cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachers
Etymology: From coach + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who coaches or gives instruction; a coach.
glosses: A coachman.
glosses: A coach horse.
examples: text: Bo said, ‘No good having a trap yard without a bunch of coachers.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 167:
glosses: A tame animal used as a lure to attract wild beasts, especially cattle.
kilometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilometre
Cnut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Canute.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old Norse, an alternative spelling of Canute (Scandinavian Knut) in historical context.
milliarcsecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliarcseconds
Etymology: From milli- + arcsecond.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: A unit of angle equal to one thousandth of an arcsecond (used especially in astronomy)
Derived terms: word: mas
word: milliarcsec
word: submilliarcsecond
Related terms: milli-
arcsecond
milliarcseconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliarcsecond
Knute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Greifswald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
apivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apivorous
form: most apivorous
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on bees
larvivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more larvivorous
form: most larvivorous
Etymology: From larva + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That feed on the larvae of insects
raw_tags: of fish
piscivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈsɪvəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more piscivorous
form: most piscivorous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin piscivorus. By surface analysis, piscivore + -ous or pisci- + -vorous.
Senses: synonyms: word: ichthyophagous
word: ichthyovorous
word: pisciphagous
glosses: That feeds on fish; fish-eating.
raw_tags: of birds
Related terms: piscivore
sanguivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more sanguivorous
form: most sanguivorous
Etymology: From sangui- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on blood; bloodsucking, hematophagous
Related terms: sanguine
sanguivore
sanguivory
apivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apivores
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -vore.
Senses: glosses: An organism that eats or consumes bees.
larvivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larvivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Anything that eats larvae
Related terms: larvivorous
sanguivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanguivores
Etymology: From sangui- + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal that consumes blood
Related terms: sanguivorous
catch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches out
form: catching out
form: caught out
form: caught out
Senses: examples: text: Bishop Manning has his enemies, but those enemies have hardly ever caught him out on a point of theology or canon law.
ref: 1939 October 23, “Religion: Discordant Concordat”, in Time:
glosses: To discover or expose as fake, insincere, or inaccurate.
examples: text: However, Colombia broke the deadlock, Leicy Santos toying with Rachel Daly after collecting Caicedo’s pass, before sweeping a dipping effort over a caught-out Mary Earps. It was a luscious finish and the crowd enjoyed it.
ref: 2023 August 12, Suzanne Wrack, “England hit back to beat Colombia and set up World Cup semi with Australia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To take (someone) by surprise.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground.
glosses: To leave an area by jumping on a train; to ride the rails away.
eolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French éolithique; from Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “dawn”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: of or relating to the early period of the Stone Age marked by the use of eoliths.
shove ha'penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃʌv ˈheɪp(ə)ni/
Forms: form: shove halfpenny
Etymology: From shove + ha'penny.
Senses: glosses: A game, traditionally played in pubs in Great Britain, in which players attempt to push coins so that they land between marked boundaries.
Synonyms: push-penny
shoffe-grote
shovegroat
slide-thrift
slype groat
propositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: propositional
glosses: Making, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: volitional
antonyms: tremorous
;
stereotypic
;
nonvolitional
unintentional
glosses: Intentional.
raw_tags: of a movement
examples: text: "This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."
ref: 1950, Sang Soon Yun, Introduction to Spoken Korean, page 250:
text: "Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "
ref: 1997, Young-joo Kim, “The Acquisition of Korean,”, in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 417:
text: "First, adjectives are distinguished from verbs in that they do not have imperative or propositive forms."
ref: 2000, Iksop Lee, Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Korean Language, page 101:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: Korean language
glosses: a specific verb form in the Korean language, also sometimes called the hortative or subjunctive assertive.
Related terms: sense: movements
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: propulsive
shove halfpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shove ha'penny.
Buddhahood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Buddha + -hood.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The state of being a buddha, or being spiritually enlightened by Buddhist or other teachings.
tuppenny-ha'penny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtʌpəni ˈheɪpəni/
/ˌtʌpni ˈheɪpni/
Etymology: From tuppenny + ha’penny, i.e. “worth 2½ (old) pence”.
Senses: examples: text: You’d think he’d lost a Rolex rather than that tuppenny-ha’penny old watch of his.
glosses: Very cheap.
Synonyms: word: two-bit
word: a dime a dozen
word: ten a penny
Breton cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Breton caps
Senses: glosses: A boatsman's peaked cap.
primatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primatologists
Etymology: From primatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in primatology.
primatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From primate + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of primates; a sub-discipline of zoology.
Derived terms: paleoprimatology
Related terms: primatologist
fibronectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibronectins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An adhesive blood glycoprotein that has several cellular functions
Derived terms: antifibronectin
fibronectinolytic
fibronection
superfibronectin
micromachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromachine
micromachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromachines
Etymology: From micro- + machine.
Senses: glosses: Any machine or similar device having a dimension of the order of a micrometre; used especially of integrated circuits
mesclun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mescluns
Etymology: From French mesclun, from Occitan.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of small, young leaves as a salad
maidhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English maidhod, maidhede, meithhad, from Old English mæġeþhād, corresponding to maid + -hood. Compare maidenhood.
Senses: examples: text: Must the coming woman marry to take away the reproach of maidhood? ... But if the coming woman is to have the same fear of keeping her maidhood, she will be as subject to man as now, and equality laws will fail to make her equal.
ref: 1888, Samuel Rockwell Reed, Offthoughts about Women and Other Things - Page 270:
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of a maid; maidenhood; virginity.
Related terms: old-maidhood
unbends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbend
blockages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockage
beekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beekeeper
ecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecologist
disappearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disappearance
envisages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envisage
shortlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortlists
form: short-list
Senses: examples: text: The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.
ref: 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of short list.
shortlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shortlists
form: shortlisting
form: shortlisted
form: shortlisted
form: short-list
Senses: examples: text: First and Trenitalia were initially shortlisted for the East Midlands franchise but withdrew from bidding to focus on the West Coast Partnership, while Trenitalia was shortlisted as a sole entity for the South Eastern franchise but again withdrew from the competition.
ref: 2019 October, “First Trenitalia wins West Coast Partnership”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
glosses: To place something on a short list.
Derived terms: shortlisted
shortlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Placed on a short list.
shortlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shortlist
Related terms: longlisted
short list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short lists
form: shortlist
form: short-list
Senses: glosses: A list of candidates selected from a longer list, and from which one or more successful candidates are in turn selected.
synonyms: hotlist
glosses: A list of the highest-ranked (most important) items from a longer list.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see short, list.
Related terms: shortlisted
longlist
finalist
appui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpwiː/
Forms: form: appuis
form: appuies
form: appuy
Etymology: From French appui, from Latin ad + podium (“foothold”).
Senses: examples: text: If a Vine bee to climbe trees that are of any great height, there would be staies and appuies set to it, wherupon it may take hold
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVII.] CHAP. XXIII. Of Trees ranged in rewes for to support Vines.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 538:
glosses: A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
qualifier: horse-riding
glosses: The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle.
glosses: Clipping of point d'appui.
Related terms: point d'appui
appui
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈpwiː/
Forms: form: appuis
form: appuiing
form: appuied
form: appuied
form: appuy
Etymology: From French appui, from Latin ad + podium (“foothold”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To prop or support, e.g. by posting troops.
Henny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Senses: examples: text: Cecilia, who only through compassion to the blushing Henrietta forbore repressing this forwardness more seriously, merely answered Mrs Belfield by wishing her good morning: but, while she was taking a kinder leave of her timid daughter, the mother added "As to the present, ma'am, you was so kind to make us, Henny can witness for me every penny of it shall go to my son."
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia/Book 5/Chapter ii:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Henrietta.
Henny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Senses: examples: text: Maybe it's the Henny that has gotten in me / Whatever's got into me, I don't mind
ref: 2009, “Must Be the Ganja”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem:
text: And we don't really need Netflix, I'mma give you something to watch / After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks
ref: 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
text: Look, I need a hard hitter, I need a deep stroke / I need a Henny drink, I need a weed smoker
ref: 2020, “WAP”, performed by Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion:
synonyms: Henn
glosses: Hennessy, a French brand of cognac.
monkhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkhoods
Etymology: From Middle English monkehode, from Old English munuchād.
Senses: examples: text: Do these two images represent the two competing monkhoods: the village dwelling monks and the forest mendicants?
ref: 2014, Geok Goh, The Wheel-Turner and His House: Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene, page 116:
glosses: The state of being a monk.
glosses: Monks collectively.
Heinrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heinrichs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heinrich.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
examples: text: Germany last year said it had foiled an attempt by another far-right group – the Reichsbuerger movement - to plot accused of plotting an attack on Germany’s parliament building, allegedly to overthrow its constitutional order and install the group’s central figure – aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss – as leader.
ref: 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from German, equivalent to English Henry.
afflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affluxes
Etymology: From Latin affluĕre, affluxum. See affluent.
Senses: examples: text: The vis viva of these affluxes is employed almost wholly in turning the mass of intermediate gas […]
ref: 1874 January 9, "Chemical News from Foreign Sources," Chemical News http://books.google.com/books?id=jOUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA20-IA6&dq=affluxes&ei=oWrlRqH2I6HApgKCooX7AQ, page 26, of waterspouts
glosses: An upward rush of fluid.
examples: text: Backwater due to the crossing as a whole should not be confused with local afflux at piers due to pileup of flow against the hydraulic stagnation point […]
ref: 2004, Transportation Association of Canada, Guide to Bridge Hydraulics, →ISBN, page 66:
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction.
at present
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: right now
at the moment
coordinate_terms: for the present
for now
;
presently
glosses: currently, now, at this moment in time, at the present time.
at this moment in time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: currently, now, at present
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
Etymology: From Middle English spang (“a small piece of ornamental metal; spangle; small ornament; a bowl or cup”), likely from Middle Dutch spange (“buckle, clasp”) or Old English spang (“buckle, clasp”).
Senses: examples: text: With glittering spangs that did like starres appeare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 45:
glosses: A shiny ornament or object; a spangle
Derived terms: spangle
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
form: spanging
form: spanged
form: spanged
Etymology: From Middle English spang (“a small piece of ornamental metal; spangle; small ornament; a bowl or cup”), likely from Middle Dutch spange (“buckle, clasp”) or Old English spang (“buckle, clasp”).
Senses: glosses: To set with bright points: star or spangle.
glosses: To hitch; fasten.
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
form: spanging
form: spanged
form: spanged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XVIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 173:
text: How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!
ref: 1918, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail:
glosses: Of a flying object (such as a bullet), To strike or ricochet with a loud report.
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: And I didn't stop until I found myself spang in the middle of the Musée de Cluny, clutching the rack.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 22:
glosses: Suddenly; slap, smack.
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
form: spanging
form: spanged
form: spanged
Etymology: Uncertain. Cognate with Scots spang, and possibly related to English spank.
Senses: examples: a. 1758, Allan Ramsay, epistle to Robert Yarde
But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.
glosses: To leap; spring.
glosses: To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
Etymology: Uncertain. Cognate with Scots spang, and possibly related to English spank.
Senses: examples: text: Set roast-beef and pudding on the opposite side o' the pit o' Tophet, and an Englishman will mak a spang at it—[…]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A bound or spring; a leap.
spang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: spangs
Etymology: See span
Senses: glosses: A span.
peoplehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peoplehoods
Etymology: From people + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The collective sense of being part of a distinct people.
singlehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From single + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Having had a nonarranged marriage was found to be associated with favorable attitudes toward singlehood.
ref: 1994, Lee-Jay Cho, Motoo Yada, Tradition and change in the Asian family, page 116:
glosses: The state of being single (unattached or unmarried).
Related terms: single
singlism
singlist
barrique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barriques
Etymology: From French barrique (“barrel, cask”). Doublet of breaker.
Senses: glosses: A barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.
statehooder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statehooders
Etymology: From statehood + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who promotes or supports statehood for a certain territory.
ha'porths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ha'porth
tannicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannicities
Etymology: From tannic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The relative amount of tannin in something (especially in a wine).
vila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːlə/
Forms: form: vilas
form: vile
form: veela
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.
Senses: examples: text: "The Vilas (fairies) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."
ref: 1874, Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore:
text: She is answered, fittingly enough, by a vila, who declares that she is more beautiful than the girl.
ref: 1995, Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale, page 52:
text: Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila, whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.
ref: 1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, page 302:
qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: A type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology, similar in some ways to a fairy or nymph.
apostrophise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apostrophises
form: apostrophising
form: apostrophised
form: apostrophised
Etymology: From apostrophe + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Will Royalty fly off towards Austria; like a lit rocket, towards endless Conflagration of Civil War? Stop it, ye Patriots, in the name of Heaven! Rude voices passionately apostrophise Royalty itself.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Alternative spelling of apostrophize.
Gt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gts
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of guitar (of a rock band)
kB
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: KB
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of kilobyte.
mk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of m'kay.
traveller's joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveler's joy
Senses: examples: text: Passengers on the Northern Line may often have noticed the flowering shrubs that glow from the banks of the cutting between Hendon and Brent. There are many such pleasant stretches of track. Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
ref: 1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):
text: The winds howled from the other side of the Morava River, which was stilled by ice, while along the banks the ice lay unmowed, full of icicled reeds, traveler's joy, and sedge, as though the ice were growing a silver beard.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 309:
glosses: A climbing shrub native to Europe, Clematis vitalba.
Synonyms: sense: Clematis vitalba
word: lady's bower
sense: Clematis vitalba
word: old man's beard
sense: Clematis vitalba
word: virgin's bower
WTAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Wireless Telephony Applications Interface: a protocol used in conjunction with the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) to allow a telephone number to be linked to a web page.
iced tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iced teas
form: ice tea
Senses: examples: text: Could you bring me some iced tea please?
glosses: Cold tea, a beverage.
glosses: Sweetened iced tea, flavoured with lemon.
examples: text: I would like an iced tea with my sandwich, please.
text: Could you please buy me an iced tea from the machine?
glosses: A serving of cold tea.
Hyponyms: sun tea
sweet tea
Derived terms: sugar honey ice tea
wireless telephony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The transmission of voice using radio
Related terms: radio telegraphy
radio telegraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The transmission of Morse code (etc) using radio
Related terms: wireless telephony
dubious honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubious honours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dubious honor.
open secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open secrets
Senses: examples: text: At that time, the corruption in the mayor's office was an open secret.
text: 1894, Alvan S. Southworth, "A Generation of the New York Bar", in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (later The American Magazine), Volume XXXVII, page 427,
It was an open secret in the profession at that time that Mr. Field had very explicit documentary evidence that would have made Mr. Evarts very uncomfortable had the Bar Association thrown down the gauntlet.
text: Speed limits apply at many points on the line, in addition to the general 25 m.p.h. limit over the whole Dromod-Belturbet section, but it is an open secret that speeds often rise above the statutory limit.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 343-344:
text: It is now an open secret that Gulf states have developed ties with Israel, in the absence of formal relations, including trade partnerships and security deals.
ref: 2018 November 3, Hassan Hassan, “The Arab Winter Is Coming”, in The Atlantic:
text: The relationship between [Laurent] Freixe and his subordinate was an “open secret” in the company's management, current and former Nestlé executives tell the FT.
ref: 2025 September 20, Madeleine Speed, Mercedes Ruehl, “The meltdown at Nestlé”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
synonyms: secret of Polichinelle
glosses: Information that is widely known, but not acknowledged openly.
examples: text: The wonderful dining options in this city are hidden gems — an open secret.
glosses: Information that is not widely known, despite being freely available.
Related terms: ostensibility
kagu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kagus
form: cagou
Senses: examples: text: Therewith hastened the Kagu into the shadowy hall, moving softly and rolling a little in her gait, with her head thrust forward; and a little flurried was she in her bearing as she darted this way and that her large and beautiful eyes, mild and timid, that were like liquid gold heated to redness. Somewhat like a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say whether it were hair or feathers.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae.
gluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gluon
heliosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliospheres
Etymology: From helio- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: The heliosphere isn’t really a sphere at all, more an elongated teardrop shape.
ref: 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 397:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of space where interstellar medium is blown away by solar wind; the boundary, heliopause, is often considered the edge of the Solar System.
Hypernyms: astrosphere
Hyponyms: inner heliosphere
outer heliosphere
Coordinate terms: bow shock
heliopause
heliosheath
termination shock
solar magnetosphere
solar wind
Derived terms: heliospheric
Related terms: stellar magnetosphere
stellar wind
hectares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectare
integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integral
Kartvelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹtˈvɛliən/
ipa: /kɑɹtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈvɛliən/
Forms: form: Kartvelians
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ქართველი (kartveli) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of related peoples in the South Caucasus, namely Georgians, Svans, Mingrelians and Laz.
glosses: A Georgian person.
Synonyms: sense: member of a people
word: Kartvel
sense: member of a people
word: South Caucasian
Kartvelian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹtˈvɛliən/
ipa: /kɑɹtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈvɛliən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ქართველი (kartveli) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A family of languages spoken by the Kartvelian people.
Synonyms: South Caucasian
Kartvelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹtˈvɛliən/
ipa: /kɑɹtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈviːliən/
ipa: /kɑːtˈvɛliən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ქართველი (kartveli) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the Kartvelian peoples or languages such as Georgian.
glosses: same as Georgian (language or ethnicity)
synonyms: word: Georgian
extra: language or ethnicity
Synonyms: english: related to South Caucasus
translation: related to South Caucasus
word: South Caucasian
english: related to Georgia (country), its language or people
translation: related to Georgia (country), its language or people
word: Georgian
Related terms: Kartvelology
kilopascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilopascals
Etymology: From kilo- + pascal.
Senses: glosses: one thousand (1000) pascals, symbol kPa.
kilopascals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilopascal
inosculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inosculate
dispersant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersants
Etymology: From disperse + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Since the effectiveness of dispersants is time-critical, the sooner that concurrence can be obtained and the dispersant applied, the more effective such
ref: 1989, Tony E. Hart, “Letters of Agreement for the use of Dispersants”, in L. Michael Flaherty, editor, Oil dispersants: new ecological approaches, page 152:
text: Effects due to the dispersant solvent and surfactants in the water column may be surmised only from laboratory studies
ref: 1989, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Effectiveness of Oil Spill Dispersants, Using oil spill dispersants on the sea, page 122:
text: Scientists warn that the dispersed oil, as well as the dispersants themselves, might cause long-term harm to marine life.
ref: 2010 May 13, Paul Quinlan, “Less Toxic Dispersants Lose Out in BP Oil Spill Cleanup”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that is used to prevent settling or clumping of particles suspended in a liquid.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: disperser
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: dispersing agent
Derived terms: hyperdispersant
terannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ter- + annual.
Senses: glosses: Occurring three times each year.
hominin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hominins
Etymology: From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.
Senses: examples: text: [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
ref: 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
text: Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151:
text: This means that, in addition to democracy and gorillas, we must now credit Greece with being the cradle of the hominins - of which we humans are the only living representatives.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 119:
text: "The cranium is clearly plesiomorphic in overall form, presenting primitive traits shared by earlier hominins," the authors wrote.
ref: 2025 September 27, Julia Jacobo, “Million-year-old skull could rewrite timeline of human origin, researchers say”, in ABC News:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
hypernyms: hominid
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
Derived terms: Denisova hominin
nonhominin
gatherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatherer
nanoparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoparticle
fuelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fueling
Senses: glosses: (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel
fuelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuellings
form: fueling
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of fueling.
bioengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioengineers
Etymology: From bio- + engineer.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A biologist or engineer whose speciality is bioengineering.
bioengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioengineers
form: bioengineering
form: bioengineered
form: bioengineered
Etymology: From bio- + engineer.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To produce or alter (something) by bioengineering.
bioengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio-engineering
Etymology: From bio- + engineering.
Senses: glosses: The applications of the principles of engineering to any of the biological or medical sciences
Related terms: bioengineer
biotechnology
ergonomics
biomodification
trialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: (Canadian spelling, common) simple past and past participle of trial
urohidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + hidrosis.
Senses: glosses: The act of cooling oneself by urinating on the legs, as in some birds.
adenovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈdɛnəʊˌvaɪɹəs/
Forms: form: adenoviruses
Etymology: From adeno- + virus, after the human adenoid tissue from which it was isolated.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
Related terms: word: adenoviral
word: adeno-associated
alt: AAV
word: adeno-associated virus
nonviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-viral
Etymology: From non- + viral.
Senses: glosses: Not originating in or caused by a virus.
transfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈfɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: transfections
Etymology: Blend of trans- + infection
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The introduction of foreign genetic material (such as DNA or RNA) into a eukaryotic cell.
Derived terms: contransfection
co-transfection
cotransfection
electrotransfection
lipotransfection
nucleotransfection
phototransfection
postransfection
posttransfection
retransfection
transfectional
Related terms: transfectant
transfective
bombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombos
Senses: glosses: Short for bombo criollo
bombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bumbo.
recoilless rifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoilless rifles
Senses: glosses: A lightweight portable weapon capable of firing artillery-type shells, used normally as anti-tank weapon.
red-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdaɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌaɪ/
Forms: form: red-eyes
form: red-eyeing
form: red-eying
form: red-eyed
form: red-eyed
form: red eye
form: redeye
Etymology: The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I flew in this morning, red-eying it in last night after hearing of this hearing, because what you are doing here is something that I am particularly interested in.
ref: 1988 January 28, “Witnesses: Roy Sampson, Portland, Oregon”, in Enforcement of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., January 28, 1988: […], [Washington, D.C.?]: United States Commission on Civil Rights, →OCLC, page 127:
text: When I arrived at the Center, Block's staff told me he had red-eyed it home from Alaska the night before; he had been surfing fifteen- to twenty-foot waves off the coast of Alaska.
ref: 2004, Brenda Hunter, “What is Cancer Saying about Our Lives?”, in Staying Alive: Life-changing Strategies for Surviving Cancer: […], Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, Random House, →ISBN, page 25:
text: And though convinced she was making a fool of herself, she'd done as the frantic monk had begged, red-eyeing to Miami, island-hopping here.
ref: 2011, Glenn Kleier, chapter 7, in The Knowledge of Good & Evil, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”).
trinomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinomina
Senses: examples: text: The subspecies (trinomen) is the only infraspecific taxon so recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature... However, the category of subspecies has not been widely used in entomology, because, in most cases, the level of population differentiation within a species is not clearly determined and subspecies populations are difficult to identify.
ref: 1993 May 10, Ke Chung Kim, Bruce A. McPheron, Evolution of Insect Pests: Patterns of Variation, John Wiley, →ISBN, page 458:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: an expansion of a binomial name (a genus and a species) combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Anopheles gigas formosus or Homo sapiens sapiens.
Synonyms: ternary name
three-part name
trinomial name
Related terms: binomen
binomial name
underbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbelly
unclouded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clouded.
Senses: examples: text: an unclouded sky
text: Samples containing added gelatin and tannin were somewhat darker than with equal amounts of gelatin alone, and remained unclouded for as much as 30 to 45 days longer.
ref: 1934, American Vinegar Industry and Fruit Products Journal, page 22:
synonyms: clear
cloudless
noncloudy
uncloudy
antonyms: clouded
cloudy
glosses: Not clouded.
unreliability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unreliabilities
Etymology: From un- + reliability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unreliable.
crueler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cruel: more cruel
undersign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: undersigns
form: undersigning
form: undersigned
form: undersigned
Etymology: From under- + sign.
Senses: glosses: To subscribe; sign one's name at the foot of.
reenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reenters
form: reentering
form: reentered
form: reentered
form: re-enter
form: re-entre
form: reentre
form: reënter
Etymology: From re- + enter.
Senses: examples: text: The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
text: It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
ref: 1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025:
text: At least five people appeared briefly on the roof of the building, and squatters could be seen tossing firecrackers and building materials out of a window and shouting obscenities as the police moved into the area. But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one.
ref: 1995 July 5, Norimitsu Onishi, “Tenement Is Briefly Seized In East Village”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2010:
text: Could this policy have helped to cut the crime rate significantly, especially in areas like New York with disproportionately large concentrations of undocumented and recent immigrants, some of whom were deeply involved in illegal activities? The crackdown could have made a difference if the deportables were in fact expelled, if alien ex-cons who wanted to reenter New York and wreak more havoc could not get back in the country, and if this get-tough policy had the intended effect of deterring unlawful impulses among recent immigrants who were not yet naturalized citizens
ref: 2006, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s, page 241:
text: As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
ref: 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
glosses: To enter again; return into.
examples: text: We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To enter again; retype, reinput.
topics: arts
crafts
engraving
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.
Related terms: reentry
reentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reentries
Senses: examples: text: Sixteen previously deported illegal immigrants - including nine in Northwest Florida counties - have been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Florida.
ref: 2025 June 18, Tanner Stewart, “9 previously deported immigrants caught in Northwest Florida for illegal reentry”, in WEAR-TV:
glosses: Alternative form of re-entry.
blood corpuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood corpuscles
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A blood cell.
revolutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolutionists
Etymology: From revolution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And so this is Mr. Bullen. For such a famous revolutionist, I expected to find some one more dangerous-looking.
ref: 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine:
text: In just over 350 years, a nation of nearly 200 million people has grown up, populated almost entirely by persons who either came from other lands or whose forefathers came from other lands. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution, “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:
text: The work of the incendiaries of 1792 was only to be finished by the petroleurs of 1871. Night was come. A great number of the Parisian population were groaning, but the revolutionists triumphed with joy.
ref: 2018, Imbert De Saint-Amand, Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty, page 167:
glosses: A person who revolts.
Synonyms: revolutionary
subversive
Derived terms: permanent revolutionist
right-winger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-wingers
Senses: examples: text: Analyses that used to exist only in arcane feminist journals are now common among right wingers and are being institutionalized as law and public policy.
ref: 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
text: The ruling led to calls from the right of the Conservative Party to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a prospect that has loomed over the government for months and has caused deep rifts between centrists and right-wingers in Britain’s ruling party.
ref: 2023 November 15, Rob Picheta, “UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda blocked by Supreme Court”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: rightist
word: rightie
word: righty
word: ;
word: rightoid
word: reich winger
antonyms: word: left-winger
word: leftist
word: leftie
word: lefty
word: ;
word: leftoid
word: LWNJ
hypernyms: partisan#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A person who belongs to the political right.
synonyms: word: rightist
word: rightie
word: righty
word: ;
word: rightoid
word: reich winger
antonyms: word: left-winger
word: leftist
word: leftie
word: lefty
word: ;
word: leftoid
word: LWNJ
hypernyms: partisan#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A member of the right wing of a party or group.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: player#Noun
athlete#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A winger who plays on the right.
Related terms: right wing
right-wing
wingnut
rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearrangements
Etymology: From re- + arrangement or rearrange + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
ref: 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
glosses: The process of rearranging.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rearrangement reaction.
Derived terms: allylic rearrangement
Bamberger rearrangement
Beckmann rearrangement
Brook rearrangement
Claisen rearrangement
Cope rearrangement
Curtius rearrangement
di-pimethane rearrangement
Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
Hofmann rearrangement
Kornblum-DeLaMare rearrangement
Lossen rearrangement
microrearrangement
Newman-Kwart rearrangement
photorearrangement
pinacol rearrangement
rearrangement reaction
Reilly-Hickinbottom rearrangement
Schmidt rearrangement
semipinacol rearrangement
Skattebøl rearrangement
Stieglitz rearrangement
Wolff rearrangement