cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paralytick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralytick
form: most paralytick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paralytic.
paralytick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralyticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paralytic.
paregorick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paregoricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paregoric.
patriotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patriotick
form: most patriotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of patriotic.
patronymick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of patronymic.
patronymick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patronymicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of patronymic.
pedantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedantick
form: most pedantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pedantic.
peristaltick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of peristaltic.
bacchian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacchian
form: most bacchian
Senses: glosses: jovial or drunken
lid-lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lid-lifters
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first game played.
unwilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwilted
form: most unwilted
Etymology: From un- + wilted.
Senses: glosses: Not wilted; alive, (particularly of vegetables) fresh, crisp.
unmashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mashed.
Senses: glosses: Not mashed; whole and intact.
philippick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philippicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of philippic.
phthisick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of phthisic.
phthisick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthisicks
Senses: examples: text: ...her Inhabitants breathe nothing but an impure and thick Mist, accompanied with a fuliginous and filthy vapour, which renders them obnoxious to a thousand inconveniences, corrupting the Lungs, and disordering the entire habit of their Bodies; so that Catharrs, Phthisicks, Coughs and Consumptions, rage more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.
ref: 1661, [John Evelyn] J. E. Esq, Fumifugium; Or, the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed p. 18.
glosses: Obsolete form of phthisic.
acter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tə/
ipa: /ˈæk.tɚ/
homophone: actor
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: acters
Etymology: From act + -er (“person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies”).
Senses: examples: text: a one-acter
text: a two-acter
glosses: A play or film with a particular number of acts.
acter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tə/
ipa: /ˈæk.tɚ/
homophone: actor
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: acters
Etymology: From act + -er (forming agent nouns).
Senses: glosses: An actor, someone who or something which acts.
acters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acter
shouts out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shout out
shouts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shout out
shouting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shout out
shouted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shout out
gabbroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gabbroid
form: most gabbroid
Etymology: From gabbro + -oid.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling gabbro.
bottled water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottled waters
Senses: examples: text: Bottled water can originate from tap water, groundwater, or natural spring water and might be filtered, distilled, deionized, carbonated, or mineralized.
ref: 2005, E. Mackey, J. Davis, L. Boulos, J. Brown, G. Crozes, Consumer Perceptions of Tap Water, Bottled Water, and Filtration Devices, page 1
glosses: Drinking water sold by bottle, either natural or processed by e.g. filtering, carbonation or mineralization.
Related terms: mineral water
soda water
spring water
tisane
tonic water
bottled waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottled water
chief information officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief information officers
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: CITO, CTO, chief technology officer, CISO
synonyms: CIO
hypernyms: CXO
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glosses: An executive who is in charge of the technical affairs of a business, notably as head of the information technology department, typically directly under the chief executive officer and/or the board.
processionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From processional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All riding before the venerable Religious Brethren of the Abbey of Saint Rhemigius, attired in white Aulbes, with the Crosse and Torchlight, singing Processionally, and the two Chauntres cloathed in Coapes, each bearing a Staffe of Siluer.
ref: 1623, André Favyn, translated by Anthony Munday, The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood, or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the Whole Christian World, London, Book 2, Chapter 14, p. 306:
text: She had formed pretty notions, how charmingly it would look to have a penitent of her own making, dangling at her side, to church, thro’ an applauding neighbourhood: And, as their family increased, marching with her thither, at the head of their boys and girls, processionally, as it were, boasting of the fruits of their honest desires, as my good Lord Bishop has it in his Licence.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter I”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: The whole company walked as it were processionally to the end of the apartment, and, after observing in silence the beds on each side, left us.
ref: 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
text: I went up the steps amongst them, the only human thing, for men and women worship no more in Arras Cathedral, and the trees have come instead; little humble things, all less than four years old, in great numbers thronging the steps processionally, and growing in perfect rows just where step meets step.
ref: 1916, Lord Dunsany, Unhappy Far-Off Things:
glosses: In processional fashion; one after the other.
profilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profilins
Etymology: From profilamentous + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton, found in all eukaryotic organisms in most cells.
profilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profilin
prognostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prognostic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The severe forms of this disorder, which may extend over weeks and months, are liable to be confused with progressive deteriorating processes, especially so because those symptoms which were wont to be considered by many as positively unfavorable prognostically, may be found here in very deceptive imitations.
ref: 1916, Bernard Glueck, Studies in Forensic Psychiatry:
text: Some began to whisper that prognostically she'd passed her prime.
ref: 2005 April 8, Michael Miner, “BATgirl Returns; Pioneer's New Frontier”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In prognostic terms.
crossfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossfeeds
form: cross-feed
form: xfeed
Etymology: From cross- + feed.
Senses: qualifier: sound
glosses: The process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronautics
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The supplying of one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or of an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.
crossfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossfeeds
form: crossfeeding
form: crossfed
form: crossfed
form: cross-feed
form: xfeed
Etymology: From cross- + feed.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronautics
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To supply one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.
qualifier: sound
glosses: To blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
examples: text: It is now recognized that crossfeeding does not occur with derivatives of the mouse L-cell line (such as A9) , nor with certain HeLa clones. However, crossfeeding does occur with other heteroploid mouse lines (3T3 and derivatives), hamster BHK-21 cells and derivatives, and diploid human fibroblasts.
ref: 1976, John W. Littlefield, Variation, Senescence, and Neoplasia in Cultured Somatic Cells, →ISBN:
text: How can the results of crossfeeding trials be used to sequence mutant strains of the bacteria Serratia marsescens in the biosynthetic pathway for the production of prodigiosis?
ref: 1985, Martha Robertson Taylor, Changing the meaning of experience:
text: The emergence of crossfeeding interactions has been observed in long- term evolution experiments on E. coli in chemostats with glucose as the limiting resource
ref: 2010, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Statistical and Evolutionary Analysis of Biological Networks, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To coexist on a single limiting resource where one strain or species grows on the primary resource and the second grows on the partially degraded resource excreted by the first.
proofless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proof + -less.
Senses: examples: text: nor did I content my self with the proofless proposal of my Conjecture
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
text: A sneering smile was the only answer for a moment; then,-- "I shall take great pleasure in confounding my enemies should the matter be brought before a court,--I'm sure if the colonel can stand that sort of thing I can,--but as for defending myself or anybody else from utterly unjust and proofless suspicions, it's quite another thing."
ref: 1890, Charles King, From the Ranks:
glosses: Without proof.
prosily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prosily
form: most prosily
Etymology: From prosy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded?
ref: 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:
text: He was earnestly but prosily orating at the audience.
ref: 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
glosses: In a prosy manner.
proslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proslavery
form: most proslavery
Etymology: From pro- + slavery.
Senses: examples: text: By 1835 the excitement was at its height, and especially along the line of the moral and religious argumentation, where the proslavery men met talk with talk.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII:
text: When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor.
ref: 1918, Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration:
text: His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience.
ref: 2012 November 30, Paul Finkelman, “The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello”, in New York Times:
glosses: Supporting slavery.
proslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + slavery.
Senses: examples: text: The old wisdom that southerners rose up in unison in 1831 after a decade of preparation in the tenets of proslavery is patently an erroneous interpretation.
ref: 1990, Larry E. Tise, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840, page 308:
synonyms: proslaveryism
glosses: Support for the institution of slavery.
prosodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus the whole scene is a wilderness of brightness, less radiant but more touching than when processions of men and maidens bearing urns and laurel-branches, crowned with ivy or with myrtle, paced along those sandstone roads, chanting paeans and prosodial hymns, toward the glistening porches and hypaethral cells.
ref: 1910, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to prosody.
prophetship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophetships
Etymology: From prophet + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: To deny Mahomet's prophetship would excite a violent antagonism, and I content myself with making them acknowledge that God is greater than all Prophets or Apostles, and that there is but one God for all the human race.
ref: 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen:
text: As regards the Magians they believed in the prophetship of Zaradasht...
ref: 1918, M. Inostranzev, Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I:
glosses: The property or state of being a prophet.
prophetships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophetship
provinciality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provincialities
Etymology: From provincial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Her father, who was sitting at the piano, his long fingers raised as though about to play, whirled about and cut in quickly with an unintelligible answer, "Your Aunt Victoria refers to non-existent phenomena, my dear, in order to bring home to us the uncouth provinciality in which we live."
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig:
text: Our literary gentleman, at all events, found his task very engaging, though as a cataloguer he was much perplexed by the extraordinary informality, in one respect, of formal public papers, a curious provinciality, as he could but take it to be, of municipalities.
ref: 1918, Robert Cortes Holliday, Walking-Stick Papers:
glosses: The quality of being provincial.
protocontinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocontinents
form: proto-continent
Etymology: From proto- + continent.
Senses: examples: text: There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:
glosses: A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
protocontinents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocontinent
pyrolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrolite
pyrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrolites
Etymology: From pyro- + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A theoretical rock considered to be the best approximation of the composition of Earth's upper mantle, generally considered to be one part tholeiitic basalt and three parts dunite.
Related terms: pyrolitic
tholeiites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tholeiite
tholeiitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tholeiite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: They are built from a different kind of lava, much gummier than that of the free-flowing tholeiitic basalt.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 52:
glosses: Of or pertaining to tholeiite.
pushful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃfʊl/
Forms: form: more pushful
form: most pushful
Etymology: From push + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of a millionaire pork-butcher doing Europe.
ref: 1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy:
text: He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.
ref: 1908, John F. Runciman, Haydn:
text: 'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.
ref: 1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917:
text: Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman […]
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 189:
glosses: Energetic; pushy.
pilgarlick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilgarlicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pilgarlic.
Pindarick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pindarick
form: most Pindarick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pindaric.
Pindarick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pindaricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pindaric.
Platonick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Platonick
form: most Platonick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Platonic.
platonick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more platonick
form: most platonick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of platonic.
pleuritick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleuritick
form: most pleuritick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pleuritic.
pneumaticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pneumatics.
pneumatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pneumatic.
polemick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: more polemick
form: most polemick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of polemic.
polemick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: polemicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of polemic.
politicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of politics.
politicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of politick
posteriour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more posteriour
form: most posteriour
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of posterior.
Derived terms: posteriourly
posteriour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posteriours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of posterior.
prismatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prismatick
form: most prismatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prismatic.
prophetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prophetick
form: most prophetick
Senses: examples: text: […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]
ref: 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities, page 192:
glosses: Obsolete form of prophetic.
quadratick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadratic.
quadratick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadraticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadratic.
maneuvrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maneuvrable
form: most maneuvrable
Etymology: From maneuvre + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maneuverable.
rhombick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rhombic.
Romantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romantick
form: most Romantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Romantic.
romantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romantick
form: most romantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of romantic.
romantick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of romantic.
betterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betterish
form: most betterish
Etymology: From better + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat better; of somewhat superior sort.
betterhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From better + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being better; superiority.
Synonyms: bettership
betwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betwines
form: betwining
form: betwined
form: betwined
Etymology: From be- + twine.
Senses: glosses: To twine together; entwine.
betweenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From between + -hood. Compare German Zwischenheit (“betweenness”).
Senses: examples: text: Mörike, writes one scholar, is situated historically in a state of Zwischenheit, or “betweenhood”; [...]
ref: 2000, Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf and his Mörike songs:
glosses: The state or condition of being between or in-between; intermediate condition; betweenness.
examples: text: This fence, this gap, this indeterminate betweenhood, is the discursive condition of semiotics, as the semiotic is the condition of all conversation.
ref: 2004, Anne Freadman, The machinery of talk: Charles Peirce and the sign hypothesis:
glosses: That which is between or in-between; anything intermediate.
atwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atwinds
form: atwinding
form: atwound
form: atwound
Etymology: From Middle English ætwinden, ætwenden, from Old English ætwindan (“to escape, wind off, turn away, flee”), equivalent to at- + wind.
Senses: glosses: To escape.
Related terms: betwynde
Space Launch System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
transport
glosses: A Shuttle-derived heavy launch vehicle being designed by NASA to replace the Space Shuttle.
Synonyms: SLS
hyperglycæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hyperglycemia.
hypoglycæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hypoglycemia.
appear'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appear
hypoglycæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoglycæmic
form: most hypoglycæmic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hypoglycemic.
hyperglycæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperglycæmic
form: most hyperglycæmic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hyperglycemic.
clear'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clear
scanlates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scanlate
scanlating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scanlate
scanlated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of scanlate
scanlations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanlation
hypermasculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermasculinities
Etymology: From hyper- + masculinity.
Senses: examples: text: These images glamourized and normalized violent standards of hypermasculinity
ref: 1999, Varda Burstyn, The rites of men: manhood, politics, and the culture of sport, page 192
glosses: exaggerated masculine behavior or traits, especially strength and those of a violent, dominant, or sexual nature
gaydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gay + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, "gaydom" was rapidly becoming "lesbian and gaydom.
ref: 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 56
text: 2000, Larry Kramer, Reynolds Price, Faggots
Tonight was an opening that would be covered by Women's Wear and filled with slummers and celebrities and socialites, now that gaydom in this city is so chic.
text: I was supposed to come out on a white horse in the name of gaydom.
ref: 2006, The advocate: Issues 970-977
text: “I thought I'd video your journey into gaydom,” Vanessa told him with a smirk. “
ref: 2007, Cecily von Ziegesar, Don't You Forget About Me:
glosses: The collective gay experience, community, and culture.
fandubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fandub
fandubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fandubbings
Etymology: From fandub + -ing.
Senses: glosses: fandub
fandubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fandub + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fandub
fandubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fandubbers
Etymology: From fandub + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who fandubs, a person that produces fandubbings
Coordinate terms: scanlator
Related terms: fandub
fanslation
fansub
fansubber
fandubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fandubbing
half birthday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half birthdays
form: half-birthday
Etymology: From half + birthday.
Senses: examples: text: You can sing "Happy Half Birthday to You!" or you could try only singing every other word.
ref: 2003, Meg Cox, The Book of New Family Traditions, page 263
text: The fete was Mary Beth's half-birthday.
ref: 2004, Ginnie Mesibov, Outer Strength, Inner Strength, page 39
text: “Your halfbirthday?” I pointed to the plate.
ref: 2009, Philip Done, Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood
text: After all, a half-birthday celebration for an adult is OUTRAGEOUS in itself.
ref: 2009, Bill Glazer, Dan Kennedy, Outrageous Advertising That's Outrageously Successful, page 257:
glosses: The day halfway in between two consecutive birthdays.
half-birthday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-birthdays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half birthday.
half birthdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half birthday
half-birthdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-birthday
medicotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, both medicine and technology.
plastic bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastic bag
Apollo's belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apollo's belt
butt buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt buddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buttbuddy.
butt buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt buddy
shear wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear walls
Etymology: From shear + wall.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of shearwall.
voltes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volte
involucrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin involūcrum (“wrapper, covering”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: In binding the protein loricrin, involucrin contributes to the formation of a cell envelope that protects corneocytes in the skin.
glosses: A protein component of human skin.
arrestant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrestants
Senses: glosses: Any substance that halts insect development, as used in pesticides.
explosive decompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explosive decompressions
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue.
deep freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep freezes
form: deep-freeze
form: deepfreeze
Etymology: From deep + freeze. Second sense appears c. 1851 in the publication Prairie Farmer.
Senses: glosses: A chest freezer.
glosses: A time period of very cold weather, in which the temperatures are below freezing.
angstrom units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angstrom unit
heavy-lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heavy lifting.
affine combination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affine combinations
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear combination (of vectors in Euclidean space) in which the coefficients all add up to one.
Hypernyms: linear combination
Hyponyms: convex combination
NPOESS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
NPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of NPOESS Preparatory Project.
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of National People's Party (India).
NPP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: NPPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of nuclear power plant.
Related terms: NPOESS
aluminium shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminium showers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aluminum shower.
boss key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boss keys
Senses: examples: text: When the directors came out of their meeting, I hit the boss key to replace my game with a fake spreadsheet screen.
text: To obtain the boss key in Leisure Suit Larry games, press <Ctrl><B>. This is also displayed in the “Special” menu. However, use the boss key with caution. First of all, your boss must be really naive if he believes that this display is part of your normal work and secondly, you must be prepared to lose your current score after you press the boss key.
ref: 1990, Michael Mueller, Martin Schuchardt, The Leisure Suit Larry Story, Abacus, →ISBN, page 19:
text: For one, the original Tetris game I remember came with a "boss key," a special command built into the game's menu. When the player presses the boss key, the game pauses and draws a noninteractive spreadsheet program onto the screen.
ref: 2006, Ian Bogost, Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, MIT Press, →ISBN:
text: You can use screen savers to create a Super Boss Key—a key combination, such as Alt+F10, that you can press to make the PC immediately switch over to running the screen saver.
ref: 2009, Woody Leonhard, Windows 7 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 240:
topics: video-games
synonyms: boss button
panic button
glosses: A key which, when pressed, hides a program from view by a superior in the workplace.
thorough-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thoroughgoing.
sheriffhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English shirrevehod, sherefhode, equivalent to sheriff + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The office of sheriff.
Related terms: sheriffdom
sheriffship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheriffships
Etymology: From sheriff + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
Related terms: sheriffdom
sheriffhood
rubrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rubric.
saick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of saic.
sarcastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcastick
form: most sarcastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sarcastic.
Satanick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Satanick
form: most Satanick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Satanic.
satirick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satirick
form: most satirick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of satiric.
scenick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scenick
form: most scenick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scenic.
schismatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schismatick
form: most schismatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of schismatic.
schismatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schismaticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of schismatic.
septick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septick
form: most septick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of septic.
soporifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soporifick
form: most soporifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soporific.
soporifick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soporificks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soporific.
spermatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spermatick
form: most spermatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spermatic.
spherick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spherick
form: most spherick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spheric.
splenetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splenetick
form: most splenetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of splenetic.
statisticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statisticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of statistics.
dipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dip
Derived terms: undipt
styptick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more styptick
form: most styptick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of styptic.
styptick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stypticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of styptic.
Stoick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stoick
form: most Stoick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stoic.
Stoick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stoicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stoic.
stomachick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachick
form: most stomachick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stomachic.
decision height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision heights
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The height at which a pilot performing a precision approach must decide whether to land on the runway or to perform a go-around maneuver.
Coordinate terms: minimum descent altitude
cytolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cytolyzes
form: cytolyzing
form: cytolyzed
form: cytolyzed
form: cytolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo, cytolysis.
frontolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frontolyzes
form: frontolyzing
form: frontolyzed
form: frontolyzed
form: frontolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo frontolysis
glycolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glycolyzes
form: glycolyzing
form: glycolyzed
form: glycolyzed
form: glycolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo glycolysis
Derived terms: glycolyzable
heterolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterolyzes
form: heterolyzing
form: heterolyzed
form: heterolyzed
form: heterolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo heterolysis
histolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: histolyzes
form: histolyzing
form: histolyzed
form: histolyzed
form: histolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo histolysis
lipolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipolyzes
form: lipolyzing
form: lipolyzed
form: lipolyzed
form: lipolyse
Senses: examples: text: Evidently, while the venom lipolyzes in a solution of this alkalinity, it is more active in less alkaline ones.
ref: 1913, Leo Loeb, The venom of Heloderma, page 243:
glosses: To cause or to undergo lipolysis.
plasmolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plasmolyzes
form: plasmolyzing
form: plasmolyzed
form: plasmolyzed
form: plasmolyse
Senses: glosses: To cause or to undergo plasmolysis.
Derived terms: plasmolyzer
protolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protolyzes
form: protolyzing
form: protolyzed
form: protolyzed
form: protolyse
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause, or to undergo protolysis
thermolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermolyzes
form: thermolyzing
form: thermolyzed
form: thermolyzed
form: thermolyse
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause, or to undergo thermolysis
sincipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnsĭʹpĭtəl
ipa: /sɪnˈsɪpɪtəl/
Forms: form: syncipital
Etymology: First attested in 1653; formed as the Latin sinciput (stem: sincipit-) + the English -al on the pattern of a Latin etymon of the form sincipitālis, which is first attested later (in 1757); compare the French sincipital (first attested in 1812).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the sinciput.
straight red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight reds
Senses: examples: text: With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A straight red card.
danger zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danger zones
Senses: examples: text: She has danced into the danger zone / When the dancer becomes the dance
ref: 1983, Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky, “Maniac”:
text: The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines.
glosses: The range of temperatures within which bacteria are likely to grow in food.
examples: text: They say I better get a chaperone / Because I can't stop messing with the danger zone
ref: 1984, Cyndi Lauper, “She Bop”, in She's So Unusual:
glosses: The genitals.
cursour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cursours
Senses: examples: text: Now lerges of my Lord Bothwell, The quilk infredome dois excell; He gaif to me a cursour gray, Worth all this sort that I with mell, For lerges of this new-yeir day.
ref: 1770, George Bannatyne, Sir David Dalrymple, Ancient Scottish Poems, page 192:
text: In one bloody foray the M'Gregors slew forty of Sir Duncan's brood mares in the Cosche of Glenurchy, and at the same time a blood horse,—“ ane fair cursour sent to him from the Prince out of London.
ref: 1855, Cosmo Innes, The Black Book of Taymouth:
text: A fey man and a cursour fearna the deil.
ref: 1870, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with notes:
glosses: Courser.
betwynde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betwyndes
form: betwynding
form: betwound
form: betwound
Etymology: From be- + atwind.
Senses: glosses: To escape.
bad trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad trips
Etymology: From bad + trip, first use appears c. 1966 in the periodical Life.
Senses: qualifier: drug use
glosses: An acute adverse psychological reaction to effects produced under the influence of psychoactive substances, namely hallucinogens.
wikipedia: Life (magazine)
Synonyms: psychedelic crisis
bummer
beveil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beveils
form: beveiling
form: beveiled
form: beveiled
Etymology: From be- + veil.
Senses: glosses: To cover or furnish with a veil.
beveiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beveiled
form: most beveiled
Etymology: From beveil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered or furnished with a veil.
beveiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beveil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beveil
psychedelic crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychedelic crises
Senses: glosses: A bad trip
psychedelic crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychedelic crisis
bad trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad trip
bittock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bittocks
Etymology: From bit + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle English bitlok (“bittock”).
Senses: examples: text: Then I cut the flesh into bittocks And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say.
ref: 2008, Sir Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 Volumes:
glosses: A little bit; a small piece.
glosses: A short distance.
examples: text: Tell her the bairns will be home in a bittock.
ref: 1934, ArthurRansome, Coot Club:
glosses: A brief duration.
desk pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk pilots
Senses: examples: text: Ever since Sgt. Armstrong got too fat to pass his PT tests, he got promoted to desk pilot.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A serviceman relegated to menial deskwork, often due to poor physical and mental abilities.
desk pilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desk pilot
long screwdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long screwdrivers
Senses: examples: text: The telegraph, telephone, and then radio made it easier for governments to intervene in the conduct of military operations, inserting that 'long screwdriver' so resented by modern commanders.
ref: 2009, Richard Holmes, Churchill's Bunker: The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London, Yale University Press:
glosses: Interference (usually in military matters) by politicians.
slamdunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slamdunks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slam dunk.
slamdunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slamdunks
form: slamdunking
form: slamdunked
form: slamdunked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slam dunk.
slamdunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slamdunk
waify
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waify
form: most waify
Etymology: From waif + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She has a very waify frame.
glosses: Characteristic of a waif; thin; waifish.
danger zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danger zone
wretchock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wretchocks
Etymology: From wretch + -ock (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.
Related terms: wretchcock
ballock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bollock.
Derived terms: bollockhead
Manifest Destiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of manifest destiny.
Qur'ân
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qur’an.
cursin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cursing.
cussin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: * cuss (American English dialect pronunciation of curse) + -in'
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cussing.
burstin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bursting.
bustin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of busting.
agreein'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of agreeing.
fishin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Informal form of fishing.
fishin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Informal form of fishing.
fishin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fishing.
disagreein'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of disagreeing.
plantin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of planting.
zincographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincographists
Etymology: From zincography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A zincographer.
lithographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithographists
Etymology: From lithography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A lithographer.
achiev'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of achieved.
shrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shright
zackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zackly
form: most zackly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exactly.
zackly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'zackly.
unbold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbolds
form: unbolding
form: unbolded
form: unbolded
Etymology: From Middle English unbolde, unbald, from Old English unbeald (“unbold, unconfident, irresolute”), from Proto-Germanic *unbalþaz (“unbold”), equivalent to un- + bold. Cognate with Old High German unbald (“discouraged”).
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To change (text) from a bold typeface to a non-bolded typeface.
unbold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbold
form: most unbold
Etymology: From Middle English unbolde, unbald, from Old English unbeald (“unbold, unconfident, irresolute”), from Proto-Germanic *unbalþaz (“unbold”), equivalent to un- + bold. Cognate with Old High German unbald (“discouraged”).
Senses: glosses: Not bold; timid.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Not bold.
Derived terms: unboldly
wode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: woder
form: wodest
form: wood
Etymology: From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).
Senses: examples: text: My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.
ref: a'''. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
glosses: Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
Derived terms: wax wode
wode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See woad.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of woad.
unbolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbold
ADRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADR
Sirte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːrt/
Forms: form: Sirt
form: Surt
form: Sert
form: Syrte
Etymology: From Italian Sirte under influence from French Syrte, from Arabic سِرْت (Sirt) and Latin Syrtis, from Ancient Greek Σύρτις (Súrtis, “Sirte, Gulf of Sidra, Gulf of Gabes”), of uncertain origin but possibly derived from συρτός (surtós, “swept, dragged along”) from σῡ́ρειν (sū́rein, “to drag along”) in reference to the proverbially treacherous effect of the wind and waves on the area's quicksand. Doublet of syrtis.
Senses: glosses: A port city in Libya.
Synonyms: word: Macomedes
word: Euphranta
word: Syrtis
word: Marsat al-Zāfran
word: Qasr al-Zāfran
word: Qasr Sert