cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
as best one can
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: as best as one can
form: best as one can
Senses: examples: text: We tried to make our lives comfortable as best we could.
text: As best I can tell, this wound does not seem grievous.
glosses: In the best possible way, given one's circumstances and abilities.
titted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See tit (“to strike lightly”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tit
titted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tit (“breast”) + -ed; compare breasted.
Senses: examples: text: A big-titted woman.
glosses: Having a specified kind of tits (breasts).
nose job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose jobs
form: nose-job
form: nosejob
Senses: examples: text: Luther Adler's nose job has made him practically pretty.
ref: 1948 December 15, Dorothy Kilgallen, “Voice of Broadway”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 11 Feb 2014:
text: Ashley Tisdale says she was somewhat distressed when she first saw her new profile after her recent nose job.
ref: 2008 January 17, “Ashley Tisdale Has No Regrets About Nose Job”, in FOXNews, US, retrieved 03 Oct 2008:
glosses: A plastic surgical procedure to alter the appearance of the nose, especially for cosmetic reasons; the resulting physical appearance of the nose.
Synonyms: rhinoplasty
cat nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat naps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catnap (“short amount of time spent sleeping”).
cat nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cat naps
form: cat napping
form: cat napped
form: cat napped
Senses: examples: text: Some nights he cat napped in the front seat of his car watching Willie's house.
ref: 2000, James R. Kelly, Prescription for Murder, page 199:
text: Andy was knackered, he hadn't slept a wink, while Louise was bubbling with excitement, having cat napped most of the way.
ref: 2004, Michael Kennard, Sunday Club, page 251:
text: Staff simply cat napped at their work stations and ate junk food.
ref: 2012, David C Lawton, Goldstar, page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of catnap.
knock-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-offs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knockoff.
ninths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪnθs/
rhymes: -aɪnθs
Senses: glosses: plural of ninth
jim-jams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jim-jam
form: jimjam
form: jimjams
Senses: glosses: pajamas
giant armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant armadillos
Senses: glosses: The largest living species of armadillo, Priodontes maximus.
key binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key bindings
Senses: examples: text: I changed the key binding for pause to the Escape key.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: keybind
glosses: A key or key combination configured to trigger an action when pressed.
collectivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collectivize
collectivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collectivize
collectivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collectivize
collectivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collectivises
form: collectivising
form: collectivised
form: collectivised
form: collectivize
Etymology: From collective + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: As Floya Anthias argues in her chapter, there is a need to fight against all those constructions of difference and identity that exclude and devalorise, and against all those social practices that construct identities and differences in naturalised, collectivised and binary ways and in terms of hierarchical otherness, unequal resource allocation and modes of inferiorisation (see also Anthias 1998a).
ref: 2002, Floya Anthias, Cathie Lloyd, Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of collectivize.
Related terms: collectivism
marcassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈkasɪn/
Forms: form: marcassins
Etymology: From French marcassin.
Senses: examples: text: A fat marcassin to adorn the board.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 136:
glosses: A young wild boar.
collectivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collectivise
collectivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collectivise
collectivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collectivise
countertenors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertenor
courtships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtship
crucifixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crucifix
crankcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crankcase
curtsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curtsy
curtseyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curtsey
curtsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curtsy
curtsying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtsyings
Senses: glosses: The act of dropping a curtsy.
curtseying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curtsey
curtseying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtseyings
Senses: glosses: The act of dropping a curtsey.
balatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balata
pinch point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinch points
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A point in between moving and stationary parts of a machine where an individual's body part may become caught, leading to injury
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The level of inventories of a commodity or product below which consumers become concerned about security of supply
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Cuspidal point, a type of singular point on an algebraic surface
glosses: A kerb extension, a traffic calming measure consisting of an angled narrowing of the roadway
examples: text: Houchen observes that Hartlepool, used by around 640,000 passengers a year, is another pinch point where changes to the station are required. Despite being on the double-track Durham Coast Line linking Teesside, Sunderland and Newcastle, it has only one through platform: "Now there are some interim solutions, but the long-term solution is a new station at Hartlepool."
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside Rails”, in Rail, pages 58–59:
glosses: A bottleneck, part of a process that is too slow and causes a delay.
Related terms: sticking point
superstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + strong.
Senses: examples: text: My mom is superstrong. And when I look at just about everything I’ve done, I’ve always been connected to really difficult work with people’s lives.
ref: 2014 June 12, Adam Bryant, “The Importance of Straight Talk”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Very strong.
stripy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪp.i/
Forms: form: stripier
form: stripiest
form: stripey
Etymology: From stripe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He looked like a baby zebra, curled up in his stripy T-shirt.
text: The agent swayed toward Max and the tiger, one hand clamped over his stomach and a grimace pasted across his features.[…]Max raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? You did notice that our stripy friend is trying to snack on me?"
ref: 2015, Bruce Hale, Ends of the Earth, page 122:
glosses: Having stripes; striped.
stripey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stripier
form: stripiest
Etymology: From stripe + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stripy.
stripey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stripeys
Etymology: From stripe + -y.
Senses: glosses: A marine fish found from Australia to Hawaii and Japan, Microcanthus strigosus, which is sometimes kept in aquaria.
glosses: Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.
ultraquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + quiet.
Senses: glosses: Extremely quiet.
ultracool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracool
form: most ultracool
Etymology: From ultra- + cool.
Senses: glosses: extremely cool
ultralow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + low.
Senses: glosses: Extremely low.
ultrarare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ultra-rare
Etymology: From ultra- + rare.
Senses: glosses: Extremely rare; of utmost rarity.
ultrasmart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + smart.
Senses: glosses: extremely smart.
supercute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercute
form: most supercute
Etymology: From super- + cute.
Senses: examples: text: There's something supercute — and supercontroversial — about a baby's naked bottom, as North Carolina mom Jill White recently learned.
ref: 2014 July 7, Leah Rocketto, “Should This Mom's Photo Be Banned From Facebook?”, in POPSUGAR:
glosses: Very cute.
interculturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interculturalisms
Etymology: From intercultural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society
Related terms: multiculturalism
cop a plea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops a plea
form: copping a plea
form: copped a plea
form: copped a plea
form: cop to a plea
Senses: examples: text: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work.
ref: 1958, Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, page 312:
topics: law
glosses: To plead guilty to a lesser criminal charge than one had been charged with.
Synonyms: plea-bargain
Related terms: cop out
plea bargain
plea bargaining
plea bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The process of negotiating a verdict and sentence without a complete trial.
plea bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plea-bargaining.
Related terms: word: plea bargain:
word: plea-bargain:
cheroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheroot
colloquiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloquium
cross-compiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-compilers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross compiler.
costars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costar
costars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of costar
costarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of costar
costarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of costar
climaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of climax
climaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more climaxed
form: most climaxed
Senses: glosses: having attained a climax
Derived terms: unclimaxed
climaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of climax
caesuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesurae
Senses: glosses: plural of caesura
isses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: is's
Senses: examples: text: I will urge that there is abroad in the land a nearly universal tendency to take lots of "isses" of predication to be "isses" of identity.
ref: 1993, Michael Jubien, Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 22:
glosses: plural of is
Related terms: dos
caesurae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesuras
Senses: glosses: plural of caesura
barong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barongs
Senses: glosses: A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines.
Related terms: barong-barong
barong Tagalog
baroto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɐˈɾo.t̪o/
Forms: form: barotos
Etymology: Borrowed from Philippine Spanish baroto.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small dugout canoe boat from the Philippines, which normally lacks outriggers and is usually used in calm waters.
Related terms: banca
parao
emanant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emanant
form: most emanant
Senses: glosses: Flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.
examples: text: He had an emanant volition.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Passing forth into a physical act, or making itself apparent by an effect. Compare immanent.
raw_tags: of a mental act
emanant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emanants
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy + ... + z'd/dz).
Synonyms: topics: philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
sense: of a mental act
word: transeunt
censusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: Bobcat (subtitled: Master of Survival) by Kevin Hansen Page 129 http://books.google.com/books?id=npU4e0ebckMC&pg=PA129&dq=censusing&sig=ACfU3U1gGcesDgvw35mYcKcZtDpavaZv5Q
Conner and associates (1983) conducted one of the few studies comparing different censusing methods for bobcats.
glosses: present participle and gerund of census
censused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of census
capitulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitulation
transeunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænsi.ənt/
Forms: form: more transeunt
form: most transeunt
Etymology: Circa 1625; from Latin trānseunt-, transiens (“passing beyond”), present participle of trānseō (“to go over, cross”), from trans (“across, on the far side, beyond”) + eō (“to go, walk, march”). See transient.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Emanant; producing an effect outside of the mind. (Compare immanent.)
raw_tags: of a mental act
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Passing out or operating beyond itself; transitive; opposed to immanent.
coeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coed
catchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of catchy: more catchy
catchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of catchy: most catchy
customises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of customise
customising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of customise
glacading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The sport of sliding down a mountain on snow and/or ice. It is a technique used by climbers to get off a mountain fast when adverse weather conditions move in. For climbers they use an ice ax to stop their free fall at the bottom.
vintenar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vintenars
Senses: glosses: A leader of vintenary, a twenty infantry in medieval England, who were a medieval draft on freemen who were not knights.
cullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌl.jən/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.jən/
Forms: form: cullions
Etymology: From Middle English coilon, borrowed from Old French coillon (“testicle, vile fellow, coward, dupe”), from Vulgar Latin *cōleōnem, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Doublet of culeus and cojones.
Senses: examples: text: […] the kings enimies were vanquished, and put to flight, in which flight, the earle of Dowglas, for hast, falling from the crag of an hie mounteine, brake one of his cullions, and was taken, and for his valiantnesse, of the king frankelie and freelie deliuered.
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed, “Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London: John Harison et al, page 523:
text: As touching the galls, which by ouermuch riding on horseback be incident to the twist and the inner parts of the thigh, as euery man knoweth full well, which do burne and chaufe the skin in those parts; the fomie slime which a horse yeeldeth, as well from his mouth as his cullions, is soueraigne therefore, if the place be annointed therwith.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXVIII.] 15.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 334:
glosses: Synonym of testicle.
synonyms: word: testicle
examples: text: Mistake no more; I am not Licio.
Nor a musician as I seem to be;
But one that scorn to live in this disguise
For such a one as leaves a gentleman
And makes a god of such a cullion.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: He weares a lords reuenewe on his back,
And Midas like he iets it in the court,
With base outlandish cullions at his heeles,
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Synonym of asshole or bollocks, a mean, vile, or otherwise contemptible person.
synonyms: word: asshole or bollocks
extra: a mean, vile, or otherwise contemptible person
Derived terms: cullionly
fly-by-night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-by-nights
Senses: glosses: A creature which flies at night; a nocturnal flier or traveler.
examples: text: Do not give your credit card number to that fly-by-night operation.
glosses: One who departs or flees at night in order to avoid creditors, law enforcement etc.
examples: text: The automobile industry rose almost overnight. Orders poured into the offices of companies already organized; new companies were formed by dozens, capitalized at millions of dollars. Fly-by-night concerns sprang up like mushrooms, flooded the country with stock-selling schemes, established factories where parts of motor cars, bought elsewhere, were assembled.
ref: 1917, Rose Wilder Lane, chapter 22, in Henry Ford’s Own Story:
text: True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: Second, it will ensure that when fly-by-night providers go bankrupt, Medicare is at the top of the list of debts to be repaid. And finally, it will bring down costs by allowing Medicare to purchase goods and services at a competitive price.
ref: 1998 January 24, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address:
glosses: A person or business that appears and/or disappears rapidly, appearing untrustworthy, or giving an impression of transience.
glosses: A traveling businessman or tradesman.
Synonyms: fly-by-nighter
street credibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of street cred.
mnemotechny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌniːməˈtɛkni/
Forms: form: mnemotechnies
Etymology: See mnemotechnic
Senses: glosses: The study and practice of improving one’s memory.
Related terms: mnemonic
mnemotechnic
mnemotechnical
mnemotechnically
mnemotechnist
mnemotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌniːməˈtɛknɪk/
Etymology: From mnemo- + technic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
Derived terms: mnemotechnically
mnemotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nɛmə(ʊ)ˈtɛknɪkəl/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
mnemotechnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mnemotechnic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
myrmecophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -phagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The eating of ants.
Related terms: myrmecophage
myrmecophagous
myrmecophagus
patchwork quilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchwork quilts
Senses: glosses: A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.
examples: text: Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school.
ref: 1989 September 25, Susan Tifft et al., “Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower”, in Time:
glosses: Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.
Synonyms: sense: Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition
word: hodgepodge
sense: Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition
word: jumble
Related terms: crazy quilt
abeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -iːt
Etymology: From a- + beat.
Senses: glosses: Beating.
abeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːt
Etymology: From a- + beat.
Senses: glosses: Beating.
moist moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moist moments
Senses: examples: text: I give my nose a definitive blow, then power-flush the Kleenex down the Toto. I have had my moist moment and now it is over.
ref: 2008, Sarah Bird, How Perfect is That: A Novel, page 22:
glosses: A brief period of weeping, especially for self-pity.
inherent powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inherent power
looking over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look over
exis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I don't want a cockle – I don't want a neuf – I don't want a fat lady or a nevis – I don't want an exis, a flim or a rouf – or a carpet or bottle – These green flip-flops are a phunt a pair! And they've all got to go!
ref: 2014, David Eldridge, Market Boy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Alternative spelling of exes (“six”).
exite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exites
Etymology: From ex(o)- + -ite.
Senses: antonyms: endite
glosses: An additional lobe on the outer side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
ineunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ineunts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ineunt.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of a curve.
dimensioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimensioner
batog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batogs
Etymology: From Russian бато́г (batóg).
Senses: glosses: A rod or cane used for corporal punishment in Russia.
large cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large caps
Senses: examples: text: I think the large caps in web3 (BTC and ETH mainly) will start to attract more interest from investors and should do well in 2023. I am more bullish on ETH personally because it has the best underlying economic model of any web3 asset.
ref: 2023 January 1, Fred Wilson, “What Will Happen In 2023”, in AVC:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: small cap
mega cap
glosses: A company having a large market capitalization.
launch vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launch vehicles
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vehicle for transporting objects into space, usually a rocket.
Synonyms: word: LV
Derived terms: word: LV
alt: ELV
word: expendable launch vehicle
alt: RLV
word: reusable launch vehicle
Related terms: launch
launch center
launch centre
launch complex
launcher
launch pad
launch site
vehicle
bibi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibis
form: beebee
Etymology: From Hindi बीबी (bībī), from Classical Persian بیبی (bī-bī).
Senses: glosses: A grandmother.
examples: text: The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.
ref: 2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59:
glosses: A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
Related terms: bibiji
bibingka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibingkas
Etymology: From Tagalog bibingka, from Malay bingka (“cake made of rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and plum sugar”), as in Malay kuih bingka. See also Indonesian kue bingka, Macanese bebinca.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly two years after starting work on their century-old building on Girard Avenue […] the lechon sisig bowls, ensaymada, and bibingka are expected to roll out of the kitchen starting Feb. 8. […] Besides house-made pastries such as calamansi doughnuts, ensaymada, bibingka, and ube handpies, breakfast options will include the Rich Tita with pork longganisa (a sausage similar to chorizo), egg, and Cooper sharp cheese; […]
ref: 2025 January 25, Michael Klein, “Long-awaited Filipino destination finally has an opening date”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 195, number 239, Philadelphia, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B9, columns 1 and 4:
glosses: A rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves.
bilat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlæt/
Forms: form: bilats
Etymology: Shortening of bilateral.
Senses: examples: text: The bilats will often be no more than a few minutes, long enough to say hello and snap some photos[…]
ref: 2004, Harvey J. Langholtz, Chris E. Stout, The psychology of diplomacy, page 12:
text: The club is “a place to see and be seen,” as its Web site says — that is, unless you are a visiting president who after a day and a half of blinis, beluga and bilats (the diplo term for “bilateral meetings”) just wants to hang out with the clan.
ref: 2009 July 8, Peter Baker, “Family Night for Obamas Miffs Some in Moscow”, in New York Times:
text: BILATERAL (or “bilat,” for short): Private meetings between leaders of one country and another. Some argue the real value of UNGA lies in these tête-à-têtes and other personal, off-camera encounters among decision-makers.
ref: 2024 September 24, Jennifer Peltz, “Your short glossary to UN General Assembly meeting lingo”, in PBS NewsHour, PBS, retrieved 25 Sep 2024:
glosses: A bilateral meeting.
thickhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thickheads
Etymology: From thick + head. Compare West Frisian dikharsens (“blockhead”, literally “thick brain”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: bonehead, numskull; see also Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:idiot
glosses: A stupid person.
glosses: Any of several species of Australian songbirds of the genus Pachycephala.
Related terms: thickheaded
bilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪlɪn/
Forms: form: bilins
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, and clearly reflecting New Latin, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). By surface analysis, bili- + -in, although according to American Heritage Dictionary, bilin was back-formed from phycobilin (as opposed to phycobilin being derived from bilin as surface analysis suggests).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various biological pigments formed in many organisms as a metabolic product of certain porphyrins.
wikipedia: international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: bilane
Hyponyms: bile pigment
bilichrome
phycobilin
Derived terms: phycocyanobilin
phycoerythrobilin
biling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bile
send for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends for
form: sending for
form: sent for
form: sent for
Senses: glosses: To order or summon (a person) to one's presence.
examples: text: More than 400 pages, with numerous illustrations and all substantially bound for home and kitchen use. Price only $2. Send for the book today. You take no risk. For—if you are not entirely pleased and satisfied, you may return the book within five days and we will promptly refund your money.
ref: 1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280:
glosses: To send away for, to request a delivery of.
examples: text: We all know that Family Guy sends for everyone.
glosses: To call out or diss, often in the form of a diss track; to roast.
Related terms: send out for
dig out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs out
form: digging out
form: dug out
form: dug out
Senses: examples: text: The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
text: Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in.
text: Midway between these stations a plough with two engines, which had been keeping the line open throughout the Sunday, became completely snowed up, and another engine sent from the Arrochar direction with men to assist in digging out the plough itself was caught in a drift south of Glen Douglas.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
glosses: To remove something by digging.
examples: text: I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
text: But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes.
ref: 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:
text: While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
glosses: To find or retrieve something buried.
examples: text: We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.
glosses: To make something by digging.
glosses: To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
examples: text: I'd like to dig her out.
glosses: To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
Synonyms: sense: have sexual intercourse with
word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
zymography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: zymographies
Etymology: From zymo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of electrophoresis used in the study of enzyme activity.
Related terms: zymogram
zymograph
ye olde
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðiː əʊld/
ipa: /ði oʊld/
ipa: /jiː əʊld(i)/
ipa: /ji oʊld/
Etymology: Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from the + old. First attested in 1850.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones.
text: Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe
text: All this time waiting at door. At last young fellow in a white jacket condescended to answer my bell—and asked me to wait some more in the porch. But I didn't see it and walked into ye olde tyme lounge hall, panelled in Elizabethan linen-fold oak made out of chewed paper painted olde shitte colour.
ref: 1955, Joyce Cary, Not Honour More, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Judging from the panicked look and white pallor on Pinky's face, I'd just put him between ye olde rock and ye olde harde place. Not my problem.
ref: 2012, Richard Marcinko, Seal Force Alpha, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: The saga of the fugitive nags gripped the nation. All day, #horses was a trending topic on social media, as if this was ye olde days.
ref: 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Pseudoarchaic form of the old, as to suggest antiquity or old tradition.
ye olde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðiː əʊld/
ipa: /ði oʊld/
ipa: /jiː əʊld(i)/
ipa: /ji oʊld/
Forms: form: ye-olde
Etymology: Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from the + old. First attested in 1850.
Senses: examples: text: We lived in Crofton, Maryland, halfway between Annapolis and Washington, DC, at the western edge of Anne Arundel County, where the residential developments are all in the vinyl-sided Federalist style and have quaint ye-olde names like Crofton Towne, Crofton Mews, The Preserve, The Ridings.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Old-fashioned, antiquated, historic, especially in a contrived manner.
such as
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.
text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: For example.
examples: text: I was never in a country such as that.
text: A plan such as you propose will never succeed.
text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Like, of the kind mentioned.
Synonyms: sense: for example
word: for example
sense: for example
word: for instance
sense: for example
word: e.g.
sense: for example
word: like
have the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the biscuit
form: having the biscuit
form: had the biscuit
form: had the biscuit
Etymology: From have + the + biscuit (“Communion wafer”).
Senses: glosses: To be of no further use; to be near death.
Islamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Islamizes
form: Islamizing
form: Islamized
form: Islamized
form: Islamise
Etymology: From Islam + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert to Islam.
examples: 1999, Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University John L. Esposito Professor of Religion and International Affairs, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?: Myth or Reality?
In particular, many are challenged to avoid, in their zeal to Islamize state and society, a tendency to “kafirize.”
glosses: To make someone, or a society, conform to Islamic law.
Synonyms: word: Islamicize
word: Muslimize
word: Muslimify
word: Muhammadanize
Related terms: Islamization
menstrual fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstrual fluids
Senses: glosses: The mixture of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that constitutes the menses
moxibustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒksɪˈbʌst͡ʃən/
Forms: form: moxibustions
Etymology: Blend of moxa (“mugwort”) + combustion (“burning”), literally "burning of mugwort", with the connecting -i- usual in Latinate vocabulary.
Senses: examples: text: Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.
ref: 1998, Lin Zhan, edited by Lin Zhan, Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women, page 36:
qualifier: folk medicine
glosses: The burning of moxa against the skin to treat pain or illness.
Derived terms: moxibustionist
moxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒksə/
ipa: /ˈmɑksə/
rhymes: -ɒksə
Forms: form: moxas
Etymology: From Japanese 艾 (mogusa, “mugwort”). The u is not strongly pronounced in Japanese, leading to its disappearance and the devoicing of the plosive. First used by Hermann Buschoff, a Dutch minister in Batavia, who wrote the first book about this remedy in 1674.
Senses: examples: text: And thereupon she burned with her Moxa (of which hereafter) on my feet and knees, (to my best remembrance) about twenty little Escars, which looked like lit∣tle gray specks, without raising any blisters, or causing any after-pain; whereupon also all the pain of the Gout vanish’d.
ref: 1676, Two Treatises, The one Medical, Of the Gout, And its Nature more narrowly search’d into than hitherto; together with a new way or discharging the same. By Herman Busschof Senior, of Utrecht, residing at Batavia in the East-Indies, in the service of the Dutch East-India Company. The Other Partly Chirurgical, partly Medical; Containing Some Observations and Practises relating both to some extraordinary cases of Women in Travel; and to some other uncommon cases of Diseases in both Sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse, Physitian in Ordinary at Amsterdam. Englished out of Dutch by a careful hand. […] , London: Printed by H.C. and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, page A3:
text: Moxa is celebrated in the eastern countries, for preventing and curing many disorders, by being burnt on the skin: a little cone of moxa, laid on the part previously moistened, and set on fire at top, burns down with a temperate glowing heat, and produces a dark coloured spot, the exulceration of which is promoted by applying a little garlic, and the ulcer either healed up when the eschar separates, or kept running for a length of time, as different circumstances may require.
ref: 1761, William Lewis, An Experimental History of the Materia Medica, or of the Natural and Artificial Substances Made Use of in Medicine: Containing a Compendious View of Their Natural History, an Account of Their Pharmaceutic Properties, and an Estimate of Their Medicinal Powers, so Far as They Can Be Ascertained by Experience, or by Rational Induction from Their Sensible Qualities, London: Printed by H. Baldwin, for the Author; and sold by R. Willock, page 380:
glosses: A woolly material obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, such as Artemisia argyi, as used in moxibustion.
glosses: Any other substance used in moxibustion.
Derived terms: moxibustion
wastegate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪstɡeɪt/
Forms: form: wastegates
Etymology: From waste + gate.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A valve that allows exhaust gases to bypass an engine's turbocharger, in order to keep from overspeeding the turbocharger rotor or driving the boost pressure high enough to risk engine knocking or detonation.
intercooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercoolers
Etymology: From inter- + cooler.
Senses: glosses: A heat-exchange device located between other devices or processes.
Hypernyms: heat exchanger
Hyponyms: aftercooler
Related terms: aftercooler
cooler
precooler
hollandaise sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollandaise sauces
Etymology: From French sauce hollandaise (“Dutch sauce”).
Senses: glosses: An emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.
Synonyms: sense: emulsion of butter
word: hollandaise
winny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: winnies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of winnebago.
synonyms: word: winnebago
plenum chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plenum chambers
Senses: glosses: A pressurised housing.
seropositivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seropositivities
Etymology: From seropositive + -ity, or sero- + positivity.
Senses: examples: text: Pretest probability inversely correlates with the probability that the reported seropositivity is a false-positive.
text: As discussed above, because of the severe consequences of HIV infection, a few states have required that ARC and even seropositivity be reported.
ref: 1986, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Confronting AIDS: Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and Research, National Academy Press, page 127
antonyms: seronegativity
coordinate_terms: seroconversion
glosses: The quality or state of being seropositive, of having blood serum that tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.
examples: text: At first, the prophylaxis budgeting efforts were triaged to the areas with the highest seropositivity.
glosses: Seropositivity prevalence rate: synonym of seroprevalence.
Related terms: seroconcordance
serodiscordance
seropositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + positive.
Senses: glosses: Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive). (of blood serum)
examples: text: They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk.
ref: 1990 April 21, Robb Johnson, “AIDS Education in Guatemala”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
text: Other tests (marked ‘+ +’ in Table 2C.8) are more sensitive in that they produce higher antibody titres but they do not detect substantially more seropositive individuals in a population.
ref: 2004, Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al., editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology, 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Having seropositive blood serum. (of a person or animal)
Derived terms: seropositivity
seropositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seropositives
Etymology: From sero- + positive.
Senses: glosses: A person with such blood serum.
self-redress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + redress.
Senses: glosses: Redress of a wrong by the victim; revenge, retribution.
self-redress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-redresses
form: self-redressing
form: self-redressed
form: self-redressed
Etymology: From self- + redress.
Senses: glosses: To redress a wrong against oneself; to take revenge.
restitutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restitutory
form: most restitutory
Etymology: From restitute + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to restitution.
restitutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restitutors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who (or that which) restores or makes restitution.
knick points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knick point
restitutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restitutive
form: most restitutive
Etymology: From restitute + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to restitution; tending to restore to a previous state.
Derived terms: restitutive fantasy
nick point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nick points
form: knick point
form: knickpoint
form: nickpoint
Senses: glosses: A point at which a river suffers a break of slope in its long profile; the current point of rejuvenation working upstream
long profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long profiles
Senses: glosses: A curve showing the vertical profile of a river from its head to mouth
reinclude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincludes
form: reincluding
form: reincluded
form: reincluded
Etymology: From re- + include.
Senses: glosses: To include again something that was previously excluded
Related terms: reinclusion
eyries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyrie
emirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emir
fictionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fictionalises
form: fictionalising
form: fictionalised
form: fictionalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fictionalize.
fictionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fictionalise
fictionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fictionalise
fictionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fictionalise
flummoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flummox
flummoxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flummox
flummoxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flummoxing
form: most flummoxing
Senses: glosses: Confusing, flustering, flabbergasting.
franchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of franchise
Derived terms: non-franchised
nonfranchised
oh my days
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Oh, my days, don’t ’ee say another word about either of ’em. I wish I’d never been born.”
ref: 1907, Mary Patricia Willcocks, The Wingless Victory, John Lane Company, page 391:
text: "Oh my days," said my mother and she sank into a chair.
ref: 1963, Will P. Rose, The Vanishing Village, Citadel Press, page 192:
text: ‘Oh my fucking days,’ cried Biscuit, shaking his head. ‘We’re fucking jinxed, man.’
ref: 2001, Alex Wheatle, East of Acre Lane, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Then the nurse mentioned Epidural, oh my days I know i nearly passed out at the sight of the needle going into the spinal column, all the while that wretch is screaming blue murder in the next room, get it out.
ref: 2004, "Kunjufu" (username), comment in "Fathers and Childbirth" (online forum topic), quoted in Barbara M. Newman and Philip R. Newman, Development Through Life: A Psychosocial Approach, Tenth Edition, Cengage Learning (2008), page 111
text: Jamal covered his face with his hands. ‘Oh my days . . .’
ref: 2006, Martyn Waites, The Mercy Seat, Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 361:
text: Jessie was so amazed that she almost spilled her tea. “Oh my heavenly days!” she cried.
ref: 2008, Budge Wilson, Before Green Gables, G.P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: An exclamation of astonishment or gleeful disapproval.
Synonyms: oh my
oh my God
oh my goodness
oh my gosh
oh my life
oh my word
roast dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roast dinners
Senses: glosses: A traditional British hot meal consisting of roast meat, usually with potatoes, vegetables, and other trimmings.
Related terms: Sunday roast
rosaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /roʊˈzeɪʃəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rosāceus. Alternatively, from Rosaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a rose, or a member of the Rosaceae family of plants.