cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
CDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDOs
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that the connection between subprime default rates, on the one hand, and CDO valuations and default rates, on the other, is so complex that it's very difficult to say in a simple sense that a rise in mortgage defaults will lead to a rise in CDO defaults.
ref: 2007 June 28, “How bad is it?”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: These CDOs had been so sliced and diced that it was possible to claim that a tier of the interest payments from the original borrowers was as dependable as a stream of income on a ten-year US Treasury bond, and therefore worthy of a coveted triple-A rating.
ref: 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 8:
topics: business
finance
hypernyms: obligation#Noun
;
instrument#Noun
glosses: Initialism of collateralized debt obligation.
topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: officer#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: OOD
glosses: Initialism of command duty officer.
topics: business
hypernyms: officer#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: Initialism of chief data officer.
Derived terms: sense: collateralized debt obligation
word: CDO-cubed
sense: collateralized debt obligation
word: CDO-squared
CDO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Cagayan de Oro.
mortgage bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortgage bonds
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A bond secured by a lien on real estate.
Related terms: collateralized debt obligation
mortgage bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortgage bond
collateralized debt obligations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collateralized debt obligation
boogeymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogeyman
boogymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogyman
defective verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defective verb
impersonal verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impersonal verb
Daphnë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand,
Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster,
And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was,
Root-bound, that fled Apollo.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, lines 678–681:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Alternative spelling of Daphne.
necrologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrology
moaning dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moaning doves
Etymology: Because of its repetitive call.
Senses: synonyms: tobacco dove
glosses: A common ground dove (Columbina passerina).
moaning doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moaning dove
coffret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffrets
Etymology: From French coffret.
Senses: glosses: A small box or chest; casket.
coffrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffret
ragoût
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragoûts
Senses: examples: text: “You had better go speak to him about it, then,” said the feminine concoctor of ragoûts, smacking her lips as if in the act of tasting a stew.
ref: 1863, Edmond [François Valentin] About; [unknown, transl.], “The Notary’s Nose”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LIV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 306:
text: Do they take to the cooking of horseflesh in ragoûts, emincés, and cheval à la mode without a tinge of disgust?
ref: 1870 December 10, “The Ombibus Dinner”, in Charles Dickens, Jun., editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume V, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], published 1871, page 43, column 1:
text: It was at the opposite table, where W⸺ and other servants were dining, sitting up on its nurse’s knees, eating ragoût, and taking sips of red wine, as a preparation for its night in the train.
ref: 1883, E[llen] C[harlotte] Hope-Edwardes, Azahar. Extracts from a Journal in Spain in 1881-82., London: Richard Bentley and Son, […]; Shrewsbury: A. Chancellor, […], page 132:
text: In 1831 the Delmonicos hired a French chef, who prepared potages, ragoûts, and other hot dishes; […]
ref: 2004, Bonnie J. Slotnick, “Delmonico’s”, in Andrew F. Smith, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, volumes 1 (A–J), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 380:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ragout.
ragoût
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ragoûts
form: ragoûting
form: ragoûted
form: ragoûted
Senses: examples: text: A Breast of Veal Ragoûted.
ref: 1816, John Simpson, A Complete System of Cookery, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of an Extensive and Original Collection of Receipts, in Cookery, Confectionary, etc. […], London: […] W. Stewart, […]; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, […]; Gale and Fenner, […], page 497:
text: The hind quarters may be fricaséed, ragoûted, or done in a timbale or casserole, with any of the fine herb seasoning, and served as a first-course dish; […]
ref: 1827, a Lady, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; […], London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 414:
text: EGGS, RAGOÛTED.
ref: 1858, an association of heads of families and men of science, The Household Encyclopædia; or, Family Dictionary of Everything Connected with Housekeeping and Domestic Medicine; […], volume I, London: W. Kent & Co., […]; Winchester: Hugh Barclay, […], page 463, column 1:
text: But I would like them to substitute fruits and bread and butter for pies as well as cakes; to cook simply; to bake, boil or stew their potatoes, instead of wasting time and fire on croquettes or fries; to boil, broil or roast meats, instead of frying and ragoûting them; to serve nice green vegetables, simply boiled in salt water, instead of stewing them for hours with fat meats.
ref: 1908 September, S[arah] T[yson] Rorer, “What Nature Really Intended Us to Eat”, in Edward W[illiam] Bok, editor, The Ladies’ Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 40, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ragout.
HD DVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HD DVDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of High-Definition/Density DVD.
Related terms: HD
DVD
HD-DVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of HD DVD.
polyfactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyfactorial
form: most polyfactorial
Etymology: From poly- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Having many factors
poliomyelitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poliomyelitic
form: most poliomyelitic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with poliomyelitis
Derived terms: antipoliomyelitic
sentineled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sentinel
sentinelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sentinel
sentinelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Provided with a sentinel.
sentineling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sentinel
sentinelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sentinel
polyposic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyposic
form: most polyposic
Etymology: From polyposis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with polyposis.
Marrakesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Marrakech.
Derived terms: Marrakesh-Safi
Marrakech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹ.əˈkɛʃ/
/məˈɹæ.kɛʃ/
/məˈɹɑ.kɛʃ/
Forms: form: Marrakesh
Etymology: From French Marrakech, from Arabic مَرَّاكُش (marrākuš), from Berber ⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ (amur n akuc, literally “Land of God”). Doublet of Morocco.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Marrakesh-Safi region, Morocco.
Related terms: maroquin
Marrakechi
Morocco
polytetrahydrofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytetrahydrofurans
Etymology: From poly- + tetrahydrofuran.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer derived from the ring-opening of tetrahydrofuran.
Marranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Marranos or to Marranism.
Related terms: Marranism
Marrano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɑːnəʊ/
Forms: form: Marranos
Etymology: From Spanish marrano, of disputed origin. Perhaps a transferred use of marrano (“hog”), but many sources regard them as distinct words.
Senses: examples: text: In the Portuguese universities, the Marranos had studied logic, physics, medicine and mathematics, but they had no expertise in the more intuitive disciplines of Jewish practice.
ref: 1999, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 161:
glosses: Any of the Sephardi Jews who stayed in Iberia during the Spanish Inquisition, and continued to practice Judaism in secret.
Synonyms: converso
crypto-Jew
Derived terms: Marranic
Marranism
Marranos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marrano
Marranism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Marrano + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The secret practice of Judaism by the Marranos.
Related terms: Marranic
Marranist
Marranist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marranists
Senses: glosses: A practiser of Marranism; Marrano.
F distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F distributions
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution of the ratio of two variables, each with a chi-square distribution; used in analysis of variance, especially in the significance testing of a correlation coefficient (R squared).
Related terms: ANOVA
marrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrer
ANOVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANOVAs
Senses: examples: 2015, John Ashton, "ANOVA and the analysis of drug combination experiments", Nature Methods 12 (12): 1108, doi:10.1038/nmeth.3663.
Factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) can be very misleading in drug combination studies.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Acronym of analysis of variance.
Related terms: ANCOVA
PERMANOVA
analysis of variance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analyses of variance
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different explanatory variables.
Synonyms: ANOVA
rectorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recto- + -rrhagia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: rectal bleeding.
Coordinate terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: hematochezia
marriage bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage beds
Senses: glosses: The bed shared by a newly-married couple.
glosses: Sexual activity between a married couple.
marrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriers
Etymology: From marry + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who gets married, especially numerous times.
get married
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets married
form: getting married
form: got married
form: got married
form: gotten married
Senses: examples: text: After a five-year engagement he finally decided to get married to Ash.
glosses: To become married (to someone).
examples: text: After a five-year engagement they finally decided to get married.
glosses: To become married (to each other).
Synonyms: word: get hitched
word: marry
word: middle-aisle it
word: tie the knot
word: wed
word: get married
Hyponyms: word: wive
bone marrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone marrow
bonemarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonemarrows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bone marrow.
bonemarrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonemarrow
falsen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falsens
form: falsening
form: falsened
form: falsened
Etymology: From false + -en.
Senses: examples: text: In a modern time, we are living with a system of classes so intense, a society of such unnatural complication, that the whole action of our mind is hampered and falsened by it.
ref: 1997, Donald David Stone, Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue, page 31:
text: That was one thing that I couldn't bear. Much better if he just hated queers. Without even trying to justify it. But he obviously had to, and that falsened his position.
ref: 2011, Gabriella West, The Leaving:
text: In fact, just as his master Chaucer did before him, Milburn “falsened” his material in some productive ways.
ref: 2014, Peter G. Beidler, The Lives of the Miller's Tale, page 155:
glosses: To make false; falsify
marrowbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marrowbones
Etymology: From marrow + bone.
Senses: examples: text: And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: A bone containing edible marrow.
examples: text: Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs^([sic]), and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 56, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: So the news of the split between the old and the young one caused plenty of conversation, you may be sure; and will Mr. Robert go down on his marrowbones? and what has he done? was all the question.
ref: 1861, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, volume 4, page 246:
text: They would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling.
falses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false
falses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of false
marrowbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrowbone
marrowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marrowish
form: most marrowish
Etymology: From marrow + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In the upper region serving the animal faculties, the chief organ is the brain, which is a soft, marrowish, and white substance, ingendred of the purest part of seed and spirits, included by many skins, and seated within the skull or brain-pan; […]
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
glosses: Similar to bone marrow.
marry-muff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nonsense.
marshiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marshy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being marshy
grivna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈɡɹɪvnɑ]
Forms: form: grivnas
Etymology: From Russian гри́вна (grívna). Doublet of hryvnia and grzywna.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hryvnia.
glosses: a unit of currency and weight in medieval Rus.
civilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪvɪlɪsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of civilist
encyclopedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encyclopedy
chiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chich
scyphozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scyphozoa
form: scyphozoans
Etymology: Scyphozoa + -an
Senses: glosses: Any true jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa.
stereoregularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoregularities
Etymology: From stereo- + regularity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being stereoregular
Montegonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒn.tɪˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɑn.tɪˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Montegonians
Etymology: From Montego + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
triorchidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + orchid + -ism, equivalent to triorchid + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Triorchidism has been the most commonly reported manifestation, with the supernumerary testis or testes most frequently intrascrotal and less than 10% residing intraabdominally [2],[7].
ref: 2013 January 24, Chloe B. Wilcox, Rachel D'Cruz, Andrew J.A. Holland, “Polyorchism in association with an undescended testis and testicular atrophy: Report of a unique case and review of the literature”, in Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page e7:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of polyorchidism characterized by the presence of three testes.
emes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eme (uncle).
fried bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fried breads
form: frybread
form: fry bread
Senses: synonyms: word: fry bread
word: bannock
alt: Canada
glosses: A Native American food, found throughout the United States, a leavened flat dough fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.
glosses: Bread sliced and fried in oil, part of a full English breakfast.
Related terms: bannock
fry bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fry breads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frybread.
fry breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fry bread
frybreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frybread
fried breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fried bread
MoBay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /moʊˈbeɪ/
/mʌˈbeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole MoBay.
Senses: examples: text: —I'll say that Jamaicans shorten Montego Bay by saying Mobay, not Montego.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 285:
glosses: Montego Bay
extense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extenses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extensus.
Senses: examples: text: […] for God is not extended, but yet is every where in all Extense […]
ref: 1795, Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion:
text: Nor canst thou cleave the crystal heaven
To gather joys from thence;
As fits thy life to thee is given
The ocean's drear extense.
ref: 1859, Thomas Lake Harris, The Herald of Light, volume 4, page 185:
glosses: extent; expanse
extense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extense
form: most extense
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extensus.
Senses: glosses: Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
frizzen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizzens
Etymology: From earlier frizzle (noun), of unknown origin. Compare fleerish, furison.
Senses: glosses: An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms, positioned over the flash pan so to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel, such that when fired the flint scrapes it so as to create a spark.
tompions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tompion
full employment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... not at the time recognized that this was a basic departure from the Keynesian view in which both of these full employments were regarded as identical.
ref: 1979, James H. Gapinski with Charles Edward Rockwood and Abba Ptachya Lerner, Essays in post-Keynesian inflation, page 272:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it.
trillionairesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trillionairess
trimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimeter
trows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trow
trues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of true
trueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of true
trued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of true
tsardoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsardom
twinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinkie
tympanoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanoplasty
unclips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclip
unclipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclip
unclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unclipped, equivalent to un- + clipped.
Senses: examples: text: unclipped toenails
text: The thick growth of the fine old trees, and the unclipped shrubs, shut out all but the small portion of shrubbery, which was like one bright and blooming spot in a wilderness.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 91–92:
glosses: Not clipped.
examples: text: […] Men who are unclipped make love better than men who've been snipped.
ref: 2005, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, Passion's Mistral, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: uncircumcised
unclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unclip + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclip
umbras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrae
Senses: glosses: plural of umbra
uncloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclose
unclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclose
unclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclose
unclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + closed.
Senses: examples: text: The unclosed front door made the neighbours suspect a burglary.
text: The Web page failed validation because it had an unclosed tag.
text: ...and in one of the window-seats was a volume of Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia:" a few myrtle leaves were scattered on the yet unclosed page, a graceful mark to find the place where the youthful reader had brooded over visions of truth and love, already vanished, like the freshness of those leaves, strewed, as if they were flung on the shroud of departed hope.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: By 1875 the Metropolitan and the District were carrying about 100 million passengers a year on their branches and their unclosed circle.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Not closed; left open.
undersashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersash
verticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticality
flare gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare guns
form: flaregun
Senses: glosses: A large-bore pistol-like firearm used to fire signal flares.
flip side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flip sides
form: flipside
form: flip-side
Senses: synonyms: other side of the coin
glosses: The reverse, in contrast to the obverse.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The B-side of a phonograph record that carried a less popular recording.
glosses: The converse; opposite, usually negative, inherent aspects or consequences of something.
Derived terms: on the flip side
catch you on the flip side
Related terms: sense: converse
word: by the same token
finalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finalia
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A keynote.
horosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horospheres
Etymology: A modern scientific coinage, probably from a Latinized spelling of Ancient Greek ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”) (not to be confused with ὧρος (hôros, “year”), which gave rise to many time-related terms) + sphere
Senses: glosses: An n-1-dimensional hyperplane in hyperbolic n-dimensional space: it is (in the Poincaré disk) Euclidean-tangent at infinity to the boundary sphere or (in the upper-half-space model) Euclidean-parallel to the boundary hyperplane.
horospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horosphere
telehandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telehandlers
Etymology: From tele- + handler, from telescopic handler.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle with a telescopically extensible boom, which can be fitted with various lifting or manipulative devices such as pallet forks or grab.
Synonyms: telescopic handler
Poincaré disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poincaré disks
form: Poincaré disc
Etymology: After Henri Poincaré.
Senses: glosses: The hyperbolic plane, viewed as a disk so that Euclidean circles and lines Euclidean-perpendicular to the disk's surface are hyperbolic lines.
wikipedia: Henri Poincaré
Related terms: hyperbolic geometry
Poincaré disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poincaré disk
reverse jinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse jinxes
Senses: glosses: A prediction which is the opposite of the outcome desired by the person making it.
Related terms: break a leg
croisade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croisades
Etymology: Borrowed from French croisade c. 1575.
Senses: glosses: A crusade; a holy war.
croisades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croisade
cooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkudɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cooter
end mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end marks
form: endmark
Etymology: From end + mark.
Senses: examples: text: Because this sentence makes a statement, a period is the appropriate endmark.
ref: 2011, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A punctuation mark occurring at the end of a clause or sentence.
topics: arts
graphic-design
media
publishing
typography
glosses: A typographic element that signals the end of an article. Often they are simple bullets, but they can also be intricate symbols.
masturbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbation
præjudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præjudices
Senses: examples: text: Proposals Reviv’d, of Establishing, and Supporting a Public Schole, Design’d, Amongst Other Improvements, for the Sea-service of the Nation, Without Any Public Charge, Or Præjudice Whatsoever.
ref: 1701, Lewis Maidwell, Proposals Reviv’d, of Establishing, and Supporting a Public Schole, Design’d, Amongst Other Improvements, for the Sea-service of the Nation, Without Any Public Charge, Or Præjudice Whatsoever, main title (self-published)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prejudice.
præjudice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præjudices
form: præjudicing
form: præjudiced
form: præjudiced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prejudice.
præjudices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præjudice
præjudices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præjudice
præjudicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præjudice
præjudiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præjudice
faceplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌpleɪt/
Forms: form: faceplates
form: face-plate
form: face plate
Etymology: Compound of face + plate.
Senses: examples: text: The keyboard's faceplate, that is, the cover holding the plastic key against the rubber keyboard, is usually molded ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) plastic.
ref: 1988, Electronic Design, volume 36, numbers 1-6, page 124:
glosses: A removable protective shield separating the inner workings of a machine from operator and observer.
glosses: A rigid flat surface that has an active role in the interaction of a device with an operator or user.
glosses: A transparent window forming part of a helmet directly in front of the wearer's face, allowing them to see out.
Derived terms: faceplated
Related terms: case
cover
frontplate
nameplate
wallplate
faceplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faceplate
spikiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikinesses
Etymology: From spiky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being spiky.
spikily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spikily
form: most spikily
Etymology: From spiky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spiky way.
epergne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈpɝn/
ipa: /eɪˈpɝn/
enpr: ē'pûrn
enpr: ā'pûrn
ipa: /ɪˈpɜːn/
Forms: form: epergnes
form: épergne
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from French épargne (“savings, treasury”), though it is unclear how the new meaning would have been acquired. Perhaps owing to the typical appearance of an épergne as resembling a balance upon which market goods or coins could be weighed.
Senses: examples: text: […] his precious helpmate sat grinning at the mischief she had occasioned, like an idiot, asking Colonel Lamborn to help her to some of them there thingumbobs out of the silver what-d’ye-call’um. These thingumbobs happened to be no other than a service of West India sweetmeats in a superb fillagree epergne, […]
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: But I did like a lot of her things—the vase in the middle of the dining-room table for instance. Helen called it Mama's “epergne”. It was a two-storey thing of glass and silver and was always full of choice flowers, pure white geraniums that one longed to stroke and kiss to see if they were real, fat begonias and big heavy-headed fuchsias.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: A table centerpiece, usually made of silver, generally consisting of a central bowl with radiating dishes or holders.
dronelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dronelike
form: most dronelike
Etymology: From drone + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a drone (hum or buzz).
raw_tags: of a sound
glosses: Like or befitting a drone (one who does menial or tedious work).
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: of a sound
word: drony
topics: mechanical
mechanical-engineering
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: of a person
epergnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epergne
current accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of current account
tonic waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonic water
drawmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawmaster
catch flies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches flies
form: catching flies
form: caught flies
form: caught flies
Senses: examples: text: You'd better close your mouth; are you trying to catch flies?
glosses: To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Of an actor: to distract the audience by moving or gesturing when the focus should be elsewhere.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, fly.
Related terms: flytrap
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
smoke eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke eater
crewneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crewnecks
Etymology: From crew + neck.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crew neck.
Derived terms: crewnecked
crewnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crewneck
soap operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soap opera
longcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longcuts
Etymology: From long + cut, modelled on shortcut.
Senses: examples: text: I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut.
ref: 1986, Andrew A. Rooney, Word for Word, G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55:
text: The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut"
ref: 1994, Gary Paulson, Winterdance, Harcourt Brace, page 69:
text: It's no shortcut, it's a "longcut."
ref: 2006, Kathy Morey, Hawaii Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Big Island, Wilderness Press, page 245:
glosses: A path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.
soap-operatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soap-operatic
form: most soap-operatic
form: soap operatic
Senses: examples: text: It’s schmaltzy, no question, but part of Ms. Swift’s power is her willingness to acknowledge her own soap operatic dreams, to cast herself as the heroine endlessly chasing the allure of love promised to little girls in old clichés, and wear her emotions for all to see.
ref: 2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025:
glosses: Pertaining to soap opera.
unfilterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + filterable.
Senses: glosses: Not filterable.
thuggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thuggishly
form: most thuggishly
Etymology: From thuggish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thuggish way.
vanity publishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity publisher
vanity presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity press
puppy mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppy mills
Senses: glosses: A farm that breeds dogs for profit, often in squalid conditions.
Synonyms: puppy farm
puppy mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppy mill
Paiwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal people native to Taiwan.
glosses: The Formosan language of the Paiwan people.
Paiwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paiwans
form: Paiwan
Senses: glosses: A person of Paiwan descent.
Paiwan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Paiwan people.
glosses: Of or relating to the Paiwan language.
Related terms: pwn ⁠
unpropertied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɹɒpətiːd/
Etymology: From un- + propertied.
Senses: examples: text: Characteristically, perhaps, it was at the moment when political rights for the unpropertied were on the statute-books, but not enforced, that the Revolutionaries abolished slavery.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 563:
glosses: Not propertied; not having property.
draftnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draftniks
Etymology: From draft + -nik.
Senses: glosses: One who studies and reports on the draft (player selection) for professional sports leagues.
draftniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draftnik
anhygroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anhygroscopic
form: most anhygroscopic
Etymology: From an- + hygroscopic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of a substance) Tending to remain dry or anhydrous.
jerkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerky
hygroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hygroscopically
form: most hygroscopically
Etymology: From hygroscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hygroscopic way.
scroggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Tonight scroggin, cheese and dried fruit will do.
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 49
text: And don′t forget your scroggin – a mixture of dried fruit and nuts (and sometimes chocolate) for munching en route.
ref: 2010, Charles Rawlings-Way, Brett Atkinson, New Zealand, Lonely Planet, page 76:
text: Trail mix or ‘Scroggin’, is a mix of dried fruit, nuts and sometimes chocolate that′s popular with hikers.
ref: 2010, Warwick Sprawson, The Overland Track: Cradle Mountiain to Lake St Clair, Australia: Red Dog Books, page 179:
glosses: A pre-prepared mixture of dried fruit and nuts to eat as a snack while bushwalking.
Synonyms: sense: food for bushwalking
word: gorp
sense: food for bushwalking
word: trail mix
methyl orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An azo dye used as an acid-base indicator for titrations involving a weak base
hoggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogger
featurelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more featurelessly
form: most featurelessly
Etymology: From featureless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a featureless way; without features.
overflow hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overflow holes
Senses: glosses: The hole in a sink that prevents it overflowing by diverting excess water to the drain.
frou-frous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frou-frou
subrogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrogation
subrogee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrogees
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party acting on behalf of the subrogor in a subrogation.
subrogees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrogee
subrogor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrogors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party on whose behalf another party (the subrogee) acts in a subrogation.
subrogors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrogor
subrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subrogate
subrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subrogate
subrogated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subrogate
barnboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnboards
Etymology: From barn + board.
Senses: glosses: Antique board recovered from old barns, used in construction and the making of furniture.
barnboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barnboard
Atenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aten + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A monotheistic religion of ancient Egypt, based around the god Aten.
Related terms: Aten
postprison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + prison.
Senses: glosses: After release from prison.
postprison
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From post- + prison.
Senses: glosses: After release from prison.
overflow holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overflow hole
doorstopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorstoppers
Etymology: From door + stopper.
Senses: glosses: A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
examples: text: So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.
ref: 2018, Joe Humphreys, Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress by Stephen Pinker review:
glosses: A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
glosses: A gauge used in geophysics.
doorstoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorstopper
morphotectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + tectonic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to morphotectonics.
morphotectonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + tectonics.
Senses: glosses: The study of superficial evidences of tectonic activity.
Internetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internetters
form: internetter
Etymology: From Internet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is an incentive ploy for users to eventually subscribe to the magazines and publications but to the Internetter it is a free way to get lots of information as the articles are changed daily.
ref: 1996, Alan H Bridges, The Construction Net:
text: For example, one seasoned internetter examined the list of proposed confrontation tactics and, finding them impractical...
ref: 1997, Carol R Ronai, Barbara A Zsembik, Joe R Feagin, Everyday sexism in the third millennium:
text: From an Internetter of 15 years, reflections on cyberspace as an illusory nonplace and on the addictive glut of unnecessary online information.
ref: 2001, Marcia Yudkin, Internet Marketing for Less Than $500/Year:
glosses: A user of the Internet.
Internetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Internetter
orogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orogenesis
flailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flailing
newsless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From news + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without news.
Derived terms: newslessness
seminomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminoma
untreatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untreatably
form: most untreatably
Etymology: From untreatable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an untreatable way.
remoulades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remoulade
whiskyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: whiskeyless
Etymology: From whisky + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without whisky.
whiskeyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: whiskyless
Etymology: From whiskey + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without whiskey.
coffeeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coffee + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without coffee.
paracentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracenteses
Etymology: From para- + -centesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A medical procedure involving needle drainage of fluid from a body cavity, most commonly the abdomen.
Derived terms: postparacentesis
paracenteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracentesis
thoracentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracenteses
Etymology: By surface analysis, thora(co)- + -centesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A medical procedure involving needle drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space.
Synonyms: pleuracentesis
thoracocentesis
thoracenteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracentesis
thoracocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracocenteses
Etymology: By surface analysis, thoraco- + -centesis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thoracentesis.
thoracocenteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracocentesis
orientedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oriented + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: According to Banfield, it is precisely the norm of present-orientedness […] that gives rise to crime and delinquency, poverty and squalor, broken families and illegitimacy.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
glosses: The state or condition of being oriented; an orientation.
Related terms: task-orientedness
oligodendroglioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligodendrogliomas
Etymology: From oligo- + dendroglioma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A glioma believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell.
Related terms: oligodendrogliomagenesis
oligodendrogliomal
oligodendrogliopathy
oligodendropathology
oligodendrogliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligodendroglioma
sedentarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sedentarily
form: most sedentarily
Etymology: From sedentary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sedentary way.
Münchausen syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Münchausen syndromes
form: Munchausen syndrome
form: Münchhausen syndrome
form: Munchhausen syndrome
form: Munchausen's syndrome
Etymology: From the German name Münchhausen, after the fantastical tales related by the fictional Baron Munchausen (sic) in Rudolf Erich Raspe's English-language novel Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785). The character was loosely based on Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen (1720–1797).
Senses: synonyms: factitious disorder
factitious disorder imposed on self
glosses: A factitious (artificial) mental disorder in which a person feigns illness or psychological trauma in order to garner attention or sympathy.
wikipedia: Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen
Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
Rudolf Erich Raspe
Derived terms: Münchausen syndrome by proxy
Related terms: Munchausenism
fantasticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fanˈtastɪkəlnəs/
Etymology: From fantastical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, there is nothing in it worthy the marking but this fantasticalnesse.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or condition of being fantastical.
yeowoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeowomen
Senses: glosses: A female yeoman.
Synonyms: word: yeomanette
yeowomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeowoman
yeoperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeopersons
form: yeopeople
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A yeoman or yeowoman.
yeopersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeoperson