cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sepias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sepia
inflectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflectional
form: most inflectional
form: inflexional
Etymology: From inflection + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: derivational
glosses: Of or pertaining to inflection.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a point of inflection of a curve.
Synonyms: alt: flexional
word: flectional
Derived terms: inflectionally
inflectional morphology
inflectional phrase
inflectional suffix
inflectional tangent
noninflectional
postinflectional
preinflectional
on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Suggesting a person skating or walking on a frozen-over body of water, at risk of breaking through and falling into the water.
Senses: examples: text: Ever since he was caught stealing office supplies, he has been on thin ice with his boss.
glosses: In a dangerous, hazardous, or delicate situation; at risk.
on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Suggesting a person skating or walking on a frozen-over body of water, at risk of breaking through and falling into the water.
Senses: glosses: Dangerously, hazardously, delicately.
Related terms: skate on thin ice
kill the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills the messenger
form: killing the messenger
form: killed the messenger
form: killed the messenger
Senses: examples: text: To disbelieve the message and seek to kill the messenger will not destroy the message.
ref: 1893 December 12, Rev. B. Minard, “Sunday in the Churches”, in Lewiston Evening Journal, Maine:
glosses: Alternative form of shoot the messenger.
shoot the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots the messenger
form: shooting the messenger
form: shot the messenger
form: shot the messenger
form: kill the messenger
form: shoot the messenger boy
Senses: examples: text: I know you won't like this news, but please don't shoot the messenger.
glosses: To blame a problem on whoever reported it; to hold somebody accountable for a problem because they brought attention to it.
tipu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipus
Senses: examples: text: A tipu tree serves as an umbrella, while an Indonesian door on the wall carries the ethnic motif and an iron table and chairs keep it modern.
ref: 2003 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 10, page 54:
glosses: A South American tree, Tipuana tipu, which is grown as an ornamental in mild-winter climates.
inflictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more inflictive
form: most inflictive
Etymology: From inflict + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or causing infliction
inflight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in-flight.
inflorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more inflorescent
form: most inflorescent
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence
infold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infolds
form: infolding
form: infolded
form: infolded
form: enfold
Etymology: From Middle English infolden, equivalent to in- + fold.
Senses: glosses: To fold inwards.
glosses: To wrap up or inwrap; involve; inclose; enfold or envelop.
glosses: To clasp with the arms; embrace.
infold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infolds
form: enfold
Etymology: From Middle English infolden, equivalent to in- + fold.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infolding.
synonyms: word: infolding
infuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infusers
Etymology: From infuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device used for preparing infusions
ingrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingrowing
form: most ingrowing
Etymology: From in- + growing.
Senses: glosses: growing inwards or abnormally towards (a part of the body)
ingrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹoʊn/
Forms: form: more ingrown
form: most ingrown
Etymology: From in- + grown.
Senses: examples: text: an ingrown toenail
glosses: That has grown inwards or abnormally towards (a part of the body)
Derived terms: ingrownness
Related terms: ingrow
bouclé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːˈkleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: bouclés
Etymology: From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).
Senses: examples: text: Argent’s Metropolitan line was a sound investment, with its chemically treated bouclé cushions and Airform core.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 18:
text: He, too, showed up in style ahead of the game, wearing a custom bedazzled Amri combination of a bouclé shirt and matching shimmering trousers.
ref: 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
glosses: Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.
inhalator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnhəˌleɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: inhalators
Senses: glosses: An inhaler.
glosses: A respirator.
hakea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkiə
Forms: form: hakeas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: He […] knew that its beak must be powerful enough to crush a pine nut or hakea pod.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 299:
glosses: A shrub of the genus Hakea, of Australia.
Derived terms: prickly hakea
inharmonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniəs
Forms: form: more inharmonious
form: most inharmonious
Etymology: From in- + harmonious.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: disharmonious
unharmonious
antonyms: harmonious
hypernyms: discordant
dissonant
coordinate_terms: unmelodious
;
melodious
glosses: Not in harmony.
synonyms: discordant
disharmonious
dissonant
unaccordant
unconcordant
antonyms: harmonious
;
accordant
concordant
consonant
glosses: Of behaviour, events, ideas, etc.: lacking accord or agreement.
Derived terms: inharmoniously
inharmoniousness
Related terms: inauspicious
initiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more initiatory
form: most initiatory
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to initiation
examples: text: some initiatory treatises in the law
ref: 1652, George Herbert, A Priest to the Temple:
text: Two initiatory rites of the same general import cannot exist together.
ref: 1815, John M. Mason, Essays on the Church of God:
glosses: inceptive, initial, inaugural or introductory
Derived terms: initiatorily
lipoinitiatory
initiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initiatories
Senses: glosses: An introductory act or rite.
injector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: injectors
Etymology: From inject + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, injects something.
One who injects (himself or herself with) psychoactive drugs.
glosses: One who, or that which, injects something.
Any of various devices that are used to inject something, as:
An apparatus by which a stream of water is forced into a steam boiler.
glosses: One who, or that which, injects something.
Any of various devices that are used to inject something, as:
Any of the one or more devices in a fuel injection system that create the spray of fuel.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An object that realizes a dependency injection.
Derived terms: autoinjector
biojector
Giffard injector
injectoral
jet injector
microinjector
nanoinjector
photoinjector
picoinjector
venturi injector
shit a brick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits a brick
form: shitting a brick
form: shit a brick
form: shit a brick
form: shat a brick
form: shat a brick
form: shitted a brick
form: shitted a brick
form: shit bricks
Senses: examples: text: If our boss finds out we did this and didn't tell him, he's gonna shit a brick.
text: She was thunderstruck when she came face to face with the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. At her age, and in that same place, my big brother Bernie, a born scientist who can't draw or paint for sour apples, would have shit an even bigger brick.
ref: 1997, Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake:
glosses: To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment.
Related terms: brick it
inkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkinesses
Etymology: From inky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Please excuse all the inkinesses—my pen dropped into the sand, and messed things up a bit
ref: 2020, Joseph Campbell, Evans Lansing Smith, Dennis Patrick Slattery, Correspondence: 1927–1987:
glosses: The condition of or an instance of being inky.
inner-city
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inner-city
form: most inner-city
form: innercity
Senses: examples: text: [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
inner-directed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inner-directed
form: most inner-directed
Senses: glosses: Tending to follow one's own rules rather than those of society
innerspring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inner + spring.
Senses: glosses: That is constructed using springs enclosed within a padded fabric cover
innumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innumerate
form: most innumerate
Etymology: From in- + numerate.
Senses: examples: text: The worry is that we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just illiterate. A.I. appears to be exacerbating an alarming trend in which our basic education is failing our young citizens.
ref: 2025 June 2, Leif Weatherby, “A.I. Is Coming For the Coders Who Made It”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: illiterate#Adjective
glosses: Lacking numeracy.
innumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innumerates
Etymology: From in- + numerate.
Senses: examples: text: Some innumerates simply refuse to accept that this decade, this century, this millennium all began on Jan. 1, 2001.
ref: 2009 October 6, Clyde Haberman, “Regarding Jonah, Dinkins, Bloomberg and the Importance of a Yankees Victory”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: illiterate#Noun
glosses: One who lacks numeracy skills.
Related terms: innumerable
innumeracy
inquietude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inquietudes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, I confess, my frankness has involved me in many after thoughts and inquietudes; inquietudes, which all my reasoning is, at times, insufficient to allay.
ref: 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published 1999, page 121:
text: The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 223:
text: Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered: […]
ref: 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
Related terms: inquiet
quietude
inquisitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inquisitional
form: most inquisitional
Etymology: From inquisition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an inquisition.
Derived terms: inquisitionally
inquisitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more inquisitorial
form: most inquisitorial
Etymology: From inquisitory + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: To parody the inquisitorial rhetoric of another age, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a boy-lover.
ref: 1980 April 12, John Kyper, “Poisoned”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an inquisition, specifically the Inquisition.
examples: text: Those few who by some luck happen to escape the madness of social hypnotization are afraid to give expression to their thoughts, because they are terrorized by the inquisitorial intolerance of crazed mobs and frenzied nations.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: In a manner of inquisition or inquisitors.
topics: law
glosses: Describing a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge.
Derived terms: inquisitorialism
inquisitorially
inquisitorialness
inquisitorial system
uninquisitorial
Related terms: word: inquest
word: inquisition
word: inquisitor
topics: legal
law
word: procurator
curl up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curls up
form: curling up
form: curled up
form: curled up
Senses: examples: text: Rollers are a good way to curl up your hair.
glosses: to curl, make curly, shape into curls
raw_tags: of hair
glosses: to become curly
glosses: to coil or shrivel, make into a coil
glosses: to become coiled or shriveled
examples: text: curl up with a good book
text: He smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.
ref: 1903, Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus:
glosses: to shape one's body into a somewhat ball-like shape, with one's legs tucked into the abdomen, especially for cosiness or for protection.
insentience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + sentience.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being insentient
insinuative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insinuative
form: most insinuative
Etymology: From insinuate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to insinuate; insinuating
Derived terms: insinuatively
insinuativeness
insipidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insipidities
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsipiditās. By surface analysis, insipid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 1735, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book I, Notes Variorum, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 2, London: Lawton Gilliver, p. 98,
Nahum Tate was Poet Laureate, a cold writer, of no invention, but sometimes translated tolerably when befriended by Mr. Dryden. In his second part of Absalom and Achitophel are above two hundred admirable lines together of that great hand, which strongly shine through the insipidity of the rest.
text: Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 34, in Sense and Sensibility:
glosses: The condition of being insipid; insipidness.
examples: text: The lovers of beauty, preferring what is dull to what is offensive, will rather doze over the inanities and insipidities of a drowsy dilettantism, than choose to be irritated into wakeful attention by ugly contours, disproportioned figures, and ill-assorted colours, drawn and arranged after the hard and ignorant manner of the early Christian painters, and imbued with the childish symbolism of the dismal Middle Ages.
ref: 1857, John Addington Symonds, chapter 1, in The Principles of Beauty, London: Bell & Daldy, page 39:
text: […] Gilbert literally educated the English public away from the popular insipidities to which they had grown accustomed, up to a standard of taste to which all future writers of operetta must aspire.
ref: 1913, Isaac Goldberg, chapter 4, in Sir Wm. S. Gilbert: A Study in Modern Satire, Boston: Stratford, page 84:
glosses: Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.
Synonyms: insipidness
wearishness
instituter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instituters
form: institutor
Etymology: From institute + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who institutes something
insurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insurable
form: most insurable
Etymology: From insure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being insured
insurable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurables
Etymology: From insure + -able.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that can be insured.
insurgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns
Forms: form: insurgences
Senses: examples: text: He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XIV, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: An uprising or rebellion; an insurrection.
insurrectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurrectionists
Etymology: From insurrection + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Defining the mostly white crowd that stormed the Capitol on January 6 as “insurrectionists” does more than set a narrative mood, it represents a major narrative shift—expanding the traditional role of the insurrectionist beyond the Black actor to the white one.
ref: 2022 July 1, Hawa Allan, “What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6”, in TIME:
text: Right-wing social media users are amplifying questionable interpretations of some of the clips, claiming they show law enforcement officials helping the rioters storm the Capitol, with some FBI officials acting as insurrectionists, coining the term “fedsurrection.”
ref: 2023 November 19, Sara Dorn, “New Jan. 6 Videos Released—Launching Wild Conspiracies From The Far Right”, in Forbes:
synonyms: insurrectionary
glosses: A person who provokes or takes part in an insurrection.
insurrectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From insurrection + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The atmosphere was undeniably insurrectionist in nature, yet the police response was languid to the extent that one woman asked an officer when they would be leaving because "they have to fix up."
ref: 2016 December 17, Paolo Kernahan, “Lack of Standards Fuelling Crime”, in Trinidad and Tobago Guardian:
text: The insurrectionist movement is mainstream, not simply confined to the political fringe.
ref: 2022 January 6, Robert A. Pape, “The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Aren’t Who You Think They Are”, in Foreign Policy, →ISSN:
synonyms: insurrectionary
glosses: Involved in or characterized by insurrection.
insusceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insusceptible
form: most insusceptible
Etymology: From in- + susceptible.
Senses: synonyms: unsusceptible
glosses: Not susceptible.
intellectualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intellectualisms
Etymology: From intellectual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I don't think much of you yet — I wish I could — though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: The use or development of the intellect.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The use of mental attributes as a criterion or value.
Synonyms: sense: doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason
word: rationalism
Derived terms: anti-intellectualism
nonintellectualism
pseudointellectualism
Related terms: intellectualist
intercessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: intercessors
form: intercessour
Etymology: Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.
Senses: glosses: A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
examples: text: St Mary the Intercessor;   St Mary as intercessor
glosses: A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
Especially: a heavenly saint who intercedes (with God) on behalf of a mere mortal.
examples: text: Kings were revered, in many cases not merely as priests, that is, as intercessors between man and god, but as themselves gods
ref: 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
glosses: A middleman, intermediary
glosses: A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.
Related terms: intercede
intercedent
intercess
intercession
intercessionary
intercessory
intercessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intercessory
form: most intercessory
Etymology: From intercession + -ory.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: intercedent
synonyms: intercessionary#Adjective
glosses: Of or pertaining to intercession.
Related terms: intercede
intercess
intercession
intercessor
intercollegiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + collegiate.
Senses: examples: text: The substance of most of these chapters has been given in my college lectures, our present intercollegiate scheme of lecturing (now in operation for about twelve years) offering great facilities for the prosecution of any special studies which happen to suit the taste and capacity of some particular lecturer and a selection of the students.
ref: 1881, John Venn, Symbolic Logic, London: Macmillan & Co., Preface:
text: A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom-trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard-Princeton game.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 4:
text: He was given no food. For he had not won an exhibition, Vidiadhar who had brought home clean question papers with ticks beside the questions he had done and a neat list of correct answers to the arithmetic sums, who had begun to learn Latin and French, who had gone to the intercollegiate football match and uttered partisan cries.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4:
glosses: Between colleges.
Derived terms: intercollegiately
intercollegiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercollegiates
Etymology: From inter- + collegiate.
Senses: examples: text: We want to do better in the intercollegiates. We think we are strong enough for the dual meets, but we want to make a better show in the intercollegiates.
ref: 1916, Wayland Wells Williams, The Whirligig of Time, page 117:
glosses: A competition between colleges.
intercommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪn.tə(ɹ).kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪt/
Forms: form: intercommunicates
form: intercommunicating
form: intercommunicated
form: intercommunicated
Etymology: From inter- + communicate.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a growing number of teleradio stations on small inter-island craft. All these stations communicate with or through Vila, but may intercommunicate by permission.
ref: 1951, Great Britain. Colonial Office, An Economic Survey of the Colonial Territories, page 144:
glosses: To communicate mutually, one with another.
examples: text: The two vehicles of each unit intercommunicate through a vestibule type corridor connection similar to that obtaining in long-distance passenger stock.
ref: 1954 July, “Lightweight Diesel Trains for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
text: […] but in analysing the more highly developed houses, where the pavilions are integrated architecturally with other rooms at the ends of the hall, the possibility that they intercommunicated with them cannot be ignored.
ref: 2012, J. T. Smith, Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure:
glosses: To be interconnected.
interconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚ.kəˈnɛk.ʃən/
Forms: form: interconnections
form: interconnexion
Etymology: From inter- + connection.
Senses: examples: text: As socialists we see the interconnection between the institutions of classism, sexism, and racism in our personal working lives.
ref: 1977 December 10, Kate Gyllensvard, Richard Millen, “Blue Collar, White Collar, Lavender Collar: A Look At The Gay Work Force”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 16:
text: Specifically, a connection between two parts.
text: Based on the latest data by ENTSO-E, there are 82 interconnections between the EU and its ten neighbouring countries, affecting 22 borders: Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine at the Eastern EU border, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia in the Balkans, Turkey, as well as Morocco in the Southern Mediterranean.
text: Nemo Link is one example of the value of interconnection between mainland Europe and Great Britain.
glosses: A connection (physical or logical) between multiple things
examples: text: A dozen states have implemented policies for interconnection.
glosses: The connecting of renewable-energy systems to the power grid
Derived terms: interconnectional
interfile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪl
Forms: form: interfiles
form: interfiling
form: interfiled
form: interfiled
Etymology: From inter- + file.
Senses: glosses: To file (something) between or among existing entries.
intergovernmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From inter- + governmental.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or involving two or more governments.
Derived terms: intergovernmentalism
intergovernmentalist
intergovernmentally
interlink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlinks
form: interlinking
form: interlinked
form: interlinked
Etymology: From inter- + link.
Senses: glosses: To link together.
glosses: To link (two or more things) together.
Synonyms: sense: to link two or more things together
word: affix
word: attach
word: join
word: put together
Derived terms: interlinkability
interlinkable
interlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlinks
Etymology: From inter- + link.
Senses: glosses: A link of this kind.
intermix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmɪks/
ipa: /ˌɪn(t)ɚˈmɪks/
ipa: [ˌɪnɾ̃ɚˈmɪks]
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: intermixes
form: intermixing
form: intermixed
form: intermixed
Etymology: From inter- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: Either that, or “you have two different groups of hominins with two totally different toolmaking traditions occupying the same landscape at the same time yet never intermixing,” said the study’s lead author, Daniel Adler, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut.
ref: 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To mix together; to intermingle or blend.
Derived terms: intermixable
intermixer
intermixingly
intermixture
intermix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmɪks/
ipa: /ˌɪn(t)ɚˈmɪks/
ipa: [ˌɪnɾ̃ɚˈmɪks]
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: intermixes
Etymology: From inter- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: This idealized structure may not exist in reality, considering the high divorce rate and the intermixes of maternal-paternal dominance characteristics.
ref: 1973, Wilson Brian Key, Subliminal Seduction, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: An intermixture; the product of mixing together
internationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more internationalist
form: most internationalist
Etymology: From international + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to internationalism.
internationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internationalists
Etymology: From international + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of internationalism.
examples: text: A thorough-going internationalist, Marshall was a leading Boston organizer for the Peoples Anti-War Mobilization march of 100,000 at the Pentagon in 1981.
ref: 1988 February 14, Frank Neisser, Jane Kaatz, “Black Gay Socialist Activist Marshall Yates (obituary)”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 16:
text: I'm sure Hitler has more than a few enemies even in Germany. Germany too has its internationalists and its revolutionary workers.
ref: 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 55:
glosses: A proponent of proletarian internationalism.
glosses: A player representing their country in a team sport.
internationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: internationalizes
form: internationalizing
form: internationalized
form: internationalized
form: internationalise
Etymology: From international + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I must say there is something to be said, don't you agree darling, and I rather hope they'll internationalize the cosmic wireless and save us from some of this defatigating news.
ref: 1947, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy Turvy, page 66:
antonyms: de-internationalize
localize
regionalize
glosses: To make something international; to involve multiple nations in.
internist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internists
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
interrelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interrelates
form: interrelating
form: interrelated
form: interrelated
Etymology: From inter- + relate.
Senses: examples: text: The inability of the gay movement as a whole to interrelate AIDS work with the many other items on its political agenda left vast segments of the lesbian and gay community sitting on the sidelines wondering how and why to plug in.
ref: 1983 December 24, Cindy Patton, “AIDS: Putting the Pieces Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 3:
glosses: To form relationships between multiple things.
interrelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə.ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚ.ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən.ʃɪp/
Etymology: From inter- + relationship.
Senses: glosses: Between multiple relationships; interrelation
interrelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə.ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚ.ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: interrelationships
Etymology: From inter- + relationship.
Senses: glosses: A relationship between multiple things.
intersession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + session.
Senses: glosses: Between sessions.
intersession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intersessions
Etymology: From inter- + session.
Senses: glosses: A break between semesters.
interurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + urban.
Senses: examples: text: One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
ref: 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:
synonyms: intercity
antonyms: intraurban
coordinate_terms: interprovincial
interregional
interstate
glosses: Of, pertaining to, involving or joining two or more urban centres.
interurban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interurbans
Etymology: From inter- + urban.
Senses: examples: text: interurban car, interurban line, interurban railroad
text: On the steam roads, the engine, representing with its tender an enormous weight, is required to generate enough power not only for its own propulsion, but drag after it a train of cars. Several important consequences result from this difference between steam and electric traction. First, on the electric railway single cars may be used, taking their power as required under such headway as may be required to accommodate the traffic, while the steam engine must for the sake of economy be loaded somewhere near its capacity, so that the service is necessarily less frequent than that offered by the interurban.
ref: 1909, Thomas Conway (Jr.), The Traffic Problems of Interurban Electric Railroads, page 7:
text: Q. Took the interurban at Denison? A. Yes, sir. Q. And went from there to McKinney on the interurban?
ref: 1916, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 20:
text: The act was elective and included the hazardous employments listed (they fill 112 pages of print) and include railroads, mines, interurbans, logging, iron and steel manufacture, packing houses, construction work, etc., etc.
ref: 1919, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 117:
text: ... but debits and credits arising from the operation of such street electric passenger railways, including railways commonly called interurbans, as are at the time of the agreement not under Federal control, shall be excluded.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Southern Pacific Company, Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders, page 30:
text: Returning to Seattle we took the interurban to Everett, 32 miles north, $1.30 for the round trip
ref: 1927, The Union Pacific Magazine, volume 6, page 13:
text: In 1945, Vancouver had 347 street cars (not counting interurbans)
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Canadian Transportation and Distribution Management, volume 53, page 15:
text: Why did people ride the interurban? No one knows. If you had asked a rider, he might have said "Fast, convenient, comfortable, economical“ – yet those are the same reasons that people give for riding in automobiles.
ref: 1960, Felix E. Reifschneider, Interurban Limited, page 8:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An electric railway carrying mainly passengers between two or more urban centres.
creatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatrix
spoonfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spoonfeeds
form: spoonfeeding
form: spoonfed
form: spoonfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spoon-feed.
unsayably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsayably
form: most unsayably
Etymology: From unsayable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of TLP is not get us to recognize something that is unsayably true of reality, but rather to cure us of any attempt to represent to ourselves something about reality that cannot be said.
ref: 1999, Marie McGinn, “Between Metaphysics and Nonsense: Elucidation in Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, volume 49, number 197, page 493:
text: It is only because we can embrace imperatives that cohere with a force beyond being and beyond the world that we can, exceptionally, act as absolutely and "unsayably" free.
ref: 2003, Peter Halward, “The one or the other: French philosophy today”, in Angelaki, volume 8, number 2, page 13:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In a manner which is inexpressible or is not describable.
examples: text: Although Lynch fails to examine what is unsayably taboo in the Arab forum, he does show how few programmes feature the environment, unemployment, health, child abuse or anything else that affects everyday life—except politics.
ref: 2006 March 6, Jean Seaton, "The talking cure" (review of Voices of the New Arab Public by Marc Lynch), New Statesman, p. 54
glosses: In a manner which is not permitted or is inappropriate for expression.
Related terms: unsayable
spoonfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspuːnfiːdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoonfeed
spoonfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspuːnfiːdɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoonfeed
spoonfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspu(ː)n.fɛd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoonfeed
Saffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saffers
form: Saffa
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of South Africa.
seed pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed pits
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pip
synonyms: word: pit
word: stone
word: ;
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: pyrena
word: pyrene
glosses: A single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit.
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: slabs
form: slabbing
form: slabbed
form: slabbed
Etymology: From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.
Senses: glosses: To make into a slab.
examples: text: Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.
synonyms: raze
glosses: To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Etymology: Compare Goidelic and Irish slaib (“mud, mire left on a river strand”), and English slop (“puddle”).
Senses: examples: text: Some do also plant oziers in their eights, like quick-sets, thick, and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground; but then they must be diligently cleansed from moss, slab, and ouze, and frequently prun'd (especially the smaller spires) to form single shoots;[…].
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
Derived terms: slabby
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: slabber
form: more slab
form: slabbest
form: most slab
Etymology: Compare Goidelic and Irish slaib (“mud, mire left on a river strand”), and English slop (“puddle”).
Senses: examples: text: Make the gruel thick and slab:
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Thick; viscous.
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: slabs
Etymology: Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'. This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.
Senses: examples: text: Pull me over, try to check my slab
ref: 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge
text: I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left
ref: 2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless
text: All three of them recognized who the Lexus'^([sic]) belonged to so he parked his slab and they cocked their guns.
ref: 2012, Bobby Austin, By All Mean$, AuthorHouse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: slabs
Senses: glosses: A bird, the wryneck.
slab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: slabs
Etymology: From syllable.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
spanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɪŋ/
Etymology: From spang + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spang
spanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspæŋɪŋ/
Etymology: From spange + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spange
panther cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panther caps
Senses: glosses: The highly poisonous agaric Amanita pantherina.
Synonyms: sense: Amanita pantherina
word: false blusher
sense: Amanita pantherina
word: panther mushroom
penalty try
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty tries
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: An awarding of seven points (equivalent to scoring a try + conversion) to a team whose opponents have prevented, by misconduct, a try being scored.
blood replacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood replacements
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A temporary substitution for a visibly bleeding player who must leave the field of play for first-aid treatment.
Synonyms: blood bin
blood substitution
drop goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop goals
form: dropgoal
form: drop-goal
form: dropped goal
Senses: qualifier: rugby union; rugby league; rugby union; rugby league
glosses: A goal scored by kicking the ball through the goal from open play, after the ball has touched the ground.
fisticuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisticuffers
Etymology: From fisticuff + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in fisticuffs; a pugilist.
quarter-finalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-finalists
Etymology: From quarter-final + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Somebody or something that appears in a quarter-final of a competition.
Related terms: final
semi-finalist
semi-finalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-finalists
form: semifinalist
Senses: glosses: Somebody or something that appears in a semi-final of a competition.
Related terms: final
quarter-finalist
half-volley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-volleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half volley.
child labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of child labour.
dog fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog fights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dogfight.
cool one's jets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cools one's jets
form: cooling one's jets
form: cooled one's jets
form: cooled one's jets
Senses: examples: text: Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May.
ref: 1999 April 7, Joyce Slaton, “Phantom Menace Book Tells All”, in Wired:
text: Belle's boyfriend Jesse (Henry Simmons) is left to cool his jets while his woman bangs around the New York area.
ref: 2004 October 6, Kirk Honeycutt, “Taxi (film review)”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: To become less excited, intense, or active; to exercise self-restraint.
Synonyms: calm down
chill
chill out
cool off
pull in one's horns
settle down
slow one's roll
crock of shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocks of shit
Senses: examples: text: What a crock of shit.
text: ‘When people ask me what it was like to be RD Laing's son,’ he says, ‘I tell them it was a crock of shit.’ He laughs, shaking his head.
ref: 2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, quoting Adrian Laing, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Something false or worthless.
Related terms: shitload
pile of shit
Witwer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Witwers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Witwer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
arachnophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnophobes
Etymology: From arachno- + -phobe.
Senses: synonyms: arachnophobic
araneophobe
antonyms: arachnophile
glosses: A person who fears spiders.
Related terms: arachnophobia
arachnophobic
thinke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinkes
form: thinking
form: thought
form: thought
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of think.
dogfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogfight
dogfights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dogfight
Kaitij
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kaytetye
glosses: An Australian Aboriginal language.
submetacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + metacentric.
Senses: examples: text: Human chromosome 2 is submetacentric.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome) having the centromere between one end and the middle, and thus having a long arm, and a short arm
Related terms: telocentric
acrocentric
metacentric
submetacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submetacentrics
Etymology: From sub- + metacentric.
Senses: glosses: A submetacentric chromosome.
dubious honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubious honors
form: dubious honour
Senses: examples: "I have the dubious honor of being in charge of fundraising for roof repair on the town youth gymnasium." Meaning, it's an honor to be tasked yet something unwanted.
"The big league athlete had the dubious honor of being voted 'Most Difficult to Interview' by the sportswriters." An ironic honor, so to speak.
glosses: The supposed honor of being selected to do a difficult or unpopular task or the supposed honor associated with receiving a questionable award.
vivianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivianites
Etymology: Named after its discoverer English mineralogist J. G. Vivian in 1817.
Senses: examples: text: Using the rover's organic chemical detector to analyze the spots, scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) found iron, phosphorus and sulfur arranged in patterns consistent with minerals like vivianite (hydrated iron phosphate) and greigite (iron sulfide) that could have "potentially been made by ancient life."
ref: 2025 September 11, Matthew Glasser, Julia Jacobo, “Rock found on Mars could be evidence of ancient life, NASA says”, in ABC News:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue, green or colourless mineral of monoclinic crystals, Fe₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O.
rah-rah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rah-rah
form: most rah-rah
Etymology: Repetition of rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.
Senses: glosses: Marked by noisy enthusiasm.
rah-rah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Repetition of rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.
Senses: glosses: An expression of enthusiasm, expressed by high school and college cheerleaders at sporting events.
rah-rah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rah-rahs
Etymology: Repetition of rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.
Senses: synonyms: rah-rah skirt
glosses: A pleated miniskirt, so named because of the resemblance to skirts typically worn by high school and college cheerleaders, who normally chant "rah-rah" at sporting events.
rah-rah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rah-rahs
form: rah-rahing
form: rah-rahed
form: rah-rahed
Etymology: Repetition of rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.
Senses: examples: text: […] the official gen-art person was rah-rahing the organization how great and fabulous they are and i just wanted to roll my eyes. they were taking themselves quite seriously it reminded me of when we used to throw those charity fashion show parties in college […]
ref: Abbe Diaz, PX This (page 177)
text: Oswald Eakins, Deep Inside Diana, The Pain and The Secrets
People rah-rahed about her good fortune of marrying a Prince, but no one, not even Diana had an inkling of what destiny had in store for her.
glosses: To express noisy enthusiasm (about).