cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
faceoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faceoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face-off.
Derived terms: faceoff spot
sallower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæ.ləʊ.əɹ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sallow: more sallow
unceremoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unceremoniously
form: most unceremoniously
Etymology: From unceremonious + -ly or un- + ceremoniously.
Senses: examples: text: Encountering difficulties with the parcels’ unhelpful recipient, the deliveryman unceremoniously dumped the packages in the street outside the door.
text: Given these operational constraints and a renewed focus on the environment, plans to electrify the [Windermere] branch resurfaced in 2013 when the Department for Transport consented to a £16 million scheme to erect wires by 2024. Unfortunately, it was one of a trio of projects to then be unceremoniously scrapped by former Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling in July 2017, in response to spiralling costs on the Great Western Electrification Programme.
ref: 2019 November 20, Paul Stephen, “Lakes and lines offer scenery to savour”, in Rail, page 56:
glosses: In an unceremonious manner, abruptly, without the due formalities.
Synonyms: sudden
abrupt
hasty
impolite
engross'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of engrossed.
recusation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recusations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.
Senses: examples: text: […]permit a man to refuse a judge, if he himself is of opinion he has any cause, without assigning what that cause is, is therefore in general very silent about what sort of consanguinity is, or is not, a good ground for recusation
ref: 1750, William Blackstone, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity:
topics: law
glosses: The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
glosses: A refusal.
Related terms: recuse
thysen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɪˈsɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: thi sen
form: thissen
form: thassen
form: thee sen
Etymology: From thy + sen.
Senses: examples: text: Aw'm nut doin it. Do it thisen!
glosses: thyself.
thee sen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ðɪ ˈsɛn/
Forms: form: thi sen
form: thissen
form: thassen
form: thysen
Senses: examples: text: Aw'm not doin it, do it thisen!
glosses: yourself
there's nowt so queer as folk
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Well (shakes her head with a little smile as she goes on knitting)—there's nowt so queer as folk! (Shakes her head again.)
ref: 1893, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell, Elizabeth Robins, Alan's Wife, act 1, scene 1, pages 11–12:
text: 'Theer's Miss So-and-so bin doon here and gaan on ivver so and glen me sic a blackin' as never was, becos I telt her I cudn't git her intil t' auld grund noa-ways, and I telt her she mud just lig in t' new grund and mud be weel content, an aw, for it was a deal sweeter.' 'And,' added old Joe, ' theer's nowt so queer as folk, specially wick uns.'
ref: 1911, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, “Sexton Joe”, in By Fell and Dale at the English Lakes, pages 87–88:
text: Long ago Aristotle said that you cannot expect to find the same accuracy in all thought as in mathematics—you can only get it as far as the nature of the subject allows. The human factor has to be reckoned with and, as they say in Yorkshire: "There's nowt so queer as folk."
ref: c. 1936, Clement Francis Rogers, “Are Miracles Possible?”, in The Case for Miracle, pages 26–27:
text: The really remarkable thing about ALBION is the amazing number of people it continues to hoodwink. Nearly 100 subscribers now, all persisting in sending their cash to the Editorial Permanence In Drunkenness Fund. A growth-rate of approximately one new subscriber per week! How you can all tolerate this I cannot understand; however, as they say across the frontier into Yorkshire - 'There's nowt so queer as folk' (being married to a Yorkshirewoman, I subscribe whole-heartedly to this view)
ref: 1971 July 1, Don Turnbull, “Ye Second Birthday Editorial”, in Albion, number 30, page 2:
qualifier: simile; Lancashire; simile; Lancashire
glosses: Nothing is as strange as people can be; people can behave very oddly sometimes.
litanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litany
goating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: goatings
Senses: glosses: A scapegoating.
examples: text: The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
ref: 1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135:
text: With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly
ref: p. 1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345
text: Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
ref: 1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420:
text: Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.
ref: 1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108:
glosses: An event at a fraternal organization, involving scapegoating.
goating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goat
interest rate swap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interest rate swaps
form: IRS
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A contract to exchange the benefit of one interest rate with another. Often a fixed interest rate is exchanged for a variable rate so as to allow one party to remove an exposure to a variable rate for which they pay a premium on the fixed rate in order to compensate for this 'insurance'. The two rates can also be based on different currencies.
Related terms: swaption
multi-instrumentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-instrumentalists
form: multinstrumentalist
Etymology: From multi- + instrumental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.
multi-instrumentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multi-instrumentalist
lapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlæpsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lapse
lapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlæpsɪŋ/
Forms: form: lapsings
Senses: examples: lapsings of religious faith
glosses: The act or process by which something lapses.
centralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centralized
form: most centralized
form: centralised
Senses: glosses: Having things physically towards the center; consolidated or concentrated
glosses: Having power concentrated in a single, central authority
Derived terms: centralized planning
noncentralized
overcentralized
semicentralized
uncentralized
centralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centralised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centralize
fingerlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerling
seignory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seignories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seigniory.
fee-simple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fees-simple
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fee simple.
lugnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lugnuts
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A specially shaped nut used to hold the wheels on an automobile.
mandamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈdeɪməs/
Forms: form: mandamuses
Etymology: From Latin mandāmus (“we command”).
Senses: examples: text: I admit to all my learned friends that a Mandamus does not issue where there is another course of proceeding by which the thing can be effected; but I again state to your Lordships, that if in this case a Mandamus must not issue, there is no other proceeding that can be adopted.
ref: 1833 January 21, “Proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, on Monday 21st January 1833”, in Proceedings Connected with the Writ of Mandamus Issued by His Majesty's Court of King's Bench Against the Court of Directors of the East-India Company, […], London: J. L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 94:
text: And then it was moved that the court would grant a mandamus to the delegates to admit the bishop's allegations: and it was compared to the cases where they grant mandamuses to compel the granting of probates of wills or letters of administration.
ref: 1849, Richard Jebb, “Cause Shown against the Rule [Regina v. The Archbishop of Canterbury]”, in A Report of the Case of the Right Rev. R[enn] D[ickson] Hampden, D.D., […], London: Richard Benning and Co., →OCLC, page 311:
text: A mandamus is a writ commanding the execution of an act, where otherwise justice would be obstructed, or the king's charter neglected, issuing regularly only in cases relating to the public and the government; and is therefore termed […] a prerogative writ.
ref: 1856, Mathew Bacon with Joseph Sayer, Owen Ruffhead, Henry Gwyllim, Charles Edward Dodd, Bird Wilson, and John Bouvier, A New Abridgment of the Law, volume VI, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., →OCLC, page 419:
text: The lord is compellable by mandamus to admit the surrenderee, that is, the person to whose use the surrender is made.
ref: 1876, Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, A Concise Law Dictionary, page 435:
topics: law
glosses: A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
Derived terms: writ of mandamus
mandamus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈdeɪməs/
Forms: form: mandamuses
form: mandamusing
form: mandamused
form: mandamused
Etymology: From Latin mandāmus (“we command”).
Senses: glosses: To serve a writ of this kind upon.
Perrot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Perrot.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Perrot, Sir John (1527-1592) was Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England.
glosses: Perrot State Park, Wisconsin.
opponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpəʊnənt/
Forms: form: more opponent
form: most opponent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin oppōnēns (“opposing”), present active participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).
Senses: examples: text: […] we are to consider enemies as men opponent to peace and justice, and to these they are by warrs to be reduced; And no other ends in the pursuite of enemies by sword and hostile Acts are to be sought for […]
ref: 1647, Francis Bland, The Souldiers March to Salvation, York, page 25:
text: Young Ithacus advanc’d, defies the foe,
Poising his lifted lance in act to throw:
The savage renders vain the wound decreed,
And springs impetuous with opponent speed!
ref: 1726, Elijah Fenton, transl., The Odyssey of Homer, Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, London, published 1760, Volume 4, Book 19, lines 524-525, p. 44:
text: The reasons you have urged are indeed weighty: yet they have never made an impression so deep upon my mind, as not to take flight, and leave their opponent arguments in some sort the victors.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, London: Shepperson and Reynolds, Volume 4, Letter 64, p. 53:
text: Let it not be supposed, that by “catholic,” I mean to designate men who are lax in their principles, and alike indifferent to all religious systems. On the contrary, they are more earnestly attached to truth, and more opponent to sin than others […]
ref: 1828, Stephen Drew, Principles of Self-Knowledge, London: Longman, Volume 2, Section 23, p. 24:
glosses: Opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
examples: text: Her sympathizing Lover takes his Stand
High on th’ opponent Bank […]
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Situated in front; opposite.
phytometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek (phyto) "plant" + (metron) "measure".
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of methods for uniquely recognizing or predicting physiological processes in plants based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits
Related terms: phytometric
sanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sane + -ism, by analogy with racism and sexism.
Senses: examples: text: Behaviorists, social scientists, and legal scholars must begin to develop research agendas so as to (1) determine and assess the ultimate impact of sanism, (2) better understand how social science data is manipulated to serve sanist ends, […]
ref: 2002, Michael L. Perlin, Mental disability law: civil and criminal, volume 1, page 528:
glosses: Discrimination and oppression against people who have, or who are labelled or perceived as having, a mental illness.
Related terms: sanist
jamo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑmoʊ/
/ˈt͡ʃɑmoʊ/
Forms: form: jamo
form: jamos
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 자모(字母) (jamo).
Senses: glosses: Any of the component letters of the Korean hangul alphabet.
Synonyms: chamo
vexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vex
facia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fascia.
isoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolines
Etymology: From iso- + line.
Senses: synonyms: isopleth
isarithm
isogram
isopract
glosses: Any of several types of line on a map, chart or graph that link points having the same value of a parameter.
Related terms: isarithm
isobar
isocontour
isopleth
isosurface
isotherm
multilevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌl.tiˈlɛv.əl/
ipa: /ˌmʌl.tiˈlɛv.əl/
ipa: /ˌmʌl.taɪˈlɛv.əl/
ipa: /ˌmal.tiˈlev.əl/
rhymes: -ɛvəl
Forms: form: multi-level
Etymology: From multi- + level.
Senses: glosses: Having several levels or floors.
Derived terms: multi-level marketing
drystone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drystones
Etymology: From dry + stone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stalactite or stalagmite.
drystone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dry + stone.
Senses: examples: text: They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 440:
text: He had forgotten that on this side there was a drystone wall sheep pen.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 597:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dry-stone.
Derived terms: Dhrystone
dry-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drystone
form: dry stone
Etymology: From dry + stone.
Senses: examples: text: dry-stone wall
text: The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
ref: 2016, Angus J. L. Winchester, Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: bridge
games
qualifier: building
glosses: Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
raw_tags: of a wall
Derived terms: dry-stone dyke
shot tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot towers
Senses: examples: text: In January, 1844, Ferdinand Kennett began the erection of a shot tower on Elm, between Main and Second streets.
ref: 1878, Joseph A. Dacus, James William Buel, A Tour of St. Louis; Or, The Inside Life of a Great City, page 337:
text: In 1808. Paul Beck built a taller shot tower on the Schuykill River that remained in operation until after the War of 1812, but competition with the Sparks shot tower forced it to close by 1828.
ref: 2013, Ronald R. Switzer -, The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce, →ISBN, page 318:
text: There is no shot tower in St Petersburg, nor has there ever been one, judging by historical maps, descriptions, engravings, drawings and photographs of the city, starting in the 1860s. There are domes, spires, bell towers and chimneys of various heights and shapes, but no shot tower. A feature of the urban landscape of nineteenth-century industrial British and American cities, shot towers are conical structures up to seventy metres tall, designed for the manufacture of ammunition.
ref: 2015, David Attwell, J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time, →ISBN:
glosses: A tall building in which droplets of molten lead fall into a pool of water in order to form lead shot
lead shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small balls of lead, used as projectiles in shotguns, and as a weight in angling, etc.
Related terms: shot tower
skepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scepsis.
Adelaidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adelaidians
Etymology: From Adelaide + -ian
Senses: examples: text: Near dusk, he arrived at a small settlement that served as a holiday village for Adelaidians.
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 83:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Adelaidean: A native or inhabitant of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
Adelaidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Adelaide + -ian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Adelaidean: Of, from or relating to the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
frontlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹʌntlət/
Forms: form: frontlets
Etymology: From Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel.
Senses: glosses: The forehead.
glosses: The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers).
glosses: An ornament worn on the forehead.
examples: text: Frontlets are known to every goodwife: rose-water and vinegar, with a little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both temples.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi:
glosses: A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.
Derived terms: starfrontlet
dispone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispones
form: disponing
form: disponed
form: disponed
Etymology: From French, from Latin disponĕre (“to arrange”).
Senses: examples: text: The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
ref: 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:
topics: law
glosses: To convey legal authority to another.
glosses: To set in order; to dispose.
Derived terms: disponee
luciferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luciferases
Etymology: From luciferin + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”
ref: 2017 October 6, Ed Yong, “The Most Beautiful Death Trap”, in The Atlantic:
text: The novel coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Moderna does not contain luciferin, an organic compound involved in bioluminescence, or the enzyme luciferase, contrary to claims on social media.
ref: 2021 May 6, “Fact Check-Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain luciferin or luciferase”, in Reuters:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
Derived terms: antiluciferase
nanoluciferase
cerebrotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛɹɪbɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more cerebrotonic
form: most cerebrotonic
Etymology: Coined by William Herbert Sheldon, from cerebro- + tonic.
Senses: examples: text: Cerebrotonic Cato may
Extol the Ancient Disciplines,
But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.
ref: 1947, W H Auden, The Fall of Rome, Vintage, published 1991, page 332:
glosses: Designating a personality type characterised as intellectual, introverted, and emotionally restrained.
cerebrotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛɹɪbɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: cerebrotonics
Etymology: Coined by William Herbert Sheldon, from cerebro- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has this personality type.
Related terms: somatotonic
viscerotonic
sleeping tablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping tablets
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sleeping pill.
viscerotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌvɪsəɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more viscerotonic
form: most viscerotonic
Etymology: Coined by WH Sheldon, from viscero- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: Designating a personality type characterised as sociable, easy-going, and comfort-seeking.
viscerotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvɪsəɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: viscerotonics
Etymology: Coined by WH Sheldon, from viscero- + tonic.
Senses: examples: text: Joffre was a true viscerotonic, and this was the source of his principal strengths and weaknesses.
ref: 1962, Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory, Penguin, published 1993, page 20:
glosses: A person with such a personality.
Related terms: somatotonic
cerebrotonic
bioluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more bioluminescent
form: most bioluminescent
Etymology: From bio- + luminescent.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting bioluminescence.
Derived terms: autobioluminescent
bioluminescently
nonbioluminescent
Related terms: bioluminescence
bioluminesce
biofluorescent
sleeping tablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping tablet
somatotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊmətəˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more somatotonic
form: most somatotonic
Etymology: Coined by William Herbert Sheldon.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to a personality type characterised as aggressive and extroverted.
somatotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊmətəˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: somatotonics
Etymology: Coined by William Herbert Sheldon.
Senses: glosses: A person having this personality type.
Related terms: somatotype
cerebrotonic
viscerotonic
luciferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luciferase
chemoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more chemoluminescent
form: most chemoluminescent
Etymology: From chemo- + luminescent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting chemoluminescence.
slumber party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumber parties
Senses: glosses: A sleepover; a party where people stay and sleep overnight.
falling in love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall in love
falling in love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
ref: 1933, unknown, (translation), as quoted in Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives (1981)
glosses: The action of the verb to fall in love.
Gardena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
glosses: A city and village in North Dakota, United States.
impugnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impugnations
Etymology: From impugn + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of impugning
topics: law
glosses: The act of appealing or revoking
nonobservance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonobservances
Etymology: From Middle English non-observaunce, nonn observance, equivalent to non (“no”, adjective) + observance.
Senses: glosses: The failure to observe a custom, or to conform with a law
smoke explosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke explosion
sea mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea mouths
Senses: glosses: That part of a river, estuary or lagoon which broadens out as it meets the sea
class secretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class secretaries
Senses: glosses: A person in a school's student council who takes minutes at meetings etc.
faceoff spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faceoff spots
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: One of the five spots in an ice hockey rink where play may begin.
putting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put out
puts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put out
put outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of put out
fire dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire dogs
form: firedog
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.
examples: text: He was[…] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: andiron
glosses: Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.
painterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more painterly
form: most painterly
Etymology: From painter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She always shows and never tells. For some poets, such a concentration on the concrete may imply a loosening of language and of perception, or an immersion into raw emotion. Instead, Becker clothes the everyday in a spare, painterly clarity of perception.
ref: 1982 August 28, Andrea Loewenstein, “Becker's Experience Talks Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 11:
glosses: Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
glosses: Having clear brush-strokes.
raw_tags: of a painting
Derived terms: painterliness
postpainterly
unpainterly
trade-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade-offs
form: tradeoff
Etymology: Deverbal from trade off.
Senses: examples: text: In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.
text: Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
text: All of these are of vital importance to the effective functioning of GBR. They all require the judgement of Solomon to handle the myriad and complex trade-offs between running trains and maintaining the railway, and deciding how capacity on any particular route can be optimised with all the competing demands from varying operators to run on it.
ref: 2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 42:
glosses: Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.
Synonyms: compromise
Derived terms: space-time trade-off
time-memory trade-off
time trade
martlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːt.lət/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt.lət/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tlət
Forms: form: martlets
Etymology: From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French martinet and Medieval Latin martineta) and Middle French merlet.
Senses: examples: text: “As in a drought the thirsty creatures cry,
And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain;
Then, first, the Martlet meets it in the sky,
And, with wet wings, joys all the feather'd train.”
ref: 1862, William Tiler, The Natural History of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, &c:
glosses: A bird, the martin.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet.
Synonyms: word: merlion
Related terms: english: mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet
translation: mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet
word: merlette
kicking in danger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Kicking at the ball when there is a risk of kicking an opposition player who is trying to pick it up or otherwise close to it. Such a kick is against the rules and results in a free kick to the opponent.
pride of place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday last / A falcon towering in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: For the Imhoffs, moreover, as for most northern collectors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Dürer holds pride of place, being represented by a complete collection of his prints and probably the largest group of his drawings gathered anywhere.
ref: 1993, Joseph Leo Koerner, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, page 46:
text: Agnew's triadic postulate is not in itself very controversial, but there have been sharp disagreements over which ingredient(s) of place should be given pride of place.
ref: 2001, Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, page 60:
glosses: The highest-ranking or first position; place of honor.
examples: text: Europe at the start of the 1990s was abuzz with organizational concepts and visions, and among these none had as much pride of place as the notion of "confederation."
ref: 1991, David G. Haglund, Alliance within the alliance?, page 67:
text: The participant shares pride of place with the events themselves in our minds as we read Virgil's text.
ref: 1998, Michael C. J. Putnam, Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid, page 34:
glosses: Honor; esteem.
examples: text: The Yankee has much pride of place, believing himself the citizen of no mean city. In the heart of the Commonwealth this pride is conspicuous, and Mr. Hoar was proud of the city and county of Worcester.
ref: 1908, Francis Cabot Lowell with Henry Pickering Walcott and Ezra Ripley Thayer, Sons of the Puritans: a group of brief biographies, page 3:
text: It's smaller than I'd expected, and without much pride of place.
ref: 2012, Benjamin Taylor, Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay:
glosses: Pride concerning a place, as one's home town or residence.
embankments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embankment
peters out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peter out
petering out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peter out
petered out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peter out
busiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: busy + -est
Senses: examples: text: Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
ref: 1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
text: With more than 47 million passenger entries and exits recorded in 2018-2019, New Street is the UK's busiest station outside London and the fifth busiest overall.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 57, photo caption:
glosses: superlative form of busy: most busy
busiest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: busy + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of busy
données
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donnée
tribeswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribeswomen
Etymology: From tribe + -s- + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female member of a tribe.
waste product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waste products
Senses: glosses: An unwanted material produced during some manufacturing process, especially radioactive material from nuclear reactors.
glosses: The unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces.
underdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdress
underdressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdress
underdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdressed
form: most underdressed
Etymology: From under- + dressed.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently dressed, as for cold weather.
glosses: Insufficiently well-dressed, as for a formal event.
underdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + dressed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdress
unearths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unearth
unearthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unearth
unearthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not electrically earthed.
fossil fuels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fossil fuel
kaoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaolines
form: kaolin
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaolin.
ptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Levator disinsertion leads to a ptotic eyelid.
glosses: Of or pertaining to ptosis.
CHIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Senses: glosses: Acronym of children's health insurance program.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.
boney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bonier
form: boniest
Senses: examples: text: Slowly, the handle on the only door to his room began to turn. We all knew that the room on the other side was empty – except for the newly purchased skeleton! As the handle turned we heard boney, scrapey sounds. I could feel the hair begin to stand on my head and the back of my neck.
ref: 2005, Robert Douglas, “Scared Stiff on a Saturday Night”, in Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Memoir, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bony.
Saturday night special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saturday night specials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saturday-night special.
banker's hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bankers' hours.
hall porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hall porters
Senses: glosses: A hotel worker who carries luggage to the rooms of guests.
Synonyms: bellboy
junjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mildew.
glosses: An edible fungus growing on tree trunks.
glosses: Something with a bad odor.
mashugana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashuganas
Etymology: From Yiddish משוגענער (meshugener).
Senses: glosses: nonsense; silliness; craziness; garbage
examples: 1986. Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan. Kanreki: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Page 37http://books.google.com/books?id=wWmuAAAAIAAJ&q=Mashuganas&dq=Mashuganas&lr=&ei=oivOSp68OYi0kATv3fHBBQ
I seemed to attract old flower children and new age holistic eastern mystic 'mashuganas' .
glosses: A person who is silly or crazy; a jackass.
Related terms: meshuga
meshugaas
meshugas
meshugge
meshuggeneh
meshuggener
bonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boneyer
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bony: more bony
boniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boneyest
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bony: most bony
phoniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of phony: most phony
phonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of phony: more phony
sad-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sad-eyed
form: most sad-eyed
form: sad eyed
Senses: examples: text: Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, / Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, / My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, / Should I leave them by your gate, / Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
ref: 1966, Bob Dylan, Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands:
glosses: Having a sad facial expression.
hard hit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard hit
form: harder hit
form: most hard hit
form: hardest hit
form: hard-hit
form: hit hard
Senses: examples: text: East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.
ref: 1933, Eileen Power, M[ichael] M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN:
text: “As typical of a flu season, some areas are being harder hit than other areas,” said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
ref: 2014 January 17, Miriam Falco, “Some states hit harder by flu this year”, in CNN:
text: In fact, accommodation and food services, which has been hardest hit by the Great Resignation, has also created one out of every three net new jobs in 2021. Does that make any sense? Only if you think about this as a job-switching revolution.
ref: 2021 December 8, Derek Thompson, “Three Myths of the Great Resignation”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: In severe difficulties; greatly affected by a problem.
coventrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coventrates
form: coventrating
form: coventrated
form: coventrated
Etymology: From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.
Senses: synonyms: coventrize
glosses: To devastate by heavy bombing.
Derived terms: coventrating
coventration
estuarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more estuarine
form: most estuarine
Etymology: From estuary + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: 1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179,
The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes.
text: The small lagoons of southern New Jersey receive an insignificant input of freshwater from watersheds of Cape May Peninsula compared to larger, more estuarine bays to the north (Kran 1975).
ref: 1980, Joseph T. Kelley, “Sediment Introduction and Deposition in a Coastal Lagoon, Cape May, New Jersey”, in Victor S Kennedy, editor, Estuarine Perspectives, Academic Press, page 379:
text: Some species are more estuarine than others, for example Pseudotolithus typus replaces P. senegalensis as conditions become more estuarine and Pentanemus quinquarius replaces Galeoides decadactylus.
ref: 2000, Stephen J. M. Blaber, “Tropical Estuarine Fishes: Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation”, in Science, Blackwell, page 80:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an estuary.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.
Derived terms: estuarine crocodile
estuarine perch
interestuarine
intraestuarine
nonestuarine
Related terms: riverine
recordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recordable
form: most recordable
Etymology: From record + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.
text: User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.
antonyms: erasable
unrecordable
glosses: That can be recorded; capturable.
glosses: Able to be used to record something.
raw_tags: of a CD
examples: text: Marper, who was 38 years of age and of good character, was arrested and charged with harassment of his partner. The police took his fingerprints and DNA samples. His partner became reconciled with him and decided not to press the charges, and the case was formally discontinued. The police refused to destroy the fingerprints and samples. In both cases the police relied on the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, which allows the police to take and to retain indefinitely, without consent, fingerprints and DNA samples from a person of any age who has been arrested in connection with a “recordable” offence.
ref: 2009, Bob Hepple, “The Right to Privacy and Crime Detection”, in Cambridge Law Journal, volume 68, number 2, page 254:
glosses: Liable to be retained on someone's criminal record.
Related terms: rewritable
primary data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Data that has been compiled for a specific purpose, and has not been collated or merged with other data.
Osage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊseɪdʒ/
ipa: /əʊˈseɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈəʊseɪdʒ/
rhymes: -əʊseɪdʒ
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: Osages
form: Osage
Etymology: Evolved from a borrowing from French variations of Osage 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 (wažáže), the name of a division of the tribe.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Osage Nation.
Derived terms: Big Osage
Great Osage
Little Osage
Osage apple
Osage City
Osage County
Osage Nation
Osage orange
Osage thorn
Osage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊseɪdʒ/
ipa: /əʊˈseɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈəʊseɪdʒ/
rhymes: -əʊseɪdʒ
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Etymology: Evolved from a borrowing from French variations of Osage 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 (wažáže), the name of a division of the tribe.
Senses: glosses: The Osage Nation.
glosses: The now-extinct language of the Osage Nation.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Arkansas.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Mitchell County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Becker County, Minnesota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Camden County, New Jersey.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
glosses: A small town in Osage County, Oklahoma.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
glosses: A census-designated place in Wyoming.
glosses: A river in Missouri (the Osage River), which is a tributary of the Missouri River.
glosses: Four townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, United States, listed under Osage.
foldout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldouts
form: fold-out
Etymology: Deverbal from fold out.
Senses: glosses: An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
glosses: A bed that folds out from a closed position.
Synonyms: sense: folded page
word: throw-out
Related terms: French flap
throwout
foldout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fold-out
Etymology: Deverbal from fold out.
Senses: examples: a foldout map
a foldout book
hypernyms: foldable
coordinate_terms: fold-up
glosses: That folds out from a closed position.
gatefold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatefolds
Etymology: From gate + fold.
Senses: glosses: A document folding method that uses two parallel folds to create six panels; the left and right panels are half the width of the center panels and fold inward to meet in the middle without overlapping.
Hypernyms: throw-out
Coordinate terms: pop-up
Related terms: French flap
throwout
gatefold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gatefolds
form: gatefolding
form: gatefolded
form: gatefolded
Etymology: From gate + fold.
Senses: glosses: To fold in this manner.
folklorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊklɔɹɪst/
Forms: form: folklorists
Etymology: From folklore + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies or collects folklore
Derived terms: nonfolklorist
knock-for-knock agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-for-knock agreements
Senses: synonyms: knock-for-knock clause
knock-for-knock contract
glosses: An arrangement between multiple insurance companies in which each company pays the losses incurred by its own policyholders in an event, regardless of who was at fault (now rarely used outside of motor insurance).
organizational breakdown structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organizational breakdown structures
Senses: topics: management
synonyms: OBS
coordinate_terms: product breakdown structure
glosses: A global hierarchy that represents different levels of responsibilities within a project or enterprise.
Related terms: organization chart
organisational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organisation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:
glosses: Alternative spelling of organizational.
Derived terms: organisationally
supraorganisational
Thriambus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latinized spelling of Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos)
Senses: glosses: a name of Dionysus
decalcomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌkæɫkəˈmeɪnɪə]
Forms: form: decalcomanias
Etymology: From French décalcomanie.
Senses: glosses: The process of transferring decorative designs onto surfaces using decals.
examples: text: The principal change in paragraph 1406 is the reduction in the rates of duty provided in the House bill on ceramic decalcomanias.
ref: 1930, United States Congressional serial set, number 9185, page 43:
glosses: A decal.
isoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocline
soliloquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soliloquists
Etymology: From soliloquy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ...A worthless mercenary in some foreign service, or an idle loiterer in stranger lands, is all that remains for a life that once believed in its higher and nobler calling." At this moment his page entered with a packet. "Lights!" said Evelyn, carelessly—for, as our readers will have already divined, he was the melancholy soliloquist—...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: A person who soliloquizes