cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
come into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes into
form: coming into
form: came into
form: come into
Senses: examples: text: Please come into the living room.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
examples: text: After his father died, he came into a large fortune.
text: She bought the winning lottery ticket and came into a very large amount of money.
text: I used to be very poor, but my uncle died and I unexpectedly came into some property in London.
glosses: To obtain (usually money or property), especially through inheritance.
examples: text: Money doesn't come into it.
glosses: To be a factor in.
examples: text: I came into the role with no preconceptions.
text: He came into the match having beaten the Spaniard in four finals already this year, but Nadal - on a 20-match winning streak at the All England Club - was still favoured by many to claim a third Wimbledon title as he had won all five Grand Slam meetings with Djokovic.
ref: 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To enter the initial phase of; to commence.
Related terms: come into being
come into effect
come into force
come into one's own
come by
resolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resolders
form: resoldering
form: resoldered
form: resoldered
Etymology: From re- + solder.
Senses: examples: text: He resoldered the fritzed-out wires with his grandmotherʼs help.
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 449:
glosses: To solder again.
resoldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resolder
resoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resolder
resoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolderings
Senses: glosses: The act of soldering something again.
resolders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resolder
dibbuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibbuks
form: dibbukim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dybbuk.
dibbuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibbuk
alc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 5.3% alc
glosses: Abbreviation of alcohol.
alc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of alcoholic.
Derived terms: bev-alc
non-alc
prereq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹi.ɹɛk/
Forms: form: prereqs
Etymology: Clipping of prerequisite.
Senses: examples: text: When you are planning on going into Nursing at University of Washington, you are really praying that you get into the Nursing school because the prereqs are so strictly and rigidly set up.
ref: 2011, Emily Sugiyama, Katie Shaw, University of Washington 2012:
text: And in some cases, students who haven't taken a prereq are actually disenrolled from the course that requires it.
ref: 2011, Constance Courtney Staley, Steve Staley, FOCUS on College and Career Success, page 12:
glosses: A prerequisite.
prereqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prereq
disemboweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembowellers
form: disemboweler
Etymology: From disembowel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disembowels.
disemboweler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembowelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disemboweller.
disembowellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disemboweller
disembowelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disemboweler
disembowelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disembowelment
handicraftman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicraftmen
Etymology: From handicraft + -man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handicraftsman.
handicraftmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicraftman
rereader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rereaders
Etymology: From reread + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rereads.
rereaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rereader
calendrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From calendrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, a calendar.
forestless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forest + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a forest.
Derived terms: forestlessness
cartless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cart + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cart.
metalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metal + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without metal.
metallicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being metallic.
unmetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.mɪˈtæl.ɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Forms: form: unmetallick
Etymology: From un- + metallic.
Senses: examples: text: The light duſky blew concretes as well as the green, called by ſome Copper okers, yield a great deal of very good Copper when they are pure, which may be known from their colour and weight ; but thoſe that are more light are mixed with unmetallick earth, and thoſe that are yellow, containing iron oker ; on which account they are the more difficult to be met with, and yield leſs Copper of an inferior ſort.
ref: 1763, Richard Brookes, “Copper”, in The Natural History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils, and Minerals, volume V, London: J. Newbery, page 121:
text: The acid, now impregnated with a new matter, paſſes on ; till meeting with ſome other convenient nidus, it lodges in that, and thereby acquires a freſh impregnation, perhaps at laſt totally unmetallick ; or, for want of meeting with a proper nidus, appears at the ſurface, weakly or ſtrongly tinctured with thoſe principles it had laſt imbibed.
ref: 1778, William Pryce, “Of the Origin and Formation of Metals and Minerals”, in Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining, London: James Phillips, page 6:
text: The robot bowed. “Thank you, gentlemen,” it said, in sweet, unmetallic accents. “Now if you will please escort me to the meeting place …”
ref: 1960, Henry Slesar, “The Delegate from Venus”, in The Works of Henry Slesar:
glosses: Not metallic.
Synonyms: nonmetallic
maxidress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxidresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maxi dress.
maxidresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxidress
restockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restocking
Betsileo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betsileos
Senses: glosses: Any of a highland ethnic group of Madagascar, speaking a dialect of Malagasy.
Betsileos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betsileo
tavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Swidden
glosses: A slash and burn agricultural technique used in Madagascar.
drum rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum roll
publicity stunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publicity stunt
gries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gry
stop cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop cocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stopcock.
bumper to bumper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bumper to bumper
form: most bumper to bumper
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bumper-to-bumper.
tragœdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragœdies
Senses: examples: text: While the Tyrant contemplated his luſt, Iudith in trouble called vpon her God, who made way for her works through the Tyrants owne wickedneſſe: who heaping ſin vpon ſin, approched at laſt to the end of his tragœdy: and mounting vpon the ſcaffolde of the yre of God, falles aſleepe in his ſinfull bed, & is by Iudith beheaded in his beaſtly drunkennes.
ref: 1613, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas [aut.] and Josvah Sylvester [tr.], Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes and Workes (2nd ed.), first week, third day, “The Svmmarie of the VI. Booke”, page 76
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tragedy.
yarage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yare + -age.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The power of moving, or being managed, at sea.
raw_tags: of a ship
bite off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌtɒf/
ipa: /ˈbaɪˌtɔːf/
Forms: form: bites off
form: biting off
form: bit off
form: bitten off
Senses: examples: text: Then she cocked her head back, opened her mouth, and bit off the trout's top half.
ref: 1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
glosses: To bite so hard as to remove something from its source.
examples: text: In between what she called the "goody-good" or "frilly-knickers" Hollywood films, she bit off some more demanding parts back home.
ref: 1967 July 28, “Actresses: Hayley at 21”, in Time:
text: "And for the next couple of years, with Nokia having bitten off so much, Vuorilehto is the right guy for the task they face."
ref: 1988 December 29, Steve Lohr, “Risk Inherited at Finnish Concern”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
text: We have set a plan that we believe everyone at News Corp. will bite off on.
ref: 2006 January 4, Natalie Pace, “Q&A: MySpace Founders Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson”, in Forbes, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
text: They think it's politically too much for the government to bite off right now.
ref: 2009 October 28, “Healthcare reform: Trigger Unhappy”, in Newsweek, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
glosses: To accept or commit oneself to a task, project, notion, or responsibility, especially one which presents challenges.
raw_tags: followed by on
examples: text: To thicken that buffer zone Britain joined other powers in biting off larger chunks of China.
ref: 1997, Anthony Spaeth, "And Here the Twain Shall Meet," Time, Special Issue—Hong Kong 1997
text: For R.I.M. to bite off just a tiny piece of that market would help it grow considerably.
ref: 2007 March 26, Laurie J. Flynn, “Maker of Mobile Games Brings Line to BlackBerry”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
glosses: To acquire, especially in an abrupt or forceful manner.
Synonyms: sense: accept or commit oneself to a task, etc
word: accept
sense: accept or commit oneself to a task, etc
word: attempt
sense: accept or commit oneself to a task, etc
word: tackle
sense: accept or commit oneself to a task, etc
word: undertake
sense: acquire, especially abruptly or forcefully
word: appropriate
sense: acquire, especially abruptly or forcefully
word: grab
Derived terms: bite off more than one can chew
coconut shy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut shies
Senses: examples: text: With his two aides he had wandered around and had a few goes on the coconut shy, but he was so strong that one of the balls had not only knocked the coconut off its stand but split the stand in two.
ref: 2012, Lynda La Plante, The Legacy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: A coconut shy stood close by and swing boats swung like giant pendulums against a background of blossoming shrubs blazing with colour.
ref: 2015, James R. Curwood, Lucy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 238:
text: I realise that some readers would enjoy using my head at a coconut shy.
ref: 2021 December 1, Christian Wolmar, “A cloud over HS2... but a silver lining for other services?”, in RAIL, number 945, page 53:
glosses: A traditional fairground amusement where customers throw balls at a row of coconuts in an attempt to knock one off its support and thereby win it.
judgment calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judgment call
judgement calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judgement call
English-Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more English-Canadian
form: most English-Canadian
form: English Canadian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Anglophone Canadians, of English Canada.
synonyms: Anglo-Canadian
glosses: Of or relating to Canadians of English ancestry or descent.
mood message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mood messages
Senses: examples: text: He had his mood message set to "At work," so I didn't disturb him.
glosses: A message set by a user of instant messaging software and displayed as part of their profile.
Synonyms: sense: chiefly Windows Live Messenger
word: personal message
word: status
parænetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parænetical
form: most parænetical
Senses: examples: text: For in all discourses that are parænetical, as this Epistle for the most part is, there are always some principles taken for granted, which give life and efficacy unto the exhortations in them, and into which these are resolved.
ref: 1812, John Owen, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, J. Ritchie; second edition, Volume I, Exercitation VIII, page 136
glosses: Obsolete form of paraenetical.
Gaußian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gaußian
form: most Gaußian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaussian.
English Canada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: English-speaking (Anglophone) Canada.
glosses: English Canadians (collectively).
Related terms: French Canada
parænetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His parænetic Sermon is also addressed to young monks, whom he advises to the continual presence of God in their minds most earnestly under temptations.
ref: 1866, Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints, volume VII, James Duffy, page 96:
glosses: Obsolete form of paraenetic.
uræi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The space immediately beneath the heaven is filled up with the winged disc entwined by two uræi, the so‐called “ Hut, the great god, lord of heaven, with varied plumes emanating from the horizon.”
ref: 1864, Samuel Birch, On two Egyptian Tablets of the Ptolemaic Period, J. B. Nichols and Sons, page 20:
glosses: plural of uræus
uræus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uræi
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of uraeus.
repeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repeople
repeopling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repeople
repeopled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repeople
sedecuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sē'dĕkyo͞oʹp(ə)l
ipa: /ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/
Forms: form: sexdecuple
Etymology: First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple.
Senses: examples: text: If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, ſedecuple, 25ple.
ref: 1744–9, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] and James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in Philoſophical Tranſactions of the Royal Society X (1756), page 184
glosses: Sixteenfold.
Sixteen times as great or as numerous.
examples: text: As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio.
ref: 1965, Edward Grant [translator], “Algorismus proportionum”, in Isis, volume LVI, translation of original by Nicole Oresme, Part I, page 333:
glosses: Sixteenfold.
Sixteen-to-one.
raw_tags: of a ratio
examples: text: Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth from an opulent American laboratory.
ref: 1967, Charles P. Poole, Electron Spin Resonance, page 544:
glosses: Sixteenfold.
Comprising sixteen repeated elements.
sedecuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sē'dĕkyo͞oʹp(ə)l
ipa: /ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/
Forms: form: sedecuples
form: sedecupling
form: sedecupled
form: sedecupled
form: sexdecuple
Etymology: First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple.
Senses: glosses: To increase by a factor of sixteen.
Related terms: quindecuple
septemdecuple
flustrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flustrates
form: flustrating
form: flustrated
form: flustrated
Etymology: From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch
ref: 1712 October 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “THURSDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To fluster or frustrate.
Related terms: flustration
gladite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, and sulfur.
frozen yogurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frozen yogurt
froyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: froyos
Senses: examples: text: I love that froyo tastes like ice cream and gelato, but is healthier.
glosses: Alternative form of fro-yo.
froyos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of froyo
imagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imago
datil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datils
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Catalan dàtil or Spanish dátil (“date”); see quotes below.
Senses: examples: text: The first Datil was probably brought to the United States from the West Indies during either the British period or the second Spanish occupation of East Florida (1784–1821).[…] The word “Dátil” refers to the fruit of the date palm, both in Spanish and in the language of the Minorcans who named the pepper in St. Augustine.
ref: 1995, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, page 127:
text: No one knows if the colonists brought datil peppers with them.[…] More than likely the Minorcans did give the incendiary peppers their name, for the green to gold pods somewhat resemble dates, a linkage cemented by the knowledge that datil is the word for the fruit of the date palm in both the Catalan and Spanish languages.
ref: 2007, John Edge, Southern Belly, page 67:
glosses: A datil pepper, a very spicy pepper of the species Capsicum chinense.
datil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datils
Etymology: From American Spanish dátil (“date”), from Catalan dàtil. Doublet of dactyl, dactylus, and date.
Senses: glosses: The queen palm, Syagrus romanzoffiana, or its leaf fibers used for weaving.
glosses: Mexican yucca or its leaf fibers.
Derived terms: datil yucca
water vapours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water vapour
bohor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohors
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of bohor reedbuck.
cut from the same cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cut of the same cloth
form: cut out of the same cloth
Senses: examples: text: [T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.
ref: 1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Subterranean Brotherhood:
text: "Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?" said Katy. "Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father."
ref: 1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 15, in Her Father's Daughter:
text: Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.
ref: 1997 October 3, Stephen Holden, “Film Review: Casanova Complex”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2011:
text: Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time:
glosses: Of two or more persons or things, very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.
Related terms: like two peas in a pod
of a kind
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
cut of the same cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cut from the same cloth.
cut out of the same cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cut from the same cloth.
onomatopœically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more onomatopœically
form: most onomatopœically
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of onomatopoeically.
onomatopœical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onomatopœic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Only in this last instance, which is clearly onomatopœical, is the effect in any way unpleasing.
ref: 1913, Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Englische Studien, page 93:
glosses: Obsolete form of onomatopoeical.
pharmacopœical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmacopœic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: At present they ought to be consulted by pharmacopœical revision committees who want to get a better idea of the condition of purity in the drug market.
ref: 1903, Edward Kremers in Pharmaceutical Review, Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co.; Volume XXI, page 504
glosses: Obsolete form of pharmacopoeical.
pharmacopœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pharmacopoeic.
Derived terms: pharmacopœical
entomophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomophobia
downsection
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downsection
form: most downsection
Etymology: From down- + section.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Towards the lower part of a section.
Gini coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒiːni ˌkəʊˈɪ.fɪʃn̩t/
Forms: form: Gini coefficients
Etymology: Named after Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini (1884–1965).
Senses: examples: text: China is still only eighty-ninth in the world in per capita GNP, and its Gini coefficient of economic inequality is higher than those of the two other countries to which it is often compared—the United States and India.
ref: 2014, Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Introduction, in Can China Lead?: Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, Harvard Business Publishing, →ISBN, page x:
text: One big problem with the Gini coefficient, however, is getting an intuitive feel for what it actually means. It's easy enough to picture a country with a Gini coefficient of zero—there, everyone gets exactly the same income.
ref: 2020, Tim Harford, “Rule four”, in How to Make the World Add Up, Bridge Street Press, →ISBN:
text: In fact, France’s Gini coefficient, the measure of inequality in a society, is lower today than it was during les trente glorieuses (1945 to 1975), when postwar France regained confidence by helping to pioneer first Concorde, then the TGV, and then in the early 1980s the proto-internet (the Minitel).
ref: 2023 May 1, Alexander Hurst, “Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of the inequality of a statistical distribution, ranging from 0 (total equality) to 1 (maximal inequality), used in various disciplines but especially in economics to compare incomes or wealth.
Synonyms: Gini index
Gini ratio
Related terms: Great Gatsby curve
Lorenz curve
Gini coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gini coefficient
pretermission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretermissions
Etymology: From Latin praetermissio. See pretermit.
Senses: examples: text: [T]wentie Kings in a continu'd row, that either did nothing, or liv'd in Ages that wrote nothing, at leaſt a foul pretermiſſion in the Author of this, whether Story or Fable; himſeelf wearie, as ſeems, of his own tedious Tale.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Omission; failure to do something.
glosses: Preterition; the act of passing over; paralipsis.
Related terms: pretermit
troublously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more troublously
form: most troublously
Etymology: From troublous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Elfride looked troublously at the trees.
ref: 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes:
glosses: In a troublous manner.
pretermissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretermission
preteritions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preterition
dispatch table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispatch tables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A table of pointers to functions or methods, commonly used to implement dynamic binding.
Related terms: vtable
coale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of coal.
comœdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comœdies
Senses: examples: text: For in outward ſhew nothing appeares, but infirmity, to the eyes of Infidels, neither will they beleeue, that our Sauiour can make his body there preſent; it alſo ſeemes to them impiety, and therefore they call it Idolatry; it appeares to them nothing, but folly, and therefore they mocke at it, as if it were a Comœdy; whereas, notwithſtanding, it is an action of the Sonne of God, and the moſt godly worke of Piety and Religion, that is in the Church.
ref: 1619, Lewis Richome (Louis Richeome) [aut.] and C.A. [tr.], Holy Pictures of the myſticall Figures of the moſt holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Euchariſt, the tenth picture: “The Propitiatory Sacrifice”, § 7: ‘The Sacrifice of the Maſſe, and the Sacraments, rather giue then take any honor from the Croſſe’, page 197
glosses: Archaic spelling of comedy.
patheticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈθetɪsɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: patheticisms
Etymology: First attested in 1758; formed as pathetic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And can there be a properer Æra for the Revival of Genius and Public Spirit than that of the Ad———n of the Great Man who has been recommended by the One to his diſtreſſed and aged K—g, (ſo familiarly ventures to ſpeak the Patheticiſm of Loyalty) and endeared to his exulting Fellow-Subjects by the Other; and to whom, ſhould we be unhappily and unexpectedly diſappointed, we have a Right to complain, in the Words of Tacitus, that “Succeſſere magis alii Homines quam alii Mores!”
ref: 1758, An Addreſs to the Great Man, pages 46–47:
text: A quaint patheticism attends the diminution of obdurate winters with old people, whose excitements half a century ago were less recurrent and longer-lived than with a younger generation.
ref: 1880, Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh, editors, The Sunday Magazine, volume 9, Strahan & Co, page 100:
text: Milly’s witticism sounds a little like Catherine Sloper, but one may, for the measure of distance between the two novels, compare the reality and significant meaning one senses behind Catherine’s little patheticisms with the uninteresting, dull inertness of Milly’s response.
ref: 1953, Lionel Charles Knights, Frank Raymond Leavis, editors, Scrutiny, volume 16, Deighton, Bell and Co, page 309:
text: It seems our nurse contracted melodram patheticism from a nervous dog. Silly old cow.
[…]
Does this look familiar? Are you all weak and pathetic? Do you fear woodlice or splashes from the toilet? Maybe you too have a belt of the old melodram patheticism.
ref: 2011 July 5th, David Firth, Take This Pill: Health Reminder, Lesson 2, 1:47–1:54 and 2:14–2:27
glosses: pathetic behaviour
patheticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patheticism
bearproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bearproof
form: most bearproof
Etymology: From bear + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Remember: Bears are smarter than you think! Without a bearproof box, it's wise to hang your food from a tree.
ref: 2006, Dina Fayer, Bob Fayer, Pocket Dad: Everyday Wisdom, Practical Tips, and Fatherly Advice, page 100:
glosses: Resistant to bears.
bearproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bearproofs
form: bearproofing
form: bearproofed
form: bearproofed
Etymology: From bear + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The first step to take to avoid unpleasant encounters is to bearproof your camp.
ref: 2000, Michael Hodgson, Camping for Dummies:
glosses: To make resistant to bears.
bearproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bearproof
bearproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bearproof
translation dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translation dictionary
re-enlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-enlists
form: re-enlisting
form: re-enlisted
form: re-enlisted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reenlist.
Derived terms: re-enlistment
agréments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrément
fluxgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluxgate
HAARP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
reroutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerouting
terthiophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terthiophene
terthiophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terthiophenes
Etymology: From ter- + thiophene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer of the heterocycle thiophene.
rerouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerouters
Etymology: From reroute + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reroutes.
rerouters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerouter
interreact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interreacts
form: interreacting
form: interreacted
form: interreacted
Etymology: From inter- + react.
Senses: glosses: To react together.
Related terms: interreaction
interreacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interreact
interreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interreact
interreacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interreact
interrailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interrail
interrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrers
Etymology: From inter + -er.
Senses: examples: interrers of the dead
glosses: One who inters or buries.
interrexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrex
interrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrer
interreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interreactions
Etymology: From inter- + reaction.
Senses: glosses: The reaction between two or more compounds, elements, etc.
Related terms: interreact
interaction
interreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interreaction
b'long
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Contraction of belong.
myriameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myriameter
myriagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myriagramme
myrialitres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrialitre
myrialiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrialiters
Etymology: From myria- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myrialitre.
myrialiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrialiter
zeotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeotrope
probation officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probation officers
Senses: synonyms: parole officer
PO
glosses: A law enforcement officer who supervises offenders who have been released from incarceration and, often, recommends sentencing in courts of law.
Related terms: peace officer
parole officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parole officers
Senses: synonyms: probation officer
PO
glosses: A law enforcement officer who supervises offenders who have been released from incarceration and, often, recommends sentencing in courts of law.
parole officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parole officer
MWEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MWE
MWE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MWEs
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of minimal working example.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of multi-word expression.
muon neutrinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muon neutrino
electron neutrinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electron neutrino
tau neutrinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau neutrino
præcordial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precordial.
unpleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈplɛʒə/
Etymology: From un- + pleasure.
Senses: glosses: Unpleasantness; displeasure.
examples: text: The life of the psyche also has at its disposal wishes whose fulfilment arouses unpleasure [translating Unlust] – which seems a contradiction, but can be explained if we take into account the presence of the two psychical agencies and the censorship prevailing between them.
ref: 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 182:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A sense of internal discomfort opposed to pleasure, produced by impeded impulses from the ego.
before long
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They left before long.
text: I knew they'd arrive before long.
text: It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
glosses: soon
zeotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From zeotrope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to a zeotrope.
zeotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zeotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to a zeotype.
catsuited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From catsuit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a catsuit.
catsups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catsup
filmzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmzines
Etymology: From film + zine.
Senses: glosses: A zine dealing with the topic of films.
filmzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmzine
musiczine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musiczines
Etymology: From music + zine.
Senses: examples: text: […] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
ref: 2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:
text: Musiczines (for all zines held in the MLSRA relating to music)
Reviewzines (all zines that included reviews)
Perzines (for personal zines)
ref: 2010, Patricia Falk, Stefanie Hunker, Cataloguing Outside the Box, page 26:
text: […] their version appearing as a free 45 in the musiczine, Bucketful of Brains).
ref: 2010, Clinton Heylin, Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008:
glosses: A zine dealing with the topic of music.
musiczines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musiczine
videozine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videozines
Etymology: From video + zine.
Senses: glosses: A zine published on videotape rather than in paper or computer format.
videozines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videozine
videotexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videotex
netzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netzines
Etymology: From net + zine with net in sense of network or Internet.
Senses: glosses: A zine published on a computer network in electronic form.
Hyponyms: webzine
netzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netzine
flystrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-strike
Etymology: From fly + strike.
Senses: glosses: Myiasis.
crossplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossplayers
Etymology: From crossplay (“form of cosplay”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, most male crossplayers refused to act in a "feminine" fashion in spite of being in the costume of a female character.
ref: 2014, Catherine Thomas, “'Love to Mess with Minds': En(gendering) Identities Through Crossplay”, in Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith, editors, It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon, McFarland, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A cosplayer involved in crossplay.
crossplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossplayer
crashdump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crashdumps
form: crash dump
Etymology: From crash + dump.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file holding the contents of memory at the point when a program crashed, possibly useful in debugging.
crashdumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crashdump
Ximenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hɪˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
/ˌzɪməˈniːən/
Forms: form: more Ximenean
form: most Ximenean
Etymology: Ximénez or Ximenes + -an
Senses: examples: text: For example, I did not follow a Ximenean rule that a member of a larger class cannot be used to define the class itself (one poster brought this up).
ref: 1992 July 28, Warren Usui, “ACC 5 -- The rest of the clues.”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet):
text: Don Manley calls these non-Ximenean clues “wild and woolly” and worries they're far too common.
ref: 2009, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords:
text: […] the Ximenean camp […] makes up the hardliners, setters and solvers who insist on every clue being thoroughly sound in both grammar and execution […]
ref: 2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cryptic crossword style used and defined by "Ximenes" (Derrick Somerset Macnutt), whereby an acceptable cryptic clue must have a precise definition, a fair and strictly grammatical subsidiary indication, and no redundant elements beyond these.
examples: text: Speaking of the Ximenean Polyglot, Prescott calls it a “noble monument of piety, learning, and munificence, which entitles its author to the gratitude of the whole Christian world.”—Ferd. 5r Isab., Vol. III., p. 289.
ref: 1851, Paul MACLACHLAN, The Bible: Its Use and Abuse; Or, an Inquiry Into the Results of the Respective Doctrines of the Catholic and Protestant Churches, Relative to the Interpretation of the Word of God, page 186:
text: In the oldest Mozarabic service-book (the Orationale Gothicum) the series of services of instruction for the Compétents (Missae Cate- chumenorum) is confined to three weeks, and not, as in the Ximenean printed service-books, extended to six weeks.
ref: 1909, The Journal of Theological Studies:
text: 1911, Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester), The Church Quarterly Review
The Orationale is a MS. of the highest antiquity, bearing throughout a character consistent with an older date than the MSS. which underlie the Ximenean Missal and Breviary
glosses: Pertaining to the religious teachings and publications of Ximénez de Cisneros.
Ximenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
/ˌzɪməˈniːən/
Forms: form: Ximeneans
Etymology: Ximénez or Ximenes + -an
Senses: examples: text: I managed to complete a puzzle and as Ximenes enjoyed solving it, and as I thought he might welcome the opportunity to enter a clue writing contest himself, I decided to send the puzzle to a few more Ximeneans and set the name of the author of the quotation as the word to be clued.
ref: 1977, 'Apex', "Stephen Sondheim 'The Lyric Poet of Broadway' ... and Crossword Composer?", Games & Puzzles, page xlix
text: The home was in Leatherhead, which Ximeneans would despise as a signal for L, but let's keep with the action.
ref: 2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words, →ISBN:
text: As Bunthorne puts it, 'Of course, I am a Ximenean. But I know that if it weren't for [Araucaria] pushing the boundaries, the rest of us wouldn't get anywhere at all.'
ref: 2013, Sandy Balfour, Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose, →ISBN:
glosses: A cruciverbalist or crossword fan who shares Ximenes's beliefs about fair crossword setting.
chlorinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chlorinelike
form: most chlorinelike
Etymology: From chlorine + -like.
Senses: examples: a chlorinelike smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of chlorine.
fluorinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluorinelike
form: most fluorinelike
Etymology: From fluorine + -like.
Senses: examples: a fluorinelike ion
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fluorine.
ammonialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ammonialike
form: most ammonialike
Etymology: From ammonia + -like.
Senses: examples: an ammonialike smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ammonia.
caramellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caramellike
form: most caramellike
Etymology: From caramel + -like.
Senses: examples: a sweetish, caramellike flavour
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of caramel.
stitchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stitchlike
form: most stitchlike
Etymology: From stitch + -like.
Senses: examples: a stitchlike pain in the chest
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stitch (stabbing pain).
nebulalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nebulalike
form: most nebulalike
Etymology: From nebula + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nebula.
galaxylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galaxylike
form: most galaxylike
Etymology: From galaxy + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a galaxy.
personalityless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From personality + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of personality.
Synonyms: impersonal
Derived terms: personalitylessness
personalitylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more personalitylike
form: most personalitylike
Etymology: From personality + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a personality.
taxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taxlike
form: most taxlike
Etymology: From tax + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tax.
polelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polelike
form: most polelike
Etymology: From pole + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pole (upright stick or mast).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pole (extreme point, as of magnets or planets).
emotionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emotionlike
form: most emotionlike
Etymology: From emotion + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, we have emotionlike experiences (such as slight irritation or boredom) almost all of the time.
ref: 1999, Sally Planalp, Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes:
text: These aspects of emotion—expressive behavior, physiological process—have parallels in the emotionlike behaviors of other species. Yet human emotion is also unique, and shaped by language[…]
ref: 2013, Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson, Douglas T. Kenrick, Evolution and Social Psychology, page 133:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of emotion.
addictionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addictionlike
form: most addictionlike
Etymology: From addiction + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of addiction.
discussionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discussionlike
form: most discussionlike
Etymology: From discussion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a discussion.
nontradeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tradeable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nontradable.
anvillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anvillike
form: most anvillike
Etymology: From anvil + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an anvil.
weightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weightlike
form: most weightlike
Etymology: From weight + -like.
Senses: examples: a weightlike chest pain
a weightlike measure
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of weight.
relationlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relationlike
form: most relationlike
Etymology: From relation + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a relation.
listlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more listlike
form: most listlike
Etymology: From list + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a list.
filterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filterlike
form: most filterlike
Etymology: From filter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a filter.
accentlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From accentless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite having been born in Scotland, he spoke French accentlessly.
glosses: Without an accent.
accentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of an accent.
trollable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trollable
form: most trollable
Etymology: From troll + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A newsgroup about abortion is far more trollable than one about linguistics.
antonyms: untrollable
glosses: Capable of, or suited to, being trolled (disrupted by provocative postings).
grouplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grouplike
form: most grouplike
Etymology: From group + -like.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a group.
mobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobo
moblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobloggers
Etymology: From moblog + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who moblogs.
mobloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moblogger
vajayjays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vajayjay
mobocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mobocratic
form: most mobocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
reputationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reputation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a reputation.