cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anaclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈklaɪsɪs/
Forms: form: anaclises
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάκλισις (anáklisis), intended as a calque of German Anlehnung.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.
Synonyms: anaclitism
forecount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forecounts
form: forecounting
form: forecounted
form: forecounted
Etymology: From fore- + count.
Senses: examples: text: But there is no need to thus “forecount the years.”
ref: 1895, The Dublin Review:
glosses: To count beforehand.
examples: text: […] Men always forecount their wives prudent, and their children dutiful.
ref: 1789, Henry Home (Lord Kames.), Introduction to the Art of Thinking:
glosses: To prejudge or esteem in advance.
forecount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecounts
Etymology: From fore- + count.
Senses: glosses: A preliminary tally, reckoning, or estimation.
foregrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregrants
Etymology: From fore- + grant.
Senses: examples: text: Had not his foregrant warranted and willed
To come and go safe […]
ref: 1908, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The spider and the fly:
glosses: A grant obtained or given in advance.
Related terms: foreconsent
foregranted
forelicense
foregranted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foregranted
form: most foregranted
Etymology: From fore- + granted.
Senses: examples: text: […] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]
ref: 1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports:
glosses: Granted in advance.
examples: text: There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”
ref: 1916, The North American Review:
glosses: Presumed.
babber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæbə/
ipa: /ˈbæbɚ/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: babbers
Etymology: Probably a modification of baby: compare babby (“baby”) (Britain, dialectal).
Senses: examples: text: We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk.
ref: 2014, Anna Freeman, chapter 23, in The Fair Fight, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, part 10 (Ruth), page 403:
text: That babber of mine has been starting to talk lately and this morning when he saw me he said "da da da" very clearly! Proud moment.
ref: 2014 January 28, “Not yet Walking, but Definitely Talking / A Trip to Bristol Zoo”, in Dad’s Diary, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
synonyms: word: bab
word: babber
word: babby
word: babe
word: babe in arms
word: baby
word: bairn
word: bantling
word: bub
word: bundle of joy
word: chit
word: crotch dropping
word: crotchfruit
word: fleshloaf
word: infant
word: nursling
word: papoose
word: poop factory
word: poop machine
word: suckling
word: shit factory
glosses: A baby.
examples: text: Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going?
ref: 2012, Robert Andrews, Keith Drew, “Bristol and around”, in The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset: Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 82:
text: In the 2007 World Cup quarter-final against Australia, Andy Sheridan almost destroyed Aussie prop Matt Dunning in the first scrum, and as they broke up Andy was heard to say, “And you've got another seventy-nine minutes of f****** agony to look forward to, my babber.”
ref: 2012, Lawrence Dallaglio, “Taken for a Ride: Mark Regan”, in More Blood, Sweat and Beers: World Cup Rugby Tales, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Look, babber, I reckon there's been some sort of mistake. I'm not carrying on with nobody.
ref: 2018, Ruby Reynolds, The Spark Girl’s Promise, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:
text: 'Sir, I'm going to end this call …' / 'Come on babber … Honey baby!'
ref: 2022 May, A. Siddiqui, “Preppin’ of Our Own!”, in Ripping Off of the Thievery! […], Delhi, India: BlueRose One, →ISBN, page 93:
synonyms: word: babber
word: billy
word: bredrin
word: bruv
word: bud
word: buddo
word: buddy
word: butty
word: chaver
word: china
word: chuck
word: chum
word: cock
word: cocker
word: cobber
word: compadre
word: comrade
word: companion
word: cove
word: crony
word: dawg
word: dude
word: duck
word: fam
word: fettler
word: friend
word: geez
word: geezer
word: gink
word: good old boy
word: homeskillet
word: homie
word: kith
word: lover
word: marrow
word: mate
word: matey
word: mucker
word: old bean
word: pal
word: pardner
word: peeps
word: shag
word: sport
word: surry
word: tovarish
word: wantok
glosses: A friend.
Derived terms: alright me babber
alright my babber
babber-lipped
Related terms: bab
babby
babber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæbə/
ipa: /ˈbæbɚ/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: babbers
Etymology: From bab (“to fish for eels using a bab (bundle of live worms)”) + -er (agent noun suffix); the further etymology of bab is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Another way of taking eels, and by far the more ingenious, is that known as "babbing," or "bobbing." A series of large worms are strung on cobbler's worsted and coiled into a knot. […] I have known a couple of "babbers" to take as many as four or five stone of eels in a single night.
ref: 1868 September, “The Norfolk Broads”, in Anthony Trollope, editor, Saint Pauls. A Monthly Magazine, volume II, London: Virtue and Co., […], →OCLC, page 724:
text: It was pretty, too, to watch the lights in the town going out one by one, until, to borrow from Gray again, the world was left to darkness and to me, and the other eel-babbers.
ref: 1876 February, Saxon [pseudonym], “A Night’s Babbing”, in The Guernsey Magazine: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Information, Instruction, & Entertainment, volume IV, number 2, Guernsey: F. Clarke, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
ref: 1884, G[eorge] Christopher Davies, “About Eels”, in Norfolk Broads and Rivers: Or The Water-ways, Lagoons, and Decoys of East Anglia, new edition, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, pages 243–244:
text: Get a few eels babbing; a babber close by caught 1¼ lb. tench on his bab.
ref: 1891 June 26 (date written), P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Log of the ‘Maid of the Mist.’ September 15, 1890, to August 31, 1891.”, in On English Lagoons: Being an Account of the Voyage of Two Amateur Wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk Rivers and Broads […], London: David Nutt, […], published 1893, →OCLC, page 295:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels.
babbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babber
tickle the dragon's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tickles the dragon's tail
form: tickling the dragon's tail
form: tickled the dragon's tail
form: tickled the dragon's tail
Etymology: From the obvious risk of tickling a dragon's tail. In physics, it was coined by American physicist Richard Feynman to describe the experiments of Louis Slotin at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Senses: examples: text: Climbing so close to an erupting volcano was tickling the dragon's tail.
glosses: To do something that has a risk of going catastrophically wrong.
examples: text: Don't tell him the headline's misprinted; you don't want to tickle the dragon's tail.
glosses: To annoy an irritable person.
examples: text: The laboratory head tickles the dragon's tail whenever we have guests as a show of machismo.
text: Every real boy likes to tickle the dragon's tail. Maybe I was a little old for it, but that's what I was doing there in the Moran III jungle. I got the shield off my cigarette lighter and jerked out the dinky little damper rods for the pile and started easing the two little bricks toward each other with the point of my lead pencil
ref: 1957, Jim Harman, “Break a Leg”, in Galaxy Magazine, volume 6, numbers 1-6, page 130:
text: PHYSICIST SLOTIN (manipulating the two hemispheres of the bomb at a table): Come closer. Watch me tickle the Dragon's tail
ref: 1993, James Erwin Schevill, 5 Plays 5, page 52:
text: And so it happened that Japan and the United States had also tickled the dragon's tail. The two subcritical masses called pride and cultural misunderstanding had been shoved together into one critical mass.
ref: 1995, George Robert Caron, Charlotte E. Meares, Fire of a Thousand Suns: The George R. "Bob" Caron Story, page 219:
text: Were this assembly functional, a person might manipulate the bricks of the radiant castlelike structure to slow down the neutrons, to "tickle the dragon's tail," as Morland writes
ref: 2003, Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn, Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction, page 13:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: To bring two subcritical masses close together in order to find the edge of criticality.
Related terms: criticality accident
front gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front garden
macky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.ki/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: more macky
form: most macky
Senses: examples: text: Why is it such a special city? - Great people, a gert lush accent, and the city has great scenery with a gert macky Clifton Suspension Bridge.
ref: 2010 July 8, Scott, “Have your say: Describing why Bristol is so unique?”, in BBC News, retrieved 20 Nov 2014:
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: Large.
Synonyms: alt: Bristolian
word: gert
gert lush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: Bristol
ipa: /ɡɜːɹt lʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Senses: examples: text: Why is it such a special city? - Great people, a gert lush accent, and the city has great scenery with a gert macky Clifton Suspension Bridge.
ref: 2010 July 8, Scott, “Have your say: Describing why Bristol is so unique?”, in BBC News, retrieved 20 Nov 2014:
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: Very nice.
crapton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craptons
form: crap ton
Etymology: From crap + ton.
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to fixing stuff, John has a crapton of knowledge, but he knows nothing about driving carefully.
synonyms: crapload
glosses: A very large amount.
Related terms: shitton
craptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapton
wriggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wriggly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being wriggly.
proper job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper jobs
Senses: examples: text: You did a proper job on that one, me lover.
glosses: Something performed well.
examples: text: She'd go out begging. Well, truth to tell, we'd go out begging. You know the deal — 'Got any spare change, mister?' — 'Got the price of a cuppa, missus?' Only, me being the size I was, even as a kid, I wasn't much good at it.¶ 'Get a proper job,' they'd say to me. 'Get a job down the mines.' Or the building site. The worst one was, 'What's the matter, you run away from the circus?'
ref: 1998, Liza Cody, Monkey Wrench, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The three main party political leaders have at times been accused of failing the proper job test. They are perceived to be career politicians who have done nothing outside media or politics.
ref: 2012 July 11, Tom de Castella, “Should everyone have done a 'proper job'?”, in BBC News, retrieved 20 Nov 2014:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see proper, job. (respectable employment, etc.)
proper job
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "I've painted the fence."
"Proper job!"
glosses: Good work; well done.
Synonyms: well done
indagating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indagate
indagated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indagate
indagates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indagate
decommunise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decommunises
form: decommunising
form: decommunised
form: decommunised
Etymology: From de- + communise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decommunize.
Derived terms: decommunisation
decommunisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + communisation.
Senses: examples: text: “You want decommunisation? That suits us fine. But don’t stop halfway. We’re ready to show Ukraine what real decommunisation means for it.”
ref: 2022 February 21, Andrew Roth, Julian Borger, quoting Vladimir Putin, “Ukraine: Putin recognises Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decommunization.
cuprammoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuprammonium
foreapprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreapproves
form: foreapproving
form: foreapproved
form: foreapproved
Etymology: From fore- + approve.
Senses: examples: text: To foreknow is to foreapprove, or approved before on account of obedience to his will, hence Paul says, "God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew.
ref: 1897, Elijah Hansbrough, Writings:
text: God purposed from eternity that those whom he foreapproved should be conformed to the image of his Son.
ref: 1958, Boyce W. Blackwelder, Light from the Greek New Testament:
text: Distinct meanings: (1) To know before, whether a person (Acts 26:5), or a thing (II Pet. 3:17). (2) To foreknow with approbation, to foreapprove or make a previous choice of, as a peculiar people (Amos 32, ginoskō in the Septuagint; I Pet. […])
ref: 1984, Spiros Zodhiates, The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible:
text: [It is used] to foreapprove or to make a previous choice of (Romans 8:29). To foreknow is to foreordain as they are logically coordinate terms.
ref: 2005, Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, The Two Wills of God:
glosses: To approve beforehand.
Related terms: foreapproval
azlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azlons
Etymology: From a trade name.
Senses: glosses: A regenerated protein fiber; textile fiber derived from a protein such as casein (milk) or zein (maize).
glosses: A textile made of these fibers.
anidex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A textile made from a long chain synthetic polymer composed of at least 50% by mass of one or more esters of monohydric alcohol and acrylic acid.
vinyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic fiber made from polyvinyl chloride.
lastol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of polyolefin where the olefin units are cross-linked synthetic polymers with low but significant crystallinity, composed of at least 95% by mass of ethylene and at least one other olefin unit, and where the fibre is substantially elastic and heat-resistant.
lastrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of elastic fiber made from a co-polymer composed of a diene and of not more than 50 per cent but not less than 10 per cent by mass of acrylonitrile units.
vinylal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vinal
biconstituent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + constituent.
Senses: qualifier: materials
glosses: Made up of two constituents.
foreapproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreapprove
sanforization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Sanford Lockwood Cluett (1874–1968), who patented the process in 1930, + -ization.
From Sanford + -ization.
Senses: glosses: A process for treating fabrics and textiles, used to stretch, shrink and fix the woven cloth in length and width before cutting and producing, to reduce the shrinkage which would otherwise occur after washing.
wikipedia: Sanford Lockwood Cluett
Related terms: sanforize
sanforize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sanforizes
form: sanforizing
form: sanforized
form: sanforized
Senses: glosses: To subject to the sanforization process.
sanforizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sanforize
sanforizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sanforize
sanforized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sanforize
chuckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chuck + -able.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Suitable for being secured in a chuck.
examples: text: Second, I operate under the policy that everything is chuckable unless proven otherwise. I must convince myself not to throw something away.
ref: 2010, Robert Pagliarini, The Other 8 Hours:
glosses: Suitable for being thrown away.
glosses: Reacting easily to steering, so that it can be manoeuvred without effort.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
employmentally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more employmentally challenged
form: most employmentally challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Unemployed; jobless.
beforely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beforely
form: most beforely
Etymology: From before + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [...] his last words, because then he bent down by the fire to pick up a log to thump me with, and He exploded. Shame, huh? (In a way.) That is when the chimney fell over. It is lying in the garden now. Yours sorry about not mentioning it beforely, [...]
ref: 1999, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Book of Badness:
text: Otto I have in the several occasion this question answered, both beforely and afterly.
ref: 2002, Huzir Sulaiman, Eight Plays:
glosses: Previously.
Osmanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A written script created to transcribe the Somali language.
Synonyms: Osmanian
Gresham's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in 1858 by Henry Dunning Macleod, after Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–1579), English financier during the Tudor dynasty.
Senses: glosses: An economic principle stating that, when a government overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation; or "bad money drives out good".
foresense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresenses
form: foresensing
form: foresensed
form: foresensed
Etymology: From fore- + sense.
Senses: examples: text: How could these publishers foresense (what anyone can now perceive) that to give Dr. Sidis their clients' humorous writings to quote from would be like giving a Gutenburg Bible to the baby?
ref: 1913, Life:
text: He knows much, but he foresenses more than he chooses to tell."
ref: 2006, Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr:
text: “Hey—” The way animals—men and dogs—foresense a great act of weather is in a sudden confusion of terms, an eerie loss of measurement.
ref: 2013, Hortense Calisher, Mysteries of Motion: A Novel:
glosses: To perceive or sense in advance.
foresense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + sense.
Senses: glosses: The perception of a thing in advance.
examples: text: I said, "I know it's probably strange to have the gift of foresense. Just knowing someone would be great before anyone else does. But you were right."
ref: 2011, Brandon C. Lay, 100 Monologues, Scenes and One Acts:
glosses: The ability to perceive in advance.
examples: text: The chairman of Vanderbilt's graduate department of religion, H. Jackson Forstman, had accepted Gore into his program with what he later called “the foresense to realize that this young man was going to get involved in a lot of other things […]"
ref: 2000, David Maraniss, Ellen Nakashima, The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore:
glosses: Good or right judgement beforehand.
notehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noteheads
form: note head
Etymology: From note + head.
Senses: glosses: The elliptical head of a note in musical notation.
glosses: A letterhead.
noteheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notehead
nonemergently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonemergent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Except in cases of extreme prematurity or debilitation, operative treatment is indicated urgently but nonemergently, with little merit in delay.
ref: 1982, Linda C. Stehling, Common problems in pediatric anesthesia, page 98:
text: It is especially important to prevent rather than treat acute respiratory failure because the hospital survival rates of patients with acute respiratory failure undergoing endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy (emergently or nonemergently) have not improved over the past 20 years.
ref: 1999, John R. Bach, Guide to the Evaluation and Management of Neuromuscular Disease, page 78:
text: Patients with more than three or four episodes a year should be referred nonemergently to an ENT physician.
ref: 2013, Sandra Ryan, Convenient Care Clinics: The Essential Guide to Retail Clinics for Clinicians, Managers, and Educators:
glosses: In a way that is not emergent.
nonconjugacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + conjugacy.
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of not being conjugate.
semiperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + periodic.
Senses: glosses: Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals, or recurring regularly only at intervals.
Synonyms: quasiperiodic
ultimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by Canadian philosopher J. L. Schellenberg.
Senses: examples: text: Schellenberg's thinking on religion begins with what he calls “ultimism.” “Ultimism,” for him, is the claim that: There is a metaphysically and axiologically ultimate reality (one representing both the deepest fact about the nature of things and the greatest possible value), in relation to which an ultimate good can be attained.
ref: 2017, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Religious Genius: Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The quasireligious proposition that there is some ultimate phenomenon that is the source of good.
wikipedia: J. L. Schellenberg
foregroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregroups
Etymology: From fore- + group.
Senses: examples: text: The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the chimney of a parafiin lamp; […]
ref: 1897, Edward Jenkins, Pantalas and what They Did with Him:
glosses: A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.
examples: text: Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones were "terrestrialized" in a lower station.
ref: 1987, Jewish quarterly review
glosses: A group positioned in the fore or out front.
foregroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foregroup
cudraflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkʌdɹəˈfleɪvəʊn/
/ˌkuːdɹəˈfleɪvəʊn/
Forms: form: cudraflavones
Etymology: From Cudrania and flavone.
Senses: glosses: Any of a certain group of prenylated flavones found in plants of the genus Cudrania.
cudraflavones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cudraflavone
sanggenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanggenons
Etymology: From Mandarin 桑 (sāng, “mulberry”) + 根 (gēn, “root”) + -on, variant of -one (“suffix for ketones”).
Senses: glosses: A chemical compound found in mulberry root bark.
forescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forescreens
Etymology: From fore- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: The third [predella] […] is less successful overall, but it continues at an early date the idea of a pilaster forescreen through which the viewer looks to see events behind.
ref: 1974, Susan Regan McKillop, Franciabigio, page 59:
text: We could just catch a glimpse of the haloed warriors and elders in the frescoes, the shine of the ikons, and the heavily armed forescreen of the altar.
ref: 2013, Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos:
glosses: A screen placed in front of something.
forescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forescreen
foreready
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forereadies
form: forereadying
form: forereadied
form: forereadied
Etymology: From fore- + ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.
Senses: examples: text: If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.
ref: 1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth
text: Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.
ref: 2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian:
glosses: To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
balls deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the testicles hindering any further penetration in a sex act.
Senses: examples: text: Although he was hesitant to pick up James Joyce, he soon fell in love with Dubliners and was balls deep into Ulysses.
glosses: Extremely; to the fullest extent possible.
Synonyms: extremely
completely
Deltic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deltics
Etymology: Named for the deltic (“Δ-shaped”) arrangement of cylinders in its engines.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 55 locomotive.
Derived terms: Baby Deltic
American brook char
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American brook chars
form: American brook charr
Senses: glosses: The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.
Synonyms: sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: eastern brook trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: speckled trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: squaretail
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: coaster trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
english: Lake Superior
translation: Lake Superior
word: coaster
American brook charr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American brook charrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of American brook char.
red junglefowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red junglefowl
form: red junglefowls
Senses: glosses: A junglefowl of the species Gallus gallus, native to south and east Asia.
glosses: The non-domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl, excluding the chicken.
common blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common blackbirds
Senses: glosses: A common bird of the species Turdus merula, native to Eurasia.
Synonyms: sense: Turdus merula
word: blackbird
sense: Turdus merula
word: Eurasian blackbird
foreconceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From foreconceive.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreconceive
foreconceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foreconceiving
form: most foreconceiving
Etymology: From foreconceive.
Senses: examples: text: This fits the Defence of Poetry's preference for the foreconceiving act over the work it yields, a work valued primarily as the groundplot for still further invention by the reader.
ref: 1994, William Craft, Labyrinth of Desire:
glosses: Conveiving in advance; preconceiving.
northern raccoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern raccoons
Senses: glosses: A mammal of the species Procyon lotor, native to North America.
Synonyms: sense: Procyon lotor
word: raccoon
sense: Procyon lotor
word: common raccoon
sense: Procyon lotor
word: North American raccoon
sense: Procyon lotor
word: coon
underman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undermen
form: under man
form: under-man
Etymology: From under- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who is subordinate to, inferior to, or in some way disadvantageously placed with respect to others.
glosses: A member of an acrobatic team who supports the others in his act.
underman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermans
form: undermanning
form: undermanned
form: undermanned
form: under man
form: under-man
Etymology: From under- + -man.
Senses: glosses: To fail to provide with enough workers or crew.
flight status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight statuses
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: An updated notice of a flight's departure and arrival times compared to its scheduled times.
deësis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of deesis.
western osprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western ospreys
Senses: glosses: A fish-eating bird of prey of the species Pandion haliaetus.
Synonyms: sense: Pandion haliaetus
word: osprey
sense: Pandion haliaetus
word: sea hawk
sense: Pandion haliaetus
word: fish eagle
sense: Pandion haliaetus
word: river hawk
sense: Pandion haliaetus
word: fish hawk
northern pintail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern pintails
Senses: glosses: A large duck of the species Anas acuta, of wide geographic distribution.
Synonyms: sense: Anas acuta
word: pintail
common tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common terns
Senses: glosses: A small, gull-like shore bird of the species Sterna hirundo, of wide geographic distribution.
Eurasian magpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian magpies
Senses: glosses: A well-known black-and-white corvid species, Pica pica, of Eurasian distribution.
Synonyms: sense: Pica pica
word: magpie
sense: Pica pica
word: European magpie
sense: Pica pica
word: common magpie
European plaice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European plaices
Senses: glosses: A commercially important flatfish of the species Pleuronectes platessa, native to European waters.
Penhallurick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɛnˈhæləɹɪk/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
MCZM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: semiconductors
glosses: Initialism of multicomponent zone-melting.
chain of command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chains of command
Senses: topics: business
government
military
politics
war
synonyms: command hierarchy
glosses: A system used in organizations, especially in the military, that defines a clear line of authority and responsibility.
Related terms: commander in chief
minimum spanning tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimum spanning trees
Senses: glosses: A spanning tree that has minimum possible weight for a given graph
forebelieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forebelieves
form: forebelieving
form: forebelieved
form: forebelieved
Etymology: From fore- + believe.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible there may lurk secret wickedness in some blind corner of the heart which we know not of: it is possible that time and temptation, working upon our corruption, may at last draw us into some such sin as we could not forebelieve.
ref: 1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, D.D., 2:
text: Taking the Lewis-Pollock definition of the might-counterfactual, we get the following analysis of (13) and (14): (13) is equivalent to: (13a) ~ (If God were not omniscient then he would forebelieve my act S.) Assuming that it is necessarily false [...]
ref: 1991, Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge:
text: It is alleged in the problem of foreknowledge and freedom that God's forebelief yesterday that I shall stay in bed tomorrow is now accidentally necessary, and that since it is now true of accidental necessity that if God forebelieved yesterday that I'd stay in bed tomorrow, then I'll stay in bed tomorrow, […]
ref: 2006, Daniel J. Hill, Randal D. Rauser, Christian philosophy:
text: For instance, suppose it is a fact that God has always foreknown or forebelieved thatJones would attend the lecture at noon this Friday.
ref: 2008, Joshua Hoffman, Gary S. Rosenkrantz, The Divine Attributes:
glosses: To believe beforehand; believe in advance.
Related terms: forebelief
forepractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forepractices
Etymology: From fore- + practice.
Senses: examples: text: The small sheet is used as forepractice, to assist the pupils in understanding the mechanism of the test. The large sheets contain the test material.
ref: 1918, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Department of Research, Publications:
text: In my case, I usually shoot with no forepractice and often with only one eye—the kinoeye, as Vertov called it.
ref: 2005, Thi Minh-Ha Trinh, The Digital Film Event:
text: Any kind of preparation or forepractice muddies the waters in its assumption of a goal to be reached. Access to the clarity and the Zing of reality, on the contrary [...]
ref: 2012, Lonchen Rabjam, Natural Perfection: Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen:
glosses: Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.
forepractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forepractice
folklorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Folklorismus.
Senses: examples: text: The German folklorism discourse unraveled the dichotomous premise underlying the definition of folklore that had confined true folklore to communal, preferably peasant settings and excluded materials and groups tainted by the forces of modernity, such as industry or media.
ref: 1997, Thomas A. Green, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art:
synonyms: folklorismus
glosses: Invention or adaptation of folklore, including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created.
Related terms: fakelore
flips the bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip the bird
flipping the bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flip the bird
flipped the bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip the bird
bonafied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By association with -fy, -ed.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bona fide.
beckon call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of beck and call.
gises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gise
just assume
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I would just assume not make the man's name a part of a public record if I don't have to.
ref: 1999, Investigation of Illegal Or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns: Witness Deposition Testimony, page 1210:
text: "And it's one area most executives would just assume not govern, a new survey shows."
ref: 2002 February 17, Teresa M. McAleavy, “Unwritten Rules Govern Office Wooing”, in Record:
text: If Tampa Prep coach A.J. Hendrix has his way, he would just assume not to see Shorecrest's Anthony Katchuk again.
ref: 2006 March 30, Brandon Wright, “Shorecrest Dowwns Tampa Prep Again”, in St. Petersburg Times:
text: I'm not a social butterfly and just assume spend my free time studying the teachings of Aradia.
ref: 2007, Nocholas Hanna, Coven of Rats:
text: “Just trying to survive and stay to myself— you know me, I just assume not mess with anyone,” I said to him as I shook his hand
ref: 2009, Benjamin J. Davis V, They Call Me Jack:
text: Normally those times that are comfortable and warm are welcomed with open arms and seen as most desirable, while times when we are cold and uncomfortable are considered adverse a place we would just assume not visit.
ref: 2016, T. Mohn, 2 Weeks: A Weekly Guide Inspiring Positive Life Transformation:
text: “I just assume not wake him 'till he's ready.”
ref: 2017, Matt Manochio, Sentinels:
text: She would just assume put a bullet between his eyes than have him touch her.
ref: 2017, M.J. Mays, Saddlebags, Trunks, and Tombs:
text: I've had conversations with a fair number of people that would just assume do what this man did—disappear from it all.
ref: 2018, Rick Murphy, Can't See Why Not, page 142:
text: Maybe, occasionally one will give me a quick twirl that will give me a moment of joy, but for the most part, I would just assume sit the dance out.
ref: 2021, D. S. England, I'm Just A Girl:
glosses: Eggcorn of just as soon.
hold one's piece
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's piece
form: holding one's piece
form: held one's piece
form: held one's piece
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hold one's peace.
dire straights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dire straits.
in the throws of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in the throes of.
transpile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transpiles
form: transpiling
form: transpiled
form: transpiled
Etymology: Shortening of transcompile.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transcompile: To translate source code to a different programming language or to an older version of its original language.
synonyms: word: transcompile
extra: To translate source code to a different programming language or to an older version of its original language
Related terms: transpiler
transcompile
transcompile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transcompiles
form: transcompiling
form: transcompiled
form: transcompiled
Etymology: From trans- + compile.
Senses: glosses: To compile (source code) by translating from one source programming language to either another language or an older version of the same language, producing translated source code in the other language or version.
Synonyms: transpile
Hypernyms: compile
Derived terms: transcompiler
Related terms: cross-compile
common pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common pheasants
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Phasianus colchicus, native principally to temperate parts of Asia, naturalized elsewhere.
Synonyms: sense: Phasianus colchicus
word: ring-necked pheasant
ring-necked pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-necked pheasants
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Phasianus colchicus, native principally to temperate parts of Asia, naturalized elsewhere.
Synonyms: sense: Phasianus colchicus
word: common pheasant
Latinophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latino- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: The local intellectual elite, which derived its tradition from the Nicaean reaction to Latin domination, the so-called "Hellenic renaissance," was becoming progressively more Greek in spirit and correspondingly more Latinophobe.
ref: 1982, Byzantine Studies:
glosses: Opposed to the Latin language.
glosses: Exhibiting Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.
Latinophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinophobes
Etymology: From Latino- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: This also shows the reason for using Latin names, to avoid confusion with the varying popular ones. A few examples such as "syringa-philadelphus-lilac" make even the most confirmed Latinophobe see glimmerings of light!
ref: 1954, Bulletin, Garden Club of America:
glosses: One who fears or hates the Latin language.
glosses: One who exhibits Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.
Latinophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Latinophobic
form: most Latinophobic
Senses: glosses: Afraid of or hateful towards that which is Latin.
glosses: Afraid of or hateful towards Hispanics, Latinos, or Latin Americans.
repropose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reproposes
form: reproposing
form: reproposed
form: reproposed
Etymology: From re- + propose.
Senses: glosses: to propose again
reproposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproposals
Etymology: From re- + proposal.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent proposal.
reproposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproposers
Etymology: From repropose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nor is his name altogether unconnected with geometrical inquiries, for he is well known as the reproposer of the "Problem of Hipparchus" […]
ref: 1854, Manchester Literary, Philosophical Society, Memoirs and Proceedings:
glosses: One who proposes something again.
weasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of weasel.
weasal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of weasel.
125
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwʌn.tuːˈfaɪv/
Forms: form: 125s
Etymology: From their maximum speed of 125 mph.
Senses: examples: text: How much rail horsepower does a 125 have? Well I don't have the actual TE curve on me here (it's at home) but I can approximate.
ref: 1999 June 16, Hoppy, “Re: HST from Paddington”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
text: Most of the cheap tickets are valid on both 125s and Turbos - indeed some are ONLY available on 125s (eg First Plus London Day Out).
ref: 2003 December 1, Sean Marshall, “Re: Voyager/Meridian differences”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
text: When I was an apprentice many years ago, the 125 used to come through Markinch station in Fife at 1.27pm every weekday.
ref: 2010 January 6, McKevvy, “Re: Could you safely lie between the rails of an HSL?”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A high-speed train (HST) powered by two British Rail Class 43s, one at each end.
125s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 125
Daddy's girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daddy's girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of daddy's girl (“a girl or woman who has a very close bond with her father”).
examples: text: I just can't believe Daddy's girl is finally all grown up.
glosses: A term of endearment for one's own daughter.
ethnocentrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnocentrists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of ethnocentrism.
ethnocentrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnocentrist
reobserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reobserves
form: reobserving
form: reobserved
form: reobserved
Etymology: From re- + observe.
Senses: glosses: To observe again.
Derived terms: reobservable
reobservation
reconservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + conservation.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of information regarding earlier conservation work (e.g. experienced in the reconservation of The Portland Vase and Holbein's painting The Ambassadors), has emphasized the need for the creation of accurate conservation records.
ref: 2012, Chris Caple, Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making:
glosses: Conservation or repair subsequent to a previous attempt at conservation.
raw_tags: of works of art
monoglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + glacial.
Senses: glosses: Of an ice age, involving a single phase of ice sheet growth.
Derived terms: monoglacialism
monoglacialist
monoglacialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monoglacial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support of a monoglacial theory of the progress of an ice age.
Related terms: monoglacialist
monoglacialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoglacialists
Etymology: From monoglacial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports a monoglacial theory of an ice age.
monoglacialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoglacialist
monogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more monogenically
form: most monogenically
Etymology: From monogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a monogenic manner.
alieniloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alieniloquent
form: most alieniloquent
Senses: glosses: Tending to digress from the point of one's conversation; discursive.
kite runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kite runners
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Indian sub-continent
glosses: A person who chases kites that have been cut free during kite fighting contests.
kite fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kite-fighting
Senses: examples: text: Kite fighting has caused horrific injuries and even deaths, and a bill moving through Brazil’s Congress is seeking to prohibit the manufacture, sale and use of the razor-sharp lines nationwide, with violators facing one to three years in prison and a hefty fine.
ref: 2024 August 21, Eléonore Hughes, “Plaything or peril? Brazilian kites are endangering lives and prompting a push for a national ban”, in AP News:
glosses: A kite-flying contest, where the kites' strings are coated with an abrasive substance intended to cut an opponent's string.
Related terms: kite runner
manja
antigenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antigen + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Immunization with antigenized antibodies is an efficient method to focus the immune response against defined epitopes of foreign antigens.
ref: 2004, Cristina Musselli, Svetlana Daverio -Zanetti and Maurizio Zanetti, Antigenized antibodies expressing V β 8.2 TCR peptides immunize against rat experimental a llergic encephalomyelitis, Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines 2004, 2 :9 doi:10.1186/1476-8518-2-9, page 2
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Genetically engineered in order to express epitopes of different antigens.
raw_tags: of antibodies
captionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caption + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You get forty captionable full-screen pictures on disk (samples shown here). Half of the pictures are automatically animated as soon as you put them on the screen. Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety.
ref: 1987, InCider, volume 5, page 134:
text: Since photographs exist without captions but not the reverse – namely, a caption without a photograph – whatever image is considered photographable leads to what is captionable.
ref: 2013, Ian Richard Netton, Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage, page 131:
glosses: Capable of being captioned.