cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwraps
form: forwrapping
form: forwrapped
form: forwrapped
Etymology: From Middle English forwrappen, equivalent to for- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: "Why art thou all forwrapped save thy face? Why livest thou so long in so great age?"
ref: 1782, John Bell, Bell's edition:
text: The great tamburlaine, that reigned not so many years hence, a captain no less bloody than valiant, which also subdued so many countries and provinces, being demanded why he so more than tyrannously used his captives, whereunto he answered, forwrapped [deeply suffused] in choler: [...]
ref: 1994, Vivien Thomas, William Tydeman, Christopher Marlowe:
glosses: To wrap up or about; muffle.
clickjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clickjacks
form: clickjacking
form: clickjacked
form: clickjacked
Etymology: Blend of click + hijack
Senses: glosses: To steal confidential information from a user who is browsing a website via clickjacking.
forwean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forweans
form: forweaning
form: forweaned
form: forweaned
Etymology: From Middle English forwenien, forwanien, from Old English *forwenian (“to spoil”), from Proto-Germanic *frawanjaną (“to spoil”), equivalent to for- + wean. Compare Middle Low German vorwenen (“to forwean”), German verwöhnen (“to spoil, pamper, indulge”), Danish forvænne (“to indulge”).
Senses: glosses: To accustom to bad habits; spoil by indulgence; pamper.
forweary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwearies
form: forwearying
form: forwearied
form: forwearied
Etymology: From Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- + weary.
Senses: examples: text: Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight
From loftie steed, and downe to sleepe me layd
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book IX, Canto XIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To weary utterly; tire out.
glosses: To become wearied.
forweary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forweary
form: most forweary
Etymology: From Middle English forwery, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) + weary.
Senses: glosses: Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.
trapmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapmakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trap maker.
trapmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapmaker
coleopterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleopterologists
Etymology: From coleopterology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: coleopterist
glosses: A person who studies or practices coleopterology (the study of beetles).
VSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Virgin SpaceShip — spaceship prefix for Virgin Galactic spacelines
topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: vehicle speed sensor
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: virtual switching system
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: variable structure system
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: measurement
glosses: volatile suspended solids
glosses: Initialism of visual snow syndrome
Coordinate terms: sense: Virgin Galactic
word: VMS
VSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service
qualifier: surveillance
glosses: Virtual Security System software
VSS
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: V_
form: SS
Senses: glosses: apparent volume of distribution at steady state
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: one of the power-supply pins on some integrated circuits
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
sense: antonym
word: VCC
VMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Virgin Mothership, used by Virgin Galactic spacelines.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Memory System, the operating system for the DEC VAX series of computers.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Voynich manuscript.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: OpenVMS
Coordinate terms: sense: Virgin Galactic
word: VSS
Derived terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: VMSVGA
rai stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rai stones
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of large, circular stone disks, carved out of limestone, in the island of Yap, Micronesia.
rai stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rai stone
HAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HALs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of hardware abstraction layer.
HAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the fictional HAL 9000.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
fiction
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
glosses: A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
HAL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
henwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henwives
form: hen-wife
Etymology: From hen + wife.
Senses: glosses: A woman in charge of domestic fowl; sometimes used contemptuously about men.
henwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen-wives
Senses: glosses: plural of henwife
pholas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pholades
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: [M]any of the pillars of the temple of Serapis at Puteoli vvere penetrated by theſe animals. […] [T]he pholas muſt have pierced into them ſince they vvere erected; for no vvorkmen vvould have laboured a pillar into form, if it had been honey-combed by vvorms in the quarry.
ref: 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Multival[v]e Shell-fish”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Any of several borrowing marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas.
hen-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen-wives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of henwife.
bark mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bark mixtures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various decoctions of bark used as various remedies
glosses: Any of various preparations of the bark of various trees, used as a growing medium for orchids etc.
furmints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furmint
flower fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower flies
Etymology: From flower + fly.
Senses: glosses: A hoverfly.
flower flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower fly
apriorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apriorism
pliest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ply + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of ply
rotoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From rotoscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the rotoscope form of animation.
plieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ply
northern shoveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern shovelers
form: Northern shoveler
form: northern shoveller
Senses: synonyms: mud duck
spoonie
glosses: Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata, a duck breeding in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America.
northern shovelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern shoveler
seizureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seizure + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Epilepsy began by seizureless paroxysms at about equal frequency in children and adults.
ref: 1967, Excerpta Medica Foundation, Excerpta medica: Neurology and neurosurgery: Volume 20:
glosses: Without seizures.
musk duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk ducks
form: Musk Duck
Etymology: From musk + duck, from its musky odour.
Senses: glosses: Biziura lobata, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.
Related terms: Muscovy duck
mottled duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mottled ducks
Etymology: From mottled + duck.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized dabbling duck, Anas fulvigula.
Synonyms: mottled mallard
mottled ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mottled duck
musk ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musk duck
gersdorffite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gersdorffites
Etymology: From Gersdorff + -ite, after Johann von Gersdorff (1781–1849), owner of the nickel mine at Schladming, Austria (the type locality).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric nickel arsenic sulfide mineral.
gersdorffites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gersdorffite
type localities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type locality
glaucochroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucochroites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-gray”) + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “color”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium manganese nesosilicate mineral occurring in metamorphosed limestones.
glaucochroites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaucochroite
glulisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: aspart
degludec
detemir
glargine
lispro
glosses: Ellipsis of insulin glulisine.
moraesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A beryllium-phosphorus mineral.
stiff-tailed duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiff-tailed ducks
Etymology: From stiff + tailed + duck.
Senses: glosses: A duck of the Oxyurinae subfamily.
Related terms: stifftail
stiff-tailed ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiff-tailed duck
noonkanbahite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Noonkanbah + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A potassic batisite mineral.
shcherbakovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Shcherbakov + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular batisite mineral.
chestnut teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chestnut teals
Senses: glosses: Anas castanea, a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.
chestnut teals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestnut teal
siderazot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siderazote.
siderazote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderazot
Etymology: From sidero- + azote?
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare iron-nitrogen mineral, Fe₅N₂, associated with lava.
santite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Santi + -ite, after Italian museum director Georgi Santi.
Senses: glosses: A mineral containing potassium, boron, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Cape teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape teals
Senses: glosses: Anas capensis, a dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa
Cape teals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape teal
Mexican duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican ducks
Senses: glosses: Anas diazi, a dabbling duck in the genus Anas which breeds in Mexico and the southern USA.
Mexican ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican duck
ferruginous duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferruginous ducks
Senses: glosses: Aythya nyroca, a medium-sized diving duck from Eurasia
ferruginous ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferruginous duck
Labrador duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Labrador ducks
Etymology: From Labrador + duck.
Senses: glosses: Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.
Labrador ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Labrador duck
Laysan duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laysan ducks
Etymology: From Laysan + duck.
Senses: glosses: Anas laysanensis, an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Synonyms: Laysan teal
Laysan ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laysan duck
Laysan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Derived terms: Laysan albatross
Laysan crake
Laysan duck
Laysan fan palm
Laysan rail
Laysan teal
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau.
Synonyms: Leeward Islands
fomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊmʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊmaɪt/
Forms: form: fomites
Etymology: A back-formation from fomites, plural of fomes, a borrowing of medical Latin fōmes (“tinder, kindling”), used figuratively to evoke the analogy of a spreading infection to a spreading fire.
Senses: examples: text: This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.
ref: 1859, Richard Francis Burton, “The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa...”, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, number 29, page 134:
text: Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces. Fomites may also serve as a site for the replication of a pathogen, as in the case of enteric bacteria in household sponges or dishcloths.
ref: 2009, Raina M. Maier et al., Environmental Microbiology, page 559:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses or prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry.
Synonyms: word: fomes
eastern tent caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern tent caterpillars
Senses: glosses: Malacosoma americanum, a univoltine social caterpillar inhabiting communal nests in the branches of trees.
realgars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of realgar
orpiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orpiment
chrysotiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysotile
pararealgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + realgar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crumbly arsenic sulfide material that forms gradually from realgar under exposure to light.
paracelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + celsian.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural polymorph of celsian.
celsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Anders Celsius.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An uncommon monoclinic feldspar mineral, barium aluminosilicate, found in contact metamorphic rocks with significant barium content.
wikipedia: Anders Celsius
Derived terms: hexacelsian
paracelsian
polycrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycrases
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black or brown amorphous metallic complex uranium yttrium oxide mineral, found in granitic pegmatites.
Derived terms: uranopolycrase
polycrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycrase
synthesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnʹthĭsĭst
ipa: /ˈsɪnθɪsɪst/
Forms: form: synthesists
Etymology: From synthesize + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: By taking widely disparate streams that haven't been formally in contact with each other, you become a synthesist and create new forms.
ref: 2006, Peter Lavezzoli, The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi, page 163:
glosses: One who synthesizes.
examples: text: None of these had the artistry of Carlos and often used the Moog to play a solo line from a standard pop tune. None were hits. The use of the synthesizer for emulation was, as I have said, rejected by many early synthesists.
ref: 2006, Evan Selinger, Postphenomenology: a critical companion to Ihde, page 61:
glosses: A musician who programs or plays a synthesizer.
synthesists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synthesist
petzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petzites
Etymology: From Petz + -ite, after chemist W. Petz.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.
petzites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petzite
weloganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: W E Logan (Canadian geologist Sir William Edmond Logan) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare triclinic carbonate mineral, usually white, lemon yellow, or amber, and sometimes translucent.
metamictization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metamictize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A natural process in which the radiation emitted by a mineral gradually destroys the mineral's crystal structure, leaving it amorphous.
Related terms: metamict
gymnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnites
Etymology: Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós) + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous form of antigorite.
gymnites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnite
ekanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekanites
Etymology: From the name of F. L. D. Ekanayake, who first described it, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An uncommon mineral, one of very few gemstones that are naturally radioactive. (It contains thorium.)
ekanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ekanite
forestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forestates
form: forestating
form: forestated
form: forestated
Etymology: From fore- + state.
Senses: examples: text: That was the occasion when the Cardinal Gonsalvi, knowing whom he should please, and what schemes were in progress, ventured to forestate the decision of the parliament on the Bill that now engages its attention.
ref: 1841, Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry lord Brougham:
text: It is far from being what I should like to write about them, but perhaps enough has been said to forestate the problem as it appears to one who has traveled with these children and learned to know them “in the open.”
ref: 1896, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 77:
text: "And I'll bet she's found him and given him that money," he continued, — forestating Sid's own conclusion.
ref: 1912, Henry Howard Harper, The Stumbling Block:
glosses: To state in advance
Derived terms: forestated
forestating
Related terms: forestatement
metamicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamict
unnameableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unnamableness
Etymology: From unnameable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unnameable.
unnamableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unnamable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unnameableness.
namableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From namable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nameableness.
nameableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namableness
Etymology: From nameable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nameable.
unnameably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unnameably
form: most unnameably
form: unnamably
Etymology: From unnameable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is impossible to name.
unnamably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unnamably
form: most unnamably
Etymology: From unnamable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unnameably.
nameably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nameably
form: most nameably
Etymology: From nameable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So far as the actual basis for this qualitative specificity is concerned, the odor really becomes specific but not nameably so, in terms of what one might call texture.
ref: 1930, American Psychological Association, Journal of experimental psychology:
glosses: In a way that can be named.
temptingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tempting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tempting; allure.
unnameability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unnamability
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unnameable.
unnamability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unnameability.
mythologizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythologizable
form: most mythologizable
Etymology: From mythologize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mythologized.
namability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nameability.
nameability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namability
Etymology: From name + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nameable.
namechecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of namecheck
namechecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of namecheck
turbinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turbinate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Turbinate in form; top-shaped.
examples: text: Next, if they be Globular, and mov'd only with a turbinated motion, I know not any cause that can impress that motion upon the pellucid medium, which yet is done.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section IX:
glosses: Designating motion like that of a top; gyrating, whirling.
forwander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwanders
form: forwandering
form: forwandered
form: forwandered
Etymology: From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- + wander.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest.
ref: 2009, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays:
glosses: To wander until weary; wander far and wide.
examples: text: […] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, […]
ref: 1897, Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah:
text: The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
glosses: To weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.
forwandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forwander
forwandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forwander
forwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwalks
form: forwalking
form: forwalked
form: forwalked
form: forewalk
Etymology: From Middle English forwalken, equivalent to for- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: […] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; […]
ref: 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
glosses: To walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking.
fesh-fesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact.
ref: 1985, Richard Sale, For the president's eyes only:
text: The markers returned but the fesh-fesh was becoming worse. There had been a recent sandstorm.
ref: 1987, Trevor Mostyn, Coming of age in the Middle East, page 40:
text: Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.
ref: 2008, Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq, To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle:
glosses: Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.
forwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forwalk
forwake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwakes
form: forwaking
form: forwaked
form: forwaked
Etymology: From Middle English forwaken, forwakien, equivalent to for- + wake.
Senses: examples: text: He was forwept, he was forwaked.
ref: 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
glosses: To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching.
ducktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducktail
bucktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucktails
Etymology: From buck + tail.
Senses: examples: text: Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.
ref: 2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
bucktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucktail
linesider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linesiders
Etymology: * (sense 2): from lineside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These were chunky, feisty linesiders; most were between 20 and 24 inches.
ref: 2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fish, the striped bass.
examples: text: RAIB will be looking at how train operations are managed in adverse weather. It will also examine how the railway manages information from members of the public that relates to railway safety. This follows reports that a linesider telephoned the railway to warn of the fallen tree before the train struck it.
ref: 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:
glosses: A person by the lineside, often for the purpose of observing and photographing trains.
linesiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linesider
prestarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestart
adventurings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adventuring
autospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.
ref: 1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education:
glosses: Thoughtless, automatic speech.
autospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.
ref: 2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199:
text: WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.
ref: 2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
bierstube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bierstubes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bierstube.
Senses: examples: text: Downstairs was a bierstube, where Cologne’s signature beer, Kölsch, was served in small, cylindrical glasses.
ref: 2007 June 24, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: A beer hall.
bierstubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bierstube
crosspipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosspipes
Etymology: From cross + pipe.
Senses: examples: text: The English sparrow, another abundant city species, also loves streetlights and lampposts, especially those with crosspipes open at the ends.
ref: 2007 June 24, Michael Pollak, “Graffiti Secrets”, in New York Times:
glosses: A cross-shaped segment used to connect the ends of four pipes.
crosspipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosspipe
deaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dew.
conjure up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conjures up
form: conjuring up
form: conjured up
form: conjured up
Senses: glosses: To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
glosses: To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.
examples: text: Like most persons utterly unused to deception, she could not imagine how it was to be managed; and her thoughts conjured up every probable and improbable embarrassment that might occur.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 252:
text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
text: For his part, he told the New York Times in 2019 that he didn’t feel he could conjure up the requisite malevolence to play certain roles.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
Related terms: magic up
turn a corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a corner
form: turning a corner
form: turned a corner
form: turned a corner
Senses: examples: text: And although Tottenham can regain fourth place with a home victory over Manchester United on Sunday, there were plenty of signs that the champions may have turned a corner.
ref: 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of turn the corner.
on the front foot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having the weight on the front foot in order to play an attacking stroke
raw_tags: of a batsman
examples: text: Chelsea saw out the half firmly on the front foot and had three further chances to take the lead.
ref: 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:
text: The leader is mindful of being on the front foot, as if leading the dance, rather than on the back foot being led.
ref: 2015, Christopher Johns, Mindful Leadership: A Guide for the Health Care Professions:
glosses: In a dominant position.
easy on the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easy on the eye
form: most easy on the eye
Senses: examples: text: Svatok was fortunate to dodge a first-half booking for a heavy challenge on Jude Bellingham, who was yet again so easy on the eye.
ref: March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of easy on the eyes.
put to the sword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to the sword
form: putting to the sword
form: put to the sword
form: put to the sword
Senses: synonyms: cut down
put down
hack
strike down
glosses: To execute, especially by using a sword.
examples: text: Robin van Persie scored twice as ruthless Arsenal put struggling West Ham to the sword in a match tipped to be Avram Grant's last as Hammers boss.
ref: 2011 January 15, Kevin Darling, “West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To severely defeat.
glosses: To kill by warfare.
Coordinate terms: put to the torch
route one football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Linked by some sources to the 1966-1972 BBC quiz show Quiz Ball, in which players could choose one of several "routes" of football-related questions to reach the goal. "Route 1" was the most direct, where players only needed to answer one question to get directly to the goal.
Senses: examples: text: It was route one football from Wigan with Rodallega latching onto Al Habsi's long clearance after it was misjudged by Aaron Hughes.
ref: 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A tactic involving kicking the ball from defence high and far straight towards the attackers.
Derived terms: route-one
DPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DPOs
Senses: examples: text: Counting begins the day after ovulation, so if ovulation is on Wednesday, Saturday would be 3 DPO.
ref: 2004, Stacy Ziegler, Pathways to Parenthood, page 90:
text: 13 DPO: No sign of my period. That's it...I'm pregnant.
ref: 2005, Patty Debano et al., The Conception Chronicles, page 154:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of day(s) post-ovulation.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of days payable outstanding.
qualifier: immigration
glosses: Initialism of departure prevention order.
hypernyms: officer#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: CPO
CDO
glosses: Initialism of data protection officer.
DPO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of Department of Peace Operations.
post-ovulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ovulation.
Senses: examples: text: Progesterone concentrations rise rapidly in the mare and any post-ovulation treatment carries an increased risk of uterine contamination.
ref: 2008, Juan C. Samper, Equine Breeding Management and Artificial Insemination, page 160:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the period immediately after ovulation.
post-ovulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From post- + ovulation.
Senses: examples: text: Surgeries could be scheduled on day 10 or 14 post ovulation of a regular menstrual cycle.
ref: 2006, Michael J Soares et al., Placenta and Trophoblast: Methods and Protocols, page 108:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After ovulation.
slipshodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slipshodly
form: most slipshodly
Etymology: From slipshod + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slipshod manner.
slipshodness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slipshod + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being slipshod.
postovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ovulatory.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after ovulation.
postovulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ovulation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post-ovulation.
tyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tydes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tide.
axeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axe + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ...it was probably this condition that caused the fatal accident to an ice-axeless tourist on Ben More ten or a dozen years ago.
ref: 1905, Scottish Mountaineering club journal: Volume 8:
text: Another chapter deals with the axeless microlithic culture...
ref: 1938, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity: Volume 12:
text: He wears his chain for a belt and, axeless, swings it for a weapon.
ref: 1990, Linda Svendsen, Words we call home: celebrating creative writing at UBC, page 297:
glosses: Without an axe.
axless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ax + -less.
Senses: examples: 1961?, William W. Elmendorf, Alfred Louis Kroeber, The structure of Twana culture
So far as known the Yurok never cut growing timber for fuel, nor did any California Indians, nor probably any axless native Americans.
glosses: Alternative form of axeless.
axless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axle + -less.
Senses: examples: an axless truck assembly
glosses: Alternative form of axleless.
axleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: axless
Etymology: From axle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without axles.
epizeuxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈz(j)uːksɪs/
Forms: form: epizeuxes
Etymology: From modern Latin epizeuxis, from Ancient Greek ἐπίζευξις (epízeuxis, “a fastening upon”), from ἐπιζευγνύναι (epizeugnúnai), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + ζευγνύναι (zeugnúnai, “to yoke”).
Senses: examples: text: An Epizeuxis twice a word repeats,
And graces thus the theme on which it treats.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epizeuxis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 78:
text: Wikipedia weds this ranging interest to the kind of pertinence where Larry David's “Pretty, pretty good!” is given as an example of rhetorical epizeuxis.
ref: 2020 February 17, Richard Cooke, “Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet”, in Wired:
text: 'O horror, horror, horror', Macduff cries, his epizeuxis reflecting a lack in the symbolic order itself.
ref: 2022, Clive Bloom, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, page 39:
glosses: The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
epizeuxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epizeuxis
suggesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suggester
Laplandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lapland + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of Lapland.
tallowwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallowwood
obelisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeliscs
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of obelisk.
obeliscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obelisc
tchetverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tchetvert
teacherages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacherage
teacupsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacupful
volumeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volume + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no volume.
nonurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + urological.
Senses: glosses: Not urological.
bigeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigeyes
form: big-eye
Etymology: From big + eye.
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
examples: text: There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles.
ref: 2001, Jules Verne, translated by F. P. Walter, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas:
text: The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.
ref: 1986, Robin Mahon, Report and proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Shared Fishery Resources of the Lesser Antilles Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:
text: The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches.
ref: 2007, William H. Bayliff, Jacek Majkowski, editors, Methodological Workshop on the Management of Tuna Fishing Capacity:
glosses: Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
Hyponyms: catalufa
trap maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trap makers
Senses: glosses: A maker of traps
trap makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trap maker
chyrstal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chyrstals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of crystal.
chyrstals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chyrstal
foregone conclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregone conclusions
Senses: examples: text: In the first episode, Noah breaks up with Rebecca because she snooped around and found an engagement ring he had hidden and she started wearing it without giving him a chance to propose, taking their marriage as a foregone conclusion.
ref: 2024 October 5, Jessica Grose, “‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A predictable or inevitable conclusion, or one made without enough consideration and evidence.
Related terms: open-and-shut
fait accompli
Hitchcock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪt͡ʃˌkɒk/
ipa: /ˈhɪt͡ʃˌkɑk/
Forms: form: Hitchcocks
form: Hiscock
Etymology: From Hitch + -cock as a medieval male diminutive suffix.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: Alfred Hitchcock, English filmmaker
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Galveston County, Texas.
Derived terms: Hitchcock County
Hitchcockesque
Hitchcockian
reeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: reedings
Etymology: From Middle English redynge, equivalent to reed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Thatching.
glosses: Decorative moulding of parallel strips that resemble reeds.
glosses: Milling on the edge of a coin.
Related terms: reeded
arundinaceous
reeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reed
greater scaup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater scaups
Senses: glosses: A scaup of the species Aythya marila, a bluebill.
Coordinate terms: sense: lesser scaup
word: bluebill
velvet scoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvet scoter
smews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smew
Baikal teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baikal teals
Senses: glosses: Anas formosa, a dabbling duck that breeds within the forest zone of eastern Siberia
Synonyms: sense: Anas formosa
word: bimaculate duck
sense: Anas formosa
word: squawk duck
Baikal teals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baikal teal
chiengora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of French chien (“dog”) and angora.
Senses: glosses: Dog hair used as a textile.
teleoanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleoanalysis
Florido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Floridos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Florido.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
motmot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motmots
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from American Spanish.
Senses: glosses: Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics.
Derived terms: turquoise-browed motmot
geck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: gecks
Etymology: From Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian/North Germanic meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka).
Senses: examples: text: To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: … for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at?
ref: 1859, George Eliot, “IX Hetty's World”, in Adam Bede, HTML edition, published 2010, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2012:
glosses: Fool; idiot; imbecile.
Derived terms: begeck
begunk