cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chasmal
form: most chasmal
Etymology: From chasm + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chasmal.
synonyms: word: chasmatical
glosses: Of or like a chasm.
Synonyms: chasmic
Related terms: chasm
chasma
caponomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cap + -nomics.
Senses: topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The economics of salary caps.
Related terms: capology
Claymate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claymates
Etymology: From Clay + mate, after the pattern of playmate.
Senses: examples: text: Is anybody really ever ready for fatherhood? Who knows, but it's safe to say nobody was ready for this: Clay Aiken is going to be a dad. […] But don't get jealous, Claymates. Aiken's paternity was accomplished via artificial insemination, so he's still on the market (though he plans to be involved in the baby's life, friends say).
ref: 2008 May 31, “The Most Unlikely Dads of the Year”, in Newsweek:
glosses: A fan of American singer Clay Aiken.
Claymates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Claymate
chairobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of chair + aerobics
Senses: glosses: Any system of exercise in which the exerciser remains seated or uses the chair for balance, as for seniors or someone confined to a wheelchair.
truck stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truck stops
form: truckstop
Etymology: Blend of truck + pit stop.
Senses: examples: text: Any teamster pulling into a truck stop today will almost surely be vastly outnumbered by nonunion drivers.
ref: 1996 December 18, Dirk Johnson, “Nostalgia Shaped Some Teamster Votes”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Jul 2012:
text: Nestled in the rolling hills of Lancaster County, the town of Gap is a sprawling collection of clapboard houses, strip malls and a truck stop named Touch O' Home.
ref: 2001 June 24, Nadya Labi, “Amiss Among The Amish”, in Time:
glosses: A roadside service area, usually consisting of a restaurant and service station and sometimes a motel or hotel, where drivers of long-haul trucks can stop to refuel, eat, and rest.
Synonyms: word: transport café
Related terms: way station
weigh station
hecticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hectic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He shakes his head, feeling out of place, unprepared for this hecticness. It is as if he has walked on to the stage during a live performance, having previously come here only after the lights had been switched off.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 139:
glosses: The state or quality of being hectic.
Synonyms: hecticity
Related terms: hectivity
claymate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claymates
form: claymating
form: claymated
form: claymated
Etymology: Back-formation from claymation.
Senses: examples: text: Even then he was prone to claymate. "I used to make models out of Plasticine, and of course it wasn't long before I wanted them to move on film. […]
ref: 2000 April 21, Erika Milvy, “Aardman's Claymation Films Taking Shape on Web”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: To animate by using stop-motion photography and pieces made out of a moldable substance, typically Plasticine clay.
picturizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturization
claymates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of claymate
claymating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of claymate
claymated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of claymate
claymated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse.
ref: 1998, Paul McComas, Twenty Questions: A Collection of Short and Very Short Stories, Fithian Press, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Animated through claymation.
arseholed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arseholed
form: most arseholed
Etymology: From arsehole + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the doors opened he was arseholed on rum and got progressively more arseholed until he could take no more and fell over at about twelve o'clock.
ref: 1987, Withnail and I (film), 00:50:25
glosses: drunk
Synonyms: drunk
know one's onions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's onions
form: knowing one's onions
form: knew one's onions
form: known one's onions
Senses: examples: text: Joe really knows his onions when it comes to cooking.
text: Sam Tyler: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
ref: 2007 February 20, Chris Chibnall, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 2:
glosses: Synonym of know one's stuff, to be knowledgeable about a given subject or task.
synonyms: word: know one's stuff
word: to be knowledgeable about a given subject or task
Johnny onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnny onions
Senses: glosses: A Breton agricultural labourer who travelled through English cities selling onions from a bicycle.
pedigree collapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Robert C. Gunderson.
Senses: examples: text: Less well-known is the argument that we may all have a single mitochondrial foundress — not necessarily a single ancestress — owing to the likelihood of ‘lineage extinction’ and ‘pedigree collapse’ as a result of mating with cousins, small population sizes, and high mortality before reproductive age.
ref: 1989, Jonathan Benthall, “The ‘Annual Review’ 1988 Reviewed: He but There-to Come(s) No(t) / Which-Who Fear(s) Deep Water”, in Anthropology Today, V, № 5 (October 1989), page 16:
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).
wikipedia: Robert C. Gunderson
Related terms: implex
cen-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /siːn/
Etymology: An intentional conflation of the Ancient Greek roots καινός (kainós, “new”, “recent”) and κοινός (koinós, “common”). See also ceno- § Usage notes.
Senses: glosses: most recent common —
Derived terms: cenancestor
Related terms: ceno-
-cene
hexasomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexasom(ic) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the condition of quadruplicate tetrasomy, triplicate hexasomy, in the apple, and probably several other data of the literature would deserve a statistical treatment according to Propach’s procedure before attaining classical significance.
ref: 1939, B.R. Nebel, “Chromosome Structure” in the Botanical Review V, № 11 (Chromosome Structure, November 1939), page 586
text: sSMC are scientifically interesting due to their still not completely understood mode of formation, karyotypic evolution and the fact, that their presence may lead to chromosomal imbalances (partial tri-, tetra- or hexasomies) without detectable clinical consequences.
ref: 2007, Thomas Liehr et al., “Small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMC) in humans; are there B chromosomes hidden among them?” in Molecular Cytogenetics I, № 12 (2008), page 2 of 7
glosses: A form of aneuploidy featuring the presence of six homologues of the same chromosome.
Related terms: hexasome
hexasomic
hexasomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + -somic.
Senses: examples: text: Simple Hexasomic (4n+2)
ref: 1922, Albert Francis Blakeslee, “Variations in Datura Due to Changes in Chromosome Number” in The American Naturalist LVI, № 642 (January–February 1922), page 19, fig. 2
glosses: Relating to or characterised by a state of hexasomy.
Derived terms: hexasomy
Related terms: hexasome
allocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allocycles
Etymology: From allo- + cycle.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A long-term or widespread cycle of sedimentation
Derived terms: allocyclic
allocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + cyclic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an allocycle
hexasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexasomes
Etymology: Probably formed by the combination of hexa- + -some, after the earlier hexasomic (1922) and hexasomy (1939).
Senses: examples: text: FACT enables the displacement of the histone H2A/H2B dimer from the nucleosome octamer, leaving a “hexasome” on the DNA.
ref: 2003, Jesper Q. Svejstrup, “Histones Face the FACT” in Science (New Series) CCCI, № 5,636 (22nd August 2003), page 1,053
glosses: Any one of six homologous chromosomes in an aneuploid complement.
Related terms: hexasomic
hexasomy
ataxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ataxites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of iron meteorite that has a high nickel content
ataxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ataxite
autocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocycles
Etymology: From auto- (“self-propelled”) + cycle.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle somewhat like a moped, having a small motor where the pedals would be, and a petrol tank located within the frame.
glosses: A three-wheeled vehicle with an enclosed cabin, where passengers ride in seats instead of astride the body.
Coordinate terms: LSEV
LSNEV
LSNV
LSV
microcar
motor quadricycle
motor tricycle
NEV
NV
quadricycle
tricycle
voiturette
Derived terms: autocyclist
autocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocycles
Etymology: Blend of automobile + motorcycle.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid between motorcycle and automobile, with a drive system like a motorcycle and rider amenities like a car.
bioindication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioindications
Etymology: From bio- + indication.
Senses: glosses: The action of a bioindicator.
toney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tonier
form: toniest
Senses: examples: text: […] The ball will be rather a toney affair."
ref: 1918, William Magney, chapter II, in The Hunt Ball Mystery:
text: The really toney women of the place came to take tea in her room, and these little teas in the hospital were like a little elegant female conspiracy.
ref: 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: [Miz Beetle, about moving the White House:] Over to maybe the Riviera or one of them plush spots... It'll give the presidential residence a toney setting.
ref: 1960 November 9, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tony.
drilling rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drilling rigs
form: drill rig
Senses: glosses: An oil rig.
examples: text: DFI planned to commission a drilling rig to begin an extensive evaluation of the Barteajam and the Henry Town gold prospects in 2009
ref: 2010, Geological Survey (U.S.), Minerals Yearbook 2008, volume 3, pages 19–22:
text: To reinforce the ground behind the headwall, more than 636 'soil nails' were driven into the wall and connected to the concrete lining. The nails, consisting of steel or glass fibre reinforced polymer tendons, were inserted using a specialised drilling rig.
ref: 2020 August 12, “Network News: HS2 tunnel portal readied for TBMs”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drilling, rig.
cabrée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabrées
form: cabret
form: cabrit
Etymology: From Canadian French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The pronghorn antelope.
cabrées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabrée
drill rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drill rigs
form: drilling rig
Senses: glosses: An oil rig.
examples: text: In sandy strata, 7 to 9 inches diameter holes are drilled with a percussion type drill rig.
ref: 1979, Iqtidar H. Siddiqui, Irrigation canals: planning, design, construction, and maintenance:
text: As no standard drill rig for 38-mm holes was available, Atlas Copco developed the Trakker 526, a drill rig for small-hole drilling that was adapted to narrow vein mining
ref: 2001, William A. Hustrulid, Richard L. Bullock, Underground Mining Methods, page 224:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drill, rig.
bazoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bazoos
Etymology: Probably from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). First attested in the mid 19th c..
Senses: examples: text: It goes against the grain to toot one’s own “bazoo”
ref: 1894, “Splendid work of the National Association of Dental Faculties”, in Dominion Dental Journal, volume VI, page 221:
text: Born Charles Westover in Coopersville, Michigan, on 30 December 1939, he learned to play the bazoo, ukulele and, eventually, the guitar.
ref: 2012, Sharon Davis, Every Chart Topper Tells a Story:
text: The bully girl with a crystal optic and tin horn was at the jollification. She “tooted her bazoo” in concert with Hon. Nelson’s horn, and wanted “White husbands or none.”
ref: 2017 May 1, Peter Jensen Brown, quoting Leavenworth Weekly Times, July 21, 1870, “Bazoo, Kazoo, Bazooka”, in Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog:
glosses: A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn.
examples: text: If any galoot in the mob knows of anything that mout block the game ef tuk to a higher court, let him now toot his bazoo, or else keep his jaw to himself now and forever more.
ref: 1881, Paul the Pilgrim, “A Wyoming Wedding”, in Wit and Wisdom, page 12:
text: “Don’t swear so, John. What if you should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips!” said his wife soothingly. “Swear so? Jimminy crickets, by all that’s great I’m not swearing; but I am going to express my opinion of this confounded, nine cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal bit of stove pipe—” Exit the wife with her hands over her ears.
ref: 1882 September 30, “Slings and Arrows”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume XXII, number 92, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
text: "As for the screechin', one bazoo's as good as a dozen, if so be ye blow it fierce enough."
ref: 1902, Francis Lynde, The Master of Appleby, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 504:
text: No doubt you have heard the expression, “He blows his bazoo too much.” In Arkansas that is said of a “windy” guy who talks too much.
ref: 2013, Charles Earle Funk, Thereby Hangs a Tale:
glosses: A person's mouth.
Derived terms: bazooka
-ens
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of -en
-ens
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of -en
cottongrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒt.n̩ ɡɹɑːs/
Forms: form: cottongrasses
form: cotton-grass
form: cotton grass
Etymology: From cotton + grass.
Senses: examples: text: As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:
glosses: Various species of plants of genus Eriophorum in the sedge family
Synonyms: cottonsedge
stunad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stunod.
stunad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stunod.
bright shiny object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bright shiny objects
Senses: examples: text: Why add this extra layer of software? It sounds like someone is wanting to use their new BSO. (Bright Shiny Object) I wouldn't use it in my production environments.
ref: 2003 April 11, Jim Kennedy, “Re: VMWare for Production Environment”, in comp.databases.oracle.server (Usenet):
text: This is the “bright shiny object” phenomenon that the majority of entrepreneurs experience—you see something and are attracted to it ... until a new bright shiny object catches your eye.
ref: 2008, Larina Kase, The Confident Leader, page 28:
text: A lot of people just play with social media because it's this new, bright, shiny object, but they don't really know what they're doing.
ref: 2010, Mitch Meyerson, Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars, page 103:
glosses: Something that attracts a great deal of attention because of its appealing superficial characteristics.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bright, shiny, object.
thoroughpaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thoroughpaced
form: most thoroughpaced
Etymology: From thorough + paced.
Senses: examples: text: I, who found it hard matter to keep up my less thoroughpaced steed with the speed of her perfect little Pegasus, […]
ref: 1859, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Old Country House, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (1859), page 55
glosses: Trained in every pace.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: [T]he terrors of superior authority were plainly perceivable in his features, and in less than three months he became a thorough-paced husband.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Wood's character of him is, that — "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. […]
ref: 1800, Anonymous, "Account of the Author", in Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, J. Cundee (1800), page xvi
glosses: Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
examples: text: The improbability of a thoroughpaced scoundrel writing daily elaborate confessions of his criminality to a friend, even when the friend condemns him, expatiating upon atrocities that deserved hanging, and justifying his vices on principle, is rather too glaring to be admissible.
ref: 1892, Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, Volume I, Smith, Elder, & Co., page 87:
text: […] but Swinburne was perhaps the first thoroughpaced disciple of the French romantic school.
ref: 1901, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, Henry Holt and Company, page 349:
glosses: Complete, total.
Brummen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.
dishonnour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishonnours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dishonour.
dishonnour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishonnours
form: dishonnouring
form: dishonnoured
form: dishonnoured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dishonour.
conveyour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of conveyor.
down bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the bubble of air in the glass tube of the inclinometer, a gauge that indicates the submarine's vertical trim.
Senses: examples: text: Two degrees down bubble. Hold her at 60.
ref: 1958, Run Silent, Run Deep, 00:01:25:
text: Dissatisfied with Sailfin's sluggish response, he turned the iron wheel a bit more until the bubble rode backward, indicating that the submarine's stern had lifted relative to the dipping bow. A glance at the calibrations etched into the brass plate behind the liquid-filled glass tubing told him that Sailfin's nose has dipped the required amount. "We have ten degrees down bubble, sir."
ref: 2000, Overdue and Presumed Lost, by Arthur MacMahan, page 181
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: up bubble
glosses: Having a downward trim (of a submarine); usually follows the number of degrees.
Related terms: angle of attack
lose the bubble
hell-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hellhole.
Hell hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hell holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hellhole.
hell hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hellhole.
Hellhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hellhole.
Hellholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellhole
hell holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hell hole
Hell holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hell hole
hell-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hell-hole
lobster pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster pounds
Senses: examples: text: So sing (if you listen closely) some 5000 lobsters rushed by air freight daily direct from a 1,000,000-capacity lobster pound in Clark's Harbour in the southernmost tip of Nova Scotia to Sea 'n Surf Restaurant on Rte. 9, Framingham.
ref: 1963 September 29, “Lobster Fit for Queen At Sea'n Surf”, in Boston Globe, USA, retrieved 28 Jul 2012, page B18:
text: The new lobster pound under construction on the east side of Pero Point is expected to begin receiving its first lobsters during the annual fall lobster harvest in November.
ref: 1987 March 27, Clayton Beal, "Lobster pound being built on east side of Pero Point," Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA), p. 8 (retrieved 28 July 2012)
text: Digby County lobster fisherman Paulin Robichaud, who lost 35,000 lobsters in an apparent case of deliberate poisoning last month, is getting out of the business and won't be restocking his lobster pound.
ref: 2007 August 8, “Pound won't reopen, says lobster fisherman”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 28 Jul 2012:
qualifier: chiefly Northern Atlantic region of Canada
glosses: A large commercial enclosure filled with circulating water in which lobsters are kept alive pending sale.
non-accredited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonaccredited.
mini-roundabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-roundabout
mini-roundabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-roundabouts
form: mini roundabout
Etymology: From mini- + roundabout.
Senses: examples: text: Williton has a mini-roundabout for a town centre. At this mini-roundabout the traffic coming from Taunton turns left and heads straight out of town towards Minehead, passing between displays of agricultural machinery on a bank up on the left and a red stone police station recessed on the right.
ref: 2002, Sam Smith, Porlock Counterpoint, page 108:
text: 2008, Driving Standards Agency (Great Britain), The Official DSA Guide to Driving Buses and Coaches, page 296,
Although traffic is advised not to carry out U-turn manoeuvres at a mini-roundabout, be alert for any oncoming traffic doing so.
text: At double mini-roundabouts and multiple roundabouts, follow the normal rules of priority and treat each roundabout separately.
ref: 2008, John Wells, Margaret Stacey, Learn to Drive: In 10 Easy Stages, page 131:
glosses: A small roundabout that is either flush to the road surface (painted on) or slightly raised.
conservatoires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservatoire
engageante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engageantes
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A false sleeve worn by women in the 18th and 19th centuries.
engageantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engageante
TBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TBTs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of target bearing transmitter.
glosses: Initialism of Throwback Thursday.
glosses: Initialism of throwback to.
qualifier: web development
glosses: Initialism of total blocking time.
TBT
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of truth be told.
tiltability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tilt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tiltable.
Lima wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The handsome dark wood of the South American tree Caesalpinia echinata.
entomophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entomo- + -phile; hence literally “insect-loving”.
Senses: glosses: Being transported by insects, rather than carried on the air.
raw_tags: of a type of pollen
glosses: Having such pollen.
raw_tags: of a type of flower or plant
entomophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomophiles
Etymology: From entomo- + -phile; hence literally “insect-loving”.
Senses: glosses: A flower whose pollen is transported by insects, rather than carried on the air.
examples: text: We're not like the entomophiles who harbor spiders as housemates or derive sexual satisfaction from the tickling of ants. And we're certainly not crazy entomophobes who run panic-stricken into the streets upon encountering a cockroach […]
ref: 2013, Jeffrey Lockwood, The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects:
glosses: A person who likes insects.
tonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonus
babirussas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babirussa
feltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of felter
feltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of felter
feltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felting
hemelytron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemelytra
Etymology: From hemi- + elytron.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An insect's forewing with both membranous and hardened portions.
hemelytra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemelytron
glosses: plural of hemelytrum
ranchoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rancho
targetier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targetiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of targeteer (one armed with a target or shield)
targetiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of targetier
Perkinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Perkins + -ism, after inventor Elisha Perkins (1741–1799).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pseudoscientific treatment in which two pointed metal rods ("tractors") were waved over the body, supposed to cure inflammation, rheumatism, etc. by drawing off an electrical fluid.
wikipedia: Elisha Perkins
Synonyms: tractoration
tractorism
perkinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perkiness
Perkinsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perkinsian
form: most Perkinsian
Etymology: From Perkins + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Perkins (1558–1602), clergyman and Cambridge theologian who was one of the foremost leaders of the Puritan movement in the Church of England.
adjectiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjective
adjectived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjective
Ricardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑːdɪən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: Ricardians
Etymology: From Late Latin Ricardus (Latin form of Richard) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A focus for disaffected Ricardians, Margaret hated Henry and she detested the new political settlement.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 23:
glosses: Someone who believes King Richard III was a just king, misrepresented by Tudor propaganda; a supporter of Richard III.
Ricardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑːdɪən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: more Ricardian
form: most Ricardian
Etymology: From Late Latin Ricardus (Latin form of Richard) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to King Richard III.
examples: text: Any regime in which either taxes or seigniorage always adjust to ensure that the government's intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied is called a Ricardian regime[.] [original emphasis deleted]
ref: 2018, Carl E. Walsh, Monetary Theory and Policy, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 145:
glosses: Of or relating to David Ricardo (1772–1823), British political economist.
Derived terms: neo-Ricardian
Ricardian equivalence
Ricardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ricardian
Tookean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tookean
form: most Tookean
Etymology: From Tooke + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Tooke (1774–1858), English economist who wrote about money and statistics.
insulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insular
hand shandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand shandy
postfrontals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postfrontal
prefrontals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefrontal
miliaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miliary
dietetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dietetic.
synonyms: word: dietetic
Derived terms: dietetically
bituminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bituminate
bituminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bituminate
gradationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gradation
gradationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gradation
runers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runer
Rigellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rigelian.
Rigellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rigellians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rigelian.
Rigellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rigellian
bivvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivvy
bivvies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bivvy
bell-bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-bearers
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian leaf-hopper (Bocydium globulare) with four bell-shaped appendages to its thorax.
bell-bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell-bearer
storminesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storminess
enfoldingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enfoldingly
form: most enfoldingly
Etymology: From enfolding + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1943, Ernie Pyle, article
The smoke didn't obscure the rainbow. Rather it seemed to rise enfoldingly around it, like honeysuckle climbing a porch column.
glosses: So as to enfold.
toluole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toluol.
toluoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toluole
debuccalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /diːˈbʌ.kə.laɪz/
Forms: form: debuccalizes
form: debuccalizing
form: debuccalized
form: debuccalized
Senses: examples: text: I should point out that the tendency for stops to debuccalize to glottal stop and fricatives to glottal fricative does not always hold.
ref: 2002, Paul D. Fallon, The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives, page 126:
glosses: To undergo debuccalization.
debuccalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debuccalize
debuccalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debuccalize
debuccalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debuccalize
spot the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional newspaper promotion in which readers are challenged to guess the position of a ball which has been removed from a photograph of a ball sport.
unsinningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsinningly
form: most unsinningly
Etymology: From unsinning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without sin.
extramissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extramission
facebuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facebusters
Etymology: From face + buster.
Senses: glosses: A wrestling move, the faceplant.
facebusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facebuster
facecloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facecloth
dasheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasheen
mutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muting
hexacycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexacycle
chabasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chabasites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chabazite.
chabasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chabasite
chabasie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chabasies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chabazite.
chabasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chabasie
untopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + topped.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, there is commercial interest in planting trellised, untopped trees for earlier production in slow-growing regions such as the Western Cape.
ref: 2010, Craig Macaskill, editor, The National Agricultural Directory 2011, page 168:
glosses: Not having had the top cut off.
examples: text: In a Paris pizzeria, I watched rounds of pliable, untopped pizza dough get tossed into a very hot wood-burning oven and emerge puffed up, to be sprinkled simply with olive oil and salt.
ref: 2000, Beth Hensperger, The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook:
glosses: Not covered with a topping.
examples: text: Thucydides, writing many centuries ago, averred that men usually embark on wars of conquest out of an aspiration for power, wealth, or out of fear. This statement is still untopped in its concision and aptness.
ref: 1988, Zvi Yavetz, Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome, page 5:
glosses: Unsurpassed.
untopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untop
datal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a dataler; hired and paid on a daily basis.
dital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditals
Etymology: From Italian ditale, from Latin digitus (“finger”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A finger-operated key for raising the pitch of a guitar by a semitone.
ordoliberals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordoliberal
messets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messet
antimessianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimessianic
form: most antimessianic
Etymology: From anti- + messianic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a messiah.
eskar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eskars
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of esker.
eskars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eskar
templing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of temple
enzooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzooties
Senses: glosses: An endemic disease attacking animals.
enzooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzooty
honested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honest
honesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of honest
tachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacho
tachiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachistes
form: tachist
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: An artist working in the style of tachism.
tachisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tachism.
tambouriner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tambouriners
Etymology: From tambourine + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the tambourine.
tangence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangences
Senses: examples: text: The points of intangence, or extangence, of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents.
ref: 1874, L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic, page 106:
text: […]to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence,[…].
ref: 1957, Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 85, numbers 10-12, page 8721:
text: The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities.
ref: 2006, ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling: Proceedings, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of tangency.
tantième
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɑːntiˈɛm/
Forms: form: tantièmes
Etymology: From French tantième (“percentage, proportion”).
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The share of profits paid to the management or to the board of directors under a profit sharing scheme.
denotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denotate
denotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denotate
denotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denotate
stareater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stareaters
Etymology: From star + eater.
Senses: glosses: A snaggletooth.
footballfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footballfishes
Etymology: From football + fish, from its shape.
Senses: glosses: Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.
mrigal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mrigals
Senses: glosses: Indian carp
paleanthropological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paleanthropological
form: most paleanthropological
Etymology: From paleanthropology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleanthropology.
footballfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footballfish
Indian carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian carp
Senses: glosses: Cirrhinus cirrhosus
deepwater cardinalfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deepwater cardinalfishes
Senses: glosses: Any of the small perciform fishes in the family Epigonidae
Synonyms: epigonid
cardinalfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinalfishes
form: cardinalfish
Etymology: From cardinal + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Apogonidae of mostly marine ray-finned fishes.
Derived terms: deepwater cardinalfish
pajama cardinalfish
sailfin cardinalfish
apogonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apogonid
cardinalfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardinalfish
contradictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradictor
farriered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of farrier
farriering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of farrier
exultancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exultancy
echoplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of echoplex
echoplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoplex
bulletin board service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletin board services
Senses: examples: text: Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second. All they need is a color monitor, a color graphics card, and access to PC Canada, the first bulletin board service to offer an on-line graphics and color program.
ref: 1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35:
glosses: Synonym of bulletin board system.
synonyms: word: bulletin board system
Tersanctus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tersānctus, from ter (“thrice”) + sānctus (“holy”).
Senses: glosses: The Trisagion (beginning “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal …”).
glosses: The Sanctus (beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts …”).
glomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glome
Gallian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gallian
form: most Gallian
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis known already that I am possessed / With more than half the Gallian territories, / And therein reverenced for their lawful king.
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 5, scene 4:
glosses: Gallic; French
lavishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavishness
Richardsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Richardsonian
form: most Richardsonian
Etymology: From Richardson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A. O. Watson of Austin and Eugene T. Heiner of Houston collaborated to produce a very credible Richardsonian court house for DeWitt County in Cuero (1894 - 1896; Fig. 2.06), perhaps modeled on Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ref: 1993, Jay C. Henry, Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945:
text: The Richardsonian model in nearby Pittsburgh is reflected in the building's surface texture, the 188-foot square tower, arcaded windows, arched entryways, ans stone foliage carvings.
ref: 2001, Oliver P. Williams, County Courthouses of Pennsylvania: A Guide, page 95:
text: Most Richardsonian buildings in Los Angeles have disappeared.
ref: 2009, Robert Winter, An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles, page 16:
glosses: Of or relating to Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886), American architect, or the Romanesque style that he popularised.
examples: text: In fact, Fielding's inability to understand Richardson is mainly the result of his inability to understand Richardsonian complexity of characterization.
ref: 1967, Philip Stevick, Theory of the Novel, page 382:
text: Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.
ref: 2006, Brean Hammond, Shaun Regan, Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789:
text: La Religieuse has often been called a 'Richardsonian' novel.
ref: 2011, James Fowler, New Essays on Diderot, page 6:
glosses: Of or relating to Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), English writer known for his epistolary novels.
aphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphonies
Etymology: From a- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aphonia.
describents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of describent
lobster trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster traps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lobster pot.
synonyms: word: lobster pot
peasweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasweeps
form: peaseweep
form: peeseweep
Etymology: So called from its song.
Senses: glosses: The peewit, or lapwing.
glosses: The greenfinch.
peasweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peasweep
dolomitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dolomitize
dolomitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dolomitized
form: most dolomitized
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: modified by dolomitization
greenfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenfeed
rye flake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye flakes
Senses: glosses: A rye groat that is cut, cooked and rolled into a flake, used as a breakfast cereal.
rye flakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rye flake
dreikanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreikanters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dreikanter.
Senses: examples: text: Stones splintered by fire, or faceted by sandstorms (ventifacts or dreikanters) are occasionally mistaken for the work of man.
ref: 1949, Kenneth Page Oakley, Man the Tool-Maker:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
coordinate_terms: einkanter
zweikanter
glosses: A type of pebble that has three curved faces formed by wind-blown sand.
Related terms: windkanter
harlequining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harlequin
harlequined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harlequin
dropstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropstones
Etymology: From drop + stone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isolated fragment of rock found within a sedimentary rock (that had fallen, rather than being carried along).
topics: geography
glaciology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isolated rock that is geologically distinct from the surroundings, indicating that it was carried from a distant area and then dropped in place (by a melting glacier); an erratic.
Synonyms: topics: glaciology
geography
natural-sciences
word: erratic
Related terms: lonestone
dropstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropstone
impulsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impulse
impulsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impulse
diaclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaclasis
entomophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomophile
enzymopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzymopathy
tachistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachiste
tangences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangence
tantièmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantième
stapleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From staple + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Stapleless staplers, invented in 1910, are a means of stapling that punches out a small flap of paper and weaves it through a notch.
glosses: Without staples.
valks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valk
bahars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bahar
Mmani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Bullom So language.
Bullom So
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A moribund Niger-Congo language spoken near the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Synonyms: Mmani
miaowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miaower