cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
springs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spring out
springing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spring out
sprang out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of spring out
sprung out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of spring out
Bouyei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buyei
Senses: glosses: A Tai ethnic group of southern China and northern Vietnam.
Bouyei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buyei
Senses: glosses: A language spoken by the Bouyei and Giáy people.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Yay
Related terms: Zhuang
Seleucia-on-Tigris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Seleucia ad Tigrim, from its position on the Tigris River, used to distinguish it from other Seleucias.
Senses: glosses: The capital of the Seleucid Empire, and a major city in Parthian and Sasanian periods
Synonyms: Seleucia on the Tigris
Seleucia
co-create
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-creates
form: co-creating
form: co-created
form: co-created
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cocreate.
co-creates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-create
co-creating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-create
co-created
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-create
co-register
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-registers
form: co-registering
form: co-registered
form: co-registered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coregister.
co-registers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-register
co-registering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-register
co-registered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-register
co-promote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-promotes
form: co-promoting
form: co-promoted
form: co-promoted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copromote.
co-promotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-promote
co-promoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-promote
co-promoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-promote
co-produce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-produces
form: co-producing
form: co-produced
form: co-produced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coproduce.
co-produces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-produce
co-producing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-produce
co-produced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-produce
co-publish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-publishes
form: co-publishing
form: co-published
form: co-published
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copublish.
co-publishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-publish
co-publishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-publish
co-published
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-publish
co-purify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-purifies
form: co-purifying
form: co-purified
form: co-purified
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copurify.
co-purifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-purify
co-purifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-purify
co-purified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-purify
speed-dials
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speed-dial
speed-dialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speed-dial
speed-dialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speed-dial
turnstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of turnstile.
arbequina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbequinas
Etymology: From Spanish, named after Arbeca in Catalonia.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish olive cultivar.
wikipedia: Arbeca
arbequinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many Americans have become olive aficionados, finicky about their picholines and arbequinas, Kalamatas and Cerignolas.
ref: 2007 October 17, Julia Moskin, “Olives, Flavored by Time, Seasoned With Memories”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of arbequina
hooptee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooptees
Senses: examples: text: “How many of you guys got a hooptee, raise your hand?” Carlos Caraballo asked his senior auto shop at Automotive High School in Brooklyn. A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees. The term is street slang for a cheap, functional car favored by city youths who often tinker tirelessly to make the car a speedster.
ref: 2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: African-American
glosses: Alternative spelling of hooptie.
hooptees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees.
ref: 2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of hooptee
chromometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromometers
Etymology: From chromo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The team measured skin redness with a chromometer at spots covered with sulforaphane and at uncovered spots.
ref: 2007 October 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Nostrums: In Broccoli Sprouts, Protection From UV Rays”, in New York Times:
glosses: An instrument that compares the colour of something with a reference standard
thow
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of thou.
seale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of seal.
mysell
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of myself.
mysell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
mysell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysells
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
prouision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prouisions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of provision.
ivry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of every.
frome
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of from.
courtesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of courtesy.
necessitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of necessity.
devill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devills
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of devil.
hundreth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hundredth.
knaue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knaues
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of knave.
Armistice Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From being the day on which the armistice of World War I was signed.
Senses: glosses: 11th November, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement to end World War I, commemorating the fallen of that war.
Former name of Veterans Day.
glosses: 11th November, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement to end World War I, commemorating the fallen of that war.
Former name of Remembrance Day.
Coordinate terms: Poppy Day
Remembrance Day
rugbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugbyists
Etymology: From rugby + -ist.
Senses: glosses: rugby player
rugbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The high, high concept that takes Robbo there is a Faragian dystopia where, to ensure a home nations win in the RWC, it’s been made illegal for foreign rugbyists to enjoy the miraculous benefits of Lucozade Sport.
ref: 2015 September 19, Jack Seale, “The new Lucozade advert: rugby stars attempt 'the Lineker'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of rugbyist
bibimpap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even when traveling abroad, they gravitate toward kimchi (fermented vegetables) and bibimpap (rice with vegetables and chili paste).
ref: 2007 November 2, Su Hyun Lee, “A New Lifestyle in South Korea: First Weekends, and Now Brunch”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bibimbap.
ecoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecocultures
Etymology: From eco- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: But a drive through the preserve with Mr. Alex, an archaeologist, and his wife, Betty, a wildlife biologist, showed a flourishing desert ecoculture of quail, mule deer, mice and the occasional bobcat and tarantula.
ref: 2007 November 3, Ralph Blumenthal, “Texas Proceeding With Plan to Auction Preserve”, in New York Times:
glosses: A natural habitat and its inhabitants.
interventionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interventionalists
Etymology: From interventional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of interventionist.
synonyms: word: interventionist
Derived terms: neurointerventionalist
interventionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Safety is not the big issue any more, said Dr. Jeffrey W. Moses, a cardiologist in New York at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the organization that with strong financial support from industry runs the largest annual meeting for interventionalists, as doctors who use stents are known.
ref: 2007 November 12, Barnaby J. Feder, “A Heart Stent Gets a Reprieve From Doctors”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of interventionalist
agriturismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Philpott was first exposed to farming when he traveled around Italy and stayed at agriturismos.
ref: 2007 November 23, Emily Biuso, “Down on the Farm With Your Sleeves Rolled Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of agriturismo
ITSO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.
glosses: Initialism of Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation.
shichimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 七味 (shichimi, “seven flavors”), short for 七味唐辛子 (shichimi tōgarashi, literally “seven-flavor chili pepper”).
Senses: synonyms: shichimi togarashi
glosses: A Japanese spice mixture based on coarsely ground red chili pepper.
mooselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mooselike
form: most mooselike
Etymology: From moose + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a moose.
division-violist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: division-violists
form: division violist
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a division viol.
division-violists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of division-violist
division violist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: division violists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of division-violist.
division violists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of division violist
sarinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarindas
form: serenda
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of stringed instrument featuring anywhere from three to thirty strings and a hollow soundbox partially covered with an animal skin, played vertically with a bow, originating in the traditional music of India and Nepal.
Synonyms: english: used mainly in reference to the instrument played by the Bodo people of Assam
translation: used mainly in reference to the instrument played by the Bodo people of Assam
word: serja
sarindas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarinda
serja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serjas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sarinda.
synonyms: word: sarinda
serjas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serja
coldshoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coldshoulders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cold shoulder.
coldshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coldshoulder
bean-flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean-flickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bean flicker.
bean-flickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean-flicker
polyharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyharmonies
form: poly-harmony
Etymology: From poly- + harmony.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music that is played in more than one key at once, creating an aesthetically pleasing harmonic sound.
Synonyms: polytonality
Related terms: english: using precisely two keys
translation: using precisely two keys
word: bitonality
english: use of more than one harmonic function in one key
translation: use of more than one harmonic function in one key
word: polyvalence
polyharmonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyharmony
poly-harmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poly-harmonies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polyharmony.
poly-harmonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poly-harmony
paint shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paint shops
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells paint.
examples: text: Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Paint Shop: Painting and varnishing locomotives and works equipment. (Locomotive painting actually carried out in erecting shop).
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:
text: Currently, bodyshells for units 810024/025 are on the weld line. […] In the paint shop are bodyshells for 810022/023, which are undergoing a meticulous process to ensure a high-quality finish.
ref: 2024 December 27, Pip Dunn, “Network News: Hitachi pushes on with '810' assembly and testing”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 20:
glosses: A workshop, the part of a factory where items are painted.
veronalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From veronal + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Poisoning from veronal or other barbiturates.
bare-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bareheaded.
bare-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bareheaded.
Leitha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Leitha.
Senses: glosses: A river in Austria.
stick by one's guns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks by one's guns
form: sticking by one's guns
form: stuck by one's guns
form: stuck by one's guns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stick to one's guns.
antimetaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-metaphysics
Etymology: From anti- + metaphysics.
Senses: examples: text: Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.
ref: 1999, Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini, Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation, →ISBN:
text: Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.
ref: 2003, Anat Biletzki, (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein, →ISBN:
text: At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research
ref: 2006, Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer, The Philosophy of Science, →ISBN, page 459:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.
Related terms: antimetaphysical
antimetaphysically
antimetaphysicality
atheism
materialism
positivism
physicalism
tie bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie bushes
Senses: glosses: A toxic Asian shrub in the family Thymelaeaceae, Wikstroemia indica, used as a source of fiber and as a remedy in traditional Chinese medicine.
Synonyms: Indian stringbush
bootlace bush
small-leaf salago
fuckworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "One of the favourite topics of 4x had been the fuckworthiness of girls."
ref: 2000, Horst Prillinger, Family and the Scottish Working-class Novel, 1984-1994:
glosses: The quality or state of being fuckworthy.
nightshining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: night-shining
Etymology: From night + shining.
Senses: glosses: Shining or glowing at night; noctilucent.
night-bright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more night-bright
form: most night-bright
Etymology: From night + bright.
Senses: examples: text: […] into the nightbright
white garden
roughing desire's
resonant pebble […]
ref: 2007, Mary Rising Higgins, )JOULE TIDES((, page 25:
text: We were on the top of the hotel on Nob Hill, above Chinatown and North Beach, looking out over the night-bright city, all the way to the dark waters of the Bay.
ref: 2011, Rebecca Wilson, A House with No Roof:
text: Beyond the weeds and the old pier, she saw the river water black in the night and, suddenly, out in the middle, the river turning into a silver fire that ran with dazzling impact up to the foot of the night-bright buildings on the Manhattan side.
ref: 2012, Jimmy Breslin, Table Money:
glosses: bright at night
Old Northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of the continental United States in the former Northwest Territory (the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, plus part of Minnesota).
Northwest Territory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former territory of the United States that consisted of the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, plus part of Minnesota. It existed from 1787 to 1803.
Related terms: Northwest Territories
nightwandering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compound of night + wandering.
Senses: examples: text: And Phoebe the benign in her nightwandering chariot / Was trampling the midheaven.
ref: 1961 [29–19 BCE], Virgil, translated by Patric Dickinson, Aeneid, London: Penguin Group, page 222:
text: Who are the agyrtai and manteis mentioned by Plato? Whether we translate them as 'nightwandering wizards' or as 'itinerant diviners and magicians', they remain shadowy figures, working at the margins of society.
ref: 1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Some man that wayfaring is stands by your spousehouse at midnight's coming, a nightwandering Israelite.
ref: 2009, Roberta Kalechofsky, Orestes in Progress, Marblehead, MA.: Micah Publications, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Wandering at night; noctivagant.
Lagid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlæd͡ʒ.ɪd/
Forms: form: Lagids
form: Lagidae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λάγος (Lágos, “Lagus”), the father of Ptolemy I Soter (or Ptolemy Lapides), the founder of the dynasty.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Related terms: Ptolemaic
Ptolemies
Serota tendency
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Serota tendency
Etymology: Coined by Brian Sewell after Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate.
Senses: glosses: A branch of the modern art movement, especially in the UK, as epitomised by art chosen for the Tate and the Turner Prize.
wikipedia: Brian Sewell
Nicholas Serota
Tate
behavioral psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioral psychologies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of behaviorism.
synonyms: word: behaviorism
behavioural psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioural psychologies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of behaviorism.
synonyms: word: behaviorism
Lagids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlæd͡ʒɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Lagid
Lagids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlæd͡ʒɪdz/
Senses: glosses: Ptolemies.
Ptolemies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ‘The Persians have been gone from Egypt for nigh two thousand years, and since then the Ptolemies, the Romans, and many others have flourished and held sway upon the Nile, and fallen when their time was ripe,’ I said, aghast.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: The Ptolemaic dynasty.
Synonyms: Lagids
hart's pennyroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An annual mint native to the western Mediterranean and the Azores, Mentha cervina, having a similar scent and other properties to pennyroyal.
poly-rhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poly-rhythms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polyrhythm.
poly-rhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poly-rhythm
tenor banjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenor banjos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of small banjo-like stringed instrument with a short neck, usually with 17 or 19 frets and four strings, and played with a plectrum, originating in American jazz music.
Synonyms: four-string banjo
Derived terms: tenor banjoist
tenor banjos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenor banjo
four-string banjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-string banjos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenor banjo.
synonyms: word: tenor banjo
four-string banjos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-string banjo
tenor banjoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenor banjoists
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a tenor banjo.
tenor banjoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenor banjoist
depth psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depth psychologies
form: depth-psychology
Etymology: From the German Tiefenpsychologie, reportedly coined by Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939).
Senses: examples: text: Depth psychology now probably has more influence on the U.S. at large through business and advertising than through clinics or mental-health programs.
ref: 1957 May 13, “Medicine: Psychology & the Ads”, in Time, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
text: Mr Waterfield's long book traces the history of hypnosis from its discovery by Franz Anton Mesmer . . . who has been both derided as a self-seeking charlatan and praised as the forerunner of depth psychology.
ref: 2002 April 28, Anthony Daniels, "You won't feel a thing" (review of Hidden Depths by Robin Waterfield), Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 19 Sep 2015)
text: [A] nucleus of thinkers at Columbia . . . formed a loose federation of like minds. . . . Most were influenced by European social science, in particular by psychoanalysis and depth psychology, which offered more fruitful diagnostic methods than the tired formulas of Marxism and the class struggle.
ref: 2006 August 6, Sam Tanenhaus, “The Education of Richard Hofstadter”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
glosses: An approach to psychology which attempts to describe and explain the structure, content, and relationship of conscious and unconscious mental activity, and which is intended to serve as a basis for psychoanalytic therapies.
wikipedia: Eugen Bleuler
Hyponyms: Freudianism
Jungianism
Related terms: behaviorism
depth-psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depth-psychologies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of depth psychology.
gimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: gimbal
Forms: form: gimbles
form: gimbling
form: gimbled
form: gimbled
Etymology: Compared by the EDD to dialectal Swedish gimla (“to move the lips in an unseemly manner, to make a wry face, to move the lips awry”). Compare also North Frisian gēmeli (“to move the lips before laughing”). Nall compares Old English ginian; the hard g in this form needs explanation (its standard English descendant is yawn), though the EDD does record a variant form jimble (/ˈjɪmbəl/).
Senses: examples: text: GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard […] ]
ref: [1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Angliahttps://archive.org/details/vocabularyeasta06forbgoog, vol. II, p. 131
text: […] I'd pull up at the garden-gate to take a bunch of flowers to stick in my buttonhole, and get a smile from ye that seemed to gimble itself through and through my buzzum !
ref: 1842 May, John Mills, “The Stage Coach; or The Road of Life”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 15, number 145, page 241:
text: [T]wo fine powdered footmen, all yellow, and green, and gold lace, comed running to open the door [...] one of them, giving a knowing wink to the other, all the same as if they took me for a burglar comed under fictious pretences to make observations. [...] Well, they gimbled at that again. Howsomever, the sight of the money kinder brought one of them to reason, so he took me into Mr. Maplestone's room at last; […]
ref: 1861, Agnes Strickland, Old Friends and New Acquaintances, page 364:
text: [1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv
Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)]
text: "Now then, what are yow gimbling¹ at, young mester?" he said.
ref: 1888, George Manville Fenn, Dick o' the Fens, page 52:
text: […]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]
ref: [1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147:
glosses: To grin or smile.
gimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: gimbal
Forms: form: gimbles
Etymology: Variant of gimbal.
Senses: examples: text: The axle which revolves carries a small bevel wheel with 46 teeth, a similar wheel in all respects, only having 2 more teeth gears into this; but owing to its being hung on a gimble joint, like a ship's compass, it does not revolve, but makes a succession of rapid serpentine vibrations, around the face of the other wheel.
ref: 1878, J. Coleman, “Agricultural Mechanics”, in Robert Hunt, editor, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, page 29:
text: He thus introduced a laterally- mounted one-star plate which could be tilted on a gimble ring.
ref: 1958, Charles Alfonso Zweng, Helicopter Rating, page 16:
text: The first aerospace mechanism to utilize HOP actuators will be a gimble caging device being designed by Aeroflex Labs for a satellite to be launched in the fall of 1988.
ref: 1988, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Proceedings - Volume 22, page 27:
text: In both the handheld and body-mounted versions, the sled connects to the rest of the rig through a gimble, which provides a full, flexible range of movement.
ref: 2006, Ian David Aronson, DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of gimbal.
gimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: gimbal
Forms: form: gimbles
form: gimbling
form: gimbled
form: gimbled
Etymology: Variant of gimbal.
Senses: examples: text: It is gimbled such that if this is the aircraft , and this is the sensor, I can pull a maneuver, if my target is over here, and that sensor continues to stay locked on, and lases, even though I am pulling aways and leaving, it is a gimbled device .
ref: 1984, Defense Department Authorization and Oversight Hearings on H. R. 5167, US:
text: Also, since the pushers are gimbled, the limb is no longer constrained to be in a fixed position. Another advantage of the DSLS is since the force can now be computer-controlled to push or pull on the subject's limb, […]
ref: 1984, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, IEEE ... Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care
text: The sphere that permits the gimbling of the head also allows a theta rotation. With this experience a new head is designed to address TAB assembly with die attach. The gimbling feature is still desired to accommodate the non-planarity bonding surface of the substrate. Theta rotation must be prevented. The solution is a head with individual gimbling hot bar blades attached to a fixed head.
ref: 1992, International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Microelectronics, October 19-21, 1992, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California: ISHM '92 Proceedings, International Society of Hybrid, page 408
glosses: Alternative form of gimbal.
pederastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pederastically
form: most pederastically
Etymology: From pederastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: "For the pederastically inclined, these brothels no doubt formed the nerve center of the subculture by virtue of their various functions."
ref: 1987, A. X. van Naerssen, Interdisciplinary Research on Homosexuality in the Netherlands:
glosses: In a pederastic manner.
pluperfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluperfection
kinesiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinesiological
form: most kinesiological
form: kinesiologic
Etymology: From kinesiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: of, or related to kinesiology
just as soon as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as soon as.
kinesiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinesiologic
form: most kinesiologic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinesiological.
anti-metaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antimetaphysics.
Meronyms: postmetaphysics
post-metaphysics
cannolilike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cannolilike
form: most cannolilike
Etymology: From cannoli + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Among many masa dishes is a cannolilike dessert: Masa is molded around a tube, deep-fried, cooled, sugar dusted, then filled with pumpkin seed mousse and tipped with finely minced fresh mint.
ref: 1992, Food Arts, volume 5, page 246:
text: Crushed ginger snaps were rolled into a cannolilike shape and filled with whipped cream, strawberries and kiwifruit, more of which were arranged on the plate.
ref: 1997 March 14, Pat Bruno, “Cooking school cuisine // Hospitality eatery passes pop quiz”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
text: The tourists had slices of gjetost, a caramel-colored cheese, and krumkaker, a cannolilike pastry roll filled with lingonberry jam and whipped cream.
ref: 2009 May 15, Joseph Berger, “Changing Tastes, From Lingonberry to Baba Ghanouj”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling cannoli.
Potter Stewart standard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Potter Stewart, American jurist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Potter Stewart test.
wikipedia: Potter Stewart
Corsican mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Corsican mints
Senses: glosses: A low-growing, moss-like species of mint with a pennyroyal fragrance, Mentha requienii, native to Italy, Corsica and Sardinia, and which is grown as an ornamental ground cover and traditionally used in crème de menthe.
Corsican mints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Corsican mint
pineapple mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple mints
Senses: glosses: A variegated cultivar of apple-scented mint, Mentha suaveolens.
pineapple mints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapple mint
diesel-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: powered by the diesel engine
gas-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rather than banning these engines overnight, the state is rolling out the change gradually. The new rules tighten emissions standards over time, leading up to a ban on the sale of new gas-powered SOREs by 2028.
ref: 2025 May 4, Stacey Sloughfy, “How California's Upcoming State Ban Will Impact RVs And Camping Trips”, in The Travel:
glosses: Powered by a gasoline engine.
English lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English lavenders
Senses: glosses: Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).
non-use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-uses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonuse.
non-uses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-use
nonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonuse
arbanne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbannes
Senses: examples: text: Its Le Nombre dOr Campanae Veteres Vites 2000, $66, showcases three lesser-known grapes arbanne, petit meslier and fromenteau but one word describes it: exceptional.
ref: 2009 February 26, S.S. Fair, “Brut Force”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Arbane.
Arbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbanne
form: Arbanne
Senses: glosses: A French white grape variety.
fromenteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its Le Nombre d'Or Campanae Veteres Vites 2000, $66, showcases three lesser-known grapes — arbanne, petit meslier and fromenteau — but one word describes it: exceptional.
ref: 2009 February 26, S.S. Fair, “Brut Force”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lesser French grape variety.
hive minds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our great hive minds can instantly read their feeble mental projections from even this distance.
glosses: plural of hive mind
echocardiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echo- + cardiology.
Senses: examples: text: Laura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas, finds the replay service invaluable. Mrs. Martho, who has four children, commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology.
ref: 2007 December 9, Anne Eisenberg, “What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of echocardiography.
synonyms: word: echocardiography
Derived terms: echocardiologist
echocardiologic
echocardiological
echocardiologically
twistgrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twistgrips
Etymology: From twist + grip.
Senses: examples: text: The innovative twistgrip has yet another trick: from a standstill, twisting the grip forward activates reverse, helping the rider (slowly) back out of a tight parking space.
ref: 2007 December 9, Dexter Ford, “Electric Glide: Passing Pumps on a Scooter”, in New York Times:
glosses: A handle (typically on a motorcycle) that is operated by twisting.
academicist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more academicist
form: most academicist
Etymology: From academic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 75 years, the two main resident choreographers who have reshaped the Paris Opera Ballet are Serge Lifar and Rudolf Nureyev, intelligent stars whose choreography was generally empty, pompously (Lifar) or forcedly (Nureyev) academicist, astoundingly anti-musical in emphasis, strong on surface and almost entirely devoid of dance tone.
ref: 2007 December 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Class Acts: Paris Ballet Student Exhibitions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relating to academicism
butyrolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrolactones
Senses: examples: text: Novitzky noted that Rose had recently pleaded guilty to federal charges of distributing gamma butyrolactone, or GBL, a drug sometimes sold as a steroid adjunct, to minor league players.
ref: 2007 December 22, Michael S. Schmidt, “Fernandez and Rose Jr. Are Linked to Radomski”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lactone derived from a hydroxybutyric acid
Derived terms: gamma-butyrolactone
butyrolactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyrolactone
shopdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃɑpˌdɹɑpɪŋ/
Etymology: From shop + dropping, modelled on shoplifting.
Senses: examples: text: This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
ref: 2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the aisles? Stores provide a stage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
topics: art
arts
synonyms: droplifting
glosses: The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of advertising, countercultural performance art, protest, etc.
Related terms: shopdropper
satsumaimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satsumaimos
form: satsumaimo
form: satsuma imo
form: satsuma-imo
form: Satsuma imo
form: Satsuma-imo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 薩(さつ)摩(ま)芋(いも) (Satsuma imo, literally “Satsuma potato”).
Senses: examples: text: She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lots of garlic.
ref: 2007 December 26, Julia Moskin, “A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: At last, Ms. Lo returns to Japan for creamy cubes of roasted satsumaimo, the yellow sweet potato.
ref: 2014 February 5, Pete Wells, “Keeping Her Passport Handy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2014:
text: 3 medium satsumaimo (Japanese sweet potato) […] Scrub the satsumaimo and cut them into bite-size pieces. Soak the pieces in a bowl of water for 5 minutes to draw out the extra starch.
ref: 2022, Emily J. Bushman, “Daikagu Imo”, in Bake Anime: 75 Sweet Recipes Spotted In—and Inspired by—Your Favorite Anime (A Cookbook), New York, N.Y.: Simon Element, →ISBN, “Japanese Desserts” section, page 51:
glosses: A Japanese form of sweet potato.
demiclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demi- + clad.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing her swan alongside Mr. Trump on The Apprentice, or vamp demiclad in the pages of a fashion magazine, an observer could be forgiven for sizing her up as a bit of garnish on her fathers multilayered business operation.
ref: 2007 December 27, Ruth La Ferla, “Introducing the Ivanka”, in New York Times:
glosses: half-naked
quarter jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter jacks
Senses: glosses: An automaton, on a clock, that strikes a bell every quarter hour
VSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSCs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of virtual safety car.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of volatile sulphur/sulfur compound.
Related terms: sense: virtual safety car
word: DWY
sense: virtual safety car
word: FCY
sense: virtual safety car
english: safety car
translation: safety car
word: SC
sense: virtual safety car
word: SY
sense: virtual safety car
word: WY
sense: virtual safety car
word: Y
sense: volatile sul[ph/f]ur compound
word: VOC
virtual safety car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual safety cars
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A racing condition where the race steward declares that all race cars must run a similar pace and must not exceed a certain speed, so that they will appear to each follow their own personal imaginary safety car, theoretically maintaining race separations without change, and where they cannot overtake each other.
Synonyms: word: VSC
Derived terms: word: VSC
Related terms: alt: SC
word: safety car
english: a race condition where all race cars must slow down and where they cannot pass each other, indicated with waving yellow flags along the entirety of the circuit
translation: a race condition where all race cars must slow down and where they cannot pass each other, indicated with waving yellow flags along the entirety of the circuit
word: full-course yellow
vike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: vikes
Etymology: Respelling of the first part of the word.
Senses: examples: text: She's on vikes, so don't take her seriously today.
glosses: Vicodin
longyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longyans
Senses: examples: text: China, now the fifth largest wine producer in the world, has an expanded section of its own as well as separate new entries on the longyan and cabernet gernischt grape varieties and its oldest and largest wine producer, Changyu.
ref: 2015 September 20, David Williams, “Why the Oxford Companion to Wine is so ‘awesomesauce’”, in The Observer:
glosses: Alternative form of Longyan.
rideability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ride + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not cheap, mind, but the marriage of retro styling and modern rideability will be irresistible for old-school race romantics (condorcycles.com ).
ref: 2015 September 20, Martin Love, “Condor Cycles ‘Paris Strada’: bike review”, in The Observer:
glosses: The condition of being rideable; the extent to which something is rideable
Old Leonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Romance language spoken in the Iberian peninsula, the ancestor to modern Leonese.
Slovack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Slovak.
Slovack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slovacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Slovak.
Slovacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slovack
weeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēb
ipa: /ˈwiːb/
Forms: form: weebs
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weeaboo
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
English mind
English -ed
English minded
English feeble-minded
English feebinflu.
English dweebinflu.
English weeb
Clipping of weeaboo, possibly under the influence of dweeb.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of weeaboo (in both senses).
Derived terms: hoodweeb
worse-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bad-tempered: more bad-tempered
worst-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bad-tempered: most bad-tempered
multi-organismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multi-organismic
form: most multi-organismic
Etymology: From multi- + organismic.
Senses: examples: text: This is the complex aggregate of animate and inanimate single-organismic and multi-organismic entities and systems.
glosses: consisting of multiple organisms
examples: text: These insect and mole-rat colonies are multi-organismic equivalents of single organisms.
glosses: of, or related to multiple organisms
single-organismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This is the complex aggregate of animate and inanimate single-organismic and multi-organismic entities and systems.
glosses: consisting of a single organism
examples: text: Asimov acknowledges the problems with considering multi-organismic intelligence from the point of view of a single-organismic intelligence.
glosses: of or pertaining to a single organism
echocardiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: echocardiologic
Senses: examples: text: This has allowed echocardiological identification of cardiac structures, visualization of intracardiac shunts, and even of the stem of the left coronary artery.
ref: 2012, N. Bom, Echocardiology: with Doppler applications and Real time imaging:
glosses: Of or related to echocardiology.
Derived terms: echocardiologically
echocardiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more echocardiologic
form: most echocardiologic
Etymology: From echo- + cardiologic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of echocardiological.
echocardiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From echocardiological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Left ventricular ejection fraction was estimated echocardiologically by the simplified two-dimensional method with two-dimensional phased array sector scanner (Toshiba, SDS-21A).
ref: 2012, Pathophysiology of Heart Disease: Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research, July 8–11, 1986, Winnipeg, Canada, Springer Science & Business Media:
glosses: By means of echocardiology.
flounderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flounderish
form: most flounderish
Etymology: From flounder (“act clumsily (verb)”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The readers were expecting things to be a little more direct, and so they're probably feeling a bit flounderish.
text: "With those precious burdens hanging before them and that walk of theirs, to say nothing of the flounderish feet, they made one think of three giant chickens just home from fishing with the catch of the day."
ref: 1995, Nancy Bogen, Bagatelle--Guinevere:
glosses: that flounders; that moves with awkward struggles
examples: text: I had a big flounderish diatribe written up, but this isn't the place for it.
glosses: (of a speech) moving from topic to topic, not focused
weebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weeb
Wapanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wapanese
form: most Wapanese
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wapanese.
Wapanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wapanese
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wapanese.
Steiner tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steiner trees
Etymology: Named after Jakob Steiner.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum-weight connected subgraph of a graph that includes all the vertices of that graph.
Steiner trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Steiner tree
Steiner points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Steiner point
Brocard triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brocard triangles
Etymology: Named after Henri Brocard (1845–1922), French mathematician.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The triangle formed by joining the points of intersection of the lines from each vertex of a triangle to its Brocard points.
Brocard triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brocard triangle