cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poshtel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poshtels
Etymology: Blend of posh + hostel.
Senses: examples: text: Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues? More importantly, did it live up to the hype? I strolled around this poshtel in search of answers.
ref: 2009 August 15, Louisa Lim, “The ‘poshtel’”, in The Star, Malaysia:
text: The boutique Safestay hostel, a so-called “poshtel”, is to be floated on AIM by way of a demerger from Safeland, the property company that formed the business three years ago in a joint venture with Moorfield Group.
ref: 2014 March 21, Dominic Walsh, “Safestay takes its poshtel to market”, in The Times, UK:
text: Should you make it to one of the most popular places, Britain, you may want to experience a rising trend: the so-called poshtel, a kind of elegant hostel such as Hoax or Safe­stay.
ref: 2015, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Where Will Americans Travel in 2015?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An upscale or luxury hostel.
Chinese foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese feet
Etymology: From its rough resemblance to the English foot.
Senses: glosses: A chi, a traditional Chinese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized variously as (Mainland China) ¹/₃ or (Taiwan) ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.
Related terms: Hong Kong foot
Chinese feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese foot
jiboias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiboia
chek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheks
form: chek
Etymology: From the Yale romanization of the Cantonese 尺 (cek³). Doublet of chi.
Senses: glosses: A Hong Kong foot.
viscerotonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscerotonic
viscero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Combining form of Latin viscera.
Senses: glosses: viscera
flavor text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavor texts
form: flavour text
Senses: examples: text: In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.
ref: 2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page
text: One reason why cards are now much more popular, and dice less, in tabletop games is that cards can include colorful, varied, interesting illustrations and brief “flavor text.”
ref: 2012, Lewis Pulsipher, Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, McFarland & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 129:
text: The metaphysical taxonomy of reality in magic systems occurs to varying degrees of depth, ranging from flavor text in small or large amounts (the backs of Magic: The Gathering cards exemplify short flavor text, while the codexes/codices in Dragon Age contain more elaborate philosophical ruminations) to deep integration with gameplay.
ref: 2014, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 104:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.
Eudist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eudists
Etymology: From the name of Saint Jean Eudes, + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary
wikipedia: Jean Eudes
cheks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chek
Japanese foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese feet
Etymology: From its rough similarity to the English foot measurement.
Senses: glosses: A shaku, a traditional Japanese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized as ¹⁰⁄₃₃ of a meter.
Japanese feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese foot
electrosensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrosensible
form: most electrosensible
Etymology: From electro- + sensible.
Senses: examples: text: A large spectrum of techniques was tested by the manufacturers: scanners using photodiodes and CCD line sensors, software or hardware modems, printers using thermic, photosensible, electrosensible and electrochimic papers.
ref: 1980, Commutation & Transmission - Volumes 2-3, page 31:
text: The best least square fit was found for a second log-normal distribution superposed at the sensitive end, again indicating the existence of a very sensitive subgroup among the general population and leading to the estimation that this very electrosensible subgroup could have the size of approximately 2% of the general population [Leitgeb, 1998]
ref: 2003 September, Norbert Leitgeb, Jörg Schröttner, “Electrosensibility and electromagnetic hypersensitivity”, in BioElectroMagnetics, volume 24, number 6:
text: The existence of the very “electrosensible” subgroup can be seen as the second log-normal distribution on the fig 2.
ref: 2006 October, Brice Mattivi, Véronique Beauvois, Patrick Dular, Jean-Louis Lilien, Raoul Lorphevre, Ruth V Sabariego, “Hypersensitivity to Electricity: The effect of the current waveform on the perception level”, in Proceedings of the 4th Int Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields:
glosses: Synonym of electrosensitive.
synonyms: word: electrosensitive
Related terms: electrosensitive
electrosensibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrosensible
glitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Forms: form: glittens
Etymology: Blend of glove + mitten.
Senses: examples: text: These glittens are perfect for winter walks with a spunky dog. They keep you warm and, hopefully, give you the control you need to let her know who's in charge.
ref: 2009 April 8, Barbara Hurd, “Dog-walking Glittens”, in Not Now, I'm Knitting: Sweaters, Shawls, Vests, and Other Patterns in Classic and Contemporary Styles, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Glittens / Is that a word? It probably is. A combination of both gloves and mittens, glittens claim to have the best of both worlds. But is it possible to find a cute pair? We took to the streets. And by that, we mean we emailed our friends that were known mitten/glove/glitten enthusiasts (it's cold out there!) […]
ref: 2012 January 16, Meghan O'Neill, “Mittens VS Gloves: The Battle Continues”, in The Gloss, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2016:
text: [T]he Glen Ridge Farm Huacaya alpacas who grew the wool from which my glittens were knit.
ref: 2014, Kelly Kittel, “Acknowledgements”, in Breathe: A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cross between a glove and a mitten, often in the form of a fingerless glove with an attached mitten-like flap that can be used to cover the fingers.
glitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
rhymes: -ɪtən
ipa: /ˈɡlɪtn̩/
rhymes: -ɪtən
Forms: form: glittens
form: glittening
form: glittened
form: glittened
Etymology: From Middle English glitenen, from Old English glitnian, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *glitinōną, from a root cognate with Old Norse glitra + Proto-Germanic *-inōną. Ultimately from *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Related to Old English glisnian (“to glisten”), Old English glīdan (“to glide”). Largely displaced by glitter.
Senses: examples: text: At one of the river landings I passed, there was something white glittening in the moonlight.
ref: 1880, George Chittenden Benham, A Year of Wreck: A True Story, by a Victim, page 439:
text: Oh, yes, there were a hundredfold more beggars and swaggerers among the docks than upon the granite mount, but there was too much diversion to heed the tricks of sharpers in the crush of the myriad craft and the throngs of sailors on duty on the merchantmen, the hordes of poor panting human toilers loading and unloading the trading vessels locked in the basins, and the care-free troops of seamen off duty, with full pockets and light hearts, whose gold was soon to vanish in the seduction of the glittening casinos and their black-eyed sweethearts.
ref: 1881, Annie S. Wolf, Pictures and Portraits of Foreign Travel, page 224:
text: Presently a purple curtain that hung between two massive pillars, was withdrawn, and two female slaves, whose dark limbs, glittened with bracelets of gold, appeared in the hall, holding torches in their hands.
ref: 1854, George Lippard, The Nazarene; Or, The Last of the Washingtons:
text: And then he ponders, in his trance, - On Mary's love-inspiring glance, On Chloe's eye of glittening fire, And Laura's look of fond desire.
ref: 1865, Derwent Coleridge, The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, page 13:
text: Glete, gleit, vb, to glitter. Douglas, I, 33; II, 88, 16; Montg. C. and S., 1288; Dunbar, G. T., 66, O. N. glita, to glitter, Dan. glitte, Cp. Shetland glid, a glittering object. O. E. glitnian > M. E. glitenien, as O. E. glisnian > M. E. glistnian, N. Eng. glisten. The M. E. glitenian (N. Eng. *glitten) was replaced by the Scand. glitter.
ref: c. 1900, George Tobias Flom, Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch:
glosses: to glisten, to reflect, to shimmer.
glittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glitten
glittens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glitten
tickle someone's pickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tickles someone's pickle
form: tickling someone's pickle
form: tickled someone's pickle
form: tickled someone's pickle
Senses: examples: text: Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.
ref: 1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269:
text: If you have any hilarious dating stories, though, please do share them with me on social media, they always tickle my pickle!
ref: 2015, Louise Pentland, Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter, →ISBN:
text: That story never ceases to tickle my pickle!
ref: 2015, Baker and Debra Burke-Simpkins, A Sensitive Dog's Guide to Love, Life and Counter Cruising, →ISBN:
text: But I like it on account of how it's like another language, like my bingo lingo or the stuff Togz comes up with. Some of the expressions really tickle my pickle, they're like shortcuts when you can nip through the park instead of having to go round the houses.
ref: 2017, Martin Pevsner, Human Bingo, →ISBN:
glosses: To amuse or astonish someone.
examples: text: Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. "That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle."
ref: 1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200:
text: Come on Daisy, don't hold out on me. If you won't tickle my pickle, someone has to.
ref: 2014, Cat Mason, Facing Me:
text: Bryan seemingly tortures Jessica, who is "a related-multiplicity dancing in-process of assembling and de-assembling within, through, and near the multiplicity that is Reynolds" with the reputation of Sigmund Freud "Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud" and announces that "Freud famously begged, 'Please don't tickle my pickle. No pickle-tickle." Freud understood that too much tension and disjunction might be unpleasurable and even excruciating.
ref: 2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN:
glosses: To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
oh me oh my
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: an expression of amazement
here today, gone tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Things are fleeting; something that is ubiquitous or popular at one point is soon forgotten.
Derived terms: hair today, gone tomorrow
Related terms: easy come, easy go
blink-and-you-miss-it
no guts, no glory
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Suggesting the bloody conditions of warfare.
Senses: glosses: Success will not be achieved without hard work and struggle.
Synonyms: no pain, no gain
Three Stooges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of three stupid people.
sugar and spice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Two things that are fundamentally different from each other.
Derived terms: sugar and spice and everything nice
Related terms: chalk and cheese
Last Messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: the Last Messenger
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: an epithet of Muhammad
pronunciation spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən ˈspɛlɪŋ/
Forms: form: pronunciation spellings
Senses: examples: text: A word of almost phonetic composition is one in which the pronunciation spelling uses exactly the same letters in the precise order of the correct spelling of the word, but one of the vowels used to represent a particular sound may be interchanged with some different vowel letter and still not change the pronunciation of the word.
ref: 1954, Ira Edward Aaron, The Relationship of Auditory-visual Discrimination to Spelling Ability, page 6:
text: Over time the new spelling may become as acceptable as the original spelling, as is the case with the pronunciation spelling bosun for boatswain.
ref: 2005, The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style:
text: This spelling (mic) seems to be a holdover from port labels on old stereos and tape players. Yet people had long since decided that the pronunciation spelling mike, which dates from the 1920s, was more sensible and convenient.
ref: 2009, Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, page 537:
coordinate_terms: pronunciation respelling
glosses: Spelling intended to represent a pronunciation, which may or may not be the standard spelling of the word.
Related terms: eye dialect
spelling pronunciation
put on a clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on a clinic
form: putting on a clinic
form: put on a clinic
form: put on a clinic
Senses: glosses: To perform excellently; to put on a show of brilliance.
Synonyms: put on a masterclass
face control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian фейсконтро́ль (fejskontrólʹ), from English face + control, a pseudo-Anglicism.
Senses: qualifier: Greece
glosses: The policy, in upscale nightclubs, of restricting entry based on a bouncer's snap judgment of the suitability of a person's looks, money, style or attitude.
wikipedia: pseudo-Anglicism
langdebeefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of langdebeef
western roe deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western roe deer
Senses: glosses: A species of small deer (Capreolus capreolus) native to Europe and Asia Minor.
Synonyms: sense: Capreolus capreolus
word: roe deer
Coordinate terms: sense: Capreolus capreolus
word: eastern roe deer
sense: Capreolus capreolus
word: Siberian roe deer
sense: Capreolus capreolus
word: Asian roe deer
footnoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footnoters
Etymology: From footnote + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who writes footnotes.
Kekulean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kekulean
form: most Kekulean
Etymology: From Kekulé + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist, the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
footnoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footnoter
daniq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daniqs
Etymology: From Arabic دَانِق (dāniq).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Islamic silver coin weighing one sixth as much as a dinar.
daniqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daniq
frostquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostquakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frost quake.
frostquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frostquake
niqaabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niqaab
niqāb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niqābs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of niqab.
niqābs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niqāb
hijaab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hijaabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hijab.
hijaabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijaab
hijāb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hijābs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hijab.
hijābs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijāb
misattunement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misattunements
Etymology: From mis- + attunement.
Senses: glosses: Bad or wrong attunement.
misattunements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misattunement
bourkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourkhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burqa.
bourkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bourkha
bourqa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourqas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burqa.
bourqas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bourqa
burkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burkhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burqa.
burkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burkha
misattune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misattunes
form: misattuning
form: misattuned
form: misattuned
Etymology: From mis- + attune.
Senses: glosses: To attune badly or wrongly.
misattuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misattune
misattunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misattune
misattuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misattune
aracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + racial.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Without race or race distinctions.
Derived terms: araciality
brick toast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Taiwanese sweet butter bread shaped in a block and often served with ice cream.
glosses: Synonym of honey toast (“Japanese dessert”).
synonyms: word: honey toast
extra: Japanese dessert
cat cafés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat café
cat cafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat cafes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat café.
cat cafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat cafe
maid cafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid cafes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maid café.
maid cafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid cafe
butler café
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butler cafés
form: butler cafe
Senses: glosses: A novelty restaurant, originating in and found predominantly in Japan, in which guests are served by male waiters in butler costumes, who treat them as masters or mistresses in a private home rather than as restaurant patrons.
Coordinate terms: maid café
butler cafés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butler café
postmultiplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmultiplications
Etymology: From post- + multiplication.
Senses: glosses: The process of postmultiplying.
postmultiplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmultiplication
butler cafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butler cafes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butler café.
butler cafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butler cafe
fail at life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fails at life
form: failing at life
form: failed at life
form: failed at life
Senses: glosses: To be or become trapped in poverty, or in a situation where one is not doing anything productive with one's life; to become a loser.
glosses: To do anything disappointing; to fail significantly.
fails at life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fail at life
failing at life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fail at life
failed at life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fail at life
Mankiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.kjuː/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ма́нків (Mánkiv).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Манків (Mankiv).
market failure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market failures
Senses: examples: text: From a policy perspective, market failure should be a matter of concern when market performance significantly deviates from the appropriate efficiency benchmark.
ref: 2007, Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: "Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming. We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. The problem is global and the response must be a collaboration on a global scale."
ref: 2007 November 29, Alison Benjamin, “Stern: Climate change a 'market failure'”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: government failure
glosses: A situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.
common chaffinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common chaffinches
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Fringilla coelebs, principally native to Europe.
Synonyms: sense: Fringilla coelebs
word: chaffinch
CPCTC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent, a theorem regarding congruent triangles, stating that if two or more triangles are proven congruent by any method, then all of their corresponding angles and sides are congruent as well.
Related terms: CPCFC
CPCFC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of corresponding parts of congruent forms are congruent.
Related terms: CPCTC
I am not
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: I am not something
form: someone
Senses: examples: I am not Charlie Hebdo!
glosses: Indicates absence of solidarity or a support of a shared conviction with the person or object upon which a perceived injustice is being inflicted, usually in opposition to the majority of society.
American perch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American perches
form: American perch
Senses: glosses: A fish of the species Perca flavescens, native to eastern and central North America.
Synonyms: sense: Perca flavescens
word: yellow perch
sense: Perca flavescens
word: lake perch
sense: Perca flavescens
word: raccoon perch
sense: Perca flavescens
word: coontail
sense: Perca flavescens
word: ring-tail perch
sense: Perca flavescens
word: ringed perch
sense: Perca flavescens
word: striped perch
amorphophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorphophytes
Etymology: From amorpho- (“formless”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant with flowers of an irregular or anomalous shape.
amorphophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorphophyte
Marianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marianists
Etymology: From Marian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And Catholic Marianists, for their part, have looked for ultimate authority instead in the miraculous realm of mystical visions and end-time prophecy. Mainly because of their passionate commitment to anti-abortion activism, Catholic conservatives have thus far wielded a far greater public presence than either separatists or Marianists.
ref: 1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 179:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic brothers and priests who look to the Virgin Mary as a model of faith and spirituality.
monogrammist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogrammists
Etymology: From monogram + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a monogram instead of a signature
anaerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈneɪəɹəʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: anaerophytes
Etymology: From an- (“not”) + aerophyte, from aero- (“air”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant that does not require a direct supply of air
anaerophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaerophyte
mds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of merchandise and related forms of that word (merchandising, merchandised, merchandiser, etc.)
axophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæksəfaɪt/
Forms: form: axophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant with an axis or stem
axophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axophyte
ceratophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹətəʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: ceratophytes
Etymology: From cerato- (“horn”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: a type of coral polyp, the internal axis of which has the appearance of wood or horn.
ceratophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratophyte
craspedophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craspedophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek κράσπεδον (kráspedon, “edge, border”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: choanoflagellate
craspedophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craspedophyte
hither and yon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɒn
Senses: examples: text: And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: In, at or to various places.
Synonyms: word: here and there
word: hither and thither
-phytes
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /faɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of -phyte
Juanita Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juanita Does
Senses: topics: government
law
law-enforcement
glosses: A Latina who is unknown, a Jane Doe of Latin descent.
Hypernyms: english: any unknown female
translation: any unknown female
word: Jane Doe
Related terms: John Doe
Juanita Does
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Juanita Doe
Juan Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juan Does
Senses: topics: government
law
law-enforcement
glosses: A Latino male who is unknown, a John Doe of Latin descent.
Hypernyms: english: any unknown male
translation: any unknown male
word: John Doe
Related terms: Jane Doe
Juan Does
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Juan Doe
ICFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICF
Doe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Does
Etymology: * As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun doe.
* As a Norman surname, from Old French d' Eu, from Eu, Seine-Maritime. That city's name could be from Frankish *auwju (“island, water meadow”) or otherwise a reduction of Latin Augusta.
Senses: examples: text: In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.
ref: 2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname of English origin.
wikipedia: Eu, Seine-Maritime
Coordinate terms: sense: English-language pseudonymous surname
word: Roe
Related terms: John Doe
Jane Doe
Juan Doe
Juanita Doe
Does
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doe
Roes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roe
Jane Roes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jane Roe
Richard Roe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Richard Roes
Etymology: See John Doe.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of John Doe.
synonyms: word: John Doe
Richard Roes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Richard Roe
spaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of speak
piai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pɨjati; compare Kari'na pyjai, Trió pïjai, Akurio piyahi, Wayana pïjai, Yao (South America) peeiai (“shaman”).
Senses: synonyms: piaiman
glosses: A shaman among the indigenous peoples of Guyana.
predes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prede
binarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binarization
diafiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diafiltrations
Etymology: From dia- + filtration.
Senses: glosses: filtration through a permeable membrane in order to remove medium- to large-size molecules
dichloroaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichloroanilines
Etymology: From dichloro + aniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric dichloro derivatives of aniline
foresummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresummers
Etymology: From fore- + summer.
Senses: glosses: The season immediately preceding summer
glosses: The early part of summer
microperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microperfusions
Etymology: From micro- + perfusion.
Senses: glosses: perfusion through microscopic pores in a membrane
nitrovasodilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrovasodilators
Etymology: From nitro- + vasodilator.
Senses: examples: text: Nitrovasodilators are among the oldest but still most widely used drugs in cardiovascular medicine.
ref: 2012, John B. Chang, Textbook of Angiology, page 122:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: nitrodilator
glosses: Any vasodilator that functions by supplying nitric oxide.
Related terms: nitrovasodilatory
pyrodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + diversity.
Senses: examples: text: Despite ambiguities in reconstructing presuppression fire behavior, there is wide agreement that a century of fire-suppression management has resulted in a large increase of dead and living fuel, increasing the probability of surface fires becoming crown fires of greater areal extent and intensity. That is, "pyrodiversity" has declined from a once wide spectrum over space, time, and intensity. The likely consequence is that biodiversity has declined as well (Martin and Sapsis 1992).
ref: 2000, Michael G. Barbour, Richard A. Minnich, “Californian Upland Forests and Woodlands”, in North American Terrestrial Vegetation, pages 180–181:
text: Some scientists suggest that pyrodiversity (the diversity in frequency, scale, season, and type of fire) leads to great biodiversity of plant species and vegetation types.
ref: 2005, Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, page 18:
text: Consequently, as we see later in this book, Native Californians experimented with pyrodiversity practices in an attempt to diversify plant and animal resources and to minimize the risks of serious food shortages through storage, trade, and mass harvests when resources were plentiful.
ref: 2009, Kent G. Lightfoot, California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction, page 70:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A variation in the kinds of fire, whether produced by natural conditions or controlled burning, in an environment or ecosystem.
pyrogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrogenicities
Etymology: From pyrogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Pyrogenicity testing was developed from the rabbit test (monitoring of the temperature of three healthy rabbits for 3 h after injection of the test sample) to a more sophisticated and rapid method called the limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) method.
ref: 2010, Magdy Khalil, Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine, page 63:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition or extent of being pyrogenic.
Derived terms: nonpyrogenicity
Related terms: apyrogen
apyrogenetic
apyrogenic
apyrogenically
apyrogenicity
apyrogenous
nonpyrogen
nonpyrogenic
nonpyrogenous
pyrogen
pyrogenesis
pyrogenetic
pyrogenic
pyrogenically
pyrogenous
reseeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reseeders
Etymology: From reseed + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any plant that reproduces by reseeding after a fire
Related terms: resprouter
resprouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resprouters
Etymology: From resprout + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any plant that survives by resprouting after a fire
Related terms: reseeder
protagonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protagonizes
form: protagonizing
form: protagonized
form: protagonized
Senses: examples: text: Our project should be to protagonize ourselves, and yet, that project presents certain problems.
ref: 2018, Jennifer Markides, Laura Forsythe, Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up, page 41:
text: Self-protagonizing does not mean putting self first, nor maximizing self-gain. Rather, it expresses a certain sense of freedom […]
ref: 2020, Randal Joy Thompson, Proleptic Leadership on the Commons, page 75:
glosses: To set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity.
examples: text: For the sake of convenience, the name “Ernesto [Guevara]” will refer to the young medical student who protagonizes The Motorcycle Diaries (henceforth, Motorcycle Diaries).
ref: 2019 October 14, María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Omar Rodriguez, Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 177:
glosses: To be the protagonist, or most significant character or entity (of a literary work, etc.).
protagonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protagonize
quicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quica
auxiliary oiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxiliary oilers
Senses: glosses: A naval oil tanker with the ability to perform underway replenishment of fuel oil or ship oil to ships of the fleet.
Synonyms: sense: naval oil tanker
word: AO
Nasibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasibi
hoven in sight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of heave in sight
renegue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renegues
form: reneguing
form: renegued
form: renegued
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of renege.
renegues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renegue
retornados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retornado
rivalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rivalizes
form: rivalizing
form: rivalized
form: rivalized
Etymology: From rival + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To rival; to oppose or compete with.
rivalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rivalize
couldn't pour water out of a boot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
synonyms: word: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
synonyms: word: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
synonyms: word: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
socas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soca
Ekbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ekbergian
form: most Ekbergian
Etymology: From Ekberg + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Along an expressway the bus is heading through an unspectacular, often drab suburbia which for long stretches lies obscured by billboards depicting smiling goddesses of commerce with Ekbergian bosoms.
ref: 1966, Walter Kaufmann, American encounter, page 15:
text: The drivers were the Baron Enrico “Ricky” di Portanova, the half-Italian heir to a great Texas oil fortune, which he would have to sue for before he came to own Houston and Acapulco, and his then girlfriend, a heroic Ekbergian Swede […]
ref: 2008, George Hamilton, William Stadiem, Don't Mind If I Do, page 160:
glosses: Reminiscent of Anita Ekberg (1931–2015), Swedish actress, model, and sex symbol.
picinniny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picinninies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pickaninny.
rumortism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of rumor + rheumatism
Senses: glosses: A tendency to spread rumors or gossip.
rumourtrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumortrage.
rumortrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumourtrage
Etymology: Blend of rumor + arbitrage?
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An increase in trading activity prompted by rumors of a takeover.
rumourtism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rumortism.
couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
synonyms: word: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
unconfining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconfining
form: most unconfining
Etymology: From un- + confining.
Senses: glosses: Not confining.
play someone false
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays someone false
form: playing someone false
form: played someone false
form: played someone false
Senses: examples: text: And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.
ref: 1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94:
glosses: To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.
self-determine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-determines
form: self-determining
form: self-determined
form: self-determined
Etymology: From self- + determine.
Senses: glosses: To make one's own decisions without outside interference.
Related terms: self-determination
self-determinism
self-determining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-determine
self-determines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-determine
cupping glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupping glass
cupping jars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupping jar
gulab jamun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulab jamuns
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani گلاب جامن / गुलाब जामुन (gulāb jāmun), from गुलाब (gulāb, “rosewater”), in turn from Classical Persian گُلَاب (gulāb), from گُل (gul, “rose”) + آب (āb, “water”), and जामुन (jāmun, “jambul”).
Senses: examples: text: From where I was sitting I could see the gulab jamun Aunt Ranjan had prepared early that same morning. The dark-golden balls of sponge were already soaked in sugar syrup and piled generously in a glass bowl at the end of the counter.
ref: 2023, Chetna Maroo, Western Lane, Picador, page 3:
glosses: A South Asian dessert made from milk solids that are deep-fried and soaked in syrup.
gulab jamuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulab jamun
Gladwellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gladwellian
form: most Gladwellian
Etymology: From Gladwell + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Sheffrin has written a book of Gladwellian sweep, one that synthesizes and translates large swaths of fascinating social science research, while also enlivening the analysis with engaging stories from the trenches of tax policy and public finance.
ref: 2014 June 24, “Tax Fairness and Folk Justice”, in National Tax Journal, page 487:
text: Jake: That is a tremendous amount of Malcolm Gladwellian logic jumps.
Xander: Well you spent ten thousand hours fucking my life up, so bring Lainey to the party.
ref: 2015, Leslye Headland, Sleeping with Other People:
text: The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions. If anything united [Diederik] Stapel’s diverse interests, it was this Gladwellian bent.
ref: 2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or relating to Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963), Canadian journalist, author, and speaker.
Matthew effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Matthew effect
Etymology: Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton in 1968, in reference to Matthew 25:29.
Senses: examples: text: When we click on the top search results or watch the FrontPage videos on YouTube or read established blogs, we are jumping on invisible bandwagons, causing the Matthew effect to kick in.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: Matthew principle
glosses: The phenomenon by which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, either in terms of literal wealth or in terms of fame, status, etc.
Related terms: Matilda effect
preferential attachment
those that have, get
necropants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛkɹoʊˌpænts/
Etymology: From necro- + pants, a calque of Icelandic nábrók.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the occult practices they were accused of were simply old Viking traditions, though the necropants (see right) and grimoires (magic books) on display were proof enough for the local witch-hunters.
ref: 2007, Iceland, →ISBN, page 192:
text: […] make sure you wear your new necropants under your regular pants.
ref: 2013, Kathy Benjamin, Funerals to Die For, →ISBN, page 208:
text: These people do not know about the rich tradition of necropants, a wealth-attracting good-luck garment.
ref: 2016, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders, →ISBN:
glosses: A pair of pants made from the skin of the lower half (below the waist) of a dead man, used by medieval Icelandic sorcerers to obtain money.
sweet savage romance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet savage romances
Etymology: After Sweet Savage Love (1974) by Rosemary Rogers, an early novel of this type.
Senses: glosses: A style of romance novel featuring explicit sex and sexual aggression.
sweet savage romances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet savage romance
Harderian glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harderian gland
hierophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hiero- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Irreligion and hierophobia of the Republicans.
ref: 1850, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Common-place Book: Analytical readings, page 103:
text: Unhappily for Owen, he had conceived a kind of hierophobia in childhood which never left him. He saw in religion only a contrivance for making men cowards towards God and slaves to each other.
ref: 1860, Dublin University Magazine:
glosses: Fear of what is religious or sacred.
hardwarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hardware + -ily.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In terms of hardware.
Related terms: softwarily
haematomyelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematomyelia.
iconomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From icon + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Had this famous Saint been Canonized before the second Council of Nice, her Miracles would undoubtedly have been very highly esteem'd and vouched for as good Evidence to justify their Iconomania […]
ref: 1722, John Covel, Some Account of the Present Greek Church:
glosses: zealous dedication to icons or images
bibrotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Atractaspis bibroni + toxin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A toxin derived from the venom of the asp Atractaspis bibronii.
sarafotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarafotoxins
Etymology: From Hebrew שָׂרָף (saráf, “venomous snake”) + toxin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Any of a class of toxins derived from the venom of the snake Atractaspis engaddensis.
sarafotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarafotoxin
telecardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecardiograms
Etymology: From tele- + cardiogram.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electrocardiogram.
synonyms: word: electrocardiogram
Related terms: telecardiographic
telecardiography
telecardiological
telecardiology
telecardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + cardiographic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electrocardiographic.
synonyms: word: electrocardiographic
Related terms: telecardiogram
telecardiography
telecardiological
telecardiology
telecardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecardiogram
oenanthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enanthal.
esophagospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagospasm
oesophagospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esophagospasm.
oesophagotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oesophagotomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esophagotomy.
oesophagotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oesophagotomy
oestrogenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oestrogen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of estrogenism.
helminthological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to helminthology.
Derived terms: helminthologically
chevronelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevronelles
Etymology: From chevron + -elle.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of chevronel.
chevronelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevronelle
fessewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fesswise.
synthpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synth + punk.
Senses: glosses: electropunk