cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
p's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P's
Etymology: Probably from the plural of p, where p refers to a penny or pence, but perhaps from pound sterling or paper (referring to paper money).
Senses: examples: text: [Verse 1]:[…]I wash this with Persil, and I wanna make p's of rhyming still.
ref: 2021 August 19, Most Certi, “Drake”performed by Most Certi:
glosses: Money.
underlies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underlie
K's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of K
Related terms: k's
q's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of q
Related terms: Q's
L's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L
Related terms: l's
M's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ms
Senses: glosses: plural of M
Related terms: m's
N's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N
Related terms: n's
O's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O
Related terms: o's
P's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of P
P's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.
ref: 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars, performed by Tempa T:
glosses: Alternative form of p's (“money”).
Related terms: p's
r's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] my nerves were shattered by a blatant exhorter, […] who insisted on his r’s with a nasal persistence which revolted my every instinct. […] I believe the minister was a good man, but when he bellowed: “And the Lorrrd said unto Moses, the Lorrrd is a man of war; the Lorrrd is his name. My wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sworrrd!”. I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.
ref: 1895, Robert W. Chambers, “The Yellow Sign”, in The King in Yellow, page 107:
glosses: plural of r
Related terms: R's
Q's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Q
Related terms: q's
R's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of R
Related terms: r's
s's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of s
Related terms: S's
t's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t
Related terms: T's
v's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of v
Related terms: V's
w's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of w
Related terms: W's
x's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x
Related terms: X's
y's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ys
Senses: glosses: plural of y
Related terms: Y's
z's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziz/
Senses: glosses: plural of z
z's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ziz/
Forms: form: Z's
form: zs
Senses: examples: text: It's getting late: it's time to catch some z's.
glosses: Sleep.
Related terms: catch some z's
zzz
Z's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z
Z's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of z's (sleep).
Y's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ys
Senses: glosses: plural of Y
Related terms: y's
X's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X
Related terms: x's
W's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W
Related terms: w's
V's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V
Related terms: v's
T's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T
Related terms: t's
S's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S
Related terms: s's
curd cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curd cheeses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cottage cheese.
synonyms: word: cottage cheese
soko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sokos
Senses: examples: text: Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.
ref: 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:
glosses: A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
that's what she said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: First attested in the early 20th century. She refers to the speaker's imagined sexual partner.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: that's what he said
text: Some seemed bored and irritated by the priapic yahooism and overwillingness of peers to read a sexual double entendre into the most innocuous remark. "No matter what you say," said one student, "someone is going to respond with ‘That's what she said.’ "
ref: 2008 March 2, Ron Fletcher, “In the Internet Age, a few lessons about bad jokes, good taste”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 07 Apr 2009:
text: So this morning we pulled up a pumpkin-pancake recipe on the kitchen laptop. Just one problem: My wife couldn't read it from where she was mixing. "Can't you make it bigger?" she asked. (Go ahead, insert your own "that's what she said" joke here. No class.)
ref: 2008 November 24, Rick Broida, “Quick Tip: Increase the Font Size in Your Browser”, in PCWorld.com, retrieved 07 Apr 2009:
glosses: A joking retort that draws attention to the possibility of sexual innuendo in what was just said.
Related terms: innuendo
as the actress said to the bishop
nudge nudge wink wink
I hardly know her
I've never heard it called that before
get one's mind out of the gutter
aperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aperiodic
form: most aperiodic
Etymology: From a- + periodic.
Senses: examples: text: aperiodic tiling
glosses: That does not recur periodically.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That does not have a periodic vibration
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: periodic
qualifier: stochastic processes
glosses: for which any return to it may occur at irregular times; not periodic.
raw_tags: of a state
Derived terms: aperiodically
Related terms: einstein
electroplated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electroplate
electroplated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: nonelectroplated
unplated
hypernyms: plated#Adjective
glosses: Having a thin electrochemical layer of metal deposited on its surface.
Derived terms: nonelectroplated
Related terms: metalclad
feedstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedstocks
Etymology: From feed + stock.
Senses: examples: text: Bio-materials may be substituted for petrochemical feedstocks as petroleum prices rise.
text: The filtered extract of the mash is the feedstock for the fermenter.
text: In 2006, about 6 percent of the world's crude oil production was used in non-energy applications, primarily as a petrochemical feedstock.
ref: 2009, M.S.Vassiliou, Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry, page 5:
glosses: Any bulk raw material constituting the principal input for an industrial process.
Derived terms: biofeedstock
furoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furoates
Etymology: From furoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
Derived terms: diloxanide furoate
furoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic carboxylic acid, furan-2-carboxylic acid, obtained by the oxidation of furfural.
Synonyms: pyromucic acid
Related terms: furoate
hexachlorobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachlorobenzenes
Etymology: From hexa- + chloro- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polychlorinated hydrocarbon, C₆Cl₆, used as a fungicide in the treatment of bunt
muzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: Allegations of muzzling climate scientists have been at the center of a controversy.
glosses: present participle and gerund of muzzle
muzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzlings
Senses: examples: text: […] the destruction of all dogs […] is totally unnecessary. The results obtained by strict enforcement of muzzlings seem to justify its recommendation.
ref: 1902, Pennsylvania. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 529:
glosses: The act of placing a muzzle on an animal.
falling sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old English fiellesēocnes, German Fallsucht.
Senses: examples: text: Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless.
Brutus. 'T is very like: he hath the falling sickness.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Epilepsy.
hydroxymethylfurfural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + methyl + furfural.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic compound, 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2-furaldehyde, that is formed during the thermal decomposition of some sugars, and has potential use as a biofuel
nonadecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadecanes
Etymology: From nonadec- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomeric saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₁₉H₄₀, but especially n-nonadecane, CH₃(CH₂)₁₇CH₃
Derived terms: nonadecanoic
oligodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligodynamic
form: most oligodynamic
Etymology: From oligo- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: That is active in small quantities; used especially to describe the sterilizing effect of some heavy metals against bacteria
Related terms: oligodynamics
oligodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: The study and use of oligodynamic materials
signifying chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signifying chains
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: An interlocking system of signifiers.
terephthalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
Related terms: terephthalate
terephthalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of terebic + phthalic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic dicarboxylic acid, benzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid, used in the manufacture of polyesters
Related terms: terephthalate
phthalic acid
terephthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terephthalates
Etymology: From terephthalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.
ref: 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of terephthalic acid.
Derived terms: dimethyl terephthalate
polybutylene terephthalate
polyethylene terephthalate
Mathilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Matilda.
Maudie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maud + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A pet form of the female given name Maud or Maude.
filegroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filegroups
Etymology: From file + group.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of files that, in some database systems, are managed together as a group.
Tillie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Matilda.
Senses: examples: text: Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment’s notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes. Her name was Venner—Tillie Venner—and she was delightful.
ref: 1887, Rudyard Kipling, Wressley of the Foreign Office:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
Derived terms: Tillie and Mac book
Tillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tillies
Etymology: From the ATM Tillie the All-Time Teller, introduced in 1974.
Senses: glosses: An ATM.
Sif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪf/
other: /siːf/
rhymes: -ɪf
rhymes: -iːf
Etymology: From Old Norse, from sif (“kindred, kinswoman”), from Proto-Germanic *sibjō; see also Old English sibb (“kinship”) (whence Middle English sib (“having kinship; kinsmen”), whence English sib, sibling), German Sippe (“tribe”).
Senses: examples: text: As already stated, Thor was, according to the Edda, married to Sibil, that is to say, the Sibylla, and the Edda adds that this Sibil is called Sif in the North. In the Teutonic mythology Thor's wife is the goddess Sif.
ref: 1889, Viktor Rydberg, Teutonic Mythology, page 60:
text: For some contemporary Heathens, Lammas is sacred to Sif and Thunor (see Our Troth online Chapter LIII). In Snorri's Skaldskaparmal (see Faulkes 1998 [1987]: 96), Loki cropped Sif’s (presumably blonde or flaxen) hair, seemingly out of spite, a cropping which compares to the harvesting of corn.[…]Sif’s golden hair is a contemporary kenning for the cornfield as it is caressed by the breeze and makes gentle waves.
ref: 2005, Nathan J. Johnson, Robert J. Wallis, Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic, page 309:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A golden-haired goddess associated with earth, mother of Ullr and wife of Thor.
pulka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulkas
Etymology: From Finnish pulkka.
Senses: glosses: An animal-drawn sleigh (sledge) of a particular sort.
pulka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phulka
GPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
synonyms: GNU GPL
coordinate_terms: FDL
glosses: Initialism of General Public License.
GPL
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: GPLs
form: GPLing
form: GPLed
form: GPLed
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: To release under the General Public License.
GPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Germanic parent language.
arm-wrestle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arm-wrestles
form: arm wrestle
Etymology: From arm + wrestle.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bout of arm wrestling.
arm-wrestle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arm-wrestles
form: arm-wrestling
form: arm-wrestled
form: arm-wrestled
form: arm wrestle
Etymology: From arm + wrestle.
Senses: synonyms: pull wrists
glosses: To compete in an arm-wrestle (with).
examples: text: Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law
ref: 1996, Linda Ty-Casper, DreamEden, →ISBN, page 318:
text: I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further.
ref: 1999, Roz D. Fox, Welcome to My Family, →ISBN, page 151:
text: In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize.
ref: 2014, Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger, →ISBN:
text: The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar.
ref: 2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: To struggle (with) for dominance.
Derived terms: arm-wrestler
arm-wrestling
arm-wrestler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arm-wrestlers
form: armwrestler
form: arm wrestler
Senses: examples: text: So you think you are an arm-wrestler, do you? Bring it on.
glosses: Someone who arm-wrestles.
Norbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old High German nord (“north”) + beraht (“bright”).
Senses: examples: text: Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.
ref: 2009, Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
falconologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falconologists
Etymology: From falcon + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: A person who follows the study of falconology, the subsection of ornithology dealing with birds of prey, notably falcons.
dead line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deadline.
Erwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝwɪn/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irwin.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Posey County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in Steuben County, New York, United States.
glosses: A town in Harnett County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A small town in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Unicoi County, Tennessee, United States. From a misspelling of Ervin by the Post Office.
alliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alliterate
alliterates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alliterate
cradle-robber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle-robbers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cradle robber.
draughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɑːfti/
Forms: form: draughtier
form: draughtiest
Etymology: From draught + -y.
Senses: examples: text: To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 249:
glosses: Standard spelling of drafty.
Derived terms: draughtily
draughtiness
allotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotypes
Etymology: From allo- + -type.
Senses: examples: 2007, Ivana Karanovic, Candoninae (Ostracoda) from the Pilbara Region in Western Australia, Koninklijke Brill, page 182,
The allotype female has one T2 deformed (fig. 75D), while the other one is normally developed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: A designated paratype of a species (or lower-order taxon) that is the opposite sex of the holotype.
examples: 2007, I. D. Walker, G. Winter, D. J. Worthington, Chapter 2: Structural Investigations of Peptides and Proteins: I: Primary Structure and Chemical Modification, R. C. Sheppard, Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, Volume 8, The Chemical Society, page 145,
Until recently, different C-region allotypes were explained by allelic genes which each encoded a different but closely related protein sequence.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A genetically determined variant of the amino acid sequence of a protein.
examples: text: The products of allelic forms of the same gene are known as allotypes. Allotypes are now known for all mouse heavy chains (Stall, 1995). There are no known serologically detectable allotypes of mouse κ chains.
ref: 1996, James W. Goding, Monoclonal Antibodies: Principles and Practice, 3rd edition, Academic Press, page 102:
text: Since different individuals of the same species may have different allotypes, these determinants can be used as genetic markers.
The most common technique used for allotype determination is hemagglutination-inhibition.
ref: 2007, Janardan P. Pandey, “7: Genetics of Immunoglobulins”, in Gabriel Virella, editor, Medical Immunology, 6th edition, Informa Healthcare, page 77:
text: Allotypes were originally defined by antisera that differentiated allelic variants of immunoglobulin (Ig) subclasses. The allotype is due to the existence of different alleles at the genetic locus that determines the expression of a given determinant.
ref: 2009, Julius M. Cruse, Robert E. Lewis, Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology, 3rd edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 32:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An immunoglobulin allotype; the allele of the antibody chains found in an individual.
Derived terms: allotypic
allotypical
allotypy
immunoglobulin allotype
isoallotype
Related terms: allele
holotype
allotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotype
bourgeoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourgeoises
Etymology: From French bourgeoise.
Senses: examples: text: She is a right-wing bourgeoise; he is on the left.
ref: 2007 July 10, Richard Eder, “Some Are Merely Different. Then There Are the French.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A female member of the bourgeoisie; a wealthy woman
hyar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar
Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar;
IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar?
ref: 1875, Sidney Lanier, The Power of Prayer:
glosses: here
hyar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar
Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar;
IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar?
ref: 1875, Sidney Lanier, The Power of Prayer:
glosses: hear
darky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkies
Etymology: From dark + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He’s a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it’s not for any darky to talk impudent about him.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of darkey (“dark-skinned person”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of darkey (“dark lantern”).
examples: text: […] at Darky they buss them out of the Ground, that is, at Night they steal the Horses, then pike thirty or forty Straches that Darky, that is go thirty or forty Miles that Night, towards the next Gaff to fence them, […]
ref: 1761, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, etc. MS. notes, page 39:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: The time of darkness: night or dusk.
fourpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourpences
Etymology: From four + pence.
Senses: synonyms: groat
glosses: A monetary amount of four pence.
synonyms: groat
glosses: A former British silver coin, worth four pence.
Derived terms: like cheese at fourpence
Related terms: twopence
tuppence
threepence
fivepence
sixpence
eightpence
tenpence
seuen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɛvən
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of seven.
life-force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-forces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of life force.
erewhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: erewhiles
Etymology: From ere + while.
Senses: examples: text: I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: She runs you through, nor asks the word.
O thou, that dear and happy Isle,
The garden of the world erewhile,
Thou Paradise of the four seas
Which Heaven planted us to please,
ref: 1600s, Andrew Marvell A Garden
text: The dame sans merci's broken strain,
Whom I erewhile, perchance, have known,
When Orleans filled the Bourbon throne,
A siren singing by the Seine.
ref: 1800s, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Flâneur
text: Quoth he to me, "Thou shalt fare with me to Cairo where dwelleth a friend of mine and to him will I give thee, for erewhile I promised him that on this voyage I would secure for him a fair woman for handmaid."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Some time ago; beforehand; formerly.
Synonyms: erstwhile
erstwhiles
Related terms: whilere
life force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life forces
Senses: examples: text: The human tribe partakes of the mana or life-force of the animal, and is strengthened[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 61:
text: "Yes, I'm beating it!" he cried. "Ever since Felkin held his first consultation with Atkinson I have felt the life-force stealing back into me."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
qualifier: supernatural; paranormal; supernatural; paranormal
glosses: The hypothetical principle that animates all living organisms.
glosses: An impulse or influence that gives something life or vitality.
Synonyms: élan vital
qi
vital force
half-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: twilight
glosses: The soft, greyish light characteristic of dawn or dusk.
Garge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garges
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi गर्गे (garge).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Marathi.
ebber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ebb: more ebb
ebbest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ebb: most ebb
baby-sitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-sitter
bird course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird courses
Etymology: Possibly referring to the small size of bird's brains (compare birdbrain).
In the movie Sister Act 2, a bird course is referred to as being a course one can "fly right through," a reference to the course being easy to pass.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most popular targets for criticism has been the credit system, Rutledge said, "because the public has the impression that students are just taking a bunch of bird courses—I wish they'd even tell me what a bird course is."
ref: 1975 August 30, Elaine Carey, “Back to school: What's happening in the classes?”, in Toronto Star, page A2:
text: Clarke stumbled into music by way of a high school course he took to raise his grades. "Music was a bird course. I had more interest in math, science, and women", he divulged.
ref: 2002 October 26, Nathalie Younglai, “Conducting without boundaries”, in Guelph Mercury, page C3:
text: Forty-five years ago, a McGill University commerce student named Seymour Schulich was looking for a bird course to bolster his grades and came upon a prime candidate — business history.
ref: 2006 March 13, Gordon Pitts, “Forward-looking CEOs are looking to the past”, in Globe and Mail, page B12:
glosses: In an educational institution, a course which is regarded as particularly easy.
cradle robber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle robbers
form: cradle-robber
Senses: examples: text: "And no mother," he shouted, "can call ME a ‘fortune-hunter’ and a ‘cradle-robber’ and think I'll make good by marrying her daughter!"
ref: 1914, Richard Harding Davis, The Man Who Could Not Lose:
text: I was a 50-year-old woman; he was a 25-year-old man. . . . I was out of my pajamas and into a short skirt before you could say “cradle robber”.
ref: 2006 October 29, Francine Maroukian, “Modern Love: We Lived in the Present, Then the Future Arrived”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who marries or becomes romantically involved with someone who is much younger, or who employs or otherwise engages a young person for a purpose inappropriate for his or her age.
Synonyms: cradle snatcher
Hyponyms: word: cougar
word: manther
word: korephile
Related terms: rob the cradle
bhoona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhoonas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bhuna (“type of curry”).
bretelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bretelles
Etymology: From French bretelle.
Senses: glosses: braces; suspenders (to hold up trousers)
Derived terms: bretelled
scrooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scroop
scroops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scroop
scrooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scroop
syngeneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syngeneic
form: most syngeneic
Etymology: By surface analysis, syn- + -gen(e) + -ic
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: xenogeneic
coordinate_terms: allogeneic
glosses: genetically identical, or sufficiently identical and immunologically compatible as to allow for transplantation.
Derived terms: syngeneic transplantation
Related terms: allograft
autograft
isograft
xenogeneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xeno- + -geneic.
Senses: examples: text: Among the types of xenografts that might be undertaken are extracorporeal "xenoperfusion" or perfusion of devices containing xenogeneic hepatocytes, auxiliary liver transplants, bridge liver transplants, and hepatocyte transplants.
ref: 2000, Kanazawa A., Platt J.L., “Prospects for xenotransplantation of the liver”, in Seminars in liver disease, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Derived from a different species and therefore genetically and immunologically incompatible
Derived terms: nonxenogeneic
xenogeneic transplantation
Related terms: allogeneic
autologous
syngeneic
xenogenic
uncontradicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontradicted
form: most uncontradicted
Etymology: From un- + contradicted.
Senses: examples: text: "Add to these, my lady," replied the traveller, laughing, "the privilege of telling my own stories after dinner uncontradicted."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: Not contradicted; without contradiction; unquestioned.
blackspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From black + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: It sounds odd to us now, but contemporary sources... suggest how the archaic blackspeak that we associate with blackface performers had some of the aura of the later white appropriations of black speech.
ref: 1995, Robert Dawidoff, “The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'”, in Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush, editors, Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 302:
text: Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak.
ref: 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, Hal Leonard, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Like Hawk, he moved easily in and out of blackspeak as it suited him.
ref: 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 35:
english: "They is a couple of approaches to the whore business," he said.
translation: "They is a couple of approaches to the whore business," he said.
glosses: The dialect of English spoken by people of sub-Saharan African ancestry living stateside.
Synonyms: African American Vernacular English
AAVE
Ebonics
Cuban sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban sandwiches
Senses: examples: text: We were sharing a Cuban sandwich at the bar in Chez Henri. Susan felt that Riesling was appropriate with a Cuban sandwich. I was drinking beer.
ref: 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A particular kind of meat-and-cheese sandwich made on Cuban bread.
wikipedia: Florida
Miami
Cuban bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of bread baked as long loaves and usually made with a little fat.
small molecule drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small molecule drug
stumblebum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumblebums
Etymology: From stumble + bum.
Senses: glosses: A blundering or awkward person.
glosses: An inept prizefighter.
examples: text: A bum came shambling past us....
"Fucking stumblebums," Corsetti said....
"Is 'stumblebum' the acceptable term for our indigent brothers and sisters?"
"Sometimes I like 'vagrants,'" Corsetti said. "Depends on how much style they got."
ref: 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 92:
synonyms: bum
glosses: A homeless person.
Synonyms: sense: inept prizefighter
word: ham-and-egger
sense: inept prizefighter
word: palooka
sense: inept prizefighter
word: tomato can
top drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: top-drawer
Senses: examples: text: "How do I look," she said. "How's my ass look? My ass okay?"
ref: 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam,, →ISBN, page 211:
english: "Top drawer," I said.
translation: "Top drawer," I said.
bold_translation_offsets: 1
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glosses: Of the highest quality.
Synonyms: excellent
first-class
first-rate
top-hole
top-notch
kick-boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kickboxing.
lindworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪndˌwɜː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: lindworms
form: lindorm
form: lindwyrm
Etymology: Cognate with Old Norse linnormr (“constrictor snake”), Norwegian lindorm (“serpent”), German Lindwurm (“dragon”).
Senses: glosses: A wingless serpentine dragon having two arms.
glosses: A draconic creature, similar to a wyvern.
remeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remeasure
remeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remeasure
dactyloscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪlˈɒskəpi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I look at”).
Senses: glosses: The forensic analysis and comparison of fingerprints as a means of identification of individuals
id.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: id
Senses: topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of idem; used in citations to state that the citation is found in the same work as the one previously cited.
Synonyms: topics: bibliography
information-science
human-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ibid.
id.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: id
Senses: glosses: Acronym of identity document.
glosses: Abbreviation of identification.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of identifier.
tarriance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarriances
Etymology: From tarry + -ance?
Senses: glosses: The act of tarrying; dalliance
achatine snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achatine snails
Senses: glosses: A snail of the family Achatinidae.
achatine snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achatine snail
watch night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch nights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of watchnight.
Watch Night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Watch Nights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of watchnight.
uptime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uptimes
Etymology: From up (“(computing) functional, working”, adjective) + time.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot.
examples: text: To achieve uptime optimization, the machinery specification and actual design must be right.
ref: 2006, Fred K. Geitner and Heinz P. Bloch, chapter 1, in Maximizing Machinery Uptime, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: The amount of time, or the proportion of total time, during which some system or machinery is operable.
A minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key a\minor a b c'd'e'f'g'a'2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The minor key with A as its tonic, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The minor chord with a root of A.
to-morrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Dear Noel, / We'll probably start early to-morrow (8th) to have clear weather. It won't be too early to start looking out for us either crossing the rockband under the pyramid or going up skyline at 8.0 p.m. / Yours ever / G Mallory
ref: 1924 June 7, George Mallory, Dear Noel, Mount Everest:
glosses: Dated spelling of tomorrow
to-morrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-morrows
Senses: examples: text: "Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?" Alice began.
ref: 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 3:
text: 'Go home, Nilghai,' said Dick; 'go home to your lonely little bed, and leave me in peace. I am about to turn in till to-morrow.'
ref: 1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, in The Light that Failed, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, page 70:
text: "You can cut my body down to-morrow morning, and then have it placed in some cool and shady spot. Fearing that possibly you might come in by accident and find me hanging, I have taken a dose of opium, so as to make certain of death. If you should dare to meddle with my private affairs, as you have been trying to do these past few days, it will only lead to your being mixed up in the case, which might bring you to grief.
ref: 1910, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, E[dmund] Backhouse, China under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 137:
glosses: Dated form of tomorrow
Related terms: to-day
to-night
to-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: to‐day
Senses: examples: text: Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Dated spelling of today.
to-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to‐day
form: to-days
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of today.
Related terms: to‐morrow
to‐night
apt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of apartment.
nut-cutting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The desire to follow traditions of hunting squirrel in Tennessee during mulberry season in June, and nut-cutting time in September, when squirrels concentrate, [...].
ref: 1951, Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, volumes 26-27, page 20:
glosses: The optimal time to gather nuts before they are seized by other animals or buried in snow.
glosses: Time to exert maximum effort, for example, due to an approaching deadline or a looming competitive situation.
Related terms: crunch time
ap't
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ap'ts
Senses: examples: text: Bachelor Ap’ts
ref: 1901 January 1, advertisement, The New York Times, page 15, column 3
glosses: Abbreviation of apartment.
sign of the times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signs of the times
Etymology: From Matthew 16:3.
Senses: examples: text: Advertisements of health foods now occupy spaces formerly monopolized by quack medicines, a most healthful sign of the times.
ref: 1903, Henry Stephen Clubb, Thirty-nine reasons why I am a vegetarian:
text: We [the black players]’d get off the coach at away matches and the National Front would be right there in your face. In those days, we didn’t have security and we’d have to run the gauntlet. We’d get to the players’ entrance and there’d be spit on my jacket or Cyrille’s shirt. It was a sign of the times.
ref: 2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something that is symbolic of an era.
Related terms: zeitgeist
federal case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal cases
Etymology: In the United States of America, courts with federal jurisdiction generally are for much more serious offenses than those whose cases are heard by local courts.
Senses: examples: text: So I didn't put the toilet seat down — you don't have to make a federal case out of it.
text: You think I'm some kind of codependent ditz overwhelmed by reality outside of Catholic school, and I'm not supposed to make a federal case out of it?
ref: 2010, Zachary Klaas, Time Tourists, page 122:
glosses: Any overexaggerated ordeal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see federal, case.
Synonyms: sense: something over-exaggerated
word: big deal
sense: something over-exaggerated
word: big thing
sense: something over-exaggerated
word: production
sense: something over-exaggerated
word: meal
sense: something over-exaggerated
word: song and dance
Related terms: make a mountain out of a molehill
mandarin duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændəɹɪn dʌk/
ipa: /ˈmændəɹɪn dʌk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: mandarin ducks
Etymology: Native to Northeast China and Amur.
Senses: examples: text: Mandarin ducks usually pair for life. In Asia they are thought to be a symbol of love and good luck. Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.
ref: 2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94:
coordinate_terms: wood duck
glosses: A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.
wikipedia: Northeast China
obscures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obscure
mischan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈt͡ʃæn/
Forms: form: mischans
Etymology: From mis- + chan.
Senses: glosses: A message accidentally posted to the wrong IRC channel.
mandarin ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandarin duck
syncronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syncronizes
form: syncronizing
form: syncronized
form: syncronized
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synchronize.
white-fronted goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-fronted geese
Etymology: Named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill.
Senses: glosses: A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.
Synonyms: word: greater white-fronted goose
word: specklebelly
word: whitefront
white-fronted geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-fronted goose
groveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grovelled
Senses: glosses: simple past of grovel
slivovice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Czech slivovice.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone from the town was down at the restaurant/everything else, sitting outside at tables and smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee or wine or pivo or slivovice, while the children ran around the docks jumping from boat to boat to boat playing tag.
ref: 2004, Eric Obenauf, Can You Hear Me Screaming?, [Columbus, Oh.]: Two Dollar Radio Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:
text: You only have to walk Olomouc streets (or better—the byroads and back-alleys of the old city center), and you are within a German Expressionist set! The more pivo or slivovice you’ve had, the more forced your perspectives grow. Go to the Tourist Office and see the Hanacka Giant, Olomouc’s closest to the Golem!
ref: 2009, Bernd Herzogenrath, “Introduction: The Return of Edgar G. Ulmer”, in Bernd Herzogenrath, editor, Edgar G. Ulmer: Essays on the King of the B’s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6:
text: Herbert looked forward to those evenings and welcomed the chance to speak English and give his thoughts on the old Blues Masters over a glass or two of slivovice, or the rum that Peter so enjoyed. […] The girl, having noted Peter’s staring, had come to stand by his table, bringing with her the slivovice from the bar. […] Smiling to himself, he closed his eyes and drained the slivovice from his glass, curling his lip as the harsh spirit burned its way down.
ref: 2015, James Silvester, Escape to Perdition, Chatham, Kent: Urbane Publications, →ISBN, pages 19 (chapter 1) and 47–48 (chapter 4):
glosses: Alternative form of slivovitz.
weasel-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weasel-like
form: most weasel-like
Etymology: From weasel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weasellike.
Related terms: musteline
weasel-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weasel-like
form: most weasel-like
Etymology: From weasel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weasellike.
whists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whist
whists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whist
scratcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratchers
Etymology: From scratch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who scratches.
glosses: A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
glosses: An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A scratch card.
glosses: A bed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any rasorial bird.
examples: text: “I’m what they used to call a scratcher,” the Ukrainian said. “Dupes, counterfeits, identification. Turn wrong names right.”
ref: 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 93:
glosses: A counterfeiter.
glosses: An unlicensed tattoo artist.
glosses: A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.
Derived terms: back scratcher
booty scratcher
head scratcher