cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pavement special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪvm(ə)nt ˈspɛʃl̩/
ipa: /ˌpeɪvm(ə)nt ˈspɛʃ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
Forms: form: pavement specials
Etymology: From pavement + special (“thing which is distinctive or out of the ordinary”, noun), referring to the fact that stray dogs are often found roaming around on pavements.
Senses: examples: text: [E]very mangy, threadbare, snarling cur pariah pavement-special dog that ever got kicked in the ribs appears from the shadows of twisted dreams and with flashing fangs bears down on the injured party to rip her apart in a streak of blood and matted fur.
ref: 1996 (date written), Brett Bailey, “Notes from the Wilderness”, in The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-jinx from the South African Stage, Cape Town, South Africa: Double Storey Books, Juta, published 2003, →ISBN, page 36:
text: As I move around the world studying working dogs, there always seems to be another population of dogs hanging around. They are part of the background. When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.
ref: 2001, Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, “Village Dogs”, in Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Two smaller pavement specials ranged alongside, and made up for size by their barking.
ref: 2011, Eckart Schumann, chapter 3, in Patterns of Change, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, AEG Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 29:
text: And then there was Gypsy, a little black rescue dog we picked up from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Gypsy was a wonderful mutt, a ‘pavement special’ as we say, who had a heart as big as Africa.
ref: 2012 July, Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, chapter 3, in The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23:
text: In Park Rynie, down the south coast in Kwa Zulu Natal, where I had grown up, we only saw and heard of people keeping Alsatians, Rottweilers, Labradors, poodles, and the common pavement specials. My knowledge of dogs was actually pathetic, but the subject had never interested me.
ref: 2013 March 6, Resh Ramlakan, Fur Kids: Angels on Earth, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 11:
synonyms: Heinz 57
glosses: A dog (especially a stray dog) of miscellaneous ancestry; a mongrel, a mutt.
pavement specials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavement special
Heinz 57s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heinz 57
koshering salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kosher salt.
synonyms: word: kosher salt
Heinzs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heinz
kratons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kraton
guns and roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A whaler's life isn't all guns and roses, however, so Melville and a shipmate jumped ship at the Marquesas Islands.
ref: 2012, Bob*Star Publishing, American Literature Review, page 48:
text: But the story is not all guns and roses. Many of these foreign fighters die in the combat zone or end up moving on to fight in other foreign conflicts. Significant percentages simply cannot endure the training or become disillusioned once they come to realize that the harsh realities of waging a bloody jihad are far less glamorous than they seemed from afar.
ref: 2015, Daniel Byman, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement, page 105:
text: 'You're all guns and roses, mate,' was one off-hand comment on one of my crime thrillers where romance blossoms between two people trying to stop terrorists blowing up Heathrow Airport. In my erotic romances, I take time to discover the lives of the people involved before the action starts.
ref: 2021, SM Flint, Devotion and Duty:
glosses: The glamour of love, war, and adventure, as opposed to mundane reality.
Englewood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In New Jersey, believed to be a corruption of Dutch Engels woud (“English wood or forest”); the area was once known as the English Neighborhood.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Charlotte County and Sarasota County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Columbus, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood and community area in Chicago, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Clark County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bergen County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Montgomery County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in McMinn County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A former community in the north of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Mellida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "That's no matter," said Mellida, "but I am sure a neater personage is there not in mine eye in all the world. And how far would poor Mellida go to receive one pleasing smile from him?"
ref: 1998, Richard Brathwaite, Henry D. Janzen, The Two Lancashire Lovers, page 207:
glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Antonio and Mellida
Elizabethan play by John Marston
Pœcile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A celebrated portico in Athens, containing numerous paintings.
phobiaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phobia + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of fears have already been named for us; such as acrophobia (fear of high places), agoraphobia (fear of open places), zoophobia (fear of animals), phobiaphobia (fear of fear), etc. You need not, however, be limited to those already named and catalogued.
ref: Bill L. Little, Self-Destruction Made Easy (page 72)
text: When unchecked, fear spawns a whole brood of phobias—fear of water, high places, closed rooms, darkness, loneliness, among others—and such an accumulation culminates in phobiaphobia or the fear of fear itself.
ref: 2012, Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings, page 116:
text: The arguments are familiar: the academy is for […] eliminating racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, phobiaphobia, and prejudice in whatever form today's fevered imaginariums of offence can conjure.
ref: 2017, Dennis Hayes, Beyond McDonaldization: Visions of Higher Education, page 53:
glosses: The fear of fear itself.
Synonyms: phobophobia
brings a knife to a gunfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring a knife to a gunfight
brought a knife to a gunfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring a knife to a gunfight
fights fire with fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fight fire with fire
fighting fire with fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fight fire with fire
uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
fought fire with fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fight fire with fire
used a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
breaks a butterfly upon the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break a butterfly upon the wheel
using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
broken a butterfly upon the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break a butterfly upon the wheel
broke a butterfly upon the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break a butterfly upon the wheel
breaking a butterfly upon the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break a butterfly upon the wheel
Greco-Roman wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Graeco-Roman wrestling
Senses: glosses: Canada, US standard spelling of Graeco-Roman wrestling.
freestyle wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: wrestling
martial art
contact sport
combat sport
coordinate_terms: Graeco-Roman wrestling
glosses: One of the two Olympic styles of wrestling, which allows attacks below the waist.
recovery room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery rooms
Senses: glosses: A fraudulent operation in which the fraudsters contact people who have already been scammed and offer to recover their lost money, but in fact steal more money from the victims.
recovery rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recovery room
pooi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poi (“food made from pounded roots”).
afterwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterwaves
Etymology: From after- + wave.
Senses: examples: text: 1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,
From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:
text: Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.
ref: 1866 April 28, Saturday Review, volume 21, number 548, page 490:
text: [I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.
ref: 1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120:
text: Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.
ref: 1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84:
text: He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.
ref: 2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals, New York: Knopf, pages 705–706:
glosses: A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something.
afterwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterwave
super-unbelievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more super-unbelievable
form: most super-unbelievable
Senses: examples: text: Despite being slightly more "realistic" than the Angelina Jolie movies, the new Tomb Raider is fully of super-unbelievable, off-the-wall stuff. First of all, Lara Croft doesn't die or seriously injure anything even though she spends the whole movie getting shot at and almost falling over waterfalls.
ref: 2018 March 19, Eliza Thompson, “That Japanese Death Queen From Tomb Raider Was Real”, in www.cosmopolitan.com, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2018:
text: How Shankar is filmed no matter where he is and what he does is, frankly, super-unbelievable.
ref: 2019 November 9, R. M. VIJAYAKAR, “Satellite Shankar: Absurd Depiction Of Soldier’s Valor - Review more”, in www.indiawest.com, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of superunbelievable.
Stratt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɻæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: Stratts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sophorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rutin.
synonyms: word: rutin
DHQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dihydroquercetin.
Stratts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stratt
Yippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yippies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of yippie (“member of the Youth International Party”).
Yippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yippie
glosses: plural of Yippy
Yippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪ.pi/
Forms: form: Yippies
Etymology: From initials of "Yard Patrol" + -y.
Senses: glosses: A yard patrol boat.
crash boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash boats
Senses: glosses: A wooden speedboat used to rescue the crew of downed aircraft, chiefly in World War Two.
Splinter Fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Splinter Fleet
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the wooden boats used by the United States military, chiefly in World War Two.
E-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-boats
Etymology: After the naming pattern used for the German boats (in this case German S-Boot), but using E for enemy.
Senses: glosses: Any German fast attack craft in World War Two.
Higgins boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Higgins boats
Etymology: Named after American boat designer Andrew Higgins.
Senses: glosses: A type of shallow-draft boat used in amphibious landings, chiefly in World War Two.
perma
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permas
form: perma's
form: permaing
form: perma'ing
form: perma-ing
form: permaed
form: permaed
form: perma'd
form: perma'd
form: perma'ed
form: perma'ed
Senses: examples: text: My points were that a permanent death model was used on LegendMUD the predecesor to UO and it failed miserably. Promoted ongoing endless "hate" wars of permaing other peoples characters (perma'd character would make new one, build up, hunt down who perma'd him, that person would respond in same).
ref: 1997 December 21, Jag, “Re: Good Post/Idea”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: To permakill.
examples: text: Following the stream, Elle Grenn confirmed she had been permabanned. In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote “Yesterday, some of the RP that took place was solely based on meta information that shouldn’t have been out. I was really upset about this as it cut a lot of the RP with the PD completely out, so we tried to RP fix it. ¶ “Today I got perma’d for it? Nice.”
ref: 2021 November 4, Calum Patterson, “Twitch streamer Elle Grenn banned from NoPixel GTA RP after metagaming accusations”, in Dexerto:
glosses: To permaban.
perma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Permanent.
age grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age grades
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organized, culturally defined social category of people with membership based on age; in some societies it is entered automatically when one reaches a certain age, while in others it is entered through an initiation rite and/or the payment of a fee.
Related terms: age set
age set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age sets
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An established social category or group consisting of people born during a certain time span who together move through a series of culturally defined age grades.
superplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superplasmas
Etymology: From super- + plasma.
Senses: examples: text: Analogously, if I believed that the only enmattered intelligent are humans and had a crazy neighbor who believed in the existence of "superplasma"-based sapient aliens, I would not need to understand the concept of "superplasma" to believe my neighbor's claims to be false --- if would suffice that I would know that whatever my neighbor meant by it, it was a form of matter.
ref: 2006, Alexander R. Pruss, The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 192:
text: The interstellar craft sped through the vast blackness of deep space at incredible speed. The sole occupant reposed in comfort within a bubble of protective superplasma in a state of suspended animation.
ref: 2009, Wayne Berry, Is This the Fun Part?: An Anthology, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 266:
text: However, just after the phase transition, the appearance of an immense number of different particles in a corresponding number of degrees of freedom, and in practice produces an increase of the temperature of the cosmic medium (which is now a sort of "superplasma").
ref: 2016, Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto, Angelo Tartaglia, Physics: The Ultimate Adventure, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Extremely powerful plasma.
ovophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovophiles
Etymology: From ovo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A mouthbrooding member of the fish family Cichlidae.
ovophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovophile
Fayettevillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fayettevillians
Senses: examples: text: Fayettevillians had been enthusiastic supporters of the American war effort. There was a huge patriotic rally at the LaFayette Theatre in September 1918, ...
ref: 2005, David T. Morgan, Murder Along the Cape Fear: A North Carolina Town in the Twentieth Century, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: These few Fayettevillians made a conscious decision not to build the city. They didn't want annexation, I-95, or more generally foreigners coming into [the area].
ref: 2010, George Baca, Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Fayetteville, North Carolina, or either of the other cities named Fayetteville in the United States.
Fayettevillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fayettevillian
superplasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplasma
bulbfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbfields
form: bulb field
Senses: glosses: A field in which flowers are grown from bulbs (typically a visitor attraction in The Netherlands)
bulbfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbfield
Team GB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The name of the team of athletes that represent the United Kingdom in the Olympic Games
fish-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fishball.
snownado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snownados
form: snownadoes
Etymology: Blend of snow + tornado. By surface analysis, snow + -nado.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snowspout.
synonyms: word: snowspout
glosses: A tornado that touches down over a snow covered area, such as a field or mountain, and draws snow up into its vortices.
snow devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow devils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snowspout.
synonyms: word: snowspout
snownadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snownado
snownados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snownado
snow devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow devil
shitmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitmongers
Etymology: From shit + monger.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: shit-stirrer
glosses: A person who peddles worthless, overblown, or harmful ideas or gossip.
shitmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitmonger
jade vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jade vines
Etymology: The bluish-green colour of the flowers is thought to resemble the precious stone jade.
Senses: synonyms: emerald vine
glosses: Strongylodon macrobotrys, a leguminous perennial liana endemic to the tropical forests of the Philippines.
jade vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jade vine
emerald vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emerald vines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jade vine.
synonyms: word: jade vine
emerald vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emerald vine
Buridan's bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described by Jean Buridan.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A self-referential paradox involving a proposition pronounced about an event that might or might not happen in the future. Socrates wishes to cross a bridge guarded by Plato, who says that if the next proposition Socrates utters is true, Socrates will be permitted to cross, but otherwise he will be thrown into the water. Socrates replies, "You will throw me into the water." Plato is then in a paradoxical situation regarding how to treat Socrates.
wikipedia: Jean Buridan
Buridanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Buridanian
form: most Buridanian
Etymology: From Buridan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the 14th-century French philosopher Jean Buridan.
Barnes integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barnes integrals
Etymology: They were introduced by Ernest William Barnes.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Mellin-Barnes integral
glosses: A contour integral involving a product of gamma functions, closely related to generalized hypergeometric series.
wikipedia: Ernest William Barnes
Barnes integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barnes integral
Mellin-Barnes integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mellin-Barnes integrals
Etymology: Named after Ernest William Barnes and Hjalmar Mellin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Barnes integral.
synonyms: word: Barnes integral
wikipedia: Ernest William Barnes
Hjalmar Mellin
Mellin-Barnes integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mellin-Barnes integral
Kyriopascha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The occurrence of Pascha (Easter) and Lady Day (the Annunciation) on the same day.
Kyropoulos technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kyropoulos technique
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kyropoulos method.
synonyms: word: Kyropoulos method
Czochralski method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Czochralski method
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Czochralski process.
synonyms: word: Czochralski process
Czochralski technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Czochralski technique
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Czochralski process.
synonyms: word: Czochralski process
babier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of baby: more baby
babier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babiers
Senses: examples: text: Mom wasn't much of a babier.
ref: 2015, A. W. Hartoin, Mercy Watts Box Set:
glosses: One who babies or coddles.
logging railroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logging railroads
Senses: topics: business
forestry
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad built for the purpose of transporting logs out of a forest.
logging railroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logging railroad
playworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playworlds
Etymology: From play + world.
Senses: examples: text: As occurs in all playworlds, in Michael's playworld adult-child joint play was made possible through the creation of a common fiction, a space in which both children and adults are creatively engaged.
ref: 2012, Carol Korn-Bursztyn, Young Children and the Arts, page 147:
text: After the school year was complete, the adults continued the playworld through many different forms of playful analysis, including adult-adult interaction that incorporated filming, drawing and painting.
ref: 2017, Tina Bruce, Pentti Hakkarainen, Milda Bredikyte, The Routledge International Handbook of Early Childhood Play, page 66:
glosses: An imaginary scenario developed by children and adults as a focus for playing together.
playworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playworld
disciplelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disciplelike
form: most disciplelike
Etymology: From disciple + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a disciple.
kerblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kerblike
form: most kerblike
Etymology: From kerb + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kerb (edge of roadway).
curblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curblike
form: most curblike
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerblike.
kerbstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kerbstone + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with kerbstones.
curbstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerbstoned.
foehnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foehnlike
form: most foehnlike
Etymology: From foehn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a foehn (type of wind).
girdlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girdlelike
form: most girdlelike
Etymology: From girdle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a girdle.
girdle traverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girdle traverse
larderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more larderlike
form: most larderlike
Etymology: From larder + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The “ant-proof cooler” was a small larderlike cupboard in the kitchen, with a circular metal shelving unit, a series of round trays which revolved like a lazy Susan.
ref: 2002, Terrell Dixon, City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature, page 279:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a larder.
hunterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunterlike
form: most hunterlike
Etymology: From hunter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hunter.
huntlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more huntlike
form: most huntlike
Etymology: From hunt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is a huntlike quest for some sort of power over nature.
ref: 2009, Rochelle Johnson, Passions for Nature, page 198:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hunt.
parsleylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parsleylike
form: most parsleylike
Etymology: From parsley + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The umbellate inflorescence, fruit type, and parsleylike leaves make Apiaceae easy to recognize.
ref: 1998, Ronald J. Taylor, Desert Wildflowers of North America, page 204:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of parsley.
myrtlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myrtlelike
form: most myrtlelike
Etymology: From myrtle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The allusion is to the small myrtlelike fruits, not unlike blueberries, of these cacti.
ref: 2013, A. W. Smith, A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of myrtle.
Des Plaines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French La Rivière des Plaines.
Senses: glosses: A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, which forms the Illinois River.
glosses: A city in Cook County, Illinois, named after the river.
counteradvise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counteradvises
form: counteradvising
form: counteradvised
form: counteradvised
Etymology: From counter- + advise.
Senses: glosses: To give the opposite advice.
counteradvising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counteradvise
counteradvised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counteradvise
counteradvises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counteradvise
counteradvice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + advice.
Senses: glosses: Advice that goes against other advice; opposite advice.
countercurrently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From countercurrent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a countercurrent manner.
countercurrentwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From countercurrent + -wise.
Senses: glosses: countercurrently
counterconquest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterconquests
Etymology: From counter- + conquest.
Senses: glosses: A conquest made in opposition to another, as by a previously conquered entity.
counterconquests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterconquest
counterdeputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdeputations
Etymology: From counter- + deputation.
Senses: glosses: A deputation that opposes another deputation.
counterdeputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdeputation
counterdesire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdesires
Etymology: From counter- + desire.
Senses: glosses: An opposite desire.
counterdesires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdesire
counterfeitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfeitments
Etymology: From counterfeit + -ment.
Senses: glosses: counterfeiting
counterfeitments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfeitment
counteridea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterideas
Etymology: From counter- + idea.
Senses: glosses: An opposite idea.
counterideal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterideals
Etymology: From counter- + ideal.
Senses: glosses: An opposing ideal.
counterideas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteridea
counterideals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterideal
counterintrigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterintrigues
Etymology: From counter- + intrigue.
Senses: glosses: An opposing intrigue or plot.
counterintrigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterintrigue
counterinsult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinsults
Etymology: From counter- + insult.
Senses: glosses: An insult in response to a previous insult.
counterinsults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinsult
countermission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermissions
Etymology: From counter- + mission.
Senses: glosses: A mission whose goal is to disrupt or retaliate against another mission.
countermissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermission
subclouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcloud
counterreason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterreasons
Etymology: From counter- + reason.
Senses: glosses: An opposing reason; a reason against something.
counterreason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterreasons
form: counterreasoning
form: counterreasoned
form: counterreasoned
Etymology: From counter- + reason.
Senses: glosses: To reason against something.
counterreasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterreason
counterreasons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterreason
counterside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersides
Etymology: From counter- + side.
Senses: examples: text: But there is a counterside to promotional hyperbole, for exaggerated promises that dovetail with people's hopes and expectations open the way to cynicism should promises falter or fail.
ref: 1998, William D. Foulkes, Shirley V. Hodgson, Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer, page 51:
glosses: An opposite side.
counterside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter + -side.
Senses: examples: text: While you're perched on a counterside stool, watch the video presentation that explains how Wolfgang candy is made.
ref: 2001, Sharon Hernes Silverman, Pennsylvania Snacks:
glosses: Beside a counter.
countersides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterside
counterstimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterstimulates
form: counterstimulating
form: counterstimulated
form: counterstimulated
Etymology: From counter- + stimulate.
Senses: glosses: To stimulate in an opposite manner or direction.
counterstimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterstimulate
counterstimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterstimulate
counterstimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterstimulate
counterstimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterstimulation
counterstratagem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterstratagems
Etymology: From counter- + stratagem.
Senses: glosses: A stratagem set up to oppose another stratagem.
counterstratagems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterstratagem
counterstruggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterstruggles
Etymology: From counter- + struggle.
Senses: glosses: An opposing struggle.
counterstruggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterstruggles
form: counterstruggling
form: counterstruggled
form: counterstruggled
Etymology: From counter- + struggle.
Senses: glosses: To struggle in opposition.
counterstruggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterstruggle
counterstruggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterstruggle
counterstruggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterstruggle
counterstruggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterstruggle
counterswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterswings
Etymology: From counter- + swing.
Senses: glosses: A swing in the opposite direction.
counterswing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterswings
form: counterswinging
form: counterswung
form: counterswung
Etymology: From counter- + swing.
Senses: glosses: To swing in the opposite direction.
counterswings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterswing
counterswings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterswing
counterswinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterswing
counterswung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterswing
counterdispute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdisputes
Etymology: From counter- + dispute.
Senses: glosses: A dispute opposing or responding to another dispute.
counterdisputes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdispute
countervenom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countervenoms
Etymology: From counter- + venom.
Senses: glosses: antivenin
countervenoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countervenom
courtzilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such forms as gilsonite, elaterite, uintaite, grahamite, courtzilite, etc., are hard and brittle at ordinary temperatures, […]
ref: 1896, United States, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, page 752:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of asphalt allied to uintahite and gilsonite.
cleared the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clear the air
clears the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clear the air
clearing the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clear the air
Covareca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Otuke language.
covinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more covinously
form: most covinously
Etymology: From covinous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a covinous manner.
covolumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covolume
Sifan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oromo Siifan, Siif (“for you”) + an (“I am, me”) = (I am for you).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Oromo, (that indicated am for you)
Sifan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oromo Siifan, Siif (“for you”) + an (“I am, me”) = (I am for you).
Senses: glosses: A village in Anantnag tehsil, Anantnag district, Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India, in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.
Dirkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dirkeses
Etymology: Variant of Dirks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Crespis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crespi
Dirkeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirkes
Diantonio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diantonios
form: DiAntonio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Antonio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Deter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Deter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Diantonios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Diantonio
Calderin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calderins
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Calderín. This surname is mostly found in Cuba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Calderins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Calderin
Carrubbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carrubba
Kawatiri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A locality in Tasman district, South Island, New Zealand.
cowleeching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The work of a cowleech, giving medical treatment to cows.
Cowlitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest.
Cowlitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of the Tsamosan branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages.
Related terms: Cowlitz County
coxcomby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coxcomby
form: most coxcomby
Etymology: From coxcomb + -y.
Senses: glosses: foolish and conceited
cradlemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradlemates
Etymology: From cradle + mate.
Senses: glosses: An infant raised in the same cradle as another.
glosses: Something created along with something else, at the same time.
cradlemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradlemate
Cradock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cradocks
Etymology: Variant of Craddock.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cradocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cradock
crajuru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carajura.
carajuru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carajura.
caraipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caraipe
Brogna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brognas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Brogna.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bujaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bujak
Brognas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brogna
sharing is caring
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Yet for a growing faction in the domain of culture, to complain about the pathetically low standard of the art on view is irrelevant at best, oppressive at worst. Artists matter, not art. Sharing is caring. Pass the beer.
ref: 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: It is important to share one's things with other people.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: One should let other people have sex with one's partner / one's spouse.
examples: text: Sharing is Caring [title]
ref: 2012, Dan Bull, “Sharing is Caring”:
text: There are also hundreds of books and papers written by hundreds of very smart people debating whether or not it is right to prevent the sharing of protected digital works and whether it would instead be better if we all just lived in a utopian society where creative industry capitalism is banished and sharing is caring.
ref: 2014, Emma Sadleir, Tamsyn de Beer, Don't Film Yourself Having Sex, Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN:
glosses: Copyright is objectionable.
Cantara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cantaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Cantara.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Chiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiaos
Etymology: Variant of Qiao or Jiao.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Chiaos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chiao
Cantaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cantara
manufacturables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manufacturable
biodiversity hotspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biodiversity hotspot
dark flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark flow
craniacromial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + acromial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cranium and acromion.
Crehan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crehans
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Croidheáin (“descendant of Croidheán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of croidhe (“heart”). Compare Creegan.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Creacháin (“descendant of Creachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of creach (“blind”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
cramberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cramberries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cranberry.
cramberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cramberry
craniopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to craniopathy.
cranioscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cranioscopic.
cranioscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cranioscopy.
craniographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniographers
Senses: glosses: One who studies craniography.
craniographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniographer
craniomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + maxillary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cranium and maxilla.
Dorch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorches
Etymology: Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic dorch (“dark”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Dorches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorch
Crehans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crehan
crankman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crankmen
Etymology: From crank + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man employed to operate a crank.
crankmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crankman
craunchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more craunchingly
form: most craunchingly
Etymology: From craunching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At this point there was a pause, of which Mr. Folinsbee availed himself to walk very grimly and craunchingly down the gravel-walk toward the gate.
ref: 1872, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands:
glosses: Archaic form of crunchingly.
McMeekin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McMeekins
form: McMeechan
form: McMeekan
form: McMicken
form: McMicking
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Miadhacháin (“son of Miadhachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of miadhach (“honorable”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
craterkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craterkins
Etymology: From crater + -kin.
Senses: synonyms: craterlet
glosses: A small crater.
craterkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craterkin
creatureling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creaturelings
Etymology: From creature + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little creature.
creaturelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatureling
cribrately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cribrate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cribrate manner.
criterional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of criterial.
Adachis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adachi
McMeekins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McMeekin
Sakatas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sakata
crooningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From crooning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a crooning sound.
criticasterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From criticaster + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Petty or charlatan criticism.
criticastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From criticaster + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Petty or charlatan criticism.
crossleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crosslet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Bearing one or more crosslets.
crosslit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crosslight
crosslighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crosslight
crosslighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crosslight
Brassingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brassington
Wharanui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A coastal settlement in Marlborough, New Zealand.
cruelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cruelizes
form: cruelizing
form: cruelized
form: cruelized
Etymology: From cruel + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat cruelly.
cruelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cruelize