cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
xenotransplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenotransplants
Etymology: From xeno- + transplant.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: xenoengraftment
glosses: An instance of xenotransplantation.
glosses: The graft (tissue or organ) transplanted in such an instance: Synonym of xenograft.
Synonyms: alt: i.e., heterotransplantation or heterograft
word: heterotransplant
Coordinate terms: alt: i.e., autotransplantation or autograft
word: autotransplant
alt: i.e., allotransplantation or allograft; homotransplant: homotransplantation or homograft
word: allotransplant
xenotransplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: xenotransplants
form: xenotransplanting
form: xenotransplanted
form: xenotransplanted
Etymology: From xeno- + transplant.
Senses: glosses: To carry out xenotransplantation.
xylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪlɪk/
rhymes: -aɪlɪk
Senses: examples: text: Xylic material and organic sediment were deposited in the supratidal marshes.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to xylene.
Related terms: paraxylic
saproxylic
sing from the same hymnbook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings from the same hymnbook
form: singing from the same hymnbook
form: sang from the same hymnbook
form: sung from the same hymnbook
form: sing from the same hymnal
form: sing from the same hymn sheet
Senses: examples: text: Still, he mostly sang from the same hymnbook as the Bush Administration, saying fundamental fiscal trends are favorable.
ref: 2002 January 25, Michael Wallace, “Greenspan Puts on a Happier Face”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 12 Jan 2009:
glosses: To make the same or similar statements, especially to express the same opinions in public as a result of a prior agreement.
raw_tags: of two or more people
Related terms: on the same page
xylol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylols
Senses: glosses: Xylene.
signal crayfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal crayfishes
form: signal crayfish
Senses: glosses: An American crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus, having a large claw that it waves to attract a mate.
xylorimba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylorimbas
Etymology: Blend of xylophone + marimba
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.
Derived terms: xylorimbist
xylomarimba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylomarimbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xylo-marimba.
xylo-marimba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylo-marimbas
Senses: glosses: The xylorimba.
sick to one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sick to one's stomach
form: most sick to one's stomach
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had torn the paper from one of his cigarettes and was chewing the tobacco. This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.
ref: 1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute:
text: You don't know how sick you make me / You make me fucking sick to my stomach / Every time I think of you I puke
ref: 2004, “Puke”, in Encore, performed by Eminem:
text: Tonight there was no roar from the Mini’s engine, rather that grinding noise. A deathly hush descended on the crowd. Frank felt sick to his stomach. Suddenly there was a huge explosion from Queenie’s exhaust pipe.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.
xystarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xystarchs
Etymology: From xyst + -arch.
Senses: glosses: The officer in charge of a xystus in Ancient Greece.
seroprevalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seroprevalent
form: most seroprevalent
Etymology: From sero- + prevalent.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That gives a positive response to a blood test for a specific disease
Related terms: seroprevalence
seroconversion
serology
self-directed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-directed
form: most self-directed
Etymology: From self- + directed.
Senses: glosses: Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself.
examples: text: I see a lot of self-directed anger on the part of the straight wives: What's wrong with me that I can't keep this man attracted to me? What's wrong with me in the first place for attracting a gay man?
ref: 1976 December 11, J. D. Sitler, David Griffiths, “Marriage: Straight Or On The Rocks?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 9:
glosses: Directed at oneself.
Synonyms: autonomous
Related terms: selfdirection
pitch pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch pipes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A device much like a harmonica, used to supply a sought pitch.
selfdirection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-direction.
self-direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + direction.
Senses: examples: text: The terms “autonomy” and “self-direction” are being used more and more frequently in educational discussion.
ref: 1995 May 24, Marie-José Gremmo, Philip Riley, “Autonomy, self-direction and self access in language teaching and learning: The history of an idea”, in System, volume 23, number 2, →DOI, page 151:
glosses: The condition of being self-directed.
self-adjointness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self-adjoint + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being self-adjoint
Uncle Ned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uncle Neds
Senses: examples: text: Get up them apples and pears and into Uncle Ned!
text: Went in a room, not much furniture: still no bloody light; sat down on a Uncle Ned an' waited while ol' woofy said she'd make some Rosie Lee.
ref: 1958, Harold Elvin, A Cockney in Moscow, page 42:
text: "Cool it, cool it." Leonara cut in. "Nobody's blaming you, Charlie. You did right, shoving him back in his uncle. Cocked it all up a bit, though, ain't it?' Uncle. Uncle Ned.
ref: 1982, Jack S. Scott, An Uprush of Mayhem, page 105:
text: Oi fink your Uncle Ned's all 'arbour. Oi'll wait for hinstrooctions after you and the Major stump the chalk.
ref: 2006, William Whitson, Test of Battle, page 176:
text: "Well," she replied, "when yer gets up from yer Uncle Ned and yer wants ter get away from the Trouble an' Strife, yer'd go dahn the Frog and Toad to meet yer China Plates at the Rubba-Dub-Dub!"
ref: 2013, Chris Sharp, War Games in an Urban Village: A Personal Account of Boyhood:
text: 'Oh yes, up the apples and pears to Uncle Ned, that's me,' Freda said.
ref: 2019, Wendy Cheyne, From the Auld Rock to a Hard Place, page 151:
glosses: bed.
examples: text: Use your Uncle Ned!
text: Get yer barf towel— always supposin' as yer've gotter barf towel— fold it rhand the jug, an' rhand yer uncle Ned [head] , stick yer mouth over the jug where all the steam's rushin ' art — yer are listening , aren't yer?— and ignore it.
ref: 1950, Naomi Jacob, Me--looking Back, page 202:
text: Bill: Me Uncle Ned. Omnes: Uncle Ned? Bill: O, me head — the empty part of me.
ref: 1977, Names - Volumes 25-26, page 130:
text: "The Beacons?" a cockney voice shouted. “You're off your Uncle Ned.”
ref: 2020, Ian Slater, World in Flames:
glosses: head.
metamathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metamathematical
form: most metamathematical
Etymology: From meta- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
metamathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + mathematics.
Senses: glosses: A branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
descriptivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvɪst/
Forms: form: more descriptivist
form: most descriptivist
Etymology: From descriptive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
Synonyms: descriptionist
descriptionistic
descriptivistic
descriptivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvɪst/
Forms: form: descriptivists
Etymology: From descriptive + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
Synonyms: descriptionist
Derived terms: descriptivistic
descargas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descarga
proponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propone
propones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propone
vaulting-school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaulting-schools
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vaulting school.
bawdy house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdy houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bawdy-house.
pushing-school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushing-schools
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pushing school.
Technicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/
homophone: technicolor
Etymology: Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
Senses: examples: text: filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]
glosses: A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
Derived terms: technicolor
Technicolor yawn
Technicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/
homophone: technicolor
Etymology: Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
Senses: examples: It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.
glosses: Using the Technicolor process.
Technicolor yawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Technicolor yawns
Etymology: Originally Australian slang, early 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: I was down by Bondi Pier, drinkin' tubes of ice cold beer / With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee / When I swallowed the last prawn / I had a technicolor yawn and I chundered in the old Pacific Sea
ref: c. 1970s, “Bondi Pier”, Barry Humphries (lyrics), performed by Grateful Dead:
synonyms: word: barf
word: bait
word: boke
word: boot
word: chunder
word: honk
word: pavement pizza
word: puke
word: purging
word: ralph
word: sick
word: spew
word: sprog
word: throwup
word: throw-up
word: upchuck
word: yak
word: liquid laugh
word: multicolour yawn
word: Technicolor yawn
word: vomit
word: vomitus
glosses: An act of vomiting.
otherworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭthʹər-wûrld'
ipa: /ˈʌðɚˌwɝld/
Forms: form: otherworlds
Etymology: From Middle English otherworld, equivalent to other + world.
Senses: glosses: A world beyond death; an afterlife.
examples: text: We do not want, of course, to return to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want to become attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense and recognition, and to live in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 192:
glosses: A world other than the everyday world.
glosses: A world other than the everyday world.
A mythical abode of otherworldly beings.
Synonyms: sense: life after death
word: hereafter
sense: life after death
word: other side
Derived terms: otherworldish
otherworldly
otherworldness
otherworldy
full blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; [...].
ref: 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
glosses: Maximum capacity or effort
Synonyms: full throttle
full tilt
Joe Six-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joe Sixpack.
full-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fullpowered
Senses: examples: text: They will stand unused for a considerable period without noticeable deterioration. Their strength does not rapidly "leak" or escape. They are full-powered, eager to give you their sparks.
ref: 1839, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 85:
text: I repeat that to understand the history of Financial Advertising we need understand only the past few years, because those crucial years have made a full-powered man of him, a giant in power, vision and purpose, who can never turn back.
ref: 1846, Misa Ramirez, The Bankers Magazine, Minotaur Books, page 638:
text: This is a full-powered strike that is aimed through a desired target.
ref: 1994, Mark V. Wiley, Filipino Martial Arts: Cabales Serrada Escrima, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Yet even full-powered .308 rounds sometimes had difficulties penetrating barriers.
ref: 2003, Jake Thoene, Firefly Blue, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 139:
text: He pulled his arm back, ready to fire a full-powered punch.
ref: 2010, Misa Ramirez, Hasta la Vista, Lola!, Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: At full power; at the very utmost limit.
examples: text: The Royal Mail Steamship " Britannia," full-powered ocean-going screw steamer of 3,700 tons, engines of 650 horsepower, barque-rigged, carries 3,300 tons dead weight of coal and cargo.
ref: 1874, Ship-builders LAIRD BROTHERS, Description of the Birkenhead Iron Works Belonging to Messrs Laird Brothers, from “The Practical Magazine,” June 1874, Chiswick Press, page 30:
text: The color came back into his face in patches. A smile settled down and expanded. Finally he was straining Treasure Island Inn again with his stride, beating full-powered up and down the room, everything but victory shut out from the joyful confines of his newly-renovated brain.
ref: 1910, J.B. Lippincott and Company, Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 85, page 572:
glosses: For vessels that depends on engines for propulsion that is independent of assistance from any sails.
Jane Sixpack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ordinary woman.
Synonyms: Jane Doe
everywoman
Related terms: Joe Six-pack
cumshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumshaw
corvids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvid
zipgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zipguns
form: zip gun
Etymology: From zip + gun.
Senses: glosses: An improvised single-shot pistol-sized weapon that uses a spring or elastic to propel a bullet to its target.
zoospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoospore
weightily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weightily
form: most weightily
Etymology: From weighty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.
ampacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampacity
tarsiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsier
safeties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety
safeties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of safety
PrP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PrPs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of prion protein.
sauteing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saute
scenthound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenthounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scent hound.
scent hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scent hounds
form: scenthound
Senses: synonyms: brach
trackhound
hyponyms: bloodhound
coordinate_terms: gazehound
sighthound
glosses: A hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision.
Related terms: sniff out
PIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.
PIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIPs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Acronym of picture-in-picture.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of predicted impact point.
topics: business
glosses: Acronym of performance improvement plan.
topics: business
glosses: Acronym of product improvement program.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
glosses: Acronym of personal independence payment.
Derived terms: pipper
Related terms: sense: peak inspiratory pressure
english: positive end expiratory pressure
translation: positive end expiratory pressure
word: PEEP
word: POP
SHF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SHFs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of super high frequency.
Related terms: HF
VHF
UHF
RF
LW
MW
SW
on one's uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From uppers (“the top part of a leather shoe”), having worn through the sole.
Senses: examples: text: “We are bound toward the scuppers,
And the time has come to act,
Or we’ll both be on our uppers
For a fact!”
ref: 1902, Guy Wetmore Carryl, How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted:
synonyms: down on one's uppers
glosses: destitute; poor.
VLF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of very low frequency.
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ELF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: RF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VHF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LW
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MW
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SW
sea campion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea campions
Senses: examples: text: I collected a fine mixed bunch of valerian and thrift and white sea campion.
ref: 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 74:
glosses: A flowering plant, Silene maritima.
business continuity planning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An interdisciplinary concept used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organisation will recover and restore interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption.
saccharify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saccharifies
form: saccharifying
form: saccharified
form: saccharified
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert (soluble polysaccharides) into simple sugars
Related terms: saccharification
saccharification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharifications
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrolysis of soluble polysaccharides to form simple sugars.
Related terms: saccharify
publickation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publickations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of publication.
claime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claimes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of claim.
claime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claimes
form: claiming
form: claimed
form: claimed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of claim.
ittself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of itself.
watchfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watchfull
form: most watchfull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of watchful.
shye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shy.
propertie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: properties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of property.
school mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school mates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schoolmate.
dyspathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪspəθi/
Forms: form: dyspathies
Etymology: From dys- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: I may well be, I have received of them that natural dyspathie unto physicke.
ref: , II.37
glosses: Antipathy, aversion.
blinden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blindens
form: blindening
form: blindened
form: blindened
Etymology: From blind + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The race for success has blindened him, making him incapable to lucidly appraise his work and to judge it by higher and more exacting standards than those prevailing in local, more modest competitions.
ref: 1986, Romanian Review, volume 40, numbers 1-6:
text: She laughed at my attempt, and I got a pull of the ears for daring to blinden myself.
ref: 2008, Olabisi Gwamna, Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories:
glosses: To make or render blind.
hemicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicycles
Etymology: From hemi- + cycle.
Senses: glosses: A semicircle.
topics: architecture
glosses: A semicircular structure.
Eneolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eneolithic
form: most Eneolithic
form: Aeneolithic
form: aeneolithic
form: eneolithic
form: Æneolithic
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian eneolitico, from Latin aeneus (“copper, bronze”).
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps linguists have provided a step towards the right solution in presenting evidence from Indo-European kinship terminology that the Indo-Europeans were very much into exogamy, including taking the Eneolithic equivalent of mail-order brides from afar.
ref: 2025 April 24, J. P. Mallory, “15: The Steppe Model”, in The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:
topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Describing the age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
Synonyms: Chalcolithic
Cyprolithic
Eneolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aeneolithic
form: aeneolithic
form: eneolithic
form: Æneolithic
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian eneolitico, from Latin aeneus (“copper, bronze”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
Synonyms: Copper Age
Chalcolithic Age
apricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɪsɪti/
Etymology: From the Latin aprīcitās, noun of quality from aprīcus (“warmed by the sun”).
Senses: examples: text: Apricity, the warmenes of the Sunne in Winter."
ref: 1626, H. C. Gent, The English Dictionarie, London: Isaac Iaggard:
text: APRICITY [Apricitas, L.] Warmth in the Sun, Sun-ſhine. L."
ref: 1749, Nathan Bailey, An universal etymological English dictionary, London:
text: In the midst of this suspense the lady's maid entered. An apricity seemed to illume her countenance. "Well, Frances, have you found it?"
ref: 1856, George Raymond, Drafts for Acceptance, London:
glosses: The light or warmth of the Sun.
Related terms: apricate
aprication
superdrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + drastic.
Senses: examples: text: "The color can usually be done in an hour to one hour and a half," Ambrose said. Sometimes, if you're making a superdrastic change — like going brunette to blond — it can take even longer. "It's important to allow time after to follow up with styling or a cut."
ref: 2020 March 11, Jessica Harrington, “How to Prep For Your First Hair-Color Appointment, According to a Celebrity Colorist”, in www.popsugar.com:
glosses: Very drastic.
Piscean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Pisces star sign.
Piscean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pisceans
Senses: glosses: Someone with the Pisces star sign.
Capricornian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Capricorn + -ian.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Capricorn star sign.
Capricornian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capricornians
Etymology: From Capricorn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone with the Capricorn star sign.
Sagittarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsadʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsædʒəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Sagittarius + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Sagittarius star sign.
Sagittarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsadʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsædʒəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Sagittarians
Etymology: From Sagittarius + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Someone with the Sagittarius star sign.
Sacramentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Sacramentarians
Etymology: From Late Latin sacramentarius, compare French sacramentaire.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One of the German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy Eucharist.
topics: Christianity
glosses: One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.
Sacramentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsækɹəmənˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Sacramentarian
form: most Sacramentarian
Etymology: From Late Latin sacramentarius, compare French sacramentaire.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.
Libran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Libra + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Libra star sign.
Libran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Librans
Etymology: From Libra + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Happy Anniversary My Aquarius Man from your Libran with Love.
ref: 1977 April 1, “YUK THITE THU YIMMEE! (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Someone with the Libra star sign.
Virgoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Virgo + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Virgo star sign.
Virgoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virgoans
Etymology: From Virgo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone with the Virgo star sign.
Cancerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹiən
-ɪɹiən
Etymology: From Cancer + -ian; from Latin Cancriana, from Cancer + -iana.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the astrological sign of Cancer.
Cancerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹiən
-ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Cancerians
Etymology: From Cancer + -ian; from Latin Cancriana, from Cancer + -iana.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person born under the astrological sign of Cancer.
Synonyms: moonchild
Geminian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛmɪˈnaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Etymology: From Gemini + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Gemini star sign
Geminian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛmɪˈnaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: Geminians
Etymology: From Gemini + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone with the Gemini star sign
Taurean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the star sign Taurus.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to the star sign Taurus
word: Taurine
Taurean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Taureans
Senses: glosses: A person born during the period of the year associated with the star sign Taurus.
Leonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /liˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Latin Leō (stem Leōn-) + -ian.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Leo star sign.
Leonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /liˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Leonians
Etymology: From Latin Leō (stem Leōn-) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone with the Leo star sign.
Related terms: Sierra Leonian
Sammarinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, San Marino or its culture or people
Synonyms: San Marinese
Sammarinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sammarinese
Senses: glosses: Someone from San Marino or of Sammarinese descent
Saint Lucian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Saint Lucia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Saint Lucia or its culture or people.
Saint Lucian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saint Lucians
Etymology: From Saint Lucia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Saint Lucia or of Saint Lucian descent
South Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The main island was renamed "Isle of Georgia" in 1775, in honour of King George III of Great Britain, by Captain James Cook.
Senses: glosses: An island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, part of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom, a British-owned territory.
glosses: Ellipsis of the South Georgia Islands: an island group next to South Georgia, in the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom.
Synonyms: sense: Obsolete terms for South Georgia Island
word: Isle of Georgia
sense: Obsolete terms for South Georgia Island
word: Roche Island
sense: Obsolete terms for South Georgia Island
word: Saint Peter's Island
sense: Obsolete terms for South Georgia Island
word: St Peter's Island
sense: Obsolete terms for South Georgia Island
word: St. Peter's Island
Derived terms: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From South Georgia Islands + South Sandwich Islands.
Senses: glosses: Two archipelagos comprising an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the southern Atlantic Ocean. A territory of inhospitable islands, composed of the South Georgia island group, and the South Sandwich Islands chain.
Synonyms: SGSSI
Derived terms: SGSSI
topas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpas/
Forms: form: topas
form: topasses
form: topass
form: topaz
Etymology: From Portuguese topaz, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: The topas represented the earlier colonial presence of Portugal in the subcontinent.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 110:
glosses: A person of mixed black and Portuguese descent.
salify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salifies
form: salifying
form: salified
form: salified
Etymology: From French salifier; from Latin sal (“salt”) + -ficare (“to make”) (only in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react so as to form a salt
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To combine or impregnate with a salt.
examples: to salify a base or an acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form a salt with; to convert into a salt.
rectal varicosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectal varicosities
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: RV
glosses: haemorrhoid (British), hemorrhoid (US)
rectal varicosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectal varicosity
calces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælsiːz/
ipa: /ˈkalsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of calx
mmkay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of m'kay.
prolifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prolifick
form: most prolifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prolific.
quasiconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- (“to some degree”) + convex.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (-∞,a) for that function is a convex set.
Related terms: quasiconvexity
quasiconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- (“to some degree”) + concave.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: said of a function, if the inverse image of any set of the form (a,∞) for that function is a convex set.
Related terms: quasiconcavity
put hair on someone's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts hair on someone's chest
form: putting hair on someone's chest
form: put hair on someone's chest
form: put hair on someone's chest
form: put hair on one's chest
Senses: examples: text: When Lonnie Bushey was 6 he started drinking with his father who told him it would put hair on his chest and make him a man.
ref: 1998 February 17, Tom Becker, “School Speaker Talks About Life as Addict”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 10 Oct 2010, page B2:
glosses: To make a person (especially a male) stronger or more masculine or mature.
Related terms: chest hair
talk smack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks smack
form: talking smack
form: talked smack
form: talked smack
Senses: examples: text: Just as long as they don't come around talking smack to us. But if they ain't in no gang and they live in our area, it's up to them if they join or not.
ref: 1988, Mary G. Harris, Cholas: Latino Girls and Gangs, page 110:
text: He kept talking smack, his story getting more and more depressing with each lie.
ref: 1992, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Straight Outta Compton: A Dive Into Living Large, a Work Where Characters ..., page 10:
text: Jewish kids learned to distinguish between talking "shit," talking "jive," and talking "smack".
ref: 1996, Becky W. Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi, Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity, page 32:
text: A half-mile away, we slowed down and were slapping hands and talking smack, so impressed with ourselves.
ref: 1996, Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter, In Contempt, page 49:
text: And I was talking smack, cracking jokes, playing with Mateo the host. He liked it.
ref: 2001, Mark Rackers, Nesting, page 185:
text: because the rest of the table gets to see him talking smack, and he thus establishes himself as a bully without ever having played a hand.
ref: 2003, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online: Crushing the Internet Game, page 180:
text: He was talking smack about getting back together with his family, and everyone believed he was sincere; especially Kayla.
ref: 2007, Tina Brooks McKinney, Lawd, Mo' Drama, page 244:
text: On another blog, one commentator wrote: "To me it is like rumors and people talking smack; the more you yell about it the more truthful it seems to others.
ref: 2007, Daniel J. Solove, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, page 121:
text: "One of them, the white mask, the leader, was talking smack at me." / "Talking smack?" / "You know, talking smack, talking trash, giving me shit about being Indian."
ref: 2008, Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer, pages 187–188:
text: Eric was great at talking smack. He'd see a guy walking around who was bigger than all of us and tell me, "That guy can totally kick your ass," just to start up with me.
ref: 2008, Chuck Liddell, Chad Millman, Iceman: My Fighting Life, page 39:
glosses: To talk trash; to make insulting comments about someone, especially in an aggressive or confrontational manner.
tegulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tegula
turn a hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a hair
form: turning a hair
form: turned a hair
form: turned a hair
Senses: examples: text: If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject. You would not turn a hair.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, “chapter 12”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: […] those seasoned topers who drank their companions under the table without themselves turning a hair […]
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Part IV, Chapter 9, p. 435:
text: […] they all went into a shop that Jennifer alone would never have dreamed of entering, and looked at watches; finally Jane bought a gold self-winding wrist-watch for her husband for ninety-two guineas, and never turned a hair.
ref: 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter:
glosses: To show fear, alarm or distress; to be affected (by an experience or situation).
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: bat an eyelid
to the turn of a hair
institutional framework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: institutional frameworks
Senses: glosses: The systems of formal laws, regulations, and procedures, and informal conventions, customs, and norms, that shape socioeconomic activity and behaviour.
icen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪsən
Forms: form: icens
form: icening
form: icened
form: icened
Etymology: From ice + -en (“to become like”).
Senses: examples: text: Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.
ref: 1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 262:
text: He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.
ref: 2015, Platte F. Clark, Good Ogre, page 182:
glosses: To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)
icen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪsən
Etymology: From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice + -en (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free
Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow,
I loved to wade across the windy lea
To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]
ref: 1900, Charles Augustus Keeler, Idyls of El Dorado, page 42:
text: "Mother, what is this light o'er me?
It flashes pink from that far North Sea
Whose icen walls are an opal bowl—
It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."
ref: 1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature, page 469:
text: As--- Visions of battered stone - - - sheathed in an icen shroud - - - - frozen in time and space - - - helplessly suspended beneath a trembling temple flame fearing for its life - - - danced in the Ice Maiden's eyes […]
ref: 2011, Richard Donahue, The Sixth Coming, page 171:
glosses: Made of or consisting of ice.
in power
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He's now in power at City Hall.
text: The party in power here is always the Democrats.
text: "I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."
ref: 2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Currently ruling; being the present controlling authority, as of a government or country.
examples: text: That buzz was in power. 15 points for team A.
qualifier: quiz bowl
glosses: within the portion of a tossup during which a correct response earns power.
Related terms: out of power
into power
power
power behind the throne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powers behind the throne
form: powers behind thrones
Senses: glosses: Someone who appears to be without special status, but who has great covert influence on a person in authority.
Related terms: éminence grise
power broker
powers that be
deep state
flouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flouses
form: flousing
form: floused
form: floused
form: floush
Senses: glosses: To splash.
familiarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: familiarises
form: familiarising
form: familiarised
form: familiarised
Etymology: From familiar + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: An interesting feature in the weeks preceding the diversions was the provision of a road-learning train to familiarise main line drivers with the alternative route.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 102:
text: Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment […]
ref: 2003, Alex Kimbell, The Unbridgeable Divide, page 54:
text: In the immediate term, there is a host of new operating procedures to be developed and to become familiarised with, in accordance with social distancing.
ref: 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 38:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of familiarize.
Derived terms: defamiliarise
unfamiliarised
scuppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuppies
Etymology: From the initial letters of socially conscious or saffron-clad, and yuppie.
Senses: glosses: A socially-conscious yuppie.
glosses: saffron-clad yuppie.
scombrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scombrids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Scombridae.
scombrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scombrid
form: most scombrid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these fish.
saurischian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saurischians
Etymology: From Saurischia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the order Saurischia.
saurischian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saurischian
form: most saurischian
Etymology: From Saurischia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the dinosaurs of the order Saurischia.
safe harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe harbors
form: safe-harbor
form: safe harbour
Senses: glosses: A safe haven.
topics: business
law
glosses: A statutory, regulatory, or contractual provision that provides protection, usually from a penalty or liability.
supermelodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermelodic
form: most supermelodic
Etymology: From super- + melodic.
Senses: glosses: Very melodic
superable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superable
form: most superable
Etymology: From Latin superabilis (“that may be surmounted”), from superare (“to go over, rise above, surmount”), from super (“over”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of being overcome or surmounted; surmountable or conquerable.
Related terms: superability
run interference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs interference
form: running interference
form: ran interference
form: run interference
Senses: glosses: To handle problems or remove obstacles for another person, especially for a person in authority
glosses: past participle of run interference
topfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + full.
Senses: glosses: full to the top.
supercondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + condensed.
Senses: glosses: Very condensed.
superstrength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstrengths
Etymology: From super- + strength.
Senses: examples: text: Up to this point we have been concentrating on varying combinations of strength and endurance, but we will now turn to methods of developing either superstrength or superendurance with weights.
ref: 1987, Ken Sprague, The Gold's Gym Book of Strength Training for Athletes, Berkley, →ISBN, →OL, page 347:
glosses: Remarkable strength, above and beyond that of normal human strength.
examples: text: The potency of such a beer is typically 4 to 5 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), although low-alcohol and superstrength beers are also available.
ref: 2012, Michael J. Kuhar, Howard A. Liddle, Drugs of Abuse, page 19:
glosses: Remarkable strength, containing a higher percentage of alcohol than is typical or expected. (of an alcoholic beverage)
examples: text: They have the power to make things happen, see the future, and kill off bad guys, but they rarely have the superstrength of Superman, which would make them too unfeminine.
ref: 2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 96:
glosses: Superhuman strength
superformidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superformidable
form: most superformidable
Etymology: From super- + formidable.
Senses: examples: text: The obstensible purpose as announced by the US that this superformidable task force was intended to help evacuate the West Pakistanis.
ref: 1978, Sivalenka Rama, Role of India in Bangladesh Independence Movement, Rama, page 52:
text: The fantastic amazing renowned superformidable Busker Theater Company!
ref: 1986, P. C. Jersild, Children's Island, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Whether or not this superformidable enemy, as powerful and malicious as Satan Himself, will be a clone of the Chief (W)retch or The Original, I do not know.
ref: 1989, Robin Wayne Bailey, The Lake of Fire, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Extremely formidable; causing great dread or very difficult to overcome.
superintensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + intensity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being very intense.