cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tuileries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Tuileries, from tuileries, feminine plural of tuilerie (“place for manufacturing tiles”). The name comes from the tile kilns which occupied the site before the palace.
Senses: glosses: A palace in Paris, France which was built in the 16th century and destroyed by fire in 1871.
glosses: A public park and garden built on the site of the former palace.
aiguilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aiguille
amygdales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amygdale
ataraxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ataraxy
baignoires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baignoire
baronnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baronne
bijouteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bijouterie
bises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bise
bittes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitte
boiseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boiserie
bottines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottine
bouchardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boucharde.
boucheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boucherie
bouillabaisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouillabaisse
braguettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braguette.
brassières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brassière
broches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broche
broches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of broche
brumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brume
bulles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulle
cafetières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafetière
calèches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calèche
canettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canette
capuches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capuche
carottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carotte
cartes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartes
Etymology: From Italian cazzo (“penis”), compare French catze.
Senses: glosses: A penis.
glosses: Male genitalia.
cartes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of carte
catherinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catherinette
charcuteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charcuterie
chaussures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaussure
chenilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chenille
chevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheville
chocolateries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolaterie
glosses: plural of chocolatery
clairvoyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairvoyance
cloisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloison
clôtures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clôture
cocottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocotte
collaboratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collaboratrix
comtesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comtesse
confitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confiture
confusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confusion
conques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conque
conservations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservation
coques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coque
cornes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corne
couvertures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couverture
crêperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crêperie
cuisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuisse
cédilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cédille
dalles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dælz/
rhymes: -ælz
Etymology: From the French dalle.
Senses: glosses: The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
glosses: A steep-sided part of a stream channel, near the dalles proper, marked by clefts, ravines, or gorges.
Derived terms: The Dalles
demi-tasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-tasse
demoiselles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoiselle
diasporas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaspora
dictatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictature
digues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digue
dissuasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissuasion
douzaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douzaine
drachmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drachme
dysenteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysentery
démarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of démarche
enceintes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enceinte
estrapades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estrapade
expertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expertise
expertises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expertise
expirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expiration
faunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faune
flèches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flèche
framboises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framboise
fougères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fougère
frictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friction
fêtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fête
fêtes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fête
ganaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganache
ganaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ganache
garces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garce
gerbilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerbille
glaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaire
gouttes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goutte
graines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graine
grandeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandeur
griffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griffe
groupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupe
gîtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gîte
hanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanch
impudences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impudence
incitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incitation
isolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolation
jonques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jonque
jonquilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jonquille
jumelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumelle
juments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jument
jupettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jupette
lexicographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicography
lires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lire
livraisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of livraison
louches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of louche
mademoiselles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmædəmwəˈzɛlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mademoiselle
mademoiselles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌmædəmwəˈzɛlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mademoiselle
mangoustes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangouste
mangues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangue
matinées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matinée
sport jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sport jackets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sports jacket.
rohan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An East Indian timber tree.
lay claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays claim
form: laying claim
form: laid claim
form: laid claim
Senses: examples: text: Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
text: Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
text: Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper.
ref: 2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
synonyms: stake a claim
glosses: To state that something belongs to oneself.
raw_tags: with to
Related terms: put facts on the ground
wash down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes down
form: washing down
form: washed down
form: washed down
Senses: examples: text: Now we just need a drink to wash it down.
text: I had a nice beef sandwich washed down with a pint of bitter.
text: Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
ref: 1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2:
text: This time we started with melon, went on to salad and cold chicken, next tried some excellent Camembert and finished up with grapes. To wash this down in the enginemen's shanty, we had a nice white Bordeaux, followed by the remains of the Rosé and finishing up with excellent Beaujolais.
ref: 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 151:
text: Having just dined on a plate of fried chicken, you wash it down with a can of beer and contemplate that life doesn't get any better than this. Ever wonder what happens next?
ref: 2012 [2002], Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Universe, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: To help to swallow (something, especially food or a pill) by drinking a liquid.
examples: text: You must wash the wall down well before painting.
text: We'll wash it down with a garden hose and just a touch of soap.
coordinate_terms: hose down#Verb
rinse down#Verb
rinse off#Verb
wash off#Verb
wipe down#Verb
glosses: To wash (something) completely from top to bottom.
examples: text: There was some food residue in the sink, so she washed it down.
coordinate_terms: rinse down#Verb
glosses: To send (something) down the drain by washing action.
Derived terms: word: washdown
Related terms: downwash
CFIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːfɪt/
Forms: form: CFITs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of controlled flight into terrain.
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GCAS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GPWS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: TAWS
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: PIO
washed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more washed out
form: most washed out
Senses: examples: text: I feel really washed out after all that gardening.
synonyms: word: exhausted
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Very tired and lacking energy or animation.
synonyms: word: ashen
word: wan
word: ashen
word: ashen-faced
word: ashy
word: blake
word: blanched
word: bleak
word: bloodless
word: chalky
word: exsanguious
word: ghastly
word: grey
word: livid
word: pale
word: pallid
word: pasty
word: sallow
word: wan
word: washed out
word: white
word: whey-faced
glosses: Of colours: faded, pale.
examples: text: a washed out horse
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Synonym of washy (“tending to sweat profusely”).
synonyms: word: washy
extra: tending to sweat profusely
washed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash out
washing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash up
wash over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes over
form: washing over
form: washed over
form: washed over
Senses: examples: text: The news of the actor's death just washed over me, as I had never particularly cared for him.
glosses: To pass (one) unnoticed so that one is unaffected by it.
examples: text: Embarrassment washed over me as I realized I had forgotten the notes for my presentation.
glosses: To affect the emotions of (a person) suddenly and overwhelmingly.
examples: text: The river washed over the embankment at several places.
glosses: To surge over the banks, or other retaining structure.
timbrelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timbrelists
form: timbrellist
Etymology: From timbrel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who plays the timbrel
stretch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stretches out
form: stretching out
form: stretched out
form: stretched out
Etymology: From stretch + out.
Senses: examples: text: My cat likes stretching out in front of the fire.
glosses: To lie fully extended.
examples: text: You have to stretch your presentation out another two minutes.
text: Please don't stretch out your sweater by pulling it on and off carelessly.
text: We need to stretch the water supply out as long as we can.
glosses: To extend (something) fully, in space, time or use.
examples: text: You should stretch out your leg.
text: I need to stretch out or I'll be sore later.
glosses: To stretch (something or oneself) (To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles).
Derived terms: word: stretch-out
word: stretchout
Salvation Army
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion, originally founded to help the poor of London.
Derived terms: Salvationist
Related terms: citadel
Jacobean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒæk.əˌbi.ən/
Forms: form: more Jacobean
form: most Jacobean
form: Jacobaean
form: Jacobæan
form: jacobaean
Etymology: From New Latin Iacobaeus + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a Jacob or James.
examples: text: On one level, Irréversible is a companion piece to "bad girl" road movie Baise-Moi, which also featured a brutal rape sequence and the kind of stomach-churning violence that makes Jacobean Revenge drama seem understated.
ref: 2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).
Related terms: Jacobite
Restoration
Stuartian
Jacobean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒæk.əˌbi.ən/
Forms: form: Jacobeans
form: Jacobaean
form: Jacobæan
form: jacobaean
Etymology: From New Latin Iacobaeus + -an.
Senses: glosses: A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.
Related terms: Jacobethan
Jacobian
pocket trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket trumpets
Etymology: Referring to its small size.
Senses: glosses: A compact B-flat major trumpet, with the same range as a standard B-flat major trumpet.
pull-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pull-up
pull-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull-up
mers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mer
misères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misère
miniscules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of minuscules.
monitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monitrice
glosses: plural of monitrix
mottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motte
normalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normalisation
stretch limo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretch limos
Senses: examples: text: No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
ref: 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:
glosses: stretch limousine
optimisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optimisation
billiard table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billiard tables
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A heavy felt-covered table fitted with six pockets along the perimeter used in the games of pool, billiards or snooker.
outrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrance
ouvertures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouverture
paires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paire
panades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panade
pantoufles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantoufle
1-2-3 block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1-2-3 blocks
Senses: synonyms: setup block
machinist block
glosses: A tool used in machining fields, especially milling, to aid in setup. It is a block of steel that is precisely squared and parallel whose sides are 1, 2, and 3 inches long, respectively. May contain arranged holes. Similar, larger blocks are called 2-4-6 blocks.
2-4-6 block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4-6 blocks
Senses: glosses: A tool used in machining fields, especially milling, to aid in setup. It is a block of steel that is precisely squared and parallel whose sides are 2, 4, and 6 inches long, respectively. 2-4-6 blocks are a larger version of the more common 1-2-3 block.
pattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patte
perruques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perruque
phobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoby
phonologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonology
pin-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin-up
photographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photography
pointes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointe
pom-pom girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pom-pom girl
pornographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornography
prunelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prunelle
pulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulsion
punitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punition
wire fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire frauds
Senses: examples: text: The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.
ref: 1991, D. M. Maus, “License Procurement and the Federal Mail Fraud Statute”, in The University of Chicago Law Review, volume 58, number 3, page 1126:
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.
pyramides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramide
glosses: plural of pyramis
quinzaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinzaine
Bolle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bolle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
mail fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail frauds
Senses: examples: text: The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.
ref: 1991, D. M. Maus, “License Procurement and the Federal Mail Fraud Statute”, in The University of Chicago Law Review, volume 58, number 3, page 1126:
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use of the postal system of the United States of America.
rades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rade
ratatouilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratatouille
rectitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectitude
restructurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restructuration
ribaudequins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbəʊdɪkɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ribaudequin
richesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of richesse
ruches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruche
ruches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruche
like a million dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After that vacation I feel like a million dollars
qualifier: simile
glosses: extremely good or well
Synonyms: like a million bucks
like a million bucks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After that vacation I feel like a million bucks.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely good or well.
Synonyms: like a million dollars
petrographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrographers
Etymology: From petro- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: A person practicing petrography.
petrographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrographer
gossipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gossiping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gossip
gossipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossippings
form: gossiping
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gossiping.
gossipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gossiped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gossip
yakity-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakity-yaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.
yakity-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yakity-yaks
form: yakity-yakking
form: yakity-yakked
form: yakity-yakked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.
yakety-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakety-yaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.
yakety-yak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yakety-yaks
form: yakety-yakking
form: yakety-yakked
form: yakety-yakked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.
lymphocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lymphocytic
form: most lymphocytic
Etymology: From lymphocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to lymphocytes.
Derived terms: intralymphocytic
nonlymphocytic
inquiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkwɪlaɪn/
Forms: form: inquilines
Etymology: From Latin inquilīnus (“tenant, lodger”).
Senses: examples: text: The other study[…]involved the larvae of the caterpillar Maculinea rebeli, an inquiline of Myrmica schenki.
ref: 2003, Gary J. Blomquist, Ralph W. Howard, “Pheromone biosynthesis in social insects”, in Gary J. Blomquist, Richard G. Vogt, editors, Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, page 331:
text: Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species.
ref: 2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution:
text: A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.
ref: 2010, P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th edition, page 332:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
examples: text: Captured prey also constitute the resource base for a community of inquiline bacteria, protozoa, and invertebrates that inhabit the water-filled pitchers. For at least two of these inquilines (the pitcher-plant mosquito Wyeomyia smithii Coquillet and the pitcher-plant midge Metriocnemus knabi Coquillet) the availability of captured prey limits individual growth, and ultimately population growth[…]
ref: 1998, Stephen B. Heard, “Capture rates of invertebrate prey by the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea L.”, in The American Midland Naturalist, volume 139, number 1, pages 79–89:
text: The insect and other animal inhabitants of the pitchers, known collectively as the inquilines, may benefit the plants by breaking down prey and making nutrients available for plant absorption.
ref: 2001, J. K. Cronk, M. Siobhan Fennessy, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology, page 145:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
Derived terms: inquilinism
inquilinous
per nocte
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: At night.
grande wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French grande (“grand, great”) + wormwood.
Senses: glosses: The herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), which is used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
Synonyms: absinthe
absinthe wormwood
absinthium
grand wormwood
wormwood
Related terms: taxonomic: Artemisia pontica
word: petite wormwood
speechful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speechful
form: most speechful
Etymology: From Middle English specheful, spekeful, equivalent to speech + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He was never speechful, and grew more word-shy with years.
text: O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent […]
ref: 1914, Thomas Hardy, "In Front of the Landscape":
glosses: voluble; loquacious
speechful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechfuls
Etymology: From speech + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Or again, the Queen delivers a speechful of Gilbert's Fun-liners: "You never put gas pipes between your lips, / Or go to sea in secretary-ships. /. . ./ Or hang a picture in a frame of mind."
ref: 1996, Jane W. Stedman, W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, page 57:
text: The Kalevala was only once given a whole speechful of attention ( 1 886), while the memorial status of the home and municipality of Elias Lonnrot was presented twice (1883 & 1885).
ref: 2006, Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory:
glosses: The entire contents of a speech.
stem the tide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stems the tide
form: stemming the tide
form: stemmed the tide
form: stemmed the tide
Senses: examples: text: The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether.
text: To insure a future is crucial; it is crucial because gay communities and lesbian and gay-male citizens can conceivably become the next singled-out "target" in the "targeting" capability of the self-proclaimed Moral Majority and other groups with the same kind of agenda. Virginia Beach's vote to outlaw Our Own newspaper in its libraries is a concrete example of a tide we cannot depend on future courts to stem.
ref: 1980 December 6, Nancy Stockwell, “Reaching Into Electoral Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 4:
text: The plan was to send 10 trucks of food for seven straight days, to help stem the tide of hunger and desperation and to begin building trust in communities that there would be enough food for all.
ref: 2024 February 20, “UN Food Agency pauses deliveries to the North of Gaza”, in World Food Program:
glosses: To slow or stop the flow of something.
dazzle camouflage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A paint scheme used on ships, mainly during World War I, consisting of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other.
interpellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈpɛl.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜɹ.pəˌleɪt/
homophone: interpolate stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: interpellates
form: interpellating
form: interpellated
form: interpellated
Etymology: First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin interpellātus, perfect passive participle of interpellō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French interpeller.
Senses: glosses: To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
examples: text: […] a Master of Ceremonies' words "Ladies and gentlemen" […] interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender.
ref: 1996, “The Cambridge History of American Literature”, in Sacvan Bercovitch, editor, Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995, volume 8, page 408:
text: […] the question may be whether the individual should let herself be interpellated as a feminist, a Christian or a worker. Perhaps all of these possibilities seem attractive, but they point in different directions […]
ref: 2002, Marianne Jørgensen, Louise J. Phillips, Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method, page 41:
text: […] whereas the Palestinian subjects are interpellated as: the martyr... a young Palestinian... a Palestinian teenager.
ref: 2009, Samia Bazzi, Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
examples: text: After the gentleman and Senator [Mariano Jesús] Cuenco interpellated me, I knew already that my bill was hopeless. That is why I presented that bill on February 4th, but it slept the sleep of the just in the Committee on Education.
ref: 1958 May 9, [Roseller Tarroza] Lim, “Manifestaciones del Sen. [Decoroso] Rosales”, in Republic of the Philippines Congressional Record (Senate of the Philippines), volume I, number 67, Manila, Philippines: Bureau of Printing, →OCLC, page 1343, column 1:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.
Derived terms: interpellator
interpellation
Related terms: interpolate
interpel
abrasion platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abrasion platforms
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sloping or nearly flat bedrock surface extending out from the foot of a marine cliff under shallow water of a breaker (wave) zone, that was created by marine abrasion.
abyssal plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abyssal plains
Senses: examples: text: Innocuous as it sounds, this note was a starting gun for a resource race on the planet’s last vast frontier: the abyssal plains that stretch between continental shelves deep below the oceans.
ref: 2021 September 27, Jonathan Watts, “Race to the bottom: the disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A large expanse of very flat and smooth ocean floor, usually found at depths of 4,600 to 5,500 meters (15,000 to 18,000 feet).
comparable worth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Comparable worth aims to upgrade the wage scales for jobs that employ large numbers of women.
ref: 1987, Linda M. Blum, “Possibilities and Limits of the Comparable Worth Movement,”, in Gender and Society, volume 1, number 4, page 382:
glosses: The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work.
Synonyms: pay equity
Related terms: equal pay for equal work
accelerated erosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: soil erosion occurring at a rate much faster than soil horizons can be formed from the parent regolith.
generalissimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalissima
Senses: examples: text: All the night long horses stamped and men shouted before the castle, and the light burned in the apartments of the generalissimus. It was still dark the following morning when the troops fell in.
ref: 1936, Jaroslav Durych, The Descent of the Idol, page 620:
glosses: Synonym of generalissimo.
synonyms: word: generalissimo
piss-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss-up
glaciolacustrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glacio- + lacustrine.
Senses: examples: text: Glaciotectonic deformation requires a glaciolacustrine environment, or a similar very water-saturated setting such as a fjord.
ref: 2012, M. Huuse, J. Redfern, D. P. Le Heron, Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.
radiation fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiation fogs
Senses: glosses: a fog produced by the cooling of air at the ground through the release of electromagnetic energy in the form of heat
on again off again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-again, off-again.
on-again, off-again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on-again-off-again
form: on-again off-again
form: on again, off again
form: on again off again
Senses: examples: text: But the screenplay, from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, diverts too often to inert scenes of Lewis’ struggles at school, and a subplot about his on-again, off-again friendship with bully Tarby Corrigan (Sunny Suljic) feels like a distraction from the magical business at hand.
ref: 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:
text: On the ninth day of filming Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners,” the show’s host, the Shanghai etiquette teacher Sara Jane Ho, dumped her on-again-off-again boyfriend of four years in a text message.
ref: 2023 January 2, Maureen O’Connor, “The Etiquette Guru Who Broke Up With a Boyfriend Over Text”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Intermittent; frequent but irregular.
raw_tags: of a significant other such as a boyfriend or girlfriend
Synonyms: on-off
Related terms: love-hate
on again, off again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-again, off-again.
on-again off-again
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-again, off-again.
formivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formivores
Senses: glosses: an organism that eats or consumes ants, such as an anteater
wifebeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wifebeaters
form: wife beater
form: wife-beater
Etymology: From wife + beater. The sleeveless shirt acquired the nickname by association with men who commit domestic violence. The lager, being relatively strong, was thought to lead to drunken disputes.
Senses: examples: text: Depp, 57, had sued the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article published in the Sun that originally carried the headline “Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?”
ref: 2020 November 2, “Johnny Depp loses libel case against Sun over claims he beat ex-wife Amber Heard”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.
examples: text: [A]s I walked down the bustling street toward campus with my friends, he came out of nowhere and gave me a pick-up line only a wifebeater guy could muster.
ref: 1998 November 23, Melissa Sperl, “Are 'wifebeater' shirts more than a fashion statement?”, in The Penn, volume 84, number 34, page 7:
text: So, at the first sign of any sunny weather, overweight males all over the country are drawn to their "wifebeaters" like footy fans to the digibox, with every lager-drinking dad labouring under the illusion that he looks like that gardener from Desperate Housewives in his black vest.
ref: 2008 August 28, Simon Mills, “Vested interest”, in The Guardian:
text: Just then, a tall, lanky white man wearing a sleeveless tee or "wifebeater" as it is often referred to walked around the corner.
ref: 2018, Raychel Ryder, Haven in the Hood:
glosses: A type of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.
examples: text: And then we were walking back alleys, trudging through the drifts of chip papers, the bottles and empty cans of wifebeater[…]
ref: 2005, Conrad Williams, London Revenant:
text: But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong. Drink Stella in goblets like people do in its native country and, hey presto! It's no longer 'wifebeater'.
ref: 2011, Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind:
glosses: Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer.
Synonyms: sense: one who beats one’s wife
word: abusive husband
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: A-shirt
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: athletic shirt
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: beater
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: muscle shirt
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: singlet
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: tank top
sense: a kind of sleeveless shirt
word: vest
Related terms: wife-beating question
wifebeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wifebeater
Synonyms: beater
inaptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inaptly
form: most inaptly
Etymology: From inapt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inapt manner; inappropriately.
rain crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain crows
Etymology: See storm crow.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellow-billed cuckoo.
synonyms: word: yellow-billed cuckoo
populatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpˌjʊu.leɪt.əbəl/
Etymology: From populate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In particular, it is checked whether all parts of the conceptual scheme are populatable at all, whether any information is lost…
ref: 1994, Ramez Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim, Entity-relationship Approach, ER '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Since Man and Woman are exclusive, and an object type must be populatable, no object type can be a subtype of both…
ref: 2001, Terry Halpin, Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Local Design, →ISBN, page 255:
text: These schemata are the best populatable schemata among schemata with the same number of predicators.
ref: 2005, R. Meersman, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops, →ISBN, page 736:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be populated
undergraduacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəɹˈɡɹæd͡ʒuːəsi/
Etymology: From undergraduate + -cy.
Senses: examples: 1953, Tom Lehrer, introduction to Fight Fiercely, Harvard
the days of my undergraduacy long ago when there used to be these very long Saturday afternoons in the fall with nothing to do […]
glosses: The period of time spent in college or university by a student who has not yet earned a bachelor's or equivalent degree.
schemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skēʹmətə
ipa: /ˈskiːmətə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχήματα (skhḗmata), the nominative plural form of σχῆμα (skhêma).
Senses: glosses: plural of schema
schemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schemata
Senses: glosses: plural of schema
Friday the thirteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fridays the thirteenth
form: Friday the 13th
Etymology: Believed to have been derived from the mass arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.
Senses: glosses: A particular date combination that occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, and which is considered unlucky in some cultures.
Synonyms: english: in one of its senses
translation: in one of its senses
word: Black Friday
henagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛnəɡɒn/
/ˈhɛnəɡən/
Forms: form: henagons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek: εἷς (heîs, “one”, accusative héna) + -gon.
Senses: glosses: A polygon having one edge and one angle.
Synonyms: monogon
monogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogons
Etymology: From mono- + -gon.
Senses: examples: text: A geodesic with multiple points contains at least one simple monogon.
ref: 1955, Herbert Busemann, The Geometry of Geodesics, page 295:
text: There are no one-sided closed polygons on a plane. On the cube, however, monogons are a diverse and interesting class of figures.
ref: 1981, Harold Abelson, Andrea A. DiSessa, Turtle Geometry: The Computer As a Medium for Exploring Mathematics, →ISBN, page 262:
text: 2003, Gordon Baker, translator and editor, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann, The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle, Routledge, →ISBN, page 409,
We explain to somebody what is a regular quadrilateral constructed within the circle; then a regular triangle and a regular bi-angle. Now we ask him to draw a regular monogon by analogy, and we probably think that he cannot do this. But what if he draws a point on the circle and says that it is a regular monogon?
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.
examples: text: According to Theorem 4.1.1, such a derived imbedding could be obtained from an imbedded voltage graph with one vertex, 6s#43;2 edges, and 4s#43;2 faces. Of these faces, 4s#43;1 should be 3-sided and satisfy KVL. The other face should be a monogon whose net voltage has order two.
ref: 1987, Jonathan L. Gross, Thomas W. Tucker, Topological Graph Theory, Dover Publications, published 2001, →ISBN, page 231:
text: 2002, Tao Li, "Laminar Branched Surfaces in 3–manifolds", Geometry & Topology 6, page 158,
There is no monogon in M-int(N(B)), ie, no disk D⊂M-int(N(B)) with ∂D=D∩N(B)=α∪β, where α⊂∂_(vN)(B) is in an interval fiber of ∂_(vN)(B) and β⊂∂_(hN)(B).
text: An end-compressing monogon for F is a monogon properly embedded in the complimentary^([sic]) region C which is not homotopic (rel. boundary) into #92;partialC.
ref: a. 2006, Thilo Kuessner, “A survey on simplicial volume and invariants of foliations and laminations”, in Paweł Walczak et al., editors, Foliations 2005, →ISBN, page 295:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.
examples: text: A new optical scanner is described which serves as a monogon or single-facet device, providing one scan per shaft rotation.
ref: 1991, Beam Deflection, Scanning Technologies, edited by Gerald F. Marshall, Leo Beiser, →ISBN, page 33:
text: 1999, William L. Wolfe, Infrared Design Examples, Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering Volume TT36, SPIE Press, →ISBN, page 133,
These devices also start with the monogon, a plane mirror, and include the bigon, a two-sided mirror, the trigon, quadrigon, and general n-gons.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A single-faceted reflector.
Synonyms: henagon
Coordinate terms: digon
trigon
polygon
apeirogon
Derived terms: monogonal
Related terms: monogonic
digon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪɡən/
ipa: /ˈdaɪˌɡɒn/
ipa: /ˈdaɪɡən/
ipa: /ˈdaɪˌɡɑn/
Forms: form: digons
Etymology: From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).
Senses: examples: text: They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]. All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octagon – its eight vertices, its eight sides, or both? Can a polygon cross itself? Does a polygon need to be closed?
ref: 2013, Brent Davis, Moshe Renert, chapter 6, in The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: biangle
word: bigon
word: diangle
glosses: A polygon having two edges and two vertices.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.
Coordinate terms: roman: enneagon
english: triangle; quadrilateral
translation: triangle; quadrilateral
alt: biangle · bigon
word: monogon · digon · trigon · tetragon · pentagon · hexagon · heptagon · octagon · nonagon · decagon · undecagon · dodecagon · see also Category:English terms suffixed with -gon
Derived terms: digonal