cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skymap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skymaps
Etymology: From sky + map.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several charts or maps, similar to a star chart, that show the distribution of some particular, measurable parameter (such as microwave radiation, temperature etc).
examples: text: So this article will review what is now known of Mesopotamian sky-maps, and to what extent they were passed on to the western world.
ref: 1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy Association, volume 108, number 1, page 9, column 1:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A map of the night sky used to identify and locate astronomical objects such as stars, constellations and galaxies.
Related terms: skymapping
skymaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skymap
subpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpath
infatigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infatigable
form: most infatigable
Etymology: From Middle French infatigable, from Latin infatigabilis.
Senses: examples: text: Th'infatigable hand that neuer ceast
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: indefatigable
unitarizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unitarize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be unitarized
harmdoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From harm + doing.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The committing of acts that cause harm.
unsharp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsharp
form: most unsharp
Etymology: From Middle English *unscharp, from Old English unsċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *unskarp, from Proto-Germanic *unskarpaz, equivalent to un- + sharp. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunskäärp (“unsharp”), West Frisian ûnskerp (“unsharp”), Dutch onscherp (“unsharp”), German Low German unscharp (“unsharp”), German unscharf (“unsharp”), Danish uskarp (“unsharp”), Swedish oskarp (“unsharp”), Norwegian uskarp (“unsharp”).
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not sharp.
Out of focus; blurry.
examples: text: an unsharp tool
glosses: Not sharp.
Dulled or intentionally blunt.
Synonyms: nonsharp
Derived terms: unsharpness
unsharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsharps
form: unsharping
form: unsharped
form: unsharped
Etymology: From Middle English *unscharp, from Old English unsċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *unskarp, from Proto-Germanic *unskarpaz, equivalent to un- + sharp. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunskäärp (“unsharp”), West Frisian ûnskerp (“unsharp”), Dutch onscherp (“unsharp”), German Low German unscharp (“unsharp”), German unscharf (“unsharp”), Danish uskarp (“unsharp”), Swedish oskarp (“unsharp”), Norwegian uskarp (“unsharp”).
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.
unsharpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsharp + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unsharp, usually with reference to imaging (e.g., radiography, computed tomography).
subpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpaths
Etymology: From sub- + path.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file or resource path relative to another path.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A path making up part of a larger path (the superpath).
Hypernyms: path
superpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpaths
Etymology: From super- + path.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The path that contains a particular subpath.
superpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpath
confederately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confederately
form: most confederately
Etymology: From confederate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of confederates.
confederateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confederateships
Etymology: From confederate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: confederacy
offside traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offside trap
unsecretarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌʌnˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: more unsecretarial
form: most unsecretarial
Etymology: From un- + secretarial.
Senses: examples: text: And so, after telling his private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to brush up on such unsecretarial matters as natural science and the use of astronomical instruments...
ref: 1979, David Sievert Lavender, Land of giants: the drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950:
glosses: Not secretarial; not befitting a secretary.
bankside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banksides
Etymology: From bank + side.
Senses: examples: text: The banksides, above normal water level, were dressed with a layer of moss peat and seeded with a mixture of grasses.
ref: 1997, J. M. Caffrey, Philip R.F. Barrett, Kevin J. Murphy, Philip Max Wade, Management and ecology of freshwater plants:
glosses: The land by a riverbank.
banksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankside
short-eared dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-eared dogs
Senses: glosses: A canid of species Atelocynus microtis, endemic to the Amazonian Basin.
Synonyms: short-eared fox
short-eared zorro
Hypernyms: canid
get with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets with
form: getting with
form: got with
form: got with
form: gotten with
Senses: examples: text: You can't get with yourself if you are not by yourself.
ref: 1993, Art Taylor, Notes and tones: musician-to-musician interviews, page 104:
text: I only said I thought Mimi was trying to get with my husband. I never said I thought you were fucking her.
ref: 2004, Carl Weber, Player Haters, page 106:
glosses: To become intimate with; to kiss and cuddle with; to have sex with.
examples: text: I do love to get with a lot of nice girls, and carry on!
ref: 1860, Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping heavenward, page 33:
glosses: To be in the company of; to accompany.
examples: text: We have to get with the times or we'll be left behind.
glosses: To align oneself with.
examples: text: I'll get with you tomorrow on what we're going to do about the party.
glosses: to contact; make contact with
examples: text: At first I was awkward, but eventually I got with the music.
glosses: To enjoy oneself or be satisfied regarding (something); to understand or accept (something).
examples: text: The stallion got with foal three out of four mares.
glosses: To be impregnated.
Derived terms: get with child
get with it
get with the program
Related terms: get off with
grayback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graybacks
Etymology: From gray + back.
Senses: examples: text: It produces grayback and whiteback coated duplex of 250-400 gsm.
ref: 2008, Paper Technology, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of greyback.
graybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayback
assessorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assessorial
accessorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessorial
unadmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + admitted.
Senses: examples: text: And Israel's (unadmitted) stockpile of 200 warheads is seen as the prime driver of Iran's move into the nuclear arena.
ref: 2009 May 30, Lynda Hurst, “Why we should start worrying and learn to fear the bomb again”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Not having been admitted.
batterymates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batterymate
illwisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illwishers
Etymology: From ill + wisher.
Senses: glosses: One who wishes somebody ill.
illwishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illwisher
Skyper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skypers
Etymology: From Skype + -er.
Senses: glosses: A user of the Skype communications software.
glosses: An employee of Skype.
Skypers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skyper
pedaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdələ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pedallers
Etymology: From pedal + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tall men were almost always successful on the race track, although lightning pedallers sometimes made up in activity for what they lost in stature.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 8:
text: All helmeted and pumped-up, dedicated pedallers raced through the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood in the second annual Toronto Criterium yesterday, one of four major cycling events in the province this weekend.
ref: 2009 May 30, Toronto Star:
glosses: One who pedals; a cyclist (bicycle rider).
pedallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedaller
retractably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retractable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Robbie and Allen patented their roof design and the four MLB stadiums that are currently retractably domed do not come close to duplicating their ideas.
ref: 2009 May 30, Garth Woolsey, “Toronto's dome turns 20”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: In a retractable way.
sexcapade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkskəˌpeɪd/
Forms: form: sexcapades
Etymology: Blend of sex + escapade
Senses: examples: text: The rest of Don Juan is a series of sexcapades across Asia and Europe.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: Rottenneighbor.com even features video from long-suffering neighbours, such as the screeching soundtrack of one woman's nightly sexcapades or the video clips of a man who drives his riding mower in circles for hours on end.
ref: 2009 May 30, Susan Pigg, “Neighbours as nightmares”, in Toronto Star:
text: “And, Beef, I didn't even know there was a poetry corner in the Lone Moose Wind. I bet no one's even read this.” “You're probably right. I mean, kids today, with their video games and their LinkedIns, and their... kites. I'm sure nobody cares about my sexcapades.”
ref: 2024 February 18, Ted Travelstead, “Risky Beefness Adventure” (12:42 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 2, spoken by Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman):
glosses: A sexual escapade; an incident or story involving sex.
sexcapades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexcapade
confederateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confederateship
pedaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedalers
Etymology: From pedal + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pedaller.
pedalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedaler
crab-eating fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab-eating foxes
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized canid of species Cerdocyon thous, endemic to central South America.
Synonyms: sense: Cerdocyon thous
word: maikong
sense: Cerdocyon thous
word: forest fox
sense: Cerdocyon thous
word: wood fox
sense: Cerdocyon thous
word: crab-eating wolf
sense: Cerdocyon thous
word: common fox
pedalfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalfer
enterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enter + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being entered.
Derived terms: unenterable
inputtable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From input + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being input.
prisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪzənɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prison
prisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪzənd/
rhymes: -ɪzənd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prison
podge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /pɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: podges
Etymology: Perhaps from pudsy (“plump”), which could be a diminutive of pud (“child's hand, forepaw”).
Senses: glosses: a fat person
glosses: fat; fatness; podginess
Derived terms: podgy
Related terms: hodge-podge
podginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From podgy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being podgy.
pipesmoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipesmokers
Etymology: From pipe + smoker.
Senses: glosses: One who smokes a pipe.
pipesmokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipesmoker
pipesmoking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipe + smoking.
Senses: glosses: The smoking of a pipe.
refuge island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refuge islands
Senses: synonyms: pedestrian island
pedestrian refuge
glosses: A raised platform or other protective barrier in the middle of a street crossing, allowing pedestrians to pause safely in the middle of the road.
Related terms: traffic island
black-backed jackal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-backed jackals
Senses: glosses: A jackal of species Canis mesomelas, which inhabits the southernmost and central-eastern regions of the African continent.
Synonyms: sense: Canis mesomelas
word: red jackal
sense: Canis mesomelas
word: silver-backed jackal
Hyponyms: sense: Canis mesomelas
taxonomic: Canis mesomelas mesomelas
word: Cape jackal
sense: Canis mesomelas
taxonomic: Canis mesomelas schmidti
word: East African jackal
black-backed jackals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-backed jackal
breakfast cereals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfast cereal
Isiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪsɪak/
ipa: /ˈaɪsɪak/
Etymology: From Latin īsiacus, from Ancient Greek Ἰσιακός (Isiakós).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the goddess Isis or her worship.
picaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picaros
Etymology: From Spanish pícaro.
Senses: examples: text: 2009, Lawrence, Karen R., "Orlando's Voyage Out" in Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader, Maren Linett, ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 327–354.
The novel's sexual/textual "intercourse" revises the phallic economy Brown posits, not only in plotting polymorphous sexual possibilities for its nonphallic picaro.
glosses: Rogue, adventurer.
Related terms: picaresque
picaroon
picaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picaro
punched cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punched card
suicidals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicidal
aufeis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊf.aɪs/
Forms: form: aufeis
form: aufeise
Etymology: From German Aufeis (“ice on top”).
Senses: glosses: Naled (sheet-like layered mass of ice).
direct speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: direct discourse
glosses: the writing of speech, using the exact words of the speaker, usually between quotation marks
refractory metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refractory metals
Senses: examples: text: Miracle is concentrating on a cluster of elements in the centre of the periodic table known as the refractory metals. These elements, including molybdenum and niobium, have unusually high melting points around 2500°C, compared with 1455°C for nickel, on which jet engine alloys are now based.[…]So far he has shown that high-entropy refractory metal alloys do indeed remain strong at temperatures beyond the wilting point of existing nickel superalloys.
ref: 2016 October 15, James Mitchell Crow, “Forging Ahead”, in New Scientist, number 3095, page 37:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metal, such as molybdenum or tungsten, with a high refraction, and hence a high melting point.
refractory metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refractory metal
hyenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyena
hyenæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyena
said the actress to the bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as the actress said to the bishop.
medical history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical histories
Senses: glosses: Details of a patient's previous medical experiences, such as existing comorbidities, past infections, operations undergone, and medications taken.
Synonyms: medical record
Related terms: family history
sexual history
social history
medical record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical records
Senses: glosses: Details about a patient's previous medical experiences, such as operations and medications taken.
Related terms: word: medical history
word: chart
word: charting
womenkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wommenkynde. By surface analysis, women + -kind.
Senses: glosses: All women around the world viewed as one entity.
Synonyms: womankind
QKD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of quantum key distribution.
imbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbraces
Senses: examples: text: That Gentleman I mean to make the model of my Fortunes, and in his chaſt imbraces keep alive the memory of my loſt lovely Loveleſe: he is ſomewhat like him too.
ref: c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 72, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of embrace.
Derived terms: imbracement
unteasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unteasable
form: most unteasable
Etymology: From un- + teasable.
Senses: glosses: Not teasable.
feminista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feministas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish feminista. Doublet of feminist.
Senses: glosses: A Hispanic female feminist.
feministas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminista
ask the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asks the question
form: asking the question
form: asked the question
form: asked the question
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make an appeal to the umpire against the batsman.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to ask a given question.
Related terms: pop the question
vegetarian burger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetarian burgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veggie burger.
vegetarian burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetarian burger
vegetarian hamburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetarian hamburger
kettleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettlefuls
form: kettlesful
Etymology: * from kettle + -ful
Senses: examples: text: Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her.
ref: 1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
kettlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettleful
catamitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəmaɪtɪzm/
enpr: kăʹtəmītĭzm
Etymology: From catamite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Viſcount de Turenne…Remonſtrated to Madam de Buillon, that this Prince having us’d his firſt Wife Ill, whom he had kick’d when with Child, of which ſhe dy’d, ‛twas expoſing her Daughter to the like treatment; that he was addicted to Wine and Women, Qualities not only unworthy a Perſon of his Rank, but allſo to a little Catamitiſm…
ref: 1686: Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras and Ferrand Spence, The Hiſtory of the Life and Actions of that Great Captain of his Age the Viſcount de Turenne, page 312
text: Exhibitionists do not like to confess their venial sins — catamitism and group sex, yes, petty avarice and pettier maliciousness, no: the latter faults do not make for salable reading.
ref: 1973, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad, volume 47, number 3, page 574:
text: In Satire 4, Persius attacked Nero’s “depilation and heterosexual” lust; Dryden substituted homosexuality, catamitism, and impotency, alluding to William’s rumored sexual liaisons with his Dutch favorites.
ref: 1989, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, volume 22, page 136:
text: Libanius’s invective against Philip successively despises barbarian origins in and of themselves, mocks dependency, rebukes failure to learn cultural values, snidely notes catamitism, drowns practical achievements in the immorality alleged to have won them, and further damns character with accounts of unproductive vice[.]
ref: 1996: Jacqueline Long, Claudian’s In Eutropium: Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch, page 80
text: Caelius will never take the allegation of catamitism in his youth so hard…that is silly, for we cannot repent of things like good looks that are not of our causation.
ref: 2005, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement, page 207:
glosses: The practice of keeping catamites.
examples: text: Effeminacy…may not have been the quality that gave catamitism its meaning; rather, catamitism…may have been the normative danger that qualified effeminacy as a threat to male heterosexual rule.
ref: 1994, Michael Ryan, “Foucault’s Fallacy”, in Reconstructing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the 80s, page 175:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The essence of being a catamite.
Related terms: word: catamitery
word: catamitic
word: catamitical
word: catamitically
bidimensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bidimensional + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being bidimensional.
dilogarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilogarithms
Etymology: From di- + logarithm.
Senses: examples: text: In two space-time dimensions, we arrive at a result in terms of elliptic dilogarithms.
ref: 2015, Luise Adams, Christian Bogner, Stefan Weinzierl, “The Elliptic Sunrise”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The form of polylogarithm having a base of two
trilogarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trilogarithms
Etymology: From tri- + logarithm.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The form of polylogarithm having a base of three
fuzzifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuzzify
fuzzifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuzzifying
form: most fuzzifying
Senses: glosses: That fuzzifies
fuzzify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuzzifies
form: fuzzifying
form: fuzzified
form: fuzzified
Etymology: From fuzzy + -fy or fuzz + -ify.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To subject to fuzzification.
Derived terms: defuzzify
fuzzifier
interplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interplay
interplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interplaying
form: most interplaying
Senses: glosses: Mutually or reciprocally interacting
interplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interplayings
Senses: examples: text: A rounded history of the periods, before, during and after the Second World War, will shed additional light on Swadesh, and on a series of complex interplayings of personality […]
ref: 1983, Dell H. Hymes, Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology:
glosses: interplay
miscalibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscalibrations
Etymology: From mis- + calibration.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect calibration.
nonparametrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonparametrically
form: most nonparametrically
Etymology: From non- + parametrically.
Senses: glosses: In a nonparametric manner
sociodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From socio- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: social dynamics
Related terms: sociodynamic
social dynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The study of interactions within and between societies.
fuzzifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuzzify
veggie burger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛdʒijˈbɹ̩ɡɹ̩/
Forms: form: veggie burgers
form: veggieburger
form: vegeburger
form: vege-burger
form: vege burger
form: vegiburger
form: vegi-burger
form: vegi burger
Senses: synonyms: vegan burger
vegetarian burger
vegetarian hamburger
glosses: A burger containing a patty made without meat or other animal products.
glosses: A burger patty made without meat or other animal products.
Related terms: not dog
veggie burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veggie burger
animal product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal products
Senses: glosses: Any product, such as a food, ingredient, fiber, hide, or fertilizer, made from the meat, bones, skin, hair, or other parts of an animal.
Related terms: forest product
animal products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animal product
mebos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: SAfrica, UK
ipa: /ˈmiːbɒs/
ipa: /ˈmibɔs/
Forms: form: meebos
form: meibos
Etymology: From Dutch mebos, from Japanese 梅干し (umeboshi, “dried plum”).
Senses: glosses: A type of sweet snack food consisting of dried apricot made into a pulp and flavoured with salt and sugar.
cow patty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow patties
Senses: examples: text: The way you make cow-lip tea is you get the toadstools and a little dried cow patty and grind em up in the sifter. You can't use no fresh green cow patty...
ref: 2008, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different As Me:
glosses: Alternative form of cow pat.
cow patties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow patty
nonstreamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-streamlined
Etymology: From non- + streamlined.
Senses: glosses: Not streamlined.
Synonyms: unstreamlined
nontelepathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + telepathic.
Senses: glosses: Not telepathic.
noncardinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cardinal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not cardinal.
nonordinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ordinal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not ordinal.
rawl plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rawl plugs
Etymology: From Rawlplug (“a trademark”); from the name of the original inventor, John Joseph Rawlings, and plug.
Senses: examples: text: After a large lunch in her kitchen, she showed me up to the bathroom with the collapsing shelf. She had bought a box of rawl plugs […]
ref: 1983, David Plante, Difficult women: a memoir of three:
text: In the morning, Mark found himself up a ladder in the hall with a drill, a pocketful of Rawl plugs and a mouthful of language.
ref: 2006, John Gregory Betancourt, Sean Wallace, Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition:
text: Andrew Wade, the Head of Voice at the RSC, had the brilliant idea of using the small plastic tubes you can buy in DIY shops, to cut up and use as rawl plugs […]
ref: 2002, Barbara Houseman, Finding your voice: a step-by-step guide for actors:
glosses: A wall plug; a screw anchor.
rawl plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawl plug
rawhides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawhide
pearwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearwood
nonsapient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sapient.
Senses: glosses: Not sapient.
nonsentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-sentient
Etymology: From non- + sentient.
Senses: glosses: Not sentient.
Related terms: nonsentience
nonsentient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsentients
form: non-sentient
Etymology: From non- + sentient.
Senses: glosses: Any entity that is not sentient.
wall plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall plugs
form: wallplug
Senses: glosses: A fixing that allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls, a dowel or screw anchor.
glosses: An electric socket.
Synonyms: rawl plug
wall plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall plug
wallplug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallplugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wall plug.
wallplugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallplug
lightfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹfo͝ot
Forms: form: light-foot
Etymology: From Middle English light-fot, light-foot, from light (adjective) + fot, foot (noun). See more at light, foot.
Senses: examples: text: There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: There she alighted from her light-foot beast, / And sitting downe upon the rocky shore, / Bade her old Squire unlace her lofty creast […]
ref: 1906, original 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii
glosses: Light-footed.
unlabored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unlaboured.
kerosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerosine
kerosenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerosene
distroubled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distroubled
form: most distroubled
Etymology: From dis- + troubled; see dis- (“intensifier”).
Senses: examples: text: Her former sorrow into suddein wrath, / Both coosen passions of distroubled spright, / Conuerting, forth she beates the dustie path […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Troubled, disturbed.
hatchetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchetations
Etymology: From hatchet + -ation, coined by Carrie Nation (1846-1911) to describe her own acts of vandalism. Possibly a pun on agitation.
Senses: examples: text: I tell you I was strongly tempted to perform a little hatchetation on them. And cigarette smoke? Phew!
ref: 1936, Laurence Greene, America goes to press: the news of yesterday:
text: They'd carry on worse than Carry Nation did in all her hatchetations.
ref: 1976, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Milk of wolves:
text: Carry's last hatchetation
ref: 1978, Joan Swallow Reiter, The Women:
text: […] a more confrontational shot: Carry in battle dress, threatening the photographer with hatchetation.
ref: 1999, Karen Joy Fowler, Black glass: short fictions:
text: Annie Diggs, a noted suffragist and nationally renowned Populist who later applauded Carry Nation's hatchetation of saloons, gave a lecture in Holton on "The Social Evil."
ref: 2001, Fran Grace, Carry A. Nation: retelling the life:
text: Carry Nation's hatchetation, or joint-smashing displays, helped pave the way for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment […]
ref: 2002, Bonnie C Harvey, Carry A. Nation: Saloon Smasher and Prohibitionist:
glosses: A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.
hatchetations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchetation
overgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/
ipa: /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
Forms: form: overgoes
Etymology: Blend of overlapping + oligonucleotide.
Senses: examples: text: Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
ref: 1999, Birren & Green, Genome Analysis, page 207:
text: Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.
ref: 2004, Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, page 318:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
conferencier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: conferenciers
form: conferencer
form: conférencier
Etymology: Borrowed from French conférencier.
Senses: glosses: A person who organizes a conference, or is a leading member of one
glosses: A compère or master of ceremonies in a revue
conferential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conferential
form: most conferential
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a conference
conferenciers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conferencier
conferruminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conferruminates
form: conferruminating
form: conferruminated
form: conferruminated
Etymology: First attested in 1826; borrowed from Latin conferrūminātus, perfect passive participle of conferrūminō (“to cement”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- + ferrūminō, from ferrūmen (“cement”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To unite into a solid mass
Related terms: conferrumination
conferruminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conferruminate
form: most conferruminate
Etymology: First attested in 1826; borrowed from Latin conferrūminātus, perfect passive participle of conferrūminō (“to cement”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- + ferrūminō, from ferrūmen (“cement”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The cotyledons of the live-oak acorn are conferruminate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Closely united by the coalescence of contiguous faces.
confessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confessable
form: most confessable
Etymology: From confess + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be confessed.
Derived terms: unconfessable
confessionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessionalists
Etymology: From confessional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who confesses
glosses: A priest who hears confession
glosses: An advocate of confessionalism
confessionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From confession + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no confession (formal creed)
Derived terms: confessionlessness
khats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khat
confessoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessoresses
Etymology: From confessor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who hears confession
confessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more confessorial
form: most confessorial
Etymology: From confessor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a confessor.
confessionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessionalist
confessoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessoress
brahmana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brahmana
form: brahmanas
Etymology: Anglicized/transliterated from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa).
Senses: glosses: The brahmin varna in Hinduism. (Plural: brahmana.)
examples: "'It was I who struck this wily brāhmaṇa' said Virāṭa." (Mahābhārata: "Virāṭa Parva")
glosses: A brahmin; a member of the brahmana (sense 1).
glosses: A prose text that explains aspects of the Vedas.
Synonyms: brahman
brahmin
workword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workwords
Etymology: From work + word, perhaps as a calque of Dutch werkwoord (“verb”). Compare also West Frisian wurkwurd (“verb”).
Senses: examples: text: In peace, as in war, speed will be the workword. The less time required to rig and properly operate heavy-duty cranes and cargo lifts, the more tonnage you can handle.
ref: 1945, The Log, volume 40, page 35:
glosses: The operative word, especially in a thought, phrase, or idea; keyword.
Synonyms: catchword
keynote
watchword
interpretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretors
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of interpreter.
nameword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namewords
Etymology: From name + word. Compare Dutch naamwoord (“nameword, noun (sensu lato)”) and German Namenwort.
Senses: glosses: A designation or name given to an object, person or location.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun.
Synonyms: noun
denomination
appellation
NKDA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of no known drug allergies.
Hypernyms: english: no known allergies
translation: no known allergies
word: NKA
-oi
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -oi
ipa: /-ɔɪ/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek -οι (-oi), the second-declension masculine nominative plural case ending — the plural form of -ος (-os); compare the equivalents of the Latin second declension (-us → -ī), with which the Grecian case endings are usually substituted in English words, especially in the plural.
Senses: glosses: plural of -os
Derived terms: Melanochroi
Melanoi
Xanthochroi
Xanthomelanoi
hang fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs fire
form: hanging fire
form: hung fire
form: hung fire
Senses: examples: text: […] a number of Portuguese soldiers entered, one of whom, taking me for a Frenchman, for I had the French soldier's jacket on, my own being wet, snapped his piece at me, which luckily hung fire.
ref: 1841, Edward Costello, The adventures of a soldier:
glosses: To fail to fire immediately when the trigger is pulled.
raw_tags: of a firearm
examples: text: We were told to hang fire on the decision until management came back with a proposal.
text: “I’m just goin’ ter settle this little ——, that’s all,” said Dawes desperately.
“What do you mean?” snapped Thomas Jordan.
“What I say,” said Dawes, but he hung fire.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 13”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Kevin hung fire where he was, staring at Chaney's body with dilated eyes and a slowly greening complexion.
ref: 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: To wait or hold back.
hang fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hang fires
form: hangfire
form: hang-fire
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The situation when a gun does not immediately fire when the trigger is pulled, but may fire shortly after.
two-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈspɪɹɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈtuːˌspɪɹɪtɪd/
ipa: /tuˈspɪɹɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈtuˌspɪɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more two-spirited
form: most two-spirited
Etymology: From two-spirit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An organization established this year in San Diego is one of the few in the country made up of Two Spirited people (a Native term for gay men and lesbians), according to one of its founders, Tom Lidot. […] One of the group's goals is "to re-establish the pride and the role that Two Spirited people held" in Native culture, said Lidot, who is a member of the Tlingit nation.
ref: 1990 December 22 – 1991 January 4, Dawn Schmitz, “New Two spirited Group Formed”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, Boston, Mass.: GCN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of two-spirit (“of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit (noun sense)”).
synonyms: word: two-spirit
extra: (“of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit (noun sense)”)
jackalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jackal
jackalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jackal
therio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪəɹɪə(ʊ)/
Forms: form: theri-
Etymology: Representing the combining form of Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon), diminutive of θήρ (thḗr, “wild beast”).
Senses: glosses: wild animal.
orthoprax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːθəpɹaks/
Forms: form: more orthoprax
form: most orthoprax
Etymology: From ortho- + prax(is).
Senses: glosses: Correct in practice (though not necessarily in opinion or belief); practically right, doing the right actions.
Related terms: orthopraxy
génoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: génoises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of genoise.
génoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of génoise
matinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɪnl̩/
ipa: /ˈmætənl̩/
Forms: form: more matinal
form: most matinal
Etymology: Borrowed from French matinal, from Old French [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861:
text: Kate stood by the window, looking out drearily at the matinal sunlight.
ref: 1877, May Agnes Fleming, Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters:
text: I might add, however, for your further information, that I think I shall not go to Bund-i-Kir, which looks too peaceful to disturb at this matinal hour, but there--on the western shore of the Ab-i-Shuteit.
ref: 1919, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1917:
glosses: In the morning, relating to the morning.
Related terms: matitudinal
massives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massive
kiosques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiosque
innocuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innocuities
Etymology: From Latin innocuus + -ity. Compare French innocuité, Italian innocuità, Spanish inocuidad.
Senses: glosses: innocuousness
grippal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The epidemic of 1889-'90 gave the first opportunity of studying the symptoms of otitis of grippal origin
ref: 1898, Merck's Bulletin of Advanced Medicine and Surgery (page 870)
glosses: Relating to influenza.
influenzal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From influenza + -al.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to influenza
Derived terms: parainfluenzal
postinfluenzal
aquaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aqua- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Having aquaphobia
glosses: Relating to aquaphobia
aquaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquaphobics
Etymology: From aqua- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: An aquaphobe
aquaphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquaphobes
Etymology: From aqua- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Person who has aquaphobia.
Related terms: aquaphobic
aquaphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquaphobe
organic chemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic chemists
Etymology: Back-formation from organic chemistry.
Senses: glosses: A chemist whose field is organic chemistry.
Related terms: inorganic chemist
inorganic chemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inorganic chemists
Etymology: Back-formation from inorganic chemistry.
Senses: glosses: A chemist whose field is inorganic chemistry.
Related terms: organic chemist
overgone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overgo
overwent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overgo
overgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgo
overgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgoings
Senses: examples: text: Similarly the outbreakings and overgoings of crass youth may well be classed as another sort of running riot.
ref: 1908, The Scrap Book, volume 6, number 6, page 1059:
glosses: An excess; behaviour that goes too far.
overgoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgo
djin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of djinn.
djins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of djin
inorganic chemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inorganic chemist
AVC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Abra Valley Colleges.
AVC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AVCs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of additional voluntary contribution (to a pension).
qualifier: video compression
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Video Coding.
surbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surbates
form: surbating
form: surbated
form: surbated
Etymology: Back-formation from surbated.
Senses: examples: text: they […] let their temed fishes softly swim / Along the margent of the fomy shore, / Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate sore / Their tender feet vpon the stony ground […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: SURBATING; a Diſtemper in a Horſe, vvho is ſaid to be ſurbated, vvhen the Sole is vvorn, bruiſed or ſpoiled by travelling vvithout Shoes, or vvith ill ſhoeing: […] take Frankincenſe, and rolling it in a little fine Cotton VVool or Bombaſt, vvith a hot Iron melt it into the Foot betvvixt the Shoe and the Toe, until the Orifice, vvhere the Blood vvas taken avvay, is fill'd up; […]
ref: 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “SURBATING”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC, column 2:
glosses: To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
superfamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + famous.
Senses: glosses: Very famous.
superfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfucks
Etymology: From super- + fuck.
Senses: glosses: A contemptible person.
glosses: A remarkable session of sexual intercourse.
supershit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supershits
Etymology: From super- + shit.
Senses: glosses: A highly contemptible person.
shit-heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-heels
Senses: glosses: a contemptible person.
shit heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit heels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit-heel.
cubage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubages
Etymology: Borrowed from French cubage.
Senses: examples: text: The volume of a hospital building divided by the number of beds for which it is planned equals the cubage per bed...
ref: 1951, Isadore Rosenfield, Hospitals, integrated design:
glosses: A cubic measurement.
cubages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubage
shitheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shit-heel.
shitheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitheel
biphotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biphoton