cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unembellished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unembellished
form: most unembellished
Etymology: From un- + embellished.
Senses: examples: text: Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.
ref: 1941 October, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
synonyms: word: austere
word: bare
word: modest
word: undecorated
word: unadorned
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
antonyms: word: adorned
word: decorate
word: complicated
word: unadorned
glosses: Plain, unadorned, or simple.
'zactly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'zackly.
nineteenthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nineteenth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.
nineteenthly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nineteenthlies
Etymology: From nineteenth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a word, the old Dame of Babylon, against whom our fathers testified so loudly, seems now hardly worth a passing attack, even in the Nineteenthly of an afternoon's sermon, and is in some measure reduced to the pavé.
ref: 1816, The Eclectic Review:
text: One can fancy the delight of the oppressed Puritan boys in the days of the nineteenthlies, driven to the place of worship by the tithing-men, and cooped up on the pulpit and gallery stairs under charge of the constables, at hearing for once a discourse which they could understand, […]
ref: 1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Out-door Papers, page 366:
text: You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.
ref: 1891, Church Building Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 123:
text: Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, […]
ref: 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, page 174:
text: […] the tirades of a virago may find expression in a pile of neatly sliced kindling, while the nineteenthlies of her reverend spouse, may receive ultimation in the sawing of substantial logs.
ref: 1893, Cassier's Magazine, volume 4, page 63:
glosses: One of numerous points in a long sermon.
sbassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebsi
zebra fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra fish
form: zebra fishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zebrafish.
uncreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnkɹɪˈeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more uncreative
form: most uncreative
Etymology: From un- + creative.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal; formulaic; rote
text: Her artwork was judged to be competent but uncreative.
glosses: Not creative.
Deficient in or devoid of creativity and originality.
examples: text: discussions of database rights for uncreative works not subject to copyrightability
glosses: Not creative.
Synonym of noncreative (“unrelated to creativity”).
synonyms: word: noncreative
extra: unrelated to creativity
uncreative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnkɹɪˈeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: uncreatives
Etymology: From un- + creative.
Senses: antonyms: creative#Noun
;
creator
glosses: A person who is not creative.
zelatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zelatrices
Etymology: Probably from or influenced by French.
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A zelatrix (nun).
uninventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninventive
form: most uninventive
Etymology: From un- + inventive.
Senses: glosses: Not inventive.
Synonyms: uncreative
unimaginative
uninspired
unoriginal
sextillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextillion
septillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septillion
run off at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs off at the mouth
form: running off at the mouth
form: ran off at the mouth
form: run off at the mouth
form: run off one's mouth
form: run one's mouth
form: run one's mouth off
Senses: glosses: To talk excessively.
glosses: To speak in a disrespectful manner about another individual.
Related terms: run at the mouth
ycalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: y- + called
Senses: examples: text: That made hem gentil men ycalled be
glosses: past participle of call
Synonyms: called
right cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right crosses
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A cross (hook thrown over the opponent's punch) made with the right hand
ydamned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But masters of worlds wisedome and their founder haue ydamned it for heresie and for error.
glosses: past participle of damn
Synonyms: damned
Yeatsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yeatsian
form: most Yeatsian
Etymology: From Yeats + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) or his writings.
rent-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rent + -free.
Senses: glosses: Without a rent payment.
rent-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rent + -free.
Senses: examples: text: I can't believe he was able to stay there for three months rent-free before they caught on.
glosses: Without paying rent.
Derived terms: live rent-free in someone's head
Zulu time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZULU time
form: zulu time
Etymology: From the name for the letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet, a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. See the list of military time zones.
Senses: examples: text: Aviation has long used Zulu time as the standard so that no matter which time zone you're in, you know what time it is.
ref: 2008, Carol Pollard, Reynaldo Anzaldua, Computer Forensics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 208:
text: What everyone knows is that between zero three fifteen and twelve seconds and thirteen seconds Zulu time, on October second, ’sixty-two, all the clocks stopped, the satellites went away, the star map changed, nineteen airliners and forty-six ships in transit ended up in terminal trouble, and they found themselves transferred from a globe in the Milky Way galaxy to a disk which we figure is somewhere in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.
ref: 2009, Charles Stross, Wireless, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: The aviation standard is Zulu time, which is essentially the same as Greenwich mean time (GMT) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
ref: 2012, Jeff Van West, Kevin Lane-Cummings, Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 101:
synonyms: Z time
glosses: Coordinated Universal Time.
Related terms: military time
quonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: quonks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
glosses: Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.
glosses: The honking sound of certain birds.
quonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: quonks
form: quonking
form: quonked
form: quonked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]
ref: 2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives:
glosses: To produce unwanted noise.
examples: text: As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.
ref: 1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor:
text: […] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]
ref: 1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey:
glosses: To honk.
quinolinemethanethiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinolinemethanethiols
Etymology: From quinoline + methane + thiol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfoxymethyl derivative of quinoline that is present in the defensive spray of some skunks
sulfoxymethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoxymethyls
form: sulphoxymethyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -CH₂SH that is the sulfur analogue of hydroxymethyl
quietism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quietisms
Etymology: From quiet + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
glosses: A state of passive quietness.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one.
glosses: The rejection of politics on religious grounds.
quietist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwʌɪətɪst/
Forms: form: quietists
Etymology: From quiet + -ist, after Italian quietista.
Senses: glosses: A mystic who follows quietism.
examples: text: You need not give in to media clowns or dozing quietists.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1267:
glosses: Someone who is not socially or politically active.
pyocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyocyanins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A greenish-blue pigment, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that is an antibiotic and antifungal agent
Related terms: pyocyanic
Kolmogorov complexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kolmogorov complexities
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complexity of an information object—such as a book or an image—informally defined as the length of the shortest program that produces that information object as output.
pteropid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pteropids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bat of the former family Pteropidae; the fruit bats
Synonyms: sense: fruit bats
word: megabat
sense: fruit bats
word: Old World fruit bat
protagonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protagonistic
form: most protagonistic
Etymology: From protagonist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a protagonist.
Derived terms: protagonistically
progressivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progressivisms
Etymology: From progressive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In New York the range of influences is as diverse as anywhere else, even if there unquestionably is a tendency toward Velvet Undergroundish punk rock and British progressivisms.
ref: 1976 February 7, John Rockwell, “The Pop Life”, in The New York Times:
text: By adopting big-tentism, conservatism has been allowed to degenerate into pseudo-conservatism, an ideology essentially the same as contemporary progressivism: embracing of every ideology and policy position whose inclusion is politically expedient.
ref: 2017 July 4, Matthew Penza, “The Problem with the Big Tent”, in The Princeton Tory:
text: Some aspects of contemporary progressivism look less like actual progress and more like a step in reverse.
ref: 2023 November 16, Pamela Paul, “Progressives Aren’t Liberal”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.
Derived terms: secular progressivism
procumbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more procumbent
form: most procumbent
Etymology: From Latin pro (“forward”) + cumbĕre (“to lie down”).
Senses: glosses: prone or prostrate
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That trails along the ground
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: inclined towards the lips
Derived terms: procumbent pigweed
problematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problematic
bale out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bales out
form: baling out
form: baled out
form: baled out
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bail out.
glosses: Misspelling of bail out.
pro-war
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-war
form: most pro-war
Etymology: From pro- + war.
Senses: glosses: In favour of a military solution to a political problem
Mister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-tər
ipa: /ˈmɪstəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɪstɚ]
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
homophone: Mr.
homophone: mister
Forms: form: Misters
Etymology: See mister.
Senses: examples: text: This is Mister Smith, assistant to the President.
glosses: A general title of respect for an adult male.
With a surname.
examples: text: This is Mister James Smith, assistant to the President.
glosses: A general title of respect for an adult male.
With a full name.
examples: text: Will Mister Robert be staying for dinner?
glosses: A general title of respect for an adult male.
With a first name only.
qualifier: regional or dated subservient
examples: text: Mister President
glosses: An official form of address to a male president of a nation.
examples: text: Mister Secretary
text: Mister Treasurer
text: Mister Attorney
text: Mister Justice
glosses: A formal address to any male official of an organization.
glosses: An official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain.
glosses: A male warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point.
examples: text: Mister Suave
text: He's Mister Baseball around here.
text: Hey, Mister magenta-shirt over there looks a lot like your cousin Bill.
glosses: An informal title that is used to create a nickname, placeholder name, or other moniker for a male.
examples: text: The Mister Universe finals will be held in Los Angeles.
text: And now I can reveal that this year's Mister Personality is ... Stanley Cheeseworth!
glosses: A title used to designate the (male) winner of certain kinds of competition.
examples: text: 'Scuse me Mister, do you have the time?
text: Now you listen to me, Mister. If I see you round here again, there'll be trouble.
qualifier: sometimes hostile; sometimes written 'mister'; sometimes hostile; sometimes written 'mister'
glosses: Used by itself as a familiar term of address to a man whose name is unknown, or sometimes even if the name is known.
Synonyms: Mr
Mr.
Derived terms: Mr. Magoo glasses
eleventhly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eleventh + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the eleventh place; eleventh in a row.
axenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axenizations
Senses: examples: text: The axenization of microbes allows concentrated groups to be studied in a pure culture.
glosses: The process of isolating a particular organism from all others.
examples: text: The lab succeeded in 60% of the axenizations that it attempted.
glosses: An instance of this process.
Related terms: axenic
axenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axenization
presacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sacral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of the sacrum.
presacral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presacrals
Etymology: From pre- + sacral.
Senses: glosses: A presacral vertebra.
power base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power bases
Senses: glosses: The source of a person's or organization's power or influence
Hypernyms: base
potoroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potoroos
form: potaroo
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug buduru.
Senses: examples: text: Potoroos resemble bettongs, both in size and lifestyle, but the potoroos have a more tapered head and pointed snout, a less robust build and a shorter tail.
ref: 1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 41:
text: A black man with his back turned to me was putting three potaroos on the fire to cook.
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 368:
glosses: Any species of the genus Potorous of the rat kangaroo family Potoroidae, endemic to Australia.
Derived terms: long-footed potoroo
long-nosed potoroo
rat kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat kangaroos
Senses: glosses: An Australian marsupial of the species Aepyprymnus rufescens.
Derived terms: musky rat-kangaroo
Related terms: bettong
boodie
kangaroo rat
potoroo
woylie
postcanine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postcanine
form: most postcanine
Etymology: From post- + canine.
Senses: glosses: Situated behind the canine teeth.
postcanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcanines
Etymology: From post- + canine.
Senses: glosses: A tooth in this position.
ponderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponderations
Senses: glosses: heaviness
glosses: mental weighing; deliberation; pondering
glosses: physical weighing or balancing
Related terms: ponderate
ponderative
chew over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews over
form: chewing over
form: chewed over
form: chewed over
Senses: examples: text: Ahh. Later, Teddy. If you'd be so good. I... just have to chew over a few things with Francis here.
ref: 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
glosses: To think deeply about; to ponder or mull over.
glosses: Synonym of chew up (to chew so as to make something pulpy or tangled)
synonyms: word: chew up
extra: to chew so as to make something pulpy or tangled
chews over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chew over
polyphyodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of having teeth that are continually being lost and replaced
Related terms: polyphyodont
chewing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chew over
chewed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chew over
illistrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of illustrate.
lexiphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexiphanes
Etymology: From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”).
Senses: examples: text: At least I'm not lexiphanic; I'm just a lexiphane. :))
ref: 2003 January 18, Laurelin Vernet, “Re: BIG STEVE'S STARGATE REVIEW: "Sight Unseen" **SPOILERS**”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet):
text: That online essayist probably strives to be a logodaedalist, but he's just a lexiphane.
ref: 2003 August 26, Lalbert1, “Re: Word Usage”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
text: Campbell tells his dedicatee Lord Lyttelton that he "ought not to suffer those Lexiphanes, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words, and absurd phrases, those fabricators of Triads and Quaternions" (p. xvii).
ref: 2005, Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson, page 166:
glosses: One who uses words pretentiously.
Related terms: lexiphanic
poetry slam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetry slams
Senses: glosses: A competition at which poets (slam poets) recite their poems (slam poetry) before an audience and are given scores by judges.
Related terms: poetry reading
purgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purgeries
Etymology: From purge + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A part of a sugarhouse where molasses is drained from sugar.
goggle box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goggle boxes
form: gogglebox
form: goggle-box
form: Gogglebox
Etymology: From goggle (“to stare at”) + box.
Senses: examples: text: The goggle box became my own private giggle box, from out of which came the likes of Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne, Charlie Drake and I Love Lucy.
ref: 2012, Roger Foss, May the Farce Be With You, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A television set.
craigslist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: craigslists
form: craigslisting
form: craigslisted
form: craigslisted
Etymology: From the name of the website, itself from Craig's list (after founder Craig Newmark).
Senses: examples: text: Over the days that follow Andrew's party, the craigslisting mania from our potential seller does not abate.
ref: 2009, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Gimme Shelter, page 207:
glosses: To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.
taling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tale
sarcelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcelles
Etymology: French sarcelle
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of teals (ducks)
outremer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outremers
Etymology: From French outremer.
Senses: glosses: An area beyond the sea.
lavishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lavish
lavishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lavish
lavishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavishings
Senses: examples: lavishings of praise
glosses: Profuse giving.
leaderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadership
lectionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectionary
liturgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liturgic + -s (see -ics), from Latin lītūrgicus.
Senses: glosses: The academic discipline dedicated to the study of liturgy (public worship rites, rituals, and practices).
Synonyms: liturgiology
levelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leveler
Malaysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈleɪ.zi.ənz/
/məˈleɪ.ʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Malaysian
marshlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshland
Mohawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mohawk
momentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momento
mooches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mooch
mooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooch
mooched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mooch
mucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muck
mucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muck
fourth-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth-walls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fourth wall.
breathing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breathing space.
metalware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalwares
Etymology: From metal + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Any wares made out of metal, such as pots and pans.
metalwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalware
metalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metal
metalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallings
Senses: examples: text: And I did do jobs like collecting acorns which we fed to the pigs, mixed with other things. And I also picked stones off the fields which was done in those times, stones as metalling for the roads.
ref: 1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting Margaret Meek (born 1909), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Almora, April 1 — Almora District Magistrate DS Garbyal has expressed his annoyance at the poor quality of work executed by the personnel of the Public Works Department (PWD) in the district. […] In a letter addressed to the Chief Engineer of the PWD, Garbyal highlighted defects in the roads, culverts and drains that were built during the last financial year. He said the metalling of the roads had started to come off and the potholes marking the roads were causing accidents.
ref: 2012 April 2, Editorial staff, “DM [District Magistrate] annoyed over poor quality of work”, in Tribune News Service, Chandigarh, India, retrieved 23 May 2023:
coordinate_terms: pavement
glosses: A road surface, especially one of gravel (but sometimes with reference to macadam, tarmacadam, or asphalt concrete).
examples: text: One of the most important tasks was the metalling of the roads, and the dumping of metal beside them in parts where it was impossible to lay it, in order that work might commence with the assault. The surface of the roads was good, but only because the Division had been holding a front so wide, which made the traffic upon them relatively light.
ref: 1922, Falls Cyril, The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division, M'Caw, Stevenson and Orr, Ltd:
text: [Footnote 32] According to the French map of the Levant, laid in 1925, before the metalling of the roads.
ref: 1964, J.M. Fiey, “The Iraqi section of the Abbassid Road Mosul—Nisibin”, in Iraq, volume 26, number 2, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 106–117:
text: The Roman street had seven successive metallings. The latest metallings were contemporary with the tile works.
ref: 1979, The Antiquaries Journal, volume 58, page 106:
glosses: The process or an instance of installing such a surface; paving.
Related terms: aggregate
crushed stone
mousquetaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousquetaire
mousquetaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmuːskɪˈtɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /-kə-/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mousquetaires
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mousquetaire. Doublet of musketeer.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is adversary, swelling with rage, cocked his hat fiercely in his face, and fixing his hands in his sides, pronounced with the most imperious tone, “Heark ye, Mr. Round Periwig, you must know that I am a mousquetaire.”
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, famed for their daring and their fine clothing.
glosses: A mousquetaire cuff or mousquetaire glove, or other article of dress imagined to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.
glosses: A woman's cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century.
glosses: A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century.
Derived terms: mousquetaire cuff
mousquetaire glove
multitasks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multitask
multitasked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multitask
multitaskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitasker
multiplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiplexed
form: most multiplexed
Derived terms: nonmultiplexed
multiplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multiplex
multi-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multidimensional
multi-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multicolored.
inoxidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unoxidizable.
synonyms: word: unoxidizable
Related terms: oxidable
multidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multidirectional
form: most multidirectional
form: multi-directional
Etymology: From multi- + directional.
Senses: synonyms: pluridirectional
coordinate_terms: unidirectional
omnidirectional
glosses: Involving or moving in multiple directions.
multi-directional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multi-directional
form: most multi-directional
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multidirectional.
multigenerational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multigenerational
form: most multigenerational
Etymology: From multi- + generational.
Senses: examples: text: The sons and daughters in a multigenerational household go to work while the grandparents watch the grandchildren. That arrangement of family life is much more resilient to economic hardship.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting multiple generations; multigeneration.
Related terms: cross-generational
multicompartmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, multi- + compartment + -al.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: multicellular, multicell, multichamber, multidepartmental, multilocular, multiroom
synonyms: multicompartment#Adjective
coordinate_terms: unicompartmental
bicompartmental
glosses: Having or requiring multiple compartments.
Related terms: multilobar
multilobular
meromictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛɹ.əˈmɪk.tɪk/
Etymology: Scientific neologism (1935), after holomictic. From Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part, portion”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”). By surface analysis, mero- + -mictic.
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having layers of water that do not intermix.
raw_tags: of a lake
Derived terms: meromictic lake
meromixis
Related terms: meromicticity
monomictic
dimictic
amictic
polymictic
monospacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monospace
holomictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”). By surface analysis, holo- + -mictic.
Senses: glosses: Having layers of water that intermix at least once a year.
raw_tags: of a lake
Related terms: monomictic
dimictic
amictic
polymictic
monomictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, single”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”). By surface analysis, mono- + -mictic.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
limnology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having layers of water that intermix only once per year.
raw_tags: of a lake
Coordinate terms: amictic
dimictic
polymictic
Related terms: holomictic
meromictic
monospaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monospace
monospaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: monospace
amictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -mictic.
Senses: glosses: Covered in ice, thus unaffected by air temperature, but still having layers of water that intermix (holomictic).
raw_tags: of a lake
Related terms: monomictic
dimictic
polymictic
holomictic
meromictic
mudfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: mudfishes
form: mudfish
Etymology: From mud + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
All species of Neochanna
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Channa striata (striped snakehead)
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)
glosses: Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Phractolaemus ansorgii
word: African mudfish
english: South American lungfish
translation: South American lungfish
taxonomic: Lepidosiren paradoxa
word: American mudfish
taxonomic: Neochanna diversus
word: black mudfish
taxonomic: Neochanna apoda
word: brown mudfish
taxonomic: Neochanna burrowsius
word: Canterbury mudfish
taxonomic: Neochanna rekohua
word: Chatham mudfish
taxonomic: Channa striata
word: chevron snakehead
taxonomic: Channa striata
word: common snakehead
taxonomic: Neofundulus paragueyensis
word: fundulus mudfish
taxonomic: Channa micropeltes
word: giant mudfish
taxonomic: Neochanna heleios
word: Northland mudfish
taxonomic: Labeo capensis
word: Orange River mudfish
taxonomic: Channa striata
word: snakehead mudfish
taxonomic: Channa striata
word: snakehead murrel
taxonomic: Neochanna cleaveri
word: Tasmanian mudfish
taxonomic: Amia calva
word: western mudfish
microtubules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtubule
microsporidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsporidian
mindsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindset
monoterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoterpene
Malays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈleɪz/
ipa: /məˈleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: malaise
Senses: glosses: plural of Malay
ovariectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: ovariectomies
Etymology: From ovary + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of oophorectomy.
synonyms: word: oophorectomy
Derived terms: ovariectomize
postovariectomy
amygdalohippocampectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amygdalohippocampectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the hippocampus and amygdalae, often used as a treatment for epilepsy.
coccygectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: coccygectomies
Etymology: From coccyx + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the coccyx.
corpectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of part of the vertebral body
Related terms: corpectomize
ganglionectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: ganglionectomies
Etymology: From ganglion + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of a ganglion.
Synonyms: gangliectomy
voice box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice boxes
Senses: glosses: larynx.
glosses: electrolarynx; mechanical larynx; throat back.
glosses: talk box.
metastasectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌtæstəˈsɛktəmi/
rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: metastasectomies
Etymology: From metastasis + -ectomy (“surgical removal of”).
Senses: examples: text: By examining tumor types individually, however, it is seen that certain histologies (adrenocortical carcinoma, alveolar soft part sarcoma, osteosarcoma) mandate surgical metastasectomy for patient survival.
ref: 2006, Mark L. Kayton, “Pulmonary metastasectomy in pediatric patients”, in Thoracic surgery clinics, →DOI:
text: With the potential for long-term survival, the cost-effectiveness of pulmonary metastasectomy is substantial particularly when compared to chemotherapy alone ($14,357 per life-year gained for PM vs. $104,210 for chemotherapy alone.
ref: 2017, Christopher S. Digesu, Ory Wiesel, Ara A. Vaporciyan, Yolonda L. Colson, “Management of Sarcoma Metastases to the Lung”, in Surgical oncology clinics of North America, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the metastases (cancerous growths).
Related terms: metastasis
timesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tmesis.
rhinectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: rhinectomies
Etymology: From rhino- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the nose.
falconine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From falcon + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to falcons or hawks.
glosses: Resembling a falcon
flagellomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin flagellō (“I whip, flog”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A penchant for whipping, or being whipped.
florimania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flori- + -mania.
Senses: synonyms: anthomania
hypernyms: mania
glosses: A passion or penchant for flowers; hyperenthusiasm for flowers.
formicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin formīcīnus.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of ants.
formicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formicines
Etymology: From Latin formīcīnus.
Senses: glosses: Any ant of the subfamily Formicinae or tribe Formicini.
Hypernyms: ant
Hyponyms: carpenter ant
weaver ant
green ant
Related terms: Formicini
fuliguline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to sea ducks.
myoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪˈɒksaɪn/
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to the dormouse.
podslurping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pod slurping.
pod slurping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The illicit copying of data from an unattended personal computer by plugging in a portable storage device
pliosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pliosaurs
Senses: examples: text: Hunting many of the other marine reptiles are the pliosaurs, short-necked and large-headed versions of plesiosaurs who appear to have had a general diet of anything that moved.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138:
glosses: Any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
glosses: Any plesiosaur in the suborder †Pliosauroidea, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
Any plesiosaurs of the family †Pliosauridae.
Derived terms: pliosaurian
plesiosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːsiəsɔːɹ/
Forms: form: plesiosaurs
Etymology: Backformation of translingual Plesiosaurus, named by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche in 1824 because plesiosaurs were more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata a few years earlier. Surface derivation, plesio- + -saur.
Senses: examples: text: "Look!" cried Olson. "Would you look at the giraffe comin' up out o' the bottom of the say?" We looked in the direction he pointed and saw a long, glossy neck surmounted by a small head rising above the surface of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it. It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us. The thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: It is the first time in Australia the head and body of an elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur, has been found in one piece.
ref: 2022 December 6, Rachael Merritt, “Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback Queensland”, in ABC News:
glosses: Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
wikipedia: Henry De la Beche
William Conybeare
fuse box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuse boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fusebox.
make an offer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an offer
form: making an offer
form: made an offer
form: made an offer
Senses: glosses: To bid or propose; to initiate a proposal.
Synonyms: sense: to initiate a proposal
word: offer
come off it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originally a British shortening of "come off the grass!", an older (originally American) phrase. Come off the grass!, which is roughly indicative of the speaker's disbelief, or that the speaker believes that the one being spoken to needs to face reality, is ultimately a play on the oft-seen phrase on signs in places such as public parks: "keep off the grass".
Senses: examples: text: Come off it, mate! You can't be serious.
text: My palace spies have informed my that a certain tacky queen going by the pseudonym "Joey Ganimeed" has been presuming to offer you the 'facts of life' about gay existence (GCN, August 11, 1984). The next time you see him, tell him from me "Come off it, Mary."
ref: 1984 August 18, Gary Ralph, “Meow, Meow”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 5:
text: A feminist? Oh come off it! Why is Netflix idolising a porn star infamous for scenes of violence to women? [title]
ref: 2024 March 6, Philip Oltermann, “A feminist? Oh come off it! Why is Netflix idolising a porn star infamous for scenes of violence to women?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An expression of disbelief.
Synonyms: come on
horsefeathers
pull the other one
bullshit
come off it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes off it
form: coming off it
form: came off it
form: come off it
Etymology: Originally a British shortening of "come off the grass!", an older (originally American) phrase. Come off the grass!, which is roughly indicative of the speaker's disbelief, or that the speaker believes that the one being spoken to needs to face reality, is ultimately a play on the oft-seen phrase on signs in places such as public parks: "keep off the grass".
Senses: examples: text: Oh, come off it with the endless questioning.
text: He has to come off it about his Harry Potter fanfic.
text: What, you’re too good for us? Come off it, sister!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: To stop doing something or stop talking about something.
come along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes along
form: coming along
form: came along
form: come along
Senses: examples: text: I'd like you to come along with me to the opera.
synonyms: come with
glosses: To accompany.
raw_tags: followed by "with"
examples: text: When the telephone first came along, it was mostly just for businesses and rich people, but eventually almost everyone got one.
glosses: To arise, appear (make an appearance), come into being.
examples: text: The renovation is coming along nicely, and should be ready within a month.
synonyms: develop
;
rock along
glosses: To progress; to make progress; to quicken.
Derived terms: word: come-along
word: comealong
come along
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come alongs
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of come-along.
come along
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Come along, dear, there's no point crying over it.
text: Come along, Jane. Please finish your homework.
glosses: Expression of encouragement or mild reproach.
bring to the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to the table
form: bringing to the table
form: brought to the table
form: brought to the table
Senses: examples: text: I don’t have time for a man unless he can bring something big to the table, like a huge amount of money.
ref: 2017 April 1, Ruth Huntman, quoting Chaka Khan, “Chaka Khan: ‘A man needs to bring something big to the table’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To contribute (something) to a joint effort or discussion.
Seifert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seiferts
form: Cyphert
Etymology: Borrowed from German Seifert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
go round in circles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes round in circles
form: going round in circles
form: went round in circles
form: gone round in circles
form: go around in circles
form: go in circles
form: run in circles
Senses: glosses: To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
Related terms: chase one's tail
talk in circles
playing fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playing field
pregraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-graduate
Etymology: From pre- + graduate.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to those studies that take place before a student completes a degree course.
Synonyms: undergraduate
pregraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregraduates
form: pre-graduate
Etymology: From pre- + graduate.
Senses: glosses: A person who is taking an academic course but has not yet graduated.
doodly-squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdu.dəli skwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diddly-squat (“nothing whatsoever”).
lamina propria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A layer of connective tissue under the epithelium of a mucous membrane
administratrixship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From administratrix + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or position of being an administratrix.
acetylneuraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From acetyl + neuraminic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing acetyl derivatives of neuraminic acid
Derived terms: acetylneuraminate
acetylneuraminic acid
Related terms: sialic acid
do you come here often
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A common phrase for initiating conversation with a stranger, especially one for seeking romantic involvement.
Synonyms: do you come here much?
come round these parts often?
actinorhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinorhizas
Etymology: See actino-, rhizo-.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A root nodule formed as a result of a symbiotic relationship between an actinomycete and fine plant roots.
adulticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adulticidal
form: most adulticidal
Etymology: From adulticide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an adulticide
adulticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adulticides
Etymology: From adult + -icide.
Senses: glosses: A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.
Derived terms: adulticidal
adulticide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adulticides
form: adulticiding
form: adulticided
form: adulticided
Etymology: From adult + -icide.
Senses: glosses: To treat with adulticide.
solation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solations
Etymology: From sol + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The liquefaction of a gel to form a sol.
albendazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albendazoles
Senses: glosses: An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms