cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bastian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæst͡ʃən/
homophone: bastion
Etymology: Clipping of Sebastian
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian, from Ancient Greek.
Bastian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæst͡ʃən/
homophone: bastion
Etymology: From Bastia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Bastia, Corsica, France.
samplist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samplists
Etymology: From sample + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person who makes music by use of sampling
sampradaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampradayas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit सम्प्रदाय (sampradāya).
Senses: glosses: Any of several Hindu sects or denominations
serovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serovars
Etymology: From sero- (“serum”) + clipping of variety.
Senses: glosses: A group of microorganisms characterised by a specific set of antigens.
Synonyms: serotype
Related terms: biovar
morphovar
serotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serotypes
Etymology: From sero- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.
ref: 2012, Gerald T. Keusch, “Invasive Bacterial Diarrheas”, in Lincoln Chen, editor, Diarrhea and Malnutrition, page 54:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of microorganisms characterised by a specific set of antigens.
Synonyms: serostrain
serovar
Derived terms: heteroserotype
intraserotype
monoserotype
multiserotype
serotypeable
serotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serotypes
form: serotyping
form: serotyped
form: serotyped
Etymology: From sero- + -type.
Senses: glosses: To assign or classify according to serotypes
skandha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skandhas
Etymology: Borrowing from Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandhá, “mass, heap”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being; aggregate
Related terms: rūpa
saṁjñā
samskāra
vedanā
vijñāna
sliotar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪtər/
ipa: /ˈʃlɪtər/
ipa: [ʃlɪtɚ]
Forms: form: sliotars
form: sliothar
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish sliotar.
Senses: glosses: A hard ball, similar in size to a baseball, used in hurling.
Vai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Vai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Niger-Congo language of the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
karavan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karavans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of caravan.
slugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slug
slugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluggings
Senses: examples: text: The feuding for control of the Jersey waterfront made news as sluggings, bombings, and beatings continued on the Jersey City docks.
ref: 1962, Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology:
glosses: A blow or blows with the fist; a beating.
glosses: The act of hitting a ball hard; slogging.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: The practice of smothering one's face with vaseline in order to moisturize it.
Derived terms: on-base plus slugging
slugging average
slugging percentage
slogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Erecting-shop work was always hard and slogging, so that at the end of a 9¾ hour day there were not many who felt inclined for much more physical activity.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
glosses: present participle and gerund of slog
slogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloggings
Senses: examples: text: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: Washed-up jerry cans and bits of lumber wriggled at the water's edge, amid the sewage and the sloggings of occasional fishermen and the spreading wake of a Vietnamese patrol boat.
ref: 1983, National Lampoon, volume 2, numbers 54-65:
glosses: An act or an instance of slogging or working laboriously.
glosses: A beating or thrashing.
soyfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soyfoods
Etymology: From soy + food.
Senses: examples: text: Jin-ling stated that although there is a long tradition of soyfood use in Сhina, China can acauire a great deal of knowledge from Japan.
ref: 1974, INTSOY Series, page 119:
text: In the 1960s, “Baco-Bits," made from soy-fatted flour, became America's first commercially successful industrial soyfood product, a cheap non-meat substitute for bacon, easily used in various dishes.
ref: 1999, Whole Earth:
text: Food frequency questionnaire was the method of dietary assessment in these studies, and soy intake was assessed in one of the three ways, soyfoods (as a group of foods or a specific type of soyfoods, e.g. bean curd), soy protein, or soy isoflavones.
ref: 2007, Lin Yan, “A Meta-Analysis of Soyfoods and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women”, in Trends in Cancer Prevention, page 23:
glosses: Any processed food made from soybeans.
tataki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese たたき (literally “pounding”).
Senses: glosses: Thinly sliced raw, or lightly cooked bonito, tuna or beef
tawaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawafs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic طَوَاف (ṭawāf).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The ritual of circumambulating the Kaaba seven times as part of the hajj in Mecca.
toolset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtulˌsɛt/
Forms: form: toolsets
Etymology: From tool + set.
Senses: glosses: A collection of tools; a toolkit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of utility programs, subroutines or similar software.
Related terms: toolchain
touristed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touristed
form: most touristed
Etymology: From tourist + -ed.
Senses: examples: Paris is among the world's most touristed cities.
glosses: Visited by tourists
transdifferentiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transdifferentiates
form: transdifferentiating
form: transdifferentiated
form: transdifferentiated
Etymology: From trans- + differentiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To undergo transdifferentiation.
transdifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transdifferentiations
Etymology: From trans- + differentiation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The change of one type of differentiated cell into another; metaplasia
Related terms: transdifferential
atm
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ATM.
turntablist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turntablists
Etymology: From turntable + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A DJ who uses a combination of turntables as a musical instrument.
Related terms: turntablism
typicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typicities
Senses: synonyms: race
glosses: The characteristic quality of a wine that makes it typical of a particular region or grape variety
untouristed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untouristed
form: most untouristed
Etymology: From un- + touristed.
Senses: glosses: Rarely visited by tourists
vaquita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈkiːtə/
rhymes: -iːtə
Forms: form: vaquitas
Etymology: From Spanish vaquita (“little cow”), diminutive of vaca (“cow”).
Senses: examples: text: THE world’s smallest porpoise may have a fighting chance. The vaquita might be saved from extinction by an agreement at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portoroz, Slovenia, last week.
Unique to the Gulf of California, the vaquita has seen its numbers collapse to 59 in 2015.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Whale of a deal”, in New Scientist, number 3098, page 6:
glosses: A critically endangered porpoise, the smallest of its kind, Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico.
Synonyms: sense: Phocoena sinus
word: cochito
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: desert porpoise
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: Gulf of California harbor porpoise
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: Gulf of California porpoise
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: gulf porpoise
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: vaquita marina
sense: Phocoena sinus
word: vaquita porpoise
Related terms: sea cow
porpoise
blue whale
vespid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vespid
form: most vespid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the wasp family Vespidae
Related terms: vespine
vespid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vespids
Senses: glosses: Any social insect of the family Vespidae including wasps and hornets
adnominalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd′-nŏ′-mĭ-nə-līz′
ipa: /ˌædˈnɑ.mɪ.nəˌlaɪz/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnəlaɪz
Forms: form: adnominalizes
form: adnominalizing
form: adnominalized
form: adnominalized
form: adnominalise
Etymology: From adnominal + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To transform a word into an adnominal (adnoun) form.
Derived terms: adnominalizer
adnominalization
nummet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nummets
Senses: glosses: A light meal.
wankered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wankered
form: most wankered
Etymology: From wanker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
adnominalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnominalizers
Etymology: From adnominalize + -er.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A suffix or particle which converts a word to adnominal form.
adnominalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adnominalizer
conjunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjunction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Conjoining.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or governed by, a conjunction.
Derived terms: conjunctional clause
conjunctionally
conjunctional phrase
timber rafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A log transportation method in which logs are tied together into rafts and drifted or pulled across a water body or down a flatter river.
adverbative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɝbətɪv/
ipa: /ədˈvɜːbətɪv/
Etymology: From adverb + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: "Verbs have an adverbative form made by attaching -게 to the base."
ref: 2002, Ross King et al., Continuing Korean, page 211:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Functioning as an adverb; adverbial.
adversative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɝsəˌtɪv/
ipa: /æd-/
Forms: form: adversitive
Etymology: From Latin adversativus (“of conjunctions, expressing opposition”).
Senses: examples: text: In Matthew's Q-source, this short sentence may have been introduced by the strong adversative conjunction, "but" (alla).
ref: 1992, Raymond F. Collins, Divorce in the New Testament, page 155:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing opposition or difference.
examples: text: In an adversative causative, the "causer" has only a nominal status and is, in actuality, a victim of the situation ...
ref: 2002, Shoichi Iwasaki, Japanese, page 146:
text: This type of 'get-passive' typically bears adversative connotation, i.e. it is not used to express passives if the patient is not somewhat negatively affected by the event.
ref: 2004, Umberto Ansaldo, “The evolution of Singapore English”, in Lisa Lim, editor, Singapore English: A Grammatical Description, page 138:
text: The adversative passive sentence expresses that the subject of the sentence is affected, usually adversely, by what is expressed in the rest of the sentence.
ref: 2014, Naomi H. McGloin et al., Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide, page 114:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing adverse effect.
Derived terms: adversatively
adversativeness
adversativity
adversative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɝsəˌtɪv/
ipa: /æd-/
Forms: form: adversatives
form: adversitive
Etymology: From Latin adversativus (“of conjunctions, expressing opposition”).
Senses: glosses: Something, particularly a clause or conjunction, which is adversative.
cill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sill (“a threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against”).
gluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glue
gluing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluings
Senses: glosses: The act of attaching something with glue.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A connection between the edges of two planes, or between the points at the ends of two lines.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of various processes for producing some structure (e.g. a sheaf or scheme) by combining smaller structures that are in some way compatible with each other.
Derived terms: bigluing
glueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glue; alternative spelling of gluing.
glueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glueings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gluing.
pielet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.lət/
homophone: Pilate
homophone: pilot
rhymes: -aɪlət
Forms: form: pielets
Etymology: From pie + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Top each pielet with a fried egg before garnishing with chives. […] Leftover pielets reheat beautifully.
ref: 2020, Erin Jeanne McDowell, The Book on Pie, page 313:
glosses: A little pie.
alternant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternating from one row of a matrix to another.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of alternate layers, like certain rocks.
alternant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternants
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An alternative form or allomorph.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A determinant which is an alternating function.
Derived terms: alternant matrix
alternants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternant
structural unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A type of unemployment explained by a mismatch between the requirements of the employers and the properties (such as skills, age, gender or location) of the unemployed.
seasonal unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A type of unemployment explained by a seasonal variation in the structure of jobs and/or labour offered. Seasonal unemployment typically repeats the same pattern annually.
frictional unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
hyponyms: search unemployment
wait unemployment
glosses: A type of unemployment explained by people being temporarily between jobs, searching for new ones. A labour market is regarded as being in the state of full employment if frictional unemployment is the only kind of unemployment present.
cyclical unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A type of unemployment explained by the demand for labor going up and down with the business cycle.
septin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septins
Etymology: From septum + -in: in yeast cells, they compartmentalize parts of the cell and build scaffolding to provide structural support during cell division at the septum.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that have functions related to cytokinesis.
magmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The flow of magma
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of igneous rock by the solidification of magma
Related terms: magmatic
hopanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopanoids
Etymology: From Hopea (genus of plant from which the substance was originally derived), from J Hope (Scottish botanist).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of pentacyclic compounds, somewhat similar to steroids, that have various functions in prokaryotes
wikipedia: John_Hope_(botanist)
Derived terms: bacteriohopanoid
methanotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methanotrophs
Etymology: From methane + -o- + -troph.
Senses: examples: text: Because heterotrophic bacteria rapidly outgrow methanotrophs in media supplemented with complex nutrients, most pure cultures of methanotrophs have been isolated using defined media without organic supplements.
ref: 1998, Richard S. Hanson, “6: Ecology of Methylotrophic Bacteria”, in Robert S. Burlage, editor, Techniques in Microbial Ecology, page 147:
text: In addition, some methanotrophs, such as the species of Methylococcus and Methylocaldum, lack distinctive fatty acid biomarkers.
ref: 2006, John Bowman, “Chapter 3.1.14: The Methanotrophs-The Families Methylococcaceae and Methylocystaceae”, in Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt, editors, The Prokaryotes, Volume 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses, 3rd edition, Springer, page 272:
text: Methanotrophs are fairly ubiquitous in soil, but two distinct types have been reported.
ref: 2007, David S. Reay, Keith A. Smith, C. Nick Hewitt, “9: Methane: Importance, Sources and Sinks”, in Dave Reay, editor, Greenhouse Gas Sinks, CABI, page 149:
synonyms: methanophile
glosses: Any bacterium or archaeon that consumes methane as a source of carbon and of energy.
Related terms: methanotrophic
methanotrophy
methylotroph
Gravel Gertie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gravel Gerties
Etymology: From a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip.
Senses: glosses: A chamber, with a roof covered by a deep pile of gravel, within which nuclear warheads may be maintained; in the event of a (non-nuclear) explosion, the roof is weakened and the gravel falls and prevents the escape of nuclear material
classical unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There can be "Keynesian" and "classical" unemployment. Indeed there can be both at the same time: the real wage might be too high to allow full employment with existing capital stock, while at the same time aggregate demand is inadequate to take off the market what firms would wish to produce. Changes in the real wage could have demand-side and supply-side effects.
ref: 1987 8 December, Nobel laureate Robert M. Solow in his prize lecture
text: In the standard fix-price model of price-taking competitive firms, Keynesian and classical unemployment are separate states according to whether notional product supply exceeds or falls short of market demand at the prevailing wage and price configuration, so that labor demand is either output constrained and determined by the inverted production function (Keynesian unemployment), or firms are on their notional product supply and labor demand functions but the real wage exceeds the Walrasian full-employment level (classical unemployment). Thus labor demand is independent of the real wage in the Keynesian state and depends only on the real wage in the classical state.
ref: 1988, Robert M. Coen, Bert G. Hickman., “Is European Unemployment Classical or Keynesian?”, in The American Economic Review, volume 78, number 2, pages 188–193:
text: Classical unemployment is the result of real wages being above their market clearing level leading to an excess supply of labour.
ref: 2006 September, Geoff Riley, Head of Economics, Eton College
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The component of overall unemployment caused by too high wage expectations.
Gertie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Conchita Warren is an unusual name, I thought as I cycled towards Limehouse. Most local women were Doris, Winnie, Ethel (pronounced Eff) or Gertie.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Gertrude.
Derived terms: dirty Gertie
Marxian unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: According to the 19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, unemployment needed by the capitalists in order to maintain work discipline in jobs, keep wages down, and protect business profitability.
hydrocode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocodes
Etymology: From hydro- + code.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several computer programs that model the behaviour of fluid flow systems by breaking down the system into a three-dimensional matrix of cells and calculating the forces etc. affecting each one
Marxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marxian
form: most Marxian
Etymology: From Marx + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But to use game theory in a Marxian setting requires more that simply adopting the tools and methods of non-cooperative game theory, root and branch.
ref: 2005, Bruce Philp, Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics, page 3:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or influenced by the 19th-century philosopher Karl Marx and his political and economic theories; now often distinguished from Marxist by the nuance that one does not necessarily adhere to Marxism itself.
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Marx Brothers or their films.
Derived terms: Marxian unemployment
Marxian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marxians
Etymology: From Marx + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Hannan turned from the piano and said, winking at the others: "Mac thinks a Marxian is somebody who went to St Mark's school."
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 215:
glosses: A Marxist.
adverbialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adverbializations
form: adverbialisation
Etymology: From adverbialize + -ation or adverbial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: A process of rendering adverbial, of adverbializing.
adverbializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverbialization
tantalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tantalise
tantalising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tantalising
form: most tantalising
Senses: examples: text: The first Grand Slam showpiece between the two dominant players on the ATP Tour had been a tantalising prospect - and it surpassed the hype.
ref: 2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tantalizing.
tantalising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantalisings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tantalizing.
snoopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snooper
exposures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exposure
corals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coral
declaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈklɔː/
Forms: form: declaws
form: declawing
form: declawed
form: declawed
Etymology: From de- + claw.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: To surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.
examples: text: If, when the moment arrives, China is unwilling to side with its allies, the Arabs will rapidly find a declawed Chinese dragon unwelcome.
ref: 2016 January 25, “Why Arabs would regret a toothless Chinese dragon”, in The National, retrieved 25 Jan 2016:
glosses: To make harmless.
Related terms: declawing
declawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈklɔːwɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of declaw
declawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈklɔːwɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: declawings
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: onychectomy
glosses: The surgical removal of claws.
reim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
homophone: ream
homophone: reem
homophone: reme
homophone: rheme
Forms: form: reims
form: riem
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans riem.
Senses: glosses: A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair and made pliable, used for twisting into ropes, etc.
LSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of language for specific purposes.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of lightest supersymmetric particle/partner.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Liskov substitution principle, one of the SOLID programming principles.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Language Server Protocol.
morphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to shape or form; morphological.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to morphs.
Synonyms: geomorphic
micromorphic
Derived terms: biomorphic
leptomorphic
morphically
morphic field
morphic resonance
morphic unit
Related terms: -morphic
robotrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: robotrips
form: robotripping
form: robotripped
form: robotripped
Etymology: Blend of Robitussin + -o- + trip.
Senses: glosses: To take the antitussive drug dextromethorphan recreationally.
robotrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robotrips
Etymology: Blend of Robitussin + -o- + trip.
Senses: glosses: A trip (drug experience) of this kind.
Related terms: DXM
returnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French retournable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being returned.
returnable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: returnables
Etymology: From Middle French retournable.
Senses: examples: text: We'll have to take our returnables in soon; we're running out of space.
text: At last, as the discussion with the Flat-Earthers was becoming acrimonious, Ollie spoke up. “If you don’t believe it, Norton, that’s fine. I’ll tell you what to do. You go on out that front door and walk around to the back. There’s a great big pile of returnable beer and soda bottles there. Norm and Buddy and I put them out this morning. You bring back a couple of those bottles so we know you really went back there. You do that and I’ll personally take my shirt off and eat it.” […] But [Norton] didn’t take Ollie up on his offer to bring back a sampling of returnables from out back. None of them did.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Something that can be returned.
reversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reverse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reverse manner; in the opposite sequence or direction.
glosses: Conversely; on the other hand.
refillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being filled again.
refillable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refillables
Etymology: From refill + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Labels on major-brand soft drink refillables may be permanently silk-screened.
ref: 2010, Kit L. Yam, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, page 221:
glosses: Any product that can be refilled.
on-time marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-time markers
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A short marker (a pip in audio or an asterisk in data) that signals a precise instant in time.
news media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news medias
Senses: glosses: All the various forms of communicating news to the public collectively.
compound symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound symbols
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol made by joining two or more others with punctuation (normally a period/full stop).
raw_tags: in several programming languages
Simo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Lapland, Finland.
chemical property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical properties
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a material's properties that becomes evident during a chemical reaction.
Synonyms: word: chemical property
Hypernyms: word: characteristic
word: property
word: quality
Related terms: word: stable
word: flammable
word: volatile
word: acidic
word: basic
word: reactive
word: chemistry
word: :Category:en:Chemistry
fire-breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fire breathing
form: firebreathing
Etymology: From fire + breathing.
Senses: examples: text: a fire-breathing dragon
text: Medea for the loue of Iaſon, taught him how to tame the fire breathing braſſ feeted Bulls, and kill the mighty dragon that kept the golden fleece[.]
ref: 1632, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cryps, page 548:
text: No man could shake a finger at Beowulf. All the days of his life he had sought the path of right, escaped traps, killed foes, and ruled fairly. Now it was time for him to stand up to the fire-breathing worm.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 42:
text: Then the bane of that people, the fire-breathing dragon,
was mad to attack for a third time.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 84:
qualifier: such as a dragon
glosses: That expels fire from the mouth and nostrils.
raw_tags: of a fabled animal
examples: text: The deadly fire-breathing Cannon roar,
Sending destructive Heralds thro' the Field.
ref: 1706, Charles Johnson, Ramelies: A Poem, London: Ben Bragg, page 8:
glosses: That emits or belches forth fire.
examples: text: a fire-breathing rant
glosses: caustic, vitriolic or scathing.
Related terms: dragonbreath
firebreath
firebreather
no-nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more no-nonsense
form: most no-nonsense
Senses: examples: text: Her no-nonsense way of resolving issues impressed her superiors.
text: We can now better understand the vision of three local authorities to hire no-nonsense former Eastern Region General Manager Gerry Fiennes to take on his old British Rail adversaries - and win.
ref: 2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58:
text: Pistorius […] has a reputation as a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense policymaker.
ref: 2023 January 17, Kate Connolly, “Germany’s no-nonsense new defence minister faces early test over Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: [Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.
ref: 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.
examples: text: This grilled cheeze ^([sic]) sandwich makes for a rich but no-nonsense brunch […]
ref: 2011, Vincent J. Guihan, New American Vegan, page 204:
glosses: No-frills.
Derived terms: no-nonsensely
top-notch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-notch
form: most top-notch
Senses: examples: text: Received wisdom, in the US and the UK, remains that in a fracturing, splintering media landscape top-notch live sport remains one of the only types of content for which viewers will make an “appointment to view”.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
text: North Pier is 1,450 feet long, 28 feet wide, and was designed by Eugenius Birch. It was built with promenading in mind and developed a reputation as a hub for top-notch entertainment.
ref: 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of top notch (“of the highest quality”).
intray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrays
Senses: examples: text: The rest I throw into a plastic intray. Then, when the intray is full, I empty its contents into a cardboard box.
ref: 1999, Barbara Trapido, The Travelling Hornplayer, Viking, →ISBN, page 70:
text: This month's Picture magazine was the next item in his intray.
ref: 2001, Duncan Schultz, Progenitor, →ISBN, page 96:
text: One of Jane's regrets about the Bonfire Night Murders being shifted to the bottom of the intray was that she no longer saw much of Simon.
ref: 2004, John Francome, Inside Track, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 265:
glosses: Alternative spelling of in-tray.
microfluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics or a microfluid
tiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Constructed from, or decorated with tiles.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: Of a lodge, having been sealed against intrusions from unauthorized people.
tiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tile
Derived terms: close-tiled
shin pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shin pads usually plural
Senses: glosses: plural of shin pad. A pair of protective lower-leg coverings.
swimming goggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You should wear a pair of swimming goggles because of all the pollen.
glosses: Goggles to protect the eyes from material in the water, while swimming.
kit and kaboodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kit and caboodle.
collision theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collision theories
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any theory that relates collisions among particles to reaction rate; reaction rate depends on such factors as concentration, surface area, temperature, stirring, and the presence of either a catalyst or an inhibitor.
conservation of mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A conservation law of classical physics that states that the total mass of a closed system remains constant regardless of the chemical or physical changes that take place within it.
Synonyms: law of conservation of mass
subclassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: present participle and gerund of subclass
BOINC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔɪŋk/
homophone: boink
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
live the dream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives the dream
form: living the dream
form: lived the dream
form: lived the dream
Senses: examples: text: But Manny Ramirez is living the dream; two weeks ago, he signed a quarter-million-dollar contract with the Cleveland Indians.
ref: 1991 June 19, Sara Rimer, “School Heroes, After the Last Time Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Mar 2013:
text: Chester Brown lives the dream. . . . [W]ith the publication of his graphic novel, "Louis Riel," he not only has a hit, but also the accolades of the industry.
ref: 2004 April 12, Andrew D. Arnold, “Keeping It 'Riel'”, in Time:
text: Beckham choked back tears. . . . He said he had "lived the dream" but with a new manager taking over it was time for a new captain.
ref: 2006 July 2, Nick Allen, Beckham stands down as captain, The Independent (UK) (retrieved 5 March 2013)
glosses: To experience the achievement of every success that one has aspired to achieve, especially from a career.
live on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives on
form: living on
form: lived on
form: lived on
Senses: examples: text: Her memory lives on in our hearts.
text: He described the members and organisers of the society as "a group of enthusiasts celebrating the richness and diversity of the English language", and is convinced that whether or not enough volunteers can be found to keep the society going, their enthusiasm and love for good English will live on.
ref: 2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016:
glosses: To endure.
examples: text: When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.
glosses: To survive solely by consuming a certain thing.
examples: text: She lives on a stipend from her parents.
glosses: To rely on financially.
examples: text: Let assets live on the grid #92;mathcal#123;A#125;#61;#91;a#95;1,a#95;2,#92;dots,a#95;n#93;.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, fourth edition, MIT Press, page 116:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To be defined on.
Related terms: live off
human pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human pyramids
Senses: glosses: A tower made of people standing or kneeling on top of each other.
glosses: A formation of triangular shape with one or a small number of performers supporting a large number of other performers.
leap of faith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaps of faith
Etymology: Often attributed to Søren Kierkegaard, although he never used the exact wording.
Senses: examples: text: He took a leap of faith by publishing his first book independently.
text: Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?
ref: 2010, Christopher Nolan, Inception (motion picture), spoken by Saito (Ken Watanabe):
text: Considering that the GBR proposal is supported by DfT (which would lose considerable power) with the support of the Treasury (which will have to make a major leap of faith), those critics need to frame their complaints very carefully if we are to avoid yet worse problems.
ref: 2021 July 28, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Chasing shadows will fail”, in RAIL, number 936, page 3:
glosses: The act of believing in something despite lack of proof of its truth or existence, or the attempt of something without being sure of its possible outcome.
wikipedia: Søren Kierkegaard
Related terms: act of faith
take it up the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it up the arse
form: taking it up the arse
form: took it up the arse
form: taken it up the arse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take it up the ass.
PK nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PK nails
Etymology: An initialism of the Parker-Kalon Company, the original manufacturer.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A thick-shanked nail with an indentation in the middle of its head, driven into the ground to mark a position precisely.
refit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːfɪt/
rhymes: -iːfɪt
ipa: /ɹiːˈfɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: refits
Etymology: From re- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: The ship required a refit before setting out again.
text: At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit.
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27:
glosses: The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
Related terms: retrofit
rehang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehangs
form: rehanging
form: rehanged
form: rehanged
form: rehung
form: rehung
Etymology: From re- + hang.
Senses: glosses: To hang again.
rehang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehangs
Etymology: From re- + hang.
Senses: examples: text: “Good taste” has become more democratic. Not to mention politicised: most national galleries are in the midst of major rehangs to try to showcase works by women, non-white or outside artists whose works have been until now overlooked.
ref: 2023 May 28, Jo Ellison, “The futile pursuit of good taste”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
glosses: A change of exhibited pieces in an art gallery.
relaunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːntʃ
Forms: form: relaunches
form: relaunching
form: relaunched
form: relaunched
Etymology: From re- + launch.
Senses: examples: text: AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.
ref: 2021 July 23, Paul R. La Monica, “American Express is the Dow’s top stock for 2021. Here’s why”, in CNN Business:
text: After securing the rights from Thomas Cook, he relaunched it as an independent guide in March 2014.
ref: 2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, page 65:
glosses: To launch again.
relaunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːntʃ
Forms: form: relaunches
Etymology: From re- + launch.
Senses: glosses: The act or fact of launching again.
relivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relivable
form: most relivable
Etymology: From relive + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be relived, able to be experienced again.
reinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinfections
Etymology: From re- + infection.
Senses: glosses: Another infection, another instance of being infected
Related terms: reinfect
redye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redyes
form: redyeing
form: redyed
form: redyed
Etymology: From re- + dye.
Senses: glosses: To dye again.
humoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humored
form: humour'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humour
humoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humoured
form: most humoured
form: humored
form: humour'd
Senses: glosses: Having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
examples: text: Besides these two fair Damsels, I found a little humoured Brat here who I beleive^([sic]) is some relation to them […].
ref: 1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia:
glosses: Spoilt. indulged.
Derived terms: good-humoured
humouredly
ill-humoured
unhumoured
humouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humour
faring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: fairing
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: farings
Senses: glosses: An adventure, trek, journey.
examples: c. 1798, Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), Caller Herrin'
Wha'll buy my caller herrin'?
They're bonnie fish and halesome farin';
Wha'll buy my caller herrin',
New drawn frae the Forth?
glosses: Alternative form of fairing (“something edible; fare”).
faring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: fairing
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fare
paralleling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parallel
paralleling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: parallelings
Senses: examples: text: We should thus be careful never to accept such parallelings of polarities without question.
ref: 1986, Richard Hornby, Drama, Metadrama and Perception, page 14:
glosses: A process of making or becoming figuratively parallel.
paralleled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parallel
parallelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parallel
parallelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parallel
hobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobblings
Etymology: From hobble + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Ye Goblins and Fairys, / With Frisks and Vagarys, / Ye Fairys and Goblins, / With Hoppings and Hoblings, / Come all, come all / To Sir Roger’s great Hall.
ref: [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 18:
glosses: gerund of hobble: the movement of one who hobbles.
hobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hobble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hobble
ear-splitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ear-splitting
form: most ear-splitting
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of earsplitting.
Derived terms: ear-splittingly
fashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fashion
fashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashionings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of fashioning something; manufacture.
Derived terms: fashioning needle
fashioning piece
geognosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Geognosie; coined by Abraham Gottlob Werner. By surface analysis, geo- + -gnosy.
Senses: examples: text: Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.
ref: 1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:
glosses: The geological study of the Earth's structure and composition.
Derived terms: geognost
Related terms: geognosis
geognosist
grandmamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmammas
Etymology: From grand- + mamma.
Senses: examples: text: She is staying here on a visit to her grandmamma and aunt, very worthy people; […]
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 92:
text: “Your grandmama is going to be so impressed by this beautiful, loving family, and beautiful, loving families take boat trips together.” “Do they, though?” “Well, the boat salesman said yes.”
ref: 2024 November 10, Zac Oyama, “National Lampoon's The Odyssey!” (1:56 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Shlub (Matt Berry):
glosses: Grandmother.
grandmammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandmamma
netted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of net