cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
enpr: mǐng
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: Min
Etymology: From Mandarin 明 (Míng).
Senses: examples: text: CHWEN, King of Korea, having by his Ambaſſadors paid Homage to the Emperor Hong-vû, Founder of the Ming Dynaſty in 1368, was, by that Monarch, created King of Kau-li, preſented with a Silver Seal, and veſted with the ancient Privileges of ſacrificing to the Gods of the Rivers and Mountains of Korea.
ref: 1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:
text: The Comet of 1385 was discovered in China by the astronomers of the Ming dynasty, on October 23 (period Houng-wou eighteenth year, ninth moon, day Wou-yn): it was then on the borders of Thai-wei (a constellation of stars in Leo and Virgo, surrounding β Leonis); it touched β Virginis, and left Thai-wei by what the Chinese termed the "great gate," i.e. between β and n Virginis.
ref: 1845, J. R. Hind, “Mr. J. R. Hind on the Elements of several Comets not previously computed”, in Philosophical Magazine, volume XXVII, London, page 418:
text: When Koxinga, the Ming Dynasty loyalist who drove the Dutch colonists from Taiwan in 1661, ending an occupation that had laster 37 years, Taipei was nonexistent.
ref: 1973 July 15, “Trade assures Taipei of wealth, prosperity”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 27, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Only 8.2 percent of the wall, built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is maintained properly, according to a study by the China Great Wall Society, an organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of the Wall.
ref: 2015 June 29, “10 Pct. of Great Wall missing due to erosion, vandalism and poor management”, in EFE, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022:
text: Among Professor Spence’s most ambitious books was “The Search for Modern China,” which made The New York Times’s best-seller list and is now a standard text. It took an 876-page view of China’s history from the decline of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s to the democracy movement of 1989.
ref: 2021 December 27, Neil Genzlinger, “Jonathan Spence, Noted China Scholar, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2021, Books:
synonyms: Ming dynasty
glosses: A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Yuan to the beginning of the Qing (Ching).
glosses: A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China (China proper), as well as parts of Russia and northern Vietnam
glosses: The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male or female given name.
Ming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
enpr: mǐng
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: Mings
form: Min
Etymology: From Mandarin 明 (Míng).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ming dynasty.
glosses: The pottery of the Ming era, famed for its high quality.
compile time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compile times
Senses: glosses: The point at which a program is converted from source code to machine code; literally the time of compilation.
Hypernyms: time
Hyponyms: sense: time of compilation
word: link time
Coordinate terms: sense: phases in the life of a program
word: link time
sense: phases in the life of a program
word: load time
sense: phases in the life of a program
word: run time
Derived terms: compile-time
osseointegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osseointegrations
Etymology: From osseo- + integration.
Senses: glosses: The direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant (typically a prosthetic limb), typically made of titanium
Related terms: osseointegrative
link time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: link-time optimization
glosses: The point at which multiple binary objects are merged into a larger program; literally, the time at which they are linked.
Hypernyms: sense: time of linking
word: compile time
Coordinate terms: sense: phases in a program's life
word: compile time
sense: phases in a program's life
word: load time
sense: phases in a program's life
word: runtime
quicksandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quicksandy
form: most quicksandy
Etymology: From quicksand + -y.
Senses: glosses: quicksandlike
load time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: load times
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The point at which a program is put into an executable state.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The amount of time taken to load something.
Hypernyms: sense: time of loading
word: runtime
Coordinate terms: sense: phases in a program's life
word: compile time
sense: phases in a program's life
word: link time
sense: phases in a program's life
word: run time
minestrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minestrone
asscheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæst͡ʃik/
Forms: form: asscheeks
form: ass cheek
form: arse cheek
form: arsecheek
Etymology: From ass + cheek.
Senses: glosses: A buttock.
Synonyms: buttcheek
butt cheek
butt-cheek
asscheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asscheek
groundbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundburst
mulligatawnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulligatawny
medallionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medallionlike
form: most medallionlike
Etymology: From medallion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a medallion.
unenfranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈfɹantʃʌɪzd/
Forms: form: more unenfranchised
form: most unenfranchised
Etymology: From un- + enfranchised.
Senses: examples: text: People lounged near the door, and handed out scraps of news to the unenfranchised, who stood outside in the gutter.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 176:
glosses: Not enfranchised; unfree.
muffulettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffuletta
nonfootwear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + footwear.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the problem with defining a shoe store's right to sell nonfootwear items as products that are incidental to the sale of shoes is exacerbated by the constantly changing conditions of the retail shoe business.
ref: 1979, Emanuel B Halper, Shopping Center and Store Leases, Volume 2:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to footwear.
Parker House roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parker House rolls
Etymology: After the Parker House Hotel in Boston, where it was invented.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A bread roll made by flattening the center of a ball of dough so that it becomes an oval shape and then folding the oval in half.
wikipedia: Parker House Hotel
Boston cream pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boston cream pies
Senses: examples: text: More Boston than baked beans (which seem to exist mostly in cans around here), this cake creates the taste of Boston cream pie with layers of golden cake layered with a rich vanilla custard and fudge frosting.
ref: 2011 October, Judy Rosenberg with Nan Levinson, “Boston Cream Pie Cake”, in The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Layer Cakes), page 35:
glosses: A round cake that is split, filled with custard or cream, and frosted with chocolate, the official dessert of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Derived terms: Boston cream
Boston cream donut
overset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: PIE word
 *upér
The verb is derived from Middle English oversetten (“to place or set over, cover; to assail; to defeat, overcome, overpower, overthrow; to defer; to discredit, refute; to disregard, overlook, set aside; to hinder; to oppress; to repulse”), from Old English ofersettan (“to put in a position of authority; to overcome or be overcome; to set over”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to place above, set over; to establish, install”), from *ubarsittjan (“to abstain from, neglect; to occupy, possess; to sit over or upon”), from *ubar- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + *sittjan (“to sit”) (from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessive, excessively’) + set (verb). Doublet of oversit.
Sense 1.2.3 (“to translate (a text)”) is probably a calque of German übersetzen.
The adjective is derived from overset, the past participle form of the verb. The noun is also derived from the verb.
cognates
* Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”)
* Old High German ubarsezzen (Middle High German übersetzen, modern German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”))
* Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”)
* Swedish översätta (“to translate”)
* West Frisian oersette (“to translate”)
Senses: examples: text: They groped their way, pushing and panting, to the road again, where, beholding the overset buggy with its wheels ludicrously in the air, they suddenly seized and shook each other, and in an outburst of hilarious ecstasy, fairly laughed until the tears came into their eyes.
ref: 1893, Bret Harte, chapter II, in Susy: A Story of the Plains, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Time Travelling”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 32:
text: We had gone but a few paces along the pier when we came upon an old man, who was evidently a watchman, for he sat in an overset barrel, close to a place where masons had lately been working upon a break in the pier, and had in front of him a fire such as one sees slung under tinkers' carts.
ref: 1914 April, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “Rosa Alchemica”, in Stories of Red Hanrahan; The Secret Rose; Rosa Alchemica, new edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section III, page 212:
glosses: Having been overset (verb sense).
Capsized, overturned, upset.
topics: journalism
media
printing
publishing
glosses: Having been overset (verb sense).
Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.
overset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
ipa: /ˈəʊvəsɛt/
ipa: /ˈoʊvəɹˌsɛt/
Forms: form: oversets
Etymology: PIE word
 *upér
The verb is derived from Middle English oversetten (“to place or set over, cover; to assail; to defeat, overcome, overpower, overthrow; to defer; to discredit, refute; to disregard, overlook, set aside; to hinder; to oppress; to repulse”), from Old English ofersettan (“to put in a position of authority; to overcome or be overcome; to set over”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to place above, set over; to establish, install”), from *ubarsittjan (“to abstain from, neglect; to occupy, possess; to sit over or upon”), from *ubar- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + *sittjan (“to sit”) (from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessive, excessively’) + set (verb). Doublet of oversit.
Sense 1.2.3 (“to translate (a text)”) is probably a calque of German übersetzen.
The adjective is derived from overset, the past participle form of the verb. The noun is also derived from the verb.
cognates
* Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”)
* Old High German ubarsezzen (Middle High German übersetzen, modern German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”))
* Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”)
* Swedish översätta (“to translate”)
* West Frisian oersette (“to translate”)
Senses: topics: journalism
media
printing
publishing
glosses: Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
examples: text: […] I vvas upon the Rock vvhen their Boat vvas daſh'd againſt it, and vvas over-ſet vvith the ſame Sea, under the flat bottom'd Boat, vvhere you found me. That vvas a happy Overſet for thee; vvell, is there no Gratitude due to Providence for thy Eſcape? due to Providence, ſaid he, vvhy, I thought you had ſav'd me?
ref: 1727, Peter Longueville, “Book III. An Account of Quarll’s Wonderful Shifts, and Surprizing Manner of Living; of the Miraculous Acts of Providence, and of the Strange Events which Happened in the Island since His Being There.”, in The English Hermit, or The Unparalell’d and Surprizing Adventures of One Philip Quarll; […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.
examples: text: And vvith this overſet of vvealth and pomp, that came on men in the decline of their parts and age, they, vvho vvere novv grovving into old age, became lazy and negligent in all the true concerns of the Church: […]
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book II. Of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of King Charles II. from the Year 1660 to the Year 1673.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 186:
glosses: An excess, a surplus.
seminomadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + nomadic.
Senses: glosses: Partly nomadic.
Derived terms: seminomadically
Related terms: seminomad
seminomadism
seminomad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminomads
Etymology: From semi- + nomad.
Senses: glosses: A seminomadic person.
seminomads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminomad
seminomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminoma
parkettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parkette
parkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From park + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a park (recreational area).
snowlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snowless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of snow.
psychobabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychobabblers
Etymology: From psychobabble + -er or psycho- + babbler. First use appears c. 1975 in an article by R.D. Rosen.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses psychological jargon or terminology, often in a superficial or imprecise manner.
psychobabblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychobabbler
psychojargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + jargon.
Senses: examples: text: There's a condition in combat—most people know it by now. It occurs when a soldier's nervous system has reached the breaking point. In World War I, it was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. Shell shock!![...]
And then, finally, we got to Vietnam. Given the dishonesty surrounding that war, I guess it's not surprising that, at the time, the very same condition was renamed post-traumatic stress disorder. It was still eight syllables, but a hyphen had been added, and, at last, the pain had been completely buried under psycho-jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder.
I'd be willing to bet anything that if we'd still been calling it shell shock, some of those Vietnam veterans might have received the attention they needed, at the time they needed it.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “EUPHEMISMS: Shell Shock to PTSD”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 39, 40:
glosses: psychobabble
psychodiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + diagnostic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychodiagnosis or psychodiagnostics.
psychobehavioural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychobehavioural
form: most psychobehavioural
Etymology: From psycho- + behavioural.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of psychobehavioral.
smartmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smartmouthed
form: most smartmouthed
Etymology: From smart + mouthed.
Senses: glosses: Prone to making smart-alecky comments.
smartmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From smart + mouthed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smartmouth
springloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spring-loaded.
springlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springlet
nonranching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ranching.
Senses: examples: a nonranching community
glosses: Not ranching.
unexiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exiled.
Senses: glosses: Not exiled.
warpwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From warp + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: a warpwise striped pattern
text: You may weave those structures in warpwise stripes but not create the checkerboard.
ref: 1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: In the orientation of the warp in woven yarn.
warpwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From warp + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the orientation of the warp in woven yarn.
weftwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From weft + -wise.
Senses: examples: a weftwise striped pattern
glosses: In the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.
weftwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From weft + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the orientation of the weft in woven yarn.
windpants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wind + pants.
Senses: glosses: A sportswear variety of trousers (pants) intended for wearing without undergarments for athletic and comfort purposes.
overtrousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + trousers.
Senses: examples: text: Then, moving as quietly and efficiently as he could, he opened his backpack and took out his balaclava and a pair of overtrousers.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 240:
glosses: Trousers to be worn over a similar inner garment.
togglable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: toggleable
Etymology: From toggle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That button is togglable.
glosses: Able to be toggled, or to change its binary state.
Derived terms: word: togglability
toggleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toggle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of togglable.
noncaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + caching.
Senses: examples: a noncaching algorithm
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not caching.
examples: noncaching birds
glosses: That does not make a cache.
raw_tags: of a creature
graphlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graphlike
form: most graphlike
Etymology: From graph + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a graph.
sparklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparklike
form: most sparklike
Etymology: From spark + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spark.
pellucidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pellucidly
form: most pellucidly
Etymology: From pellucid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pellucid manner.
nonmechanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-mechanised
Etymology: From non- + mechanized.
Senses: glosses: unmechanized
unmechanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mechanized.
Senses: glosses: Not mechanized.
Synonyms: nonmechanized
nonmultiplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + multiplex.
Senses: glosses: Not multiplex.
nonorthorhombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + orthorhombic.
Senses: glosses: Not orthorhombic.
nonpubertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pubertal.
Senses: glosses: Not pubertal.
nonpadded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + padded.
Senses: glosses: unpadded
nonvotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + votable.
Senses: glosses: Not votable.
nontabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tabular.
Senses: glosses: Not tabular.
nonswollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + swollen.
Senses: glosses: unswollen
unswollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + swollen.
Senses: glosses: Not swollen.
Synonyms: nonswollen
nonscary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scary.
Senses: glosses: unscary
nonflaccid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + flaccid.
Senses: glosses: Not flaccid.
empathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/
Forms: form: empathogens
Etymology: From empathy + -o- + -gen, coined by American psychologist Ralph Metzner in 1983.
Senses: glosses: A chemical agent that induces feelings of empathy.
Derived terms: empathogenic
empathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empathogen
entactogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtæktəd͡ʒn̩/
Forms: form: entactogens
Etymology: From en- + tactile + -o- + -gen, coined by American pharmacologist and medicinal chemist David E. Nichols in 1986 as an alternative to empathogen, attempting to avoid possible negative connotations from πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Senses: glosses: An empathogen.
Derived terms: entactogenic
entactogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entactogen
Manwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manwiches
Etymology: Genericized trademark, presumably a blend of man + sandwich.
Senses: glosses: An easily made sandwich of ground meat and commercially made, seasoned tomato sauce.
squaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
homophone: squalor (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: squallers
Etymology: From squall + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A conviction of Bedlam broken loose scattered Bradly's wits. Edmund circled the uproar with hackles up, craving a signal from Bradly to nip this old squaller by her broomstick legs. Cora kept edging off, her frown dark with impotent rebellion.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: One who squalls; a crier, complainer, or bad singer.
squallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaller
robotripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Robotripping" -- getting a hallucinogenic high with cold and cough medicines like Robitussin -- has increased 10-fold since 1999, according to a California Poison Control Center study released this week.
ref: 2006 December 5, Susan Donaldson James, “Robotripping Grows in 9-17 Age Group”, in ABC News:
glosses: present participle and gerund of robotrip
nonrelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + relationship.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a relationship.
nonrelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrelationships
Etymology: From non- + relationship.
Senses: glosses: Absence of relationship; unrelatedness.
nonrelationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrelationship
nonbacktracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-backtracking
Etymology: From non- + backtracking.
Senses: examples: a nonbacktracking search algorithm
glosses: That does not backtrack.
Derived terms: nonbacktracking random walk
minikitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minikitchens
Etymology: From mini- + kitchen.
Senses: examples: text: Our hotel room had a minikitchen.
glosses: A small, compact kitchen.
minikitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minikitchen
nonreloadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reloadable.
Senses: examples: a nonreloadable rocket-launcher
glosses: Not reloadable.
in stead of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Slaue I haue ſet my life vpon a caſt, / And I will ſtand the hazard of the die, / I thinke there be ſixe Richmonds in the field, / Fiue haue I ſlaine to daie in ſtead of him, / A horſe, a horſe, my kingdome for a horſe.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], signature [M3], recto:
text: I my ſelfe vvill haue / The beards of Barbels, ſeru'd, in ſtead of ſallades; / Oyld Muſhromes; and the ſvvelling vnctuous papps / Of a fat pregnant Sovv, nevvly cut off, / Dreſt vvith an exquiſite, and poynant ſauce; […]
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signature [D3], recto:
text: The Reformation you haue made of the many and maine corruptions of the Romiſh Ch[urch] vve do ingenuouſly acknovvledge, and doe vvithall imbrace vvith you all the truths vvhich to our knovvledge you haue receiued in ſtead of them. But Rome vvas not built all in a day.
ref: 1610, Jos[eph] Hall, “Section XXV. What Separation England hath Made.”, in A Common Apologie of the Church of England: Against the Uniust Challenges of the Ouer-iust Sect, Commonly Called Brownists. […], London: […] [William Stansby] for Samuel Macham, […], →OCLC, marginal note, page 63:
glosses: Archaic form of instead of.
kvetchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kvetchy: more kvetchy
kvetchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kvetchy: most kvetchy
lilliputians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilliputian
gridline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gridlines
Etymology: From grid + line.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line that forms part of a grid.
snapline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaplines
Etymology: From snap + line.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A guideline shown while adding an item to a user interface to help align it with other items.
gridlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gridline
snaplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapline
pennae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penna
mutches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutch
thick of things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the thick of things
Senses: examples: text: Christ calls for large ideas, bold enterprise, heavy undertakings, brave adventure, and heroic plunging into the thick of things.
ref: 1888, Joseph Augustus Seiss, Lectures on the Gospels, vol. 2, Lutheran Bookstore (Philadelphia), p. 767
text: Second base is a pleasurable post for the reason that the man covering it is in the thick of things at all times.
ref: 1935 July 3, Charley Gehringer, “Second Base is Toughest Position to Play”, in Pittsburgh Press, page 13:
text: During the coup he also kept his distance from the thick of things.
ref: 2004 December 15, “VP Race Is On”, in Fiji Times, Australia:
glosses: A central or major role in a situation; a position in which one is surrounded by or very involved in complex, changing events.
Related terms: in the thick of it
in the swim
marry me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: the shortest form of marriage proposal
Synonyms: will you marry me?
adjectival phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjectival phrases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adjective phrase.
unbecomingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋnəs/
Etymology: From un- + becomingness.
Senses: examples: text: At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm [...].
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: A state of being unbecoming; unseemliness, inappropriateness.
trowsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trowser
Senses: examples: text: My turn-out was unexceptionable; men copied my running-shoes; my jacket and trowsers were an admiration; my bat perfection; I was the very picture of a cricketer, but, alas! very little more than a picture.
ref: 1860 August 24, “The Demon Bowler”, in The Brant Expositor, volume VIII, number 45, Brantford, Canada West, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 3:
text: The best fighting costume is mere shirt and trowsers, and in this costume the best fighting of modern days has been done. […] Light limp caps of woollen, with brood visors, or broad-brimmed (but not too broad,) felt hats; double-breasted coats, so made that they can be worn open in warm weather, and will really protect the chest in a lower temperature; trowsers of the same, and under these, light flannel shirts and drawers; such are the proper materials for a soldier’s dress, even in the Summer months.
ref: 1861 May 1, “Volunteer Uniforms”, in The New York Times, volume X, number 3000, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025, page 4, columns 5–6:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of trousers.
tawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːn/
ipa: /tɔn/
ipa: /tɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -ɑn
homophone: torn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: tawns
form: tawning
form: tawned
form: tawned
Etymology: Alteration of tan, influenced by tawny.
Senses: glosses: To tan, make tawny.
tawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːn/
ipa: /tɔn/
ipa: /tɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -ɑn
homophone: torn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: tawns
Etymology: Alteration of tan, influenced by tawny.
Senses: examples: text: In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 5”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A tan.
tawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːn/
ipa: /tɔn/
ipa: /tɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -ɑn
homophone: torn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: tahn
Etymology: From town.
Senses: examples: text: 12:30pm: Went tahn to get some greeze. Parked opposite de lye-berry.
ref: 2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Hamilton (the capital city of Bermuda).
tawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːn/
ipa: /tɔn/
ipa: /tɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: -ɔn
rhymes: -ɑn
homophone: torn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: tawns
Etymology: From town.
Senses: qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of town.
notch on the bedpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notches on the bedpost
form: notches on bedposts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of notch on one's bedpost.
notch on one's bedpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notches on one's bedpost
form: notch in one's bedpost
form: notch on the bedpost
Etymology: From the practice of keeping track of the number of one's sexual liaisons by carving notches into the post of one's bed.
Senses: examples: text: He was a notch on her bedpost, a stepping stone on her quest for stardom.
ref: 2002, Anne McAllister, The Great Montana Cowboy Auction, Silhouette Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 22:
text: She'd confused Sam's attentions with real feelings, and now she was just another notch on his bedpost.
ref: 2007, Melinda Curtis, Count on Love, Harlequin, published 2007, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Bad enough to think he'd wanted me as just another notch on his bedpost, but to think he'd tried to seduce me for cold-blooded political purposes was unbearable.
ref: 2010, Jenna Black, Glimmerglass, St. Martin's Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 138:
text: […] He wasn't a notch on her bedpost. They were in love, for crying out loud.
ref: 2011, Peter Robinson, Before the Poison, McClelland & Stewart, published 2011, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: notch in one's belt
word: notch on one's belt
word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
glosses: A sexual conquest; a casual sexual partner.
Related terms: notch count
rhopalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhopalic
form: most rhopalic
Etymology: From Latin rhopalicus, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, bat”).
Senses: examples: text: Soapy fired off a rhopalic sentence, that is, one in which each word is one letter longer than the word that precedes it: "I am the only dummy player, perhaps, planning maneuvers calculated brilliantly, nevertheless outstandingly pachydermatous, notwithstanding unconstitutional unprofessionalism."
ref: 1986 October 26, Alan Truscott, “Talking About Behavior”, in The New York Times:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.
rhopalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhopalics
Etymology: From Latin rhopalicus, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, bat”).
Senses: glosses: A rhopalic poem.
monepic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monepic
form: most monepic
Etymology: From Greek mono- (one) + epos (speech, word).
Senses: examples: text: His speech is monepic. These words consist of substantives, such as mamma, nurse, milk, and so forth.
ref: 1894 November, James Sully, Popular Science:
glosses: Composed of a single word or single-word sentences.
nonquantified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quantified.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-quantified.
halfbaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halfbaked
form: most halfbaked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-baked.
gender studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An academic discipline which analyses constructions of gender and sexuality in society (with reference to other sociological characteristics like class, education, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.).
Synonyms: genderology
Related terms: men's studies
sexology
women's studies
maquisard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /makiːˈzɑː(d)/
Forms: form: maquisards
Etymology: Borrowed from French maquisard.
Senses: examples: text: The revolt touched bottom, reduced to little more than 350 active maquisards.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 103:
glosses: A member of a resistance or guerrilla movement, originally and chiefly that of the French during the German occupation of 1940-5.
cultural studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A diverse field of study which examines representations of culture through a variety of academic theories.
women's studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The academic field which examines topics concerning women, feminism, and the relationship of gender and politics.
Synonyms: feminology
Related terms: feminism
gender studies
men's studies
tomo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, slice”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: sections; cutting
raging agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: raging + agreement
Senses: examples: text: In fact, both are in raging agreement that passive defense is never appropriate.
ref: 1988, U.S. Army Command, General Staff College, Military review, Volume 68, page 75:
text: I think there is absolute raging agreement between the FAA and the NTSB on that matter.
ref: 2001, Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Issues arising out of the Egypt Air [i.e. EgyptAir] crash, page 26:
text: Listeners' faces lighted up as they realized that they were, as a community mostly in raging agreement about the direction and outcome they desired
ref: 2003, David A. Schmaltz, The Blind Men and the Elephant: Mastering Project Work, page 115:
glosses: A state in which people are arguing despite having similar opinions.
entrance examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrance examinations
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: entrance exam
glosses: An examination that an educational institution conducts to select prospective students.
Menai Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait separating Anglesey from mainland Wales.
Related terms: Menai Bridge
smallcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From small + capped.
Senses: glosses: set in small caps
interventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈvɛntəv/
Forms: form: more interventive
form: most interventive
Etymology: From intervene + -ive cognate with French interventive.
Senses: examples: text: The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.
ref: 1817, William Jones, “Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point”, in Studies of Chess, page 405:
text: In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care.
ref: 1997 June 20, Angela Bowman, “Labor Dispute”, in Chicago Reader:
text: His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage […].
ref: 2007 June 27, “Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
Derived terms: interventively
interventiveness
Related terms: intervene
intervention
interventional
interventionary
nonprehensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prehensile.
Senses: glosses: Not prehensile.
sealine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlaɪn/
rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Forms: form: sealines
form: sea-line
Etymology: From sea + line.
Senses: glosses: The coastline, seaboard.
glosses: The horizon.
examples: text: Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 9”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A line used for sounding.
glosses: A line used for fishing in deep water.
glosses: An undersea pipeline for oil, natural gas, etc.
sealines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealine
smallcap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsmɔːlkæp/
Forms: form: smallcaps
form: smallcapping
form: smallcapped
form: smallcapped
Etymology: From small caps.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: To set in small caps.
toco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: toko-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to childbirth.
Derived terms: cardiotocograph
cardiotocography
dystocia
tocodynamometer
tocodynamometry
tocogenetic
tocogony
tocological
tocologist
tocology
tocolysis
tocolytic
tocomania
tocophobia
flets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flet
midis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midi
lactoperoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactoperoxidases
Etymology: From lacto- + peroxidase.
Senses: glosses: A peroxidase found in, e.g., milk and saliva.
lactoperoxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactoperoxidase
sarcelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcelle
outremers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outremer
Bosc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boscs
Senses: glosses: A particular cultivar of pear.
Boscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bosc
innerbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innerbelts
Etymology: From inner + belt.
Senses: glosses: A highway that loops around a city, close to the city, that is without looping around the whole metropolitan area.
innerbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innerbelt
prohibitive mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The negative imperative mood.
Synonyms: prohibitive
'za
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: za
Etymology: Clipping of pizza
Senses: examples: text: He cuts off a bimbo box⁠—a family minivan⁠—veers past the Buy 'n' Fly that is next door, and pulls into CosaNostra Pizza #3569. Those big fat contact patches complain, squeal a little bit, but they hold on to the patented Fairlanes, Inc. high-traction pavement and guide him into the chute. No other Deliverators are waiting in the chute. That is good, that means high turnover for him, fast action, keep moving that 'za.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN:
text: "I'll just grab a slice of 'za for the road," Donald said, mimicking his older sister.
ref: 2003, Jim Brown, Black Valley, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Gourmet chocolate pizza called CHOCIZZA. The 'za is the brainchild of West Chester's Carrie Brownfield […]
ref: 2003, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 36, number 5, page 26:
glosses: A pizza.
accretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accretors
Etymology: From accrete + -or.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical body (such as a star) that accretes surrounding material
apogalacticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apogalacticons
Etymology: From apo- + galactic + -(i)on.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point in the orbit of a star at which it is furthest from the centre of its local galaxy
Related terms: apogalactic
apoapsis
perigalacticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perigalacticons
Etymology: From peri- + galactic + -on, alternative form of -ion.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point in the orbit of a star at which it is closest to the centre of its local galaxy
arcsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcsec
covariantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From covariant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a covariant manner.
electroabsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + absorption.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The absorption of photons at a surface by application of an electric charge.
verticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verticons
Etymology: Blend of vertical + emoticon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kaomoji.
synonyms: word: kaomoji
appetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appetitions
Etymology: From Latin appetītiō (“a longing or desire”).
Senses: examples: Aristotle: The Politics, T. A. Sinclair (trans.), Book 3 Ch 14, Par 1287a10, Penguin Group 1962.
Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
glosses: A desire, longing for, or seeking after of something.
Related terms: appetite
fluctuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluctuators
Senses: examples: text: Thus, although this department was among the more volatile fluctuators between regular and cutback budgets, the overall effect on the department suggests that growth was nearly static.
ref: 1988, Susanne Rockne Morris, Budget Cutback: An Empirical Test of Budgeting Theory in Conditions of Fiscal Stress, page 130:
glosses: One who or that which fluctuates.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier
Related terms: qubit
fluctuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluctuator
fluxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxons
Etymology: From flux + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quasiparticle of electric or magnetic flux
Derived terms: antifluxon
set in motion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets in motion
form: setting in motion
form: set in motion
form: set in motion
Senses: examples: text: Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
text: She was seen as a gifted pop-country ingenue when, in a now infamous moment, Kanye West interrupted Swift onstage at the 2009 VMAs while she was accepting an award. The incident set in motion a chain of events that would shape the next decade of both artists’ lives.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
text: In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
synonyms: put in motion
glosses: To trigger movement or progress; to get going.
Synonyms: word: animate
word: actuate
word: drive
word: force
word: get going
word: impel
word: motivate
word: press
word: propel
word: put in motion
word: set in motion
Hypernyms: word: create
word: move
Hyponyms: word: push
word: shove
word: thring
word: thrutch
word: pull
word: drag
word: draw
word: tow
word: tug
word: yank
word: leave
mejoranas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mejorana
cave paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cave-paintings
Senses: glosses: plural of cave painting
heterostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -stasis.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A stable (if dynamic) distribution of states, behaviours etc.
heterostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterostatic
form: most heterostatic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heterostasis
intermodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermodulations
Etymology: From inter- + modulation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: modulation of the different frequencies of interacting waves
Related terms: intermodulate
leptogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lepto- + genesis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The differential production of leptons, rather than antileptons, in the early universe