cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enrollee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enrollees
Etymology: From enroll + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: “For example,” the report said, “a number of obstetricians had wait times of more than one month, and one had wait times of more than two months for an enrollee who was eight weeks pregnant. Such lengthy wait times could result in a pregnant enrollee receiving no prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy.”
ref: 2014 December 8, Robert Pear, “Half of Doctors Listed as Serving Medicaid Patients Are Unavailable, Investigation Finds”, in The New York Times:
text: All of it focuses on the fall open enrollment season, the annual opportunity to change coverage. From Oct. 15 until Dec. 7, enrollees can shop Medicare’s marketplace for the prescription drug and Advantage plans offered by commercial insurance companies. They can also switch between fee-for-service original Medicare and Advantage.
ref: 2020 November 13, Mark Miller, “When Medicare Choices Get ‘Pretty Crazy,’ Many Seniors Avert Their Eyes”, in The New York Times:
text: Indeed, President Joe Biden signed landmark legislation to reduce drug copays paid by Medicare enrollees, a policy that Republican legislators opposed.
ref: 2024 November 18, Simon Montlake, “Nomination of RFK Jr. reflects a broader shake-up in the politics of health”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A person who is enrolled, as in a school.
eesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eesome
form: most eesome
Etymology: From ee (“eye”) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Look at them now, my leddy—Will onybody deny that that's an eesome couple ?
ref: 1823, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton:
glosses: Pleasing to the eye; attractive.
clodpolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clodpolish
form: most clodpolish
Etymology: From clodpole + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Awkward.
bibble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: bibbles
form: bibbling
form: bibbled
form: bibbled
Etymology: From Middle English bibben (whence bib; see there for more) + -le.
Senses: glosses: To eat and/or drink noisily.
glosses: To tipple.
Derived terms: bibbler
Related terms: bib
bibber
bibble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: bibbles
form: bibbling
form: bibbled
form: bibbled
Etymology: A false Yiddishism, based on no actual attested Yiddish.
Senses: examples: text: "Foxes have holes,' Uncle Abner," said Daisy, " 'and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.' Why should we worry when we have such a bully place as this tent?" "Ish ka bibble," said the Reverend Frank. "Well," said I, "about the time the mosquitoes begin to come out of the marsh, you'll begin to bibble."
ref: 1919, Herbert Quick, The Fairview Idea: A Story of the New Rural Life, page 39:
glosses: To worry.
Derived terms: bibble-babble
ish ka bibble
bibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: bibbles
Etymology: Compare Staffordshire dialectal bibble (pebble).
Senses: examples: text: She burst into his studio one afternoon as the light failed, in disarray, a tear freezing on her cheek, her lips trembling and a little bibble of moisture working back and forth in her nostril as she breathed.
ref: 1994, Nicholas Salaman, The Garden of Earthly Delights, →ISBN:
text: […] punish Glori because she prefers to rinse its cotton dress at home, in the toilet bowl? This time I wrapped the doll in corduroy before I chucked it in. "No bleach, Glori. Just a bibble of soap."
ref: 1995, Jerome Charyn, The Tar Baby, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: I found an old black jumper, but it is ancient and has bibbles of fluff all over it. As we walk from the car to the church entrance, a bus changes gear at the brow of the hill, slowing down. I glance up. It is full of younger pupils[…]
ref: 2020 July 2, Chloë Heuch, Too Dark to See, Firefly Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A bit.
bibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: bibbles
form: bibble
Etymology: Corruption of the aboriginal name "bimbil" for certain species of Eucalyptus.
Senses: examples: text: "Bibble Box," " Broad-leaf Box," or " Peppermint Box." Useful for fencing purposes, &c. Strong and durable. Habitat, open forests and low flats. Plentiful in some localities. Flowering period varies.
ref: 1909, J. H. Maiden, A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus:
text: The timber on the estate consists of white and bibble box, apple tree, red gum, ironbark, pine, and river oak. There are about 2,695 acres of dense pine scrub, interspersed with many of the natural scrubs and trees peculiar to[…]
ref: 1910, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, page 280:
glosses: A species of Australian tree, the forest red gum, glossy-leaved box, or shiny-leaved box, Eucalyptus tereticornis.
amurcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amurcous
form: most amurcous
Senses: glosses: Smelly; stinky.
ananym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ananyms
Etymology: From ana- (“backward”) + -nym (“name”).
Senses: hypernyms: anonym
pseudonym
glosses: A pseudonym derived by spelling one's name backwards.
Related terms: anadrome
anagram
ananyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ananym
blinkard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɪŋkə(ɹ)d/
homophone: blinkered
Forms: form: blinkards
Senses: glosses: One with bad eyes.
glosses: A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
blinkards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blinkard
hyalophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek, hyalo- + -phagy
Senses: glosses: The act of eating glass.
Synonyms: hyalophagia
Gradgrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gradgrinds
Etymology: From Thomas Gradgrind, a pedantic teacher in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854).
Senses: examples: text: They do just what all the practical men of this practical age are doing, what even the Gradgrinds are doing: they embody ideas; they put thoughts into facts.
ref: 1860 June, “Representative Art”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 32:
text: “I was purring. I'm a Gradgrind—it's quite right—anything you can say about Herbert Spencer, vivisectors, materialistic Science or Atheists, applies without correction to me. […]”
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia:
text: He was a veritable Gradgrind for facts, facts, facts.
ref: 1916, Arthur B. Reeve, The Ear in the Wall:
glosses: One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration.
wikipedia: Gradgrind
Hard Times (novel)
Derived terms: Gradgrindery
Gradgrindian
Gradgrindish
Gradgrindism
Gradgrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gradgrind
gride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: grides
form: griding
form: grided
form: grided
Etymology: From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.
Senses: examples: text: Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide / She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 408:
synonyms: word: jab
word: run through
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
examples: text: So ſtoutly he withſtood their ſtrong aſſay, / Till that at laſt, when he aduantage ſpyde, / His poynant ſpeare he thruſt with puiſſant ſway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his ſhield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall ſteele did gryde[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, pages 300-301:
glosses: To travel through something.
raw_tags: of a weapon or sharp object
examples: text: Fiercely flies
The blast of North and East, and ice
Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves,
And bristles all the brakes and thorns
To yon hard crescent, as she hangs
Above the wood which grides and clangs
Its leafless ribs and iron horns
Together, in the drifts that pass
To darken on the rolling brine
That breaks the coast.
ref: 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 108:
glosses: To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
gride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: grides
Etymology: From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.
Senses: examples: text: The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160:
glosses: A harsh grating sound.
saponifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saponifiable
form: most saponifiable
Etymology: From saponify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for use in soap production.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That can be saponified.
raw_tags: of a lipid
phthisicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phthisicky
form: most phthisicky
Etymology: From phthisic + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
shunpike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shunpikes
Etymology: Blend of shun + turnpike
Senses: examples: text: In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.
ref: 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)
glosses: A side road or route.
shunpike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shunpikes
form: shunpiking
form: shunpiked
form: shunpiked
Etymology: Blend of shun + turnpike
Senses: glosses: To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.
auxetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːkˈsɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɔkˈsɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɑkˈsɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more auxetic
form: most auxetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐξητικός (auxētikós, “growing, promoting growth, productive”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to auxesis
Derived terms: anauxetic
auxetically
auxeticity
nonauxetic
auxetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːkˈsɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɔkˈsɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɑkˈsɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: auxetics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐξητικός (auxētikós, “growing, promoting growth, productive”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An auxetic material.
capriped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin capriped-, capripēs.
Senses: examples: text: […] so deep in the confidence of nature in general that they seem to belong to the forest, and to be fellows with its denizens, like the capriped satyrs […]
ref: 1876 June 29, Frank Carpenter, “Notes of the Wheeler Expedition”, in Forest and Stream, volume 6, number 21, →ISSN, page 336:
glosses: Having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
capriped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capripeds
form: capripede
Etymology: From Latin capriped-, capripēs.
Senses: examples: text: And into the hall twirled six capripeds, footing it lightly as the music swept ever faster, and a one-footer that leaped hither and thither about and about, as the flea hoppeth, till the Witches grew hoarse with singing and shouting and hounding of him on.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A goat-footed person; a satyr.
Destot's space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for radiologist Étienne Destot (1864-1918).
Senses: examples: text: The wound on the back of the hand on the Shroud of Turin appears on the thumb side of the wrist, and any anatomy textbook will confirm that Destot's space is on the pinkie side of the wrist, where Barbet indeed sank his nails into his cadaver wrists."
ref: 2003, Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, W. W. Norton & Company, page 163:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The space in the wrist bounded by the hamate, capitate, triquetral and lunate bones.
Related terms: space of Destot
pythagorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pythagorizes
form: pythagorizing
form: pythagorized
form: pythagorized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pythagorize.
magnetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of magnetize
magnetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetized
form: most magnetized
Senses: glosses: That has been made magnetic.
Derived terms: nonmagnetized
unmagnetized
interbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interbreed
interbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interbreedings
Senses: synonyms: inbreeding
glosses: breeding within a narrow range of individuals
synonyms: crossbreeding
hybridization
glosses: breeding between heterogeneous individuals
faculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facula
facula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfækjʊlə/
Forms: form: faculae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).
Senses: examples: text: Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]
ref: c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
Derived terms: facular
inspissated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inspissated
form: most inspissated
Senses: glosses: Thickened or dried by evaporation.
examples: Fresh from the furnace glare, I can see nothing in this inspissated gloom. (James Bridie pseudonym Osborne Henry Mavor, A Change for the Worse, 1943)
I watched the right hon. Gentleman's face as his predecessor spoke this afternoon and I have never seen such inspissated gloom etched on a human visage in my life. When the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) said that she planned to support him in the next election, he must have been reminded of Lenin's promise to support the social democrats as the rope supports the hanged man. (Denis Healey, speaking in the UK House of Commons, 26 June 1991)
As for the Great Reform Bill itself, his gloom was inspissatedː "I cannot see what is to save Church, or property, or colonies, or union with Ireland, or eventually monarchy, if the Reform Bill passes." (Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement 21 August 2015 page 4, referring to the Duke of Wellington)
glosses: Concentrated or accentuated.
inspissated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inspissate
Derived terms: uninspissated
Related terms: inspissation
only fools and horses work
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A philosophy of life, holding that people who do not look for (and find) an easy way of earning a living are foolish.
mad dogs and Englishmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the verse/song by Noel Coward: "Mad dogs and Englishmen / Go out in the midday sun."
Senses: examples: text: Only mad dogs and Englishmen would go out in this heat!
glosses: To express that it is very hot weather.
duello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duellos
form: duelloes
form: duelli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian duello. Doublet of duel.
Senses: examples: text: Come ſir Andrew, there's no remedie, the Gentleman will for his honors ſake haue one bowt with you: he cannot by the Duello avoide it: but hee has promiſed me, as he is a Gentleman and a Soldiour, he will not hurt you.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269, column 2:
text: the duello or monomachia
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.
ref: 1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: A duel.
Related terms: code duello
duelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duello
elastica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elasticas
Senses: examples: text: This paper studies the snap-through of a pinned-clamped elastica when the support of the clamped end can be moved arbitrarily in plane. The universal snap curve, which describes the critical boundary conditions of the pinned-clamped elasticas, is firstly obtained by determining the saddle-node bifurcation points of the moment-rotation response curves.
ref: 2020 December, Qiang Wang, Hai-Lin Zou, Zi-Chen Deng, “Snap-through of a pinned-clamped elastica with arbitrarily movable support at the clamped end”, in Mechanics Research Communications, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Pergamon, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
qualifier: materials science
glosses: A curve that minimizes bending energy; the shape that a thin flexible rod assumes when its endpoints are fixed.
examples: text: That the elastica interna becomes so modified in its staining properties, so swollen as to exceed ten times the original elastica in thickness, is a fact that cannot be doubted.
ref: 1901, Montréal (Québec). Royal Victoria Hospital, Studies from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Connective tissue that contains elastic fibers, such as that found in blood vessels or skin.
iconodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconodules
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek εἰκονόδουλος (eikonódoulos), a compound of εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”) + δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).
Senses: glosses: A person who supports the veneration of religious icons; an iconophile or iconodulist
Related terms: iconodulism
iconodulist
live by the sword, die by the sword
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the Bible, Matthew 26:52, where Jesus rebukes one of his disciples for having used his sword against a servant of the High Priest of Israel.
Senses: glosses: One who uses violence can expect a violent response; it is better to try to use peaceful means wherever possible.
glosses: One can expect dire outcomes from any vice; used to convey a sense that poetic justice is inevitable.
examples: text: And in Dirk Diggler's most anguished scene, as he shouts at Jack Horner, "I'm ready to shoot my scene RIGHT NOW!" we learn that those who live by the sword can also die by it.
ref: 1997 October 17, Roger Ebert, “Boogie Nights (1997) review”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
text: In the “live by the sword, die by the sword” category of ironic litigation, consider the fate of struggling hardware and software maker Sun Microsystems.
ref: 2009, Larry Downes, The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age, Basic Books, →ISBN:
text: “Before the contest, I tweeted ‘Live by the sword, die by the sword’,” he said. “I helped developing AI and I would be the one who would be the loser of the match. Although I won, in the end, for now.”
ref: 2025 July 26, Hannah Devlin, quoting Przemysław Dębiak, “Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – just”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The means of one's success can become the means of one's downfall.
kick down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks down
form: kicking down
form: kicked down
form: kicked down
Senses: examples: text: The elderly woman was rescued off the floor after a young paramedic managed to kick her door down.
glosses: To break or demolish something by physical bodily force, especially stomping.
Derived terms: word: kickdown
put across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts across
form: putting across
form: put across
form: put across
Senses: examples: text: All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.
glosses: to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
examples: text: Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.
ref: 2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian:
glosses: to convey or communicate.
Related terms: put oneself across
pocket-handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Throughout the land there is a great variation in the shape and size of village greens, from the many of pocket-handkerchief size to a roadside common of 20 acres or more - as at Lindfield in West Sussex.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, pages 264-265:
text: The pocket-handkerchief garden had trees of cypress, olive, lemon and orange, she emphasized.
ref: 1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography, page 74:
text: When I first went there more than 30 years ago it had patchworks of pocket-handkerchief fields.
ref: 2002 January 19, Tim Wapshott, “I lost my heart in Nohant-en-Graçay, France”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of small or restricted size.
pocket handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket handkerchiefs
form: pocket handkerchieves
form: pocket-handkerchief
form: pockethandkerchief
Senses: glosses: handkerchief
Derived terms: word: pocket-handkerchief
put oneself across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts oneself across
form: putting oneself across
form: put oneself across
form: put oneself across
Senses: examples: text: It is very important to put yourself across well at a job interview.
glosses: To explain one's ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality.
rowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rower
firecrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firecracker
greater good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cutting pensions is for the greater good of all citizens.
text: Moral powers therefore, and their improvements, must be the chief object of that infinitely good being's care and concern, whole scope in creating is the greater good of the whole.
ref: 1740, George Turnbull, The Principles of Moral Philosophy: In Two Volumes, volume II, London: J. Noon, page 49:
text: They are perfectly satisfied with the greater good for which they sacrifice the less good.
ref: 1824, Luke, “The self-denial of the Lord Jesus Christ”, in The Christian Magazine, volume I, Providence: Barnum Field, page 183:
glosses: The benefit of the public, of more people than a singular person or a small amount of people (especially if it requires some expense or sacrifice).
Related terms: common good
Xocomil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Xocomil, from Kaqchikel Xokomil, from xokom (“left; south”).
Senses: glosses: A wind over Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
ideolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideologs
Senses: examples: text: That is the core of his beliefs in terms of takings. So he is an ideolog. He does not have the temperament for the bench.
ref: 2007, Congress, editor, Congressional Record, V. 149, Pt. 13, July 8, 2003 to July 16, 2003, Government Printing Office, page 17238:
glosses: Rare spelling of ideologue.
Satanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Satanist
erica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ericas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Erica.
Senses: examples: text: I have now arrived at the third year since the ericas were seedlings and cuttings; and, as much can be said in this stage of their growth applicable to future years, it is my intention to do so.
ref: 1840, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:
glosses: Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants
safecracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪfˌkɹækɚ/
Forms: form: safecrackers
form: safe-cracker
Etymology: From safe + cracker.
Senses: examples: text: His fingers were slender and delicate, an evolutionary advantage for a safecracker.
ref: 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 281:
glosses: One who breaks into safes.
Synonyms: yegg
yeggman
safebreaker
peterman
jug-heavy
cracksman
Related terms: safecracking
safecrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safecracker
yeggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yegg
yeggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yegg
seabirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-birds
Senses: glosses: plural of seabird
seacoasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seacoast
simulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simulation
autunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autunites
Etymology: From Autun + -ite, after Autun, France, near which it was discovered in 1852.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow mineral with tetragonal crystals, Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O.
Derived terms: autunitic
meta-autunite
natroautunite
aerinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue mineral with monoclinic crystals, Ca₄(Al,Fe³⁺,Mg, Fe²⁺)₁₀Si₁₂O₃₅(OH)₁₂CO₃·12H₂O, made of clay and sometimes used as pigment.
laytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laytimes
Etymology: From lay + time.
Senses: glosses: In commercial shipping, the amount of time specified in a charter party for a vessel's loading and unloading.
Related terms: demurrage
repayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From repay + -able.
Senses: examples: text: . I owe her a debt not repayable for how she has reared William.
ref: 2003, Bryan F. Le Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The debt for being alive, the debt for being loved is only repayable by mercy.
ref: 2017, Francis, Pope, Merola, Guiseppe, With the Smell of the Sheep, →ISBN:
glosses: Able to be repaid.
topics: business
glosses: to be repaid; owing.
raw_tags: of a debt
Derived terms: nonrepayable
repayable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repayables
Etymology: From repay + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Proponents long have urged that these repayables be taken out of the picture of government's running expenses.
ref: 1949, Engineering News-record (volume 143, part 2, page 17)
glosses: An amount, a loan, etc. to be repaid.
virogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virogeneses
Etymology: From viro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: The production or formation of a virus
Related terms: virogenic
turlough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.lɒx/
Forms: form: turloughs
Etymology: From Irish tur (“dry”) + loch (“lake”).
Senses: examples: text: Naisi said that it was a turlough, or a disappearing lake, and that before the year's end, it would be full of water again.
ref: 2008, David Riley, A Celtic Tale, page 75:
text: How deep was that small lake—more a turlough really, filled with water in autumn and winter, a dry hollow in summer[…]
ref: 2011, Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home, page 108:
glosses: A temporary lake in an area of limestone, filled by rising groundwater during the rainy winter season.
Synonyms: sense: temporary lake
word: vernal pool
turloughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turlough
evitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evitates
form: evitating
form: evitated
form: evitated
Etymology: From Latin evitatus, past participle of evitare (“to shun”); e (“out”) + vitare (“to shun”).
Senses: examples: text: Since therein she doth evitate and shun / A thousand irreligious cursed hours
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, scene 5:
glosses: To shun; to avoid.
Synonyms: avoid
bunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunch
bunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunchings
Senses: examples: text: The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.
ref: 1974, Isabella Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes:
glosses: An arrangement of items in a bunch.
examples: text: Why do we sometimes find three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay to the leaders, and before long the third bus has caught up. That is why buses sometimes arrive at the bus stop in bunches.
ref: 1949 July and August, Railway Magazine, page vii, advertisement by London Transport:
glosses: An occurrence of things in a bunch.
glosses: The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.
Derived terms: antibunching
Japanese bunching onion
microbunching
nanobunching
Related terms: buncher
bunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Formed in bunches
Derived terms: antibunched
microbunched
unbunched
bunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunch
commissioned officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissioned officer
creationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creationist
RSV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Revised Standard Version.
RSV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSVs
Senses: examples: text: While most children will get RSV by age 2, getting sick is never ideal and for young children, or those at high risk for severe RSV disease.
ref: 2022 November 16, Syra Madad, “Opinion: I’m an epidemiologist, and my daughter’s RSV case shook me”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of respiratory syncytial virus.
servicemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serviceman
sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinus
slotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Removing the cooked food from the oil with a slotted spatula lets it drain better.
glosses: Having slots.
examples: text: We drove carefully across the slotted ice.
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Containing crevasses.
raw_tags: of ice or snow
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Wedged in a crevasse.
Derived terms: slotted spoon
slotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slot
bestower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bestowers
Etymology: From bestow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bestows.
provenanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provenanced
form: most provenanced
Etymology: From provenance + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the provenanced pottery vessels were found in San Diego county middens.
text: The auction house had a history of selling provenanced fine art.
glosses: Having a provenance.
provenanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From provenance + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provenance
elution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elutions
Etymology: From the verb elute.
Senses: examples: text: The quicker the alkali salts are removed during elution, the less chance will there be of forming insoluble lime salts, consequently the melassate which offers the greatest surface to the action of the alcohol will be best and quickest washed.
ref: 1884 May 29, The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 1, page 324:
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.
Synonyms: desorption
Derived terms: coelution
electroelution
microelution
position paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: position papers
Senses: examples: text: He headed the China-watching Consulate General, and in 1963 drafted a position paper for President Kennedy that recommended rapprochement with China.
ref: 1972 February 28, “The Supporting Cast in Peking”, in Time, retrieved 30 Oct 2016:
text: The first chapter is a position paper on explanation in the social sciences, a plea for "mechanisms" as opposed to law-like principles.
ref: 2001, Robert C. Solomon, “Review of Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions by Jon Elster”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 110, number 1, page 104:
text: They oversee groups that are churning out position papers on counterterrorism, cybersecurity, democracy and human rights, and global development.
ref: 2016 August 26, Mark Landler, “Clinton and Trump Campaigns Are Buzzing About the Race . . . for the Cabinet”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Oct 2016:
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An essay or report which expresses a position, conclusion, or recommendation concerning a contested issue or undecided question and which usually contains arguments or reasons in support of this position.
torque off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torques off
form: torquing off
form: torqued off
form: torqued off
Etymology: Possibly an alteration of tick off. Metaphorical use of mechanical verbs (including torque, jack, and grind) with people and their emotions as the direct object is also seen elsewhere, as with for example torque up, grind one's gears, and jacked up.
Senses: examples: text: It is hard to remember a talented player who so comprehensively bothered, annoyed, outraged and just plain torqued off the customers quite like Owens.
ref: 2004 March 5, Ray Ratto, “Better off, but at what price?”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
synonyms: word: cheese off
word: pee off
word: piss off
word: tee off
word: tick off
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy, distress, or anger.
torqued off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torqued off
form: most torqued off
Senses: examples: text: Also-rans such as Dale Jarrett, Kevin Harvick, and Kasey Kahne were torqued off after hanging close all year only to find themselves shut out of a shot at the title.
ref: 2004 September 15, John Rolfe, “My championship format for NASCAR”, in SI.com, retrieved 12 Aug 2010:
glosses: Annoyed, upset, angry.
Synonyms: browned off
cheesed off
pissed off
torqued off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torque off
sardines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Etymology: The game name refers to sardines tightly packed in a can.
Senses: glosses: plural of sardine
sardines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Etymology: The game name refers to sardines tightly packed in a can.
Senses: examples: text: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.
oughtness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oughtnesses
Etymology: From ought + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Every attempt to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have shown, either end in an illogical system or destroy the possibility of a separate science of Ethics at all.
ref: 1886, William Mitchell, “Moral Obligation”, in Mind, volume 11, number 41, page 40:
text: Oughtness, may I suggest, consists in the power which a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices.
ref: 1958, Archie J. Bahm, “Aesthetic Experience and Moral Experience”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 55, number 20, page 840:
text: Combining the reality of politics with a sense of "oughtness" creates a sense of duty to the collective.
ref: 2002, Roberta L. Coles, “Manifest Destiny Adapted for 1990s' War Discourse”, in Sociology of Religion, volume 63, number 4, page 415:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
glosses: The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
examples: text: I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
ref: 1964 December 10, Martin Luther King, Jr., Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize:
glosses: The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
oibara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 追腹.
Senses: examples: , Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure
At the time of Lord Nabeshima Naohiro's death, Lord Mitsushige forbade Naohiro's retainers the practice of oibara.
glosses: Seppuku of a retainer at the time of his master's death.
transcends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcend
transcended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcend
floristry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floristries
Etymology: From florist + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Production, commerce and trade in flowers.
glosses: The art of flower arrangement.
glosses: A florist's shop.
physio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “nature”).
Senses: glosses: nature
glosses: physical
Derived terms: physiognomy
physi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: phys-
form: physio-
Senses: glosses: Form of physio-
Derived terms: physiognomy
physiography
physiotherapy
poikilohydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poikilo- + -hydric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no mechanism to prevent desiccation
raw_tags: of a plant
Related terms: poikilohydry
campesino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campesinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish campesino (“farmer”).
Senses: glosses: An agricultural worker in Latin America.
agricultor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agricultors
Etymology: From Middle English agricultor, from Latin agricultor.
Senses: glosses: agriculturist, farmer
agroindustry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroindustries
Etymology: From agro- + industry.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: Big Ag
text: Near-synonym: agribusiness
text: In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80:
glosses: Agricultural activity viewed as an industrial sector of the economy.
Related terms: word: agroindustrial
noncontinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-continuous
Etymology: From non- + continuous.
Senses: glosses: discontinuous; not continuing without interruption
Related terms: discontinuous
wind storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind storms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of windstorm.
atopic dermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atopic dermatitides
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An atopic, hereditary, and non-contagious skin disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the skin.
Synonyms: word: atopic eczema
english: see explanation
translation: see explanation
word: eczema
Hypernyms: dermatitis
falsificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falsificates
form: falsificating
form: falsificated
form: falsificated
Senses: glosses: To falsify or counterfeit.
ferie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪəɹi/
Forms: form: feries
Etymology: From Middle English ferie, from Old French ferie, from Latin feriae (“holidays”). See fair.
Senses: glosses: A holiday.
matchpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchpoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of match point.
matchpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matchpoint
match points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of match point
bow spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow springs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spring in the shape of a bow.
Derived terms: bow-spring centraliser
bow-spring centralizer
hand-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-springs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handspring.
druids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druid
countably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From countable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a countable manner; in a way that can be counted.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a way that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Derived terms: countably additive
countably infinite
carpels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpel
put down as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts down as
form: putting down as
form: put down as
form: put down as
Senses: examples: text: I put him down as ignorant, but then discovered he is, in fact, a university professor!
glosses: To assume the particularity of someone's character based on very little information.
syllabaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabary
put down for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts down for
form: putting down for
form: put down for
form: put down for
Senses: examples: text: Put me down for one of the drivers.
text: You can put my wife down for $10
glosses: To record that someone has offered to help, or contribute something.
sister-in-laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister-in-law
put down to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts down to
form: putting down to
form: put down to
form: put down to
Senses: examples: text: I put the high crime rate down to the high unemployment.
text: Collins' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude—his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, and the use of powerful historical imaginations, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.
ref: 1988, Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War:
text: Out in the ground, meanwhile, it was particularly disappointing to hear former England captain Andrew Strauss put the febrile atmosphere down to “people who don’t normally come to Lord’s”.
ref: 2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: chalk up to
glosses: To ascribe; to assume to be the cause of a situation.