cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
priming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: primings
Senses: examples: text: The spot was bright and lively now; but in winter it became necessary to place sandbags against the door, and to stuff up the keyhole against the wind and rain, which had worn the paint so thin that the priming and knotting showed through.
ref: 1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales:
glosses: A substance used as a primer.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are presoaked in a nanoparticle solution.
examples: text: There have been failures, of course, and especially delays due to bad steaming, and, more often, priming.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A harmful condition in which water is carried over from the boiler of a steam locomotive.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The first contact that an antigen-specific T helper cell precursors have with an antigen.
topics: media
glosses: A cognitive process in which media information increases temporarily the accessibility of knowledge units in the memory of an individual.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: The effect that a nutrient has on the rate of organic matter decomposition
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: nursing
glosses: The process of flushing the tubing with IV fluid to remove air before connecting it to a patient.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psycholinguistics
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of positive priming that induces a tendency to repeat or more easily process a sentence that is similar in structure to one previously presented.
Derived terms: intralexical priming
negative priming
priming pan
priming powder
priming wire
priming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prime
freakishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freakishnesses
Etymology: From freakish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being freakish
Synonyms: abnormality
enormity
weirdness
strangeness
friskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friskinesses
Etymology: From frisky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So he let all his chances go by, and the nurses, piqued, let the raw, shy, diffident Australian go by, sensing in him a depth of despair so profound that it made their little games and friskinesses ring as hollow and brittle as the glass balls they hung on the Christmas tree.
ref: 1944, Sarah Campion, The Pommy Cow, page 159:
glosses: The characteristic or quality of being frisky.
primitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more primitively
form: most primitively
Etymology: From primitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Peter had been an adept with tilts, as old Stein had said so often that morning, while he, Palmer, and Gus, had dubiously laboured at this elusive task. But Peter would rig no more tilts, and primitively old Stein and Gus lamented this, as they missed his services.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:
glosses: In a primitive manner.
Related terms: primitiveness
primitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitivenesses
Etymology: From primitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being primitive.
Synonyms: primitivism
primitivity
Related terms: primitively
primness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primnesses
Etymology: From prim + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being prim, precise, or proper.
primogenitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primogenitors
Etymology: From Latin primus (“first”) + -o- + genitor (Latin genitor). Compare progenitor.
Senses: glosses: An initial ancestor.
Coordinate terms: ancestor
forefather
Derived terms: primogenitoral
primogenitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primogenitor
princeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From princely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being princely.
Synonyms: princehood
prissily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prissily
form: most prissily
Etymology: From prissy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper.
overcook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.vɚ.kʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: overcooks
form: overcooking
form: overcooked
form: overcooked
form: over-cook
Etymology: From over- + cook.
Senses: glosses: To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
examples: text: The runner overcooked it on the first lap, and ended up finishing last.
glosses: To do something to excess; to overdo.
Derived terms: overcooker
mojito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈhi.toʊ/
ipa: /məʊˈhiːtəʊ/
Forms: form: mojitos
Etymology: From Spanish mojito, diminutive of mojo (“sauce”), from mojar (“to moisten”), from Vulgar Latin *molliō (“to soften by soaking”), from Latin molliō (“soften”), from mollis (“soft”).
Senses: glosses: A Cuban cocktail, generally made from rum, lime, sugar, mint, etc.
Derived terms: mockito
moijitoless
nojito
momism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By extension, from momist.
Senses: glosses: Finding fault; carping.
momism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momisms
Etymology: From mom + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Excessive attachment to one’s mother.
glosses: An utterance, piece of advice, etc. from one's mother.
beach ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach balls
form: beachball
Senses: glosses: A large light inflatable ball, ideally suited to beach games.
Derived terms: beach ball diagram
beach ball plot
beachball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachballs
Etymology: From beach + ball.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beach ball.
beachball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beachballs
form: beachballing
form: beachballed
form: beachballed
Etymology: From beach + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?
ref: 2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, →ISBN, page 54:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To hang; to stop responding to user input; (used of Mac computers, where this is indicated by a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball).
tennis ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis balls
Etymology: From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball.
Senses: examples: text: King. What Treaſure Vncle? / Exe. Tennis balles, my Liege.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 72:
glosses: A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
Related terms: ball
tennis
tennis racquet
rugby ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugby balls
Senses: glosses: A spheroidal ball designed for the sport of rugby.
fly half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-halves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fly-half.
scrum half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrum halves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrum-half.
tighthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightheads
Etymology: From tight + head.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: prop who plays on the right-hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is tightly bound between those of the opposing hooker and loosehead
Related terms: loosehead
front row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front rows
Senses: examples: text: The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
glosses: In an auditorium or sports venue, the line of side-by-side seats closest to the stage, playing field, or other location where the activity of interest is occurring.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The row of players who participate in a scrum with direct contact with the opposing scrum.
glosses: The forefront; a situation where one is exposed to the latest developments.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see front, row.
Derived terms: in the front row
Related terms: hooker
loosehead
prop
tighthead
outside centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside centres
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player who is positioned between the inside centre and the right wing
Related terms: inside centre
inside centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside centres
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player who is positioned between the fly-half and the outside centre
Synonyms: second five-eighth
Related terms: outside centre
number eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number eights
Senses: examples: text: Naturally, Franco plays as a number eight (a midfielder who has both attacking and defending responsibilities), but he also has the capability to play as a defensive midfielder.
ref: 2021 December 21, Caleb Adams, “Alan Franco 'is like the cement in the midfield'”, in Charlotte FC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A box-to-box midfielder.
examples: text: But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes.
ref: 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum; eighthman.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats eighth.
Coordinate terms: number seven
number nine
and so on
flanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæŋkə(ɹ)/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flankers
Etymology: From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
examples: text: 1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, from The Portable Native American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 312,
About two hours...they had been about the house before they prevailed to fire it (which they did with Flax and Hemp, which they brought out of the Barn, and there being no defence about the House, only two Flankers at two opposite corners and one of them not finished) they fired it once and one ventured out and quenched it, but they quickly fired it again, and that took.
text: [The planters’ houses] were frequently constructed with flankers and loopholes, for the purpose of firing upon the assailants when they approached so near.
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 27:
text: It was in vain they threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants; each pause gave time for other pursuers to come within reach, and open attacks from different quarters.
ref: 1855, Washington Irving, chapter 37, in The Life of George Washington, volume 1, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, page 278:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: fighter
flanker brand
fighter brand
glosses: A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.
Hyponyms: blindside flanker
openside flanker
flanker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæŋkə(ɹ)/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flankers
form: flankering
form: flankered
form: flankered
Etymology: From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).
Senses: examples: text: the Castle was neither ſo weakly mann'd nor flanker'd as they were made belive
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: To defend by lateral fortifications.
examples: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions, London, Chapter 3, “Of the Oak,” p. 19,
[…] to my observation in our Climates, where those sharp winds do rather flanker than blow fully opposite upon our Plantations, they thrive best […]
glosses: To attack sideways.
moonflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnflaʊə/
Forms: form: moonflowers
Etymology: From moon + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
A corn marigold, Glebionis segetum.
examples: text: Hôtel Saint-George […] through whose exotic gardens of giant contorted euphorbia and sweet-smelling moonflowers Churchill and the titans of the Second World War strolled, laying plans for a world in which Anglo-Saxon predominance seemed assured in perpetuity.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 46:
glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
Any of several vines of the genus Ipomoea, especially Ipomoea alba.
glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
Any of species in genus Cereus and in (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.).
glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
Any of species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.
glosses: Any of several plants that flower at night:
Any of species of Mentzelia, including Mentzelia pumila.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ipomoea violacea
word: beach moonflower
taxonomic: Ipomoea violacea
word: sea moonflower
Related terms: morning glory
sunflower
mudhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudholes
Etymology: From mud + hole.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pothole
mud volcano
mud pot
mud pool
glosses: A hole full of mud, especially one in a road
glosses: A hole near the bottom of a steam boiler, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
splodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsplɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: splodges
Etymology: Probably a variation of splotch.
Senses: examples: text: It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats.
ref: 2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 155:
text: The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse […]
ref: 2011, Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 293:
text: The 'rainbows' we had seen in the cockpit were two bright round splodges of light called sun dogs, one either side of the sun, joined together by a golden ring of light.
ref: 2012, Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2013, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
Synonyms: splotch
splodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsplɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: splodges
form: splodging
form: splodged
form: splodged
Etymology: Probably a variation of splotch.
Senses: examples: text: Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: To make a splodge; to render as a splodge.
Synonyms: splotch
noninverting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inverting.
Senses: glosses: That does not cause inversion.
Derived terms: noninverting amplifier
noninverting parametric device
null anaphora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null anaphoras
Senses: examples: text: We have mentioned above that null anaphora is represented on syntactic trees as “pro”, and that this reflects the native speaker’s intuition that she or he somehow understands what is not overtly expressed and what the content of the null anaphora might be.
ref: 2006, Natsuko Tsujimura, An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An implied (but omitted) anaphora.
OAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oral allergy syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of original antigenic sin.
OAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Organization of American States.
glosses: Initialism of Old Age Security.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of OpenAPI Specification, a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful Web services.
examples: text: The first real meeting of the OAS was held in mid-May 1961. Its purpose was to sabotage de Gaulle’s efforts to remove French rule from Algeria.
ref: 2001, Ben Abro et al., Assassination! July 14, University of Nebraska, page 193:
glosses: Initialism of Organisation de l’Armée Secrète, a French organization.
Coordinate terms: word: CPP
word: QPP
word: RPP
word: RRSP
word: TFSA
oilseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilseeds
Etymology: From oil + seed.
Senses: examples: text: Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped and Russia’s are threatened.
ref: 2022 May 19, “The coming food catastrophe”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: The seed of any of several plants which are used commercially as a source of vegetable oil.
glosses: The plant that yields such seed.
glosses: Synonym of milium (“keratin-filled cyst”).
synonyms: word: milium
extra: keratin-filled cyst
Derived terms: oilseed cake
oilseed radish
oilseed rape
olivewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olivewoods
form: olive wood
Etymology: From olive + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood of the olive tree
glosses: Any of several ornamental trees of the genus Cassine.
open-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of openwork.
openwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpənwɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /ˈoʊpənwɝk/
Forms: form: openworks
form: open-work
Etymology: From open + work.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of metalwork or needlework having decorative openings.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A quarry; an open cut.
Derived terms: openwork stocking
outfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outface
Puginesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Puginesque
form: most Puginesque
Etymology: From Pugin + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or in the style of Augustus Pugin, English Gothic revivalist architect
outface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfaces
form: outfacing
form: outfaced
form: outfaced
Etymology: From out- + face.
Senses: examples: text: Thou maiſt I warrant, we ſhall haue old ſwearing / That they did giue the Rings away to men, / But weele out-face them, and out-ſweare them too, [...]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Weele haue a ſwaſhing and marſhall outſide, / As manie other manniſh cowards haue, / That doe outface it with their ſemblances.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 187, column 2:
glosses: To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay
examples: text: Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
ref: 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
glosses: To boldly confront a situation.
oystermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oysterman
oysterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oystermen
Etymology: From oyster + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person who cultivates, harvests or sells oysters
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat used to dredge for oysters
Related terms: oysterwoman
palæopedology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of paleopedology.
paleopedology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæopedology
form: palaeopedology
Etymology: From paleo- + pedology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of geologic soils
palaeopedology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleopedology.
breitschwanz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪt͡ʃvɑːnts/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Breitschwanz (literally “broad tail”).
Senses: glosses: Broadtail.
cleverer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛvɚɚ/
Senses: examples: text: Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.
ref: 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 752:
glosses: comparative form of clever: more clever
broadtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔːdteɪl/
Forms: form: broadtails
Etymology: From broad + tail.
Senses: synonyms: breitschwantz
glosses: The hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc.
glosses: Any of various kinds of parakeets in the genus Platycercus.
Related terms: breitschwanz
broadtail shortfin squid
young blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young bloods
Senses: examples: text: Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
ref: 1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC:
synonyms: fresh blood
new blood
youth
glosses: Young or youthful people, especially as a source of revitalizing force (in a team, organization, etc.).
examples: text: Every Saturday evening, raw young bloods of the village would meet for a drink, and the wine made us lively. We stuck a sprig of basil behind our ears, one of my cousins took his guitar, and we went serenading.
ref: 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 4, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 46:
roman: Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá
related: word: youngblood
glosses: A young person (especially a man); also as a term of address.
glosses: Youthful, revitalizing, or youth-oriented ideas.
matchbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchboxes
Etymology: From match + box.
Senses: glosses: A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.
Derived terms: matchbox bean
matchbox house
matchbox label
matchbox sign
matchbox skirt
matchbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchboxes
Etymology: From the die-cast toy car brand Matchbox owned by Mattel, so-called due to the size of the toys to fix in matchboxes.
Senses: glosses: Any small, die-cast toy car, usually a collectible.
Antilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪl.iːz/
rhymes: -ɪliːz
Etymology: From Antilia or Antillia, a legendary island lying west of Spain and Portugal, from Antulia; the name is of disputed origin, with many different theories proposed; see Antillia.
Senses: glosses: The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.
Meronyms: Greater Antilles
Lesser Antilles
Derived terms: word: Antillean
taxonomic: Galeus antillensis
word: Antilles catshark
taxonomic: Eleutherodactylus johnstonei
word: Antilles coqui
word: Antilles Current
taxonomic: Caribena versicolor
word: Antilles pinktoe tarantula
word: French Antilles
word: Greater Antilles
word: Leeward Antilles
word: Lesser Antilles
word: Netherlands Antilles
word: pearl of the Antilles
word: Windward Antilles
Greater Antilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The large islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea.
Hypernyms: Antilles
West Indies
Coordinate terms: Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The smaller islands of the West Indies, to the south and east of Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.
Coordinate terms: Greater Antilles
Meronyms: Leeward Islands
Windward Islands
Leeward Antilles
Barbuda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːˈb(j)uː.də/
ipa: /bɑɹˈb(j)u.də/
rhymes: -uːdə
Etymology: From Spanish barbuda (“bearded”), referring perhaps to natives' beards or fig trees. Coined by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus. Compare Lombardy. Doublet of Barbados.
Senses: glosses: An island and dependency of Antigua and Barbuda. Largest city: Codrington.
Derived terms: Antigua and Barbuda
Barbudan
Barbudian
Barbuda warbler
parfit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parfit
form: most parfit
Senses: glosses: Perfect.
on about
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: What are you on about?
text: They were on about some kind of UFO conspiracy theory.
glosses: Speaking about, talking of.
Related terms: go on
on and on
patten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpat(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpæt(ə)n/
homophone: paten
homophone: Patton
homophone: pattern (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: pattens
form: pattening
form: pattened
form: pattened
Etymology: From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: To go about wearing pattens.
patten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpat(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈpæt(ə)n/
homophone: paten
homophone: Patton
homophone: pattern (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: pattens
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paten.
picnicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnickers
Etymology: From picnic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The shop was located near the park; it did a big trade in renting bicycles to picnickers.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 50:
glosses: Someone who has a picnic.
pegamoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pegamoids
Etymology: A former trademark. See -oid.
Senses: glosses: A waterproof varnish used, applied to surfaces, in bookbinding and upholstery
glosses: imitation leather
blind as a bat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Nearly totally blind, having a very poor sense of vision
Synonyms: blind as a beetle
blind as a mole
blind as an owl
period piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: period pieces
Senses: glosses: A work of art or drama which evokes a particular historical era.
examples: text: Paying for these buyings, and arranging for their cartage to the shop, she got away, feeling physically tired but mentally elated, and very anxious to hear what Peter would say about the quality of her period pieces, and what prospects they offered for restoration.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 75:
text: Other designs of this period were the old "J" class 2-6-0s, built in England, the Baldwin "T" class 2-8-0s of 1879, splendid American period pieces, and the old "K" class 2-4-2s built by Rogers of Philadelphia.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 558:
glosses: A work which evokes the era in which it was produced, but may not have any other especial features.
piecework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piece work.
Derived terms: pieceworker
pig-run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-runs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pig run.
pig run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig runs
Senses: glosses: The running of a pig (cleaning device) through an oil or gas pipeline.
glosses: The open area of a pigsty.
pinstriping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The application of pinstripes to a fabric
glosses: The pinstripes of a fabric collectively
planisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪ.nɪˌsfɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈplæn.ɪˌsfɪɚ/
Forms: form: planispheres
Etymology: From plani- + sphere or plani- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: Any representation (map projection) of part of a sphere on a plane surface.
glosses: A map constructed by stereographic projection, as described in Ptolemy's treatise Planisphaerium and later used in planispheric astrolabes
glosses: A map of the whole world, especially those from the 16th–17th century
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several charts of the celestial sphere having an overlay or window that may be adjusted to show the stars visible at a particular time, or from a particular place.
Derived terms: planispheric
porterage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːtəɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɔːtɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹtəɹəd͡ʒ/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
Etymology: From porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”) + -age (suffix forming nouns indicating a relationship or state).
Senses: examples: text: In rules of Porterage untaught, / Simplicity, not vvorth a groat, / For years had kept the Temple door; / Full on his breaſt a glaſs he vvore, / Thro' vvhich his boſom open lay / To ev'ry one vvho paſs'd that vvay.
ref: 1764, C[harles] Churchill, “Book II”, in The Duellist. A Poem. […], London: […] G. Kearsly, […]; W. Flexney, […]; J. Coote, […]; C. Henderson, […]; J. Gardiner, […]; and J. Almon, […], →OCLC, pages 20–21:
text: There is an underground parking space for each flat, a 24-hour porterage service and careful security arrangements.
ref: 1994, Peter Ambrose, “The Impact of ‘Neo-liberal’ Policies on the Built Environment”, in Urban Process and Power, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Power – New Ideologies and Their Effects), plate 9.2 caption, page 179:
text: A good-sized drawing-room and dining-room and two double bedrooms – you won't need more. Twenty-four-hour porterage and a modern security system.
ref: 1997 October 1, P[hyllis] D[orothy] James, chapter 20, in A Certain Justice, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 181:
text: There is a strong demand for studio or one- and two-bedroom apartments with private underground parking and twenty-four hour porterage by young single professionals and executives and working couples with minimal domestic lifestyles.
ref: 2013, “The Demand for & Marketability of Individual Properties”, in The Housing Market: A Survey (ISR Economic Growth & Performance Studies), Manchester: Industrial Systems Research, published 2019, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: The occupation of, or services provided by, a porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”).
Related terms: porter
porter's lodge
powertrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powertrips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power trip.
power trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power trips
Senses: glosses: Any activity which confers a sense of power on the person involved.
glosses: The excitement that results from such an activity.
examples: text: A power trip has shut down production from the Ophir field offshore Malaysia, according to a report by energy portal OffshoreEnergyToday.com.
ref: 2018 January 9, Surin Murugiah, “Power trip shuts down Ophir field offshore Malaysia, says report”, in The Edge Markets, retrieved 17 Aug 2023:
text: A power trip is when the circuit breakers in your house cut off power in one area or the entirety of your house.
ref: 2022, Free Malaysia Today:
text: "We have done some targeted pest control, and it has made a huge difference. It's a serious topic. We looked at why there were so many power trips at Ladbroke Grove. And it was an infestation of birds."
ref: 2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 28:
synonyms: power cut
glosses: A power outage or a blackout, when an electrical device or system suddenly stops working.
Related terms: power move
power play
show of strength
sense 1
power-trip
power-tripping
sense 2
trip switch
sense 3
capitulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capitulate
power-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: power-trips
form: power-tripping
form: power-tripped
form: power-tripped
Senses: glosses: To engage in a power trip.
Derived terms: power-tripping
capitulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of capitulate
capitulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capitulate
Derived terms: precapitulating
uncapitulating
power-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of engaging in power trips.
power-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power-trip
learning season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learning seasons
Senses: glosses: Any time or occasion suitable or natural for gaining understanding, values, wisdom, knowledge, or skill.
prayer mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer mats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prayer rug.
synonyms: word: prayer rug
prayer rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer rugs
Senses: examples: text: She got up, pulled the prayer rug out from under her bed, and knelt down on it.
ref: 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 43:
hyponyms: namazlik
glosses: A small rug on which a person kneels to pray, especially in Islam.
Synonyms: namazlik
prayer mat
preferredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preferred + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being preferred
glosses: A measure of by how much one thing is preferred over another
propelling pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propelling pencils
Senses: glosses: A mechanical pencil.
pseudohallucinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudohallucinatory
form: most pseudohallucinatory
Etymology: From pseudo- + hallucinatory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing pseudohallucination
pseudohallucination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohallucinations
Etymology: From pseudo- + hallucination.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A brief but vivid visual or auditory experience that is recognised by the experiencer as being unreal.
Related terms: pseudohallucinatory
purplewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purplewoods
Etymology: From purple + wood.
Senses: glosses: The purpleheart tree
purpleheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purplehearts
Etymology: From purple + heart.
Senses: glosses: A large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies
glosses: The purplish heartwood of this tree, used to make furniture
Synonyms: purplewood
quetsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: quetch
Forms: form: quetsches
Etymology: From French quetsche, from Lorraine German Quetsche (standard German Zwetschge), ultimately from Latin damascēna. Doublet of damson.
Senses: glosses: A dark-skinned variety of plum.
glosses: A liqueur made from the fruit.
expostulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expostulate
expostulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expostulate
expostulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expostulate
margravine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɡɹəviːn/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹɡɹəvin/
Forms: form: margravines
form: margravin
form: markgravine
Etymology: From Dutch markgravin.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a margrave.
glosses: A woman with the rank and responsibilities of a margrave.
stage manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage managers
form: stage-manager
Senses: glosses: A person responsible for the organization of a stage production, and who is in charge of the stage during the performance.
Related terms: stage business
stage crew
stage direction
stagehand
pesäpallo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball.
LASIK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪsɪk/
rhymes: -eɪsɪk
Forms: form: Lasik
Senses: examples: text: In LASIK surgery, a computer-controlled laser is used to reshape the cornea.
text: After LASIK, most patients see well enough to pass a driver's license exam without glasses or contact lenses.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of laser in situ keratomileusis: corrective eye surgery for various refractive disorders in which an excimer laser reshapes the cornea.
North Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Northern Sami.
give the elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the elbow
form: giving the elbow
form: gave the elbow
form: given the elbow
Senses: examples: text: They said I couldn't do the job so they gave me the elbow. So, now I'm looking for work again.
text: When are you finally going to give your boyfriend the elbow?
glosses: To fire (an employee); to end a relationship with someone; to reject someone.
Synonyms: elbow out
aside
out of the way
fire
sack
unloving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloving
form: most unloving
Etymology: From un- + loving.
Senses: examples: text: Every year between six and eight million parents desert their children; two to three million teenagers run away from typically unloving homes.
ref: 1977 April 30, Louie Crew, “Expelling the Genital Exchequers from the Temple”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: The negative belief is always more petty, self-serving, unallowing, resistant, fearful, and unloving.
ref: 2014, Sean Morgan, Tracy Phillips, Mastery of Change:
glosses: Not loving.
unloving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + loving.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlove
oyra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Faroese oyra, from Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus. Doublet of aureus, eyrir, öre, and øre.
Senses: glosses: A subdenomination of the Faroese króna.
wikipedia: Faroese króna
Øre
intraspecific competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Competition for resources between members of the same species.
interspecific competition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interspecific competitions
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Competition for resources between species.
Skolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skolts
Senses: glosses: A member of a small ethnic Sami fraction living in northern Finland and nearby areas of Russia. The Skolts have their own language, Skolt Sami.
Skolt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Skolt Sami language.
jew down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jews down
form: jewing down
form: jewed down
form: jewed down
form: Jew down
Etymology: From the noun Jew, based on the stereotype of Jews as parsimonious and driving hard bargains + down.
Senses: examples: text: […] the popular and fashionable lying, which is so prolific between merchant and customer, as the process of jewing down is going on among all traders of the day.
ref: 1861, George W. Henry, Tell Tale Rag, and Popular Sins of the Day, self-published, published 1861, page ix:
text: Equality, too, removes the possibility of bargaining, of jewing up or jewing down a salary, according to the exigencies of the moment.
ref: 1906, unnamed university president, quoted in John Maxson Stillman's "Relations of Salary to Title in American Universities", in Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association of American Universities, Association of American Universities (1907), page 80
text: I wanted to get $600 and a light job and they just jewed me down to $375 and a light job.
ref: 1920, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakotahttps://books.google.com/books?id=wnAtAQAAMAAJ, Swan v. Great Northern R. Co., p. 277
text: Millan had already been repeating his loud opinion of all Hindus, before the tailor he had so efficiently jewed down was half out of the room.
ref: 2005, Cedric Belfrage, Away from It All: An Escapologist's Notebook, Kessinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 131:
antonyms: jew up
glosses: To bargain or haggle with a seller in order to obtain a lower price for a good or service.
Related terms: gyp
welsh
ad nauseum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ad nauseam, with influence from the common Latin ending -um.
Senses: examples: text: If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
ref: 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:
glosses: Misspelling of ad nauseam.
Mordred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɹdɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈmɔːdɹɪd/
Forms: form: Modred
Etymology: Alteration of Modred, from Latin Modredus, from Proto-Brythonic *Modrọd (whence Old Breton Modrot, Old Cornish Modred, Old Welsh Medraut), perhaps from Latin Moderātus.
Senses: qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: The illegitimate son of King Arthur, who ultimately killed him in battle.
cingulotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cingulotomies
Etymology: From cingulum + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: cingulectomy
glosses: A form of brain surgery in which an electric current is used to destroy the cortex of the cingulate gyrus and part of the corpus callosum.
anuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anurias
Etymology: From an- + -uria.
Senses: examples: text: Clinically defined as urine output of less than 100 ml in 24 hours, anuria indicates either urinary tract obstruction or acute renal failure due to various mechanisms.[…]Anuria is rare; even with renal failure, the kidneys usually produce at least 75 ml of urine daily.
ref: 2007, Nain D. Chohan, editor, Nursing: Interpreting Signs & Symptoms, page 39:
text: Changes in urinary pattern such as polyuria, oliguria, anuria, enuresis, and excessive thirst can be associated with tubular dysfunction.
ref: 2008, Ronald M. Perkin, Dale A. Newton, James D. Swift, editors, Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Textbook of Inpatient Management, 2nd edition, page 359:
text: It goes without saying, therefore, that obstructive anuria can occur only if the outflow from both kidneys or from the only functioning kidney is obstructed.
ref: 2011, Boris Lams, “Oliguria”, in Mark Kinirons, Harold Ellis, editors, French's Index of Differential Diagnosis: An A-Z, page 467:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the kidneys do not produce urine.
Related terms: anuresis
anuretic
anuric
enuresis
oligoanuria
oliguria
polyuria
anuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.jʊˈɹiːsɪs/
ipa: /ˌæn.jəˈɹisɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Etymology: From an- + -uresis.
Senses: examples: text: Kaido [35] describes a 53-year-old Japanese lady whose index presentation was with vomiting, anuresis, and clouded conscious state on a background of 6 months of apathy.
ref: 2010, Perminder S. Sachdev, Matcheri S. Keshavan, editors, Secondary Schizophrenia, Cambridge University Press, page 235:
text: Suffice it to say that the urge to look over/down at their penises is powerful and the motives behind this urge so complex as to cause anuresis (which in turn ups the trauma).
ref: 2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page vii:
text: 2012 March, Paul Nikolaidis, Nancy A. Hammond (guest editors), Frank H. Miller (consulting editor), Genitourinary Imaging, Radiologic Clinics of North America, Volume 50, Number 2, unnumbered page,
Although rare, symptoms may include lumbar or hip pain, dysuria, oliguria, anuresis, and, more rarely, hematuria and pollakiuria.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to urinate; the retention of urine in the bladder.
Related terms: anuretic
anuria
enuresis
dysuria
haematuria
hematuria
oliguria
pollakiuria
polyuria
cleanability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleanabilities
Etymology: By surface analysis, clean + -ability, or, by surface analysis, cleanable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being cleanable.
glosses: The degree to which something is cleanable.
close-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊsʌp/
Senses: examples: text: A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop.
ref: 1969 March 21, “Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight”, in Time:
glosses: In near proximity.
Related terms: close-up lens