cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
funeste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funeste
form: most funeste
Senses: examples: text: […] her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and supernatural halo. There was something funeste and mysterious even in his beauty; and his spirits faltered and sank in his presence.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmont, That Lasted for So Many Days, wherein the Belligerents Showed So Much Constancy and Valour, and Sometimes One Side and Sometimes t’Other Was Victorious”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: Alternative form of funest.
mathetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Ancient Greek μαθητικός (mathētikós, “easily taught”), or from mathesis + -etic.
Senses: glosses: The study of learning.
Related terms: mathetic
mathesis
didactics
unhesitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hesitating.
Senses: examples: text: The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be "the most typically English railway approach to a town": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was "Sudbury, in Suffolk."
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
glosses: Not hesitating; with no hesitation.
metamorphosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metamorphose
metamorphosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metamorphose
councilmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of councilman
sociologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociologist
unprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more unprogressive
form: most unprogressive
Etymology: From un- + progressive.
Senses: examples: text: Introducing a comprehensive re-design scheme for the Canadian National Railways earlier this year, the Director of Public Relations, Mr. C. A. Harris, said a 1959 survey by his department had revealed that the railways were felt by the public to be unprogressive and slow to improve performance and service; the existing modernisation scheme had, he said, been lying like an iceberg, mostly beneath the surface.
ref: 1961 June, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Four”, in Trains Illustrated, page 354:
glosses: Not progressive; not contributing to progress.
unprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: unprogressives
Etymology: From un- + progressive.
Senses: examples: text: […] the unprogressives, the reactionaries, the unenlightened, who refuse to bow down to the god, Art.
ref: 1909, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature: Biography (page 671)
glosses: A person whose views are not progressive.
instructional design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1983, Reigeluth,http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qt_9Q4K5Bz8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=instructional+design&ots=83ufQ_l9Gd&sig=58ViHGTy6N-Z6gztRt40Oi02Vys [BOOK] Instructional-design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status - CM Reigeluth - 1983 - books.google.com ... for Reading This Book xlll Foreword xv David R, Krathwohl UNIT I INSTRUCTION: WHAT THE DISCIPLINE IS LIKE 1. Instructional Design: What Is It and Why Is It? ...
topics: education
glosses: The discipline of creating educational materials, often with the implication of alternative media.
goon squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goon squads
Senses: examples: text: He denied charges that the union was using "goon squads," as strong-arm detachments are called on the West Coast, and asserted that any violence was provoked by the employers.
ref: 1938 September 9, Russell B. Porter, “Unionists Battle Store Employes in San Francisco”, in New York Times, page 9:
text: No one has ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. . . . In Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personal goon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit.
ref: 1974 June 17, “Shooting the Moon”, in Time:
text: But becoming the "Spirit Father" to a group of cave dwellers threatened by "bandits, insurgent guerrillas" and "goon squads hired by greedy logging companies" gives him a newfound purpose in life.
ref: 2003, Michael Upchurch, "What's Cooking on Mindanao?" (Review of Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn), New York Times, 5 Oct., p. A13
glosses: A group of individuals serving as enforcers, bodyguards, assassins, and the like, especially persons hired for such a purpose and using violent, thuggish methods.
defibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːfaɪˈbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: defibrates
form: defibrating
form: defibrated
form: defibrated
Senses: examples: text: We need to defibrate the rags before we can make paper.
glosses: To break into fibers.
Derived terms: defibration
infobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infobots
Etymology: From info + bot.
Senses: examples: ref: 1991, A. Cordell, The rise of the infobot:
glosses: A chatbot that provides access to a database of information via keywords or questions.
leprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leprotic
form: most leprotic
Etymology: From leprosy + -otic, q.v.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or related to the disease leprosy.
Synonyms: english: particularly with regard to lesions
translation: particularly with regard to lesions
word: lepromatic
Derived terms: antileprotic
nonleprotic
proso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Examples are corn, sorghum, wheat, oats, millet, soybeans, and proso.
ref: 1973, Dan Herndon Jordan, Soil Survey of Cherokee, Gilmer, and Pickens Counties, Georgia:
glosses: Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop.
Related terms: proso millet
wolffish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlfˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: wolffishes
form: wolffish
form: wolf-fish
form: wolf fish
Etymology: From wolf + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anarhichas lupus
word: Atlantic wolffish
taxonomic: Anarhichas orientalis
word: Bering wolffish
taxonomic: Anarhichas denticulatus
word: northern wolffish
taxonomic: Anarhichas minor
word: spotted wolffish
ss.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of scilicet (“namely, to wit”), especially (law) indicating that a legal document was executed in the appropriate place within a jurisdiction for the act recorded.
sc.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of scilicet: namely, to wit, (law) done and recorded in the appropriate place within a jurisdiction.
sc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of scene.
glosses: Abbreviation of scruple (unit of measure).
employment at will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: at will employment
form: at-will employment
form: employment-at-will
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A traditional principle of law, recognized in some jurisdictions, which holds that, in the absence of a contract to the contrary, an employment relationship can be terminated at any time by the employer or employee, for any reason or for no reason whatever.
Derived terms: at-will
at will employment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of employment at will.
at-will employment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of employment at will.
employment-at-will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of employment at will.
Volkswagen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /ˈvoʊksˌwæɡən/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Volkswagen.
Senses: glosses: A German car manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg.
Volkswagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /ˈvoʊksˌwæɡən/
Forms: form: Volkswagens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Volkswagen.
Senses: glosses: A car manufactured by Volkswagen.
Related terms: Beetle
regenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regenerate
regenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regenerate
regenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪtɪd/
Etymology: From regenerate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regenerate
regenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more regenerated
form: most regenerated
Etymology: From regenerate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She declared her helpmate to be a limb of Antichrist, and one with whom no regenerated person could associate.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 12:
glosses: Spiritually made again; reborn.
glosses: Physically formed or created again; restored, remade, revived.
examples: text: The little bud of regenerated tissue which would normally have grown into a new tail had been removed.
ref: 1928, Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Formed by regeneration.
topics: business
chemistry
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
textiles
glosses: Reprecipitated after chemical treatment, especially in the form of fibres; pertaining to fibres prepared in this way.
superintendents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintendent
urchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urchin
window seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window seats
form: window-seat
Etymology: From window + seat.
Senses: glosses: A typically soft seat placed in a recess, for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess.
examples: text: Or take an eastbound Met from King's Cross outside the rush hour, when you ought to be able to find a window seat. Again, look up, to see the beautiful brick valley made by the Metropolitan: the towering arcaded walls with brick struts going over.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 29:
synonyms: window
coordinate_terms: aisle seat
aisle
glosses: A seat beside a window in public transport, as in a bus, train or passenger aircraft.
window-seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-seats
Senses: examples: text: So Michael sat all the afternoon on the window-seat telling her everything that occurred in the Lane.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “The Dancing Cow”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: Alternative spelling of window seat.
necklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necklets
Etymology: From neck + -let.
Senses: glosses: A necklace.
examples: text: He was a dog—one of those small, silky, fluffy dogs that look like a fur necklet, until they begin to bark.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Miss Lark’s Andrew”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 50–51:
glosses: A type of ornament worn tightly about the neck.
Coordinate terms: anklet
armlet
kneelet
leglet
wristlet
threepenny-bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threepenny-bits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threepenny bit.
threepenny bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹʌpəni bɪt/
Forms: form: threepenny bits
form: threepenny-bit
Senses: examples: text: All day long he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half-crowns and threepenny-bits.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 3–4:
glosses: A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pennies.
examples: text: All these skinny modern chicks with their perky threepenny bits do nothing for me.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 86:
glosses: A woman's breast; a tit.
Synonyms: threepence
thruppence
perpetrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetrator
barley-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley-waters
Senses: examples: text: She was old and fat and smelt of barley-water.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of barley water.
schoolfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolfellow
barley water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley waters
form: barley-water
Senses: examples: text: Large quantities of barley water were consumed constantly, but in the old days, a special boy was kept to run out for beer.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: A soft drink made by boiling pearl barley with water, and adding flavouring and sugar.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A decoction of barley used as a nutritive and demulcent.
anti-lapse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + lapse.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
pearl barley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pearled barley
glosses: Barley that has had the husk and bran removed.
algebraic number theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AlgNT
Etymology: Blend of algebraic number + number theory. Possibly (alternatively or also) a calque of German algebraische Zahlentheorie.
Senses: examples: text: As is well-known in algebraic number theory, there is a far-reaching analogy between number fields and algebraic function fields in one variable with finite constant field.
ref: 1998, Norbert Klingen, Arithmetical Similarities: Prime Decomposition and Finite Group Theory, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 241:
text: The field of mathematics that these generalize to is known as algebraic number theory. As a matter of historical fact, our development here parallels the development of algebraic number theory.
ref: 2008, Steven H. Weintraub, Factorization: Unique and Otherwise, CRC Press, page 143:
text: Elementary arithmetic studies divisibility and factorization of ordinary integers, Algebraic number theory considers the same questions for algebraic numbers, solutions to polynomial equations with integer coefficients. In this setting, (un)fortunately, the uniqueness of prime factorization no longer holds. Remedying and measuring its failure is the starting point of algebraic number theory.
ref: 2013, Mak Trifković, Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Numbers, Springer, page v:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The branch of number theory in which number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic number fields or related objects, and studied using techniques from algebra.
Related terms: analytic number theory
arithmetic geometry
diophantine geometry
number-theoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: By means of, or in terms of, number theory.
pleas of the crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plea of the crown
plea of the crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleas of the crown
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal action against a criminal.
geometricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geometrician
convulvulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of convolvulus, a plant of the bindweed family.
graph-theoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From graph-theoretical + -ly.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a manner which uses graph theory
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the sense of graph theory
psshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Oh, psshaw, I don't believe a word you are saying.
glosses: Alternative form of pshaw.
a-tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more a-tilt
form: most a-tilt
form: atilt
Etymology: From a- + tilt.
Senses: examples: text: To run a-tilt at men, and wield / Their naked tools in open field;
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
glosses: With a lance.
set theoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: set-theoretically
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a manner which uses set theory
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the sense of set theory
set-theoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: a representation that is set-theoretically identical to the original
glosses: Alternative spelling of set theoretically.
turn-about
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He not only sold matches like any ordinary match-man, but he drew pavement pictures as well. He did these things turn-about according to the weather. If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. If it was fine, he was on his knees all day, making pictures […]
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “The Day Out”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: sequentially; in turn
turn-about
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-abouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turnabout.
corbeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbeaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”).
Senses: examples: text: The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.
ref: 2011, V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, →ISBN:
text: A whale man, if you see a whale. It beach. It taking up the whole of La Tinta. You not see the corbeaux? The Marines say they think it must be dead.
ref: 2014, Lawrence Scott, Night Calypso, →ISBN:
text: Across the blue sky, a big black bird, a vulture, a corbeau. It swooped down low and landed, its long, ringed legs trembling as it anchored itself on the branch of a thick-trunked tree. Around it, more corbeaux, cemetery gargoyles guarding the dead.
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
examples: text: By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.
ref: 1972, David Victor Glass, Roger Revelle, Population and social change, page 234:
text: The next day she died and her body was removed by the corbeaux (the men who carted away the dead) - an ignominious death like that of Jesus Christ, wrote the annalist.
ref: 2001, A Social History of the Cloister, →ISBN, page 212:
text: By late summer, the magistrates themselves admitted their helplessness. They called in the notorious and dreaded corbeaux—convicts promised a commutation of their sentence in exchange for performing the dangerous task of removing the bodies.
ref: 2012, Marie-Hélène Huet, The Culture of Disaster, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
glosses: A very dark shade of green, almost black.
Related terms: corbie
timewarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timewarps
Senses: examples: text: That makes the change at Ely easy, and I take 387172/105 to Downham Market. I'm not sure if the station is stuck in a timewarp, or if it's an intentional homage to the days when it was part of Network SouthEast, but the red, white and blue signage is everywhere. The signal box is still there, and the station building looks like it hasn't changed in 35 years.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of time warp.
bronzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronzers
Etymology: From bronze (“to tan skin”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Bronzers, you see, contain alcohol, which can't help but be drying to the skin.
ref: 1981, Mario Badescu, Mario Badescu's Skin Care Program for Men:
text: Some men were turning up with their faces covered with "bronzers" that made them look jaundiced, mottled terra cotta, or muddy brown.
ref: 1984, Toni Stabile, Everything you want to know about cosmetics:
text: With his signature bronzer, Trump seems to be aiming for a weathered ruggedness, perhaps. He is playing the macho cowboy who just rode into town.
ref: 2025 January 20, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Brimful of menace? Melania strikes sombre note at Trump inauguration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A cosmetic product intended to give the skin a temporary bronzed colour resembling a suntan.
bronzer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bronze + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bronze: more bronze
kangaroo courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo court
electronic rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of various genres of rock music that feature electronic synthesisers.
Synonyms: rocktronica
synth rock
stravaig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəˈveɪɡ/
ipa: /stɹəˈvæɡ/
rhymes: -eɪɡ
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: stravaigs
form: stravaiging
form: stravaiged
form: stravaiged
form: stravaige
Senses: examples: text: Whenever we came to any habitations now he would not call at back doors, nor go stravaiging in yards for odd pieces to eat, but he would go gallantly into an inn and offer his payment for the things we would like.
ref: 1921, A. E. Coppard, “Marching to Zion”, in Adam & Eve & Pinch Me:
text: It is tedious work, training clematis over low posts, so that its beauty does not stravaig up the walls but lies open under the eye; but on the edge of the town many gardeners grew it thus.
ref: 1946, Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens”, in A Train of Powder, page 22:
text: Michael, stop stravaiging along behind.
ref: 1964, Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, spoken by Mary Poppins:
glosses: to stroll, meander
Related terms: extravagant
stravaige
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stravaiges
form: stravaiging
form: stravaiged
form: stravaiged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stravaig.
vranyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɹɑːˈnjəʊ/
Etymology: From Russian враньё (vranʹjó, “lying, lies”), from врать (vratʹ, “to lie”) (contrasted with ложь (ložʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: If the reports from the Russian authorities aren't all vranyo, there were not many Chechens among the Beslan ghouls.
ref: 2004 September 6, Raven, “Re: OT: Beslan school hostage tragedy (Russia, Putin)”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet):
text: And, after uttering the witty bit of vranyo, Gogol repaired the social lie at once by concluding "Nevsky Prospekt" with the admonition:
Oh, do not trust that Nevsky Prospekt! ... the devil himself lights the street lamps to show everything in false colors.
ref: 2006, Leonard J. Stanton, James Daniel Hardy, Interpreting Nikolai Gogol Within Russian Orthodoxy, page 26
text: The term vranyo in Russian describes the subtle collective participation people can have in deception. Vranyo occurs when one person lies to another, the second person recognizes that the first person is lying, and neither of them acknowledges that any lie was spoken. For example, someone states (knowing otherwise) that he will meet monthly production goals. An audience hears this claim and knows it to be false. No one acknowledges the lie publicly. [...] When a co-worker claims to work incredibly hard but is lying and an observer knows that colleague is lying but does not expose the lie—that is vranyo. In subsequent chapters, workers demonstrate a strong inclination to vranyo. Vranyo occurs routinely in meetings [...]
ref: 2007, David Shulman, From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: White lies or half-lies in Russian culture, told without the intention of (maliciously) deceiving, but as a fantasy, suppressing unpleasant parts of the truth.
Related terms: roman: tuftá
word: туфта́
orientationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orientationist
form: most orientationist
Etymology: From orientation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Personally I find sissy boys a little too heavy to juggle, as well as being ageist, sexist and orientationist props.
ref: 1994 May 16, Andrew John Conway , “Re: Bounce juggling”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
text: Since they don't, they are truly a private organization and I have no right to complain about any of their decisions, racist, sexist, orientationist, whatever.
ref: 2001 August 24, "jwitt" , “Re: Should Men Lead Girl Scout Troops?”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: I don't want to be orientationist about this, but I think I should point out that such a real man is almost certain to be Julian Clary.
ref: 2004 December 13, Mike Lyle , “Re: Riggs and Cooper, Cooper and Riggs”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
glosses: Oppressing or hating persons of a certain sexual orientation.
run-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-aways
Etymology: Deverbal from run away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of runaway.
run-aways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runaways
Senses: glosses: plural of run-away
erster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ersters
Senses: qualifier: New York City and New Orleans
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of oyster.
ersters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erster
allotheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allotheistic
form: most allotheistic
Etymology: From allo- + theistic.
Senses: examples: text: And he inveighed against Candle-mas as an allotheistic thing, a burning of tapers to Februa; and he indicted the vanity of Shrove-tide, with its cock-scaling in honor not of Christ but Themistocles...
ref: 1977, John B. Sanford, View from This Wilderness: American Literature As History, page 45:
text: Wearers of sheets prepared for a migration across the river. Down into the river they went, allotheistic teens, shawls wrapped snugly around them, to ford the river called Tokeneke, rock by rock.
ref: 2000, Rick Moody, Demonology: Stories, page 221:
glosses: Of or relating to allotheism.
autotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotype
holla
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒlə/
ipa: /ˈhɑlə/
Senses: examples: text: Holla, there! Holla, there, I say! What the devil are you about with my master's box-coat?
ref: 1828, The Lairds of Fife, page 163:
glosses: Alternative form of hollo.
Derived terms: maholla
holla
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒlə/
ipa: /ˈhɑlə/
Forms: form: hollas
form: hollaing
form: hollaed
form: hollaed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollo.
holla
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒlə/
ipa: /ˈhɑlə/
Forms: form: hollas
form: hollaing
form: hollaed
form: hollaed
Etymology: From holler.
Senses: examples: text: School days went by. I ran across Sly a couple a times, but I wasn't in no mood to talk. He could save all that philosophical bullshit he liked to holla. Didn't nobody need to tell me what was up.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: To shout out or greet casually.
Derived terms: holla at
holla back
holla
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒlə/
ipa: /ˈhɑlə/
Etymology: From holler.
Senses: glosses: what's up; a greeting
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: used to express interest in a woman
shout out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shouts out
form: shouting out
form: shouted out
form: shouted out
Senses: glosses: To publicly greet or acknowledge a person, group, or organization.
examples: text: My teacher said I shouldn't shout out all the time.
glosses: To speak when inappropriate, particularly in a school environment.
shout out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shouts out
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shout-out.
ouverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouvert
wordnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordnets
Etymology: From word + net.
Senses: examples: text: Bilingual corpora can be used for synset validation in a more fruitful way, especially having in mind the request that all synsets from a wordnet for a language other than English have to be associated, if possible, with an English synset using ILI.
ref: 2003, Cvetana Krstev, "Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet", in Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, eds., Text, Speech and Dialogue: 6th International Conference, TSD 2003, České, page 133
text: (if a document mentions dogs, a wordnet allows the inference it is about animals)
ref: 2004, Helge Dyvik, "Translations as Semantic Mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet", in Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, eds., Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International, page 312
text: This trimmed wordnet was used in a cross-retrieval test environment and compared with the generic wordnet and no wordnet.
ref: 2006, Paul Buitelaar et al., "Domain-Specific WSD", in Eneko Agirre, Philip Edmonds, eds., Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms And Applications, page 290
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A semantically structured lexical database.
Related terms: wordbook
WordNet
wordnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: EuroWordNet is an EC-funded project […] that aims to build a multi-lingual database consisting of wordnets in several European languages.
ref: 1998, Wim Peters et al., "Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual Index", in Piek Vossen, ed. Eurowordnet: A Multilingual Database With Lexical Semantic Networks, page 221
text: Wordnets include words of the natural language, collocations and various relations between them.
ref: 1999, Leo Hadacz, "Semantic Inference in the Human-Machine Communication", in Václav Matoušek, ed., Text, Speech and Dialogue: Second International Workshop, TSD'99, Plzen, page 354
text: It is obvious that hypertext and wordnets share many common points regarding their fundamental principles and the objectives toward which they both aim.
ref: 2003, Dimitris Avramidis et al., "Approaching Wordnets through a Structural Point of View", in Peter J. Nürnberg, ed., Metainformatics: International Symposium, MIS 2002, Esbjerg, Denmark, page 49
glosses: plural of wordnet
Related terms: WordNet
espagnole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espagnoles
Etymology: From French (sauce) espagnole (“Spanish [sauce]”). Doublet of Española.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A strong basic sauce consisting of a dark brown roux that is slowly reduced while further ingredients are added, traditionally including veal stock.
Related terms: barbe espagnole
V.I.P.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V.I.P.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VIP ("very important person")
Portugais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese person.
grecques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grecque
wackyparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wackyparsings
Senses: glosses: An instance of a phrase being wackyparsed.
wackyparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wackyparse
styliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin stylus (“stylus”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of, or resembling, a bristle, pin, or pen; styloid.
styloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪ.lɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪlɔɪd
Etymology: From style or stylus + -oid (“-like, resembling”). Compare Ancient Greek στῡλοειδής (stūloeidḗs).
Senses: synonyms: styliform
glosses: Resembling a stylus or pen.
examples: text: But is the human hyoid nevertheless absolutely deprived of the lateral parts of the skull? That is not the case. A ligament coming from each small callosity or from the apohyal is prolonged laterally and reaches the extremity of the styloid apophysis.
ref: 2004, Herve Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, page 162:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Synonyms: styliform
styloform
Derived terms: poststyloid
prestyloid
stylo-
styl-
styloid process
styloid syndrome
styloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪ.lɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪlɔɪd
Forms: form: styloids
Etymology: From style or stylus + -oid (“-like, resembling”). Compare Ancient Greek στῡλοειδής (stūloeidḗs).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of styloid process.
unring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrings
form: unringing
form: unrang
form: unrung
Etymology: From un- + ring.
Senses: examples: In a criminal trial, if the prosecution brings in inadmissible evidence that would unfairly prejudice the accused, a mistrial may be warranted. Having the judge admonish the jury to disregard the evidence might not be enough, as the saying goes, 'You can't unring the bell.'
glosses: Hypothetically, to reverse the act of ringing, or the consequences of the action.
Derived terms: unring a bell
you can't unring a bell
unring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrings
form: unringing
form: unringed
form: unringed
Etymology: From un- + ring.
Senses: examples: text: Her lofty song commands in thrilling strains
That new-raised woman snap her rusty chains,
Unring her finger and unbind her breast.
ref: 1979, John Jefferson Bray, “The Story of Iphis”, in Poems 1972-1979:
glosses: To remove a ring from.
unrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unring
unringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unring
unringing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He's the kind of person whose trials are writ in water; but even he has waited by an unringing telephone, even he has futilely hoped, even he carries memories that continue to smart.
ref: 2009, Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly:
glosses: Not ringing.
unrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unring
unrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been rung.
you can't unring a bell
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Some things cannot be undone.
Synonyms: word: you can't put the shit back in the horse
word: you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
Related terms: the cat's out of the bag
christenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of christening
unring a bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrings a bell
form: unringing a bell
form: unrang a bell
form: unrung a bell
Senses: examples: text: "We can't unring any bells here. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done."
ref: 2004, Fern Michaels, The Real Deal, page 413:
text: “We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”
ref: 2024 May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Todd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible.
Related terms: put the genie back in the bottle
Western European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: West European
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Western Europe, its people, or its culture.
Derived terms: Western European Time
Western European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Western Europeans
form: West European
Senses: glosses: A Western European person; one who comes from or lives in Western Europe.
Eastern European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Eastern Euro
form: East European
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Eastern Europe, its people, or its culture.
Eastern European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eastern Europeans
form: Eastern Euro
form: East European
Senses: glosses: An Eastern European person; one who comes from or lives in Eastern Europe.
Northern European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Northern Europe, its people, or its culture.
Northern European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Northern Europeans
Senses: glosses: A Northern European person; one who comes from or lives in Northern Europe.
Southern European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Southern Europe, its people, or its culture.
Southern European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southern Europeans
Senses: glosses: A Southern European person; one who comes from or lives in Southern Europe.
Sims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɪmz/
Forms: form: Simms
form: Symes
Etymology: From Sim, the short form of Simon + -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wayne County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Grant County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Arenac County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wilson County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Brazos County, Texas.
Derived terms: Sims position
Sims test
Sims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪmz/
Forms: form: Simms
form: Symes
Etymology: From Sim, the short form of Simon + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Sim
immobiliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immobilisers
form: immobilizer
Etymology: From immobilise + -er.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Something or someone that immobilises.
A splint.
glosses: Something or someone that immobilises.
An electronic security device fitted to an automobile that prevents the engine from running unless the correct key (or other token) is present.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Something or someone that immobilises.
A fairy chess piece that cannot capture other pieces but instead prevents adjacent pieces from moving.
immobilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immobilises
form: immobilising
form: immobilised
form: immobilised
Etymology: From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: For the past three-and-half years the City of Philadelphia has been successfully operating commuter services within city boundaries. The aim is to attract motorists to the rail, to relieve street traffic which has tended to immobilise the city.
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: U.S. city to subsidise railroads?”, in Modern Railways, page 14:
text: Also attached to the pillar were the jougs - an iron collar used to immobilise petty offenders in the same way as the pillory was used in England.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 280, about Meikleour, Scotland:
text: You can partially or totally ignore the situation for a short while longer, you can become immobilised with fear, or you can become an urban warrior (or warrioress) and groove on the greatest, most spectacular tragicomic, science-'fiction' drama ever enacted on this planet (probably) until the lights go out.
ref: 2012, Stephen Russell, Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Spiritual Survival Guide, →ISBN:
text: It’s all based on immobilising your opponent, rather than punching or kicking them, which means you learn how to neutralise, for example, a stranger grabbing your wrist.
ref: 2019 September 14, Charles Negromonte Santos, “Fitness tips: three benefits of Brazilian jiu-jitsu”, in The Guardian:
text: Australian researchers have found a protein in the lungs that sticks to the Covid-19 virus like velcro and immobilises it, which may explain why some people never become sick with the virus while others suffer serious illness.
ref: 2023 September 2, Melissa Davey, “‘Crazy interesting’ findings by Australian researchers may reveal key to Covid immunity”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of immobilize.
Derived terms: cryoimmobilised
gabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabbies
Senses: examples: text: Substance / Brand/Street Names / Administered [...] Gabapentin / Neurontin, Lyrica, Lycia; gabbie / Oral
ref: 2019 February 27, Robert J. Kizior, Keith Hodgson, Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2020 E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1258:
text: smoking marijuana and taking gabbies, […] the tremors and jerky eye movements of a gabbie overdose, […]
ref: 2019 August 27, Joanna Jolly, Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Singular or attributive form of gabbies
georgette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: georgettes
Etymology: From French georgette, named after Georgette de la Plante, French dressmaker.
Senses: examples: text: She looked away from the stage at an enormously stout lady promenading in a black and salmon georgette dress.
ref: 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 68:
text: Martha began sarcastically to explain why it was that even if she had been twelve she could not have worn this pink frilled georgette to the Van Rensbergs' house, since nice little English girls were not for export.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 73:
text: Silk chiffon and silk georgette. Two thin, thin materials that cannot be confused with each other.
ref: 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 62:
glosses: A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.
sandersonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandersonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant of the genus Sandersonia, with yellow or orange flowers, Sandersonia aurantiaca.
Synonyms: Christmas bells
golden lily of the valley
Chinese lantern lily
Christmas bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Sandersonia aurantiaca, native to South Africa.
glosses: Any member of the genus Blandfordia of flowering plants native to Australia.
glosses: Forest natal-mahogany (Trichilia dregeana)
Synonyms: golden lily of the valley
Chinese lantern lily
Sandersonia aurantiaca
trillionairess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trillionairesses
Etymology: From trillionaire + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female trillionaire.
ent-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: Steviol is ent-13-hydroxykaur-16-en-19-oic acid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: enantiomeric
remittances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remittance
inundations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inundation
dissertations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissertation
stigmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stigmatize
stigmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stigmatized
form: most stigmatized
Senses: glosses: Subject to a stigma; marked as an outcast.
examples: text: This gift of the Lord is not confined to past centuries. It still exists in full strength in our days. Catherine Emmerich, who died in 1824, is an example of it, and a stigmatized Saint still nearer to our times, for she did not die until 1885, Catherine Putigny, the sister of the Visitation, was seen in two parts of Metz at one and the same time.
ref: 1923, Joris-Karl Huysmans, translated by Agnes Hastings, Saint Lydwine of Schiedam, page 126:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Bearing the stigmata.
stigmatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stigmatize
stigmatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stigmatize
ratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratification
disputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disputation
rhumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhumbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumba.
rhumba
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhumbas
form: rhumbaing
form: rhumbaed
form: rhumbaed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumba.
très chic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tres chic
Etymology: Borrowed from French très chic (“very stylish”).
Senses: glosses: In style; fashionable.
paraletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paraletic
form: most paraletic
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paralytic.
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after two surgeons, R. M. Zollinger and E. H. Ellison.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder where increased levels of the hormone gastrin are produced, causing the stomach to produce excess hydrochloric acid; often caused by a tumor (gastrinoma) of the duodenum or pancreas, and resulting in peptic ulcers.
Derived terms: word: ZE
pansexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pansexual
TU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Taylor University.
glosses: Initialism of Temple University.
glosses: Initialism of Tooling University.
glosses: Initialism of Towson University.
glosses: Initialism of Trent University.
glosses: Initialism of Tribhuvan University.
glosses: Initialism of Tulane University.
glosses: Initialism of University of Tulsa.
glosses: Initialism of Touro University.
TU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TUs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tuberculin Units, the measure of an antigen used to aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection.
glosses: Time Unit.
glosses: Initialism of translation unit.
glosses: tritium unit: equal to 1 atom of tritium per 10¹⁸ hydrogen atoms, typically in water.
chelonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈ-/
ipa: /kɪˈloʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more chelonian
form: most chelonian
Etymology: Chelonia + -an
Senses: examples: text: Chelonian eggs may be leathery or parchment-shelled that indent easily when laid and expand due to water uptake during incubation; harder-shelled but expansible eggs which behave much like parchment eggs during incubation; and brittle-shelled eggs which do not indent when laid and usually take up little or no external water during incubation (Ewert, 1979, 1985; Kuchling, 1999).
ref: 2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46:
glosses: Of, relating to, or belonging to the order Chelonia (Testudines), which includes the turtles and tortoises.
chelonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈ-/
ipa: /kɪˈloʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: chelonians
Etymology: Chelonia + -an
Senses: glosses: A reptile of the order Chelonia (Testudines).