cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊʃɑːn/
ipa: /kʊˈʃɑːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鼓山 (Gǔshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-shan¹.
Senses: examples: text: These two trucks drove through the center of town yesterday afternoon and evening to tell the people of Kaohsiung that the non-Party candidates are concerned about human rights.[…]So we went immediately to the other station, but the police officers at that station, as well as the bystanders in the street, insisted that the two men had been taken to the main station in the Kushan District. So we returned to the Kushan District station.
ref: 1979, SPEAHRhead: Newsletter of the Society for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights, numbers 1-11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
text: The 10th case lived in Hsiaokang District and worked in Kushan District of Kaohsiung City. In Hsiaokang District, 33 more households were visited and 42 blood specimens collected; in Kushan District, 30 households were visited and 58 blood specimens collected.
ref: 1992, Epidemiology Bulletin, volumes 8-9, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 153:
text: Yang who lives in Kushan, Kaohsiung City, ignored media requests for interviews.
ref: 2006 June 27, “Ex-gangster released by prosecutor”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022, Society:
text: The primary school is one of the largest primary schools in the Kushan district of KaoHsiung city, with approximately 1600 students and 100 teachers.
ref: 2009, Kuo-Hsun Hung et al., “Motivational Factors in Educational MMORPGs: Some Implications for Education”, in Transactions on Edutainment III, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:
text: Two of the ferries are being built for the Kaohsiung City Transportation Bureau and are slated to go into commission at the end of this month transporting passengers between the city's Cijin island and Kushan district.
ref: 2009 June 11, “Ferry to join service”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:
text: Police said that they checked on a man at the polling station at St. Paul’s High School in Kushan District (鼓山) after complaints that he had allegedly set up his smartphone outside to record who was entering to vote.
ref: 2020 June 7, Jason Pan, “Councilors report alleged wrongs at Han recall vote”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2020, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Gushan.
objectrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əbjĕkʹtrĭks
ipa: /əbˈdʒɛktɹɪks/
Forms: form: objectrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obiectrīx. By surface analysis, object + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: The proceeding was heard ex parte and after examining only one witness for the objectrix[.]
ref: 1954, All India Reporter (D.V. Chitaley), volume 3, page 64
topics: law
glosses: A woman who objects; a female objector; compare objectress.
objectrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əbjĕkʹtrĭsēz
ipa: /əbˈdʒɛktɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of objectrix
objectress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əbjĕkʹtrĭs
ipa: /əbˈdʒɛktɹɪs/
Forms: form: objectresses
Etymology: From objector + -ess, compare objectrix.
Senses: examples: text: My hand developed into a kind of conscientious objectress. To appease her, I gladly demanded less extensive attestations of her proficiency, and, lo and behold, by showing such considerateness, I gradually won her back.
ref: ante''' 1956, Robert Walser quoted in: George C. Avery, Inquiry and Testament: A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser (1968, University of Pennsylvania Press), page 11
glosses: A female objector.
innovatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin innovātrīx. By surface analysis, innovate + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A woman who innovates; a female innovator.
liplessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lipless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Five Horse Johnson grinned liplessly, exposing six slimy orange teeth, then fell sideways off his stool to the floor. Wesley finished his whisky and put two dollars on the bar. "This do it?" he asked the bartender, who nodded.
ref: 2003, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy, The rooster trapped in the reptile room, page 266:
glosses: Without lips.
liplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I swear it, she was lipless, it was the lipstick that painted imaginary ones on, maybe that's why she was so pale, to hide her liplessness.
ref: 2010, Peter Stabolepszy, Speed Still, page 136:
glosses: Absence of lips.
Synonyms: sense: as a congenital medical condition
word: acheilia
batless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætləs/
Etymology: From bat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...
ref: 1986, John Sherry, Maggie's Farm:
text: Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
ref: 2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145:
glosses: Without bats (the winged mammals).
examples: text: On the early evening of Oct. 17, the massive statue, which sits at the front of the home plate entrance, was damaged when an intoxicated man broke the bat out of the right hand of the statue and ran off with the intention of keeping it. […] Griffey’s statue, which was crafted by artist Lou Cella, has remained batless since that day.
ref: 2018 January 30, Ryan Divish, “Mariners plan for repairs to Ken Griffey Jr. statue this weekend”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Without a bat (club used for striking the ball in sports).
hangarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hangar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hangar.
hangerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hanger + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hanger.
nonfattened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fattened.
Senses: glosses: Not fattened.
listview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listviews
Etymology: From list + view.
Senses: examples: text: Without a doubt, many programs would benefit if their listboxes and listviews supported dragging-and-dropping. Such listviews with draggable items are commonly used to gather items in a desired set for the user.
ref: 1995, Alan Cooper, About face: the essentials of user interface design:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user interface control that can display a series of icons, possibly with accompanying text captions.
listviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of listview
discordent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of discordant.
shelvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shelvy
form: most shelvy
Senses: qualifier: ice
glosses: Having shelves.
raw_tags: of rock
glosses: Sloping; shallow.
Gijón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Gijón, from Asturian Xixón; found in medieval documents as Medieval Latin Gigia and as Old Leonese Pobla de Gigión, but further origins are unclear.
Senses: glosses: A city on the coast of Asturias, in northwestern Spain.
fin whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fin whale
ghost prisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost prisoner
cyberimmortality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + immortality.
Senses: examples: text: ...it is quite likely that it will be a white male 'cyberelite' who will invest in cyberimmortality for themselves. Yet at the same time they will need women as real and virtual sex objects as well as menial workers/emotional supporters for their travails/travels in cyberspace.
ref: 1999, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: connectivity, critique and creativity, page 207:
text: It is this embodiment that transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program of cyberimmortality.
ref: 2011, Gregory R Hansell, William Grassie, H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics, page 42:
glosses: A hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc. are transferred into a computer system.
cyberflirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberflirts
Etymology: From cyber- + flirt.
Senses: examples: text: However, I realize that there's a growing number of single parents on the web who've chosen to be cyberflirts because of the comfort of seeking others from home, eliminating the barriers caused by fear of rejection.
ref: 1998, Steve Horner, Single parenting: from a father's heart:
text: Cyberflirts are also looking for men and women who are intelligent. The internet is a techie magnet. It's only natural that those drawn to the web are also drawn to people who are quick-witted, perceptive and astute.
ref: 1999, Susan Rabin, Barbara J. Lagowski, Cyberflirt: how to attract anyone, anywhere on the World Wide Web:
glosses: One who flirts in cyberspace.
cyberflirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberflirt
HBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HBCs
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Initialism of health and beauty care.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hormonal birth control.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Initialism of hit by car.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of hexabenzocoronene.
HBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Many ships played important roles in the HBC history. They maintained order and carried on trade with Alaska. On the West Coast those most familiar were the steamer Beaver and the schooner Cadboro, both armed with cannon.
ref: 2002, Jan Peterson, Black Diamond City: Nanaimo, the Victorian Era, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Initialism of Hudson's Bay Company, a major Canadian retailer and former British Crown corporation on the North American fur trade.
unlikelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unlikely
Gardens of Eden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garden of Eden
Gardens of Eden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Garden of Eden
blank canvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blank canvases
form: blank canvasses
Etymology: By analogy with artists who begin with a blank canvas, thereby possessing the freedom to shape it according to their creative inclinations.
Senses: examples: text: After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.
text: Her gaze was wide while she was wondering; then her lids drooped low, and lower, as on the blank canvas of her mental view there grew laboriously a conception.
ref: 1903, Leonard Merrick, The Quaint Companions:
text: But when we're truly engaged with the blank canvas of our lives, moment to moment, a timeless quality emerges.
ref: 2014, Panache Desai, Discovering Your Soul Signature, Hachette, →ISBN:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An unmarked or empty state, offering a limitless potential for creation, development or interpretation.
examples: text: There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his dreams than a cracked blank canvas; […]
ref: 1916, Rebecca West, Henry James:
text: From a practical point of view, it has been easier to apply this model to Spain's high-speed system - effectively a blank canvas - than it would be to Britain's deeply interwoven and congested classic network.
ref: 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 33:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.
Synonyms: blank leaf
blank page
blank sheet
blank slate
empty canvas
empty leaf
empty page
empty sheet
new canvas
new leaf
new page
new sheet
blank canvases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank canvas
blank canvasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank canvas
white magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Widespread popular tolerance of white magic thus helped to mitigate the rigours of the law.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 238:
glosses: Magic derived from good or benign forces, as distinct from evil or malevolent forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing good or giving aid.
Coordinate terms: gray magic
black magic
Derived terms: white magician
white wizard
white witch
straitened times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Periods of austerity or economic slowdown.
Coordinate terms: straitened circumstances
deadsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deadstick
deadsticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadstick
deadsticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadstick
high note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high notes
Senses: examples: text: After weeks of practice Alyssa was finally able to hit the high note of her song perfectly.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: bass note
glosses: The highest and usually climactic note of a song or composition, especially one that is difficult to reach.
glosses: A climax or best achievement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, note.
Derived terms: hit the high notes
leave on a high note
high notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high note
dead stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead sticks
form: deadstick
form: dead-stick
Etymology: From stick (“wooden two-bladed propeller”), possibly confounded with stick-like aircraft-engine throttles.
Senses: examples: text: I had to land with a dead stick.
glosses: An unpowered propeller.
examples: text: The 767 made a miraculous dead stick landing at an abandoned Canadian airfield.
glosses: Failed aircraft power.
dead stick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: deadstick
form: dead-stick
Etymology: From stick (“wooden two-bladed propeller”), possibly confounded with stick-like aircraft-engine throttles.
Senses: examples: text: He landed dead stick.
glosses: Without aircraft-engine power.
dead stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead sticks
form: dead sticking
form: dead sticked
form: dead sticked
form: deadstick
form: dead-stick
Etymology: From stick (“wooden two-bladed propeller”), possibly confounded with stick-like aircraft-engine throttles.
Senses: glosses: To fly, especially to land, an aircraft without power.
Related terms: stick the landing
dead sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead stick
dead sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead stick
dead sticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead stick
desertified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desertify
desertified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Turned into a desert
Derived terms: undesertified
desertifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desertify
rebegin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebegins
form: rebeginning
form: rebegan
form: rebegun
Etymology: From re- + begin.
Senses: examples: text: It was Ivy who rebegan the conversation.
ref: 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 34:
glosses: To begin again.
Synonyms: reboot
recommence
reinitiate
restart
rebegun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rebegin
rebegan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rebegin
rebeginning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebegin
rebeginning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebeginnings
Senses: glosses: Act of beginning again; a new start.
rebegins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebegin
Kutthung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gadjang
form: Kattang
form: Gadhang
form: Gadang
Senses: glosses: An extinct Australian Aboriginal language.
Synonyms: Worimi
pulmonary oedema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary oedemas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pulmonary edema.
worldhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldhoods
Etymology: From world + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods.
ref: 1841, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature:
glosses: A worldly possession.
examples: text: It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods.
ref: 1992, Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism:
text: The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.
ref: 2005, Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time:
glosses: The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
worksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worksome
form: most worksome
Etymology: From work + -some. Cognate with German wirksam (“effective, operative, effectual”), Swedish verksam (“active, operative”), Old English weorcsum (“laborious, painful”).
Senses: examples: text: —and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 382:
glosses: Characterised by work; industrious; diligent.
examples: text: At the very beginnings of his governance time began to show how turbulent and worksome it was going to be, […]
ref: 1968, University of Santo Tomás, Philippiniana sacra: Volume 3:
glosses: Laborious; work-intensive.
Derived terms: unworksome
worksomeness
workful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workful
form: most workful
Etymology: From Middle English workvol, from Old English weorcful (“active, industrious”), equivalent to work + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel:
glosses: Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
wordish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wordish
form: most wordish
Etymology: From word + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He yieldeth to the power of the mind an image of that of which the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description.
ref: 1899, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 83:
text: "[...] But both have such an affinity in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding."
ref: 2006, Edward Armstrong, A Ciceronian sunburn:
glosses: Of or pertaining to words; verbal; wordy.
Derived terms: wordishness
wordishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wordish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being wordish.
holds a candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold a candle
holding a candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold a candle
held a candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold a candle
shishamo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shishamo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柳葉魚 (shishamo, literally “willow leaf fish”), ultimately from Ainu スサㇺ (susam).
Senses: glosses: Spirinchus lanceolatus, a Japanese smelt.
elev.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of elevation.
engrosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engrossers
Etymology: From engross + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who copies a piece of writing in large, attractive characters.
examples: text: if the engrossing be of all the commodity , and it be of general use , the price is at the will of the engrosser
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
glosses: One who takes the whole; a purchaser of such quantities in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.
gnammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnamma
gnaphalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnaphaliums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Gnaphalium.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
gnaphaliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnaphalium
goose-pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose-pens
Senses: glosses: An enclosure for geese.
glosses: A quill pen.
goose-pen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goose-pens
form: goose-penning
form: goose-penned
form: goose-penned
Senses: examples: text: Upon the infinitely wise countrywoman's suggestion, she goose-penned, from the edge of her bed, on a side table with cabriole legs, a love letter and took five minutes to reread it in a languorous but loud voice […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 7:
glosses: To write with a quill pen.
goose-penned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goose-pen
cudweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cudweed
mountainousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mountainous + -ness (“a state of being”, suffix forming a noun).
Senses: examples: text: […] according to Polybius, the Arcadians, owing to the mountainousness of their country, and the severity of the weather, were very rugged and unsociable.
ref: 1808, Allan Ramsay, “An Inquiry into the Propriety of the Rules Prescribed for Pastoral Poetry”, in The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy; with Illustrations of the Scenary: […], volume 1, Edinburgh, page 182:
glosses: The quality of being mountainous.
quayage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quayages
Etymology: From quay + -age.
Senses: glosses: The fee charged for using a quay.
quayages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quayage
pen-and-wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pen-and-washes
Senses: examples: text: Demon screwed in his monocle, unclicked out of its special flat case a small pen-and-wash and said he thought (did not doubt, in fact, but wished his certitude to be admired) that it was an unknown product of Parmigianino's tender art.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 9:
glosses: A type of picture drawn using ink applied with a pen and a brush.
paragonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragonites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral related to muscovite.
Derived terms: paragonitic
paragonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragonite
linnaeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linnaeites
Etymology: Named in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cobalt sulfide mineral that forms a series with polydymite.
linnaeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linnaeite
inspexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cognate of the perfect tense inflexions of Latin inspicio; compare connexion.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of inspection.
nongermicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + germicidal.
Senses: glosses: Not germicidal.
nonhomicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homicidal.
Senses: glosses: Not homicidal.
Suppire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Supyire.
Titicaca frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Titicaca frogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Titicaca water frog.
synonyms: word: Titicaca water frog
Sonoran Desert toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sonoran Desert toads
Senses: synonyms: Colorado River toad
glosses: A large olive-green or brown toad, Incilius alvarius, native to parts of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
black caiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black caimans
Senses: glosses: A large black carnivorous South American caiman (Melanosuchus niger).
fire bellied toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire bellied toads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire-bellied toad.
orthoimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoimages
Etymology: From ortho- + image.
Senses: glosses: An orthophoto.
orthoimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoimage
cybernationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + nationalism.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, Palestinian cybernationalism has striven to unify the dispersed Palestinian communities across borders into a nation...
ref: 2005, Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg, Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture, page 135:
text: ...strengthening the affective dimensions of a newer, virtual, or cybernationalism now unbound by traditional ideological, political, economic, geographical, and even temporal boundaries and limitations.
ref: 2009, Anna Everett, Digital diaspora: a race for cyberspace, page 34:
glosses: Nationalism expressed or organised by means of computer networks.
Related terms: cybernation
cybernationalist
ornate horned toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornate horned toads
Senses: synonyms: Argentine horned frog
Pacman frog
glosses: A large carnivorous horned toad of species Ceratophrys ornata, with sharp tooth-like projections in its very large mouth.
cyberprotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberprotests
Etymology: From cyber- + protest.
Senses: examples: text: Although the cyberprotests seen today have already caused limited damage, the potential for future attacks could bring about large economic losses as well as potentially severe damage to the national infrastructure...
ref: 2005, Michael Erbschloe, Trojans, worms, and spyware, page 175:
glosses: A protest expressed or organised by means of computer networks.
Related terms: hacktivism
cyberprotests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberprotest
green anaconda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green anacondas
Senses: glosses: A very large anaconda, Eunectes murinus of South america.
cyberintrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberintrusions
Etymology: From cyber- + intrusion.
Senses: examples: text: “Even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyberintrusions,” he said, “the problem is growing even faster and we are falling further behind.”
ref: 2004, Michael Newton, The encyclopedia of high-tech crime and crime-fighting, page 138:
text: This case study illustrates how risk assessment and risk management can be used to help decision makers determine preferred solutions to cyberintrusions.
ref: 2004, Vicki M. Bier, Howard Kunreuther, James R. Phimister, Accident precursor analysis and management, page 170:
glosses: Breaking into a computer system, especially by means of a network.
cyberintrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberintrusion
reticulated python
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticulated pythons
Senses: glosses: Malayapython reticulatus, a species of python found in Southeast Asia, that is the world's longest snake.
Synonyms: word: retic
crownpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crownpieces
Etymology: From crown + piece.
Senses: glosses: A strap in the bridle that goes over the horse's head just behind the animal's ears.
Synonyms: word: headstall
word: headpiece
crownpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crownpiece
crownings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnɪŋz/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of crowning
throatlatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throatlatches
form: throatlash
Etymology: From throat + latch.
Senses: glosses: Part of a horse's bridle that prevents the bridle from coming off over the horse's head.
throatlatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throatlatch
throatlash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throatlashes
Senses: examples: text: The throatlash should admit, at least, three fingers between it and the horse's throat...
ref: 1915, Reginald Symonds Timmis, Modern Horse Management, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of throatlatch.
throatlashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throatlash
overchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcheck
overchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcheck
aeolo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: eolo-
form: æolo-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰόλος (aiólos, “changeful, lively”).
Senses: glosses: In continuous change.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from or featuring aeolo‐ (in continuous change)
word: aeolodermous
sense: Terms derived from or featuring aeolo‐ (in continuous change)
word: aeolotropy
aeolo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin Aeolian “related to Aeolus” or “of or from the Aeolian Islands”, ultimately from Ancient Greek Αἴολος (Aíolos), a god of the winds.
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of musical instruments that use a vibrating reed.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from or featuring aeolo‐ (musical instruments with vibrating reeds)
word: aeolodicon
sense: Terms derived from or featuring aeolo‐ (musical instruments with vibrating reeds)
word: aeolodion
sense: Terms derived from or featuring aeolo‐ (musical instruments with vibrating reeds)
word: aeolomelodicon
turbocompressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbocompressors
Etymology: From turbo- + compressor.
Senses: glosses: A turbocharger.
turbocompressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbocompressor
cybersuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersuits
Etymology: From cyber- + suit.
Senses: examples: text: The notion of a second skin may still be more seductive in the imagining than the reality, but on the utopian side of the Blade Runner there is the prospect of cybersuits, made possible by petrochemical fabrics.
ref: 1999, Herbert Blau, Nothing in itself: complexions of fashion, page 268:
text: Just as these suits make cybersex possible, they let the physician poke and feel, using cybergloves on one end and the patient's cybersuit responding on the other.
ref: 2002, Douglas Mulhall, Our molecular future:
text: He was looking at a small flexible screen wrapped halfway around his forearm, meshed into the fabric of his cybersuit.
ref: 2010, Sam Fisher, E-FORCE: State of Emergency, page 61:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical suit of clothing that augments the wearer's capabilities by means of computer technology.
Related terms: cyberglove
cybergoggles
dataglove
data glove
cybersuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybersuit
ringleading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ring + leading.
Senses: glosses: Acting as ringleader; heading a group of people.
butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butyl + methoxydibenzoylmethane.
Senses: glosses: avobenzone
diaminopimelates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaminopimelate
tetrahydrodipicolinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound that is an intermediate in diaminopimelate metabolism.
dihydrocuscohygrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydro- + cuscohygrine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in coca.
ecgonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecgonine
anhydroecgonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + hydro- + ecgonine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ecgonidine
ecgonidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid related to ecgonine and cocaine.
Synonyms: anhydroecgonine
Related terms: methylecgonidine
cocamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in coca.
cocamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocamine
truxilline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truxillines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in coca.
truxillines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truxilline
hexacore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + core.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Composed of six cores.
raw_tags: of a microprocessor
hypersleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + sleep.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
Coordinate terms: aestivation
catatonia
coldsleep
comatose
cryogenic state
hibernation
sleep
suspended animation
torpor
nonhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hanging.
Senses: examples: text: Amaranthus comes in hanging and nonhanging varieties in deep burgundy red or chartreuse green.
ref: 2009, Jes Gordon, Jessica Baumgardner, Party Like a Rock Star, page 187:
text: It's also thoughtful to provide a place to put nonhanging items such as underwear, pj's, and swimsuits.
ref: 2010, Eileen Roth, Elizabeth Miles, Organizing For Dummies:
glosses: Not hanging.
RIBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Institute of British Architects.
butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane.
unalerted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alerted.
Senses: glosses: Not alerted.
unaverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + averted.
Senses: examples: text: For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes.
ref: 1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica:
glosses: Not averted.
unconcreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + concreted.
Senses: glosses: Not concreted.
unasphalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + asphalted.
Senses: glosses: Not asphalted.
demosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demoss
demossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demoss
demossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demoss
demoss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demosses
form: demossing
form: demossed
form: demossed
Etymology: From de- + moss.
Senses: glosses: To remove moss from.
unbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbores
form: unboring
form: unbored
form: unbored
Etymology: From un- + bore.
Senses: examples: text: Let you tell her from me and from us, that there is a chapter in Deirdre that unbores God when He gets bored, & remembers who He ought to read.
ref: 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens:
text: Rose felt right down at her very roots that if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him. Once a bore always a bore — certainly, she thought, to the person originally bored.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April, page 106:
glosses: To relieve from boredom.
Related terms: unbored
nonoil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oil.
Senses: examples: nonoil revenue
nonoil exports
glosses: Not of or pertaining to oil.
massivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maˈsɪvɪti/
Etymology: From massive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Then the anguish increased to unendurable massivity and nightmare dimensions, making her scream and vomit.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 19:
glosses: Massiveness.
pinnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pin + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The surface must be pinnable. Cardboard is the easiest surface on which to work. Buy a gridded folding cardboard cutting board or a gridded cardboard cutting table.
ref: 1998, Pati Palmer, Marta Alto, Barbara Weiland, Fit for real people: sew great clothes using any pattern:
glosses: Suitable for having things pinned onto it.
examples: text: Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]
ref: 1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being pinned (attached to part of the screen display).
drawing rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawing room
draw raises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draw raise
elatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elative
deflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflexions
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of deflection.
Derived terms: deflexional
disconnexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disconnexions
Etymology: From dis- + connexion.
Senses: examples: text: There is disconnexion, and there is progressive decline in handwriting skill.
ref: 1954, Alan Keen, Roger Lubbock, The Annotator, Putnam, page 154:
glosses: Dated spelling of disconnection.
Tehrani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tehranis
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the city of Tehran.
Tehrani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Tehran.
Tehranian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tehranian
form: most Tehranian
Etymology: From Tehran + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Tehran.
Tehranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tehranians
Etymology: From Tehran + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tehran.
Tehranian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
investigatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investigatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin investīgātrīx. By surface analysis, investigator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Our indefatigable investigatrix quickly brought us more positive information. She had actually overheard Sir John lay his heart and fortune at Miss Beechwood’s feet, without mentioning his hand.
ref: 1843, “Passages at the German Brunnen”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XXXVII, Saunders and Otley, page 357:
synonyms: investigatress
glosses: Female equivalent of investigator.
instigatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instigatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Better perhaps would it have been for the accused had she had no other advocates than her innocence and her firm imposing demeanour ; but her death was resolved on, and two days after she was condemned as “ the instigatrix of the crimes committed by the last tyrant of France ; as having herself maintained a correspondence with foreign powers, particularly with her brother the king of Bohemia and Hungary, with those emigrants who were formerly French princes, and with perfidious generals […]
ref: 1811, Biographie Moderne, volume I, page 24:
glosses: Female equivalent of instigator.
introing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intro
introed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intro
Byronesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Byronesque
form: most Byronesque
Etymology: From Byron + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of George Gordon Byron, typified by gloomy Romantic themes and passionate, arrogant and self-destructive heroes.
Related terms: Byronian
Byronic
needna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: neednae
Senses: glosses: need not
nonbottled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bottled.
Senses: glosses: Not bottled.
antiaddictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + addictive.
Senses: glosses: Countering addiction.
antiaddictive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiaddictives
Etymology: From anti- + addictive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used to counter addiction.
antiaddiction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + addiction.
Senses: glosses: Countering addiction.
tecnonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tecnonyms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teknonym.
Barclaycards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barclaycard
homophobiaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homophobia + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "homophobiaphobia" — the fear not of homosexuals but of homophobes.
ref: 2001 July 3, Bruce Vilanch, “That's Myth Tom to you”, in The Advocate, page 40:
text: Williams's gay critics seem caught in this circular homophobiaphobia, in which the closet is obsessively opened and closed, its limits marked and remarked, its positive and negative charged and recharged.
ref: 2010, Jim Elledge, Queers in American Popular Culture, Volume 1, page 197:
text: uh huh. people sure know how to be annoyed about no matter what these days. problem here seems to be homophobiaphobia rather than homophobia. :)
ref: 2015, Korhonen, quoted in Susanna Paasonen, "A Midsummer's Bonfire: Affective Intensities of Online Debate", in Networked Affect (eds. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, & Michael Petit), page 38
glosses: Antipathy towards homophobia and/or homophobes.
Synonyms: homophobophobia
eightieths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eightieth
wet bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet bars
Senses: examples: text: We are sitting in a skybox high up in the Superdome, complete with wet bar, kitchen, waiters and big TV screens.
ref: 1995 March 1, Neal Stephenson, “The Great Simoleon Caper”, in Time:
glosses: An area for the preparation of alcoholic drinks, equipped with a countertop having a sink and running water and usually located in a home, hotel room, or similar quarters.
belaying pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belaying pin
ugly finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugly finders
form: ugly-finder
Senses: examples: text: I tried to duck under the ball, but it was definitely an ugly finder.
ref: 1989 August 12, Mitch Williams, quotee, “There's never a dull moment with the Cubs' 'Wild Thing'”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
text: "That ball was an ugly-finder," [Rob] Dibble said. "But I consider that good luck. No broken nose, no stitches and no black eye."
ref: 1996 March 1, Barry Rozner, quoting Rob Dibble, “Dibble survives an ugly scare”, in Daily Herald, page 5:
text: "The unique thing about this team though is that of the eight position players - all are either new or are playing a different position," he [Bill Matthews] said. "With something like that, you just hope the ball doesn't become an ugly-finder."
ref: 2003 February 9, Rodney Page, quoting Bill Matthews, “Tritons count on the pitching staff to deliver”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 4:
text: Everybody was trying to throw the ugly-finder at him, and we still couldn't find him.
ref: 2010, Jason Turbow with Michael Duca, quoting Ed Whitson, The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: the Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 134:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hard batted or thrown ball which hits or nearly hits someone, especially a line drive foul ball hit into a dugout.
neuro-associative physiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of physiology aimed at programming the mind, whose end result may mirror those achieved with neuro-linguistic programming, cognitive behavioural therapy or hypnotherapy.
c-command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A shortened form of "constituent command." The term may also have been chosen so as to eliminate confusion in speech with the similar notion kommand.
Senses: examples: text: Given the key assumption of Trace Theory that a moved constituent leaves behind a coindexed trace, we might formulate the relevant principle that transformations cannot downgrade constituents in terms of an equivalent condition that a moved constituent cannot occupy a lower position than any of its traces. This principle might be stated more formally as in (85) below
 (85) C-COMMAND CONDITION
 (85) A moved constituent must c-command ( = constituent-command)
 (85) each of its traces at S-structure (X c-commands Y just in case the
 (85) first branching node dominating X dominates Y, and neither X
 (85) nor Y dominates the other)
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 10, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 564:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.
c-command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: c-commands
form: c-commanding
form: c-commanded
form: c-commanded
Etymology: A shortened form of "constituent command." The term may also have been chosen so as to eliminate confusion in speech with the similar notion kommand.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: To dominate in a c-command relationship.
Related terms: m-command
kommand
kissagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissagrams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kissogram.