cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
word-processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the pre-program registration period, two films from IBM were shown describing modern methods of handling word-processing with dictating equipment and typing on the magnetic tape-selectric typewriter.
ref: 1969 March 27, “70 Students from 2 Countries …: LTI Holds Office Career ‘Work-In’”, in The Sheboygan Press, volume LXII, number 85, Sheboygan, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
text: Designed to bring IBM’s concept of word-processing to the businessman’s doorstep, the vehicle contains IBM’s full range of office products—standard and automatic typewriters, dictating equipment, and a complete computer-based composing system.
ref: 1969 December 9, “IBM’s word-processing unit goes on tour”, in Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette, number 32,780, Greenock, Inverclyde, →OCLC, page 5, column 4:
text: Required Qualifications and Experience: • Grade 12 Graduation, supplemented by successful studies at a college or business school level covering office administration, secretarial services, and advanced computer skills in the areas of word-processing, data management, and electronic communications
ref: 2021 September 24, School District 78 Fraser-Cascade, “Executive Assistant to the Secretary Treasurer - Finance & Data Management”, in The Chilliwack Progress, Chilliwack, B.C.: Black Press, →OCLC, page A47, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of word processing.
word-processing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of word-process
word process
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: word processes
form: word processing
form: word processed
form: word processed
Senses: examples: text: The questionnaire asked for both word processing and multi-functional (integrated) software that performed word processing. Users have been word processing for an average of 3.2 years.
ref: 1982, South Dakota Business Review, volumes 41–49, Vermillion, S.D.: Business Research Bureau, Beacom School of Business, the University of South Dakota, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: At a time interval the user chooses, Wordvision will pause and save the file being worked on to disk. (It can be directed instead to emit a beep to remind users to do the saving themselves.) Anyone who has lost pages of text through forgetfulness combined with human or machine error-⁠-which is very probably anyone who has been word processing for more than a few weeks-⁠-will appreciate how useful this feature can be.
ref: 1985, Brian Gallagher, Microcomputers and Word Processing Programs: An Evaluation and Critique (Research Monograph Series; Report No. 9), New York, N.Y.: Instructional Resource Center, Office of Academic Affairs, City University of New York, →OCLC, page 56:
text: If you’ve been word processing for a while, experiment with each of these techniques. They are incredibly handy.
ref: 2002, Robin Williams, “Several selection tips”, in The Little Mac OS X Book: OS X Version 10.1, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, chapter 13 (Word Processing (also known as “typing”)), “Selecting (Highlighting) Text” section, page 199:
glosses: Alternative form of wordprocess.
word-process
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: word-processes
form: word-processing
form: word-processed
form: word-processed
Senses: examples: text: In the distance there was a growl of thunder. I didn’t leave my computer on, did I? thought Isobel. A colleague at Oxford had once been word-processing during a storm with disastrous results.
ref: 2000, Catherine Fox, chapter 9, in Love for the Lost, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Once he’d surprised her when he mentioned he loved some Shakespearean lines about horses. “I’ve always remembered them, Con. We had to read Henry V in college.” Slowly, he repeated them: “‘Think when we talk of horses that you see them/Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth.’” […] She had word-processed the lines for herself, bought a frame at Wal-Mart, and placed the humble copy on her beside table.
ref: 2004, Marilyn M. Fisher, chapter 4, in The Case of the Three Dead Horses, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Bedside Books, →ISBN, pages 37–38:
text: I was composing one day and somehow I had inadvertently selected a large chunk of text and deleted it. It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced this frustration. I complained to my son Eric about it and he said, ‘Just hit Ctrl+Z and it will come back.’ I couldn’t believe I had been word-processing for over 20 years and no one had ever told me about it!
ref: 2023 April 29, Sue Bruns, “Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that?”, in Pioneer Weekender, 127th year, number 13, Bemidji, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of wordprocess.
word processes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of word process
word processed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of word process
word-processed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of word-process
word-processes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of word-process
La Fregeneda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Salamanca province, Castile and León, Spain.
awaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of away
awayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of away
before you can say Jack Robertson
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of before you can say Jack Robinson.
fast as lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quick as a flash.
synonyms: word: quick as a flash
quick as a fox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quick as a flash.
synonyms: word: quick as a flash
back, sack and crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back, crack and sack.
sack, back and crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back, crack and sack.
Valencia de Alcántara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain.
big letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big letters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of capital letter.
synonyms: word: capital letter
upper case letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper case letters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upper-case letter.
upper-case letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper-case letters
form: upper case letter
form: uppercase letter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of capital letter.
synonyms: word: capital letter
uppercase letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uppercase letters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upper-case letter.
harvest-ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Ready to be harvested.
ripe for the plucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ripe for the picking.
synonyms: word: ripe for the picking
combat-ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To define the specific preservation, maintenance and depreservation necessary to maintain FMC aircraft combat ready while in prepositioned storage.
ref: 1984, United States Army Aviation Digest, page 4:
text: Based on our analysis above we can conclude that it is unlikely that the Federal Programme will result in the emergence of truly new, modern, and professional Armed Forces in Russia. But can the country achieve at least the creation of a few combat-ready units? In our view even this is more than doubtful, since the specific culture of conscript Armed Forced seems to prohibit the creation of even a small number of professional units.
ref: 2004, Alexander Golts, “Military Reform in Russia: Conscription versus Professionalism”, in Kristina Spohr Readman, editor, Building Sustainable and Effective Military Capabilities: A Systemic Comparison of Professional and Conscript Forces (Science and Technology Policy; 45), Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, part IV (Reforming Postcommunist Militaries – The Difficulties of Changing Structures and Cultures), page 140:
topics: government
military
politics
war
Derived terms: combat readiness
minuscule cursive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A specific style of handwriting, particularly in ancient and medieval manuscripts, characterized by the blending of minuscule (lowercase) letters with cursive (joined) writing.
big letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big letter
upper-case letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper-case letter
takes to the cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take to the cleaners
taking to the cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take to the cleaners
took to the cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take to the cleaners
layable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more layable
form: most layable
Derived terms: unlayable
mixed case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed-case
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: lower case
upper case
glosses: The use of both uppercase (capital) and lowercase (small) letters within a text.
shit in someone's cereal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits in someone's cereal
form: shitting in someone's cereal
form: shit in someone's cereal
form: shit in someone's cereal
form: shitted in someone's cereal
form: shitted in someone's cereal
form: shat in someone's cereal
form: shat in someone's cereal
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piss in someone's cornflakes.
synonyms: word: piss in someone's cornflakes
bye-standers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bye-stander
by-stander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-standers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bystander.
by-standers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-stander
campfire song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campfire songs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire, often for entertainment and social bonding.
campfire songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campfire song
campfire story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campfire stories
Senses: glosses: A form of oral storytelling performed around an open fire at night, typically in the wilderness, largely connected with the telling of stories having supernatural motifs or elements of an urban legend.
campfire stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campfire story
Campfire Girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Campfire Girls
form: Campfire girl
Senses: examples: text: Faith had not been a Girl Scout or Campfire Girl and any fires she tried to start burned brilliantly for about five minutes before dying.
ref: 2017, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Casket, A Faith Fairchild Mystery:
glosses: A female member of Camp Fire, a national youth development organization for young people.
Campfire girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Campfire girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Campfire Girl.
Barca d'Alva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo municipality, Guarda district, Portugal.
campestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of campestral.
brick over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brĭk′ ō′vər
ipa: /ˈbɹɪk ˌəʊ.və/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪk ˌoʊ.vəɹ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪk ˌəʉ.və/
ipa: /ˈbɹək ˌɐʉ.vɐ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪk ˌo.vəɹ/
ipa: /ˈbɾɪk ˌoː.vəʳ/
Forms: form: bricks over
form: bricking over
form: bricked over
form: bricked over
Senses: glosses: To wall up with brick.
bricks over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brick over
bricking over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brick over
bricked over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brick over
Ryzhivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭzhēvʹkə
ipa: /ɹɪʒˈiːvkə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Рижі́вка (Ryžívka). Compare Ryzhevka.
Senses: glosses: A village in Bilopillia urban hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1719.
glosses: A village in Bilopillia urban hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1719.
A former silrada of Bilopillia Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, amalgamated into Bilopillia urban hromada in September 2018.
Meronyms: sense: constituent settlements of the former silrada
english: village
translation: village
word: Atynske
sense: constituent settlements of the former silrada
english: village
translation: village
word: Budky
sense: constituent settlements of the former silrada
english: village
translation: village
word: Holyshivske
sense: constituent settlements of the former silrada
english: village
translation: village
word: Stukalivka
Campfire girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campfire girl
Campfire Girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campfire Girl
self-perception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-perceptions
Etymology: From self- + perception.
Senses: examples: text: Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.
ref: 2019 September 10, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:
glosses: Synonym of self-image.
synonyms: word: self-image
self-perceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-perception
Boteach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
ref: 2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023:
glosses: A surname.
Shmuley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Shmuel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
ref: 2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Shmuel.
mixed tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed tapes
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of mixtape.
mixed tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed tape
Maku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macu
form: Maco
form: Mako
Senses: glosses: Any of several hunter-gatherer peoples of the upper Amazon.
Maku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macu
form: Maco
form: Mako
Senses: glosses: Any of various languages associated with these people.
sore thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sore thumbs
Etymology: Back-formation from stick out like a sore thumb.
Senses: glosses: Something that draws negative attention or is out of place.
sore thumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sore thumb
cecidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cecidium.
phytoptocecidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoptocecidia
Senses: glosses: A plant gall caused by a fungus.
phytoptocecidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoptocecidium
sarcocarpium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcocarpia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sarcocarp.
synonyms: word: sarcocarp
sarcocarpia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcocarpium
nonstandard variety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstandard varieties
Senses: examples: text: Finally, many children speak a nonstandard variety of their native language even though they understand the standard variety, which is the language of wider communication.
ref: 1975, United States Commission on Civil Rights, A Better Chance to Learn - Bilingual Bicultural Education, Volume 51, page 112:
text: Even if there is not a variety of English spoken exclusively by Negroes, the fact is the great majority of culturally disadvantaged Negro pupils speak a nonstandard variety of English.
ref: 1977, Glendon F. Drake, The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970, page 80:
text: That we refer to a certain type of language as “nonstandard” presupposes that there is a standard language against which this nonstandard variety can be judged.
ref: 1999, Gunnel Melchers, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta, Writing in Nonstandard English, page 123:
text: Geneva Tisdale speaks a nonstandard variety of English that is spoken by many black people in the South and throughout the United States.
ref: 2001, Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay, Twelve American Voices, An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook, page 106:
text: It is important to remember that the so-called English speakers came predominantly from areas where nonstandard varieties of English were spoken, either in the British Isles, the Caribbean, or North America.
ref: 2015, Daniel Schreier, Edgar W. Schneider, Jeffrey P. Williams, Peter Trudgill (editors), Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English, page 201:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
synonyms: vernacular variety
antonyms: standard variety
glosses: Any form or dialect of a language that deviates from the established standard.
nonstandard varieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandard variety
scale bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Outer bark that is thrown off in scale-like portions, as in the plane tree.
stag-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the resemblance to a stag's horns.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: Of a tree: bare of leaves at the top, due to the presence of dead branches.
demoticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demotic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the demotic form of the Greek language rather than Katharevousa.
Xinalug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khinalug.
Xinaliq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khinalug.
Lecuona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Lecuona, itself from Basque Lekuona (literally “good place”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Manbettu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mangbetu.
Mayogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mayogo
form: Mayogos
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of Central Africa.
Mayogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Ngbaka language spoken by this people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mayogo terms
Ngbaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family, a subfamily of Ubangian.
hepatic cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatic cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: cancer of the liver.
Synonyms: liver cancer
OKer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of OK: more OK
OKest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of OK: most OK
waterfrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterfright
trainableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trainable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But we must not forget that it was important for Jesus in many respects to form a small circle around Him very early, at a time when a great choice was not afforded Him (Matt. ix. 37, seq.), that Jesus must have regarded chiefly moral and intellectual trainableness, and that the final result of His training of the disciples (especially when we remember the turn which the Christian affairs took through the instrumentality of Paul) neither depended upon Him alone, nor even—if He did not possess omniscience (which even in John ii. 25, is certainly not attributed to Him)—could with certainty be foreseen.
ref: 1849, Walter Carrick, “[Georg Benedikt] Winer’s Bible-Lexicon”, in John Kitto, editor, The Journal of Sacred Literature, volume IV, number VII, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Look at the trainableness of animals. How sad to see a brute of a man driving an intelligent horse.
ref: 1887, Walter Inglis, “Outlines of Sermons”, in William Cochrane, editor, Memoirs and Remains of the Reverend Walter Inglis, African Missionary and Canadian Pastor, Toronto, Ont.: C[hristopher] Blackett Robinson; Williamson & Co. Edinburgh: James Thin, →OCLC, page 254:
text: Each child served as his or her own control to minimize genetic effects of trainableness between students.
ref: 2001, Nancy M. Lewis, Jean E. Guest, “Nutritional Concerns of Child Athletes”, in Ira Wolinsky, Judy A. Driskell, editors, Nutritional Applications in Exercise and Sport (Nutrition in Exercise and Sport), Boca Raton, Calif.: CRC Press, →ISBN, part I (Nutritional Concerns of Athletes During the Life Cycle), page 46:
synonyms: trainability
antonyms: untrainability
untrainableness
glosses: The state or condition of being trainable.
untrainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How much ‘general’ or ‘transferred’ training of memory is left after deducting the effects of better methods of learning, better adaptation to the conditions of the tests, and special practice within the tests themselves? The authors have no means of telling how much, nor even if there is any. The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch.
ref: 1905 March 2, R[obert] S[essions] Woodworth, “Immediate Memory in School-Children. By W. H. Winch. […]”, in Frederick J[ames] E[ugene] Woodbridge, editor, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 5, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 138:
text: As regards the element of parental emotional indulgence as a possible cause of the untrainability of the child a good deal might be said.
ref: 1925, Bernard Glueck [Sr.], “The Psychopathology of Childhood”, in Isaac A[rthur] Abt, editor, Pediatrics, volume VII, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: W[alter] B[urns] Saunders Company, →OCLC, page 669:
text: For the first few months, we took turns dashing home from work at lunchtime in a usually fruitless effort to head off his indoor pooping. Our next-door neighbors, a retired couple who were home all day and understandably didn’t enjoy the constant soundtrack of canine yapping, were even less happy about this than we were. In less enlightened times, everyone might have chalked up the behavior to canine willfulness, Murphy’s untrainability, or perhaps to whatever we were serving for breakfast.
ref: 2009, Michael Schaffer, “Toy Town”, in One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 152:
synonyms: untrainableness
antonyms: trainability
trainableness
glosses: The state or condition of being untrainable.
unconfirmably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconfirmably
form: most unconfirmably
Etymology: From unconfirmable + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: unverifiably, untraceably, unprovably; deniably
antonyms: confirmably#Adverb
verifiably#Adverb
traceably#Adverb
provably#Adverb
;
undeniably#Adverb
glosses: In a way that cannot be confirmed.
crepiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepieres
form: crêpière
Etymology: From French crêpière.
Senses: examples: text: T-Fal classic 24 cm frypan with long life non-stick coating. Our price 18.99 each. BONUS: Receive a 22 cm classic crepiere with purchase of above frypan.
ref: 1991 March 13, “The Cellar at Simpsons”, in The Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A4, column 5:
text: A petition has also been filed by John Hart, 35 Atlantic Ave., for permission to install a small convection oven and crepiere in a coffee shop at that address.
ref: 1993 June 8, “Board hears six appeals tonight”, in Daily Evening Item, volume 230, number 152, Lynn, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 6:
text: Turnonyourcreativity.com should be an artist’s resource, or a writer’s blog, not a page of toasted sandwiches. I had a look and the fourth recipe on it is “salmon and soft cheese bagel.” Using recipes isn’t even creative. It’s JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS, isn’t it? And WHERE DOES THAT LEAD? Sorry – no need for a crepiere review to get dark.
ref: 2016 June 22, Rhik Samadder, “Kitchen gadgets review: Breville traditional crepe maker – I am stuck with a pile of crepe, and I couldn’t be happier”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2016:
synonyms: crepier
glosses: An appliance used to make crepes.
examples: text: Masson had been employed by the Employer as a crepiere for 7 years. She was granted permission, early in 1971, to take a 3 month vacation to visit her homeland, France.
ref: 1973, Decisions and Orders of the New York State Labor Relations Board, volume 36, Albany, N.Y.: New York State Labor Relations Board, →OCLC, page 54:
text: Le Crepe Rest needs Waitresses, Dishwashers, and Crepieres.
ref: 1975 April 9, “Help Wanted”, in The Reporter Dispatch, 59th year, number 34, White Plains, N.Y.: Gannett, →OCLC, page D 9, column 6:
text: Against the back wall, there’s a brick-enclosed, copper hooded hideaway where a charming Breton, also clothed in the dress of her native Brittany, is doing the cooking. She’s the crepiere and on that round hot plate she’s making crepes. […] Fort Lauderdale’s Crepe de France was Florida’s first. Opened in April 1966 by a pair of charming, outgoing natives of Brittany, Yvette and Jean Desnoyer. She serves as crepiere and he as cashier.
ref: 1976 May 14, Robert Tolf, “Table Talk: Two Places to Get Your Fill-ing”, in Fort Lauderdale News, volume 65, number 156, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Gore Newspapers Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46D:
coordinate_terms: crepier
glosses: A female maker of crepes.
crepieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crepiere
morigeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin mōrigerātiō. Compare Middle English morigeracioun (“character or nature”).
Senses: examples: text: Not that I can taxe or condemne the morigeration or application of learned men to men in fortune.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 16, verso:
text: [F]or the Spaniards, of all other, love to be reſpected at their own homes, and cannot abide an inſolent cariage in a Stranger; On the other ſide, Courteſie and Morigeration, will gaine mightily upon them, […]
ref: 1642, James Howell, “Section V”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, page 29:
text: 1659 September 3, John Evelyn, letter to Robert Boyle
that fond morigeration to the mistaken customs of the age
glosses: Servile acquiescence; unqualified sycophancy towards a bully or a tyrant.
Related terms: morigerate
morigerous
nonstandard unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstandard units
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A unit of measurement that is not part of a standardized system such as the International System of Units.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military force that is not part of the standard, deployable units of a service or branch.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A force requirement that is identified in a time-phased force and deployment data for which movement characteristics have not yet been described.
time-phased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That is distributed or organized over a time period or across a specific timeline.
nonstandard units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandard unit
nonstandard item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstandard items
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An item of supply that is not part of the regular, standardized inventory or procurement process.
nonstandard items
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandard item
nib sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nib sugars
Senses: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: hail sugar
pearl sugar
glosses: A product of refined white sugar that is very coarse, hard, opaque white, and does not melt at temperatures typically used for baking.
nib sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nib sugar
hail sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail sugars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nib sugar.
synonyms: word: nib sugar
pearl sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl sugars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nib sugar.
synonyms: word: nib sugar
hail sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hail sugar
pearl sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl sugar
nonstandard method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstandard methods
Senses: examples: text: This idea makes it possible to dissociate completely the logical foundation of the nonstandard method from its practical use.
ref: 1995, Francine Diener, Marc Diener, Nonstandard Analysis in Practice, page 1:
text: A nonstandard method (second-harmonic generation) was used in [651], and the purity of the surface was problematic.
ref: 2009, Marek Kosmulski, Surface Charging and Points of Zero Charge, page 895:
text: Finally, it is worth mentioning that many other results in combinatorics can be seen, directly or indirectly, as applications of the nonstandard method.
ref: 2019, Mauro Di Nasso, Isaac Goldbring, Martino Lupini, Nonstandard Methods in Ramsey Theory and Combinatorial Number Theory, page ix:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method that is beyond the range of standard or traditional approaches, often involving introducing new concepts like infinitesimals or hyperreal numbers in order to solve difficult problems.
nonstandard methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandard method
Arâk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian اراک (arāk /arâk).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arak:
A city in Iran, the seat of Arak County's Central District and the capital of Markazi Province, formerly called Soltanabad
glosses: Alternative spelling of Arak:
A county of Iran, around the city
Derived terms: Arâki
sign of the Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signs of the Cross
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sign of the cross.
Halychyna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Галичина́ (Halyčyná)
Senses: glosses: Galicia, a region between Poland and Ukraine
glosses: Galicia, as a region in western Ukraine
raw_tags: in a Ukrainian context
wrest-harrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of restharrow.
Bennett's fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bennett's fractures
form: Bennett fracture
Etymology: Named after surgeon Edward Hallaran Bennett, who described it in 1882.
Senses: glosses: A partial fracture of the finger involving the base of the thumb, and extending into the carpometacarpal joint.
Bennett fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bennett fractures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bennett's fracture.
boxer's fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxer's fractures
Senses: glosses: The break of the fifth metacarpal bone of the hand near the knuckle (or sometimes the fourth metacarpal), occurring after a person hits an object with a closed fist.
Rolando fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rolando fractures
Etymology: Named after Silvio Rolando, who described it in 1910.
Senses: glosses: An intra-articular fracture of the finger involving the base of the thumb, typically T- or Y-shaped.
gamekeeper's thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It has been commonly observed among gamekeepers and Scottish fowl hunters.
Senses: synonyms: skier's thumb
glosses: An injury to the ulnar collateral ligament of the thumb, which may be stretched, or torn from its insertion site into the proximal phalanx of the thumb.
skier's thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It has been commonly observed among skiers because of the grasping of the ski poles.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gamekeeper's thumb.
synonyms: word: gamekeeper's thumb
ringed teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small South American forest duck of species Callonetta leucophrys.
Brandolini's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini.
Senses: glosses: An adage stating that "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it".
unmagnetizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + magnetizable.
Senses: glosses: Not magnetizable.
unmagnetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmagnetizes
form: unmagnetizing
form: unmagnetized
form: unmagnetized
Etymology: From un- + magnetize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of demagnetize.
synonyms: word: demagnetize
unmagnetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmagnetize
unmagnetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmagnetize
case independent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: case-independent
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Synonym of case insensitive.
synonyms: word: case insensitive
case-independent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of case independent.
oikball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oik + ball, from the perception that association football is played and watched primarily by the working class.
Senses: examples: text: The regretful fact is that rugby players, despite being infinitely more professional than most of their oikball counterparts, do not earn enough money from the game to not have to work again.
ref: 2007 November 5, Brian Moore, “Lawrence Dallaglio and Mike Catt are confused”, in The Telegraph:
text: “Oikball!” The senior broker was a well turned-out specimen. Hand-made suit, fob chain disappearing into top pocket, blue dress shirt with white cutaway collar, slicked-back hair. Rugger was his game of choice.[…]But almost four decades on I still remember his pithy dismissal of my sport rather than any of the tips he handed out to me, his wet-behind-the-ears investment client.
ref: 2023 October 11, Ed Warner, “VAR cock-ups are hastening the inevitable arrival of AI referees”, in City AM:
text: Speaking of which – I get talking to two Harlequins FC fans on the train platform, and they offer me a seat next to them on the way to the stadium. The older one, though helpful on the rules, which I know nothing about, chooses to bravely embrace all stereotypes by calling football “oikball” and reminiscing about afternoons spent in the car park of Twickenham Stoop, eating pies and drinking champagne.
ref: 2025 May 31, Marie le Conte, “‘It’s not enough to say rugby bored me… I couldn’t even bring myself to despise it’”, in The Observer:
qualifier: chiefly Oxbridge and rugby
glosses: Association football.
high-yield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
TBATE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of The Beginning After the End.
Van Reenen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: van Reenen
Senses: glosses: A Dutch surname.
glosses: A settlement in Uthukela district municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, at the top of Van Reenen's Pass.
reled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: relead
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relead
scrimshon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of scrimshaw.
scrimshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of scrimshaw.
sacramentarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sacramentarianism.
synonyms: word: sacramentarianism
sacramentarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacramentarists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sacramentarian.
synonyms: word: sacramentarian
sacramentarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacramentarist
wolp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊlp/
rhymes: -ʊlp
Forms: form: wolps
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of wolf.
wolps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolp
sadhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sadhearted
form: most sadhearted
Etymology: sad + hearted
Senses: examples: text: In the words of St. Benedict to the sadhearted Gaul, she says to man, "Ecce labora et noli contristari!"
ref: 1860, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review, volume 48, page 444:
glosses: Of a person: sad; melancholy.
saddlesick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saddlesick
form: most saddlesick
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saddle-sick.
Xakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khakas.
Xakas
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xakas
form: most Xakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khakas.
Xakas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khakas.
salzfelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of lambskin dried in salt.
Sanetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saanich.
Saracenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saracenian
form: most Saracenian
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Saracenic.
synonyms: word: Saracenic
Sardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sardian
form: most Sardian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient city of Sardis in Lydia.
Sardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sardians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Sardis.
Sardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sardian
Skamandrios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon orbiting 624 Hektor.
scepterdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scepter + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sceptredom.
schriesheimite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Schriesheim + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of pyroxene hornblende peridotite.
schoenobatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tightrope walking.
production manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production managers
Senses: topics: broadcasting
business
entertainment
film
lifestyle
manufacturing
media
television
theater
Related terms: operations manager
nipocalimab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody used to treat generalized myasthenia gravis.
icilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic superagonist that produces an extreme sensation of cold, similar to that produced by menthol.
acoltremon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medication used to treat dry eye syndrome.
wet dog shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: WDS
glosses: A rapid side-to-side head movement that occurs in mice and rats in association with serotonin 5-HT2A receptor activation.
bracteiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bracteiferous
form: most bracteiferous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bractiferous.
bractiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bractiferous
form: most bractiferous
form: bracteiferous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing bracts.
blastocolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The balsam produced on buds by glandular hairs.
calycanthemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A monstrosity of the calyx imitating an exterior corolla.
periphloem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: peri- + phloem
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pericambium
pericycle
glosses: The phloem sheath.
GWU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of George Washington University.
pleiophylly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of having numerous leaves from the same point, or more than usual the number of leaflets in a compound leaf.
unbloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblooms
form: unblooming
form: unbloomed
form: unbloomed
Etymology: From un- + bloom.
Senses: examples: text: No rival's charms unbloom the palid cheek; […]
ref: 1780, W. Nisbet, Poems; Chiefly Composed from Recent Events, page 92:
text: Unbloom the radiant aspect of my bride / Into this haggard mother of my child
ref: 1876, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Soldier of Fortune (page 190)
glosses: To remove the bloom from.
unblooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbloom
unconstructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconstructural
form: most unconstructural
Etymology: From un- + constructural.
Senses: glosses: Not constructural.
uneffaceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneffaceably
form: most uneffaceably
Etymology: From uneffaceable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ineffaceably.
unfrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfrills
form: unfrilling
form: unfrilled
form: unfrilled
Etymology: From un- + frill.
Senses: glosses: To remove a frill or frills from.
unfrills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfrill
unfrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfrill
unfructify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfructifies
form: unfructifying
form: unfructified
form: unfructified
Etymology: un- + fructify
Senses: examples: text: Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
ref: 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
glosses: To make unfruitful.
flocke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockes
Senses: examples: text: Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
ref: 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
glosses: Obsolete form of flock.
murraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murraines
Senses: examples: text: Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
ref: 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
glosses: Obsolete form of murrain.
murraines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murraine
flockes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocke
heards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heard
unfructifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfructify
salary scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salary scales
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pay scale.
synonyms: word: pay scale
unimpair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unimpairs
form: unimpairing
form: unimpaired
form: unimpaired
Etymology: From un- + impair.
Senses: examples: text: The mission of the National Park Service is expressly to preserve, unimpair the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education and inspiration of this and future generations.
ref: 2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Taking on water (page 6)
text: Your reasoning is artificially impaired, observed the logical part of him calmly, find a way to unimpair it.
ref: 2010, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, page 894:
glosses: To restore from an impaired condition.
unimpairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unimpair
unimpairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unimpair
unimpairing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That does not impair.
unisolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unisolates
form: unisolating
form: unisolated
form: unisolated
Etymology: From un- + isolate.
Senses: examples: text: […] to unisolate the scientific worker, to take him out of the precincts of his closet, out of the narrow boundary of his own thoughts, and bring him into contact with his fellow-workers […]
ref: 1860, The Scottish Gardener, page 535:
glosses: To free from isolation.
unisolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unisolate
unisolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unisolate
unjudicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjudicable
form: most unjudicable
Etymology: From un- + judicable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of injudicable.