cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
upcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsaɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: upcycles
form: up-cycle
Etymology: From up + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: You could probably take care of yourself through the cycles but during the period when one of the upcycles—it should be an upcycle for your business—you just said you are going through a worse depression from that standpoint than a normal business depression?
ref: 1943, United States Congress House Committee on Naval Affairs, Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort: Hearings before the Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 30, a Resolution Authorizing and Directing an Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort: Renegotiation of War Contracts, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 891:
text: The upcycle has lasted so long that many economists even doubt the old cycle theories. Others try to label the lull in 1962 and again this year as the downcycles.
ref: 1967, Steel: The Magazine of Metalworking and Metalproducing, volume 161, Cleveland, Oh.: Penton Publishing Co., →OCLC:
text: Over the past decade Cambodia has made considerable strides, achieving sustained growth and poverty reduction, aided in part by the global upcycle.
ref: 2009 December, “Staff Appraisal”, in Cambodia: 2009 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director (IMF Country Report; no. 09/325), Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, →OCLC, page 19:
text: SECTOR ROTATION stock investment strategy in which mone is moved from one industrial sector to another in an effort to catch respective upcycles and thus outperform the overall market.
ref: 2010, John Downes, Jordan Elliot Goodman, “SECTOR ROTATION”, in Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, 8th edition, Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, →ISBN:
text: Many historical real estate cycles show that the overall up-cycle proceeds with long periods of rising rents and occupancy rates.
ref: 2014, Glenn R. Mueller, “Institutional Real Estate Markets”, in H. Kent Baker, Peter Chinloy, editors, Private Real Estate Markets and Investments (Financial Markets and Investments Series), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: It is precisely these logical anomalies, paradoxes and problems, which create Samsara's wheel of eternal repeating up-cycles which is followed by eternal repeating down-cycles and vice versa (for example life and death, success and fiasco, joy and sorrow) – as well as the ignorance and suffering when you are caught into this wheel, for example in the experience of nightmare and anxiety.
ref: 2014, Morten Tolboll, “The Dream Hypothesis and the Brain-in-jar Hypothesis”, in The Matrix Conspiracy: Part 1, Livermore, Calif.: WingSpan Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A period of a cycle where something is increasing or improving.
downcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downcycle
downcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downcycle
upcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upcycle
upcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up-cycles
Senses: glosses: plural of upcycle.
upcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsaɪklɪŋ/
Etymology: From upcycle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of converting (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
upcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsaɪklɪŋ/
Etymology: From upcycle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upcycle.
upcycled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsaɪk(ə)ld/
Etymology: From upcycle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of waste materials, etc.: converted into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
glosses: Promoted into a more productive or useful role.
upcycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsaɪk(ə)ld/
Etymology: From upcycle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upcycle.
downcycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downcycle
digyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪdʒɪni/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fertilization of a diploid ovum by a monoploid sperm, resulting in a triploid zygote.
Related terms: digynous
digressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more digressively
form: most digressively
Etymology: From digressive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In The Perfumed Garden, Nefzawi digressively but interestingly discusses, in great and curious detail, the amorous activities of animals.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 13:
glosses: In a digressive fashion.
do-support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As we can see, ‘do-support’ is a frequently used construction in Modern English, that has no equal construction in German. We chose the topic of ‘do-support’ for our study since “[...]^([sic]) do-support is one of the main stumbling blocks”[…]
ref: 2018, Janina Madlener, The Phenomenon of “do-support”: Problems of German Learners of English in a Linguistic Perspective, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: do-insertion
glosses: The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.
mommyblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mommybloggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mommy blogger.
dustcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustcloths
Etymology: From dust + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A cloth used for dusting; a duster.
dustcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustcloth
long gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long guns
Senses: examples: text: The 33 long guns and 37 handguns were seized during the project examining 69 cases where people failed to register or renew a firearm licence.
ref: 2011 April 11, Nicole O'Reilly, “ACTION project nets 70 guns”, in Hamilton Spectator, Canada, retrieved 22 May 2011:
synonyms: longarm
long arm
hypernyms: firearm
<
gun
<
ranged weapon
<
weapon
coordinate_terms: handgun
pistol
;
glosses: A firearm, such as a shotgun or rifle, which is fired while braced against the shoulder.
glosses: Any of a class of naval artillery pieces with especially long barrels for maximum range.
double precision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A number storage format that uses two adjacent locations in memory, allowing for greater precision in the values stored.
eat, breathe, and sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats, breathes, and sleeps
form: eating, breathing, and sleeping
form: ate, breathed, and slept
form: eaten, breathed, and slept
Senses: examples: text: It is so easy to begin to eat, breathe, and sleep autism, but it will do no good — not for you, not for your spouse, and not even for your child.
ref: 2004, Adelle Jameson Tilton, The everything parents guide to children with autism:
glosses: To devote one's time obsessively to.
echoplex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: echoplexes
form: echoplexing
form: echoplexed
form: echoplexed
Etymology: From echo- + -plex.
Senses: examples: text: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing. As indicated, echoplexing is often confused with the duplexes. If a character is typed, such as A, and on the terminal appears AA, the far end is echoplexing while the terminal is optioned for local displaying of the characters while they are typed.
ref: 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.
examples: text: […](making much use of Macero's splicing, tape loops and echoplexing of Miles' trumpet).
ref: 1979, Black Music & Jazz Review, volume 1, numbers 10–12, page 17:
text: William "Wee Gee" Howard takes the lead vocal and Dennis Coffey plays the heavily echoplexed guitar, […]
ref: 2003, Rob Bowman, Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, page 257:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To apply a tape delay effect on (an instrument).
echoplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echoplexes
Etymology: From echo- + -plex.
Senses: examples: text: On Electric Bath Ellis provided an exquisite example of how to use the loop delay echo chamber on his trumpet, as he played “Open Beauty”. By using an echoplex Ellis was able to play highly effective solos, duets, and trios in a surrealistic manner by himself.
ref: 2001, Bob Yurochko, A Short History of Jazz, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 175:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tape delay effect first used in the 1960s.
ecomanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + management.
Senses: examples: text: Ecomanagement awareness can reshape all aspects of business functions, including acquisitions, facility operations, manufacturing, design, and distribution.
ref: 2004, Conor Vibert, Theories of Macro Organizational Behavior, page 81:
glosses: The responsible management of an organisation's impact on the environment.
Related terms: biomanagement
ekklesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekklesiae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecclesia.
ekklesiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ekklesia
eye-opening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eye-opening
form: most eye-opening
form: eyeopening
Etymology: From eye (noun) + opening (participle of the verb open).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: arresting
text: They saw an eye-opening documentary on the societal costs of cheap clothing production; there are many externalities.
coordinate_terms: noteworthy#Adjective
noticeable#Adjective
glosses: Very startling or shocking; engaging a person's full attention.
Related terms: eye bleach
eye-opener
eye-searing
eye-watering
fauxmances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxmance
longnose gar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longnose gars
Senses: examples: text: Longnose Gar, with jaws twice as long as head, may be 5 feet long.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
synonyms: needlenose gar
glosses: A large freshwater garfish with very long slender snout, Lepisosteus osseus.
hydroentangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydroentangles
form: hydroentangling
form: hydroentangled
form: hydroentangled
Etymology: From hydro- + entangle.
Senses: glosses: To feed (leather fibres) through a textile core, part of a manufacturing process that avoids the use of chemicals.
Related terms: hydroentanglement
hydroentangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydroentangle
hydroentangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hydroentangle
hydroentanglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + entanglement.
Senses: glosses: The process of hydroentangling.
hydroextractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroextractor
albertosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albertosauruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A large carnivorous tyrannosaur dinosaur, of genus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.
spunlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spun + laid.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: In which fibres are spun and then directly dispersed into a web by deflectors or air streams.
kronosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kronosauruses
Senses: glosses: A giant extinct plesiosaurian sea reptile with crocodile-like head in the genus Kronosaurus.
fluocinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluocinolones
Etymology: From fluo(ro)- + [Term?] + -olone (“steroid or steroid-like drug”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic hydrocortisone derivative used in dermatology to reduce skin inflammation and relieve itching.
puff adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puff adders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puffadder.
fluocinolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluocinolone
foliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊliət/
Forms: form: foliots
Senses: glosses: Part of the verge escapement in early clocks.
examples: text: Terrestrial devils are those lares, genii, faunes, satyrs, wood-nymphs, foliots, fairies[…]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A creature from Italian folklore that makes noises and flings objects about.
foliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foliot
folkloristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From folkloristic + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The formal academic study of folklore.
forcipule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcipules
Senses: glosses: A modified pincer-like foreleg or maxilliped in centipedes, capable of injecting venom.
forcipules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcipule
footswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footswitches
Etymology: From foot + switch.
Senses: glosses: A switch or pedal controlled by the foot.
glosses: An instance of switching one's feet, such as in a sport.
footswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footswitch
Floyd's triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Robert W. Floyd.
Senses: glosses: A right-angled triangular array of the natural numbers, whose generation is often set as an exercise in computer science education.
wikipedia: Robert W. Floyd
as you do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as one does
Senses: examples: text: I bought a dozen melons before heading home, as one does.
text: I was memorising the dictionary, as you do, when I came across a strange word that I hadn’t seen before.
glosses: Used to indicate unusual or unexpected behavior.
fountain code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fountain codes
Senses: qualifier: coding theory
glosses: A rateless erasure code.
fountain codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fountain code
lactoylglutathione lyase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glyoxalase enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of hemithioacetal adducts.
get on someone's tits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on someone's tits
form: getting on someone's tits
form: got on someone's tits
form: got on someone's tits
Senses: synonyms: word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's wick
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy or irritate.
autoganzfeld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + ganzfeld.
Senses: glosses: A ganzfeld experiment controlled by computer.
giant tube worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant tube worms
Senses: glosses: Riftia pachyptila, a large marine worm found around the floor of the Pacific Ocean near geothermal vents.
glosses: Kuphus polythalamia, a shipworm, that feeds on submerged wood and is the longest extant mollusc.
glottonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒ.tə.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.tə.nɪm/
Forms: form: glottonyms
Etymology: From glott- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glossonym.
Synonyms: linguonym
Related terms: endonym
autonym
exonym
xenonym
autoglottonym
autoglossonym
autolinguonym
glottonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glottonym
hexabromobiphenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexabromobiphenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the polybrominated biphenyls.
hexabromobiphenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexabromobiphenyl
ganzfeld experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganzfeld experiments
Senses: glosses: An experiment in parapsychology that attempts to gauge telepathic ability by putting a subject into sensory deprivation and afterwards asking him/her to identify an object that was observed by somebody else during that period.
Derived terms: autoganzfeld
hypostatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypostatizations
Etymology: From hypostatize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Dualism is rooted in what Dewey called the fallacy of hypostatization. Dewey's critique of this fallacy, which will be referenced throughout this book, is at the heart of his philosophy of experience and is among his most enduring contributions to philosophy.
ref: 2014, Steven Fesmire, Dewey, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The act or process of being hypostatized.
hypostatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypostatization
rockfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockfills
form: rock-fill
Etymology: From rock + fill.
Senses: glosses: A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.
rockfills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockfill
hetastarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetastarches
Senses: glosses: hydroxyethyl starch, a non-ionic starch derivative.
hornstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornstones
Etymology: From horn + stone, translation of hornfels.
Senses: glosses: hornfels
hornstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornstone
internetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Internet + -able.
Senses: examples: text: UNWIRED, the next generation of wireless and internetable telemedicine systems
text: Or create "Internetable" puzzles that can be played online. (Crossword puzzle books are still a big business.)
ref: 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:
glosses: Capable of being connected to, or used via, the Internet.
koinonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɔɪˈnəʊnɪə/
/ˌkɔɪnoʊˈniə/
Forms: form: koinonias
form: koenonia
form: coenonia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινωνία (koinōnía, “community, communion”).
Senses: examples: text: Can it be said that here is an application of Methodism's concept of connexionalism to the embodiment of koinonia? That no indications in the dialogue point overtly in this direction does not rule out the possibility of it being in the Methodist mind and heart.
ref: 2008, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology:
glosses: Communion by intimate participation, associated with the Christian church.
koinonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koinonia
erasure code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erasure codes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols.
Hyponyms: fountain code
erasure codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erasure code
fag-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag-end
solœcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solœcisms
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of solecism.
Hitachi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 日立 (ひたち, Hitachi).
Senses: glosses: a Japanese company and brand name.
glosses: Hitachi, a city in Ibaraki prefecture
glosses: Hitachi Province, a former region in Japan
Hitachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hitachis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 日立 (ひたち, Hitachi).
Senses: examples: text: Even if I've destroyed three Hitachis and a dozen Kleenex boxes over him.
ref: 2020 June 9, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 2: Still a Romantic Comedy, Masterful Books:
text: Before Stanley, Reese's own sex games only flirted with possession, and alone with her Hitachi, images from Iris's stories kept making cameos in her fantasies.
ref: 2021 January 12, Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby: A Novel, One World, →ISBN, page 47:
text: The longest relationship she had going right now was with her Hitachi in the drawer by her bed.
ref: 2024 August 23, Jacob Peyton, Infestation, Screaming Tiger Press:
qualifier: genericized trademark
glosses: A Hitachi Magic Wand or similar magic wand vibrator.
sky marshals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky marshal
well-padded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-padded
form: most well-padded
Senses: examples: text: But the majority of its members were very much alive and still well-padded; and, far from being on a pale diet, were deeply appreciative of the famous culinary resources of the chef, and showed it.
ref: 1921, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 2, in The Sisters-In-Law:
text: A graduate of the University of Houston's Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, the well-padded Raulston, nicknamed Fat Cook by the rigs' crews, makes these changes subtly and slowly.
ref: 1986 April 13, Mimi Sheraton, “In the Gulf: a Robust Cuisine”, in Time:
glosses: Fat, corpulent, pudgy.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: It was the fall of 1995, and the Democratic National Committee had a problem. Faced with the cost of its massive early media strategy, it needed a quick $1 million or so. A senior White House official had a solution: get the President to call some well-padded contributors.
ref: 1997 March 3, Richard Lacayo et al., “Is Al Gore Too Good at Passing the Hat?”, in Time:
glosses: Wealthy, well-to-do.
raw_tags: of a person
pipage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipages
Etymology: From pipe + -age.
Senses: glosses: Plumbing, a system of pipes.
glosses: A charge made for piping a fluid from one place to another.
pipelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipelays
Etymology: Back-formation from pipelaying, of which the standard verb complement is lay pipe.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pipelaying.
synonyms: word: pipelaying
Related terms: lay pipe
pipelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipe + laying.
Senses: glosses: The laying of pipes or a pipeline.
Related terms: lay pipe
pipelayer
piping
dweomercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dwiːmə(ɹ)kɹɑːft/
ipa: /dwiːməɹkɹæft/
Forms: form: dwimmercraft
Etymology: From Middle English dwemercraft, from Middle English dweomercræft (“magic; sorcery”), equivalent to dweomer + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: There was an ominous tendency among people who considered themselves "upper class" to dismiss the art he practiced as well as all the other elements of Dweomercraft. It was frightening.
ref: 1992, Rose Estes, Elfwood:
text: As he always did when confronted by his old teacher in dweomercraft, Salamander felt profoundly guilty, even though this time he'd done nothing wrong.
ref: 1994, Katharine Kerr, Darkspell:
text: It used to be known for dweomercraft, the craft of healers, magicians, those who know spells, those who know the sourcery of words.
ref: 2008, Jane MacNamee, In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Magic; magical arts; jugglery.
Synonyms: illusion
trickery
sleight of hand
Related terms: dwimmer
Bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bloc
Etymology: Diminutive of Bloc Québécois.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Bloc Québécois
Derived terms: Bloquiste
Related terms: BQ
Conservative Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Conservative Party
form: Conservative party
Senses: examples: text: Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was Britain's first female Prime Minister.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A centre-right political party, official full name Conservative and Unionist Party, informally known as the Tory Party or Tories.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of Progressive Conservative Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of Conservative Party of Canada.
Related terms: word: conservative
word: Conservative
word: Conservatives
word: conservatism
word: Conservatism
word: big-C conservative
word: small-c conservative
word: Tory
word: Tories
word: Tory Party
word: Grit
word: Grits
word: liberal
word: Liberal
word: Liberal Party
word: Labour
word: Labourite
word: Labour Party
word: Whig
word: whig
word: Whig Party
word: progressive
word: Progressive
word: Progressive Party
Conservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: plural of Conservative
Conservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Conservative Party.
Socred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Socreds
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Social Credit Party.
Socreds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Diminutive of Social Credit Party
Synonyms: Social Credit
Social Credit Party
Socreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Socred
socred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socreds
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: social credit political philosophy
topics: government
politics
glosses: a person who subscribes to the social credit political philosophy
socreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socred
social credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A political and economic philosophy originated by C. H. Douglas which envisages an "aristocracy of producers, serving and accredited by a democracy of consumers".
examples: text: Thank you for your dedication to the People's Republic of China. +2500 social credit.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A system under which each person has a “social credit score”, affected by one's positive and negative actions in society, supposedly existing to rate people's conduct and justify granting or removal of rights. Also, the score itself.
Derived terms: socred
Social Credit
Social Credit Party
Socred
Socreds
nonweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + weighted.
Senses: glosses: Not weighted.
Synonyms: unweighted
Sumiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese すみこ (Sumiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
writh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: writh's
form: writhing
form: writh'd
form: writh'd
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of writhe.
writh's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of writh
writh'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of writh
dispositioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disposition
dispositioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disposition
dispositioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a sunny-dispositioned little girl
glosses: Having a specified kind of disposition.
Met Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short for Meteorological Office, which was its official name until 2000.
Senses: glosses: The British national weather service.
unsufferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsʌfəɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more unsufferable
form: most unsufferable
Etymology: From un- + suffer + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable, and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it […]
ref: 1645 February 16 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 6 February 1645]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: [T]his Comparison of a Point in Geometry with Unity in Arithmetic is of all the most unsufferable, and derives the worst Consequences upon Mathematical Learning.
ref: 1734, Isaac Barrow, translated by John Kirkby, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge. […], London: […] Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: It is possible that these expressions of God's covering Moses with his hand while the glory of God past by, and Moses seeing the back parts of God, may signify no more than this, that in this particular appearance of God he arrayed himself in beams of light of such unsufferable splendor, that it would have destroyed the body of Moses had not God sheltered and protected him […]
ref: 1813, Isaac Watts, The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes, Volume 6, Edward Baines, page 504:
text: [W]ould it not be an unsufferable crime in a steward, on the strength of the forementioned false imagination, for to lay out great sums of his lord's money on building himself a noble house, and the mean while to let his lord's house lie in a mean, or even ruinous condition?
ref: 1839, Edward Wells, William Dowsing, The rich man's duty to contribute liberally to the building, rebuilding, repairing, beautifying, and adorning of churches, Oxford: T. Combe, page 139:
glosses: Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
vecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vettura and voiture.
Senses: examples: text: the Vecture or Carriage
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
lepospondyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepospondyls
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Lepospondyli.
Related terms: lepospondylous
lepospondyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepospondyl
Lambaréné
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When I left next morning the Doctor came with me in the pirogue all the way to the embarcadère at Lambaréné […]
ref: 1975, James Cameron, Point of departure, page 173:
glosses: The capital of the political district Moyen‐Ogooué in Gabon.
Le Châtelier's principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Le Chatelier's principle.
linish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: linishes
form: linishing
form: linished
form: linished
Etymology: Blend of linen + finish
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To improve the flatness of a surface by means of grinding or belt-sanding techniques.
Derived terms: linisher
linishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of linish
linishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of linish
linished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of linish
semigroupoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semigroupoid
multistrain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-strain
Etymology: From multi- + strain.
Senses: glosses: Of many strains (in various senses).
multi-strain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multistrain.
mirid bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirid bugs
Senses: glosses: A mirid.
misdescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdescriptions
Etymology: From mis- + description.
Senses: examples: text: There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.
ref: 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
glosses: An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.
Related terms: word: misascription
word: misdescribe
word: misidentification
misdescriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdescription
nanosat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: nanosatellite
picosat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picosats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A picosatellite.
nanosats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosat
picosats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picosat
misdescribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdescribes
form: misdescribing
form: misdescribed
form: misdescribed
Etymology: From mis- + describe.
Senses: coordinate_terms: misidentify
glosses: To incorrectly explain or detail something or someone.
Derived terms: misdescriber
Related terms: misascribe
misascription
misdescription
nata de coco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish nata de coco (literally “coconut cream”).
Senses: synonyms: coconut jelly
glosses: A chewy, translucent jelly produced by the fermentation of coconut water, a delicacy of the Philippines.
neurosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosarcomas
form: neurosarcomata
Etymology: From neuro- + sarcoma.
Senses: glosses: A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
Synonyms: neurofibrosarcoma
neurofibrosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofibrosarcomas
form: neurofibrosarcomata
Etymology: From neuro- + fibrosarcoma.
Senses: glosses: A neurosarcoma.
neurosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosarcoma
neurosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosarcoma
neurofibrosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurofibrosarcoma
neurofibrosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurofibrosarcoma
Natchez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Natchez
Senses: glosses: A member of a tribe of Native Americans once living in the area of Mississippi.
Natchez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The extinct Muskhogean language of these people.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
nidamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin nidamentum (“materials for a nest”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass.
Related terms: nidamentum
Naraka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit नरक (naraka).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The underworld or Hell according to Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism, where souls are sent for the expiation of their sins.
one-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: onehanded
Etymology: From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ān-hende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).
Senses: examples: text: She waved to us and lost her balance; riding a bicycle one-handed is tricky.
text: She fanned the fire one-handed, cooked, swept the yard, pulled weeds out of the tomato beds, washed longyis and towels, and even developed a technique to wring them out one-handed—all because she did not want to put her son down.
ref: 2014, Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart, →ISBN:
text: Felicity prepares him meals he can eat one-handed, and when they have a roast, she cuts up the meat into bite-sized portions as she once did for the children.
ref: 2012, Linda MacDonald, A Meeting of a Different Kind, →ISBN:
text: Doing it half-drunk wasn't all that hard. Doing it one-handed was hard but not insurmountable. Doing it one-handed and half-drunk was...The damned screws didn't want to stay in the plastic, and the instructions for putting a V-8 engine together had to be easier than this!
ref: 2010, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games:
glosses: Using only one hand; one-handedly.
examples: text: The kind of story that you just know was written one-handed
glosses: Using only one hand; one-handedly.
While masturbating.
examples: text: He's a terrible snooker player. I could beat him one-handed!
text: That's when Brandon noticed the five kids were laughing at him. "Are you the best player in Springton?" asked one. "Hah! We could beat you one-handed!" shouted another. "We could beat you blindfolded!" said a third.
ref: 2000, Rigby, The runaway ball, →ISBN, page 5:
text: This isn't going to be a competition, College Boy. It's going to be a walkover. I could beat you one-handed.
ref: 1994, Stephen Leather, Bill Grose, The Vets, →ISBN, page 48:
text: As rough as you look 'round the edges this morning, I could take you one-handed. Seriously, you can go into the kitchen and have your coffee in peace and in quiet.
ref: 2000, Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea: The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy #3, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Very easily, without effort.
Derived terms: one-handedness
red mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for its red color, which comes mostly from iron(III) oxide.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of solid and metallic oxide-bearing impurities that is a waste product of bauxite refinement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, mud.
portlandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portlandites
Etymology: From Portland + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare oxide mineral, the naturally-occurring form of calcium hydroxide.
robosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robosexual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: “Sinners! Robosexuality is an abomination!” “This guy.” “The good book sayeth a robot shall not lie down with a human, nor do it standing up, nor at any angle in between.”
ref: 2010 July 8, Michael Rowe, “Proposition Infinity” (7:22 from the start), in Futurama, season 6, episode 4, spoken by Reverend Lionel Preacherbot (Phil LaMarr):
glosses: Sexual attraction to robots.
Related terms: robosexual
solœcisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solœcism
homœopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœopaths
Etymology: From homœ- + -o- + -path.
Senses: examples: text: There, prominently placed in the midst of small advertisements for blood purifiers and homœopaths, is a large announcement.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 590:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of homoeopath.
furphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furphy
weight loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: John achieved 25 pounds in weight loss after abstaining from soda and running two miles in the morning every day.
text: This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
ref: 2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: weight gain
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: The reduction of total body mass due to loss of fluid, fat, tissue, etc.
misdescribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdescribe
misdescribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdescribe
misdescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdescribe
pathoclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The theory that certain specialized parts of the brain are to be the first to be damaged in the case of disease, lack of oxygen, or malnutrition.
terephthaloyl chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,4-benzenedicarbonyl chloride, a monomer used in polymers and aramid fibres for flame and chemical resistance, stability, and strength.
phthalyl amidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction from phthalylamide and water into phthalic acid and substituted amine.
revindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revindicate
revindicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revindicate
revindicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revindicate
revindication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revindications
Etymology: From re- + vindication.
Senses: glosses: An act of revindicating.
revindications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revindication
xylobioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylobiose
rabbitbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbitbrushes
Etymology: From rabbit + brush.
Senses: synonyms: rabbitbush
glosses: Any of various plants in the family Asteraceae, including most species of Chrysothamnus and some of Ericameria.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Chrysothamnus molestus
word: Arizona rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Lorandersonia baileyi
word: Bailey's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria paniculata
word: black-banded rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria bloomeri
word: Bloomer's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
word: Douglas rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus depressus
word: dwarf rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria nauseosa
word: gray rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus greenei
word: Greene's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria teretifolia
word: green rabbitbrush
word: long-flower rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus depressus
word: long-flowered rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria paniculata
word: Mojave rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria teretifolia
word: needle-leaved rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria parishii
word: Parish's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria parryi
word: Parry's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus eremobius
word: Pintwater rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria paniculata
word: punctate rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria teretifolia
word: round-leaf rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria nauseosa
word: rubber rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Lorandersonia pulchella
word: southwestern rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Lorandersonia linifolia
word: spearleaf rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Tetradymia glabrata
word: spring rabbitbrush
word: sticky-leaf rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
word: sticky-leaved rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria paniculata
word: sticky rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus humilis
word: Truckee rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus vaseyi
word: Vasey's rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Ericameria albida
word: white-flowered rabbitbrush
taxonomic: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
word: yellow rabbitbrush
rabbitbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbitbrush
reticket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retickets
form: reticketing
form: reticketed
form: reticketed
Etymology: From re- + ticket.
Senses: examples: text: Ticket agents now have the authority to reticket a passenger or even move the passenger up a class, if they feel the situation warrants it.
ref: 2001, Ronald R. Sims, The challenge of front-line management, page 117:
text: You also may need to reticket if you marked merchandise down for a sale event and then must reinstate the original price. When? ASAP. Where? Usually you reticket on the selling floor...
ref: 2008, Rick Segel, Retail Business Kit For Dummies, page 169:
glosses: To provide with a new or different ticket.
reticketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reticket
reticketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reticket
retickets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reticket
rot-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rot-proof
form: most rot-proof
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rotproof.
Mazatec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazatecs
form: Mazatec
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people who inhabit an area of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
Synonyms: Mazatecan
Mazatecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazatec