cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sargassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sargassum (“brown alga”).
synonyms: word: sargassum
extra: brown alga
ryus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryu
platinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An allergylike reaction to exposure to soluble salts of platinum.
reinlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinlists
form: reinlisting
form: reinlisted
form: reinlisted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of reenlist.
ploye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ployes
Senses: glosses: A kind of Brayon flatbread made with buckwheat flour.
ployes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploye
transinstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That encompasses multiple institutions.
penserosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penseroso
trialkylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alkylated with three alkyl groups.
papauma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Maori [Term?]
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kapuka (“New Zealand tree”).
synonyms: word: kapuka
extra: New Zealand tree
marmem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From martensite and memory.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of martensitic shape memory alloys.
limonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limoniums
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Limonium.
limoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limonium
desoxyuridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desoxyuridines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deoxyuridine.
synonyms: word: deoxyuridine
juniored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of junior
junioring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of junior
forewarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreward
forewarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreward
2PP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2PPs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of second-person plural.
global warmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: global warmists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of warmist.
synonyms: word: warmist
bowwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowwoods
Etymology: From bow + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any wood suited to making bows for archery.
bowwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowwood
Balnakeil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal hamlet near Durness, in north Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC3968).
sweetlip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetlips
Senses: examples: text: Van chased a sweetlip, and it scuttled safely under a coral ledge.
ref: 1969, Ben Cropp, Whale of a Shark, page 67:
glosses: Synonym of sweetlips (“type of fish”).
synonyms: word: sweetlips
extra: type of fish
tzaddi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade.
moniliae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monilia
Keoldale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Just south of Durness, at Keoldale, is a passenger-ferry across the Kyle of Durness. It links up during the summer months with a minibus service to the lonely Cape Wrath lighthouse, built of granite in 1827 on a headland 400 ft above the sea.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 157:
glosses: A hamlet by the Kyle of Durness, south-west of Durness, north Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC3866).
Kyle of Durness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inlet on the north coast of Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland.
deliverism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Matthew Stoller
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The theory that voters tend to support candidates or parties not just on their promises but on their track record of fulfilling those promises.
non-moving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonmoving.
him/her
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: them
Senses: examples: text: We shall be waiting for him/her to arrive.
glosses: accusative of he/she
Related terms: his/her
him/herself
she/he
himself/herself
metarhyolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metarhyolites
Senses: glosses: A metamorphosed rhyolite.
metabentonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabentonites
Senses: glosses: A metamorphosed bentonite.
metadiorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadiorites
Senses: glosses: A metamorphosed diorite.
metahalloysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metahalloysites
Senses: glosses: A metamorphosed halloysite.
microhotplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhotplates
Senses: glosses: A microscopic hotplate.
macrorelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroreliefs
Senses: glosses: Very large relief.
wallstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallstones
form: wall-stone
form: wall stone
Etymology: From Middle English walle ston, from Old English weallstān (“stone for building”), equivalent to wall + stone.
Senses: examples: text: In the upper stories the walls are built hollow, the utilised internal linings of brick, and the outer walling built of coursed rubble wallstones from the old demolished building, […]
ref: 1902, Building, volume 82, page 292:
text: The remainder is used for wallstone or is finely ground for use as filter or as a feed supplement.
ref: 1979, Raymond R. Burchett, The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Systems in the United States—Nebraska:
topics: architecture
glosses: Stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.
wallstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallstone
mesorelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoreliefs
Senses: glosses: A relief that is intermediate in scale between microrelief and macrorelief.
oscillopolarographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to oscillopolarography.
apogranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apogranites
Senses: glosses: A granite that has a high concentration of albite.
Eardisland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in northern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4158).
cotransducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That may be cotransduced.
keyboard layout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard layouts
Senses: glosses: Any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys or legends of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other device.
keyboard layouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyboard layout
key combo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key combos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of keyboard shortcut.
synonyms: word: keyboard shortcut
key combos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key combo
electronic keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic keyboards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of keyboard (“electronic musical device”).
synonyms: word: keyboard
extra: electronic musical device
electronic keyboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronic keyboard
photoreductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to photoreduction.
extended keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extended keyboards
Senses: glosses: A keyboard with additional keys or one with a different design than a standard keyboard.
extended keyboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extended keyboard
faunizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faunizones
Senses: glosses: A geological region that is characterised by a specific set of animal species.
multi-band
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multiband.
wormworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormworlds
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An age that is dominated by worms.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A region that is dominated by worm-life.
wormworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormworld
xvid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xvids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xvideo.
synonyms: word: xvideo
XVideo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XVideos
form: xvideo
Etymology: A back-formation from XVideos, a pornographic video-sharing website founded in 2007 by Stephane Michael Pacaud.
Senses: glosses: A pornographic video uploaded to XVideos.
XVideos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XVideo
xvids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xvid
X video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X videos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xvideo.
x video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x videos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xvideo.
Xvideo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xvideos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xvideo.
Xvideos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xvideo
x videos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x video
X videos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X video
Axid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A trade name for the drug nizatidine.
Makasar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Makassarese.
synonyms: word: Makassarese
duplify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duplifies
form: duplifying
form: duplified
form: duplified
Etymology: From Latin duplus (“double”) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: If the bees of a triplet lie out, before the uſual time of deprivation, it ſhould be taken and placed at a conſiderable diſtance, and the duplified ſtock raiſed on a nadir hive: […]
ref: 1796, John Keys, “Of Storifying” (chapter X), in The Antient Bee-Maſter's Farewell; or, Full and Plain Directions for the Management of Bees to the greateſt Advantage, London: […] G. G.; J. Robinson, page 67:
glosses: To double.
surface-dwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an organism or animal, that lives on or near the surface of something, such as water or soil.
masonry layouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masonry layout
de-Zionification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dezionification.
aminohydrazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminohydrazine
2-benzylbenzimidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound that acts as a potential analgesic medication; a benzimidazole core with a benzyl group attached to the nitrogen atom at the 2-position of the benzimidazole.
Related terms: nitazene
early warning system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early warning systems
Senses: glosses: A warning system that comprises sensors, event detection and decision subsystems for early identification of hazards.
early warning systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early warning system
Ellenabeich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Ellanbeich
glosses: A small village on the isle of Seil, opposite the isle of Easdale in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM7417).
condoledst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of condole
Ellanbeich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Slate has been quarried on Easdale Island since the 16th century at least, and today the village of Easdale still has signs of its former industry. It is split into two parts - Easdale on the island itself, and Ellanbeich on the neighbouring island of Seil, across the narrow Easdale Sound. […] Today, Ellanbeich is a quiet, neatly laid-out community beneath the crags of Dun More.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 159:
glosses: Alternative form of Ellenabeich, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
tiptoe through a minefield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tiptoes through a minefield
form: tiptoeing through a minefield
form: tiptoed through a minefield
form: tiptoed through a minefield
Senses: glosses: To approach a situation with great caution because it contains many hidden dangers or problems.
Related terms: walk on eggshells
mine field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine fields
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minefield.
mine fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine field
test-taker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test-takers
Senses: glosses: One who takes a test.
test-takers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test-taker
midstripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midstripes
Etymology: From mid- + stripe.
Senses: examples: text: the flight is sometimes more than 4" broad, the body is 2" long; upper-wings brown with white at the point and the posterior margin, hind-wings rose red with grey brown margin, and three black transverse stripes; abdomen red above with a brown mid-stripe and black rings.
ref: 1856, J. VAN DER HOEVEN, translated by REV. WILLIAM CLARK, HANDBOOK OF ZOOLOGY, volume 1, page 406:
text: Female.— Very similar to male, the front broad with a semishining midstripe connecting the shiny black antennal prominence with the opaque black of the ocellar area; pile of the black areas black, becoming brown below.
ref: 1949, Charles L. Fluke, “SOME ALASKAN SYRPHID FLIES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES”, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, volume 100, number 3256, Smithsonian Institution, page 50:
glosses: A stripe-like marking that runs down the center of a living thing, such as a flower petal or an insect's body.
midstripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midstripe
donor class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The set of people and companies who make large donations to political parties and campaigns, and thus have an outsized influence on politics.
monstrous regiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstrous regiments
Senses: glosses: womankind, women collectively
East Quantoxhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its position at the north end of the Quantock Hills.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (without a council) in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1343).
Related terms: West Quantoxhead
Antarctic English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We are likely to consider Antarctic English as an occupational variety of general English rather than a new regional variety, mainly because men go to work in the Antarctic for a period, intending to return. They are not settlers.
ref: 1972, George William Turner, The English Language in Australia and New Zealand, Longman, →ISBN, page 67:
text: One of the characteristics of Antarctic English usage as it emerges from the dictionary is eclecticism: many global strands come together to create a unique South-Polar vocabulary.
ref: 2002, Tom McArthur, “Antarctica, the Falklands and the South Antarctic Islands”, in The Oxford Guide to World English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 406:
text: A New Zealand linguistics doctorate graduate from the University of Canterbury has completed a world-first study into colloquial Antarctic English, spoken at the US, British and New Zealand Antarctic research stations.
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An accent and variety of the English language spoken by researchers living on the continent of Antarctica, being a mixture of their native languages and neologisms for concepts relating to the continent and daily life, such as the types and characteristics of ice, equipment and routine.
Related terms: Arctic English
kamishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamish
West Quantoxhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its position at the north end of the Quantock Hills.
Senses: examples: text: West Quantoxhead, 1½ miles to the south-west, has some handsome houses and an imposing mansion, St Audries - now a girls' school - built in the Tudor style in the 19th century, at the same time as the pinkish-buff stone Church of St Ethelreda - also called St Audrey - which has an elegant tapering spirelet.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 160:
glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1141).
Related terms: East Quantoxhead
paralyzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralyzable
form: most paralyzable
Senses: glosses: for which each event happening during the previous event's deadtime restarts the deadtime while remaining uncounted
raw_tags: of a detector system
pyrogallolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrogallol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pyrogallic.
Lizardman's Constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Scott Alexander in 2013 in a post titled "Lizardman's Constant is 4%", responding to a Public Policy Polling statement that "four percent of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth".
Senses: glosses: The percentage of responses to a poll, survey, or quiz that are not sincere.
heightens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heighten up
heightening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heighten up
heightened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heighten up
hells around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hell around
helling around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hell around
helled around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hell around
hems up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hem up
hemming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hem up
hemmed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hem up
hens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hen up
henning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hen up
herds together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of herd together
herding together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herd together
herded together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of herd together
hews down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hew down
hewing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hew down
hewed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hew down
hewn down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hew down
hews out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hew out
hewing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hew out
hewed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of hew out
hewn out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hew out
hides out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hide out
hiding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hide out
hid out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of hide out
hidden out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hide out
hikes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hike out
hiking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hike out
hiked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hike out
hikes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hike up
hiking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hike up
hiked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hike up
hinges upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hinge upon
hinging upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hinge upon
hinged upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hinge upon
hits away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit away
hitting away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit away
hitches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hitch up
hitching up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hitch up
hitched up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hitch up
hitting it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit it up
hits with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit with
hitting with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit with
hoes around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoe around
hoeing around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoe around
hoed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoe around
hoes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoe in
hoeing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoe in
hoed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoe in
hoes into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoe into
hoeing into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoe into
hoed into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoe into
hogs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hog up
hogging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hog up
hogged up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hog up
hokes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoke up
hoking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoke up
hoked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoke up
holds back on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold back on
holding back on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold back on
held back on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold back on
holds in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold in
holding in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold in
held in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold in
holds it in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold it in
holding it in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold it in
held it in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold it in
holds oneself together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold oneself together
holding oneself together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold oneself together
held oneself together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold oneself together
held to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold to
holds to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold to
holding to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold to
honeys around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honey around
honeying around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of honey around
honeyed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honey around
honeys up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honey up
honeying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of honey up
honeyed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honey up
honks it on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honk it on
honking it on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of honk it on
honked it on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honk it on
hoofs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoof out
hoofing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoof out
hoofed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoof out
hooks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hook in
hooking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hook in
hooked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hook in
Pushkalavati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit पुष्कलावती (puṣkalāvatī).
Senses: glosses: The ancient capital of Gandhara kingdom, near Charsadda in modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
righty tighty, lefty loosey
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: lefty loosey, righty tighty
Senses: examples: text: This will help you remember which way to turn a screw, bolt or nut: "Righty tighty, lefty loosey."
ref: 1984 October, Scott Stuckey, “Hobby Hows”, in Boys' Life, volume 74, number 10, page 11:
text: "Lefty loosey," Jessie muttered, and tried turning the key counter-clockwise.
ref: 1992, Stephen King, Gerald's Game:
text: People sometimes become confused as to why a spoke is tightened by turning the spoke nipple counterclockwise. "Isn’t it always righty-tighty and lefty-loosey?"
ref: 1999, Vic Armijo, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cycling, page 293:
glosses: Used to recall the direction a standard screw, bolt, or nut must be turned to either be tightened or loosened, or the direction a key must be turned to either lock or unlock something, right meaning clockwise and left meaning counterclockwise.
controlled burning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of controlled burn
Wikionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Wiktionary.
Morborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English mōr (“marsh”) + burna (“stream”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.
thorugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of through.
untrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untrust
untrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrust
rugpulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugpull
swee swee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hokkien 媠媠, a reduplication of 媠 (súi, “nice, pretty”).
Senses: glosses: Emphatic form of swee; perfect; neat and tidy.
rockpicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockpickers
Etymology: From rock + pick + -er.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A farmer or laborer reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A role played periodically, not a vocation.
topics: business
mining
qualifier: ore dressing
glosses: A person, machine, or machine component that cleans out the rocks during ore dressing.
Related terms: rockpicking
air knife
rockpickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockpicker
rockpicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + pick + -ing.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A task performed periodically, not a vocation.
topics: business
mining
qualifier: ore dressing
glosses: Cleaning out the rocks during ore dressing. Done by a person, machine, or machine component.
Related terms: rockpicker
saikang warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈsaɪ˦˨ k˭ɑŋ˦ ˈwɒɹɪə]
Forms: form: saikang warriors
form: sai kang warrior
Etymology: From Hokkien 屎工 (sái-kang, “undesirable, menial tasks”, literally “shit jobs”) + warrior.
Senses: examples: text: moe teachers are sai kang warriors.
real teachers give tuition.
ref: 2024 April 26, Unregistered, “Career as Teacher”, in Salary.sg Forums:
glosses: Someone who is always assigned or forced to do unpleasant tasks.
saikang warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saikang warrior
sai kang warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sai kang warriors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saikang warrior.
sai kang warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sai kang warrior
minefield quiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minefield quizzes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of minefield (“a quiz that terminates when the test-taker answers a question incorrectly”).
synonyms: word: minefield
extra: a quiz that terminates when the test-taker answers a question incorrectly
minefield quizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minefield quiz
tiptoeing through a minefield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of tiptoe through a minefield
tiptoed through a minefield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tiptoe through a minefield
tiptoes through a minefield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiptoe through a minefield
oxyiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyiodides
Etymology: From oxy- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound containing oxygen and iodine.
out of kelter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of out of kilter.
staffelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lewistonite.
synonyms: word: lewistonite
UJA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The UJA Federation of New York, meanwhile, thanked the governor Thursday for “always standing with the Jewish community and against antisemitism and hate in New York.”
ref: 2024 February 17, Zenebou Sylla, “New York Gov. Kathy Hochul apologizes for using Canada-Hamas analogy in defending Israel”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of United Jewish Appeal.
waterholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterholics
Etymology: From water + -holic or Blend of water + alcoholic.
Senses: glosses: One who drinks water excessively.
Quantock Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Quantocks
glosses: A range of hills in western Somerset, England.
Related terms: East Quantoxhead
West Quantoxhead
Quantocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Quantocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quantock Hills, Somerset, England.
synonyms: word: Quantock Hills
word: Somerset
word: England
oserskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aragonite.
synonyms: word: aragonite
pelagosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian Pelagosa + -ite, after its type locality.
Senses: glosses: A pisolitic variety of aragonite.
erotema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotemas
form: erotemata
Senses: examples: text: Since the simple question, though technically erotema, is scarcely a figure however, I leave it out of the discussion.
ref: 1939, Peter MacNaughton Miller, The Rhetoric of Sidney's Arcadia, page 206:
text: Erotema probably occupies more space in Camm's writings than does any other single device.
ref: 1977, Joseph A. Leo Lemay, Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis, page 173:
text: Here erotema is fused with the logical fallacy begging the question: for example , "Shall we let her pull the wool over our eyes?"
ref: 1995, Pynchon Notes - Issues 32-35, page 17:
text: The narrator's use of erotema would seem to be a frantic rhetorical attempt to encourage acceptance in his audience of the theory of perversity . Through erotema he is asking his auditors to think deductively (to move from the general to the specific) by saying something like this: "Look, everyone has succumbed to perverse impulse now and then, right?— so you'll believe me when I tell you that perversity overcame me too, on the occasion when I hanged my poor cat."
ref: 2005, Brett Zimmerman, Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style, page 211:
glosses: The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer.
Derived terms: erotematic
Related terms: eroteme
cloth of tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A joy it was to see such a shifting maze of velvets, furs, curious needleworks and cloth of tissue, tiffanies, laces, ruffs, goodly chains and carcanets of gold: such glitter of jewels and weapons: such nodding of the plumes the Demons wore in their hair, half veiling the horns that grew upon their heads.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A kind of rich silk velvet cloth with loops of gold thread woven into the pile.
Mattinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Margilan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Margilon
form: Marghelan
form: Marghelon
form: Marghilan
form: Marghilon
form: Marjilan
Etymology: From Uzbek Margʻilon.
Senses: glosses: A city in Uzbekistan.
Harrowing of Hell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Harrowing of Hell
Senses: examples: text: The source of the Harrowing of Hell tradition is, of course, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the oldest manuscripts of which date back to the fifth century, and that work was tremendously popular in England from the earliest days of Christianity there.
ref: 1991, M. B. McNamee, “Beowulf-An Allegory of Salvation?”, in Robert D. Fulk, editor, Interpretations of Beowulf, Indiana University Press, page 94:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Christ's freeing from the underworld of those souls of the dead who were to go to Heaven.
wikipedia: Gospel of Nicodemus
rhodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhodo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A branch of botany that studies the genus Rosa of roses.
ConCon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ConCons
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of constitutional convention.
Related terms: ChaCha
ChaCha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ChaChas
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of charter change.
Related terms: ConCon
East Hendred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England, historically in Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4588).
Related terms: West Hendred
rhodologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodologists
Etymology: From rhodology + -logist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies and classifies roses.
rhodologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodologist
stibogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stibograms
Etymology: From stibo- + -gram
Senses: glosses: A graphic record of footprints.
stibograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stibogram
methaminodiazepoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chlordiazepoxide.
synonyms: word: chlordiazepoxide
peritoneopericardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the peritoneum and the pericardium.
Derived terms: peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia
peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernias
Senses: glosses: A congenital defect characterized by an abnormal opening in the diaphragm.
block-ornament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block-ornaments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of block ornament (“a cheap piece of meat of poor quality”).
block-ornaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block-ornament
block-ornimint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block-ornimints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of block ornament (“a cheap piece of meat of poor quality”).
block-ornimints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block-ornimint
half-door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-doors
Senses: examples: text: Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
glosses: Synonym of Dutch door, a stable door, especially when the top half is open.
synonyms: word: Dutch door
extra: a stable door, especially when the top half is open
nonlinguistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nonlinguistic manner.
half-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-door
quarter point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter points
form: quarter-point
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the 32 points of the compass achieved by bisecting the angles of the sixteen half-points; for example, north by east (lying between north and north-northeast) or northwest by west (lying between northwest and west-northwest). The compass point corresponding to a quarter-wind.
quarter points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter point
quarter-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-points
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarter point.
opisthosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of opisthosomal.
quarter-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-point
deazaguanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deazaguanines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dezaguanine.
synonyms: word: dezaguanine
covering horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covering horses
Senses: examples: text: That year he earned extra income by keeping a covering horse, which he hired out to a number of local farmers.
text: ...he is now fat and looks as grand as a covering horse.
ref: 1911 [1798], Daniel Agnew, edited by Arthur Lowndes, Archives of the General Convention, II: The Correspondence of John Henry Hobart 1798–1801, New York: The Commission on Archives [General Convention of the Episcopal Church], Hobart Correspondence, page 64:
text: ...but if any owner or keeper of a covering horse, shall wilfully or negligently suffer said horse to run at large, out of the inclosed lands of said owner or keeper, any person may take up said horse, and carry him to his owner or keeper, for which he shall receive two dollars...
ref: 1886 [1806], Indiana General Assembly, The Laws of the Indiana Territory: 1801–1806, Inclusive, Paoli, Indiana: Throop & Clark, Laws Passed at the Second Session of the First General Assembly of the Indiana Territory, page 51:
text: 33. Sec. V. There shall be annually levied and collected upon all stallions or covering horses, let to mares for hire, a tax equal to the season, or price of one mare let to such stallion or covering horse.
ref: 1837 [1807], Oliver H. Prince, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Second Edition, volume II, Athens, Georgia: Oliver H. Prince, Tax. 1807, 1808, page 392:
text: The pedigree of Florizel, on the side of his dam, I have often seen, when he was a covering horse, but have no recollection of it.
ref: 1830 December 24 [1827], John Wickham, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 4, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Turf Register: Horses Bred by John Wickham, Esq. of Richmond, Va., page 206:
text: ...and I would as soon this day enter it in a stake of from one to five hundred dollars each, as to select from the season of any covering horse, no matter how many mares he had put to him.
ref: 1831 February 24 [1830], William R. Johnson, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 6, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Timoleon, page 269:
text: "It is," says the record, "ordered, that there be levied a county revenue for the year A. D. 1830, on each horse, mule or ass over three years old, 31¼ cents; each covering horse, $2; on each work oxen, 15¾ cents; each pleasure carriage, 50 cents; on each brass clock, 50 cents; on each watch, 25 cents...
ref: 1881 [1830], David Demaree Banta, A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., page 73:
glosses: A stud horse; a stallion kept as a stud.
covering horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covering horse
Isanpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Gujarati ઇસનપુર (isanpur).
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
aaRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aaRSs
form: aaRSes
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of aminoacyl tRNA synthetase.
aaRSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aaRS
aaRSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aaRS
Maninagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Gujarati મણિનગર (maṇinagar).
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Cuoqin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 措勤 (Cuòqín).
Senses: examples: text: Results showed that the values of biodiversity conservation, water conservation and soil conservation were all higher in the fencing region than in the non-fencing region. Most counties experienced increasing trends in the fencing region with higher biodiversity conservation, water conservation in the fencing region than that in the non-fencing region from 2006 to 2015. Except for the relationship between soil conservation and water conservation in the non-fencing region in Cuoqin county in 2015, the relationships among all ecosystem services were synergistic, and the overall trends were weakening.
ref: 2022 June, Yixuan Liu, Shiliang Liu, Yongxiu Sun, Jian Sun, Fangfang Wang, Mingqi Li, “Effect of grazing exclusion on ecosystem services dynamics, trade-offs and synergies in Northern Tibet”, in Ecological Engineering, volume 179, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: Synonym of Coqên: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Coqên
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Managuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Managua, Nicaragua.
Managuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Managuans
Senses: glosses: Someone from Managua.
Managuans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Managuan
broomstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomstraws
Etymology: From broom + straw.
Senses: examples: text: Native bees nest in broomstraw
ref: 2016 February 12, Arlene Marturano, “Harvesting Brooms”, in Columbia Star:
text: how do I get rid of all this Broomsedge/Broomstraw?
ref: 2019 March 13, Cole Maness, “How to Get Rid of Broomsedge/Broomstraw”, in Warren County Center:
text: Research has shown that broomstraw prefers low fertility and low pH soils
ref: 2021 November 3, Kendra Phipps, “The Burden of Broomstraw”, in Stokes County Center:
synonyms: broomsedge
glosses: A type of undesirable grass
broomstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broomstraw
form: most broomstraw
Etymology: From broom + straw.
Senses: examples: text: Mechanical fractures with broomstraw-like appearance were found at 16 separate locations on frames and intercostals
ref: 1998 September 2, “Air transportation safety investigation report A98H0003”, in Transportation Safety Board of Canada:
text: when it comes apart in an in-flight fire, it produces the “broomstraw effect,” in which the points where the metal has come apart will look stringy.
ref: 2001 July 24, Eric Adams, “Reading The Wreckage”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
text: Evaluation of sub-structural aluminum debris collected from Space Shuttle Columbia indicated broom-straw fracture of AA7075 seat legs
ref: 2021 March 1, N. C. Ubani Ochoa, D. M. Cone, S. W. Stafford, J. D. Olivas, “Investigation of broom-straw fracture behavior of aluminum alloy 2024 debris recovered from Space Shuttle Columbia”, in Journal of Space Safety Engineering, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 4–11:
glosses: Like a certain type of mechanical failure