cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gimbal lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimbal locks
Senses: examples: text: Gimbal lock occurs when the pitch nears 90° or 270°, causing the bank and heading to lie along the same plane. This limits the item to only two rotation axes, as the bank and heading effectively do the same thing.
ref: 2005, Jonny Gorden, LightWave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation, Volume 2: Rigging and Animation, Wordware Publishing, page 126:
text: 2010, S. Nagabhushana, L. K. Sudha, Aircraft Instrumentation and Systems, I. K. International Publishing House, page 249,
Such a strap down system reduces the cost, eliminates gimbals and associated gimbal locks, and enhances the reliability (MTBF) by having no moving elements.
text: EVERY ANIMATOR CAN TELL YOU what gimbal lock does to their animations: during playback arms suddenly go crazy, wrists can spin like a top, heads can go exorcist on you.
ref: 2012, Eric Luhta, Kenny Roy, How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for Character Animation, Elsevier (Focal Press), page 138:
glosses: The loss of one degree of freedom in the three-dimensional rotational movement of a three-gimbal mechanism, which occurs when the axes of two of the three gimbals are driven into a parallel configuration, so that the system's rotational movement becomes two-dimensional (and necessarily remains so until an appropriate force is applied); the equivalent situation in a simulation of rotational movement, when the mathematical model uses Euler angles (representing pitch, yaw and roll) or their equivalent.
gimbal locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimbal lock
gimbleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gimblet
gimbleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gimblet
seed crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed crystals
Etymology: By analogy with the seeds of plants.
Senses: glosses: A small crystal from which a larger crystal of the same substance is grown
multiple bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A covalent bond formed by the overlap of multiple pairs or electron orbitals
Related terms: double bond
triple bond
single bond
dangos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dango
Barnas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barnases
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Barnaś.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
pageantitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pageant + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Aldershot has, in common with other places, had its little spasmodic attack of pageantitis. On the 9th and 10th inst., a grand military pageant and tattoo took place in the grounds of Government House.
ref: 1907 July 31, “2nd Battalion Notes”, in St. George's Gazette, volume XXV, number 295, London, page 107:
text: The Kaiser has condescended to catch from us an attack of pageantitis, and it broke out in Alsace-Lorraine the other day, when his Imperial Majesty inaugurated, with mediæval pomp and circumstance, the restored Hohkönigsberg, near Schlettstadt, in Lower Alsace.
ref: 1908 May 27, “The Kaiser Catches Pageantitis”, in The Bystander, volume XVIII, number 234, London, page 439:
text: Pageantitis has reverted to an old form at the seaside watering places. Beauty shows have become quite a common attraction ....
ref: 1908 September 26, “Beauty Shows”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LXXXVIII, number 2146, Shanghai, page 770:
text: "Madeline, can't you do something about the proliferation of pageants in these parts? Everywhere I look, a queen is springing up. Those wretched friends of yours! They must be stopped. What do you call them? Pageantitis? Pageantniks? Idiots, I say idiots!"
ref: 2007, Jane Tesh, A Hard Bargain: A Madeleine Maclin Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: In 1907 in Oxford a serious outbreak of an ‘affliction of the eye and mind known in professional circles as Pageantitis’ was vividly depicted in a satirical postcard.
ref: 2007 June 26, Deborah Sugg Ryan, “'Pageantitis': Frank Lascelles' 1907 Oxford Historical Pageant, Visual Spectacle and Popular Memory”, in Visual Culture in Britain, volume 8, number 2, Manchester University Press, pages 63–82:
glosses: An enthusiastic rise in the popularity of pageants.
Related terms: pageant fever
twitling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twitlings
Etymology: From twit + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: "You twit, Long!" ... "You twitling, twitling! Twitling!"
ref: 1984, Martyn Hammersley, Peter Woods, Life in school:
text: "Pipe down, twitlings." Chains poured a splash of the quicksilver wine into Locke's glass and handed it back to him.
ref: 2007, Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora:
glosses: A little twit.
misrede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misredes
form: misreding
form: misreded
form: misreded
Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + rede. Compare misread.
Senses: glosses: To advise unwisely or to bad purpose; miscounsel; misadvise.
mishold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˈmɪshoʊld/
Forms: form: misholds
form: misholding
form: misheld
form: misheld
form: misholden
Etymology: From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold.
Senses: examples: text: Kedang while attempting to catch hold of the safe, happened to mishold and fell in the lake where she was drowned; Saika's right hand was also in the safe, but it became stuck in its lid that she could no longer pull it out again.
ref: 1971, Hamlet Bareh, Khasi fables and folk-tales:
text: He says that wealth, along with sex and power, is the most sought after and misheld and misused by those who possess it.
ref: 2006, Macherla Diwakar, A little of it:
text: This would help lower my anxiety and make certain that I would not mishold, or God forbid, drop the precious package.
ref: 2011, Neal L. Veldenax, Baby Boomer Female Names:
glosses: To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.
mishold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˈmɪshoʊld/
Etymology: From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold.
Senses: examples: text: There was no indecision, no mishold, no stone dislodged, and he possessed such marvellous breathing power, that on reaching a fair foothold he promptly turned and began to haul at the rope without pause or hesitation.
ref: 1896, Joseph Sanger Davies, Dolomite strongholds:
text: A misstep, mishold, a hundredth of an instant's lack of balance.
ref: 1930, Virginia Tracy, The moment after - Page 231:
glosses: A wrong, bad, or faulty hold.
scaffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scaffolding
kanae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori kanae.
Senses: glosses: A grey mullet.
PMI chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMI charts
Senses: glosses: A chart with three headings (plus, minus, and interesting) used to evaluate aspects of an idea.
PMI charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PMI chart
scare straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scares straight
form: scaring straight
form: scared straight
form: scared straight
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, there is a streak of Reaganomics that believes the only way to motivate American workers is to scare them straight with unemployment charts.
ref: 1982 September 3, Ellen Goodman, “Work ethic remains strong as ever”, in Spokesman-Review, Spokane, USA, retrieved 13 Feb 2013, page 4:
text: Thomas credited the boot camp for scaring him straight.
ref: 2005 March 16, Pete Thamel, “Scared Straight Into the Courts of Basketball”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Feb 2013:
text: Slimmed down and scared straight after his bypass surgery, Clinton brokers a deal to get sugary drinks out of schools.
ref: 2006 May 15, "How Bill Put the Fizz in the Fight Against Fat, Time (retrieved 13 Feb 2013)
glosses: To frighten (someone) to such a degree that a significant improvement in behavior results.
Related terms: set straight
scared straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scare straight
Swizzerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Switzerland.
Kris Kindle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chris Kindle.
Chris Kindle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kris Kindle
Etymology: See etymology at Christingle.
Senses: glosses: A pseudonym for a secret Santa.
misplease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispleases
form: mispleasing
form: mispleased
form: mispleased
Etymology: From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, i [sic] have one great Fear to misplease Him, and I pray He give me more of that Fear each Day, He my heavenly Father, not the Fear like Olga to the Knout, but to fear I misplease Him my Father, and make me not worthy of His Love.
ref: 1889, William Henry Anderdon, Bracton:
text: "[...] Yet let this make me as sorry as it will, still I must on that account above all see how everything looks before God and in itself, how it pleases or mispleases him."
ref: 1924, Hastings Eells, The attitude of Martin Bucer toward the bigamy of Philip of Hesse:
text: The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.
ref: 1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart:
glosses: To fail in pleasing; displease.
chance-medley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chance-medleys
form: chancemedley
Etymology: From Old French chance medlée, literally "mingled chance", with postpositive adjective (often confused because of the fact that medley is also a noun).
Senses: examples: text: Manſlaughter, otherwiſe called Chancemedley, is when two do fight together upon the ſudden, and by meer Chance, without any Malice precedent, and one of them doth kill the other; this alſo is Felony of Death.
ref: 1618, Michael Dalton, chapter CXLVI, in The Country Justice, Savoy: Henry Lintot, published 1746, page 333:
topics: law
glosses: The killing of another in self-defence upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter.
examples: text: This is true in the general right of marriage, but not in the chance-medley of every particular match.
ref: 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon:
text: Though much depends on what thy choice shall be, / Is all chance-medley, and unknown to me.
ref: 1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium; Or, A Review of Schools:
glosses: Luck; chance; accident.
Synonyms: sense: killing
word: manslaught
sense: killing
word: manslaughter
sense: luck
word: fortune
word: hap
word: luck
chance-medleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chance-medley
post-fine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-fines
Etymology: From post- + fine?
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; the king's silver.
post-fines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-fine
misown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misowns
form: misowning
form: misowned
form: misowned
Etymology: From mis- + own.
Senses: examples: text: A thetan very often carries with him a theta body which he mocked up on the past track and which is a number of facsimiles of old bodies he has misowned and is carrying along with him as control mechanisms which he uses […]
ref: 1977, La Fayette Ron Hubbard, Pat Brice, Laurel Rock, Have you lived before this life?:
text: We feel as if we are ourselves afflicted or at ease when a son or a wife or an^([sic]) person dear to us is so (2) we also misattribute or misown properties which rightly belong not to us as conscious persons but to our bodies.
ref: 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta:
text: So any person who is unaware of their entities and how the person themselves assumes ownership of anything that is in their space regardless of who or where or when it came from and hence misowns identification, can be in a very confused state and not even know it.
ref: 2012, The Subtle Perception Illuminator, thesubtleperceptionilluminator.com/2012/06/20/372/:
glosses: To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
Derived terms: misowned
misowning
ill luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill-luck
Senses: examples: text: Then, as we have reported, bogie defects came to light on the first few production "Deltics" [...]; these have now been remedied, but inevitably deliveries, trial running and particularly crew training were retarded as a result, so that once again ill luck has dogged the East Coast Route timetable planners.
ref: 1961 September, “Background to the new winter timetables of the East Coast”, in Modern Railways, page 528:
synonyms: word: hard luck
word: unluck
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
glosses: Bad luck; misluck; misfortune.
ill-luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ill luck.
misregardful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misregardful
form: most misregardful
Etymology: From misregard + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Heedless; unmindful; neglectful; uncaring.
waspling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasplings
Etymology: From wasp + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed that the reverse would be the ideal arrangement since the little waspling would upon hatching find food immediately at hand and thus be secured from any chance of starving while in a weak and helpless state.
ref: 1922, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volumes 15-16, page 240:
text: Now safely sealed within a cell, she fed on both the defenceless spiders and the developing waspling.
ref: 2007, Jennifer Scoullar, Wasp Season:
glosses: A small, young, or baby wasp.
wasplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waspling
beeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beelings
Etymology: From bee + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.
ref: 1906, Harper's magazine, volume 113, page 593:
text: [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.
ref: 1907, Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen:
glosses: A small, young, or juvenile bee.
beelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beeling
mislodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislodges
form: mislodging
form: mislodged
form: mislodged
Etymology: From mis- + lodge.
Senses: glosses: To lodge incorrectly, amiss, or in the wrong place.
Derived terms: mislodged
allofam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allofams
Etymology: From allo- + fam (“abbreviation of family”).
Senses: glosses: a linguistic form (attested or reconstructed word) which belongs to a particular word family.
raw_tags: in Sino-Tibetan linguistics
Derived terms: allofamy
allofamic
allofamically
Related terms: allocomp
Danubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danubic
form: most Danubic
Etymology: From Danube + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Less common synonym of Danubian.
synonyms: word: Danubian
Danuban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danuban
form: most Danuban
Etymology: From Danube + -an.
Senses: glosses: Less common synonym of Danubian.
synonyms: word: Danubian
baghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagh
Meusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Meuse + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From or pertaining to the Meuse (region or river); located by the river Meuse or in the region Meuse.
oxling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxlings
Etymology: From ox + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Well! Had you no shame, you miserable beast, to let such an affront get past your lips? Where you outdo me, I have no idea; for I'm as fit as you for any task, you poor, ill-fated, nonsense-talking oxling.
ref: 2003, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds:
glosses: A small, young, or miniature ox.
oxlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxling
Memelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Memelians
Etymology: From Memel + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Pista never knew how much time had elapsed, but after a while the two Memelians decided to sit down against the wall of a nearby barracks and began a conversation mirroring the struggle and destruction of a family […]
ref: 1965, The Cross and the Blatnoi, page 285:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Memel (a city in eastern Europe).
Memelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Memelian
reduction furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduction furnaces
Senses: glosses: A form of furnace in which an ore is reduced to a metal.
beavers away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beaver away
beavered away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beaver away
Siemens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziːmənz/
Forms: form: Siemenses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Siemens.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bessemer Township, Gogebic County, Michigan, United States, named after Werner von Siemens.
Derived terms: ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens
Siemens cycle
Siemens-Martin process
Siemens-Martin steel
shish kebabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish kebab
French Republican Calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the French Republican Calendar
Senses: glosses: The republican calendar used for twelve years in revolutionary France (from late 1793 to 1805).
wikipedia: French Republican Calendar
Synonyms: French Revolutionary Calendar
youth work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A community support activity aimed at adolescents to support their growth and integration in society.
Sprachraum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachraum.
Senses: examples: text: The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan.
ref: a. 2011, Alexander Borg, Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic in 2011, Robert E. Maclaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick, Anthropology of Color, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 263
text: The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum.
ref: 2011, Srdjan Vucetic, The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations, Stanford University Press, page 147:
text: […]; in addition, there is an area along the southeastern border of the Dutch Sprachraum that exhibited the same peculiarity (ibid. pp. 12–13).
ref: 2013, Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska, Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration, Cambridge University Press, pages 100–101:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken
examples: text: […] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop.
ref: 1976, In search of love and competence: twenty-five years of service, training, and research at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, page 287:
text: As one works with different categories of patients, one discovers that each of them can be described in terms of the Sprachraum, the language space they have mastered and use in order to communicate with us, appeal to us, struggle with us, oppose us, resist us, and search for attachment of which they may well be afraid and must avoid.
ref: 1988, Achim Eschbach, Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 6–7:
text: Many patients have very little Sprachraum, very little capacity for the use of language to expresss ^([sic]) their thoughts or perhaps to disguise their thoughts.
ref: 1989, Rudol Ekstein, The Language of Psychotherapy, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 280:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psycholinguistics
psychology
sciences
glosses: the repertoire of language available to a given person
hurry-up wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurry-up wagons
Senses: glosses: A rapid-response vehicle, possibly a kind of ambulance, or paddy wagon
hurry-up wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurry-up wagon
mishave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mishaves
form: mishaving
form: mishaved
form: mishaved
form: mishaif
Etymology: From Middle English *mishaven, from Old English *mishabban, attested in derivative mishabbende (“having ill”), equivalent to mis- + have.
Senses: examples: text: It is agreed […] that if anie servaunte […] shall by fighting, quarrelling or other unsemelie maner at anie time herafter misdemeane or mishave himself and therof be ones monished or warned […]
ref: 1567, quoted in 1997, C. S. Knighton, Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609 (page 28)
glosses: To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.
shie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: shies
form: shieing
form: shied
form: shied
Senses: examples: text: […] a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
ref: 1787, Jeremy Bentham, Defence of Usury:
glosses: Archaic form of shy (“to throw”).
shieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shie
typestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typestates
Etymology: From type + state.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Information stored with a variable indicating its current data type.
typestates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typestate
mishope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈhəʊp/
Forms: form: mishopes
form: mishoping
form: mishoped
form: mishoped
Etymology: From Middle English mishopen, equivalent to mis- + hope (verb). Cognate with Middle Dutch mishopen, Middle High German missehoffen, Middle Swedish mishoppa.
Senses: examples: text: This tree was defective in both, yielding nothing but an empty shade to the mishoping traveller.
ref: 1846, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the historical passages of the Old and New Testament:
text: Not destitute of love to God or Man; But with a serpent's quiet, hissing, hate, To whoso misbelieves, misdeems, mishopes; Nor sparing God himself, if God should spare, Nor loving whoso deems His name is Love, Nor speaking truly of who seeks but truth.
ref: 1870, Rowland Williams, Owen Glendower:
text: It was then that Hector was sure that he had won, mishoping, misreading her erotic fervor for a deeper devotion; for he was too young and ignorant to know that she was not acting or dissembling but rather offering herself to his pure and towering want, […]
ref: 2010, Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered:
glosses: To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
mishope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈhəʊp/
Forms: form: mishopes
Etymology: From Middle English mishope, equivalent to mis- + hope (noun). Cognate with Middle Dutch mishope, Middle Swedish mishop.
Senses: examples: text: I was nearhand in utter mishope.
ref: 1888, Emily Sarah Holt, In convent walls:
text: People who are older must know that as life advances it is only a series of hopes and mishopes with something infinite pulling them toward the end.
ref: 1919, Daniel Carson Goodman, The taker:
text: “Mishope?” What sort of a name was that? The ton was prone to bestowing nicknames on people he knew, but mishope?
ref: 2005, Anne Gracie, The Perfect Waltz:
glosses: despair; a hope not realised.
taipos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taipo
pavier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paviers
Senses: glosses: A paver (someone who lays pavement).
paviers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavier
shool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shools
Etymology: From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Senses: examples: text: And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 25:14:
text: 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
glosses: A shovel.
examples: ref: 2010, Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, “shool spade see shovel”, in A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2, U of Minnesota Press, page 785:
glosses: A spade.
shool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shools
form: shooling
form: shooled
form: shooled
Etymology: From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Senses: examples: text: The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
glosses: To move materials with a shovel.
examples: 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
glosses: To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
glosses: To shuffle or shamble.
examples: text: Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:
glosses: To go about begging.
shool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shools
Senses: glosses: Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”).
imbroccatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbroccata
imbrocata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbrocatas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imbroccata.
imbrocatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbrocata
alcyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcyon
piccadillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piccadilly
piccadil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piccadils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piccadill.
piccadils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piccadil
paraquito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraquitos
form: paraquitoes
Senses: examples: text: Come, come, you Paraquito, anſwer me directly vnto this queſtion, that I ſhall aske.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of parakeet.
paraquitoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraquito
paraquitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraquito
otherguess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: othergates
form: otherguise
Etymology: Corruption of othergates.
Senses: examples: text: Be aſſured I have in reſerve a body of othergueſs arguments, vvhich I am ready to produce.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The First Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XV, page 57:
text: “I have known other-guess authors than you (that is, in point of interest and fame) kept in continual attendance and dependance during the best part of their lives, and after all, disappointed in the expectation of seeing their performances exhibited on the stage.”
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of another kind; different.
otherguess
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: othergates
form: otherguise
Etymology: Corruption of othergates.
Senses: glosses: In another way.
opportunity knocks at every man's door
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Everybody gets opportunities.
Related terms: opportunity knocks
pervis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervises
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of parvis.
pervises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pervis
agrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agrammatic
form: most agrammatic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
Derived terms: agrammatic aphasia
vinegar valentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinegar valentines
Etymology: In reference to the acidity or sourness of vinegar.
Senses: glosses: A sarcastic valentine greeting card with a caricature and an insulting poem.
vinegar valentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinegar valentine
blowen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowens
Senses: examples: text: Poll Strokem, an old blowen, well known about the streets of London, was continually crying; see her whenever you would, she was all snot and slobber, like a calf's head on a hot summer's day […]
ref: 1840, Regular Slangsman, The Flash Mirror, Or, Kiddy's Cabinet, page 12:
text: Many a blowen of saloonic fame
ref: August 1831, Bryan O'Toole, “Barney Moore”, in Blackwood Magazine:
glosses: A prostitute; a courtesan.
blowens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowen
harls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harl
harls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harl
diplomating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diplomate
diplomated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diplomate
diplomatic bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplomatic bag
wedeloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedelosides
Senses: glosses: A toxin from plants in the genus Wedelia.
wedelosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedeloside
cund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cunds
form: cunding
form: cunded
form: cunded
Senses: examples: text: These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship,[…].
ref: a. 1643, William Monson, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, volume 45, Navy Records Society, published 1913, page 20:
text: a. 1688, John Narborough, quoted in 1990, Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815, page 34,
[…] he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.
glosses: Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”).
cunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cund
cunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cund
cunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cund
herling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herlings
form: hirling
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: The young of the sea trout or similar trout, once thought to be a separate species.
herlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herling
antifunding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifunding
form: most antifunding
Etymology: From anti- + funding.
Senses: examples: text: The most famous example of an antifunding law was the attempt by Congressman James G. Blaine to pass a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting funding to parochial schools[…]
ref: 2012, Paul Harvey, Edward J. Blum, The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History:
glosses: Opposing funding.
spermatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spermato- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of sperm.
Related terms: spermatologist
spermatological
semicola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicolon
talk page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk pages
form: talkpage
form: talk-page
Senses: examples: text: The desire to fix something wrong—in this case, articles that have not kept up with the times—is meant to play out on an article’s “Talk page,” a companion page dedicated to discussing edits.
ref: 2023 January 22, Noam Cohen, “The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: discussion page
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A place on wiki websites where discussion of an entry or article takes place.
ixtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ixtles
form: istle
form: ixtli
Etymology: American Spanish, from Nahuatl ixtli.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Agave angustifolia var. angustifolia (syn. Agave rigida), furnishing a strong coarse fiber.
glosses: The fiber itself; pita, or Tampico fiber.
selvedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of selvedge
selvaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of selvage
scarabaeuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarabaeus
brassets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brasset
bridges the gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bridge the gap
bridging the gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bridge the gap
yuki-onna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuki-onna
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 雪女 (yukionna).
Senses: glosses: Japanese snow spirit; the spirit of a woman who perished out in the snow during the winter months, said to return during the winter months to lure lost souls to their deaths.
bridged the gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bridge the gap
baft
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abaft.
baft
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more baft
form: most baft
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abaft.
baft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bafta (“type of material”).
superimposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superimposures
Senses: glosses: An image produced by superimposition.
superimposures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superimposure
megasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megass (“archaic form of bagasse”).
tonsillitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tonsilitic
Etymology: From tonsillitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: tonsillar
rowens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowen
unbirched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + birch + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the fathers, many of them of his own generation, prophesied that a boy unbirched would grow up a dullard […]
ref: 1916, Laura Wolcott, A Gray Dream:
glosses: Not birched.
secondos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondo
zygite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygites
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: A rower of the middle tier in a trireme.
zygites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygite
iconodulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconodulists
Senses: glosses: An iconodule.
iconodulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconodulist
zygoapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + apophyseal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zygapophysial.
molaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molary
molary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the molary teeth
glosses: Archaic form of molar.
molary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molaries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of molar.
zygocactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygocacti
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any cactus in the genus Schlumbergera (previously Zygocactus)
zygocacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygocactus
Plate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Plate
Etymology: Ellipsis of River Plate.
Senses: examples: text: […]; but the tributary waters of the Plate issuing from the eastern and western plateaus, flow towards each other, unite in the heart of the continent, and continue over the central plain to the Atlantic.
ref: 1832, David Brewster, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, volume 17, page 288:
text: To the southwest 235 miles of Uruguay's coast meet the muddy waters of the Plate. The tide plays tricks with the sediment-laden discharge of the great river and drives it back onto the coast, […]
ref: 1947, Betty de Sherbinin, The River Plate republics, page 221:
text: A series of lucky shots from the small fort at Colonia had set fire to the Lord Clive, which was unable to manoeuvre in the shallow waters of the Plate. It did not stop burning till the flames reached the water line.
ref: 2002, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America, page 6:
text: It would be preferable in view of the shortage of ammunition to blow her up in the shallow waters of the Plate and to have the crew interned.
ref: 2004, Dudley Pope, The Battle Of The River Plate: The Hunt For The German Pocket Battleship Graf Spree, page 184:
glosses: The River Plate.
Derived terms: Platine
mued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mue
muing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mue
spur-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spur-shells
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of conical gastropod shells in the family Trochidae and genus Astraea in family Turbinidae, the margin of the shells being toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
spur-shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spur-shell
dosel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosels
Etymology: Old French dossel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dorsal (a hanging or canopy)
dosels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dosel
zooprophylaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + prophylaxis.
Senses: glosses: The use of animals (such as cattle) to divert disease-carrying insects such as mosquitos from humans
Related terms: zooprophylactic
calamaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamary
calamary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calamaries
form: calamar
form: calmar
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin calamārius, from calamus (“a reed pen”), because of the ink emitted by squids.
Senses: glosses: A squid.
zeugmatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zeugmatography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zeugmatography.
muntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munting
Muntenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muntenian
form: most Muntenian
Etymology: From Muntenia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Muntenia.
Muntenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muntenians
Etymology: From Muntenia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Muntenia.
Muntenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muntenian
periscians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periscian
tribunitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: tribunician; relating to a tribune
tribunitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: tribunician; relating to a tribune
tribuneships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribuneship
ununctuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununctuous
form: most ununctuous
Etymology: From un- + unctuous.
Senses: glosses: Not unctuous.
muqarnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muqarnases
form: muqarnas
Etymology: From Arabic مُقَرْنَص (muqarnaṣ) (passive participle of قَرْنِيص (qarnīṣ), from Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “curved”)), or Persian مقرنس (moqarnas).
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: honeycomb
honeycomb work
glosses: A type of corbel used for decoration in Islamic and Persian architecture.
quasidemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasidemocratic
form: most quasidemocratic
Etymology: From quasi- + democratic.
Senses: glosses: Having certain aspects of democracy.
tollkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tollkeepers
Etymology: From toll + keeper.
Senses: glosses: One who mans a tollbooth.
tollkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tollkeeper
tollingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tollingly
form: most tollingly
Etymology: From tolling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a tolling sound; ringing solemnly like a large bell.
poorwills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poorwill
alcoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoates
Senses: glosses: alcoholate
alcohate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcohates
Senses: glosses: alcoholate
alcoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoate
alcohates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcohate
alcoholisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoholism
amoebaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoebaeum
amoebaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amoebaea
Etymology: From the neuter of Latin amoebaeus, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβαῖος (amoibaîos, “alternate”).
Senses: examples: text: The third eclogue of Virgil is an amoebaeum.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poem in which people are represented speaking alternately.
Related terms: amoebean
lawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of law
glosses: simple past and past participle of lawe
stake-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stake-drivers
Etymology: From stake + driver; so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud.
Senses: glosses: An American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stake, driver.
stake-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stake-driver
melado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melados
form: meladoes
form: melada
Etymology: From Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).
Senses: glosses: a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained
meladoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melado
melada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meladas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melado.
meladas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melada
melados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melado
lacrymatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacrymatory
form: most lacrymatory
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymatory.
lacrymatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrymatories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymatory.
lacrymatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrymatory
lacrymose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacrymose
form: most lacrymose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymose.
lacrymary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacrymary
form: most lacrymary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymary.
dryadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dryadic
form: most dryadic
Etymology: From dryad + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dryads.
stalactical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalactical
form: most stalactical
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: stalactic
stalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalactic
form: most stalactic
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or relating to, stalactites.
neo-Christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + Christianity.
Senses: glosses: A reinterpretation of Christianity.
Related terms: neo-Christian
pseudorationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Pseudorationalismus, coined by economist and philosopher Otto Neurath as a disparaging term. Equivalent to pseudo- + rationalism.
Senses: glosses: A school of thought that believes that all actions can be subject to rational analysis
wikipedia: Otto Neurath
Related terms: pseudorationalist
shinai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinais
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 竹刀(しない) (shinai).
Senses: glosses: A bamboo sword used in the Japanese martial art kendo.
gladioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladiole
taminies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taminy
taminy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taminies
form: tamine
Etymology: Compare French tamis (“a sort of sieve”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tammy (“cloth”).
synonyms: word: tammy
extra: cloth