cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
languageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From language + -less.
Senses: examples: text: No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:
text: But in practice, we are not born into any particular language at all: all babies are languageless at the start of life.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61:
glosses: Without language.
Derived terms: languagelessness
languagelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From languageless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being languageless; lack of language.
spacepower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space power
Etymology: From space + power.
Senses: examples: text: This new challenge of space and spacepower has rocked the United States as few other events in the country's brief history.
ref: 1958, Donald William Cox, Michael Stoiko, Spacepower: what it means to you:
glosses: Military power as it relates to space.
Coordinate terms: airpower
cyberpower
seapower
sea power
bhajees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhajee
filmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From film + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Many modern cameras are filmless.
glosses: Without film.
Derived terms: filmlessness
shittiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shitty + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: shitness
;
badness
crappiness
horribleness
suckiness
fuckedness
glosses: The state or condition of being shitty (in various senses).
Related terms: enshittification
shittification
shittily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shittily
form: most shittily
Etymology: From shitty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shitty way.
yellowishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yellowishly
form: most yellowishly
Etymology: From yellowish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The skin becomes thinned and yellowishly discoloured at one point, gives way, and a large quantity of thick creamy pus escapes.
ref: 1873, John Soelberg Wells, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, Lindsay & Blakiston, page 750:
text: . . . a sky with every fading colour: blue-green, pale grey between green and blue, fuzzy hues of distant clouds that aren't clouds, yellowishly darkened by an expiring red.
ref: 2002, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, →ISBN, page 196:
text: Ploughman silently studied the two men for a moment or two longer, then smiled yellowishly, opened a desk drawer, and brought out a bottle of Gordon's gin.
ref: 2004, Ross Thomas, Chinaman's Chance, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: With a colour resembling yellow.
reddishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reddishly
form: most reddishly
Etymology: From reddish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a colour resembling red.
greenishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greenishly
form: most greenishly
Etymology: From greenish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a greenish manner.
bluishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bluishly
form: most bluishly
Etymology: From bluish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Go light a candle,” cried Baker, sternly, “and be quick about it.” The trembling old man obeyed, and in a moment the imperfect rays flared upon his whitening hairs and bluishly pallid face.
ref: 1865, George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Letter IV, p. 31:
text: As he moved out into the darkness, for he was beyond the orbit of the candles' influence, the lightning struck again and flared bluishly through the broken window so that at one and the same moment both Swelter and Flay caught sight of one another.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Blood at Midnight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: In a bluish way.
purplishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purplishly
form: most purplishly
Etymology: From purplish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a colour resembling purple.
pinkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋkɪʃli/
Forms: form: more pinkishly
form: most pinkishly
Etymology: From pinkish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The children came home from the beach pinkishly sunburned.
glosses: In a pinkish way.
brownishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brownishly
form: most brownishly
Etymology: From brownish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brownish way.
blackishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blackishly
form: most blackishly
Etymology: From blackish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blackish way.
pruderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prudery
whitishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whitishly
form: most whitishly
Etymology: From whitish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a whitish way.
blackishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blackish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.
Coordinate terms: blackenedness
blackness
greyishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From greyish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being greyish.
grayishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grayish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being grayish.
brownishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brownish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being brownish.
pinkishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pinkish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pinkish.
purplishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purplish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being purplish.
Coordinate terms: purpleness
Related terms: purpura
purply
bluishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bluish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the blinds and curtains made it almost dark. Still from the pale bluishness which filtered in one could see that it was very early.
ref: 1922, Ivan Bunin, “Son”, in S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf, transl., The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories, Richmond: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, page 79:
text: Should a stranger suppose that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 208–9:
glosses: The quality of being bluish.
Coordinate terms: blueness
white papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white paper
whitepaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitepapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white paper.
whitepapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitepaper
Philly cheesesteaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philly cheesesteak
whups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whup
unnominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nominated.
Senses: glosses: Not nominated.
purringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purringly
form: most purringly
Etymology: From purring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A little travelling clock ticked purringly at her elbow […]
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, Chapter 12:
text: And Dr. Norwood, purringly pleased and self-conscious as a cat caught in the cream, had replied, “Indeed?” with such unsuccess at casualness that he had hastened to add in a confidential tone, “It was a great day for me, Sonia.”
ref: 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 13, in Green Light, London: Pan Books, published 1966, page 196:
glosses: With a purring noise or tone.
summer soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer soups
Etymology: So named for being suitable to serve cold in the heat of summer. In the Finnish sense, Calque of Finnish kesäkeitto.
Senses: examples: text: For many people, gazpacho is the first and last summer soup that comes to mind.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A traditional Finnish soup of vegetables cooked in milk.
recompilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recompilations
Etymology: From re- + compilation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of recompiling.
precompilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precompilations
Etymology: From pre- + compilation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of precompiling.
recompilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recompilation
precompilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precompilation
precompile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precompiles
form: precompiling
form: precompiled
form: precompiled
Etymology: From pre- + compile.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compile in advance.
precompiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precompilers
Etymology: From precompile + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that precompiles.
precompilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precompiler
precompiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precompile
precompiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precompile
precompiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precompile
mirkest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mirk: most mirk
mirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mir
snellest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snell: most snell
implicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more implicatively
form: most implicatively
Etymology: From implicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an implicative way.
explicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more explicatively
form: most explicatively
Etymology: From explicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an explicative way.
plosiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plosive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being plosive.
plosively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plosively
form: most plosively
Etymology: From plosive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plosive way.
sandily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sandily
form: most sandily
Etymology: From sandy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sandy way.
insanitarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insanitarily
form: most insanitarily
Etymology: From insanitary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insanitary way.
unsanitarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsanitarily
form: most unsanitarily
Etymology: From unsanitary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsanitary way.
sanitarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanitarily
form: most sanitarily
Etymology: From sanitary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sanitary way.
duckpond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckponds
form: duck pond
Etymology: From duck + pond.
Senses: glosses: A pond that is populated by ducks, especially an ornamental pond in a garden.
duckponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duckpond
assemblable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From assemble + -able.
Senses: examples: text: When Del Rey first told me they were sending me, I asked longtime pal and local cartoonist celebrity Stephen J. Notley what the hell Comicon was. Imagine the Shaw Conference Centre, he said, stacked, packed and latched with literally hundreds of booths bursting with the biggest assortment of fanboyish delights assemblable.
ref: 2004 August 5–11, Minister Faust [pseudonym; Malcolm Azania], “Inside the Gethsemane of Geekitude: Walking and gawking at fanboy central: the San Diego Comicon”, in Ron Garth, editor, Vue Weekly, number 459, Edmonton, Alta.: 783783 Alberta Ltd, →OCLC, page 11, column 1:
coordinate_terms: disassemblable#Adjective
;
unreassemblable#Adjective
glosses: That can be assembled.
Related terms: assemblability
fire engine reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire engine red
grayly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grayly
form: most grayly
Etymology: From gray + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I am now at the mosque. I walk across its large white courtyard, which glows grayly in the night.
ref: 2024, Hisham Matar, My Friends, Random House (2025), page 39:
glosses: In a gray way.
greyly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greyly
form: most greyly
Etymology: From grey + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The interior of the kitchen we now saw grayly for the first time.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 198:
glosses: In a grey way; in partial light.
examples: text: I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking grayly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 292:
glosses: With a dreary or gloomy countenance.
sincerities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sincerity
eraser pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eraser pens
Senses: glosses: A fine eraser, user to erase individual lines of written text
oldest profession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the oldest profession
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of world's oldest profession.
lunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luna
langostinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of langostino
lapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapa
authoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From authorial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being an author.
Related terms: authorial
Byzantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Byzantisms
Senses: glosses: The study, or the use of elements of the Byzantine culture
communitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communitizations
Etymology: From community + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of forming or becoming a community.
glosses: The transfer of responsibility (for something) to the European Community.
dihydroxybenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxybenzenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: benzenediol
defervescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defervescence
topeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topengs
Etymology: From Indonesian topeng.
Senses: glosses: A dramatic form of Indonesian dance with masked, costumed performers who interpret traditional myths and fables.
glosses: A performer of this dance.
seedcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsidˌkeɪk/
Forms: form: seedcakes
form: seed-cake
form: seed cake
Etymology: From seed + cake.
Senses: glosses: The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
examples: text: Remember thou therefore, though I do it not,
The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
text: Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed. Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle. Joy: I ate it: joy.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sweet cake, cookie or cracker containing aromatic seeds, especially caraway.
electrooculogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrooculograms
form: electroculogram
Etymology: From electro- + oculo- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A record of the voltage differences between the front and back of the eye as the eyeball moves.
Synonyms: word: EOG
Related terms: electrooculography
emanationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emanation + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The idea that everything emanates from something else, and that the original and most perfect things emanated directly from God.
Related terms: processionism
fluorochinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorochinolones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fluoroquinolone.
robles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roble
glucooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucooligosaccharides
Etymology: From gluco- + oligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide having glucose residues
Related terms: galactooligosaccharide
codos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codo
interforce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + force.
Senses: examples: interforce police cooperation
glosses: Between forces (military, etc.)
Marsquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marsquakes
Senses: examples: text: Some of the scientific explanations that promote natural formation include wind faceting and shifting of subterrain plates (Marsquakes ) .
ref: 1988, Vincent DiPietro, Gregory Molenaar, John Brandenburg, Unusual Mars Surface Features, page 45:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of marsquake.
miction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: mictions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mictiō.
Senses: glosses: Urination.
Derived terms: pilimiction
marsupia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupium
abitrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arbitrary.
marsupian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupians
Senses: glosses: marsupial
guaranteed equity bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaranteed equity bonds
Senses: examples: text: Thus what is sometimes called a ladder structure can be created which can be added to the zero coupon bond to create an attractive guaranteed equity bond
ref: 1997, Les Clewlow with Chris Strickland, Exotic Options: The State of the Art, page 26:
text: This landscape suits very well the traditional guaranteed equity bond structure, which is the mainstay of the equity structured retail product market
ref: 2000, Risk, page 58:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A type of investment that returns a fixed portion of the principal plus the result of equity trading with the balance.
Synonyms: GEB
Related terms: ladder
egg yolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg yolk
effectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effectible
form: most effectible
Etymology: From effect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being done or achieved.
Synonyms: sense: capable of being done
word: doable
sense: capable of being done
word: practicable
sense: capable of being done
word: feasible
Derived terms: effectibility
ineffectible
effectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From effectible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Capability of being done or achieved.
Synonyms: sense: capability of being done
word: doability
sense: capability of being done
word: practicability
sense: capability of being done
word: feasibility
doability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doabilities
Etymology: From do + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Feasibility; practicability.
effectualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From effectual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being effectual.
Synonyms: effectuality
electoral districts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electoral district
platypussary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platypussaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of platypusary.
marsupiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupiates
Senses: glosses: marsupial
Martello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martellos
Senses: glosses: Martello tower
Martello tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martello towers
Etymology: From a corruption of Corsican Torra di Mortella (literally “Tower of Mortella”), a tower in Corsica which was used as the basis for the design; possibly influenced by Italian martello (“hammer”).
Senses: examples: text: The martello towers was put up for the Guernsey people to get in out of the way of the Grand Saracen.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 309:
glosses: A short sturdy round masonry fort, especially one constructed at various coastal points in the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
Synonyms: Martello
martemper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: martempers
form: martempering
form: martempered
form: martempered
Etymology: Blend of martensite + temper.
Senses: glosses: To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
martialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martialists
Etymology: From martial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A warrior.
saguaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saguaro
nipple cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nipple cacti
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of mammiform cacti of the genus Mammillaria.
ropa vieja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish ropa vieja (literally “old clothes”).
Senses: glosses: A Hispanic dish made from shredded beef cooked in a tomato sauce.
place kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place kicks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
glosses: A kick in which the ball is placed, at rest, on the ground or on a small tee
fanbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanbases
Senses: examples: text: BT can reasonably point to the fact that matches involving teams with a smaller fanbase, such as Leicester City, in the Champions League are inevitably going to attract fewer viewers.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: Alternative form of fan base.
long ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long balls
Senses: examples: text: Welsh nerves continued to jangle as Blake let a long ball bounce over his head and only Wayne Hennessey's swift advance from his line prevented Mirko Vucinic sneaking in.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A kick in which the ball is kicked over the heads of other players into an empty space, into which an attacker is moving.
examples: text: In the first group game, they played long ball against Sweden, who knew the English game, and so were hardly likely to be caught off-guard by direct play.
ref: 2013 October 24, Alex Ferguson, ALEX FERGUSON: My Autobiography: The Sensational Million Copy Number One Bestseller, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Sometimes, a team will use a long-ball strategy to move the ball. In this strategy, a defender will kick the ball in a long pass, far up the field, to the striker or other forward.
ref: 2018 July 15, Cathleen Small, Soccer, Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP, →ISBN:
text: Graham Taylor, usually cast as a regressive long-ball manager, understood the error.
ref: 2022 October 27, Paul Hayward, England Football: The Biography: 1872 - 2022, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A strategy focused on sending the ball upfield directly to the striker, especially one with few other tactical innovations.
examples: text: In the 1970s Seaver knew that batters could connect for a long ball at almost any time, so he had to be able to reach back and strike a hitter out if necessary.
ref: 2007, Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer, The 2007 Espn Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, Sterling Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 1038:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A home run
examples: text: He could run a team, tough as nails, shoot the long ball; he had great instincts and feel for the game.
ref: 2011, Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds, Basketball Junkie: A Memoir, Macmillan, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A three-point shot.
Synonyms: sense: direct soccer strategy
word: route one football
sense: direct soccer strategy
word: route-one
cabanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabane
buibui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buibuis
Etymology: From Swahili buibui.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chador (“Muslim women's garment”).
synonyms: word: chador
extra: Muslim women's garment
ordonnance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoɹdənəns/
other: /oɹdɔˈnɑns/
Etymology: Borrowed from French ordonnance. Doublet of ordinance and ordnance.
Senses: examples: August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
their dramatic ordonnance of the parts
topics: art
arts
glosses: The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
Moresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Moresque
form: most Moresque
Senses: topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: Moorish
Moresque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moresques
Senses: topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: arabesque
cuesport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuesports
Etymology: From cue + sport.
Senses: examples: text: Their false mannerisms fell away and they settled down to the skill/science/mindset/practise of their cuesport.
ref: 1996 June 7, Carl M. Pearson, “Re: 'Color of Moan-ey'”, in rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):
text: Snooker is the ultimate cuesport, with even minor professionals earning hundreds of thousands.
ref: 2002 December 26, Jason Batley, “Are US citizens unable to play any cuesport?”, in rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):
text: […] snooker has, at best, a grim future. Too bad, greatest cuesport ever.
ref: 2003 November 4, Austin K. Williams, “Re: Disagreement ...”, in alt.sport.snooker (Usenet):
text: Ofcourse^([sic]) the top players in whatever cuesport are the best cueist there are and the best poolplayers normally play their shots clean but still...
ref: 2004 March 18, Tjander Nathoeni, “Re: Man ... this place”, in alt.sport.pool (Usenet):
text: Ok, so now the only question is: is there any cuesport he's not great at?
ref: 2006 August 25, John Black, “Re: Some thoughts on KoH Final”, in rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of cue sport.
cueball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cueballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cue ball.
car jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car jackings
form: carjacking
form: car-jacking
Senses: glosses: The act of stealing an occupied car, often involving violence and/or threats.
car jackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car jacking
copy edits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copy edit
copy edited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copy edit
in-vitro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in vitro (as attributive adjective).
Ostrogoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒs.tɹə.ɡɒθ/
ipa: /ˈɑ.stɹəˌɡɑθ/
Forms: form: Ostrogoths
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Ostrogothus, from Proto-Germanic *austrą ("east") and *gutô, via Ancient Greek Γότθος (Gótthos) from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).
Senses: glosses: Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Visigoths being the other), which invaded Italy in the sixth century.
Derived terms: Ostrogothian
Ostrogothic
Related terms: Goth
Visigoth
summer soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer soup
Ostrogoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ostrogoth
sintery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sintery
form: most sintery
Etymology: From sinter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Geysir is farthest east of all the springs; it is indicated by a mound of sintery deposit like a heap of dry grey leaves, piled up about 30 feet...
ref: 1863, Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton, Iceland: its scenes and sagas:
glosses: Like sinter.
microfibrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + fibrous.
Senses: glosses: Composed of microscopic fibres.
glosses: Composed of microfiber.
infantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infante
US American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US Americans
Senses: examples: text: I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education, such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US - or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
ref: 2007, Miss South Carolina, Miss Teen USA:
glosses: Alternative form of U.S. American.
U.S. American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: US American
form: US-American
form: USAmerican
Senses: examples: text: Her first novel ... is set in the U.S. American Midwest"
ref: 1997, King-Kok Cheung, An interethnic companion to Asian American literature,, page 177:
text: To date, much of ICC research has been conducted by U.S. American scholars
ref: 2002, William B. Gudykunst, Bella Mody, Handbook of international and intercultural communication,, page 5:
text: Dominant U.S. American values", "most experts will agree that there is a dominant US American culture
ref: 2005, Alison Raymond Lanier & Jef C. Davis, Living in the U.S.A., (2005:9)
glosses: American (of or from the U.S.).
U.S. American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U.S. Americans
form: US American
form: US-American
form: USAmerican
Senses: examples: text: I've heard a Canadian say that citizens of the U.S. should really be called USians, but somehow I don't think it will catch on. Instead, if you talk about U.S. Americans, Canadians, Brazilians, and so on, nobody should be offended.
ref: 2004, Gwyneth Olofsson, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh—: cultural Q&As for successful business behavior around the world, page 56:
text: To Mai, Aunt Mary is another role model, one who is a native-born U.S. American who knows the country's tricks
ref: 2005, Pauline T. Newton, Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature, page 139:
text: Her answer, in its entirety, was: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”
ref: 2007, Miss South Carolina Teen USA explains herselfhttps://www.today.com/news/miss-south-carolina-teen-usa-explains-herself-1C9014791, today.com
synonyms: word: American
word: American
word: Americunt
word: Ameritard
word: Seppo
word: septic
word: United Statesian
word: United Statian
word: Usanian
word: USian
word: US-ian
word: Usonan
word: Usonian
word: US American
word: U.S. American
word: US-American
word: Yank
word: Yankee
glosses: A person from the United States of America.
Synonyms: Yank
Yankee
United Statesian
United Statian
US-ian
Usonian
Usanian
American
Hypernyms: American
North American
Related terms: Central American
South American
+ve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation, using the plus sign.
Senses: examples: text: A typical result for a CD4 T lymphocyte population is shown: CD3, CD4 +ve; CD8, CD13, CD34, CD19 −ve.
ref: 2002, “Haematology” (chapter 3), in Drew Provan, Andrew Krentz, editors, Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 225:
antonyms: -ve
glosses: Abbreviation of positive.
summerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From summer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 2007 was something of a summerless year in the UK.
glosses: Without a summer, or whose summer is considered lacking.
nuclear summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear summers
Senses: glosses: A period, hypothesized to follow a nuclear winter, in which surface temperatures rise to a dangerous degree because of the release of carbon dioxide and methane from decayed organic matter.
nuclear summers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear summer
summertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summertides
Etymology: From Middle English somertide, sumertid, equivalent to summer + -tide. Compare summertime.
Senses: glosses: Summertime.
summertides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summertide
dictionarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪk.ʃəˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌdɪk.ʃəˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: dictionarians
Etymology: From dictionary + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lexicographer.
synonyms: word: lexicographer
dictionarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionarian
e-businesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-business
cyberindustry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberindustries
Etymology: From cyber- + industry.
Senses: examples: text: But when it comes to cyberindustry, China is moving at Net speed. Driven by soaring computer sales, rapid expansion of China's telecom networks,...
ref: 1999, Business Week:
text: There has been much anticipation that India will become a big industrial exporter in general and a cyberindustry exporter in particular...
ref: 2008, Jeremy Tunstall, The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline:
glosses: Industry as it relates to the Internet; e-business, e-commerce.
examples: text: The QQ is an internet-based insurance company pioneering business service attempting to establish a foothold in the cyberindustry.
ref: 2002, Roland Traunmüller, Information systems: the e-business challenge:
text: ...in-depth reporting on the latest Internet trends and where the cyberindustry is heading.
ref: 2008, Mary McGuire, Linda Stillborne, The Internet Hand Book for Writers, Students and Teachers:
glosses: A particular industry of this kind.
cyberbuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberbuddies
Etymology: From cyber- + buddy.
Senses: glosses: A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
Synonyms: cyberfriend
cyberpal
cyberbuddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberbuddy
cyberland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + -land.
Senses: examples: text: As more people begin to own virtual real estate in cyberland, space and traffic become forces that threaten users' ability to explore...
ref: 1996, Allen Kent, James G Williams, Carolyn M Hall, Rosalind Kent, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 19:
text: In the light of such a discovery, what kind of a materialist critique could remain useful within the emerging cyberland?
ref: 1997, Sue-Ellen Case, The domain-matrix: performing lesbian at the end of print culture:
text: Face identification, hand geometry, and iris scanning indicate that all is not well in cyberland.
ref: 2001, Barbara Maria Stafford, Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting:
text: This section outlines a process that can be used for identifying, quantifying, shepherding, and delivering whatever you are trying to achieve in cyberland.
ref: 2001, Michael Drapkin, Jon Lowy, Daniel Marovitz, Three clicks away: advice from the trenches of eCommerce:
text: Here's a little sampling of what's being said in cyberland about companies whose names you know very well.
ref: 2004, Ronald Alsop, The 18 immutable laws of corporate reputation:
glosses: The Internet or cyberspace.
fers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪəs/
ipa: /fɪɹs/
Forms: form: ferses
form: ferz
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English fers, from Old French fierce, from Medieval Latin ferzia, from Classical Persian فَرْزِین (farzīn).
Senses: examples: text: With their introduction the fers and the alfil disappeared from European chess.
ref: 1898 January 24, A. A. McDonald, “The Origin and Early History of Chess”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 30, number 1, London: Royal Asiatic Society, →DOI, →ISBN, page 138:
text: In the Chronique of Philip Mouskat (a.d. 1243), lines 23617–20, is a reference to a king of Fierges, indicating that a fers could be promoted to a king at this early period.
ref: 1979 [1960], R. C. Bell, “War Games”, in Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 71:
text: This fers mates him in straight lines; this fers mates him at an angle.
ref: 2015 September 24, Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 112:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen.
examples: text: In Monochromatic chess moves are only allowed between cells of the same colour. Thus the kings are reduced to ferses, the rooks to dabbabariders, and the knights to dummies. […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.
ref: 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 4, 10:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A fairy chess piece that moves one square diagonally.
cybercowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercowboys
Etymology: From cyber- + cowboy.
Senses: examples: text: ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.
ref: 2000, Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies:
text: Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...
ref: 2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human:
text: ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.
ref: 2003, Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.
examples: text: ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...
ref: 1995, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity:
text: Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.
ref: 2001, Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing:
glosses: An Internet user.
Synonyms: sense: Internet user
word: cybernaut
sense: Internet user
word: cybersurfer
sense: Internet user
word: netizen
cybercowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercowboy
sumbitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumbitches
form: sumbich
form: sombitch
Senses: examples: text: “[…] The reporter thanked him sarcastically, said he hoped the book would sell a million copies, and walked off to the bar. Scott said, 'Us binness men have to stay friendly with these small-time sumbitches, but what do you care? You just got to worry about the New York Times and Time magazine and like that.'"
ref: 1962, Herman Wouk, chapter 4, in Youngblood Hawke:
text: He dug his bare heels into the horse's flanks and bounced up and down. He slapped her with his hat and clicked his tongue frantically. "Come on, Quicksilver, you old sumbitch! Move! Go! Go! You old sumbitch, Quicksilver! Haaaw!"
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of son of a bitch, representing Southern US English.
sumbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumbitch
acutance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːt(ə)n(t)s/
ipa: /əˈkjutn̩(t)s/
ipa: [-ɾn̩(t)s]
Forms: form: acutances
Etymology: From acute (“intense, sensitive, sharp”, adjective) + -ance (suffix forming nouns indicating conditions or states).
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Edge contrast or sharpness in an image; also, a measure of this.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An instance of the edge contrast or sharpness in an image.
Related terms: acuity
acuteness
fadeometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadeometers
Etymology: From fade + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the degree to which an ink sample will fade when exposed to light.
Related terms: microfadeometer
fadeometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fadeometer
mosasaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosasaurs
Etymology: From scientific Latin Mosasaurus (genus name).
Senses: examples: text: What I find deeply disturbing, however, is that Mr. Ross could believe that the earth was created 10,000 years ago, but nevertheless write in his dissertation that mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, existed more than 65 million years ago.
ref: 2007 February 14, “The Case of the Creationist Geologist (5 Letters)”, in New York Times:
text: Mosasaurs could reach lengths of up to 17m and lived mainly in offshore waters of the Late Cretaceous.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considered to belong to Squamata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes.
Related terms: mosasaurian
mosasaurid
mosasaurine
mosasauroid
Mosasauridae
mosasaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosasaur
phosphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphores
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of phosphor.
coral vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coral vines
Senses: glosses: Antigonon leptopus, A flowering vine native to Mexico
glosses: Kennedia coccinea, a species of flowering plant, native to western Australia, with red or scarlet flowers.
estres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estre
lynch mobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lynch mob
kitling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitlings
Etymology: From Middle English kiteling (“kitten, kit”), from Old Norse ketlingr (“kitten”), diminutive of kǫttr (“cat”), equivalent to cat + -ling.
Cognate with Icelandic kettlingur (“kitten”), Faroese kettlingur (“kitten”), Norwegian ketling (“kitten”), Swedish källing (“kitten”), Danish killing (“kitten”). Compare English catling, of similar formation. See also kitten.
Senses: glosses: Any young animal; cub, whelp, kit.
glosses: A young cat; kitten.
Related terms: kittle
fast and loose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: prick the garter
pitch the nob
pricking at the belt
strap game
glosses: A cheating game played at fairs by sharpers.
Derived terms: play fast and loose
talk fast and loose
Burali-Forti paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Burali-Forti paradox
form: Burali-Forti's paradox
Etymology: Named after Cesare Burali-Forti, who in 1897 published a paper proving a theorem which, unknown to him, contradicted a previously proved result by Georg Cantor.
Senses: examples: text: 1984, Michael Hallett, Cantorian Set Theory and Limitation of Size, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1986, Paperback, page 186,
Like them, Mirimanoff concentrates on the Burali-Forti paradox, and like Russell's analysis before, Mirimanoff shows how. in terms of size, the Burali-Forti paradox is basic and that if we solve this the other paradoxes will be solved too.
text: 1994 [Routledge], Ivor Grattan-Guinness (editor), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 1, 2003, Johns Hopkins University Press, Paperback, page 632,
In the first place, Berry rejected Russell's solution to the Burali-Forti paradox, claiming that it was easy to prove that the set of all ordinal numbers was a well-ordered set (and that Cantor had actually done it).
text: The Burali-Forti paradox was discovered by Cantor in 1895 and Burali-Forti in 1897, but was not regarded by them as a paradox.
ref: 2002, Marcus Giaquinto, The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 37:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The paradox that supposing the existence of a set of all ordinal numbers leads to a contradiction; construed as meaning that it is not a properly defined set.
wikipedia: Cesare Burali-Forti
Georg Cantor
Related terms: Russell's paradox
Sankt-Peterburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Санкт-Петербу́рг (Sankt-Peterbúrg).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saint Petersburg: A federal city of Russia, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad; the former capital of Russia, from 1713–1728 and 1732–1918.
Mazur game
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A topological game invented by the Polish mathematician Stanisław Mazur in order to illustrate the difference between sets of the first category and second category.
Related terms: Banach-Mazur game
NFU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Farmers Union.
NFU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no first use (of nuclear weapons).
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Initialism of New Foundations with urelements.