cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kinghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinghoods
Etymology: From Middle English kinghod, equivalent to king + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: King am I, whatsoever be their cry; And one last act of kinghood shalt thou see Yet, ere I pass."
ref: 1922, Charles Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5:
glosses: The quality or state of being a king; kingship.
examples: text: Everything about him suggests it; from his first conversion from the imperial to the papal (and popular) cause, to his great refusal of the kinghood of the city he had taken; "I will not wear a crown of gold where my Master wore a crown of thorns."
ref: 1920, G. K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem:
glosses: The state of being a king.
kinghoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinghood
kingcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingcrafts
Etymology: From king + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: As he grew, he sat in the council of state, learning kingcraft, and showed there the hard-headed sense of fairness and justice that went with him through life.
ref: 1921, Jacob A. Riis, Hero Tales of the Far North:
glosses: The skills needed to rule effectively as a king.
kingcrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingcraft
kingbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingbirds
Etymology: From king + bird.
Senses: glosses: A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.
Derived terms: loggerhead kingbird
kingbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingbird
primary election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary elections
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: primary
coordinate_terms: caucus
general election
special election
glosses: The first round of a two-round election.
special election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special elections
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: by-election
glosses: An election scheduled at other than the usual date for a specific purpose, often to fill an office that has become vacant before the incumbent has completed the term.
'course
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: course
Senses: examples: text: “Huck, have you ever told anybody about that?” “’Bout what?” “You know what.” “Oh—’course I haven’t.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 182:
text: "[…]she'd probably find something wrong with him too. Wouldn't you?" He looked at me.
"'Course," I said, examining the picture before exclaiming very seriously, "His hair's too greasy."
ref: 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, trade paperback, published 2003, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Ellipsis of of course.
penny for them
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny for your thoughts.
M.Y.O.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛm waɪ oʊ ˈbi/
ipa: /ɛm waɪ əʊ ˈbiː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of MYOB.
polling place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polling places
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A place where voters cast their ballots in elections.
Related terms: polls
cmd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cmds
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of command.
Derived terms: cmdlet
sapiences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapience
sale on approval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales on approval
Senses: glosses: The selling of something to a consumer on condition that the latter may return it.
glosses: A sale under this mechanism.
Coordinate terms: sale or return
sale or return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The lending of goods to a retailer on condition that the latter may return any he has not sold.
glosses: A sale (to a retailer) under this mechanism.
Coordinate terms: sale on approval
Related terms: appro
sales on approval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sale on approval
s'poses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of s'pose
one-night stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-night stand
s'posing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of s'pose
s'posed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɵst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of s'pose
one-nighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-nighters
Etymology: From one night + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That evening, the Epsilons got to sing for Redding, who asked the boys to join his Revue. Gene, John, and Alan remained in the entourage for a year before tiring of the one-nighter grind.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 360:
glosses: Synonym of one-night stand (single evening's performance)
synonyms: word: one-night stand
extra: single evening's performance
examples: text: I am clean, sincere, not out for 1 nighters. Lking for gd friend, definitely relationship.
ref: 1980 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Synonym of one-night stand (single sexual encounter)
synonyms: word: one-night stand
extra: single sexual encounter
one-nighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-nighter
developmental biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: developmental biologies
Senses: examples: Meronyms: embryology, fetology, teratology
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the physiological changes that occurs within individual organisms from their conception through reaching physical maturity.
developmental biologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of developmental biology
superoperators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superoperator
knightship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knightships
Etymology: From knight + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
ref: 1864-1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:
glosses: The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
examples: text: Fare your knightship well.
ref: 1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas:
glosses: Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
Synonyms: Sense 1. knighthood
knightship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knightships
Etymology: From knight + ship.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
Hypernyms: oblique spaceship
Coordinate terms: sense: A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
alt: (3
word: camelship spaceship)
alt: (3
word: zebraship spaceship)
sense: A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
alt: (4
word: giraffeship spaceship)
alt: (4
word: antelopeship spaceship)
sense: A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
alt: (5
word: ibisship spaceship)
sense: A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
alt: (6
word: flamingoship spaceship)
knightships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knightship
nonanimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonanimal
nonworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonworlds
Etymology: From non- + world.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a world.
nonligand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ligand.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a ligand.
nonworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonworld
nonbridged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bridged.
Senses: glosses: Not connected by a bridge
nonlabored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + labored.
Senses: glosses: Not labored.
Jennalyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Related terms: Jennilyn
nongraceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + graceful.
Senses: glosses: Not graceful.
messageboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messageboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of message board.
messageboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messageboard
nonbridging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bridging.
Senses: glosses: That does not form part of a bridge
nonclusterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clusterable.
Senses: glosses: Not clusterable.
noncompleteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noncomplete + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being noncomplete.
noncompletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncompletions
Etymology: From non- + completion.
Senses: examples: text: Noncompletion of the project would jeopardise the whole company.
glosses: Lack of completion; failure to finish.
nontheorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontheorems
Etymology: From non- + theorem.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is not a theorem.
Derived terms: nontheoremhood
nontheorems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontheorem
Erewhonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɹɪˈ(h)wəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)woʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)wɑ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
rhymes: -ɑniən
Forms: form: more Erewhonian
form: most Erewhonian
Etymology: From Erewhon + -ian: the country's name is an approximate reversal of nowhere, from the novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler.
Senses: examples: text: This seems to be the customary Erewhonian approach to a problem, this time the problem of the incorporeality of God.
ref: 1969, Miriam Strauss Weiss, A Lively Corpse, page 334:
text: The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
text: The four chapters of Davenport's work generally follow the same scheme. Adriaan calls section one "An Erewhonian Sketchbook" and uses a Napoleonic rather than a Gregorian calendar redesignating the months Messidor (July), Thermidor (August), and Fructidor (September).
ref: 2003, Farhat Iftekharuddin, Joseph Boyden, Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story, page 139:
text: Those opposed to the Erewhonian programme are apt to object that it disregards moral guilt as a necessary condition of a just punishment and thus leads to a condition in which any person may be sacrificed to the welfare of society.
ref: 2008, H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law, page 52:
text: The Erewhonian conflation of mechanical energy and capitalist value extends to their attitude toward machinery.
ref: 2015, Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, page 91:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Erewhon.
Erewhonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɹɪˈ(h)wəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)woʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)wɑ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
rhymes: -ɑniən
Forms: form: Erewhonians
Etymology: From Erewhon + -ian: the country's name is an approximate reversal of nowhere, from the novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler.
Senses: examples: text: I've never heard of him. What sort of name is that for an Erewhonian?
ref: 2004, Laraine Anne Barker, The Obsidian Quest, page 101:
text: If so, my own history itself is the history of an average Erewhonian!
ref: 2009, Alexander Raju, The Haunted Man: A Novel, page 18:
text: If an Erewhonian plays his role as a martyr with a smile, it is through metaphysical agility.
ref: 2017, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Macrobiotics (1715-2017):
glosses: An inhabitant of the fictional land of Erewhon.
Jennica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jennifer + Jessica, a 20th-century coinage.
Senses: examples: text: When we were twenty minutes from the airport, he said: “Jennica, we're almost there.” He wanted to talk.
ref: 2009, Rudolph Delson, Maynard and Jennica, page 230:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
jerklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jerklike
form: most jerklike
Etymology: From jerk + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Tics are brief, repetitive, semi-voluntary, jerklike movements.
ref: 2009, Robert E. Hales, Narriman C. Shahrokh, Dan G. Blazer, Study Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry, page 134:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a jerk (sudden movement).
Synonyms: jerky
jerkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jerkingly
form: most jerkingly
Etymology: From jerking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With jerking motions; unsteadily.
tunicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tunic + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a tunic.
nonblacklisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blacklisted.
Senses: glosses: Not blacklisted.
unblacklisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blacklisted.
Senses: glosses: Not blacklisted.
noncausative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + causative.
Senses: examples: text: The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative.
glosses: Not causative.
Not a cause.
examples: text: Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
glosses: Not causative.
Not involving, or affected by, causality.
Derived terms: noncausatively
nonaccusative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + accusative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not accusative.
nongermane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + germane.
Senses: glosses: Not germane; irrelevant.
nonrelevance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + relevance.
Senses: glosses: irrelevance
Yerevanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvæːnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːni.ən/
Forms: form: Yerevanians
Etymology: From Yerevan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Yerevan, Armenia.
Yerevanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvæːnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːni.ən/
Forms: form: more Yerevanian
form: most Yerevanian
Etymology: From Yerevan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating, or pertaining to Yerevan, Armenia.
Yerevanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvæːnɪ.ənz/
ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːni.ənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Yerevanian
nonrelocating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + relocating.
Senses: glosses: Not relocating.
Erewhonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Erewhonian
nondefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + defined.
Senses: glosses: Not defined.
nondefining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + defining.
Senses: glosses: Not defining.
gourmetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gourmetlike
form: most gourmetlike
Etymology: From gourmet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gourmet.
meetinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meetinglike
form: most meetinglike
Etymology: From meeting + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a meeting.
candy corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candy corns
Senses: glosses: A confection of sugar and corn syrup or honey, supposed to resemble a kernel of maize.
Hyponyms: reindeer corn
wuld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of would; also, eye dialect spelling of would.
candy corns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candy corn
nondeferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deferred.
Senses: glosses: Not deferred.
undeferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deferred.
Senses: glosses: Not deferred.
undeferrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deferrable.
Senses: glosses: Not deferrable.
nondeformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deformable.
Senses: glosses: Not deformable.
noncorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncorrelations
Etymology: From non- + correlation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of correlation; failure to correlate.
noncorrelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncorrelation
noncongested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + congested.
Senses: glosses: Not congested.
noncongestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + congestion.
Senses: glosses: Lack of congestion.
guzla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guzlas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gusle.
guzlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guzla
gazumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazumpers
Etymology: From gazump + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gazumps.
gazumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazumper
Misesean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Misesian.
Misesean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miseseans
Senses: examples: text: Of course, no two Marxists and no two Miseseans will ever be exactly alike, so I am not suggesting that a winning political coalition will result from this unlikely arrangement.
ref: 2010, Andrea Castillo, Of Marx and Mises:
glosses: Alternative form of Misesian.
gonfalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːn.fəˌlɑːn/
/-lən/
Forms: form: gonfalons
form: gonfalone
form: gonfanon
Etymology: From Middle English gonfalon, from Old French gonfalon, from Frankish *gunþifanō, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.
Senses: examples: text: Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book CXXXVII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 588–590:
text: Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double—
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
ref: 1910, July 12, Franklin Pierce Adams, poem “That Double Play Again” aka “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”, New York Evening Mail, page 6
text: With vermilion leaf or bronze—
Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—
ref: 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest:
text: It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.
ref: 1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of gonfanon.
Related terms: gonfalonier
zone punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zone punch
gonfalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonfalon
nonreliability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reliability.
Senses: glosses: Lack of reliability; the state or condition of being nonreliable.
nondepreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + depreciated.
Senses: glosses: Not depreciated; that has not lost its value.
taggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagging
tightnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tightness
shoelacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoe + lacing.
Senses: examples: text: To ensure a tight fit, the material was drawn together in the back of the body by a kind of lacing not unlike present-day shoelacing.
ref: 2011, Robert G. Mayer, Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, 5th edition, page 473:
glosses: The fastening of a shoe with a lace.
UKP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UKP
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Kingdom pound.
McKendry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKendrys
Etymology: Variant of McHenry.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Tagliacozzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tagliacotian.
Taliacotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tagliacotian.
dorkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹkɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kɪʃ
Forms: form: more dorkish
form: most dorkish
Etymology: From dork + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Dorky.
Derived terms: dorkishly
dorkishness
Chaplinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chaplinesque
form: most Chaplinesque
Etymology: From Chaplin + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: One of these [posters], When in Doubt, Take the Underground (1913), depicts a dazed, Chaplinesque man consulting his watch and looking perplexed. Well, he would look perplexed - he hasn't yet noticed the light of the Underground station sign behind him.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Reminiscent of Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.
semivocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semivocalic
form: most semivocalic
Etymology: From semi- + vocalic.
Senses: synonyms: semiconsonantal
glosses: Of or pertaining to a semivowel.
semiconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semiconsonantal
form: most semiconsonantal
Etymology: From semi- + consonantal.
Senses: synonyms: semivocalic
glosses: Of or pertaining to a semiconsonant.
carbon copying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carbon copy
carbon copied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbon copy
door chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door chains
Senses: synonyms: security chain
glosses: A device that allows a door to be partially opened from the inside, whilst preventing it from being fully opened from the outside.
deuterotheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuterothemes
Etymology: From deutero- + theme.
Senses: examples: text: The Slavic given names Jaromir and Ludomir both contain the deuterotheme -mir ("peace").
text: The Old English name Beowulf comprises of the prototheme Beo- and the deuterotheme -wulf.
glosses: The second element of a name composed of two traditional name roots.
Derived terms: deuterothematic
deuterothemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuterotheme
prototheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protothemes
Etymology: From proto- + theme.
Senses: examples: text: The Old Norse given names Þorsteinn and Þorgeirr both contain the prototheme Þor- ("Thor-").
glosses: The first element of a name composed of two traditional name roots.
protothemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prototheme
misconster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misconsters
form: misconstering
form: misconstered
form: misconstered
Etymology: From mis- + conster.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of misconstrue.
deuterothematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deutero- + theme + -atic.
Senses: synonyms: dithematic
antonyms: monothematic
glosses: Composed of two traditional name elements.
raw_tags: of a name
Related terms: deuterotheme
polythematic
thematic
in respect
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: they […] still think their melancholy to be most grievous, none so bad as they are, though it be nothing in respect […].
ref: , vol.1, New York, 2001, p.388
glosses: By comparison, comparatively.
Derived terms: in respect of
monothematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + theme + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: a monothematic delusion
coordinate_terms: polythematic
glosses: Dealing with only one theme or topic.
antonyms: deuterothematic
dithematic
glosses: Composed of a single traditional name element.
raw_tags: of a name
Derived terms: monothematically
Related terms: monothematism
thematic
monomaniacal
get one's eye in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's eye in
form: getting one's eye in
form: got one's eye in
form: got one's eye in
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To become accustomed to the playing conditions, and thus bring one's hand-eye coordination to a reasonable level.
examples: text: Having thus got my "eye in" for Bledii, numerous casts in my drive and garden footpaths were explored, and turned out to be those of B. opacus
ref: 1881, The Entomologist's monthly magazine, page 163:
text: To know fiddles and judge them you must be always looking at them. For a time, at least, I got my eye in by dwelling on the best models.
ref: 1898, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My musical life, page 217:
text: Why, I myself, old hand as I am, after being away for some months about town, or looking at other things, can't get my eye in and down to it for two or three days; then it kind of comes natural.
ref: 1899, Arthur Lakes, Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America, page 259:
text: Roberto then took three swings, but did not move his legs or hips, just the arms and wrists-he was merely getting his eye in.
ref: 1973 March, Baseball Digest, volume 32, number 3, page 20:
text: He felt elated. Till now he had been living too much in the past, he decided. Time to get my eye in again.
ref: 1974, John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, page 95:
text: She had now got her eye in. A 10000-ton tanker heading for Tunisia with powerful escort got no farther than the north coast of Sicily.
ref: 1997, His Majesty's Submarines, page 53:
text: Once I'd got my eye in, it was quite impossible — without looking away first — to see the ceiling as flat again.
ref: 2008, Poppy Adams, The Sister, page 147:
text: Someone who has 'got their eye in' has internalized an ability to draw to scale. While the new recruit stops all the time to take measurements, the drawing of someone with 'their eye in' flows.
ref: 2009, Leo Duff with Phil Sawdon, Drawing - The Purpose, page 21:
glosses: To develop a perceptual skill, especially visual.
Related terms: keep one's eye in
environazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environazis
Etymology: From enviro- + Nazi.
Senses: examples: text: The environazis are terrified by nuclear power, not because it is not as safe as its record proves it to be, but because the widespread use of nuclear power will make our consumer economy sustainable, with only moderate changes in the way materials are handled.
ref: 2005 February 11, Richard Bell, “Re: Are nukes the answer to global warming?”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):
text: Yes! No more TV sets, no more light bulbs! No more electricity! We'll be back in the dark ages if the environazis have their ways!
ref: 2007 March 22, G. Gillette, “Re: Americans - Dumber Than Fuck.”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):
text: The whole world's fighting over fresh water like a pack of starving dogs with one stripped bone among them, and then Brazil started shooting all those sulfates into the stratosphere and—well, it was turning out just like the environazis said, only way worse and way fucking faster.
ref: 2011, Peter Watts, Crysis: Legion, Del Rey, published 2011, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A hardline environmentalist.
Synonyms: ecocrazy
ecofreak
ecohippie
econazi
enviro
envirotard
tree hugger
stichomythic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stichomythia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to stichomythia
stiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stiddier
form: stiddiest
Senses: examples: text: "Ye got the drop on me," he said; "I ain't got no gun; but look-a here, stranger, that there little B'ar is the only pard I got; he's my stiddy company an' we're almighty fond o' each other.
ref: 1919, Ernest Thompson Seton, Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac:
text: Ma always likes to have me, I'm so patient and stiddy, she says," answered Prue, for the responsibility of this great undertaking did not rest upon her, so she took a cheerful view of things.
ref: 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of steady.
stiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stiddies
form: stiddying
form: stiddied
form: stiddied
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of steady.
stiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiddies
Senses: examples: text: On special occasions at Lythe the old stiddy (anvil) is dragged outside and primed with wooden plugs containing gunpowder. When all spectators are well out of any possible danger, the plugs are fired with a prod from an iron pole.
ref: 2003, Howard Peach, Curious Tales of Old North Yorkshire:
glosses: Alternative form of stithy.
nonanaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anaphoric.
Senses: glosses: Not anaphoric.
nonmetaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metaphoric.
Senses: glosses: Not metaphoric.
nonlocative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + locative.
Senses: glosses: Not locative.
stilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlti
Forms: form: stiltier
form: stiltiest
Etymology: From stilt + -y.
Senses: glosses: pompous
examples: text: He has the animal trotted, and may notice at this stage that there is an inclination to go on the toes, that the lame limb or limbs are not put forward freely, and that progression is stilty and uncertain; it is such, in fact, as to at once suggest the possibility of corns being present.
ref: 1906, Harry Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot:
text: If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain.
ref: 1916, United States Department of Agriculture, Special Report on Diseases of the Horse:
glosses: uneven, as if walking on stilts
raw_tags: of a gait
examples: Feb 19, 2007, Daily Telegraph - Floored by Nelly's vocal punchhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3663306/Floored-by-Nellys-vocal-punch.html
Down there on the stage Furtado twizzled her shiny jet ringlets around her tiny digits and wobbled off stage in her stilty white stilettos.
glosses: resembling stilts
mathematical morphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MM
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theory and technique for the analysis and processing of geometrical structures, based on set theory, lattice theory, topology, and random functions.
stipendiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪˈpɛndjəɹi/
ipa: /staɪˈpɛndiˌɛɹi/
Etymology: From Latin stipendiarius.
Senses: examples: text: His father, Mr. Justice Harley, died in his promising son's College term, bequeathing him nothing but his legal complexion, and Adrian became stipendiary officer in his uncles household.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 4, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: The unusual hour, appropriate as I supposed only to some porter or other stipendiary visitor of my hotel, caused to shine out with startling refulgence the morning splendors in which Papa Joliet had arrayed himself.
ref: 1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.:
text: Now, to become a stipendiary editor of a New-Year's Gift-Book is not to be thought of, nor could I agree to work for any quantity of supply to such a publication.
ref: 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:
glosses: Receiving a stipend.
stipendiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪˈpɛndjəɹi/
ipa: /staɪˈpɛndiˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: stipendiaries
Etymology: From Latin stipendiarius.
Senses: examples: text: Delhi, the capital of the Great Mogul, fell into the hands of the English, and the emperor himself became a stipendiary of a company of merchants.
ref: 1874, John Lord, A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon:
text: I confess I have stipendiaries; they are the poor of Christ's flock; a treasure which I am well used in amassing.
ref: 1908, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3):
glosses: One who receives a stipend.
stiddiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stiddy: most stiddy
nonunilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + unilateral.
Senses: glosses: Not unilateral.
nonorphaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + orphaned.
Senses: examples: a nonorphaned child
a nonorphaned background process
glosses: Not orphaned (in various senses).
nonorphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonorphans
Etymology: From non- + orphan.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an orphan.
nonorphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonorphan
stirless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəːləs/
Forms: form: more stirless
form: most stirless
Etymology: From stir + -less.
Senses: examples: text: For there it lies so tranquil, so beloved, / All that it hath of Life with us is living; / So gentle, stirless, helpless, and unmoved, / And all unconscious of the joy 't is giving [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.197:
text: Like one dead she sat and waited, Listening to the stirless silence, Ages in a second, till, Lightly leaping, came her lover, And, still smiling, laid the sweet Snow-white blossom at her feet.
ref: 1876, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mercy Philbrick's Choice:
text: Often, after an active morning, she would spend a sunny afternoon in lying stirless on the turf, at the foot of some tree of friendly umbrage: no society did she need but that of Caroline, and it sufficed if she were within call; no spectacle did she ask but that of the deep blue sky, and such cloudlets as sailed afar and aloft across its span; no sound but that of the bee's hum, the leaf's whisper."
ref: 1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront:
glosses: Motionless, still.
stochiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stoichiometry.
stockingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stocking + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Flintwinch crossed the hall, feeling its pavement cold to her stockingless feet, and peeped in between the rusty hinges on the door, which stood a little open.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Mrs. Flintwinch has a Dream”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 31:
text: Her tremendous, flabby, stockingless ankles bulged over her unlaced hobnailed boots; her dress was torn and unbuttoned at the throat, displaying one of the dirtiest necks I have seen.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “To Life”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 232:
synonyms: unstockinged
glosses: Not wearing stockings.
unstockinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stockinged.
Senses: glosses: not wearing stockings
Synonyms: stockingless
stockingful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockingfuls
form: stockingsful
Etymology: From stocking + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.
ref: 1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories:
text: On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for stockingsful of joy — or judgment.
ref: 1993, Tom Flynn, The Trouble with Christmas, page 47:
text: More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.
ref: 2005 December 9, Brian Nemtusak, “Screw X-Mas”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: the amount that can fit in a stocking
stokehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stokeholds
Etymology: From stoke + hold.
Senses: examples: text: Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.
ref: 1887, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887:
text: A plume of smoke went nearly straight up from the funnel, and now and then the clang of furnace-slice and shovel rose from the stokehold, for Mayne hoped to float the vessel next tide.
ref: 1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer:
text: The noise and roar of the engines was ever in my ears, and the peculiar ocean-like noise of the stokehold ... and the metallic clang of coal as it shot from shovels....
ref: 1922, Harry Kemp, Tramping on Life:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked.
Synonyms: fireroom
stokehole
stomates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomate
stormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormers
Etymology: From storm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Did you ever hear of Coronado, the conqueror of New Mexico, the stormer of the seven cities of Cibola?
ref: 1871, John William De Forest, Overland:
text: That is a contrary definition, which is laid down in opposition to the actions which those who are the hearers of the speech have done; as if any one were to be speaking before Alexander the Great against some stormer of a city, and were to say that nothing was more inhuman than to destroy cities, when Alexander himself had destroyed Thebes.
ref: 1903, Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4:
text: Hochberg has a reputation as a stormer, and he'd already been hounding the Chicago papers to print happier news about his company.
ref: 1997 September 5, Michael Miner, “Knight-Ridder's Labor Daze/ Sun-Times for Sale?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who storms.
glosses: Something very loud and powerful, such as a song or a car.
stormless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From storm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A stormless summer
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Without a storm or stormy weather.
Derived terms: stormlessness
stoutish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stout + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
ref: 1912, Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly:
text: I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this.
ref: 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:
text: In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: reasonably stout, somewhat stout
stratigrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratigraphers
Etymology: From stratigraphy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The barren hills south of Beipiao, swept by an icy wind from Mongolia, stand in stark contrast to the ancient environment, which stratigrapher Hao Zhaolin of the Beipiao Bureau of Mineral Resources Administration describes as "a shallow, warm lake whose waters teemed with shoals of fish," with flocks of birds overhead.
ref: 1998 March 13, Justin Wang, “PALEONTOLOGY: Scientists Flock to Explore China's 'Site of the Century'”, in Science, volume 279, number 5357, →DOI, pages 1626–1627:
text: A senior stratigrapher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGP), Jin spent up to 6 months before each trip meeting such bureaucratic requirements as advance approval for every piece of correspondence.
ref: 2001 January 12, Xiong Lei, “PARTNERS: Fruitful Collaborations Follow a Two-Way Street”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI:
glosses: An expert in stratigraphy.
Synonyms: word: stratigraphist
striked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm—just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.
ref: 1830, [Frederick Marryat], chapter VI, in The King’s Own. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: simple past and past participle of strike
Related terms: struck
strutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strutters
Etymology: From Middle English stroutere; equivalent to strut + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Which is the boaster, the strutter, the bedizener of his sinful carcase with feathers and beads, fox-tails and bears' claws,--the brave, or his poor little squaw?
ref: 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
text: First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him."
ref: 1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing:
text: I imagined Queer Nation as a collection of bizarros who celebrated every outlawed characteristic in our one nation under Helms. I imagined nose rings and strutters and opinionated students and men in lipstick. Sounded like my kind of crowd.
ref: 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 11:
glosses: someone who struts
stryve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve: The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why.
ref: 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
text: But this corruption is caryed with a stronger tyde then reason can resist, and we wil not stryve with the stream. 14.
ref: 1865, Alexander Hume, Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of strive.
stumbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stumblier
form: more stumbly
form: stumbliest
form: most stumbly
Etymology: From stumble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I feel stumbly, and when I try to find the door for the stairwell I walk into the bathroom instead.
ref: 1999 June 25, Howard L., “Confessions of a Lab Rat”, in Chicago Reader:
text: And on tonight’s episode, when she faces a crisis — the reactions to her incoherent TV interviews last January — the carefully created sentences she uses to explain her slurry, stumbly self-presentation says it all.
ref: 2007 July 5, Virginia Heffernan, “Hey, Adrift and Famous? Do a Celebreality Show!”, in New York Times:
glosses: prone to stumble
styll
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /stɪl/
[stɪɫ]
Etymology: Modern usage seems to have originated in Canadian slang, compare other modern respellings of i with y like whyte (which also coincides with an older spelling variant).
Senses: examples: text: I’m no new here. So, don’t disrespect me for some new mans styll.
ref: 2017 December 1, Roy Woods, “Monday To Monday”, in Say Less:
glosses: Usually added to the end of a sentence to add emphasis.
examples: text: ¶ So streyt that to scape col{us} had noo space ¶ This seyng Colus be styll wythin abode.
ref: 1500, anonymous author, The Assemble of Goddes:
text: These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are passed ouer, styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
text: The lady sate styll in the blacke chayre, in her prayers to God, and to the vyrgyne Mary, humbly prayenge them, by theyr specyall grace, to send her husbande the victory, accordynge to the ryght.
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of still.
macaroonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macaroon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Huguenot torte, a chewy, macaroonlike cake, looks and sounds like a French dish, but it is really a knockoff of Ozark pudding, a Midwestern dessert.
ref: 2009 September 13, Amanda Hesser, “Huguenot Torte, 1965”, in New York Times:
glosses: resembling a macaroon
lexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lex
glosses: plural of lexis
lexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lex
lexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lex
lexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lexed
form: most lexed
Derived terms: unlexed
lexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lex
nonorthogonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + orthogonality.
Senses: glosses: Absence of orthogonality; the state or condition of being nonorthogonal.
distillability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distillabilities
Etymology: From distill + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being distillable; the ability to be distilled (in any sense).
Derived terms: nondistillablity
undistillability