cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bigam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigams
Etymology: From Latin bigamus (“twice married”): compare French bigame. See bigamy.
Senses: examples: text: If he were irreguler, suspende, excommunycate, bygame, illegittime, or concubinarie open and knowen, & by the consequens suspende at the tyme & houre that he receyved the dygnyte, the cure, or prelacyon he synneth mortally and is contynually in deedly synne...
ref: 1502, anonymous author, The Ordinary of Christian Men, London: Wynkyn de Worde, page 234:
text: The Asiatic queens, sultanas, and bigams, scarcely ever appear in public. They abide in the Haram, in the greatest luxury and spelendour...
ref: 1823, A. Clarke, The Latter Day Luminary, volume IV, number X, page 344:
text: "Some parts of the scripture teach us positive ordinances of Christ, as are the sacraments; and some parts thereof teach us ordinances of some apostle, as the law of bigamy, or St. Paul 's ordaining, that a bigam should not be a deacon or priest, and that a woman vowe not chastity before the sixtieth year of her age."
ref: 1744, John Lewis, The Life of the Learned and Right Reverend Reynold Pecock, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester, London: John Moore, page 286:
text: On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other.
ref: 2024, Criticker Films & TV, A notre regrettable époux:
glosses: A bigamist, or one who has married a widow.
calathus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calathi
Etymology: From Latin calathus, from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).
Senses: glosses: A vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece.
calathi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calathus
calathis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calathides
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of calathidium
synonyms: word: calathidium
calathos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæləθɒs/
Forms: form: calathoi
Senses: glosses: A basket-like ornament in Ancient Greek architecture.
Oxfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒksˈfɔːdɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Oxfordians
Etymology: From Oxford + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: ‘But that’s just Oxfordians being stupid and provincial,’ said Letty, ‘it doesn’t mean―’
‘I know you don’t see it,’ said Ramy. ‘And I don’t expect you to, that’s not your lot in life.’
ref: 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 352:
glosses: A native or resident of Oxford.
glosses: One who believes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare.
Oxfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒksˈfɔːdɪ.ən/
Etymology: From Oxford + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The age from 163.5±1.0 Ma to 157.3±1.0 Ma or the stage of rocks (chiefly coral-derived limestones) deposited during it.
Synonyms: sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
word: Corallian
Hypernyms: sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
word: Phanerozoic - eon
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
english: era
translation: era
word: Mesozoic
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
english: period
translation: period
word: Jurassic
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
english: epoch
translation: epoch
word: Upper Jurassic
Coordinate terms: sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
english: Middle Jurassic
translation: Middle Jurassic
word: Callovian
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
word: Kimmeridgean
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
english: ages
translation: ages
word: Tithonian
sense: age 163.5-157.3Ma ago
word: stages
Oxfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒksˈfɔːdɪ.ən/
Forms: form: more Oxfordian
form: most Oxfordian
Etymology: From Oxford + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Oxford or its residents.
glosses: Relating to or denoting the theory that Edward de Vere (1550–1604), Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the Oxfordian age or stage.
Derived terms: Oxfordianism
Related terms: Oxfordish
Oxfordians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oxfordian
make baby Jesus cry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes baby Jesus cry
form: making baby Jesus cry
form: made baby Jesus cry
form: made baby Jesus cry
form: make Baby Jesus cry
form: make the baby Jesus cry
Senses: examples: text: My mom won't let me watch that show. All the sex and violence makes baby Jesus cry.
glosses: To provoke a negative reaction due to being offensive, unpleasant, immoral, etc.
gynæcomazia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gynæco- + Ancient Greek μαζός (mazós); compare gynæcomastia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynecomastia.
gynæcologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynæcologists
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of gynaecologist.
unwakened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwakened
form: most unwakened
Etymology: From un- + wakened.
Senses: examples: text: Unwakened innocence went down/Amid the pearls to sleep.
ref: 1850, Lydia Sigourney, The Brother from Poems for the Sea, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of unawakened.
dune coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dune coons
Senses: examples: text: You're a...damn dune coon. B: Mhm. A: Not convincing is it? B: You're not great at the sentences part to be honest. A: Hah, I know, I know... B: You can definitely hate better than that. A: Heart's not really in it.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Artistic Directors of the Future...Talks Brexit, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Now, get lost you dune coon. Harvard doesn't realize that he's still on mic. His comments are heard by the viewing audience. CAMERA ON AC H MAD ACHMAD Dune coon? Hey, I'm also half mick. As you've heard, this is an unprecedented case of[…]
ref: 2009 01, Pat Mulligan, Three Comedies for the Screen, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 354:
text: “My story is about the first time I ever heard the expression 'dune coon,' ” she said. Cornelia was relieved that Mrs. Hakim was not going to read about what she had done, but she was also confused. She had never heard that expression[…]
ref: 2011 March 2, Christy Cauley, Writers on the Storm, Christy Cauley, →ISBN, page 204:
text: More dinosaurs died in Arabia than anywhere else.” “Dune Coons?” “Sand niggers,” Big Ed said. “Your A-rabs cause the glut and they cause the gasoline lines. Whatever suits their ass. I was tryin' to deal with a Dune Coon the other day.
ref: 2015 April 7, Dan Jenkins, LIFE ITS OWN SELF, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: No Dune Coon gonna loo/e cross—eyed at my Rachel. He did more than that the first night we went out. Ended up back at his place. That was the twentieth ofJuly. Took less than three weeks to get him to the JP. I was desperate.
ref: 2005 November 23, Elrod Stanton, Resurrection and Reclamation, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 141:
text: ... and within that core community, as Bee Burgers suggests, lies a most fundamental binary: human beings whose life and autonomy are presumptively respected and those “dune coon muslim terrorists” who should be killed.49 With terrorist[…]
ref: 2015 November 15, John Pettegrew, Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq, JHU Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
paceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Queen Elizabeth to the king of Scots:/ "When the first blast of a strange, unused, and seld heard of sound had pierced my ears, I supposed that flying fame, who with swift quills oft paceth with the worst, had brought report of some untruth, but when too too many records in your open parliament were witnesses of such pronounced words, not more to my disgrace than to your dishonor, who did forget that (above all other regard) a prince's word ought utter nought of any, much less of a king, than such as to which truth might say Amen: But you, neglecting all care of yourself, what danger of reproach, besides somewhat else, might light upon you, have chosen so unseemly a theme to charge your only careful friend withal, of such matter as (were you not amazed in all senses) could not have been expected at your hands; of such imagined untruths as were never thought of in our time; and do wonder what evil spirits have possessed you, to set forth so infamous devices void of any show of truth.
ref: 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:
text: The master paceth up and down his halls, And in the empty hours Can hear the tottering of his towers And tremor of their bases underground.
ref: 1893, William Watson, The Poems of William Watson:
text: Through forest aisles while the wind chanteth low-- In God's cathedral where the great trees grow, Now all day long he paceth to and fro.
ref: 1913, Virna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems:
text: Then that small voice made a word and said: "Why paceth the fool up and down our hall, doing nothing, even as the Ravens flap croaking about the crags, abiding the war-mote and the clash of the fallow blades?"
ref: 1913, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pace
paleomagnetician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleomagneticians
Etymology: From paleomagnetic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: I would have expected that there would be more very bright spots," says paleomagnetician Gary Acton of Texas A&M University.
ref: 1997 May 23, Richard A. Kerr, “Marine Geology: New Way to Hit the Hot Spot Hints at a Complex Pacific”, in Science, volume 276, number 5316, →DOI:
text: Still, the study, reported on page 1642 by paleontologist Peter Ward of the University of Washington in Seattle, paleomagnetician Joseph Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and their colleagues, "could influence the fence sitters," says geologist Darrel Cowan of the University of Washington, who has written on possible geologic tests of the so-called Baja-British Columbia hypothesis.
ref: 1997 September 12, Richard A. Kerr, “EARTH SCIENCE: More Signs of a Far-Traveled West”, in Science, volume 277, number 5332, →DOI:
text: Virtually every test we've done in the past 5 years suggests true polar wander has been overestimated," says paleomagnetician John Tarduno of the University of Rochester, New York.
ref: 2000 January 21, Richard A. Kerr, “GEOPHYSICS:Did the Dinosaurs Live on a Topsy-Turvy Earth?”, in Science, volume 287, number 5452, →DOI, pages 406–407:
text: In last August's Geological Society of America Bulletin, geologists Linda Sohl and Nicholas Christie-Blick (a snowball critic) of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and paleomagnetician Dennis Kent of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, published a paper on the Neoproterozoic Elatina Formation glacial deposit in Australia.
ref: 2000 March 10, Richard A. Kerr, “PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That's Still Hard to Swallow”, in Science, volume 287, number 5459, →DOI, pages 1734–1736:
glosses: A specialist in the field of paleomagnetism
paleomagneticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleomagnetician
PABX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of private automatic branch exchange.
disparple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disparples
form: disparpling
form: disparpled
form: disparpled
Etymology: From Old French disparpelier, disparpillier et al., apparently from a late prefixed form of Latin papilio (“butterfly”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Alas,’ seyde Sir Gawayne and Sir Gareth, ‘now ys thys realme holy destroyed and myscheved, and the noble felyshyp of the Rounde Table shall be disparbeled.’
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
glosses: To scatter, disperse.
Framers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Founding Fathers of the United States; those who framed the US Constitution.
inoculent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɒk.jʊ.lənt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɑk.jə.lənt/
Forms: form: inoculents
Etymology: From inoculate + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: The cells are again added in the fresh culture medium as inoculent.
ref: 2004, Dilip Kumar Markandey, Environmental Biotechnology:
glosses: Alternative form of inoculant.
Related terms: inoculum
inoculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoculators
Etymology: Latin: compare French inoculateur.
Senses: glosses: One who inoculates.
glosses: A device used for inoculating.
death clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death clocks
Senses: examples: text: Keene had a death clock running, counting the days before his final breath, and his work plan was set to meet that last deadline, with a typical project management rigor.
ref: 2012, Michel Bruneau, The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer:
glosses: A computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.
death clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death clock
slippy map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slippy maps
Etymology: slippy + map.
Senses: topics: cartography
computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: An interactive digital map with pan and zoom features.
bullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buller
bullers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buller
mald
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːld/
ipa: [mɔːɫd]
ipa: /məʊld/
ipa: [mɒʊɫd]
ipa: /mɔld/
ipa: /mɑld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: mauled
Forms: form: malder
form: maldest
Etymology: Blend of mad + bald. See malding for further etymology.
Senses: examples: text: So bald, so mald.
glosses: Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.
mald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːld/
ipa: [mɔːɫd]
ipa: /məʊld/
ipa: [mɒʊɫd]
ipa: /mɔld/
ipa: /mɑld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: mauled
Forms: form: malds
form: malding
form: malded
form: malded
Etymology: Blend of mad + bald. See malding for further etymology.
Senses: examples: text: He's actually malding.
translation: He is so mad that his hair is legitimately falling out.
english: He is so mad that his hair is legitimately falling out.
text: In his "hardest game" series, he plays malding games, named for the rage they provoke in those who play them.
ref: 2021 May 24, Charlie Pugh, “The art of misery: how Ludwig made a career from failing”, in The Courier, number 1414, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: […] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,” […] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overly sexualizes things) are angered by her actions, […]
ref: 2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ, Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Georgia State University, page 36:
text: I make money in my sleep, got you hatin' on me
Malding in my chat while you're tryna take a peep
ref: 2022 January 16, Amouranth, “Down Bad”:
text: It reminds me of how people in the alpha for WoW malded that the game penalized them for playing the game too much with a 50% XP penalty if their character was exhausted, so instead Blizzard decided to nerf all XP gains by 50%, and then give you a “bonus” (rested XP) that doubled your XP gains back to its original amount, and people praised it.
ref: 2022 July 18, Sentenzà, “I think Jailer heroic was nerfed too hard”, in Blizzard.com:
glosses: To become extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.
spillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spillets
form: spilliard
form: spiller
Senses: glosses: A long fishing line with multiple hooks; a trawl or boulter.
spillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spillet
stepbros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepbro
ex-stepmoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-stepmom
ex-stepdads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-stepdad
step-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-uncle
step-aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-aunt
step-nephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-nephew
step-nieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-niece
immediate families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immediate family
stepfathers-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepfather-in-law
fuckbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckbrains
Etymology: From fuck + brain.
Senses: glosses: An extremely stupid person, especially one who causes harm.
glosses: A man or woman who always thinks about sexual intercourse.
cummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cummer
wives-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wife-in-law
half sisters-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half sister-in-law
half brothers-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half brother-in-law
fuckbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckbrain
far from
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Don't leave now: our task is far from complete!
text: My stay at the hotel was far from satisfactory.
text: The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
glosses: In no way, Not at all.
examples: text: For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
Therefore in pollicie I thinke it good
To hide it cloſe: a goodly Strategem,
And far from any man that is a foole.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:
glosses: Not characteristic of, not likely to be done or thought by.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, from.
Synonyms: sense: in no way, not at all
word: not
sense: in no way, not at all
word: not at all
sense: in no way, not at all
word: in no way
sense: in no way, not at all
word: nowhere near
sense: in no way, not at all
word: by no means
gynæcophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynæcophores
Etymology: English compound: gynæc- + -o- + -phore: originates from Ancient Greek conjunction: γῠναικο- (gŭnaiko-, “female”) plus -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”).
Senses: examples: text: Diœcious Trematodes are very rare, the most important being the formidable Bilharzia, the male of which is the larger and retains the female in a gyncæcophore, or canal, which is formed by the infolding of the margins of the concave side of the body.
ref: 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A manual of the anatomy of invertebrated animals, page 202:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Receptacle in the bodies of certain male animals (such as schistosomes) in which females may be contained.
Derived terms: gynæcophoric
gynæceum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynæceums
form: gynæcea
Etymology: For origin, see gynaeceum § Etymology. By surface analysis, gynaec- + -eum.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of gynaeceum.
œcologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œcologists
Senses: examples: text: The course of events in a body like one of the station’s lakes, with its extreme seasonal vicissitudes, ranging from complete overflow and loss of identity to absolute drying away in now and then an exceptional year, is extremely interesting to the œcologist.
ref: April 1895, Popular Science, page 857
glosses: Obsolete form of ecologist.
forbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forbled
form: most forbled
Etymology: From Middle English forbled.
Senses: glosses: covered in blood
officialty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfɪʃəlti/
Forms: form: officialties
form: officiality
Etymology: From official + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: the Offices of an Officialty to an Archdeacon
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of officiality.
Related terms: office
officialties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of officialty
chodchod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin chodchod, a transliteration of Hebrew כַּדְכֹד. The Latin word appears in the Vulgate translation of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew scriptures as one of the precious wares in the markets of Tyre, and the Douay–Rheims Bible translation of the same passage simply repeats the Latin word without translating it. The Hebrew word occurs in one other passage, where various translations render it as agate, jasper or ruby. The original meaning of it, however, could be garnet. Probably a doublet of chalcedony.
Senses: glosses: A form of oriental ruby, carbuncle or possibly jasper
wikipedia: Book of Ezekiel
Douay–Rheims Bible
Tyre
Vulgate
dithematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪθəˈmætɪk/
Etymology: From di- + theme + -atic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: deuterothematic
coordinate_terms: monothematic
glosses: Consisting of two stems or themes, usually of given names.
Related terms: thematic
cœnæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cœn- + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cenesthesia.
coenosarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenosarcs
form: cœnosarc
Etymology: From coeno- + Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A living body (structure, such as a tube or mesoglea) that is held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte (such as the polyps of a coral, or the zooids of a hydroid), by which they are in connection with each other.
Related terms: ectosarc
endosarc
perisarc
coenenchyme
palæontologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These labours of my cotemporaries are about to be augmented by a comprehensive and very useful publication of the veteran geologist Dr. Bigsby, who, with unwearied assiduity and acumen, has tabulated the results of the labours of palæontologists of various countries, and combined them with his own extensive observations on the Silurian rocks of North America, in his work ‘Thesaurus Siluricus.’
ref: 1872, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Siluria, John Murray, fifth edition, page vi:
glosses: plural of palæontologist
coæval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coæval
form: most coæval
Senses: examples: text: We may allow the loweſt of them to be four, or, if you will, near ſix thouſand years old : for Ætna may have burned from remote ages, fed by thoſe ſubterraneous fires, which ſome ſuppoſe coæval, or nearly coæval with our earth.
ref: 1775, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register For The Year 1775, page 137:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coeval.
æsthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æstheses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of esthesis.
cœnogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cenogamy.
concreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concreates
form: concreating
form: concreated
form: concreated
Etymology: From Latin concreātus, past participle of concreō. By surface analysis, con- + create.
Senses: examples: text: If God did concreate grace with Adam.
ref: c. 1656, Jeremy Taylor, Of Original Sin:
glosses: To create at the same time.
coenoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenoblasts
Etymology: From coen- + -o- + blast, from Ancient Greek: κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βλαστός (blastós, “germ”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Germinal tissue of Porifera that forms cores or developing mesoderms
Derived terms: coenoblastic
apodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -podous.
Senses: examples: text: Weevil larvae are apodous; in contrast, most scarab larvae bear six hooklike legs.
text: Snakes, worms, certain fish, and other limbless creatures are all apodous, while visibly similar creatures (such as millipedes or centipedes) use a different type of movement called a metachronal gait.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: apodal
empty morpheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty morphemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: A purely formal morpheme with no semantic content.
Related terms: empty morph
toppat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toppats
Etymology: Misspelling of top hat, popularized by usages in the 2013 flash game Infiltrating the Airship and the 2020 video game The Henry Stickmin Collection.
Senses: glosses: top hat.
transformators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transformator
isotropisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of isotropization.
orthorhombicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orthorhombic + -ity or ortho- + rhombicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being orthorhombic
paleoclassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + classical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any attempt at a classical interpretation of a quantum system or effect
paraconductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraconductivities
Etymology: From para- + conductivity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An enhanced conductivity induced in a material by a nearby superconductive field
peakon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peakons
Etymology: Blend of peaked + soliton.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A soliton whose first derivative is discontinuous.
Derived terms: multipeakon
shockpeakon
superhelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superhelically
form: most superhelically
Etymology: From superhelical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superhelical manner
hendecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hendecahedrons
form: hendecahedra
Etymology: From hendeca- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with eleven faces.
Synonyms: undecahedron
Related terms: hendecahedral
off one's meds
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Is he off his meds or something? He's acting crazy.
glosses: Erratic; out of control.
examples: text: Kanye West took to social media to speak about mental health after a fan claimed that the rapper was “off his meds”.
ref: 2022 February 11, Peony Hirwani, “Kanye West tells fan who suggested he’s off medication to ‘be more conscious’”, in The Independent:
glosses: Incapable of normal or rational thought.
examples: text: The outpatient went off his meds and got arrested.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see off, meds.
gnarley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gnarley
form: most gnarley
Etymology: From gnarl + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gnarly.
orthopædia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of orthopaedia.
fall into place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls into place
form: falling into place
form: fell into place
form: fallen into place
Senses: examples: text: If it weren't for your heroic deed, his evil plan would have fallen into place.
text: Everything fell into place when he figured out who the murderer was.
text: This is the day / Your life will surely change / This is the day / When things fall into place
ref: 1983, Matt Johnson, “This Is the Day”, in Soul Mining, performed by The The:
text: If weapons and trained troops fall into place in time, Ukraine is capable of inflicting losses on the Russian Army that could have far-reaching geopolitical consequences[…]
ref: 2023 April 3, Andrew E. Kramer, Mauricio Lima, “New Weapons Aren’t Enough: The Challenges of Ukraine’s Coming Assault”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: click
click into place
slot into place
glosses: To assume a clear and complete form when separate elements come together; to be fully realized at last.
pyromanias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyromania
dead-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-lights
Senses: examples: text: DEAD-LIGHTS, certain wooden ports which are made to fasten into the cabin-windows, to prevent the waves from gushing into a ship in a high sea. As they are made exactly to fit the windows, and are strong enough to resist the waves, they are always fixed in, on the approach of a storm, and the glass frames taken out, which might otherwise be shattered to pieces by the surges, and suffer great quantities of water to enter the vessel.
ref: 1780, William Falconer, Dictionary of the Marine, page 411:
text: Even, if our sails like ribbons fly, / And the dead-lights long are in, / Hard up the helm! and keep good heart! / Till skies are bright again.
ref: 1850, Lydia Sigourney, The Happy Mariner from Poems for the Sea, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of deadlight.
-oecious
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːʃəs/
ipa: /ˈiʃəs/
Forms: form: -ecious
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Forms adjectives describing the arrangement of sexual organs.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Forms adjectives describing the host of an organism.
paroecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈɹiːʃəs/
Forms: form: parœcious
form: paroicous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πᾰ́ροικος (pắroikos, “dwelling beside”) + English -ious. By surface analysis, par(a)- + -oecious.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
bryology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the male and female reproductive organs growing beside or near each other, as in certain cryptogams.
Derived terms: paroecism
Related terms: paroece
paroecian
bright side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bright sides
Senses: examples: text: God knows that I tried / Seeing the bright side / (I'm wide awake) / But I'm not blind anymore
ref: 2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, performed by Katy Perry:
glosses: A consoling aspect of a difficult situation.
Synonyms: silver lining
Derived terms: look on the bright side
Batavophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Batavo- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the translations, especially from Dutch, are not always felicitous, so that the Batavophone reader, to obtain comprehension, is often obliged to refer in his mind's eye to his and the authors' native words.
ref: 1989, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana., Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 23, page 179:
text: My thesis... got a lot of praise from my advisor, who even wanted to see it published in the Batavophone Jesuits' scholarly quarterly.
ref: 2009, Bruce Fraser, Ken Turner., Language in life and a life in language, Emerald Group Publishing, page 540:
synonyms: Dutchophone
Netherlandophone
glosses: Dutch-speaking.
Batavophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batavophones
Etymology: From Batavo- + -phone.
Senses: synonyms: Dutchophone
Netherlandophone
glosses: A Dutch speaker; a person who speaks the Dutch language.
scoundrelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoundrelries
Etymology: From scoundrel + -ry; noted in 1859.
Senses: examples: 1894. Henry Lazarus. The English revolution of the twentieth century: a prospective history. T. F. Unwin. page 253.
Such was Jubilee justice — capped by the liberty of any number of Society thieves to rob the poor of their earnings by means of endless quack nostrums and "Building" or other "Society" scoundrelries.
1999. Dab Rebellato. 1956 and all that: the making of modern British drama. Psychology Press. page 94.
The designer Such is the disdain now shown for theatre design in the period before Look Back in Anger, that it is automatic to imagine it as a design era of tyrannical and monstrous scoundrelry.
2004. Mark Wahlgren Summers. Party games: getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics. UNC Press Books. page 115.
Grand juries would fail to indict for bare-faced scoundrelry — as long as the accused were their scoundrels; after all, the officers picking grand jurors were good partisans themselves.
glosses: Villainy, evildoing; acts of villainy or evildoing
examples: 1863. United States Congress. House documents.
Messrs. Lyles and Polhamus & Co. will advise you that I have settled the iron business all O. K., to the satisfaction of all but the scoundrelry in Florida and here, who caused the difficulty.
2006. Mark Copeland. The Bundle at Blackthorpe Heath. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. page 87.
Rufus grew alarmed and in a bid to be free bit the policeman hard on the thumb. "You scoundrelry!" squealed the constable as he dropped the little beetle to the ground.
2010. Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Pirates of the Levant. Penguin.
While this jewel of the scoundrelry babbled on, I, after my initial surprise, stayed where I was, my back to the wall, hat in hand and sword in sheath, saying nothing, but waiting to see when he would finally get to the point.
glosses: Scoundrels in general; a group of scoundrels
Synonyms: villainy
fool's mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fool's mate
serendas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarinda
serenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serendas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sarinda.
Kansai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkænˌsaɪ/
/ˈkɑnˌsaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 關西
Senses: glosses: A region of Japan, located in Honshū.
sarpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarpes
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: sir Launcelot had twelue coursers folowynge hym / and on euery courser sat a yonge gentylman / and alle they were arayed in grene veluet with sarpys of gold about their quarters / and the hors trapped in the same wyse doune to the helys with many ouches y sette with stones and perlys in gold to the nombre of a thowsand
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:
glosses: A collar or neck-ring.
eucharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucharises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: But sometimes they are gentle and soft like the dew on the lips of the eucharis Before the sun comes warm with his lover's kiss, You are sea-foam, pure with the star's loveliness, Not mortal, a flower, a fairy, too fair for the beauty-shorn earth, All wonderful things, all beautiful things, gave of their wealth to your birth: O I love you so much, not recking of passion, that I feel it is wrong, But men will love you, flower, fairy, non-mortal spirit burdened with flesh, Forever, life-long.
ref: 1922, Edited by James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry:
text: As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.
ref: 1884, John Wood, Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers:
glosses: A type of plant of the genus Eucharis, found in Central and South America and with white flowers.
arytænoides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CRICOARYTÆNOIDEUS POSTICUS ariſes from the back part of the cartilago cricoides, and is inſerted into the arytænoides to pull it backward.
ref: 1713, William Cheselden, The anatomy of the human body, re‐printed 1763, page #80
glosses: plural of arytænoid
ollay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of olay.
aegid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the isopods in the family Aegidae.
tanker aircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanker aircraft
Senses: glosses: A (generally military) airplane used to refuel a second aircraft during flight.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: air tanker
glamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlæmpɪŋ/
Forms: form: glampings
Etymology: Blend of glamorous + camping. Of UK origin, first appears c. 2005 in The Guardian, adopted in the U.S. by 2007.
Senses: examples: text: Tom Hanks and Sean Penn are doing it. Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie want to do it. What are we talking about? Glamping or glamorous camping for those not yet in the know.
ref: 2006, “The Glamper’s Guide To Style” (archive), GadgetCandy.com, 2/24/2006
text: And glamping – that’s luxury camping, of course.
ref: 2007 February 4, Jennifer Gould Keil, “Are you a Jetrosexual? Be Honest…”, in New York Post:
text: If the eco-friendly idea of falling asleep under the stars and roasting marshmallows around a campfire appeals to you, but the reality of pitching a tent and sleeping on bumpy ground does not, glamping, the new term being used for upscale — or glamorous — camping, could be your ideal green vacation.
ref: 2008 September 14, Jennifer Conlin, “Camping? Yes. Roughing It? Not Quite.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of various luxury forms of camping.
Synonyms: boutique camping
Related terms: camp
camper
camping
champing
glamp
glamped
glamper
vamping
glamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlæmpɪŋ/
Etymology: From glamp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glamp
cæremonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cæremonial
form: most cæremonial
Senses: examples: text: But what I iudge of the vse of theis names & offices I haue before written / this onely I add, that the former elders in age & tyme in the cæremonial lawe, were figures of the elders or first & former in guifts & graces sence the abolishing of ceremonies, & therefore the names are not so much to be stuck vpon, nether the eldership by birth or continuance, but the vse of the guiftes & graces are specially to be regarded/.
ref: 1904 C.E., Robert Browne, A New Years Guift, Fred. S. Thacker; page #44
glosses: Archaic spelling of ceremonial.
coenosteum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenosteums
form: coenostea
Etymology: From coen + -o-, from Ancient Greek: κοινός (koinós, “common”), + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The calcareous skeletal ectodermal tissue of a coenosarc
Related terms: coenosteal
probe-and-drogue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a method of aerial refuelling whereby a probe from the receiving aircraft fits into a trailing hose with drogue attachment from a tanker aircraft.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a method of docking spacecraft.
meat tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat trays
Senses: examples: text: It has a meat tray, the temperature of which can be adjusted to be at or below the freezing point by controlling the opening to a portal which connects the meat tray area to the freezer.
ref: 1986, James Pietropaolo, Patricia Ann Pietropaolo, Carnivorous Plants of the World, page 117:
text: Line three disposable meat trays with damp paper towels and pour red, black, or white tempera paint into each tray.
ref: 2001, Caroline Spang Rosser, Planning Activities for Child Care, page 82:
qualifier: non-idiomatic usage
glosses: A tray used to hold meat.
examples: text: And the raffle prizes are always big red meat trays, (not a vegetarian amongst them), or cartons of tinnies.
ref: 2002, Cheryl Kernot, Speaking for Myself Again Four Years of Labour and Beyond, unnumbered page:
text: On Tuesday nights, there′s a $10 meal deal from a limited menu (and you automatically go in the draw for a $50 meat tray).
ref: 2011, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Melbourne Free and Dirt Cheap, page 70:
text: The Dog wasn′t remotely interested in the raffle even though winning the occasional fruit and vegie basket or meat tray has helped our constricted budget at times.
ref: 2012, June Loves, The Festival by the Sea, unnumbered page:
glosses: A tray of meat given as a prize in a raffle.
Related terms: meat raffle
meat raffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat raffles
Senses: glosses: A raffle with meat as the prize, common in pubs and clubs in Britain and Australia.
Synonyms: word: meat draw
Hyponyms: chook raffle
Related terms: meat tray
meat draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat draws
Senses: glosses: A raffle of meat, common in pubs and bars.
Synonyms: meat raffle
Related terms: meat tray
traceuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traceuse
oxyhæmoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hæmoglobin forms with carbon‐monoxide gas (CO) a compound, similar to oxyhæmoglobin, which is known as carbon‐monoxide hæmoglobin.
ref: 1900, Henry Pickering Bowditch, An American text-book of physiology, page 38:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oxyhaemoglobin.
hæmochromogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hæmo- + chromo- + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: Hæmochromogen in the presence of oxygen quickly undergoes oxidation to the more stable hæmatin.
ref: 1900, Henry Pickering Bowditch, An American text-book of physiology, page 37:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Substance of hemoglobin, from lack of oxygen.
methæmoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methæmoglobins
Senses: examples: text: Methæmoglobin crystallizes in the same form as oxyhæmoglobin, and has a characteristic spectrum (Pl. I. spectrum 8).
ref: 1900, Henry Pickering Bowditch, An American text-book of physiology, page 44:
glosses: Archaic spelling of methemoglobin.
amœboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amœb- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most striking property of the leucocytes as a class in their power of making amœboid movements—a characteristic which has gained for them the sobriquet of “ wandering ” cells.
ref: 1900, Henry Pickering Bowditch, An American text-book of physiology, page 48:
glosses: Dated spelling of amoeboid.
amœboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amœboids
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amœb- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of amoeboid.
oblique muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique muscle
Johannison block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mallow stood them upright and shaved the ends off with a single stroke of the shear, and then joined the pipes, fresh cut to fresh cut. [¶] And there was a single pipe! The new ends, with even atomic irregularities missing, formed one piece upon joining. Johannison blocks, at a stroke.
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 8, page 154, ¶¶ 4–5
glosses: Misspelling of Johansson block.
Johansson block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johansson blocks
Etymology: Invented in 1896 by Swedish machinist Carl Edvard Johansson.
Senses: glosses: gauge block
gauge block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauge blocks
form: gage block
Senses: glosses: A precision-ground template used for the calibration of mechanical measuring devices.
Synonyms: Johansson block
Johansson gauge
Johansson blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johansson block
gauge blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauge block
licked clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lick clean
licking clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lick clean
licks clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lick clean
licked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lick up
licking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lick up
licks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lick up
arrow keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrow key
Götaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒ.tə.lənd/
ipa: /ˈjɑ.tə.lənd/
Forms: form: Geatland
form: Gothia
form: Gothland
form: Gothenland
form: Gautland
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Götaland. Compare native English Geatland, Old English Wedermearc.
Senses: glosses: A land in southernmost Sweden, one of Sweden's three modern lands
glosses: the land of the tribe of the Geats
Derived terms: Västra Götaland
Svealand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical region covering central Sweden.
road work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road works
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roadwork.
tendon of Achilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendons of Achilles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Achilles tendon.
haze over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hazes over
form: hazing over
form: hazed over
form: hazed over
Senses: examples: text: In the city at night, the sky hazes over so you can't see the stars.
glosses: To become covered in haze.
dollar diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dollar Diplomacy
Senses: glosses: The effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
Dollar Diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dollar diplomacy.