cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Giffen good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Giffen goods
Etymology: Named after Scottish economist Robert Giffen (1837–1910), who was attributed as the author of this idea by Alfred Marshall in his book Principles of Economics.
Senses: examples: text: To qualify as a Giffen good, a good must be inferior and must have an income effect strong enough to overcome the substitution effect. The example often cited of a possible Giffen good is the potato during the Irish famine of 1845–1849.
ref: 2008, Libby Rittenberg, Principles of Microeconomics, Flat World Knowledge, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Economists no longer believe that potatoes were Giffen goods during the great famine, so the quest for the “exceptional case” has continued. […] Last year the economist Garth Heutel published evidence that theme park rides could be Giffen goods.
ref: 2025 May 3, Tim Harford, “Paying more for less”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A postulated inferior good which people consume more of as only the price rises. It has a positive price elasticity of demand.
wikipedia: Principles of Economics (Marshall book)
Related terms: potato paradox
Veblen good
intemperateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intemperate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She objected to Beauchamp's intemperateness and unsparingness, as if she was for conveying a sisterly warning to Cecilia; and that being off her mind, she added, smiling a little and colouring a little: 'We learn only from men what men are.'
ref: 1897, George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career, Complete:
text: Besides the intemperateness of the demand," went on the Dominican, "besides the fact that it is in the nature of an infringement on our prerogatives--" Padre Sibyla dared not go on, but looked at Simoun. "
ref: 1912, Jose Rizal, The Reign of Greed:
glosses: The quality of being intemperate.
Veblen good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Veblen goods
Etymology: Named after economist Thorstein Veblen, who first pointed out the concepts of conspicuous consumption and status-seeking.
Senses: glosses: A good for which people's preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price, as greater price confers greater status.
Related terms: Veblen effect
positional good
Giffen good
status symbol
inspectress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspectresses
Etymology: From inspector + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: If, after due warning, our light-minded friends will write to us in terms that mislike that excellent and punctilious inspectress, they must aby it in the cold looks and bitter innuendoes which will be their portion when they come to us in the next hunting season.
ref: 1859, George A. Lawrence, Sword and Gown:
text: They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens?
ref: 1906, George A. Birmingham, Hyacinth:
glosses: A female inspector.
Synonyms: inspectrix
inspectresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspectress
insularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insularisms
Etymology: From insular + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: So many voices of so various countries cannot be simply set aside: unless we wrap ourselves in an insolent insularism, we are bound at least to ask what is the meaning of their concurrent testimony.
ref: 1880, John Nichol, Byron:
glosses: Insular (withdrawn) behavior.
Synonyms: narrow-mindedness
joyfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joyfull
form: most joyfull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of joyful.
hatefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatefull
form: most hatefull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hateful.
innutritive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innutritive
form: most innutritive
Etymology: From in- + nutritive.
Senses: examples: text: Others indulge themselves in perpetual reverie. They walk alone in the cloister,—in the garden. They feed themselves with the poison of delicious, innutritive illusion.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 302:
text: The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.
ref: 1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
text: In a cow, subsisting on so innutritive a food as grass, we see that the immense quantity required necessitates an enormous digestive system; that the limbs, small in comparison with the body, are burdened by its weight; that in carrying about this heavy body and digesting this excessive quantity of food, much force is expended; and that, having but little remaining, the creature is sluggish.
ref: 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
glosses: Lacking in nutrition.
interministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + ministerial.
Senses: examples: text: The increase followed a rise in science's political prominence: Last year, the prime minister himself took charge of an interministerial commission that oversees science policy and funding, and the government has also created a new Office of Science and Technology to bolster policy. "
ref: 1998 March 20, Nigel Williams, “SPAIN: Funding Outlook Improves, But Job Crisis Remains”, in Science, volume 279, number 5358, →DOI, pages 1844–1845:
text: Gaining access to such maps means navigating through an interministerial bureaucratic procedure with at least 15 stages of negotiations.
ref: 1999 July 30, Pallava Bagla, “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION:Indian Scientists Question Government Grip on Data”, in Science, volume 285, number 5428, →DOI:
glosses: Between ministers.
examples: text: "Inter-Ministerial" Conference on the 30th of September 2013 Palais d’Egmont-Brussels.
ref: 2013 September 30, “Inter-Ministerial Conference on the 30th of September 2013 Palais d’Egmont-Brussels”, in Science:
glosses: Between ministries.
interminability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At times, its interminability recalls "Clarissa Harlowe," but it possesses the traits' which were to mark the coming school of novel-writing in France and hence in the modern world[…]
ref: 1750, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:
text: He lay in a semi-torpor, whose most vivid consciousness was that of mental discomfort and the interminability of time.
ref: 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
glosses: endlessness
phancifull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phancifull
form: most phancifull
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of fanciful.
inkshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ink + bloodshed.
Senses: examples: text: By our electioneerings and Hansard Debatings, and ever-enduring tempest of jargon that goes on everywhere, we manage to settle that; to have it declared, with no bloodshed except insignificant blood from the nose in hustings-time, but with immense beershed and inkshed and explosion of nonsense, which darkens all the air, that the Right Honorable Zero is to be the man.
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:
text: Europeans can hardly understand this truly anomalous phase of our American institutions; they do not understand that it is characteristic that 'we speak daggers but use none'; that we fight with ballots and not with bullets; that we have abundance of inkshed and little bloodshed, and that all that is explosive is blown off through newspaper safety-valves."
ref: 1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals:
text: He smiled gravely as he thought of the inkshed that would come to pass in a combat a l'outrance between the Three Dimensionists and the Four Dimensionists, and how the distinguished scientists on each side would hurl their ponderous thunderbolts of wisdom against each other.
ref: 1976, George Griffith, The Mummy and Miss Nitocris:
glosses: The writing of polemical letters or articles.
intermontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + montane.
Senses: examples: text: The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps.
ref: 1915, Albert Gardner Robinson, Cuba, Old and New:
text: Later, the discoveries of rich "pocket" deposits in the Red Butte district lifted the intermontane hill country temporarily to the high plane of a bonanza field.
ref: 1916, Francis Lynde, The Taming of Red Butte Western:
text: Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step.
ref: 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677:
glosses: Between mountains.
inexecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + execution.
Senses: examples: text: His inexecution of orders baffled that effort.
ref: 1803, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
text: Very early after the arrival of a British minister here mutual explanations on the inexecution of the treaty of peace were entered into with that minister.
ref: 1897, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents:
text: Legislatures, always cautious of attempting to force trade from its own channels and habits, should certainly be peculiarly cautious, when they do undertake such business, to set about it with temperance and coolness; but in this debate, we are told of the inexecution of a former treaty, withholding western posts, insults and dominations of a haughty people, that through the agency of Great Britain the savages are upon us on one side, and the Algerines on the other.
ref: 1926, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5):
glosses: Failure to execute or carry out.
injuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: injuriousnesses
Etymology: From injurious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Congress entertained an opinion of its injuriousness to the character of the Indians, and passed laws excluding it.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
text: It is clear that some form of selection must always co-operate in degeneration, such as economy of growth, which he hardly notices except as a possible but not a necessary factor, or actual injuriousness.
ref: 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2):
glosses: The quality of being injurious.
injust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more injust
form: most injust
Etymology: From Middle English injuste, from Old French injuste; equivalent to in- + just.
Senses: examples: text: And this also is as really true as the praecendent Narration (which the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye) that the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries, violent Torments, and injust Butcheries.
ref: 1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
text: And to declair thame selvis to be the generatioun of Sathan, who, from the begynnyng, hath bein ennemy to the treuth, and he that desyrith the same to be hyd frome the knowledge of men, thei putt a ball of brass in his mouth, to the end that he should nott geve confessioun of his fayth to the people, neyther yit that thei should understand the defence which he had against thair injust accusatioun and condemnatioun.
ref: 1895, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6):
glosses: Unjust, unfair.
Related terms: injustly
injustice
casuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more casuall
form: most casuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of casual.
inexplainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexplainable
form: most inexplainable
Etymology: From in- + explainable.
Senses: examples: text: The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand.
ref: 1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.:
text: […]kneeling down before my dead betrothed, I kissed her cold white hand with sincere compunction, before attempting the garbled and probably totally incoherent story with which I endeavoured to explain the inexplainable situation.
ref: 1910, Anna Katharine Green, The House of the Whispering Pines:
glosses: That cannot be explained.
inexhausted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + exhausted.
Senses: examples: text: That all-forgiving king, / The type of Him above, / That inexhausted spring / Of clemency and love
ref: 1685, John Dryden, To the Memory of King Charles II:
text: The forms of polity, the springs of power, / Exploring still with inexhausted zeal
ref: 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
glosses: Not exhausted.
Derived terms: inexhaustedly
inexcitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexcitable
form: most inexcitable
Etymology: From in- + excitable.
Senses: examples: text: Even the inexcitable old doctor had felt the attraction which had already conquered three such dissimilar people as Alban Morris, Cecilia Wyvil, and Francine de Sor. He was thinking of Emily.
ref: 1884, Wilkie Collins, I Say No:
glosses: Not excitable.
enjury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enjuries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of injury.
indetectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indetectable
form: most indetectable
Etymology: From in- + detectable.
Senses: examples: text: Being off kilter is crucial to detecting frame dragging: Within the plane, dragging would produce only indetectable changes in the disk's speed.
ref: 1997 November 7, James Glanz, “ASTROPHYSICS: X-rays Hint at Space Pirouette”, in Science, volume 278, number 5340, →DOI, pages 1012–1013:
text: We first isolated the 12-kD swC99 band, which is nearly indetectable in cells transfected with vector alone (Fig. 5 G).
ref: 1999 October 22, Robert Vassar et al., “{Beta}-Secretase Cleavage of Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein by the Transmembrane Aspartic Protease BACE”, in Science, volume 286, number 5440, →DOI, pages 735–741:
glosses: Not detectable.
Synonyms: undetectable
incohesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incohesive
form: most incohesive
Etymology: From in- + cohesive.
Senses: examples: text: It is a faithful picture of the internal state of the French nation in the fourteenth century; a nation in labor of formation, a nation whose elements, as yet scattered and incohesive, though under one and the same name, were fermenting each in its own quarter and independently of the rest, with a tendency to mutual coalescence in a powerful unity, but, as yet, far from succeeding in it.
ref: 1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
text: One of the difficulties, therefore, which capital has to meet, by the aid of such administrative ability as it can command, is how to keep order when society no longer rests on the cohesive family, but on highly volatilized individuals as incohesive as grains of sand.
ref: 1913, Brooks Adams, The Theory of Social Revolutions:
glosses: Not cohesive.
impressionistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impressionistically
form: most impressionistically
Etymology: From impressionistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: I make no claim to understanding it, I treat it merely impressionistically.
ref: 1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe:
text: Bertha's description of her as having flat red hair, a receding chin and long ear-rings was impressionistically accurate.
ref: 1914, Ada Leverson, Bird of Paradise:
text: Separation Sunday and The Sunset Tree both work because their story cycles are composed not with conventional conflict-and-resolution plot mechanics but of emotional snapshots that work together impressionistically.
ref: 2005 May 27, Keith Harris, “Wish That I Knew What I Know Now”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In an impressionistic manner.
uggos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uggo
imperishability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In what manner can this concession be made an argument for its imperishability?
ref: 1891, Shelley, Adonais:
text: What, now, could it be that might give solid foundation to this challenge and to this belief of the noble in the eternity and the imperishability of his work?
ref: 1914, Various, The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries=:
glosses: The quality of being imperishable.
impenetrableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impenetrable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I need not add, that to a mind of elegance and sensibility, the emblematical allusion which this dress would carry to the secrecy and impenetrableness of the person that wears it, must be the source of a delightful and exquisite sensation.
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: The stars, the night, the dark blue of heaven hid the secret in their impenetrableness.
ref: 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat:
glosses: The quality of being impenetrable.
immovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immovable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That resemblance to an immense wave taking the precipice at one bound, bearing trees on its breast, fringed with the bushes, and winding out the long ivy sprays, which exhibit in their delicate tracery the form of the rigid glassy billow; that mere semblance of movement amidst the stillness and immovableness of death, and the presence of those two speechless creatures pursuing their ghastly work with automatic precision, added to the terror with which I already trembled.
ref: 1876, Emile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, The Man-Wolf and Other Tales:
text: A gentle, easy movement, as regular as that by which a vessel plunges beneath the waves, had succeeded to the immovableness of the bed.
ref: 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne:
glosses: The quality of being immovable.
invigorator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invigorators
Etymology: From invigorate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Hail, blessed pipe! the invigorator of the weary, the uncomplaining faithful friend, the consoler of sorrows, and the dispeller of care, the much-prized companion of the solitary wayfarer!
ref: 1878, James Inglis, Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier:
text: There were further details which seemed negligible to the philanthropist, because the pictured hero of the invigorator already suggested Judge Penniman, the ever-ailing father of Winona.
ref: 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:
glosses: One who, or that which, invigorates.
invigorators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invigorator
irresistibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irresistible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Once Rome, fully conscious of the irresistibleness of her power by land, had transferred her superiority also to the other element; now the mighty state was powerless at sea and, as it seemed, on the point of also losing its dominion at least over the Asiatic continent.
ref: 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:
text: If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him.
ref: 1897, Lilian Bell, From a Girl's Point of View:
glosses: The quality of being irresistible.
irrestrainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrestrainable
form: most irrestrainable
Etymology: From ir- + restrainable.
Senses: examples: text: Direr still, hideous clamor of masked cannon, right in their very faces, added the horror of surprise to the disorder of attack, and the thick blue lines broke in irrestrainable confusion.
ref: 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
text: Madame d'Houdetot for the next three or four months, which were among the most bitter in Rousseau's life, for then the bitterness which became chronic was new and therefore harder to be borne, wrote him the wisest, most affectionate, and most considerate letters that a sincere and sensible woman ever wrote to the most petulant, suspicious, perverse, and irrestrainable of men.
ref: 1905, John Morley, Rousseau:
text: We appreciate that this may not be the expression of an irrestrainable vanity, or obsessing greed, realising that very probably his professional insight into human character informs him that the subject of the sales of books is the range of the book clerk's mind.
ref: 1918, Robert Cortes Holliday, Walking-Stick Papers:
glosses: That cannot be restrained.
irrepealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrepealable
form: most irrepealable
Etymology: From ir- + repealable.
Senses: examples: text: Is the impious edict irrepealable?
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:
text: It was anticipated in the writer's work on constitutional law ("Federal and State Constitutions," p. 186, note 8): "The enabling acts admitting the eight new Western States usually provided against polygamy on account of the Mormon influence, and this, with other provisions concerning schools, etc., was made forever irrepealable without the consent of the United States; see Utah 3, 1.
ref: 1911, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Popular Law-making:
glosses: That cannot be repealed.
Derived terms: irrepealably
irreflective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreflective
form: most irreflective
Etymology: From ir- + reflective.
Senses: examples: text: He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.
ref: 1899, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3:
text: And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.
ref: 1911, Guglielmo Ferrero, The Women of the Caesars:
glosses: Without mental reflection.
Derived terms: irreflectiveness
cheery-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: cheerie-bye
Senses: glosses: Goodbye.
Related terms: cheerio
cheers
baseplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseplates
Etymology: From base + plate.
Senses: glosses: A solid piece of material that has enough strength and sturdiness to serve as the surface to which other things are attached to be supported.
examples: text: Baseplates are inserted between rail and sleeper to measure the dynamic loads which are being imposed; […].
ref: 1964 July, “Prince Philip opens the new BR Research Laboratories at Derby”, in Modern Railways, page 24:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of tie plate.
synonyms: word: tie plate
baseplate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baseplates
form: baseplating
form: baseplated
form: baseplated
Etymology: From base + plate.
Senses: glosses: To fit with a baseplate.
qualifier: logistics
glosses: To provide (the vehicles within a fleet) with license plates registered as a batch in a particular state.
baseplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseplate
basepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseperson
beauty product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty products
Senses: glosses: An item of cosmetics; a material or device for the purpose of enhancing physical attractiveness.
beauty products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty product
bedhop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedhops
form: bedhopping
form: bedhopped
form: bedhopped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bed-hop.
bed-hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-hoppers
Etymology: From bed-hop + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of bed-hop: one who bed-hops; a person who is promiscuous or has multiple sexual partners.
bed-hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-hopper
bedhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedhoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bed-hopper.
bedhoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedhopper (alternative spelling of bed-hoppers).
bed-hops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bed-hop
bedhops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedhop
bed-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bed-hop
bedhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedhop
bed-hopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bed-hop
bedhopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedhop
spokesbear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesbears
Etymology: Blend of spokesman + bear
Senses: examples: text: Teddy was remarkably successful in helping Roosevelt win reelection, and since that time many different companies have asked him to be their spokesbear.
ref: 1991, Ted Menten, Joy of Teddy Bears:
text: Not long ago, most people associated the Forest Service with its benevolent spokesbear, Smokey.
ref: 1994 June, “Can this Man Save Our Forests?”, in Popular Science, volume 244, number 6, page 81:
text: The spokesbear for the government answered questions for the remainder of the conference.
ref: 2002, Wes Platt, Otherspace: The 2001 Yearbook, page 531:
glosses: A bear mascot who gives speeches or advice.
Related terms: spokescat
spokesdog
antifire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: But the issue of fire prevention at home remained salient through the end of the war, when the Advertising Council—responsible for Flagg's poster and other antifire propaganda of the war years—created the image of Smokey Bear[…]
ref: 1996, Frieda Knobloch, The culture of wilderness, page 42:
glosses: Opposing or countering fire.
toxicoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxicosis
bench warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench warmers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bench-warmer.
bench warmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bench warmer (alternative spelling of bench-warmers).
bench-warmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bench-warmer
bloodborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blood + borne.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: airborne
glosses: Usually of a pathogen: carried in the bloodstream and other body fluids.
bottle-nosed dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle-nosed dolphins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphin.
bottle-nosed dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle-nosed dolphin (alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphins).
nonelectrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + electrostatic.
Senses: glosses: Not electrostatic.
branch office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branch offices
Senses: glosses: A business office that is geographically separate from the headquarters of the business.
Related terms: franchise
branch offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branch office
codirectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From codirectional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ABCD is a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle; four forces act codirectionally with AB, BC, AD, DC, and are inversely proportional to these lines respectively; prove that their resultant is codirectional with the line joining the intersection of the tangents to the circle at B and D.
ref: 1877, The report of the President of Queen's College, Galway for the session 1876-76:
text: A third principal approach for a wide tuning is the application of a codirectionally coupled two-mode twin-waveguide laser structure.
ref: 2002, Olivério D.D. Soares, Trends in Optical Fibre Metrology and Standards, page 232:
text: Only codirectionally pumped fibers have been considered, pumping at 1017 nm.
ref: 2012, Roberto Sabella, High Speed Optical Communications, page 101:
glosses: In a codirectional manner.
colingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From co- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Speaking or sharing the same language.
bookrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkˌɹæk/
Forms: form: bookracks
Etymology: From book + rack.
Senses: glosses: A rack for books; a bookshelf.
bookracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookrack
book fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book fairs
Senses: glosses: A public event at which books are sold, often featuring appearances by authors.
book fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book fair
bottlenosed dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlenosed dolphins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphin.
bottle-nose dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle-nose dolphins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphin.
bottlenosed dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottlenosed dolphin (alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphins).
bottle-nose dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle-nose dolphin (alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphins).
bottlenosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bottlenosed
form: most bottlenosed
Etymology: From bottle + nosed.
Senses: glosses: Having a rounded prominent head, with a short snout, like the bottlenose whale.
glosses: Having a long, round nose, reminiscent of the shape of a bottle.
Derived terms: bottlenosed dolphin
book smart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: book smarter
form: book smartest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of book-smart.
book-smart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: book-smarter
form: book-smartest
Senses: examples: text: I am book-smarter than he.
coordinate_terms: street-smart
glosses: Having knowledge obtained by reading and studying, rather than by practical experience.
Related terms: book-learning
æternall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æternall
form: most æternall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eternal.
benefactour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of benefactor.
œconomicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more œconomicall
form: most œconomicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of economical.
disposall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disposal.
cancells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cancell
conditionall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of conditional.
E minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key e\minor e'fis'g'a'b'cde2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of E
pœnall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penal.
book-keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bookkeeping.
muumuued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muumuu + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a muumuu.
B minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key b\minor b'cisdefisgab2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of B
Synonyms: Bm
B-
F-sharp minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key fis\minor fis'gis'a'b'cisdefis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, E
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of F-sharp
Synonyms: word: F♯m
C-sharp minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key cis\minor cis'dis'e'fis'gis'a'b'cis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, B
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of C-sharp
Synonyms: word: C♯m
mysticall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mysticall
form: most mysticall
Etymology: From mystic + -all.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mystical.
cheerie-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheery-bye.
G-sharp minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key gis\minor gis'ais'b'cisdisefisgis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of G-sharp
D-sharp minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key dis\minor dis'eis'fis'gis'ais'b'cisdis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of D-sharp
A-sharp minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key ais\minor ais'bis'cisdiseisfisgisais2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes A♯, B♯, C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of A-sharp
fothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fother
oligostilbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligostilbenes
Etymology: From oligo- + stilbene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polystilbene with a relatively low number of stilbene units.
oligostilbenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligostilbene
D minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key d\minor d'e'f'g'a'bes'cd2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A minor key with the notes D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The minor chord with a root of D.
G minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key g\minor g'a'bes'cdesfg2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, F
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of G
C minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key c\minor c'd'es'f'g'aes'bes'c2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭/B
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of C
Synonyms: Cm
C-
F minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key f\minor f'g'aes'bes'cdesesf2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of F
B-flat minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key bes\minor bes c'des'es'f'ges'aes'bes'2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor chord with a root of B♭.
E-flat minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key es\minor es'f'ges'aes'bes'cesdeses2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of E-flat
A-flat minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key aes\minor aes bes ces'des'es'fes'ges'aes'2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a minor key with the notes A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭, F♭, and G♭
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the minor chord with a root of A-flat
whore out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whores out
form: whoring out
form: whored out
form: whored out
Senses: examples: text: My father started to whore out my little brother as muscle for his construction company when he was six years old.
text: It had landed him the thankless job of driving a bunch of loud whored-out drunks back to the boat at twelve-thirty in the morning
ref: 2005, Darren Baker, In the Same Boat:
glosses: To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, show off; to hire out or provide to others like a whore.
examples: text: My buddy Ted will whore out his wife to any of his friends.
text: I am your slave, your harlot, ready to be whored out in the public street even, if you want to, and I live only to be whored by you
ref: 2008, Bob Stirling, The Town Bull:
glosses: To pimp; to offer (one's sex partner) to others.
examples: text: If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side”
ref: 2008, George Kouvaros, Paul Schrader:
glosses: To do something debasing for money.
Synonyms: dog out
pimp out
Related terms: whorey
acquaintance rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquaintance rape
date-rapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date-rapist
whored out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whore out
chicken tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken tenders
Etymology: From chicken + tender (possibly an abbreviation of tenderloin, although not associated with the loin).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A deep-fried strip of chicken without bones or skin.
examples: text: I like to remove the chicken tender, the flap underneath the breast, then flatten the chicken breasts between sheets of plastic or waxed paper.
ref: 2005, Diane Phillips, chapter IC, in Perfect Party Food: All the Recipes and Tips You'll Ever Need for Stress-Free Entertaining, page 312:
text: 2008, Elizabeth Alston, Editors of Woman's Day, The Woman's Day Cookbook for Healthy Living, page 114,
When you buy breast halves, you may find a long, thicker piece on one side; it is called the chicken tender. In today's markets, tenders are often sold separately. But if you do find breasts with tenders intact, you may want to pull them off (the breast will cook more evenly), wrap airtight and freeze until tou have enough to make a meal.
text: The chicken tender, or tenderloin, is the long piece of muscle that runs under the chicken breast, close to the bone. The meat is extremely tender and delicate, making it a perfect choice for stir-fries.
ref: 2011, Janice Cole, chapter IC, in Chicken and Egg: A Memoir of Suburban Homesteading with 125 Recipes, page 152:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A flap of chicken meat found on, and easily detached from, the breast.
Synonyms: sense: deep-fried strip of chicken
word: chicken finger
Derived terms: tendie
chicken tenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken tender
geotarget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geotargets
form: geotargeting
form: geotargetting
form: geotargeted
form: geotargeted
form: geotargetted
form: geotargetted
Etymology: From geo- + target.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: To target (an Internet user) with specific content for a geographic location.
geotargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geotarget
geotargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geotarget
whoring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whore out
whores out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whore out
untestability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + test + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untestable.
whorey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: homophone: hoary
Forms: form: whorier
form: whoriest
Etymology: From whore + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.
text: We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 12, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: The pity is that she didn't get more of the entertaining roles that were in her range; she hardly had the stability to play a mother or even a secretary and she was a shade too whorey for Daisy Miller or her descendants[…]
ref: 1974, The New York times book review, volume 2:
text: After I told her, I stayed, as the chorus girls and the all-girl band applied their heavy whorey make-up, and watched the boy who played the MC get his face created.
ref: 2011, Cris Mazza, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, page 161:
glosses: Slutty, promiscuous.
post-it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-its
Etymology: From the 3M trademark Post-it.
Senses: examples: text: In your group, collect all the yellow and grey post-its together. Then pass them on to another group.
ref: 2006, Tony Ghaye, Developing the reflective healthcare team, page 220:
text: They all agree the number and write it on a post-it. They arrange the same cards to make the smallest possible number. When everyone has agreed, they write this number on the same post-it.
ref: 2000, Ruth Merttens, David Kirkby, Abacus: Activity book: Volume 5:
text: Write the brand on post-its and add them onto the flip chart.
ref: 2010, Erik Roscam Abbing, Brand-driven Innovation, page 83:
glosses: A post-it note.
post-its
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-it
teambuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teambuilders
Etymology: From team + builder.
Senses: glosses: A teambuilding activity.
glosses: One who runs or organises teambuilding activities.
teambuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teambuilder
antitrypanosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + trypanosomal.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering trypanosomes.
Derived terms: antitrypanosomally
whorier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of whorey: more whorey
whoriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of whorey: most whorey
countersteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersteers
form: countersteering
form: countersteered
form: countersteered
Etymology: From counter- + steer.
Senses: glosses: To steer (a vehicle) in the opposite direction at the beginning of a turn in order to adjust the rider's center of gravity.
countersteers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countersteer
countersteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countersteer
paleocrystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + κρύος (krúos, “frost”).
Senses: examples: text: It [sc. a photo] shows five stubby figures wrapped in furs, the flag set in a paleocrystic peak behind them that might suggest a real physical Pole.
ref: 1975, E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime, page 67:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from a former glacial formation; composed of ancient ice.
palpicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpicorns
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Palpicornia, an obsolete group of aquatic beetles with short club-shaped antennae and long maxillary palpi.
palpicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpicorn
pyroantimonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroantimonate
pyroacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroacid
gastralgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastralgia
Pythagorism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.
pyrophosphorylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrophosphorylase
nonketoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ketoic.
Senses: glosses: Unrelated to ketosis or ketoacidosis, not of a ketoic origin.
Related terms: hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketoic coma
ketoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ketoic
form: most ketoic
Etymology: From keto- + ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ketosis or ketoacidosis
pyrochloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrochlore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pyrochlore.
ketoglutarates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketoglutarate
pyroarsenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroarsenate
pyroborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroborate
pyroboric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + boric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical compound H₂B₄O₇, obtained by heating boric acid.
Synonyms: tetraboric acid
pyrogallates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrogallate
pyrogallols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrogallol
pyrosmalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosmalites
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, usually of a pale brown or grey-greenish colour, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese.
pyrosmalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrosmalite
pyrosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrosome
pseudoracemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoracemate
pycnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnites
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "thick, dense".
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.
puppetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppetry
puritanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puritanic
form: most puritanic
form: Puritanic
Etymology: From puritan + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.
ref: 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:
text: After Louise had gone, I inspected the icebox, and finding it much too puritanic, walked to town and bought the richest foods available.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 74:
glosses: Archaic form of puritanical.
purlieux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purlieu