cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lip-syncs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lip-sync
lip-syncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lip-synching
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lip-sync
lip-syncing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip-synching
Senses: glosses: The act of lip-syncing.
lip-synced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lip-sync
threepenny bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threepenny bit
job aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job aids
Senses: glosses: A sign, worksheet or checklist designed to reduce avoidable mistakes in the workplace by helping a person remember what to do.
Related terms: cheat sheet
instructional design
yure
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: I've heard of yure old lot.
ref: 1891, Kate Sanborn, Adopting An Abandoned Farm:
text: But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA."
ref: 1919, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Joy in the Morning:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your.
yure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.
ref: 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:
text: Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.
ref: 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: hair
yure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yures
form: ewer
form: ure
Etymology: From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.
Senses: glosses: udder
yron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The seven-fold yron gates of grislie Hell, And horrid house of sad Proserpina, They able are with power of mightie spell To breake, and thence the soules to bring awaie Out of dread darkenesse to eternall day, And them immortall make which els would die In foule forgetfulnesse, and nameles lie.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: And I went on bourd into one of them, wherein I could not finde any yron at all[…].
ref: 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation:
glosses: Archaic spelling of iron.
yre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When their father and mother beheld them weep and lament still, they doubled their sorrowes and griefes, but full of yre and forced with Envy, they tooke their voyage homeward, devising the slaughter and destruction of their sister.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Archaic spelling of ire.
yod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yŏd
ipa: /jɒd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /jɑd/
note: of the US
ipa: /jɒd/
ipa: /jɔd/
ipa: /jɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: yods
Senses: examples: text: In the Rite of Perfection as worked in France and America this Cabalistic influence is shown in those degrees known under the name of the "Ineffable Degrees," derived from the Jewish belief in the mystery that surrounds the Ineflable Name of God. According to the custom of the Jews, the sacred name Jehovah or Jah-ve, composed of the four letters yod, he, vau, he, which formed the Tetragrammaton, was never to be pronounced by the profane, who were obliged to substitute for it the word "Adonai."
ref: 1856, Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements:
text: It is really a corruption of, or perhaps rather a substitution for, the Hebrew letter (yod), which is the initial of the ineffable name.
ref: 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry:
glosses: Alternative form of yodh.
examples: text: A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus /l/.
ref: 1976, Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian, Peter de Ridder Press, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone [x̺] of coda /k/ before onsets /t/ and /s/ still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod, or more probably voiceless yod….
ref: 1984, Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, volume 2, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Word-initial yod, however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish jabłko, jagoda, jelén, jutro (all [j-]) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial yod.
ref: 2008, Philippe Ségéral, Tobias Scheer, “Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition”, in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al., editors, Lenition and Fortition, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 152:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A palatal approximant, /j/.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A significant astrological alignment, see Yod in Wikipedia.
Derived terms: yod coalescence
yodization
yodless
yod-dropping
yod dropping
yod-dropper
yod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yŏd
ipa: /jɒd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /jɑd/
note: of the US
ipa: /jɒd/
ipa: /jɔd/
ipa: /jɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Senses: examples: text: An' every blessed minute I stannin' there, can't I hear that ole Miz Blatch nex' do', out in her back yod an' her front yod, an' plum out in the street, hollerin': 'Kitty?
ref: 1922, Booth Tarkington, Gentle Julia:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yard.
hj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hjs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hand job.
Related terms: /hj
headstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headstocks
Etymology: From head + stock.
Senses: examples: text: It was a beautiful day. At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.
ref: 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A headframe.
glosses: A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
glosses: A beam that supports a bell.
glosses: A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
glosses: The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
examples: text: The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Train Illustrated, page 728:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
Synonyms: sense: rail
word: buffer beam
topics: lutherie
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: peghead
topics: lutherie
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: pegbox
Coordinate terms: sense: lathe part
word: tailstock
Teabagistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From teabag + -i- + -stan.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An idealized, rural, conservative version of America, as recalled by Tea Party members.
Derived terms: Teabagistani
Related terms: teabag
præscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præscribe
præscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præscribe
præscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præscribe
præscribeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præscribe
præscrib'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præscribe
Chileanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chileanisms
Etymology: * Chilean + -ism
Senses: examples: text: Chinanga is, according to Román's Diccionario de chilenismos, not so much a Chileanism as an Americanism, since he credits it to Chile, Perú and Ecuador: it is equivalent to the Spanish taberna, but enlivened with song and dance.
ref: 1918 May, Julio Noé, “Sarmiento the Traveler”, in Revista de Filosofia, Buenos Aires, Argentina; republished as Inter-América, volume 4, number 3, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921 February 24, page 141:
text: The verb pechar is a Chileanism derived from pecho, or chest, and means to employ much effort to accomplish a particular goal.
ref: 1977, Arturo Valenzuela, Political brokers in Chile: local government in a centralized polity, Duke University Press, page 240:
text: Curco is a Chileanism, meaning literally to be bent over with an irritating burden.
ref: 1991, Cynthia G. Brown, Human rights and the "politics of agreements": Chile during President Aylwin's first year, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A term or linguistic feature originating from or specific to the Chilean variety of the Spanish language.
glosses: Chilean nationalism
præcluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of præclude
præcluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præclude
præcludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præclude
pea-shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea-shooters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peashooter.
metopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metopas
form: metopae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metope.
liberty cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberty caps
Senses: synonyms: cap of liberty
glosses: A brimless felt cap, such as the Phrygian cap or pileus, emblematic of a slave's manumission in the ancient world.
glosses: A magic mushroom, a mushroom of the genus Psilocybe, especially Psilocybe semilanceata.
Liberty Cap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A celebrated granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.
glosses: An unusual hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, United States.
glosses: A prominent peak on Mount Rainier, Washington, United States.
Hurghada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /həɹˈɡæ.də/
/həɹˈɡɑː.də/
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic الْغَرْدَقَة.
Senses: glosses: A touristic seaside city in the Red Sea Governorate, Egypt.
Red Sea Governorate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the governorates of Egypt, located between the Nile and the Red Sea.
nectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nectins
Etymology: Perhaps from connect + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that have a function in cell-to-cell adhesion
Derived terms: adiponectin
fibronectin
nephronectin
osteonectin
vitronectin
Cilincing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subdistrict in northern Jakarta, which is bordered by Java Sea to the north, Koja district in the west, Tarumajaya District, Bekasi district in the east, and the Cakung district in the south.
Trinacria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Trīnacria, from Ancient Greek Τρινακρία (Trinakría, “having three headlands”).
Senses: glosses: Sicily.
glosses: The Kingdom of Sicily.
glosses: The triskeles emblem of Sicily.
glosses: The triskeles emblem of Sicily.
The flag of Sicily.
trinitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nitroglycerine.
Cumberland rum butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A regional speciality of butter flavoured with rum, brown sugar, and spices, traditionally made to celebrate the birth of a baby.
pinheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinheaded
form: most pinheaded
Etymology: From pin + headed; compare pinhead.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a head that is unusually tapered or small.
glosses: Foolish; ignorant.
Derived terms: pinheadedness
pinheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pinheaded + -ness.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a head that is unusually tapered or small.
glosses: Foolishness; ignorance.
lay something at the feet of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays something at the feet of
form: laying something at the feet of
form: laid something at the feet of
form: laid something at the feet of
Senses: examples: text: How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?
ref: 2009 Mar/Apr, Clara Jeffery, “Michael Pollan fixes dinner”, in Mother Jones, volume 34, number 2, page 32:
text: He did not lay the blame at the feet of the territory government, but rather conservative politicians that might have had a hand in convincing the federal government, and through it, the authority, to put a stop to the mooted trial.
ref: 2018, 'Disappointed': Too late for off-site pill testing at Spilt Milk, The Canberra Times:
glosses: To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone).
Synonyms: lay something at the door of
multilayeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multilayered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being multilayered.
ashaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ashame
headstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headstock
tricuspidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + cuspidate.
Senses: examples: text: a tricuspidate leaf
glosses: three-pointed; ending in three points.
vedutas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veduta
silexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silex
smokefree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smoke + -free.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smoke-free.
sparkgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkgaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spark gap.
sparkgaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparkgap
Willa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Wilhelmina and recoined in the 19th century in America based on the male given names Will and William.
Senses: examples: text: Even though Miss Cather's father clearly wrote that Willa was named after our "little sister", Miss Lewis' text reads: "They named Willa after ... William Lee Boak, who was killed in the Civil War".
ref: 1974, Bernice Slote, Virginia Faulkner, The Art of Willa Cather, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
runningback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runningbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of running back.
runningbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runningback
noninterdependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interdependent.
Senses: glosses: Not interdependent.
nonadjectival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adjectival.
Senses: glosses: Not adjectival.
nonadverbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adverbial.
Senses: glosses: Not adverbial.
nonprepositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prepositional.
Senses: glosses: Not prepositional.
nonpatterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + patterned.
Senses: glosses: unpatterned
blackbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackbody
blackbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackbuck
whiteboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whiteboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A collaborative discussion over the Internet in which participants can write and draw on a shared space resembling a whiteboard.
frontierless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frontier + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without frontiers.
Derived terms: frontierlessness
apple snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dessert made from blended cooking apples, eggs, sugar, and double cream.
Related terms: snow cream
yeggmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeggman
undoomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + doomed.
Senses: glosses: Not doomed; unfated, uncondemned.
doomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doomlike
form: most doomlike
Etymology: From doom + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She spoke with a sort of doomlike abandon for which her high, astringent voice was not fitted. "It's done now. Whether anybody likes it or not. ...
ref: 1952, Herbert Ernest Bates, Love for Lydia:
glosses: Suggesting doom.
superwealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + wealth.
Senses: examples: text: The 6.5 acres that the ranch sits on, just outside downtown Aspen, was donated in 1994 and is now immensely valuable in this enclave of superwealth.
ref: 2009 August 3, Kirk Johnson, “Once a Place of Hope, Now a Source of Tension”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very great wealth.
Related terms: superwealthy
superhealthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superhealthy
form: most superhealthy
Etymology: From super- + healthy.
Senses: examples: text: The best-designed studies use police (another superhealthy worker group) as a control.
ref: 2001, John Burke Sullivan, Gary R Krieger, Clinical environmental health and toxic exposures:
glosses: Exceptionally healthy.
patternings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patterning
0-4-0+0-4-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 0-4-0+0-4-0
Margen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
Kruegeresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kruegeresque
form: most Kruegeresque
Etymology: From Krueger + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the work of these comics — even when they are screaming or sneering in Kruegeresque tones — is only analogous to the explicit violence of the killing joke...
ref: 1997, Walter de Gruyter & Co, Humor, volume 10:
text: Helen even utters a Freddy Kruegeresque one-liner...
ref: 2000, Alain Silver, James Ursini, The horror film reader:
text: To be sure, SPRIGGAN, like AKIRA, is filled with slick blood and gore (the cackling Little Boy, with his Freddy Kruegeresque wire-cutter claw attachments...
ref: 2001, Frederick S Clarke, Cinefantastique, volumes 33-34:
text: The driller killer's attempts at Kruegeresque one-liners fall pretty flat, although the cast are fairly funny as they run around desperately trying to look scared.
ref: 2004, Jim Harper, Legacy of blood: a comprehensive guide to slasher movies:
glosses: Reminiscent of Freddy Krueger, fictional killer in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), who wears a razor glove.
nonphonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phonological.
Senses: glosses: Not phonological.
Derived terms: nonphonologically
supplementable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supplement + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Selection of strains from the G3P auxotrophs that are supplementable with glycerol in the presence of glucose.
ref: 1974, American Society for Microbiology, Journal of bacteriology, Volume 117:
glosses: Capable of being supplemented.
unphilanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unphilanthropic
form: most unphilanthropic
Etymology: From un- + philanthropic.
Senses: glosses: Not philanthropic; uncharitable, misanthropic.
Related terms: nonphilanthropic
nonaltruistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + altruistic.
Senses: glosses: Not altruistic
Derived terms: nonaltruistically
Related terms: nonaltruist
nonoxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonoxidised
Etymology: From non- + oxidized.
Senses: glosses: unoxidized
nonoxidised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oxidised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonoxidized.
bauxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bauxite
nonclayey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clayey.
Senses: examples: a nonclayey soil
glosses: Not clayey.
nondessert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dessert.
Senses: examples: text: In response, Sara Lee moved into the nondessert baked goods market by developing entirely new croissant, muffin, bread, and bagel product lines.
ref: 1991, Norman S Scarborough, Business:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to dessert.
nondeflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deflated.
Senses: glosses: Not deflated.
nondefoliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + defoliated.
Senses: glosses: Not defoliated.
nondefoliating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + defoliating.
Senses: glosses: Not defoliating.
Kiplingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kiplingian
form: most Kiplingian
Etymology: From Kipling + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Rudyard Kipling or his writings.
Related terms: Kiplingesque
Perlsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perlsian
form: most Perlsian
Etymology: From German Perls + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Fritz Perls (1893-1970), German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed Gestalt therapy.
Marken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markens
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Marken or Swedish Markén.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nonrefracting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + refracting.
Senses: glosses: Not refracting.
4rums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4rum
krotovinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krotovina
slaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaw
passionlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more passionlessly
form: most passionlessly
Etymology: From passionless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a passionless manner; without passion.
pulplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulplike
form: most pulplike
Etymology: From pulp + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Pulplike olefin fibers are produced by a high pressure spurting process developed by Hercules, Inc. and Solvay, Inc.
ref: 1987, Herman Francis Mark, Encyclopedia of polymer science and engineering:
glosses: Resembling pulp; pulpy.
nonengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-engineering
Etymology: From non- + engineering.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to engineering.
exorcisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exorcizable
Etymology: From exorcise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being exorcised.
Derived terms: inexorcisable
unexorcisable
exorcizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exorcize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exorcisable.
nonexercisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exercisable.
Senses: examples: a nonexercisable legal right
glosses: Not exercisable.
nonexerciser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexercisers
Etymology: From non- + exerciser.
Senses: examples: text: The nonexercisers had a greater risk of heart disease.
glosses: One who does not exercise.
nonexercisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonexerciser
hospitalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hospitalisable
Etymology: From hospitalize + -able.
Senses: examples: a hospitalizable patient
glosses: Suitable for being hospitalized.
examples: hospitalizable depression
glosses: Present to such a degree that hospitalization is advisable.
hospitalisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hospitalise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hospitalizable.
square wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square waves
Senses: topics: calculus
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A function or waveform that alternates regularly and instantaneously between two levels.
forefooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forefoot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forefoot
forefooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English fore-foting, fforfotenge, equivalent to forefoot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of repairing the forepart of a shoe or boot.
forefooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forefoot
2-6-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-6-0
fairybook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairybooks
Etymology: From fairy + book, perhaps a confusion of fairytale and storybook.
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time, as the fairybooks say, there was a swamp along the islands guarding Miami, Fla., from the sea.
ref: 1941 June, The Rotarian, volume 58, number 6:
text: Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers.
ref: 1951, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, On the green carpet:
text: His and Gertrude's was a fairybook marriage. The fairy tale ended quickly. After a miscarriage, Gertrude Thomas winced over pregnant black women slaving under the inhuman sun.
ref: 1991, William W Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854:
glosses: A book of fairytales.
fairybooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairybook
lightish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtɪʃ/
Etymology: From light + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat light in colour.
examples: text: It is an interesting point whether a heavyish or a lightish machine runs fastest. One thing that tells against a light machine is that usually it is much higher geared than a heavy wheel, and therefore what is lost in weight is made up for by the extra labour of propulsion.
ref: 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 35, page 37:
glosses: Somewhat light in weight.
dreamlikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dreamlike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being dreamlike; resemblance to a dream.
prolusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolusions
Etymology: From Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).
Senses: examples: text: Domestic prolusions.
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
examples: text: Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: An introductory essay.
Derived terms: prolusory
unbrutalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unbrutalised
Etymology: From un- + brutalized.
Senses: examples: text: No illusions had he of a chastened German spirit, a clarified German mind, an unbrutalized German heart. Kurt knew his father. What would change his father?
ref: 2008, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat:
glosses: Not brutalized.
unbrutalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbrutalized.
ransomable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ransomable
form: most ransomable
Etymology: From ransom + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is a clear rule of prison guard life, one that is conveyed immediately to recruits, that guards are not ransomable.
ref: 1974, Lee Rainwater, Social problems and public policy: deviance and liberty:
glosses: Suitable for being held for a ransom.
unransomable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ransomable.
Senses: glosses: Not ransomable.
4-8-8-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-8-8-4
unrecruitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecruitable
form: most unrecruitable
Etymology: From un- + recruitable.
Senses: examples: text: A qualified candidate who is not interested in a block schedule should not be dismissed as unrecruitable.
ref: 2008, Kirk Mathews, John Nelson, Practical Guide to Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention:
glosses: Not capable of being recruited.
thuglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thuglike
form: most thuglike
Etymology: From thug + -like.
Senses: glosses: thuggish
prolusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolusion
CC.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C.
litterfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litterfalls
Etymology: From litter + fall.
Senses: examples: text: Litterfall is provided for as long as the mature forest exists.
ref: 2008, Masami Miyaki, Koichi Kaji, “Shift to Litterfall as Year-Round Forage for Sika Deer after a Population Crash”, in Sika Deer, page 186:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Plant material that falls to the ground, such as leaves from trees.
examples: text: The remaining forest types had similar mean litterfalls ranging from 3333 to 6484 kg ha⁻¹ year⁻¹
ref: 1986, K.A. Vogt et al., “Production, turnover, and nutrient dynamics of above- and belowground detritus of world forests”, in Advances in Ecological Research, volume 15, page 315:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The total mass of plant material falling to the ground per unit area, or the mass collected at a specific site.
litterfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litterfall
nonconiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coniferous.
Senses: glosses: Not coniferous.
nonherbaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + herbaceous.
Senses: glosses: Not herbaceous.
petshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petshops
Senses: examples: text: And he stops in front of the store where they're going and she stares at the window uncomfortably, it turns out to be a petshop that only sells birds, marvelous, in cages you can see from the window there are all kinds of birds happily flying from one perch to another, […]
ref: 1980 August, Manuel Puig, chapter 1, in Thomas Colchie, transl., Kiss of the Spider Woman […], New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Although Lesbia's sparrow and Melior's parrot do indeed bear witness to at least an occasional Roman weakness for pet birds, it does seem unlikely that these pampered fowls will have drunk from the very same type of vessel as might be sold in the petshops of modern Pompeii.
ref: 1999, Eleanor Leach, “Discussion: Comments from a Classicist”, in Penelope M[ary] Allison, editor, The Archaeology of Household Activities, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Alternative form of pet shop.
petshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petshop
nonwesterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonwestern
Shaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æz
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sharon.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Shazia.
Related terms: Shazza
demonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demonology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to demonology.
espier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espiers
Etymology: From espy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: but would himself be a seer, an espier of future events
ref: 1885, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets […] :
glosses: One who espies.
triscele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisceles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triskele.
non-offensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonoffensive
Etymology: From non- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: Not offensive.
Derived terms: nonoffensively
nonoffensiveness
heaume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊm/
ipa: /həʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
homophone: Home
homophone: hom
homophone: holm
homophone: home
homophone: holme
Forms: form: heaumes
Etymology: From Middle French heaume, from Old French helme. Doublet of helm.
Senses: glosses: A large helmet extended to and rested on the shoulders, worn in the 12th and 13th centuries: a great helm.
Derived terms: great heaume
heaumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊmz/
rhymes: -əʊmz
homophone: Homes
homophone: homes
homophone: holmes
Senses: glosses: plural of heaume
nonserum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serum.
Senses: examples: a nonserum protein
glosses: Not of or pertaining to serum.
noit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of note (“business”).
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of night.
tequilero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tequileros
Etymology: From Spanish tequilero, from tequila.
Senses: glosses: Someone who enjoys and is knowledgeable about tequila.
serum sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serum sicknesses
Senses: glosses: An allergylike reaction to proteins in antiserum derived from animal sources.
paradoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoctors
Etymology: From para- + doctor.
Senses: glosses: A doctor on a pararescue team.
paradoctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoctor
vitraux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French vitraux, plural of vitrail.
Senses: examples: text: A viewing device was clicking off a series of transparencies, showing vitraux and mosaics by the Luxembourg artist Francois Gillen.[…]Some of his abstract vitraux are truly beautiful.[…]Thus a tall blue and red window for a church in Wintrage, a glorious yellow vitrail for the church of Freistroff on the Moselle.
ref: 1966 April 16, Rea Montbizon, “Gillen, Chapdelaine At Galerie Libre”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page 20, column 6:
text: SAVE THE VITRAUX[…]over the first three windows cleaned at Chartres (which brightened the naturally aged colors around the celebrated blues, making them less striking) that it looked for a while as if the remaining vitraux would be left to darken further and die.
ref: 1983, The Connoisseur, page 15:
text: […]glass of the required colour originated, from which the vitraux[…]
ref: 1991, Bohemian Glass: Tradition and Present, Crystalex, page 41, column 2:
text: Tiffany and Company of New York created vitraux for shop windows and lamp designs for homes.[…]Gomide experimented in these areas, making frescoes, vitraux, and watercolors.[…]He designed all of a house’s components: furniture (fig. 14), paintings (fig. 15), reliefs in the form of wall panels, curtains, doors, objects, lighting, windows, shelves, vitraux, and frescoes;[…]
ref: 1995, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., pages 124, 188, and 191:
text: The glass was blown especially at the St. Gobain Works in France, employing the ancient techniques used in the vitraux of Chartres and Notre Dame in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The vitrail contains dozens of colors and shades.
ref: 1997, Stained Glass: Quarterly of the Stained Glass Association of America, page 171, column 1:
glosses: plural of vitrail
tequileros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tequilero
nonbutterfat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + butterfat.
Senses: examples: text: Nonbutterfat sour dressing is a good substitute for cholesterol-laden cream.
ref: 1987, Quick workouts: fitness anytime, anywhere:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to butterfat.
noncholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cholesterol.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to cholesterol.
nondeodorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deodorized.
Senses: glosses: Not deodorized.
undeodorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deodorized.
Senses: glosses: Not deodorized.
short-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-stops
form: short-stopping
form: short-stopped
form: short-stopped
Senses: examples: text: the check which we mentioned earlier as a prime example of present-day around-the-barn movement in the payments stream, might conceivably be short-stopped at a regional clearing center located in Maine.
ref: 1967, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Report to Stockholders, page 7:
text: Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin.
ref: 1983, Sue Hoover, Help Wanted: The First Guide to High-tech Jobs, page 14:
text: He went to the hospital, where they short-stopped a heart attack, perhaps by minutes.
ref: 1991, Mediaweek - Volume 1, page 14:
text: Nitrile rubbers, if they are to be used as dissolving resins, must be short-stopped at about 60 % conversion; otherwise an insoluble gel forms within the resin.
ref: 1991, Robert D. Athey, Emulsion Polymer Technology, page 80:
text: Either the intentionality of reference is accepted as a datum or it has to be explained. Folkism short-stops the question, both ways.
ref: 2003, R.J. Nelson, Naming and Reference: The Link of Word to Object:
glosses: To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.
examples: text: In The Spirit of the Times, the most reliable sporting paper of the Coast, we find the following encouraging criticism on our baseball nine: " Koshland (a tower of strength to this league) short topped and ran bases as brilliantly as the best of professionals."
ref: 1886, California Occident - Volumes 11-12, page 88:
text: Baird, '12, has been catching, short-stopping, second-basing and left-fielding with varying good nature, but impartial ability and with commendable attention to such trifling details as hitting and base running, matters apparently beneath the notice of most of the team.
ref: 1909, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 32, page 742:
text: I have never known her to follow with any degree of avidity the fortunes of the Kansas City Monarchs, for whom Robinson short-stopped last season.
ref: 1979, Mark Harris, Short Work of it: Selected Writing, page 4:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play the position of shortstop.
short-stops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short-stop
short stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short stop
crèmes brûlée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Filomeno uses a torch to toast several crèmes brûlée, the final desserts of the night.
ref: 2001, March: Cincinnati Magazine, volume 34, № 6, page 177
text: The menus may include appetizers of flash-cooked striped bass with toasted garlic/lemon juice and capers; an extravagant entrée called “Lobster, Lobster, Lobster and Lobster Sauce”; grilled venison with aged balsamic vinegar and foie gras sauce; vegetarian delights such as soy-glazed shiitake and gingered greens, crunchy Vidalia onions, and onion soubise; and fanciful desserts such as warm lemon soufflé tart and honey-lemon sorbet or a trio of crèmes brûlée (including jasmine, cappuccino, and classic vanilla).
ref: 2008, Steven B. Stern, Stern’s Guide to the Cruise Vacation, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 511:
glosses: plural of crème brûlée
tequila cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tequila creams
Senses: glosses: A cream-based liquor made from tequila.
dunderheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dunderheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: stupidity
as of yet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Apparently from as yet, by confusion with as of.
Senses: qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: Alternative form of as yet.
Related terms: as of now
Worcestershire sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Worcestershire sauce
nonretentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retentive.
Senses: glosses: Not retentive.
Related terms: nonretention
meritlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meritless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being meritless.
nondistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + distant.
Senses: glosses: Not distant.
cocreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocreates
form: cocreating
form: cocreated
form: cocreated
form: co-create
Etymology: From co- + create.
Senses: glosses: To create together.
Derived terms: co-create with God
cocreator
Spinozistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spinozistic
form: most Spinozistic
Etymology: From Spinoza + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Russell was, I believe, especially inclined toward Spinoza's view mainly in his world-weary writings in the aftermath of World War I, which, he sometimes claimed, had made him more Spinozistic.
ref: 1992, Bart Schultz, “Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics,”, in Ethics, volume 102, number 3, page 618:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or representative of the philosophical doctrines of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
Synonyms: Spinozist
Related terms: Spinozism
cocreates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cocreate
cocreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cocreate
cocreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cocreate
cocreator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cocreators
Etymology: From co- + creator.
Senses: glosses: One who cocreates; a joint creator.
cocreators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocreator
CLR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But we can't use function pointers as we would in C++, and not just for the ideological reason that it doesn't enter into the spirit of the brave new pointerless world of the CLR.
ref: 2003, Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams, .NET Windows forms in a nutshell, page 18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Common Language Runtime.
CLR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of current-limiting resistor.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Contraction of clear.
glosses: Initialism of coffee leaf rust.
Spinozist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spinozists
Etymology: From Spinoza + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The last chapter explores how a contemporary Spinozist might respond.
ref: 2001, William E. Connolly, “Review: Spinoza and Us,”, in Political Theory, volume 29, number 4, page 589:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An adherent of or a specialist in the study of the philosophical doctrines of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
Derived terms: Spinozistic
Related terms: Spinozism
Spinozist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spinozist
form: most Spinozist
Etymology: From Spinoza + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Van Vloten . . . tries now and then to be more Spinozist than Spinoza himself.
ref: 1878, Frederick Pollock, “Notes on the Philosophy of Spinoza”, in Mind, volume 3, number 10, page 211n:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Spinozistic.
multiplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiplanar
form: most multiplanar
Etymology: From multi- + planar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple planes.
Derived terms: multiplanarity
multispatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multispatial
form: most multispatial
Etymology: From multi- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple spaces.
nonaliased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aliased.
Senses: glosses: Not aliased.
Spinozists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spinozist
showboater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showboaters
Etymology: From showboat + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who showboats; a showoff.
showboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showboater
showbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showbread
sublist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublists
Etymology: From sub- + list.
Senses: glosses: A list that makes up part of a larger list.
sublists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublist
swap meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swap meets
form: swapmeet
Senses: glosses: A meet for the purpose of trading, including buying and selling or swapping (bartering); a flea market.
Related terms: car boot sale
boot fair
swapmeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swapmeets
Etymology: From swap + meet.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swap meet.
swapmeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swapmeet
swapfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swapfiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swap file.
swapfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swapfile
grapefruitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grapefruitlike
form: most grapefruitlike
Etymology: From grapefruit + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
DYC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DYCs
Senses: examples: text: At times, it seems as though all flowers are D. Y. C.'s, but these brash newcomers of all colors account for[…]
ref: 1981, Kent Dannen, Donna Dannen, Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, page 29:
text: Herbalist Michael Moore describes Arnica as a "DYC," or "damn yellow composite." For beginners studying flora, the yellow members of this family tend to cause confusion.
ref: 1989, Janice J. Schofield, Richard W. Tyler, Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, the Northwest, page 131:
text: Hymenoxys richardsonii, like H. acaulis, covers a very wide range and could possibly come into the category of "just another D.Y.C." (Damned Yellow Composite).
ref: 2002, Graham Nicholls, Alpine Plants of North America, page 145:
text: The most common though sometimes difficult to tell apart yellow members of the sunflower family are arnicas, groundsels, goldenrods, and mountain-dandelions. There are so many confusing members of this family that some botanizers use the term DYC for "damn yellow composite."
ref: 2008, James Luther Davis, The Northwest Nature Guide, page 205:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of damn (or damned) yellow composite: any hard-to-identify yellow-flowered member of the sunflower family (Compositae).
Related terms: word: DWC
topics: birdwatching
ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: LBJ
topics: mycology
biology
natural-sciences
word: LBM