cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cyberostracism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + ostracism, coined by social psychologist Kipling Williams.
Senses: examples: text: However, while potentially damaging to the target's self-esteem and psychological well-being, there are arguably more harmful aspects of intentional antisocial behavior than cyberostracism.
ref: 2008, Elly Konijn, Mediated interpersonal communication, page 204:
text: Members often become very involved in such groups, and react negatively when they are denied membership in such groups (cyberostracism, see Chapter 3).
ref: 2009, Donelson R. Forsyth, Group Dynamics, page 456:
glosses: Banishment or exclusion in a virtual environment such as the Internet.
wikipedia: Kipling Williams
inlive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlives
form: inliving
form: inlived
form: inlived
Etymology: From in- + live.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of enlive.
enlive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlives
form: enliving
form: enlived
form: enlived
Etymology: Alteration of earlier inlive, from in- + live (adjective).
Senses: glosses: To enliven.
inlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlocks
form: inlocking
form: inlocked
form: inlocked
Etymology: From in- + lock.
Senses: glosses: To lock in.
glosses: To enclose.
inlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlocks
Etymology: From in- + lock.
Senses: examples: text: The lower jaw slides forward on account of the inlock of these upper teeth.
ref: 1898, The Western dental journal
glosses: A locking in.
glosses: That which is locked in.
glosses: An inner or interior lock.
topics: law
glosses: Any corner or part of a common field plowed up and sowed with oats, etc. and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge while the lave of the field lies fallow and common.
enlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlocks
form: enlocking
form: enlocked
form: enlocked
Etymology: Alteration of earlier inlock.
Senses: glosses: To lock up.
glosses: To enclose.
inmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English inmete, inmette, equivalent to in- + meat. Compare Swedish inmåte (“intestines”).
Senses: glosses: Entrails.
glosses: The part of the intestines of an animal used as food, as the sweetbread, kidneys, etc.
inmew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inmews
form: inmewing
form: inmewed
form: inmewed
Etymology: From in- + mew.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of emmew.
emmew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emmews
form: emmewing
form: emmewed
form: emmewed
Etymology: Alteration of earlier immew.
Senses: glosses: To mew or coop up.
immew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immews
form: immewing
form: immewed
form: immewed
Etymology: Alteration of earlier inmew.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of emmew.
light second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light seconds
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one second: about 300 megameters
Related terms: light year
inmid
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English inmid, equivalent to in- + mid.
Senses: glosses: amid.
inmiddes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English inmiddes, equivalent to in- + Old English middes.
Senses: glosses: amidst.
penis captivus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: The supposed event of a penis trapped by vaginal muscles and unable to withdraw from a vagina during heterosexual intercourse.
folding money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ...W. A. Julian, late treasurer of the United States, decorated our folding money with his signature for 15 years.
ref: 1916, The Texas Outlook, Texas State Teachers Association:
text: [I]magine that you parted with some good folding money—for it takes the "long green" to secure four-year old^([sic]) peach brandy—[…]
ref: 1924 March 17, “Secret Rumor Tells of Hidden Treasure”, in The Dispatch, US, retrieved 01 Oct 2010:
text: ... the Keynesian theory of ... government spending had a very profound effect on our economy. It has taken folding money out of the pockets of everyone here tonight.
ref: 1948, Claude Robinson, Trends in Industry Public Relations:
text: 1957, Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate
Secretary HUMPHREY. Well, I think I can; yes, sir. $25.855 billion are printed notes as of April 30, 1957.
Senator MALONE. That is the folding money, the little bills that we carry around?
Secretary HUMPHREY. That is right.
text: Few of us ever have folding money in our pockets long enough to become very well acquainted with it.
ref: 1963 November 15, “Art Masterpiece”, in Evening Independent, US, retrieved 01 Oct 2010:
text: Less need for paper cash means fewer trips to the ATM to get more folding money.
ref: 2007 June 28, Bill Virgin, “Is the ATM growing obsolete?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 01 Oct 2010:
glosses: Paper currency; cash in the form of printed banknotes.
Synonyms: paper money
long green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Why, a guy come to me and wants to give me half a ton of the long green to go to dat poiper what youse was woikin' on and fix de guy what's runnin' it."
ref: 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 20, in The Prince and Betty:
text: Under the latest tax increase, for instance, a worker with a wife and one child who earns $80 a week will have $8.60 taken out before the long green crosses his palm.
ref: 1951 November 12, “Less Take-Home Pay”, in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, retrieved 01 Oct 2010, page 16:
text: Fox's new game show, The Chamber, lets people suffer to their hearts' content, with the hope of winning some long green, too.
ref: 2002 January 15, Al Brumley, “'Chamber' may scare off viewers rather than scare up ratings”, in Dallas Morning News, retrieved 01 Oct 2010:
qualifier: often preceded by some or the
glosses: Money, especially in the form of cash.
pussytoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussytoes
Senses: glosses: singular of pussytoes
pussytoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussytoe
form: pussy-toes
form: pussy's toes
Etymology: From pussy + toes: named for the way the cluster of flower heads resembles the pads that make up the paw of a cat.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of composite flower in the genus Antennaria, known for their clusters of white fluffy flower heads.
evirated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evirate
evirating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evirate
evirates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evirate
molosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molosse
crottins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crottin
autogamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autogamy
lycanthropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lycanthropy
surmulots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmulot
cavaleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalery
philos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philo
jacinthes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacinthe
padmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padma
ambassadrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambassadrix
escouades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escouade
postiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postiche
citricultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citriculture
piscicultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pisciculture
orang-outans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orang-outan
maquisards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maquisard
kaftas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kafta
clairons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairon
proptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proptose
carrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrosse
bastides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastide
animaliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animalier
bonbonnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonbonne
systyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systyle
angelots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angelot
left inverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left inverses
Senses: examples: text: In order for a function to have a left inverse it must be injective.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A related function that, given the output of the original function, returns the input that produced that output.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: For a given morphism f : X → Y, its right inverse (if it has one) is a morphism s : Y → X such that s∘f= mbox id_X.
Hypernyms: inverse
praesidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praesidium
larfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of larf
minisupercomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisupercomputers
Etymology: From mini- + supercomputer.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer capable of vector processing and small-scale multiprocessing, a cheaper alternative to a full supercomputer in the 1980s.
Crayette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crayettes
Etymology: From Cray + -ette; coined by the industry magazine Datamation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any minisupercomputer with an instruction set compatible with those of Cray supercomputers.
Crayettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crayette
toejob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toejobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toe job.
toejobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toejob
readback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from read back.
Senses: examples: text: If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.
ref: 2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection, page 415:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The repetition of a message one has received, in order to acknowledge it and to demonstrate accurate comprehension (especially of commands).
examples: text: OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.
text: The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
stenography
writing
glosses: The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).
Related terms: backread
readbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readback
honeybunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeybunches
Etymology: From honey + bunch.
Senses: examples: text: Listen, honeybunch, I don't want to be cruel, but you've got to think of everything.
ref: 2005, Nancy Garden, Good Moon Rising, page 107:
text: “Open your eyes, Dad, I'm not your little honeybunch anymore.”
ref: 2008, Marc Harshbarger, Deeper Dish, page 154:
glosses: Honey, darling (term of endearment).
satcoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsatˌkɑmz/
ipa: /ˈsatˌkɒmz/
Forms: form: satcom
Etymology: Clipping of satellite communications.
Senses: examples: text: The cost of installing a satcoms system will soon be recovered.
ref: 1991, Ian Graham, Communications, page 20:
text: But no-one can dispute that satcoms make for more efficient fleet management and safer ships.
ref: 1995, Fairplay international shipping weekly:
glosses: satellite communications
satcomms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since then he has been an Consultant Engineer within INMOS, specialising in GPS and satcomms applications of the transputer.
ref: 1992, S. Noguchi, H. Umeo, editors, Transputer/Occam Japan 4, page 137:
glosses: Alternative spelling of satcoms.
reportability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From report + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Dannemeyer's spokesperson for the initiative, Bret Barbary, said the initiative would also: permit physicians to notify third parties at risk of infection; eliminate the requirement that physicians obtain written consent for HIV testing; mandate reportability to public health officials; make it a crime to donate blood if the donor knows he or she is HIV-positive; and repeal the prohibitions on insurance companies from testing for AIDS.
ref: 1987 December 6, Miranda Kolbe, “California Homophobes Mobilize”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 3:
glosses: The quality of being reportable.
nonreportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reportable.
Senses: glosses: Not reportable.
triacontahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triacontahedron
toe job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe jobs
form: toejob
Senses: examples: text: Toe Job to No Job... Mellor was forced to admit defeat in the wake of his fling with toe-sucking Antonia de Sancha and foreign trips with blonde Mona Bauwens.
ref: 1992 September 25, “Mellor Quits at Last”, in The Sun:
text: Perhaps, you could find creative and fun ways to satisfy his foot hunger using things such as foot massages, toe jobs or exciting new shoes for his viewing.
ref: 2003, Cynthia Perkins, Smoldering Embers: Hot Erotic Stories and Sex Tips to Light a Couple's Fire, page 156:
text: 'Toe jobs really don't do it for me: I just become self-conscious about the state of my feet and find it hard to relax.'
ref: 2005, Emily Hayes, Cosmopolitan's A-Z of Sex: Satisfaction from Aaaah! To Zzzz, page 94:
glosses: An oral or genital sex act involving the toes.
toe jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe job
stablegirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablegirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stable girl.
stablegirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stablegirl
stable girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stable girls
form: stable-girl
form: stablegirl
Senses: glosses: A girl or young woman who attends in a stable.
Synonyms: stablehand
rabbitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of rabbit + habitat
Senses: examples: text: We have already seen how forest rabbitat management improves the forest stand and helps other forest game species.
ref: 1955, Wisconsin conservation bulletin, Volume 20, page 36:
text: This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.
ref: 1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15:
text: Whatever special combination rabbitat is, the Prairie Home Area's small fields, weedy field borders, brush piles and cover plantings fit the bill pretty well.
ref: 1985, Missouri Conservationist, Volume 46, page 13:
glosses: The type of natural environment where rabbits can thrive.
ichno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: ichn-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴχνος (íkhnos, “footprint”).
Senses: glosses: Denoting a trace or trace amounts.
ichn-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichno-.
ichthyo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: ichthy-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”).
Senses: synonyms: pisci-
glosses: fish
ichthy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichthyo-.
Amerasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: Amerasians
Etymology: Blend of American + Asian, modelled after Eurasian.
Senses: examples: text: I am an Amerasian, why am I not allowed to stay here legally? Why do you try to keep me out, why do you discriminate against me?
ref: 1995, Steven DeBonis, Children of the enemy: oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and their mothers, McFarland, page 125:
text: By contrast, the average age of the Amerasian AHA immigrant arriving in America was seventeen – about one year younger than the average age of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam during the war.
ref: 2005, Trin Yarborough, Surviving twice: Amerasian children of the Vietnam War, Brassey's:
text: The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.
ref: 2010, Ilona Bray, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Ruby Lieberman, How to Get a Green Card, Nolo, page 156:
glosses: A person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia.
Amerasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Etymology: Blend of American + Asian, modelled after Eurasian.
Senses: examples: text: Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
ref: 1980, Geo, volume 2, number 2, page 80:
text: In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty […]
ref: 1998, Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: a cultural biography, Cambridge University Press, page 365:
text: Interestingly, however (and fortunately for the children), Amerasian parentage held virtually no stigma in the Philippines, in contrast to the situation in other Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam […]
ref: 2004, Anni P. Baker, American soldiers overseas: the global military presence, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 119:
glosses: Of mixed American and Asian parentage.
Amerasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amerasian
kerato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: kerat-
form: cerato-
form: cera-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”).
Senses: glosses: horn
glosses: cornea
Derived terms: keratoconjunctitis
keratocricoid
keratodermatitis
keratoectasia
keratoepithelioplasty
keratoglossus
keratohyal
keratoidea
keratokinase
keratoleptynsis
keratoleukoma
keratonosis
keratopachyderma
keratophakia
keratoplasia
limno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: limn-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē).
Senses: glosses: lake, pond
limn-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limno-.
xer-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xero-.
'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'n
protegés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protegé
ethically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethically challenged
form: most ethically challenged
form: ethically-challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Unethical; dishonest.
Related terms: horizontally challenged
gravitationally challenged
vertically challenged
living impaired
living impaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: living-impaired
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged. Compare hearing-impaired.
Senses: glosses: Dead.
snow figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow figures
Senses: glosses: Snow sculpted into a human figure, a snowman or snowwoman.
Synonyms: snowperson
Hypernyms: snow sculpture
breaks even
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break even
breaking even
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break even
broke even
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of break even
thems
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Catches in my craw, it does — thems as’ll let others do theys work for ’em, then come in to take what the gettin’s got."
ref: 1982, Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind, page 446:
text: After all, there's just some things in life a guy can't hope to change, even with the powder o' positive thinkin' that comes from livin' long enough and knowin' that thems what's got it ain't about to give none of it to thems what's not, [...]
ref: 2004, Louis Daniel Bordsky, Nuts to you!, page 25:
text: “There’s thems that can and thems that can’t; thems that talk and thems that rant.”
ref: 2008, Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite, page 87:
text: “Thems are not called boats, thems are canoes.”
ref: 2009, Robert B. Marchand, Caylen's Quest, page 25:
glosses: variant of those.
Related terms: them
spurlge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of splurge.
scholarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scholar + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I have (like blind Bayard) plodded forward, and set forth many Pamphlets full of much Love, and little Scholarism.
ref: 1590, Robert Greene, Greene's Mourning Garment (quoted in Excerpta Tudoriana: or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature (1813) by Samuel Egerton Brydges, p. 128 (Google preview))
text: The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd,
That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name,
Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes
In heavenly matters of theology
ref: 1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus:
glosses: Scholarship.
fan belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan belt
bahaha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Representation of laughter.
Synonyms: sense: laughter
word: haha
sense: laughter
word: hehe
sense: laughter
word: teehee
sense: laughter
word: muahahaha
-corn
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin cornū (“horn”).
Senses: examples: text: Latin caducus + -corn → caducicorn
text: culmen + -corn → culminicorn
text: deca- + -corn → decacorn
glosses: horn(s)
visual snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which a person sees television-like static or noise in their field of vision, especially when against a dark background
forbar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbars
form: forbarring
form: forbarred
form: forbarred
Etymology: From Middle English forbarren (“to bar, bar up, block”), equivalent to for- + bar. Compare Middle High German verbarren (“to forbar”).
Senses: glosses: To bar in; to shut up.
glosses: To bar, fend off, ward off.
glosses: To exclude, deny.
forbathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbathes
form: forbathing
form: forbathed
form: forbathed
Etymology: From for- + bathe.
Senses: glosses: To bathe abundantly or thoroughly.
forbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbeats
form: forbeating
form: forbeat
form: forbeaten
Etymology: From Middle English forbeten (“to beat, beat up”), equivalent to for- + beat.
Senses: glosses: To beat.
glosses: To beat up, beat to pieces, beat to death.
home base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home bases
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: base#Noun
coordinate_terms: first base
second base
third base
glosses: home plate
examples: Holonyms: home ground, home turf
topics: business
hypernyms: base#Noun
glosses: headquarters
Related terms: home field advantage
home run
forblack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: forblacker
form: more forblack
form: forblackest
form: most forblack
Etymology: From Middle English forblack, equivalent to for- + black.
Senses: glosses: Extremely black; jet-black.
forbod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Gods Precepts in the Decalogue, are for the most part forbods, or prohibitions; yet usually called commandements.
ref: 1619, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomie, Deuteronomie, Ch. IIII, notes on verse 23
glosses: Alternative form of forbode.
forbod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: obsolete simple past of forbid.
infotisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infotisement
Question Period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Question Periods
form: question period
Senses: examples: text: Two Progressive Conservatives asked Mr Winters during the Commons question period what is being done about Parliament's electric clocks and the library of Parliament.
ref: 1955 January 24, “Parliament's Clock, Library Questioned”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 02 Oct 2010, page 6:
text: Opposition members blasted the Tory budget during Question Period on Wednesday, charging that it raises income taxes on the poorest Canadians.
ref: 2006 May 3, “‘Neo-Conservative budget’ raises taxes on poor: Liberals”, in CBC.ca, Canada, retrieved 02 Oct 2010:
topics: government
politics
glosses: In the federal and provincial parliaments, a period of regularly scheduled time in the lower chamber during which members of the official opposition party and other members may direct questions to the prime minister and to cabinet ministers concerning affairs of state.
Synonyms: sense: some other countries
word: Question Time
question period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: question periods
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Question Period.
presbytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbyte
cosmographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmography
cryptologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptology
dispends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispend
dispending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispend
dispended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispend
nidifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidification
ornithologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithology
camelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameline
minauderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minauderie
toponymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toponymy
treillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treillage
spaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spath
horologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horology
skidpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skidpad
embryologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryology
sylvicultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylviculture
chiromancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiromancy
cantals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantal
laryngites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngitis
nyctalopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nyctalops
cytolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cytolyse
cytolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytolysis
pampres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pampre
instaurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instauration
mandores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandore
oflags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oflag
zouaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zouave
binious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biniou
megal-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megalo-.
mon-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mono-.
mytho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθəʊ/
Forms: form: myth-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos).
Senses: glosses: myth
oneiro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: oneir-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”).
Senses: glosses: dream
Derived terms: oneirocrisy
oneirocrite
oneirocritic
oneiroid
oneirology
oneiromancer
oneironaut
oneirophobia
oneirophrenia
oneiroscopy
oneir-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oneiro-.
orth-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ortho-.
-odont
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the oblique stem of Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús).
Senses: glosses: tooth; toothed
Derived terms: myotodont
nyctalodont
mimical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪmɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more mimical
form: most mimical
Etymology: From mimic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a mime, or jester.
examples: text: If he can […] talk big fustian, insult, scorn, strut, contemn others, and use a little mimical and apish complement above the rest, he is a complete (Egregiam vero laudem), a well-qualified gentleman […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
text: [F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.
ref: 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 2, stanza 47, page 26:
text: Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical.
ref: 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:
glosses: Imitative; that mimics something else.
glosses: Imitation; mock.
Derived terms: biomimical
mimically
funges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funge
dirt-dauber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt-daubers
Senses: examples: text: If […] that I am a younger brother, basely born […], of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”
ref: , II.3.3
glosses: A common labourer who makes mud walls.
dirt-daubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirt-dauber
single-sideband modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-sideband modulations
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A modification of amplitude modulation that modulates the output signal on a single sideband only, as opposed to both sidebands.
Jawjuh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔʊ.dʒə/
Forms: form: Jawjah
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Georgia, representing Southern US English.
effective radiated power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effective radiated powers
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: the energy of a radio frequency, determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
height above average terrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heights above average terrain
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: The height of a radio transmitter, including the antenna, as compared to the average terrain height in the surrounding area between three and sixteen kilometers from the antenna site.
convented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convent
convented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convented
form: most convented
Senses: examples: text: Socrates in a fair, seeing so many things bought and sold, such a multitude of people convented to that purpose, exclaimed forthwith, “O ye gods, what a sight of things do not I want!”
ref: , II.3.3
glosses: Brought together, convened.
put case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts case
form: putting case
form: put case
form: put case
Senses: examples: text: But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
text: Put case that the soul after the departure from the body may live.
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
text: If my legitimate vengeance be a blow,
Mistrusting my bare arm can deal that blow,
I claim co-operation of a stick
ref: 1868-1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book Put case a person wrongs me past dispute
glosses: To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that).
decadents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadent
protestants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protestant
latents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latent
larfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of larf
larfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larf
unsocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + socked.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a sock or socks.
Synonyms: sockless
undecadent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undecadent
form: most undecadent
Etymology: From un- + decadent.
Senses: glosses: Not decadent.
teledrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teledramas
Etymology: From tele- + drama.
Senses: examples: text: Plays can be televised and have the same appeal as other teledramas.
ref: 1950, Katharine Anne Ommanney, Pierce C. Ommanney, The stage and the school, page 461:
glosses: A drama made for television.
teledramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teledrama
socketless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socket + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a socket.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without the use of network sockets.
dockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dock + -less.
Senses: examples: a dockless beach
a dockless laptop computer
glosses: Without a dock (in various senses).
antitruancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitruancy
form: most antitruancy
Etymology: From anti- + truancy.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Opposing or countering truancy from school.
noncommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + communication.
Senses: glosses: Absence of communication; failure to communicate.
durnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darnedest.
sperm count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm counts
Senses: glosses: The number of spermatozoa in a given amount of ejaculate (typically one millilitre), often used as a gauge of male fertility.
forbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbreaks
form: forbreaking
form: forbroke
form: forbroken
Etymology: From Middle English forbreken, from Old English forbrecan (“to break up, break in pieces, violate, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *frabrekaną (“to break up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”), equivalent to for- (“fully, up”) + break. Cognate with Dutch verbreken (“to sever, disrupt”), German verbrechen (“to commit, perpetrate”).
Senses: glosses: To break in pieces, break up, destroy.
glosses: To break through, interrupt.
gapers' blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gapers' block
forbuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: forbuys
form: forbuying
form: forbought
form: forbought
Etymology: From Middle English *forbyen, forbiggen, forbuggen, equivalent to for- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To buy off; ransom; redeem (from sin, hell, etc.).
glosses: To stone for; gain over; bribe.
Derived terms: forbuyer
forcarve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: forcarves
form: forcarving
form: forcorve
form: forcarved
form: forcorven
form: forcarved
Etymology: From Middle English forkerven, from Old English forceorfan (“to cut through, cut off, cut away, cut down”), equivalent to for- + carve.
Senses: glosses: To cut through, cut completely; to carve up; to cut off.
carve up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carves up
form: carving up
form: carved up
form: carved up
Senses: glosses: To cut into pieces.
examples: text: The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I.
topics: country
location
region
qualifier: land
glosses: To divide or dismember, separate into parts
forcause
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: Univerbation of for + cause.
Senses: glosses: Because, for the reason that.
gouvernante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gouvernantes
Etymology: From French gouvernante.
Senses: examples: text: The travellers were welcomed to Bournonville's house by the gouvernante Madelon, a bustling, goodnatured Normande, whose pyramidal white cap and large gold ear-rings were the delight of her heart; ...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 83:
text: If Madame will entrust her child to the care of my daughter, and of her good gouvernante, Madame Perrodon, and permit her to remain as our guest, under my charge, until her return, it will confer a distinction and an obligation upon us, and we shall treat her with all the care and devotion which so sacred a trust deserves." "
ref: 1872, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla:
text: When Emily endeavoured, though with increased misgivings, to ridicule these proceedings as absolutely nugatory without her consent, her artful gouvernante related several stories of forced marriages, and assured her that neither protestations, nor silence, nor fainting, would be of any avail, either to suspend the ceremony, or to set it aside when performed.
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
glosses: governess
gouvernantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gouvernante
forclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcloses
form: forclosing
form: forclosed
form: forclosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreclose.
forcloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forclose
forclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forclose
forclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forclose
forcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcuts
form: forcutting
form: forcut
form: forcut
Etymology: From Middle English forcutten, forkutten; equivalent to for- + cut.
Senses: glosses: To cut into; cut through; cut completely; cut in pieces; cut up; injure by cutting.
fordede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fordedes
form: fordeed
Etymology: From Middle English for-dede, equivalent to for- (“for”) + deed.
Senses: glosses: A deed done for another, a favour.
glosses: A benefit.
foredeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)diːl/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈdiːl/
Forms: form: foredeals
form: fordele
form: fordeal
form: fordeale
form: forthdeal
form: fordell
form: fordel
Etymology: From earlier fordele, from Middle English foredel, foredele. Equivalent to fore- + deal. Compare Saterland Frisian Foardeel (“advantage, gain, benefit, profit”), Dutch voordeel, Low German fortel, German Vorteil (“advantage”), Danish fordel, Swedish fördel. More at fore-, deal.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and at a great foredeal already; [and as for] such foredeal that they despair not of the...a deal, but that through the help of God, [our Grace and] other good ministers, these personages which [shall be now] sent shall undoubtedly conclude [...]
ref: 1527, Brewer, Brodie, Gairdner, Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII:
text: And thus the battaile was great, and oftentimes that one partie was at a foredele and anon at an afterdele, which endured long.
ref: 1889, Sir Thomas Mallory, La morte d'Arthure: The history of King Arthur and of the Knights:
text: And though this be a great foredeal, and an excellent jewel, yet the great and unspeakable glory, that in time to come shall be declared in us, hath not yet appeared.
ref: 1846, Miles Coverdale, Remains of Miles Coverdale (Hope of the Faithful):
glosses: An advantage; benefit; profit.
glosses: The first place; lead; precedence; preference.
glosses: Progress; advancement.
foredeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)diːl/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈdiːl/
Forms: form: foredeals
form: foredealing
form: foredealed
form: foredealed
form: fordele
form: fordeal
form: fordeale
form: forthdeal
form: fordell
form: fordel
Etymology: From earlier fordele, from Middle English foredel, foredele. Equivalent to fore- + deal. Compare Saterland Frisian Foardeel (“advantage, gain, benefit, profit”), Dutch voordeel, Low German fortel, German Vorteil (“advantage”), Danish fordel, Swedish fördel. More at fore-, deal.
Senses: glosses: To store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.
foredeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foredeal
Haligonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haligonian
Norilsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noril'sk
Etymology: From Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).
Senses: examples: text: In the area of the far north, to the east of the Urals, there seem to have been a number of camps of particularly rigorous regime, which are described as of ‘complete isolation’. Only a few rumours about them have emerged, as no one seems in any circumstances to have been released. The death rate is said to have been very high. Norilsk was the centre of a group of camps more deadly than Kolyma.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 363:
glosses: A city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, second largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
forcover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcovers
form: forcovering
form: forcovered
form: forcovered
Etymology: From Middle English forcoveren (“to cover, cover up”), equivalent to for- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: And she did about his hands little skins of kids, and she forcovered the nakedness of the neck, and gave the dish and took the loaves that she had baked.
ref: 1879, Thomas Pownall Boultbee, A history of the Church of England: pre-Reformation period:
glosses: To cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.
grallatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more grallatorial
form: most grallatorial
Etymology: From Grallatores (former order name) (from Latin grallātor (“stilt-walker”)) + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to wading birds.
examples: text: Will found himself growing increasingly depressed as he twisted his grallatorial limbs and shook his nugatory buttocks with the rest of his fellow sufferers—it was the same thing, day in, day out, a purgatory of the unwise and unwell.
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 214:
glosses: Of legs, long and thin, as a wader.
twinborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: twin-born
Etymology: From twin + born.
Senses: examples: twinborn sisters
glosses: born a twin or twins
Nakhichevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌnɑːxɪt͡ʃɪˈvɑːn/
Forms: form: Nakhchivan
form: Naxcivan
form: Naxçivan
form: Nachidsheuan
form: Nakhijevan
form: Nakhchawan
form: Nakhchavan
form: Nakhitchevan
form: Nakhjavan
form: Nakhdjevan
Etymology: Ultimately from Old Armenian Նախճաւան (Naxčawan). The immediate source of the spelling Nakhichevan is Russian Нахичева́нь (Naxičevánʹ).
Senses: glosses: An autonomous republic and exclave of Azerbaijan.
glosses: The capital city of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
glosses: A historical city and historical district of Vaspurakan province, Armenia.
Derived terms: Nakhichevan-on-Don
unstinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈstɪn.tɪd/
Forms: form: more unstinted
form: most unstinted
Etymology: From un- + stinted.
Senses: examples: text: unstinted commitment
text: unstinted praise
text: unstinted support
text: Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 33, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Letters of Travel:
text: You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
ref: 1900, H. G. Wells, chapter 31, in Love and Mr. Lewisham:
text: The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 24, in Indiscretions of Archie:
text: Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.
ref: 2005 June 21, “Art: American Renaissance Man”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2010:
glosses: Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined, great in amount or degree.
Synonyms: sense: not constrained
word: unconstrained
sense: not constrained
word: unrestrained
Related terms: stint
stinted
unstinting
unstintingly
coal drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coal drop
JVM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JVMs
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java virtual machine.
Hypernyms: VM
co-channel interference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-channel interferences
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: interference caused by two stations transmitting on the same frequency
daimio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daimios
form: daimioes
form: daimio
Senses: glosses: Dated form of daimyo.
surge suppressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surge suppressor