cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
golden shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden showers
Senses: glosses: A large, liberal bestowal of money or other financial benefits.
examples: text: Two elderly women sat knitting on that part of the veranda which was screened from the sun by a golden shower creeper […]
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 7:
synonyms: golden rain tree
Indian laburnum
pudding-pipe tree
glosses: The plant species Cassia fistula.
examples: text: Among the frequently requested and highly priced practices were the “golden shower” and “brown shower,” being urinated and defecated on in a sexual context.
ref: 1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 218:
text: ULTRA BIZARRE FEMALE: Age 25, seeks to correspond with submissive men on female domination, foot worship, enema, golden shower and anus worship
ref: a. 1990, Bizarre Lifestyles, volume 1, number 1, page 53; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray, Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, →ISBN, page 77:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: GS
glosses: The act of a person urinating on another, usually for the sexual gratification of one or both persons.
Derived terms: golden shower boy
golden shower queen
Related terms: sense: flowering plant Cassia fistula
word: golden chain
sense: flowering plant Cassia fistula
word: laburnum
topics: pornography
media
sexuality
lifestyle
word: brown shower
topics: pornography
media
sexuality
lifestyle
word: Roman shower
topics: pornography
media
sexuality
lifestyle
word: urolagnia
zedonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zedonks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zeedonk.
Cleveland steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cleveland steamers
Senses: examples: text: In an era where Internet Porn is consumed like a daily vitamin, and a Cleveland Steamer is considered second base, you might think it would be harder to make your sex life odder than it already is.
ref: 2010, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg, The Big Book: Over 1,500 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder:
glosses: A sex act involving defecating on someone's chest, then sitting in it and rolling back and forth like a steamroller.
depuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛpjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: depurations
Etymology: From French dépuration or Latin deporationem, from depurare (“depurate”).
Senses: glosses: The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
Derived terms: phytodepuration
Related terms: depurate
submersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submersions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem.
Senses: glosses: The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.
Related terms: submerse
submersible
submerge
submersive
-mere
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -mer
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).
Senses: glosses: Forming nouns with the sense of part, segment
Derived terms: enantiomere
-mere
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Identical with moor.
Senses: glosses: A lakeside settlement; combining form of mere.
Related terms: -more
turdiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turdiform
form: most turdiform
Etymology: From translingual Turdus + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of, relating to or resembling a thrush, or any other bird of the family Turdidae.
Synonyms: turdine
turdoid
pass under the yoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes under the yoke
form: passing under the yoke
form: passed under the yoke
form: passed under the yoke
Etymology: The practice of "passing under the yoke" (Latin: sub iugum) was a ritual humiliation of enemies practiced by the people of ancient Italy, most notably the Romans and Samnites. The modern English word "subjugate" stems from the Latin "sub iugum."
Senses: glosses: To be humiliated by the victors.
raw_tags: of a defeated army
Related terms: eat humble pie
eat crow
Palikir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Alger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, when pronounced with a soft g, from the Middle English personal name Alger, borrowed from Old French Aug(i)er, of Germanic origin, from *Adalgari, composed of *aþal (“noble”) + *gaiʀ (“spear”). Compare Auger.
* When pronounced with a hard g it is a variant of Algar. As a Scottish and English surname, it may be a variant of Algeo.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Elgar.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Alger County
Nouakchott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nwɑːkˈʃɒt/
ipa: /nuːɑːkˈʃɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From French Nouakchott, from Arabic نُوَاكْشُوط (nuwākšūṭ).
Senses: examples: text: De facto slavery remains widespread in Mauritania, according to a European human rights official who works for a major international organization in the capital, Nouakchott.
ref: 2015 August 14, Nils Zimmermann, “Mauritanian flees slavery in Africa for life in Germany”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2015, Refugees:
glosses: The capital city of Mauritania.
Niamey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /njɑːˈmeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Niger.
Suðuroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Faroese Suðuroy.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Faroe Islands.
Eysturoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Faroese Eysturoy.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Faroe Islands, Denmark.
Streymoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island, the largest of the Faroe Islands.
Borðoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bordoy
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Faroese Borðoy.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Faroe Islands, Denmark.
bamboo shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo shoots
Senses: glosses: The edible shoot of any of several species of bamboo (especially of the genera Dendrocalamus and Phyllostachys), cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Chinese and similar cuisine.
equability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equabilities
form: æquability
Etymology: From Latin aequabilitas, from aequabilis.
Senses: examples: text: She was taller than the man, and the equability of her body, contrasting with his indolent slouch, accentuated the difference.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 11:
glosses: The condition of being equable.
bamboo shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bamboo shoot
equatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equatable
form: most equatable
Etymology: From equate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being equated; comparable
Derived terms: unequatable
equerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɛ.kwə.ɹi/
Forms: form: equerries
Etymology: From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.
Senses: glosses: An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
examples: text: A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47:
glosses: A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.
Derived terms: equerryship
royal household
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal households
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: court
text: The Royal Household faces very different cost of living pressures to everyone else, but it is still required to watch the pennies (well, the millions anyway).
ref: 2025 July 9, Dickon Ross, “Cost-effective Royal Train: the King's conundrum”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 3:
hypernyms: household#Noun
glosses: The immediate family and principal courtiers and servants of a royal personage, especially a monarch; an organization with roles and departments that supports the functions of such a personage.
Related terms: Lord Chamberlain
equestrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equestrianisms
Etymology: From equestrian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: word: riding
english: art or sport
translation: art or sport
word: equitation
english: skill
translation: skill
word: horsemanship
word: equestrianship
glosses: The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.
Related terms: alt: masc. or fem.
word: equestrian
word: equestrienne
word: horseracing
equivocalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equivocal + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: equivocality
glosses: The state of being equivocal; ambiguity
equivocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivocators
Etymology: From equivocate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Knock. Knock, knock. Who's there in th'other Deuils Name? Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could ſweare in both the Scales againſt eyther Scale, who committed Treaſon enough for Gods ſake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen: oh come in, Equiuocator.
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 iii], page 137, column 1:
glosses: Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
eradicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eradicable
form: most eradicable
Etymology: From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
text: A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:
text: Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.
ref: 2021 February 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:
glosses: Capable of being eradicated.
Synonyms: annihilable
Related terms: eradicate
eradication
eradicative
eradicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eradicators
Etymology: From eradicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing that eradicates.
Derived terms: ink eradicator
erasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erase + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Avoid the frustration of time-consuming do-overs on school projects. Try Crayola Erasable Markers, Crayons & colored pencils.
ref: 2006 Crayola Markers, Binney & Smith, Inc. [advertisement on box]
glosses: Capable of being erased
Synonyms: delible
Derived terms: erasable programmable logic device
erasable programmable read-only memory
erasably
inerasable
nonerasable
unerasable
Related terms: eraser
rubber
rub out
erasable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erasables
Etymology: From erase + -able.
Senses: examples: text: With the addition of the erasables, the company now offers what it describes as "a complete family" of optical recording products, including Videodisk, CD-ROM, CD-audio, and write-once units.
ref: 1986, Photonics Spectra, volume 20:
glosses: Any recording medium whose contents can be erased.
erectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erect + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being erect, or of having an erect posture.
erector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erectors
form: erectour
Etymology: From Latin ērigō (“I raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect + -or.
Senses: examples: text: At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.
ref: 2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building:
glosses: A person who, or a device which erects.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
glosses: An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.
Derived terms: erector spinae
piloerector
erodible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erodible
form: most erodible
Etymology: From erode + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of eroding.
examples: text: But more importantly [...] the flow of the current might find an erodible bank and so cause more harm than good.
ref: 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 158:
glosses: Capable of being eroded.
Derived terms: bioerodible
Related terms: erodibility
eruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹʌptɪv/
Forms: form: more eruptive
form: most eruptive
Etymology: From French éruptif. By surface analysis, erupt + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis liſtening fear, and dumb amazement all: / When to the ſtartled eye the ſudden glance / Appears far ſouth, eruptive thro’ the cloud; […]
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 88, lines 1128–1130:
glosses: That erupts or bursts forth.
examples: text: an eruptive fever
glosses: Accompanied by eruptions.
examples: text: eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic
text: The region is further diversified by short ranges of eruptive mountains.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “The Valley of the Colorado”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Produced by eruption.
Derived terms: aneruptive
eruptively
eruptiveness
eruptive prominence
eruptive star
eruptive variable
eruptive xanthoma
eruptivity
intereruptive
noneruptive
posteruptive
preeruptive
syneruptive
uneruptive
eruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹʌptɪv/
Forms: form: eruptives
Etymology: From French éruptif. By surface analysis, erupt + -ive.
Senses: glosses: An eruptive rock, one produced by eruption.
Hestur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Faroese Hestur.
Senses: glosses: An island of the central Faroe Islands.
glosses: the only village on the island of Hestur, Faroe Islands.
enameler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamelers
Etymology: From enamel + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who applies enamel, especially a craftsman who applies decorative enamel
enamelware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamelwares
Etymology: From enamel + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles coated with decorative enamel
glosses: Cooking utensils that have a corrosion resistant layer of enamel fused to the surface
Synonyms: enameledware
encasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encasements
form: incasement
Etymology: From encase + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of encasing.
glosses: Something that encases.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The early genetic theory of emboîtement.
Koltur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Faroese Koltur.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Faroe Islands.
glosses: A former village and ghost town on the island of Koltur, Faroe Islands.
Mykines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Faroese island and village is borrowed from Faroese Mykines, from Old Irish Muc Innis. The Greek village is borrowed from Greek Μυκήνες (Mykínes). Doublet of Mycenae.
Senses: glosses: The westernmost of the 18 main islands of the Faroe Islands.
glosses: The only village on Mykines island, Faroe Islands.
glosses: A village and former municipality of Argolis regional unit, Peloponnese region, Greece.
pedobaptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedobaptisms
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + baptism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paedobaptism.
paedobaptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːdəʊˈbaptɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: paedobaptisms
form: pædobaptism
form: pædo-baptism
form: paedo-baptism
form: pedobaptism
form: pedo-baptism
Etymology: From paedo- + baptism.
Senses: examples: text: It is not, however, to the predecessors of this African, whoever they were that authorized Pædo-baptism, and at whatever period it first became general—it is not to the Church at the time being, that these consequences are justly imputable.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection:
glosses: The baptism of infants or young children.
Synonyms: english: in some faith traditions
translation: in some faith traditions
word: christening
Derived terms: antipaedobaptism
Related terms: Anabaptism
Anabaptist
baptise
baptiser
baptism
baptismal
baptist
Baptist
baptistic
baptistry
baptize
baptizer
believer’s baptism
credobaptism
credobaptist
paedobaptist
pedobaptist
Bernice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Biblical form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē).
Senses: examples: text: And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
ref: Acts 25:13
text: Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,
ref: 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
blood brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood brothers
form: blood brethren
Senses: examples: text: "He is a blood brother and an oath brother of Odin, highest of the gods."
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 241:
glosses: An unrelated male considered to share a brother-like relationship established by a ceremonial sharing of blood in some cultures.
glosses: An unrelated male considered to share such a strong relationship generally.
glosses: A brother by blood: a brother-german or half-brother, as distinguished from step-brothers.
Derived terms: blood brotherhood
Berenice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛɹəˈniːs/
ipa: /ˌbɛɹəˈniːsi/
ipa: /bɜɹˈniːs/
ipa: /ˌbɛɹəˈnaɪsi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “bringer of victory”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Macedonian (compare the native word Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)), from φέρω (phérō, “to bear, to carry, to bring”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”). Doublet of Veronica.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, notably of ancient queens of Egypt.
Derived terms: Berenice's Hair
Berenice's Locks
Related terms: Bernice
Veronica
polypidom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypidoms
Senses: glosses: polyparium
Brenda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛndə/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Etymology: Possibly from Old Norse brandr (“sword”); by folk etymology seen as a feminine form of Brendan. Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
Senses: examples: text: We have already mentioned Minna and Brenda, the daughters of Magnus Troil. Their mother had been dead for many years, and they were now two beautiful girls
ref: 1821, Walter Scott, chapter III, in The Pirate:
text: 'Brandi's father owns a number of radio stations across the country.' He smiled. 'Beware of women whose first names are potable.'
'I'll keep it in mind.'
'Actually, her real name is Brenda. She was named after Brenda Marshall, who was an actress in the forties. Apparently, my father-in-law was a huge fan.'
ref: 1997, Joy Fielding, Missing Pieces, page 85:
text: Doga instructors are not required to complete certification, though teacher training seminars do exist, like ones taught by Brenda Bryan, 43, a yoga and doga instructor in Seattle who has just written a book on the subject.
ref: 2009 April 9, Bethany Lyttle, “Bonding With Their Downward-Facing Humans”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
glosses: A female given name.
examples: text: There is a widespread belief that Brenda plays no part in politics. This is not entirely true. For instance, she has very strong feelings on Rhodesia.
ref: 1977, “Loyal News”, in Private Eye, numbers 393-418, page 23:
text: Windsor, I was always led to believe. But--as with license plates--they don't ever have to use it. Brenda just signs herself Elizabeth R (Regina).
ref: 1993 August 10, Jonathan Beasley Murray, “Re: Royal Family's last name?”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):
text: That is something that can never be removed entirely from anyone, the cold aloofness that is seen in the royal family is something that has been bred into them, but it doesn't take away their humanity at all. You only had to see the pictures of Brenda visiting the homeless hostel to know that she was bottling back tears.
ref: 2002 February 13, Heretic, “Re: Old Gin Slugger is dead.”, in uk.current-events.n-ireland (Usenet):
text: The problem isn't just Brenda, it is that there will never be agreement on what to replace her with. viz. the House of Lords debacle, the Australian Republican referendum.
ref: 2002 November 6, Tom, “Re: "Be careful, Paul..."”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Queen Elizabeth II.
glosses: A former rural municipality of Manitoba.
Derived terms: Brenda-Waskada
polyparium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˈpɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌpɑləˈpɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: polyparia
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stem, or supporting structure, of any colonial cnidarian such as coral
Synonyms: polypary
polypary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyparies
Senses: glosses: polyparium
polypier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypiers
Senses: glosses: A polyparium
glosses: The individual attachment of a polyp to a polypidom
Japanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japano- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps this is one of the reasons of their Japanophobia. But if Japan became the ally of France, all this fear and suspicion of Japan would disappear, ...
ref: 1906, Edward Albert Bell, These meddlesome attorneys:
text: This would require discarding the extreme Japanophobia that characterises the so-called “revisionists” who are really “regressionists” twice over.
ref: 1999, Jagdish Bhagwati et.al., Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements:
synonyms: Nipponophobia
antonyms: Japanophilia
Nipponophilia
glosses: A fear or hate of Japan and Japanese people or culture.
Related terms: Japanophobe
Japanophobic
polypifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypifers
Etymology: From polyp + -i- + -fer.
Senses: glosses: Polyparium.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any colonial organism, such as coral, formed from polyps
Karel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karels
Senses: examples: text: On St. Olaf's Day (29th July) the Karels of Finland kill a lamb, without using a knife, and roast it whole.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 258:
glosses: A Karelian, Kareli; a native of Karelia.
Petr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Petr Aven, president of Alfa, Russia's biggest and most successful private bank, and a key business supporter of the newly elected president, said that Mr Putin should model his regime on that of Augusto Pinochet of Chile, combining Reaganomics with dictatorial controls.
ref: 2000 March 30, Ian Traynor, “[Vladimir] Putin urged to apply the Pinochet stick”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2013:
text: After their father died and their mother fell into drink, Petr Khokhlov and his brother, Sergey, were sent to an orphanage in Novouzensk, a small, dusty town of low-slung Soviet-era apartment blocks on Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
ref: 2015 January 7, Joshua Yaffa, “The Search for Petr Khokhlov”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2015:
ref: 2022 February 27, Alice E. M. Underwood, “Transgression and the social body in Petr Pavlensky and Seroe Fioletovoe’s political performance art”, in Galina Miazhevich, editor, Queering Russian Media and Culture (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN
glosses: Alternative form of Pyotr.
dillseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪlˌsiːd/
Forms: form: dillseeds
form: dillseed
Etymology: From dill + seed.
Senses: glosses: The pungent seed of the dill plant, used as a flavouring.
polypiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From polyp + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing polyps
shellfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellfires
Etymology: From shell + fire.
Senses: examples: text: We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.
glosses: Artillery bombardment.
Related terms: english: military weapon sense
translation: military weapon sense
word: shell
breechloading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: BL
Senses: glosses: Describing a breechloader gun: one that has ammunition loaded from the rear of the barrel rather than where it will exit.
muzzleloading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muzzle + loading.
Senses: glosses: Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
Kigali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The importance of cows in Kigali is on show at the King’s Palace Museum, which is home to a herd of long horned Inyambo cattle.
ref: 2021 April 13, Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, “The gleaming city that emerged from turmoil in the heart of Africa”, in CNN:
text: The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.
ref: 2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters:
glosses: The capital city of Rwanda.
sensationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensationalisms
Etymology: From sensational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Newspaper articles also were generally positive in tone, although a tendency towards sensationalism means that the spread of hybrid forms is occasionally touted as the universal language of the future.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 9:
glosses: The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
Synonyms: sense: epistemic doctrine
word: sensualism
strophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹəʊfɪk/
ipa: /ˈstɹɒfɪk/
rhymes: -əʊfɪk
rhymes: -ɒfɪk
Forms: form: more strophic
form: most strophic
Etymology: From strophe + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Using or containing strophes.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a song, composed so that every stanza is set to the same music.
Derived terms: strophically
waiflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waiflike
form: most waiflike
Etymology: From waif + -like.
Senses: examples: Translations, Act I - Brian Friel
"She has a waiflike appearance and could be any age from seventeen to thirty-five."
glosses: Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
bioplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioplastics
Etymology: From bio- + plastic.
Senses: examples: text: A bioplastic can be defined as a polymer that is manufactured into a commercial product from a natural source or renewable resource. A bioplastic can be biodegradable, but a biodegradable plastic does not mean the material was derived fully or in part from a biological source.
ref: 2012, Alfred Rudin, Phillip Choi, The Elements of Polymer Science and Engineering, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 521:
synonyms: biobased polymer
coordinate_terms: biopolymer
glosses: Any form of synthetic polymer, similar to normal plastic, made from renewable biomass sources such as plant sugars, starches, or oils, rather than from petroleum.
Related terms: biofabric
biofabric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofabrics
Etymology: From bio- + fabric.
Senses: glosses: Any synthetic fabric made from a renewable plant source rather than from petroleum
Related terms: biofabricate
biofabrication
bioplastic
bibliometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biblio- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bibliometrics.
Derived terms: bibliometrically
bibliometric database
Related terms: bibliographic database
bibliometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + metrics.
Senses: glosses: The statistical analysis of texts, especially of published literature and especially of reference citations as semantically important connections between articles.
Derived terms: bibliometrician
Related terms: bibliogram
bibliography
bibliometric
scientometrics
Maseru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Lesotho.
glosses: A district in Lesotho; in full, Maseru District.
Mbabane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ə)mbɑˈbɑni/
Senses: glosses: The administrative capital of Eswatini.
Coordinate terms: Lobamba
epiregulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide that functions as a ligand for the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and is essential for the growth of several types of cancer
Related terms: amphiregulin
lymphoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lymphoblast + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
Derived terms: acute lymphoblastic leukemia
alymphoblastic
lymphoblastic leukemia
lymphoblastic lymphoma
lymphoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphoblasts
Etymology: From lympho- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
oncology
sciences
glosses: An immature lymphocyte; they proliferate uncontrollably in lymphoblastic leukemia
Derived terms: lymphoblastic
lymphoblastoid
prolymphoblast
Harare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Shona Harare, supposedly from haarari (“it doesn't sleep”), in reference to a waterfall.
Senses: examples: text: Outside, the city meandered on more fluidly, like a river of precious things and possibilities. For Harare was wealthy in those days.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 252–253:
glosses: The capital city of Zimbabwe, previously named Salisbury.
glosses: A province in Zimbabwe that includes the capital city.
lymphoblastic leukemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphoblastic leukemias
form: lymphoblastic leukaemia
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute form of leukemia characterized by a very large number of lymphoblasts in the circulating blood.
Monrovia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mənˈroʊviə/
Etymology: From Monroe + -v- + -ia, in the case of the capital of Liberia after U.S. President James Monroe.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Liberia.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Alabama.
examples: text: A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway Thursday in Monrovia as he was fleeing from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation at a Home Depot in Monrovia.
ref: 2025 August 14, Leanne Suter, “Man fleeing ICE raid at Home Depot in Monrovia hit and killed by vehicle after running onto 210 Fwy”, in KABC-TV:
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Monroe Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland.
cyclooxygenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclooxygenases
form: cyclo-oxygenase
form: cycloxygenase
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that catalyze a cyclooxygenation reaction, but especially the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins (prostanoids); their inhibition is the mode of action of the NSAIDs aspirin and ibuprofen.
Synonyms: COX
Hyponyms: alt: cyclooxygenase-1
word: COX-1
alt: cyclooxygenase-2
word: COX-2
Coordinate terms: prostaglandin
prostanoid
Derived terms: word: COX
alt: COX-1
word: cyclooxygenase-1
alt: COX-2
word: cyclooxygenase-2
coronagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronagraphs
Etymology: From corona + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: The crosscalibration between LASCO C2 and the STEREO coronagraphs allows, for the first time, the potential use of multi-spacecraft coronagraph data for tomography and for CME analysis..
ref: 2015, Huw Morgan, “An atlas of coronal electron density at 5Rs I: Data processing and calibration”, in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, volume 219:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets.
Derived terms: coronagraphic
coronagraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph
Derived terms: coronagraphically
São Tomé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sao Tome
Etymology: From Portuguese São Tomé, named after Saint Thomas, for its discovery on St. Thomas Day (21 December) in 1470 or 1471.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of São Tomé and Príncipe.
glosses: The largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe.
glosses: Ellipsis of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Sao Tome and Principe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Vilna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There is a famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter who ate on the Bimah in Vilna at the end of the Yom Kippur morning service in 1848 during a cholera epidemic, together with two other Dayyanim, to persuade the congregation to eat during the epidemic.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Does Jewish Law Require Yeshivah Students To Be Drafted At Age 18?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 66:
glosses: Dated form of Vilnius: the capital city of Lithuania.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
rills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rill
entropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entropy
rhapsodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhapsody
glosses: plural of rhapsodie
certainties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certainty
Sanaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑˈnɑː/
ipa: /səˈnɑː/
Forms: form: San'a'
form: Ṣanʻāʼ
form: Sana
form: Sana'a
Etymology: From Arabic صَنْعَاء (ṣanʕāʔ).
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Yemen.
Derived terms: Sanaani
fucked-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fucked-up
form: most fucked-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fucked up.
Tarawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An atoll in the central Pacific Ocean belonging to the state of Kiribati.
Derived terms: South Tarawa
Funafuti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfuːnəˈfuːti/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Tuvalu.
Port-Vila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Port Vila.
Nuku'alofa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnuku.əˈloʊfə/
rhymes: -əʊfə
Forms: form: Nukualofa
Etymology: From Tongan Nukuʻalofa, from nuku (“abode”) + alofa (“love”). Literally, “abode of love”.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Tonga.
tow haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tow-haired.
MR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: Midland
glosses: Initialism of Midland Railway.
MR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRs
Senses: examples: 2007 March 30, Elizabeth Mossis, M.D. (guest),“Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, Ira Flatow (host), National Public Radio
glosses: Clipping of MRI.
examples: text: Controlled release (CR), modified release (MR), orally disintegrating tablets (ODT), and other innovative dosage forms are still of interest to both pharmaceutical producers and suppliers.
ref: 2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of modified release.
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: MI
glosses: Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
qualifier: prison system
glosses: Initialism of mandatory release.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: MFR
glosses: Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: PR
glosses: Initialism of merge request.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mixed reality.
examples: text: Lord Denning MR
glosses: Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
glosses: Initialism of mental retardation
Related terms: sense: Meeting Record
word: CR
sense: Meeting Record
word: NR
sense: Meeting Record
word: OR
sense: Meeting Record
word: PB
sense: Meeting Record
word: SB
sense: Meeting Record
word: SL
sense: Meeting Record
word: WR
MR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of mentally retarded.
high-risk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-risk
form: highest-risk
Etymology: From high + risk.
Senses: examples: 2007 March 30, Jene from Boston (caller), “Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines”, Talk of the Nation Science Friday, Ira Flatow (host), National Public Radio https://web.archive.org/web/20071006125335/http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Mar/hour1_033007.html
I don't consider myself high-risk anymore except that I did have cancer, so, one of the things we don't hear talked about a lot is how do you judge your high-riskness. If you have had cancer, where do you fit in? How do you make those decisions...?
glosses: Having a great risk.
tow-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having almost white blond hair
primal horde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primal hordes
Senses: examples: text: … Freud's analyses from his 1913 Totem and taboo, of how the primal horde of rebellious sons overcame the patriarchal father and set up public totems and taboos as means to eternalize their resultant guilt.
ref: 2003, Robert S. Corrington, Wilhelm Reich. Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 104
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Freudian psychoanalysis, an archetypal cathexis of the sons usurping their father's hierarchical position; the basis of the Oedipus complex, and sometimes resulting in totemism.
granny shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granny shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot made granny style.
granny style
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A method of shooting baskets, especially foul shots, in which the ball is thrown underhand, with both arms, from below or anterior to the pelvis.
foul shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A free throw.
idiocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiocentric
form: most idiocentric
Etymology: From idio- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by or denoting interest centered upon oneself or one's own ways, rather than upon others or the ways of others; self-centered.
glosses: Deviating from the norm; eccentric.
Synonyms: sense: centered upon oneself
word: egocentric
sense: centered upon oneself
word: individualistic
over the hill
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Joiner is over the hill.
synonyms: worn out
glosses: Of a person, old, past the prime of life.
Related terms: age out
has-been
have seen one's day
over the hills and far away
past it
washed-up
neuroepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the neuroepithelium
neuroepithelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɝ.oʊˌɛp.ɪˈθi.li.əm/
Forms: form: neuroepithelia
Etymology: From neuro- + epithelium.
Senses: glosses: The part of an embryo that develops into the nervous system
glosses: The epithelium associated with sensory organs such as the eye or nose
Related terms: neuroepithelial
homeobox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeoboxes
Etymology: From homeo- + box.
Senses: examples: text: When he looked in mice, there it was again: almost exactly the same 180-letter string – the homeobox.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 176:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short sequence of DNA that is shared by several genes involved in the morphogenesis of many organisms.
Derived terms: homeobox gene
homeodomain
homeobox gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeobox genes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several genes that share a common sequence of DNA and are involved in the regulation of morphogenesis.
take a bead on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a bead on
form: taking a bead on
form: took a bead on
form: taken a bead on
Senses: glosses: To aim a gun at something.
Synonyms: draw a bead on
draw a bead on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws a bead on
form: drawing a bead on
form: drew a bead on
form: drawn a bead on
Senses: examples: text: (As George gets fairly into the following, Gretchen draws a bead on him, and lets drive at the close, but the gun snaps.)
ref: 1892, Mark Twain, Meisterschaft: In Three Acts, act II, scene I, page 188:
synonyms: take a bead on
glosses: To aim a gun at.
suped-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suped-up
form: most suped-up
form: suped up
Senses: examples: text: [W]ill it be possible to mount a larger engine for use in La Paz? I doubt very much if the standard 165 would get off the ground up here with a student. I wish you would take that up with the factory and see if they can put out a job with a suped-up seven-cylinder job. The R-540 I think it is.
ref: 1933 September 13, “[Appendix: Exhibits] Exhibit No. 343: CWW #35 [Letter to C. W. Webster, Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation]”, in Munitions Industry: Hearings before the Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress […], part 1 (September 4, 5 and 6, 1934: Electric Boat Co.), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1934, →OCLC, page 925:
text: Gone for many are the ah-so-touching Kodak moments of father and son throwing the ball to each other until the cows come home, replaced by cooler things like text-messaging while driving through the 'hood in a suped-up car sporting screaming hubcaps that cost a couple of grand apiece, and a look even Antarctic penguins unerringly recognize as Made in USA.
ref: 2008, James Polk, The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss: Pathologies of Public America:
text: The first was a black van, that was suped up like a hot rod sort of vehicle.
ref: 2009, Anthony W. Strubel, Home Free: Growing Up in a Small Town in South Central Pennsylvania:
glosses: Alternative spelling of souped-up.
Related terms: supe up
urinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urinose
form: most urinose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urinous.
San Juan Bautista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: San Juan B.
Etymology: The Spanish named a California mission San Juan Bautista meaning Saint John the Baptist, when they founded it in the late 18th century. The name was expanded by linguists to mean the natives of the region gathered at the mission, and their primary language.
Senses: glosses: A city in San Benito County, California, United States, named after the eponymous mission.
glosses: The native people of this region.
glosses: The native language spoken in this region.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: synonym of Mutsun
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: synonym of Mutsun
Rumsien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Rumsen.
Rumsien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Rumsen.
primadonna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primadonnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prima donna.