cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
railyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railyards
Senses: examples: text: But the ambitious project requires Related to spend about $2 billion to erect platforms, columns and foundations over a working railyard before it can build the first tower.
ref: 2009 February 3, Charles V. Bagli, “M.T.A. and Developer Agree to Delay $1 Billion Railyard Deal”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rail yard.
railyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Related agreed to pay $1 billion over 99 years for the right to build 5.5 million square feet of commercial space, 5,500 apartments and a park over the West Side railyards.
ref: 2009 February 3, Charles V. Bagli, “M.T.A. and Developer Agree to Delay $1 Billion Railyard Deal”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of railyard
snouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Forms: form: snoutier
form: snoutiest
Etymology: From snout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Kays is applying the tracking system to explore the dynamic ménage à trois among the island’s population of ocelots; the ruddy, snouty rodents called agoutis; and the island’s towering and thickly buttressed Dipteryx trees.
ref: 2009 February 3, Natalie Angier, “GPS for Forest Creatures on the Move”, in New York Times:
glosses: Marked by a prominent snout.
glosses: Shaped like a snout, especially a pig's.
snoutier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snouty: more snouty
snoutiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snouty: most snouty
capuchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet somehow the capuchins manage to either outwit or outrun the forest’s legions of parasites.
ref: 2009 February 3, Natalie Angier, “GPS for Forest Creatures on the Move”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of capuchin
gators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gator
Multicultural London English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English sociolect peculiar to modern-day London, being a mixture of Cockney, Jamaican, West African, and Indian accents and dialects.
Synonyms: word: Jafaican
word: MLE
word: Black English
word: British Black English
word: Urban British English
word: Multicultural Urban British English
word: roadman
MLE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: ante''' 2009: Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page 209 (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; →ISBN
In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: EE
SSBE
glosses: Initialism of Multicultural London English.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Major League Eating.
MLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MLEs
Senses: topics: areology
astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Initialism of multi-layer ejecta.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of maximum likelihood estimation.
twin-cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin-cams
Senses: examples: text: The Espada was a sporty 1.6 litre twin-cam car with 14-inch alloy wheels, sports seats, power steering (with the SR and GSR three-spoke steering wheel), white faced gauges (also employed on the high-performance Lancers), and a rear spoiler.
ref: 2007 -, Brian Long, Mitsubishi Lancer EVO I to X: The Road Car and WRC Story, →ISBN:
text: Light and elegant, with a body style that echoed the far more pricey racing Bugattis, the Salmsons were powered by a beautiful and advanced twin-cam engine and put up remarkable performances at Le Mans and Brooklands where, in 1927, the works' supercharged car could lap at more than 100mph.
ref: 2009, Design Museum Enterprise Limited, Fifty Cars that Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty, →ISBN:
text: Every bit a bargain-basement special, it missed out on the wonderful twin-cam 4A-GELU engine, instead using the mundane 1452cc 3A-LU single overhead cam 4-cylinder unit also found in Corolla and Carina saloons.
ref: 2015, Nigel Burton, Toyota MR2: The Complete Story, →ISBN:
text: It isn't the cops, though, unless they're driving around undercover in souped-up Toyota twin-cams.
ref: 2017, Ciaran McMenamin, Skintown, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of twincam.
connectitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connect + -itude.
Senses: glosses: The state of being connected; a measure of the connectedness of something.
probities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probity
passes the buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass the buck
passed the buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass the buck
winecup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winecups
Etymology: From wine + cup.
Senses: glosses: A vessel from which wine is drunk.
examples: text: These are the proudest trophies, the most splendid fruits of the victories of the wine-cup.
ref: 1856, Permanent Temperance Documents, New York: American Temperance Society, page 61:
text: He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62:
glosses: The consumption of alcohol; drinking; alcohol as a drink.
glosses: A poppy mallow (Callirhoe digitata).
Related terms: wineglass
N-benzyl-N-isopropylpivalamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Chemical name for tebutam.
winecups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winecup
half-inches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of half-inch
half-inching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of half-inch
half-inched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of half-inch
tolbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolbots
Senses: glosses: A measure of capacity, possibly a bushel.
hathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hath (third-person singular simple present indicative form of have)
Related terms: hath
had
has
hast
have
aristas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arista
yanquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yanqui
foot-draggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot-dragging
footdragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footdraggings
Senses: examples: text: A Beijing diplomat complained China is "fed up with the footdragging" of Burma's strongman, General Than Shwe, and his inner circle, one of the cables, released by WikiLeaks, reported.
ref: 2010 December 9, Ewen MacAskill, “WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma's footdragging on reforms”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of foot-dragging.
footdraggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footdragging; alternative spelling of foot-draggings.
baby-care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babycare.
draggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dragging
ass-lickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ass-licker
arse-licker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arse-lickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-licker.
arse-lickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arse-licker
kicked arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick arse
kicks arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick arse
kicking arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick arse
tritones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritone
interjectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interjectional
form: most interjectional
Etymology: From interjection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: expletive
text: "Ouch!" is an interjectional utterance.
synonyms: interjectory
;
ejaculative
glosses: Being or pertaining to an interjection.
Derived terms: interjectionalize
interjectionally
interjectional phrase
interjectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interjectionally
form: most interjectionally
Etymology: From interjectional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Though derived from a verb phrase, "kickass" can be used interjectionally.
glosses: In an interjectional way; having the form of an interjection.
nigger lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger lovers
form: niggerlover
form: nigger-lover
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nigger, lover.
examples: text: At once he said, ‘If you're not careful, Matty dear, you'll become a proper little nigger-lover.’
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 195:
text: If I am speaking about racial equality, it is because ‘kikes are nigger-lovers’.
ref: 1991, Alan Morton Dershowitz, Chutzpah, page 83:
glosses: A white person considered excessively fond towards, protective of, or considerate to blacks, especially (historical) an abolitionist as considered to be a race traitor.
glosses: A non-black person who is romantically involved with or married to someone who is black.
Hypernyms: race traitor
knick-knacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knick-knack
nigger lovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger lover
passion play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passion plays
Senses: glosses: A play depicting the Passion of Christ.
examples: text: The mysteries of Osiris were celebrated as a passion play, the subject being the sufferings, passion, death and resurrection of Osiris.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 46:
glosses: Any analogous religious story of the suffering, death, and resurrection of other gods or goddesses, or of the martyrdom of holy people, such as the Muslim tazia.
glosses: An overly dramatic depiction or enaction of something, especially when not usually dramatic.
Related terms: mystery play
nativity play
passion plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passion play
Negroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Negro
belles-lettristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belles-lettristic
form: most belles-lettristic
Senses: examples: text: Reggio's works will always command respect on account of their belles-lettristic value.
ref: 1901, Nathan Stern, The Jewish historico-critical school of the nineteenth century, page 29:
text: We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman...
ref: 1951, Richard Foster Jones, The Seventeenth Century:
text: Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works...
ref: 1998, George B Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook:
text: Belles-lettristic writing about literature developed the model of a thoughtful person sitting down with a literary work of life-long acquaintance...
ref: 2006, Ellie Chambers, Marshall W Gregory, Teaching and Learning English Literature:
glosses: Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
populariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popularisers
Etymology: From popularise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of popularizer.
popularizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popularizers
Etymology: From popularize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When a female friend of mine questioned Robert Wright, the author of The Moral Animal and one of the prime popularisers of this position, about some of his unshakable convictions in the male-female contrariety, he opened his eyes wide, stared at her, and said, manfully, "You dont know what its like."
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
glosses: One who popularizes something.
popularisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of populariser
popularizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popularizer
culture vultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture vulture
nimbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nimby
ecobabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + babble.
Senses: glosses: Vacuous speech about environmental concerns.
Synonyms: envirospeak
Coordinate terms: econobabble
technobabble
microprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + printed.
Senses: glosses: Rendered in microprint; printed at a very small size.
melismas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melisma
melismata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melisma
Derived terms: melismatic
postmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + match.
Senses: examples: text: In the postmatch ceremony, Federer choked up after receiving the runner-up plate from one of his idols, Rod Laver, and was unable to get more than a few sentences into his speech before he began to cry in earnest.
ref: 2009 February 2, Christopher Clarey, “Nadal Defeats a Tearful Federer in Australia”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after a match.
microprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + printing.
Senses: examples: text: Legitimate Indian passports feature a line in microprinting that reads "Indian Passport Control" across the photo page.
ref: 2009 February 3, Rick Westhead, “Dozens dupe Indian airline, enter Canada”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Microprint.
examples: text: Microprinting of hydrophobic gold surfaces with carboxy terminated thiols generates hydrophilic domains.
ref: 1998, Daniel Jed Harrison, Albert Van Den Berg, Micro Total Analysis Systems '98:
glosses: The generation of microprint.
sesamoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesamoid
maxillofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From maxillo- + facial.
Senses: examples: text: Women represent up to 90 percent of patients who seek treatment, Dr. Leonard B. Kaban, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in an interview.
ref: 2009 February 3, Jane E. Brody, “Best Treatment for TMJ May Be Nothing”, in New York Times:
text: It wasn't long after arriving in Boulongne that Valadier convinced the general staff at the hospital to allow him to establish a temporary jaw unit in nearby Wimereux to handle the large number of maxillofacial injuries arriving from the front.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 47:
glosses: Of or relating to the jaw and face.
Related terms: maxilla
facial
spangly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɡ(ə)li/
Forms: form: spanglier
form: spangliest
form: spangley
Etymology: From spangle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “DWTS” is many things: bright, in-your-face, spangly.
ref: 2013 April 10, Allyssa Lee, “'Dancing With the Stars' results recap: Party's over”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
glosses: Decorated with spangles; sparkly.
spanglier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɡliɚ/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spangly: more spangly
spangliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spangly: most spangly
tipoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tip-off.
rewatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈwɒtʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːwɒtʃ/
Forms: form: rewatches
form: rewatching
form: rewatched
form: rewatched
form: re-watch
Etymology: From re- + watch.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile “Emeralds” itself — danced with the elegiac adagio finale that Balanchine added in 1976 and that Ms. Paul never danced — deepened with rewatching.
ref: 2009 February 3, Alastair Macaulay, “Mining the Hidden Gems of a Balanchine Classic”, in New York Times:
glosses: To watch again.
rewatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈwɒtʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːwɒtʃ/
Forms: form: rewatches
form: re-watch
Etymology: From re- + watch.
Senses: examples: text: It's not the best film I've ever seen, but it probably deserves a rewatch.
glosses: The act of watching something again.
tipoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipoff
chlorapatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorapatite
brugnatellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brugnatellite
mackayites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackayite
uneccentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneccentric
form: most uneccentric
Etymology: From un- + eccentric.
Senses: glosses: Not eccentric.
immunochemistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunochemistry
immunochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnoʊˈkɛmɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnəʊˈkɛmɪkəl/
Etymology: From immuno- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to immunochemistry.
Derived terms: cytoimmunochemical
histoimmunochemical
immunochemically
radioimmunochemical
immunochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnoʊˈkɛmɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnəʊˈkɛmɪkəl/
Forms: form: immunochemicals
Etymology: From immuno- + chemical.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any immunoactive chemical compound.
immunochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immunochemical way.
Derived terms: radioimmunochemically
intertribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tribal.
Senses: examples: text: I think in reality he was a Woolna spy, for his appearance on the scene generally foreboded some inter-tribal excitement and disturbance.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 184:
glosses: Between tribes.
Derived terms: intertribally
intertribally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intertribal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between tribes.
plaintiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plaintive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being plaintive.
unmenacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmenacing
form: most unmenacing
Etymology: From un- + menacing.
Senses: glosses: Not menacing.
Synonyms: innocuous
unthreatening
Derived terms: unmenacingly
undersave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undersaves
form: undersaving
form: undersaved
form: undersaved
Etymology: From under- + save.
Senses: glosses: To save too little money.
undersaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undersave
undersaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undersave
undersaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undersave
studly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: studlier
form: studliest
Etymology: From stud + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a stud; being or relating to a sexually attractive male.
Synonyms: hunky
Derived terms: studly caps
studlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of studly: more studly
studliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of studly: most studly
unbugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bugged.
Senses: examples: text: Is it perhaps appropriate to take them into account when comparing two closely related investigatory devices — such as the use of bugged and unbugged secret agents?
ref: 1991, Ronald Jay Allen, Richard B. Kuhns, Constitutional criminal procedure:
glosses: Not bugged; without covert surveillance equipment.
ungritted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gritted.
Senses: examples: text: In winter, take care on ungritted roads.
text: I seethed through gritted teeth at the daily noon meetings in Nash's office, and when they came ungritted, Nash fanned the flames...
ref: 1980, Peter Trueman, Smoke and Mirrors:
text: On ungritted roads motorists were swerving to avoid each other.
ref: 2004, Jonathan James Long, Anne Whitehead, W G Sebald: A Critical Companion:
glosses: Not gritted.
undebuggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undebuggable
form: most undebuggable
Etymology: From un- + debuggable.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That cannot be debugged.
undebugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + debugged.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That has not been debugged.
milligrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milli- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: A new and ingenious thermometric scale has been constructed by Mr. John Williams, by dividing the interval between the freezing and boiling points of mercury into 1000 degrees. The freezing point of water would thus be 100°, and its boiling point 350°, and five milligrade degrees would be equal to two degrees C.
ref: 1875, "Introduction", in, Louis Siebold, editor, Year-book of Pharmacy [1875], British Pharmaceutical Conference, page 14
text: In the Heat department we cannot allow ourselves to linger at the fine collection of thermometric and other instruments. Among them is a milligrade thermometer, in which the interval between the freezing and boiling points of water is divided into one thousand degrees; it obviates the use of fractions.
ref: 1876 May 4, “The Progress of the Loan Collection”, in Nature, doi:10.1038/014001a0, page 2:
text: A. Betts has devised a milligrade thermometer on a scale in which the freezing point of mercury is the zero and its boiling point is 1000.
ref: 1900, C. Lewis Diehl, “Report on the Progress of Pharmacy. From July 1, 1899, to June 30, 1900”, in Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting, page 406:
coordinate_terms: centigrade#Adjective
glosses: Based on a division into 1000 degrees.
raw_tags: of a scale
Related terms: decigrade
hundredfold
thousandfold
special team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special teams
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: suicide squad
glosses: A group of football players with special assignments for plays other than standard offensive and defensive plays, such as those involving kicking.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A group of ice hockey players most often used during power plays consisting of more defensive players than usual on the team that was penalized in hopes of killing the penalty, or more offensive players than usual on the team with the advantage in players to increase the chance of scoring a goal.
particle accelerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particle accelerator
atom smashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atom smasher
contradictories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradictory
touchscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchscreens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch screen.
touch-screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-screens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of touch screen.
touchscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touchscreen
touch-screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-screen
resiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resile
Gormenghastian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gormenghastian
form: most Gormenghastian
Etymology: From Gormenghast + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The setting, a Gormenghastian castle, is rich with expectancy, and so is quite a lot of the language […]
ref: 1957, The National and English Review:
text: The rules and rites that have come down through time are followed with Gormenghastian rigour, even though the reasons for some bits have long been forgotten […]
ref: 2006, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Sardinia:
text: She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers.
ref: 2006, Django Wexler, Shinigami:
text: Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.
ref: 2007, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando:
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to Gormenghast, an enormous sprawling Gothic castle mired in inexplicable traditions, introduced in a series of novels by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968).
discommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discommodates
form: discommodating
form: discommodated
form: discommodated
Etymology: From Latin discommodatus, past participle of discommodare, from dis- + commodare (“to make fit, help”).
Senses: glosses: To render unfit or unsuitable; to fail to treat well.
Synonyms: discommode
incommode
inconvenience
blue-eyed boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-eyed boy
girlify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: girlifies
form: girlifying
form: girlified
form: girlified
Etymology: From girl + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: She made George set in the playhouse with her, and he would do it, no matter how much Pa teased him and called him girlified and threatened to make him wear dresses.
ref: 1968, Mildred Haun, The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other Stories, page 223:
text: Men, who still run the patriarchy, are loving it; women are self-objectifying, girlifying themselves in their makeup, clothing, hair, and even their discourse – girl talk.
ref: 2008, Ben Agger, The Virtual Self: A Contemporary Sociology, page 138:
glosses: To make girly.
Synonyms: feminize
feminise
Related terms: girlification
girlifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of girlify
girlifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of girlify
girlified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of girlify
speculative philosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speculative philosophy
net call signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net call sign
hashing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hash out
hashed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hash out
hashes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hash out
in laymen's terms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in layman's terms.
nonjava
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Java.
Senses: examples: text: Additional items found on the CD include calling nonjava libraries from Java, and using the security API and developing JavaBeans components.
ref: 1998, Journal of Object-oriented Programming:
text: Since writeUTF uses a variant of UTF-8 that's subtly incompatible with most nonjava software...
ref: 2000, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming:
text: Native code is also useful when accessing legacy data through nonjava gateways.
ref: 2001, Jason Hunter, William Crawford, Java Servlet Programming:
text: As the work of EJBs and other business objects often involves using nonjava resources such as databases...
ref: 2002, Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development:
text: Serialization is appropriate when saving data for nonjava programs to use.
ref: 2003, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java:
text: ...and in corner cases they will not necessarily give the same results as implementations based on the JDK, let alone nonjava implementations.
ref: 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is not Java or does not conform to the standards and expectations of Java.
speculative fictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speculative fiction
royal progresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal progress
confuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of confused + befuddled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confuddle
confuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confuddled
form: most confuddled
Etymology: Blend of confused + befuddled
Senses: examples: text: This silly chemistry problem makes me so confuddled!
glosses: In a state of extreme confusion, especially when unable to solve a frustrating problem.
live one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪv wʌn/
Forms: form: live ones
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to hooking a particularly lively fish on a fishing line.
Senses: examples: text: There's green as in greenhorn, meaning inexperienced and gullible. Those with a pitch to sell are going to spot a live one—in this case government with dollars practically falling out of its pockets—coming from miles away.
ref: 2009 January 7, Bill Virgin, “In 2009, it's all about green”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 03 Feb 2009:
glosses: Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed.
examples: text: They've got a live one in the crowd, he's scary, he looks dangerous, demon possessed, he doesn't know who he is, he speaks in strange voices.
ref: 1997 September 13, Charles Placker, “Ministry of happiness denies the crucifixion”, in The Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 03 Feb 2009, page 3D:
text: We've got a live one. Kim Howells burst on to the scene last week with his first foray into university politics as higher education minister. The man best known for labelling the Turner Prize "conceptual bullshit" was not sounding very on-message. In a departure from his prepared speech on the launch of an NUS information campaign for would-be students, Howells started, well, rambling.
ref: 2004 September 28, Polly Curtis, “HE Diary: Howells has landed”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 03 Feb 2009:
glosses: Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar.
examples: text: "We got a live one here," he said as he speeds up in pursuit of a car.
ref: 2007 January 2, Tom Lawrence, “Area DUI crack down reduces arrests”, in Black Hills Pioneer, USA: South Dakota, retrieved 03 Feb 2009:
glosses: A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent.
Synonyms: sense: someone easily fooled or victimized
word: chump
word: dupe
word: mark
word: patsy
word: sucker
sense: someone who is eccentric or peculiar
word: head case
word: kook
word: nut
word: oddball
word: weirdo
word: strange person
sense: thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent
word: real McCoy
live ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live one
discludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disclude
discluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disclude
triacetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triacetate
tetraacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraacetates
Etymology: From tetra- + acetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any conjugate base, salt, or ester having four acetate groups.
Coordinate terms: word: acetoacetic acid
word: acetoacetate
word: diacetic acid
word: diacetate
word: EDTA
word: ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
word: ethylenediaminetetraacetate
word: edetic acid
word: edetate
english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: tetraacetic acid
tetraacetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraacetate
make a virtue of necessity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a virtue of necessity
form: making a virtue of necessity
form: made a virtue of necessity
form: made a virtue of necessity
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Nietzsche, as I gather, regarded the slave-morality as having been invented and imposed on the world by slaves making a virtue of necessity and a religion of their servitude.
ref: 1906, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, Preface:
glosses: To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits.
Related terms: make the best of a bad bargain
necessity is the mother of invention
Sochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒt͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈsoʊt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɒtʃi
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Со́чи (Sóči).
Senses: examples: text: According to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitrii Kozak, every ruble spent on preparations for the Sochi Olympics has been justified.
ref: 2014 February 13, Thomas Remington, “10 explanations for Russia’s coming fiscal squeeze”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2017:
glosses: A city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
standoffishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more standoffishly
form: most standoffishly
Etymology: From standoffish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a standoffish way.
Synonyms: aloofly
haughtily
confuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfʌdl/
rhymes: -ʌdl
Forms: form: confuddles
Etymology: Blend of confuse + befuddle
Senses: glosses: The state of confusion and/or being befuddled.
confuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfʌdl/
rhymes: -ʌdl
Forms: form: confuddles
form: confuddling
form: confuddled
form: confuddled
Etymology: Blend of confuse + befuddle
Senses: glosses: To confuse thoroughly.
fugacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/
Forms: form: more fugacious
form: most fugacious
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”).
Senses: examples: text: Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million:
text: Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
ref: 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589:
text: It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
ref: 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page xvii:
glosses: Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
Derived terms: fugaciously
fugaciousness
Related terms: fugacity
fugitive
fugue
potamophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potamophilous
form: most potamophilous
Etymology: From potamo- + -philous.
Senses: examples: text: Side arms provide slow-flowing water bodies that allow the development of aquatic vegetation used as spawning substrate by several limnophilous and potamophilous species, such as white bream, pike and tench.
ref: 1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment, page 331:
glosses: Loving or having an affinity towards rivers.
Related terms: potamophile
limnophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limnophilous
form: most limnophilous
Senses: examples: text: Side arms provide slow-flowing water bodies that allow the development of aquatic vegetation used as spawning substrate by several limnophilous and potamophilous species, such as white bream, pike and tench.
ref: 1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment, page 331:
glosses: Loving or having an affinity towards lakes.
fusogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only a dozen or so SNARE combinations are fusogenic, corresponding to the known transport processes in the cell; hence, SNAREs can impart considerable specificity to membrane fusion.
ref: 2009 January 23, Thomas C. Sudhof, James E. Rothman, “Membrane Fusion: Grappling with SNARE and SM Proteins”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:
glosses: Facilitating fusion, especially relating to cells.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fusogen.
Derived terms: fusogenesis
fusogenically
fusogenicity
fusogenic lipid
fusogenic liposome
fusogenic vesicle
hyperfusogenic
nonfusogenic
prefusogenic
tunicamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin, which increases the level of unfolded proteins, also induced P hsp-4 ::GFP expression.
ref: 2009 January 30, Lori L. Anderson et al., “Survival from Hypoxia in C. elegans by Inactivation of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases”, in Science:
glosses: An enzyme-inhibiting antibiotic, used as an experimental tool in biology.
handwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handwells
Etymology: From hand + well.
Senses: examples: text: "This is not a unique handwell in a unique area – it's just like all others.
ref: 2009 January 31, Nick Aveling, “School kids 'zapped' by sidewalk electricity”, in Toronto Star:
text: Last Thursday five students, aged 10 and 11, from Regent Park/Duke of York Junior Public School, were zapped by a handwell on Dundas St. E. near Sumach St., said Toronto District School Board spokesperson John Caldarone.
ref: 2009 February 3, Emily Mathieu, “Repairs underway to metal lids that jolted dogs, kids”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A small manhole.
rugelach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈruːɡələx/
Forms: form: rugelachs
form: rugelach
form: rugulach
form: rugalach
form: ruggalach
form: ruggelach
form: rogelach
form: rugalah
form: rugala
Etymology: From Yiddish ראָגאַל (rogal) with plural suffix ־לעך (-lekh), from Polish rogal (“crescent roll”).
Senses: examples: text: Then he ambles to his dressing room, where rugelach and carrot sticks sit on a coffee table for a postshow nosh.
ref: 2007 April 1, Jane Wollman Rusoff, “Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Condo”, in New York Times:
text: Rugelach is thought to have the same origin—this staple of Ashkenazi Jewish baking spread across the world and became popular, especially in the US, but not quite to the extent of its French half-brother.
ref: 2024 April 27, Itamar Srulovich, “The croissant, but better”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: A type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.
mingent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Discharging urine.
circumambagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumambagious
form: most circumambagious
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to circumambages; circumlocutionary.
inspectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more inspectorial
form: most inspectorial
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
Forlì
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Forli
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian Forlì.
Senses: glosses: A city and comune, the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
cultlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultlike
form: most cultlike
form: cult-like
Etymology: From cult + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Harley has a global, nearly cultlike following, but has had a tough time finding buyers for its expensive wheels[…].
ref: 2009 February 4, Aliza Rosenbaum, Edward Hadas, “Buffett Pays Low for Another Icon”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: […] Mr. Kurz and a small cabal of allies with cultlike devotion to him paid off one of Austria’s biggest tabloids to ensure favorable news coverage.
ref: 2021 October 17, Katrin Bennhold, “Fake Polls and Tabloid Coverage on Demand: The Dark Side of Sebastian Kurz”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021:
glosses: Resembling a cult.
Synonyms: cultish
culty
kenophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: "You're not taking this seriously," Cuneo complained. "Just imagine if the love of your life turned out to be an illusion. With a horse's backside, a horse's teeth and a brain that was presumably reeling from kenophobia."
ref: 2015, Nina George, translated by Simon Pare, The Little Paris Bookshop, page 209:
glosses: An abnormal fear of empty spaces.
road grit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of grit and salt (often calcium chloride) spread on the surface of roads to prevent the formation of ice during cold, damp weather
bog down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bogs down
form: bogging down
form: bogged down
form: bogged down
Senses: examples: text: The play bogs down in narrative as we watch Max and Rudy flee Berlin.
ref: 1979 December 22, Andy Beck, “BENT: To Remind, To Instruct, To Warn”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 11:
text: DB wanted to start running in 2013, but couldn't get approval for the Velaro trains it wanted to run. It became bogged down in a process controlled by the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), which includes the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority.
ref: 2025 April 16, Philip Haigh, “Competition hots up on the Channel Tunnel route”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 50:
qualifier: "get"-passive
glosses: To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress.
glosses: To cause to become stuck and unable to progress.
Related terms: bag down
bug down
embroil
entrap
trap
dendrothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛndɹəʊˈθɜː(ɹ)məɫ/
Etymology: From dendro- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: Describing energy or power derived from the burning of wood.
desulphurisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulphurisations
Etymology: From desulphurise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The dispute stems from Total awarding the contract to build a new desulphurisation unit at the Lindsey site to Italian company IREM.
ref: 2009 January 31, “Strikes escalate on job loss fears”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative spelling of desulfurization.
intraclub
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + club.
Senses: examples: text: Dale Thomas's move from half-forward to the centre square was one of several eye-catching positional changes on show at Collingwood's intraclub match at Gosch's Paddock yesterday.
ref: 2009 January 31, Jon Ralph, “That burning desire”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Within a club
Related terms: interclub
eucalypt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucalypts
Etymology: Shortened form of the genus name Eucalyptus.
Senses: examples: text: I know each is caused by the fire accelerating rapidly up the valley, consuming everything in its path and travelling swiftly up to the crowns of the tall gums and eucalypts.
ref: 2009 January 31, David McMahon, “My brush with flames”, in Herald Sun:
synonyms: eucalyptus
glosses: Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
glosses: Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae of genera related and similar to Eucalyptus, such as Corymbia and Angophora.
Derived terms: eucalyptoid
eucalypts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucalypt
debutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debutant
tailenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailender
reregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reregulations
Etymology: From re- + regulate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: KEVIN Rudd has declared a new era of financial reregulation and government intervention in world markets to restore confidence and stop capitalism "cannibalising itself" as a result of the global financial crisis.
ref: 2009 January 31, By Dennis Shanahan, “Rudd&squo;s plan to rescue capitalism”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: The act or process of regulating again, or reversing deregulation
monstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monster
monstering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monsterings
Senses: examples: text: Hence come the monsterings and transformings of souls after death, and it is in this Scheol and place of transformation, where souls are after death, that this Spirit is present and at work throughout the whole of nature.
ref: 2016, A. J. Penny, Studies in Jacob Bohme, page 96:
glosses: The act of one who monsters (in any sense).
monstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monster
stayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈsteɪ.ə/
Forms: form: stayers
Etymology: From stay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.
glosses: One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains.
examples: text: Manwarra Goforgold is the stayer in the race.
ref: 2009 January 31, Adam Hamilton, “Feelgood ending is no sure thing”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power.
stayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stayer
Omdurman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city in Sudan. Part of the capital, Khartoum.
sweatboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweatbox
sweatboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweatbox