
additionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: additionalities
Etymology: From additional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being additional.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Net positive difference that results from economic development intervention. The extent to which an activity (and associated outputs, outcomes and impacts) is larger in scale, at a higher quality, takes place quicker, takes place at a different location, or takes place at all as a result of intervention. Additionality measures the net result, taking account of deadweight, leakage, displacement, substitution and economic multipliers.
button-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: buttoned-down
Senses: glosses: Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
glosses: Serious; staid; businesslike.
glosses: Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
button-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button-downs
form: buttoned-down
Senses: examples: text: Wearing a stylish pink button-down with white pinstripes, Ozzie Guillen beamed about feeling like he had "come home" when he was presented Wednesday as the manager of the Miami Marlins.
ref: 2011, Dan McNeil, “Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: A shirt with a button-down collar
sticktoitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /stɪkˈtuːɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more sticktoitive
form: most sticktoitive
Etymology: From stick to it + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to persist or stick to an activity or effort; persistent; determined.
Derived terms: sticktoitiveness
entrepreneurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː.ɹi.əl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.i.əl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɹ.i.əl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.i.əl/
ipa: /ˌɔn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː.ɹi.əl/
Forms: form: more entrepreneurial
form: most entrepreneurial
Etymology: From entrepreneur + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
glosses: Having the spirit, attitude or qualities of an entrepreneur; enterprising.
Derived terms: entrepreneurial customer
entrepreneurialism
entrepreneurially
intrapreneurial
microentrepreneurial
nonentrepreneurial
technopreneurial
unentrepreneurial
supervisorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having supervision, or the leadership or oversight of others, as a quality, function or role.
singlehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of single-handed.
singlehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of single-handed.
singlehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of singlehand
singleminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more singleminded
form: most singleminded
Etymology: From single + minded.
Senses: glosses: Very focused; having a single goal, purpose, or idea.
Derived terms: singlemindedly
singlemindedness
overachieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overachieve
nondomesticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + domesticated.
Senses: glosses: Not domesticated; not possessing the qualities or habits of domestic life.
polyvalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvalences
Etymology: From poly- + valence.
Senses: glosses: The state of being polyvalent.
glosses: Congruence with polyvalency.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A quality of music that is played in more than one harmonic function in the same key.
polyvalency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvalencies
Etymology: From poly- + valency.
Senses: glosses: polyvalence
colorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: colourimetric
Etymology: From color + -metric.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Of or pertaining to colorimetry.
glosses: Obtained by using a colorimeter.
Derived terms: colorimetrically
colorimetric correction
immunocolorimetric
microcolorimetric
photocolorimetric
colorimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From colorimetric + -ally.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
Derived terms: photocolorimetrically
gastroptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroptoses
Etymology: From gastro- + ptosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal downward displacement of the stomach.
unbelieving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbelieving
form: most unbelieving
Etymology: From un- + believing.
Senses: examples: text: One Sunday morning I woke up, saying to my sister N., " Do you know, I have had such a vivid dream about the Roper party that I can hardly believe T am awake now." "What did you dream?" said N., in rather an unbelieving and sleepy tone of voice.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 105:
text: The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
synonyms: nonbelieving
antonyms: believing
glosses: That does not believe; incredulous, skeptical.
practicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practicabilities
Etymology: From practicable + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being practicable; feasibility
unshakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshakeable
form: most unshakeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unshakable.
embossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emboss
embossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embossings
Senses: glosses: A raised design or symbol that has been embossed.
perroquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perroquets
Senses: glosses: Dated form of parakeet.
unquenchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquenchable
form: most unquenchable
Etymology: From un- + quenchable.
Senses: examples: text: After a twelve-mile run in the hot sun, his thirst felt unquenchable.
text: Alas! thus ever does the weakness of our nature rebuke its strength, and genius is brought to the level—ay, below the level—of common humanity, by an unquenchable thirst for its applause.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.
ref: 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:
text: President Trump did not need to warp intelligence to justify his decision. But he did anyway, to satisfy his unquenchable ego.
ref: 2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: That cannot be quenched.
best-selling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bestselling
Senses: examples: text: The set includes all of the LTM's [London Transport Museum's] best-selling vintage and modern moquette patterned socks, [...].
ref: 2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 70:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class.
bloodstain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌsteɪn/
Forms: form: bloodstains
Etymology: From blood + stain.
Senses: glosses: A spot or area that has been discolored by having absorbed blood.
bloodstains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodstain
bloodstained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/
Forms: form: more bloodstained
form: most bloodstained
form: blood-stained
Etymology: From blood + stained.
Senses: glosses: Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
glosses: Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
examples: text: This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.
ref: 2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Responsible for the deaths of others; guilty of murder.
glosses: Guilty of wrongdoing.
Derived terms: blood-stained cockatoo
Related terms: bloodsoaked
barkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkeepers
Etymology: From bar + keeper.
Senses: glosses: A bartender: a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
Synonyms: bartender
mixologist
Derived terms: barkeep
barterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barterers
Etymology: From barter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who barters: one who trades goods for other goods without involving money.
batterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batterers
Etymology: From batter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "If you've been assaulted and battered," said the Mayor, "we shall have to arrest the assaulters and batterers, as well."
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 138:
glosses: One who batters.
glosses: One who batters their spouse: one who commits domestic violence.
examples: text: "This is serious," replied the potential fish batterer.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: One who applies batter.
barreled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a four-barreled shotgun
glosses: having the specified number of barrels
Derived terms: double-barreled
infrabarreled
multibarreled
barreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barrel
Related terms: english: Alternative spelling
translation: Alternative spelling
word: barrelled
word: used especially in British English
barnstormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnstormers
Etymology: From barnstorm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Also a prince's cook; and even the water-carrier of that sublime lord of lords and king of kings, the Governor-General of India! How broad they were in their tastes! They also murdered actors—poor wandering barnstormers.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, chapter XLVI, in Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
text: “Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer, […]
ref: 2021 September 28, Stephanie Goodman, “‘No Time to Die’: What the Critics Are Saying”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who barnstorms.
Related terms: barnburner
debitage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debitages
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sharp-edged waste material that remains after creation of a stone tool
Derived terms: microdebitage
bell-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
Related terms: word: bell-bottomed
word: bell-bottoms
pantleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantlegs
form: pant leg
form: pant-leg
Etymology: From pant + leg.
Senses: examples: text: Joan recognized her as the girl whose son had sissied on her pants. She was still dabbing at her pantleg with a damp paper towel.
ref: 1979, Rhea Kohan, Save Me a Seat, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: One leg of a pair of pants, a trouser leg (UK English).
pantlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantleg
bell-bottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bell-bottomed
form: most bell-bottomed
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
Related terms: word: bell-bottom
word: bell-bottoms