cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zinnwaldite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinnwaldites
Etymology: From Zinnwald + -ite, after what is now Cínovec.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with monoclinic crystals, KLiFe²⁺Al(AlSi₃)O₁₀(F,OH)₂, of the mica group.
Kimilsungist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Kim Il Sung + -ist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Kim Il Sung.
Kimilsungist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kimilsungists
Etymology: Kim Il Sung + -ist
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Kim Il Sung.
barbituric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German Barbiturat. Perhaps from the name Barbara, or perhaps from Latin. The second element is uric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to barbituric acid or its derivatives.
Synonyms: oxybarbituric
Derived terms: thiobarbituric
broken source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: open source computer software that is buggy, unstable, or lacking features.
peludo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peludos
form: peludoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish peludo (“hairy”). Doublet of plew.
Senses: glosses: A big hairy armadillo, Chaetophractus villosus
karwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karwas
Senses: glosses: cooking pot
Derived terms: karwa chauth
aculei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aculeus
duodecuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Twelvefold.
Related terms: sense: Previous
word: undecuple
sense: Next
word: tredecuple
demirep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmiːɹɛp/
Forms: form: demireps
Etymology: From demi- + reputation.
Senses: examples: text: he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 569:
text: Madam by this Time Lady Brittle is the Talk of half the Town—and I doubt not in a week the Men will toast her as a Demirep.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
text: […] in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps […] .
ref: 1813, Leigh Hunt, in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. "'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832." Google Books)
text: […] the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers […].
ref: 1822, Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
text: With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs […].
ref: 1904, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:
text: In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 65:
glosses: A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Derived terms: demirepdom
demireps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers: […]
ref: 1822, Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
glosses: plural of demirep
insulinopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to a form of diabetes mellitus that results from an inadequate secretion of insulin
Related terms: insulinopenia
spick and span
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spick and span
form: most spick and span
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, there were many passengers on the recent special trains to whom the immaculate little 80-year-old "Terrier," No. 32636, formerly Fenchurch, and its two L.B.S.C.R. coaches, recalled nostalgic memories of the old days on the line, when the trains were always spick and span; and days when the Kemp Town branch train was packed to capacity.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:
glosses: Alternative form of spick-and-span.
opthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmic.
chilling effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilling effects
Senses: examples: text: A “chilling effect,” a phrase invoked with numbing regularity these days, is the shibboleth that civil libertarians have brandished for a couple of decades against actions that could deter the press from exercising its constitutional freedom.
ref: 1984 December 23, Lester Bernstein, “‘Chilling Effect’ or Fresh Air?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Performance artists whose lawsuit led to yesterday's Supreme Court decision on indecency in the arts expressed disappointment at the ruling, saying they feared it would have a chilling effect on creativity and freedom of expression.
ref: 1998 June 26, Mel Gussow, “Ruling on Indecency Prompts Fears of a Chilling Effect”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Should the decision of Judge Kaplan be upheld and a subpoena be served for Mr. Berlinger’s footage, Mr. Moore said, “The chilling effect of this is, someone like me, if something like this is upheld, the next whistleblower at the next corporation is going to think twice about showing me some documents if that information has to be turned over to the corporation that they’re working for.”
ref: 2010 May 7, Dave Itzkoff, quoting Michael Moore, “Michael Moore Says Judge's Ruling Could Have ‘Chilling Effect’ on Documentaries”, in New York Times:
text: “It really starts with doctors, because overturning Roe will have a severe chilling effect,” said Lindsay Lewis, co-author of a report by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers that studied the potential criminal effects of ending Roe, and a board member of the same organization.
ref: 2022 May 6, Jessica Glenza, quoting Lindsay Lewis, “‘A severe chilling effect’: abortion bans will inhibit doctors’ advice to patients, experts fear”, in The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: A discouraging effect, especially on certain forms of officially legal speech.
glosses: Synonym of windchill.
synonyms: word: windchill
Related terms: libel chill
free speech
freedom of speech
freedom of the press
opthalmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmology.
opthalmoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
footmuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footmuffs
Etymology: From foot + muff.
Senses: glosses: A cover for a baby's feet or legs which attaches through the harness of a pushchair, stroller, or travel system.
nomenclator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomenclators
Etymology: From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”).
Senses: examples: text: If he does not know them, it is deception to pretend that he does, while all the time he has never heard of them until instructed by the nomenclator.
ref: 63 b.c., Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Lucio Murena: Oratio Ad Iudices, 1956, Page 115
text: Pray, do you suppose that those books of names, which your nomenclator can hardly carry or remember, are those of friends ?
ref: c. 20, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by Aubrey Stewart, On Benefits: Addressed to Aebutius Liberalis, published 1912, page 187:
text: Daw. I have brought some ladies here to see and know you. My Lady Haughty [as he presents them severally, EPI. kisses them.]—this my Lady Centaure — Mistress Dol Mavis — Mistress Trusty, my Lady Haughty's woman. Where's your husband ? let's see him: can he endure no noise? let me come to him.
Mor. What nomenclator is this !
True. Sir John Daw, sir, your wife's servant, this.
ref: 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicoene, act III:
glosses: An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
examples: text: The nomenclator's method is first to look about and see if the place has any natural features to suggest a name—like Rocking Stone Farm or White Birches.
ref: 1969, Reginald Townsend Townsend, “What's in a Name?”, in This, That, and the Other Thing, page 27:
glosses: One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
glosses: A document containing such name assignments.
glosses: An early form of substitution cipher.
Synonyms: sense: document containing names
word: vocabulary
sense: document containing names
word: glossary
Derived terms: nomenclatory
nomenclatress
Related terms: nomenclature
repopularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repopularize
repopularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repopularize
repopularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repopularize
repopularises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repopularise
repopularising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repopularise
solfeggi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solfeggio
repopularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repopularise
Thor's hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thor's hammers
form: Thor's Hammer
Etymology: From Thor + hammer.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
paganism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Mjöllnir (Mjollnir), the distinctively T-shaped war-hammer of the Norse thunder god Thor, or a representation thereof, now used as a symbol by various pagan religious groups.
topics: engineering
government
literature
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
science-fiction
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An orbital drop hypervelocity kinetic energy weapon (KEW). A theoretical weapon, originating from a U.S. government study, Project Thor, from the 1950s.
Synonyms: hammer of Thor
Hammer of Thor
Mjöllnir
Mjollnir
rod from God
rod from god
Related terms: Thor platform
Thor satellite
Thor station
Thor system
Thor
Heathenry
apartmentmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apartmentmates
Etymology: From apartment + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Althea reports that her white apartmentmate immediately left her company, whoem she was entertaining in another section of the apartment, took out the garbage, brought up the vacuum cleaner and began [...].
ref: 1972, Charles Vert Willie, Arline Sakuma McCord, Black Students at White Colleges, Praeger, page 32:
text: My apartmentmate at the old Rice Institute was the first woman ever to be graduated there with a mechanical engineering degree […]
ref: 1991 Spring, Catharine Savage Brosnan, "On husbandry", Sewanee Review, vol. 99 issue 2, page 248
text: If you wish to choose your apartmentmates, you must do so when submitting your Housing Application […]
ref: 2002, NYU School of Law Department of Residence Services, 2002-2003 Lottery Application and Instructions:
glosses: Someone who shares an apartment.
Japanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanners
Senses: examples: text: Of the interior of the apartment we occupied, I shall say but little; that little, however, will help to complete the description of a Japanner's dwelling.
ref: 1868, William Dalton, Will Adams, the first Englishman in Japan: a romantic biography, page 39:
glosses: A Japanese person.
picture card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture cards
Senses: glosses: A flash memory card for a digital camera.
glosses: A playing card which has a picture on it (usually Jack, Queen or King (coat card), but sometimes including Ace or Joker).
glosses: A trading card/trade card.
face card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face cards
Senses: topics: card-games
games
synonyms: court card
paint
hypernyms: playing card
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glosses: A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker.
glosses: A person’s perpetually attractive face.
Synonyms: court card
paint
monkey
Thor's beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thor’s Beard
Senses: topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: The plant houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum), as used in Heathenry.
Related terms: houseleek
Thor
middle man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of middleman.
formose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of formaldehyde + aldose. May be decomposed as form- + -ose
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the formose reaction (“Butlerov reaction”)
Related terms: formose reaction
formose sugar
trade card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade cards
Senses: glosses: An early precursor of the business card, first produced at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
glosses: A trading card (such as a cigarette card).
submultiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submultiples
Etymology: From sub- + multiple.
Senses: examples: text: A centimetre is a submultiple of a metre, being contained in it a hundred times.
topics: sciences
glosses: A quantity that gives another quantity when multiplied by an integer
television network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television networks
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A grouping of television channels, generated at television stations, broadcast over a unified terrestrial or satellite system from which a subscriber may choose various packages to accept and purchase.
Related terms: network television
trading card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪd.ɪŋ ˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: trading cards
Senses: synonyms: trade card
picture card
glosses: A collectible card, sometimes sticker, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). There is a wide variation of different types of cards, like sports, cars, natural history, film characters or other information of interest to purchasers. Sometimes is included with tobacco, food or confectionery products.
Hyponyms: baseball card
sports card
Sky Father
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: Title for any of the highest gods of Heathenry, but especially Tiw/Tyr.
readerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readerboards
Etymology: From reader + board.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A LED-based sign used, for example, to display performance information in a call center.
world-ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world ash
Senses: examples: text: Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes.
ref: 1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95:
text: This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.
ref: 1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
paganism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Yggdrasil.
fool-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fool-heartedly
form: most fool-heartedly
Etymology: From fool-hearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Foolishly; in a foolhardy manner.
rag doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rag dolls
form: ragdoll
Senses: examples: text: The tornado flung the man around like a rag doll.
text: Then all six foot five and 17 stone of him picks me up like a rag doll and starts throwing me around. I thought I was on the Cha Cha for a minute.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 184:
glosses: A doll made from cloth and stuffed with rags.
Derived terms: ragdoll
Ragdoll
rag dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rag doll
tool kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tool kits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toolkit.
armatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armature
armatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of armature
filamentose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filamentose
form: most filamentose
Senses: glosses: Being hair- or thread-like.
glosses: Having the form of a thread, as in the thread in clothes.
rebores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebore
reboring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebore
reboring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reborings
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of rebore.
synonyms: word: rebore
rebored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebore
elasticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elasticates
form: elasticating
form: elasticated
form: elasticated
Etymology: From elastic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To add or wrap elastic around something.
Derived terms: elastication
cellulase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellulases
Etymology: From cellulose + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the cellulolysis (or hydrolysis) of cellulose.
Derived terms: endocellulase
exocellulase
extracellulase
holocellulase
lignocellulase
multicellulase
cellulases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellulase
dialectically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dialectically
form: most dialectically
Etymology: From dialectical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dialectical manner; logically.
examples: text: The main point in the diminutive and iminutive system is, however, not only that elements of two dialectally different subsystems of German have fused in the German component.
ref: 2008, Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language:
glosses: Regarding dialectics.
even odds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: gambling
games
qualifier: speculation
glosses: An opportunity in which the chance of success is equal to that of failure.
Synonyms: fifty-fifty
finger-paints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finger-paint
finger-painting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finger-paint
finger-painted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finger-paint
finger paints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finger paint
finger paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger painting
finger painted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finger paint
ingurgitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɜː.dʒɪ.teɪt/
Forms: form: ingurgitates
form: ingurgitating
form: ingurgitated
form: ingurgitated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin ingurgitāre, from in- + gurges (“whirlpool”).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do.
ref: , II.ii.1.2
synonyms: gulp
gorge
guzzle
glosses: To swallow greedily or in large amounts.
examples: text: If a man do but once set his appetite upon it [pleasure], let him ingurgitate himself never so deep into it, yet shall he never be able to fill his desire with it.
ref: 1622, Fotherby, Atheom:
glosses: To swallow up, as in a gulf.
home rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Home Rule
Senses: examples: text: One of the controversial aspects of the initiative is that it attacks the right of cities to home rule in the area of gay rights, Schook stated, adding that many Coloradans—regardless of their views toward gay rights—resent the possibility that the state could override local ordinances.
ref: 1991 December 15, Dawn Schmitz, “Putting Gay Rights To A Popular Vote”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 6:
glosses: The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country or subnational territory, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country or territory itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
glosses: The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country or subnational territory, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country or territory itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
Self-government of the island of Ireland.
glosses: Ellipsis of home rule class.
Derived terms: word: home ruler
sense: Irish self-government
word: Rome rule
sense: Irish self-government
word: Rome Rule
home ruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home rulers
Etymology: From home rule + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who favors or advocates home rule.
home lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home lots
Senses: glosses: An enclosed plot on which the owner's home stands.
astronot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astronots
form: astroNOT
Etymology: Blend of astronaut + not.
Senses: examples: text: The astronots claimed they never did take any lighting with them to the Moon so where did all that extra light come from? Close inspection reveals that neither of Aldrins feet/boots are on any rungs as he descends the ladder. He is thus falling downwards as the shot is taken.
ref: 2003 November 5, Nathan Jones, “Aldrins boot and other boo boo's (Apollo fakery)”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet):
text: The cattle mutilations continued and people in the area wrote to Senator Harrison Schmitt's (former Apollo astronot/actornaut), which eventually resulted in a mutilation conference being held in the Albuquerque Public Library on April 20, 1979.
ref: 2019, Andrew Johnson, Acknowledged: A Perspective on the Matters of UFOs, Aliens and Crop Circles, [self-published], →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: Synonym of actornaut.
synonyms: word: actornaut
home thrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home thrusts
Senses: glosses: A well-directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part.
examples: text: “I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows.”
The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: A personal attack.
depurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depurative
form: most depurative
Etymology: Compare French dépuratif.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
Derived terms: phytodepurative
depurative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depuratives
Etymology: Compare French dépuratif.
Senses: glosses: Any depurative remedy or agent.
glosses: Any disease that is depurative.
work up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works up
form: working up
form: worked up
form: worked up
Senses: examples: text: He worked up the public's passions to rage.
text: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: rouse
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To raise; to excite; to stir up.
examples: text: I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.
text: "See how it's working up; we shall have thunder and lightning."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 185:
glosses: To develop.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness.
glosses: To use up (material, etc.).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To set at an irksome or needless task.
auditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French auditif.
Senses: examples: text: Auditive dyslexia is characterized by great difficulties with the sounds of spoken language.
ref: 2000, Torleiv Høien, Per Sundberg, Dyslexia: From Theory to Intervention, page 13:
glosses: Of or relating to hearing; auditory.
cap over the windmill
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Derived from throw one's cap over the windmill.
Senses: glosses: in a bizarre or eccentric manner
Related terms: tilt at windmills
throw one's cap over the windmill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's cap over the windmill
form: throwing one's cap over the windmill
form: threw one's cap over the windmill
form: thrown one's cap over the windmill
Etymology: Widely reported as deriving from a passage in the novel Don Quixote in which the titular character throws his cap over a windmill that he has mistaken for a giant, as a challenge - but no such passage exists in the book.
Senses: glosses: To act in a bizarre or eccentric manner.
Derived terms: cap over the windmill
Related terms: tilt at windmills
world power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world powers
Senses: glosses: A nation or state so powerful that it can influence world affairs.
Synonyms: global power
throw one's hat over the windmill
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw one's cap over the windmill.
hat over the windmill
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cap over the windmill.
bull market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull markets
Senses: topics: business
finance
antonyms: bear market
coordinate_terms: crab market
glosses: A stock market where a majority of investors are buying ("bulls"), causing overall stock prices to rise.
examples: text: Changing production circumstances, a wide range of traits and the international bull market enable dairy farmers to make increasingly specific choices concerning artificial insemination (AI) bulls.
ref: 2018, E. Paakala et al., “Variation in the actual preferences for AI bull traits among Finnish dairy herds”, in Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, volume 135, number 6, Wiley Online Library, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 410–419:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bull, market.
mgt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mgt.
Synonyms: mgmt.
bull markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull market
market bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market bells
Senses: glosses: A bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin, or that it has ended.
market garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market gardens
Senses: examples: text: Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5
glosses: A garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
Synonyms: word: truck garden
Coordinate terms: english: section of a large garden not intended for edible plants
translation: section of a large garden not intended for edible plants
word: pleasure ground
english: garden or section of garden for edible plants intended for personal or household use
translation: garden or section of garden for edible plants intended for personal or household use
word: vegetable garden
english: farm, garden, or section of garden for trees bearing edible fruit
translation: farm, garden, or section of garden for trees bearing edible fruit
word: orchard
english: a large market garden or small farm
translation: a large market garden or small farm
word: truck farm
Derived terms: market gardener
market gardening
fraisier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraisiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French fraisier.
Senses: glosses: A kind of sponge cake with strawberries.
fair market value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair market values
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The price at which the buyer and seller are willing to do business.
Related terms: just compensation
fair market values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair market value
market value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market values
Senses: examples: text: Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
Derived terms: fair market value
sexual market value
Related terms: book value
market price
market values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market value
open market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open markets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of free market.
synonyms: word: free market
open markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open market
market opening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market openings
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The beginning of formal trading on an exchange, usually signalled by the opening bell.
Poznań
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poznan
Senses: glosses: A city in Poland, alternative spelling of Poznan.
Wrocław
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɹɔts.wɑf/
other: /ˈvɹɔts.lɑf/
other: /ˈvɹɔts.lɑv/
ipa: /ˈvɹɒtslɑːv/
other: /ˈvɹɒtslɑːf/
other: /ˈvɹɒtswɑːf/
Forms: form: Wroclaw
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Wrocław. Doublet of Breslau.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Silesia, in what is now southwestern Poland. (At different points in history, the city has been part of Bohemia, Prussia, Germany, and Poland.)
Synonyms: Breslau
Szczecin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Szczecin.
Senses: synonyms: Stettin
glosses: A city in what is now Poland; the capital of West Pomeranian Voivodeship; Stettin.
Pekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pēʹkǐn
Forms: form: Pekins
Etymology: Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, Dutch Peking, French Pékin, German Peking, Italian Pechino.
Senses: glosses: A type of patterned silk.
market capitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market capitalizations
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: market cap
glosses: The total market value of the equity in a publicly traded entity.
kelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
homophone: Celt
Forms: form: kelts
Senses: glosses: A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
kelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
homophone: Celt
Forms: form: kelts
Senses: examples: text: I know fine hoo a kelt should be pit on, though I'm no Highlander mysel'
ref: 1895, “Sketches from Scotland”, in Punch:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of kilt.
kelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
homophone: Celt
Etymology: Compare Icelandic kult (“quilt”).
Senses: examples: text: ye've a very raggit kelt on
ref: 1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd:
glosses: Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
Białystok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bialystok
form: Belostok
form: Biełastok
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Białystok (“white slope”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland; largest city in northeastern Poland.
Related terms: bialy
Lublin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Lublin.
Senses: glosses: A city in southeast Poland.
market jitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Feelings of uncertainty among investors regarding the current economic environment and causing them to sell their stocks and bonds.
implorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implorers
Etymology: From implore + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who implores.
actinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'tĭnoid
ipa: /ˈæktɪnɔɪd/
Forms: form: actinoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: actinide
actinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'tĭnoid
ipa: /ˈæktɪnɔɪd/
Senses: glosses: Having the form of rays; radiated, as in the species of the family Actiniidae.
phraser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: phrasers
Etymology: From phrase + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who phrases something.
Related terms: rephraser
apterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæptərəs/
Forms: form: apteran
Etymology: By surface analysis, a + -pterous, or by surface analysis, aptery + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: flightless
text: The source of light was thronged by moths and apterous insects.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 354:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: apteral
unwinged
wingless
antonyms: winged
coordinate_terms: subapterous
brachypterous
bipterous
dipterous
tripterous
;
featherless
glosses: Without wings.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole.
Derived terms: subapterous
Related terms: word: apteran
word: apterium
word: aptery
word: Apterygiformes
word: Apterygota
word: Apteryx
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: ptero-
cariole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹiˌoʊl/
Forms: form: carioles
form: carriole
Etymology: Borrowed from French carriole.
Senses: glosses: A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
glosses: A covered cart.
glosses: A kind of calash.
glosses: A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers.
glosses: A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.
casefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casefies
form: casefying
form: casefied
form: casefied
Etymology: From Latin cāseus (“cheese”), + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To make or become cheeselike.
dronte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drontes
Etymology: From French dronte.
Senses: glosses: The dodo (†Raphus cucullatus).
cellarage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarages
Etymology: From cellar + -age. In the fee sense, apparently after either Middle French celerage, celeraige, cellerage, sceleraige or Latin celērāgium, cellārāgium.
Senses: examples: text: Ha, ha, boy, say’st thou so? Art thou there, truepenny? Come on! You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Consent to swear.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: Among the excluding matters there was, for one, the effect upon Mr. Melbury of the womanly mien and manners of his daughter, which took him so much unawares that, though it did not make him absolutely forget the existence of her conductor homeward, thrust Giles’s image back into quite the obscurest cellarage of his brain.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter 6, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 1, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: In the masques of Elizabethan and early Stuart times, divine descents and irruptions of demons from the cellarage were a commonplace […]
ref: 1956, Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell, London: Chatto & Windus, Appendix III:
glosses: The space or storerooms of a cellar.
glosses: A fee charged for storing goods in a cellar.
Litauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Litauers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Litauer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
leglock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡˌlɒk/
Forms: form: leglocks
form: leg lock
Etymology: From leg + lock.
Senses: glosses: A joint lock directed at the ankle, knee, or hip joint.
leglock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡˌlɒk/
Forms: form: leglocks
form: leglocking
form: leglocked
form: leglocked
form: leg lock
Etymology: From leg + lock.
Senses: glosses: Wraps one's legs around another, locking them between one's legs and body. This term is mainly used in a sexual sense.
Hyponyms: foot lock
hip lock
body coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body coats
Senses: glosses: A gentleman's dress coat.
after body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after bodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of afterbody.
tawpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawpies
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin, akin to Norwegian tåpe 'simpleton'
Senses: examples: text: Now gawkies, tawpies, gowks, and fools, / Frae colleges and boarding-schools,
ref: 1787, Robert Burns, Epistle to William Creech:
glosses: foolish or awkward youngster
Related terms: taupie
boy
lad
rascal
rogue
scamp
wag
ragas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raga
terzina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terzinas
form: terzine
Etymology: From Italian terzina.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A tercet.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A triplet.
thetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thetic
form: most thetic
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a thesis.
glosses: Dogmatic.
timbric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æmbɹɪk
Forms: form: more timbric
form: most timbric
Etymology: From timbre + -ic.
Senses: topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to timbre
green corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green corridors
Senses: examples: text: Common green corridors include railway embankments, river banks and roadside grass verges.
glosses: A thin strip of land that provides sufficient habitat to support wildlife, often within an urban environment, thus allowing the movement of wildlife along it.
vielle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /viˈɛl/
Forms: form: vielles
Etymology: From Old French viele, vielle. Doublet of viola.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The hurdy-gurdy.
violone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian violone (“big viola”), from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives"”).
Senses: glosses: An early stringed instrument similar to a double bass.
Synonyms: double bass viol
Related terms: violoncello
virginale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virginales
Senses: glosses: A book of prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary.
terzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terzina
associationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: associationisms
Etymology: From association + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A theory that association (of experiences etc) is the basis of consciousness and mental activity
bioenergetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + energetics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the energy transformations that take place in living organisms.
glosses: A form of physical therapy according to which physical movements are a means of releasing emotional stress.
bioenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioenergetic
form: most bioenergetic
Etymology: From bio- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bioenergetics.
glosses: Of or pertaining to bioenergy.
Derived terms: bioenergetically
ferramenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ferramenta (“ironmongery”).
Senses: glosses: The supporting ironwork associated with stained glass panels.
gazingstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazingstocks
Etymology: From gazing + stock.
Senses: glosses: An object, event or person that is stared at by many people; a spectacle.
Related terms: laughing stock
gazettist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazettists
Etymology: From gazette + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who writes a gazette.
tropical geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The adjective tropical was chosen by some French mathematicians in honor of the Brazilian pioneer of the field, Imre Simon.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A recent branch of geometry that can be described as a piecewise linear version of real algebraic geometry.
wikipedia: Imre Simon
Ancient Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Hellenic language of Ancient Macedonians, probably related to Ancient Greek, spoken in Macedon from 808 BCE till 168 BCE
Related terms: Macedonian
Jerilyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine.
Jerrold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a re-spelling of Gerald.
Gerry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.
ref: 2008 June 14, The Associated Press, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine.
Gilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium.
Gilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilleses
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
Derived terms: Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
Gillis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gillises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
MAFIAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Based on Mafia; created as a parody at least as early as April 1st 2006.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Music And Film Industry Association of America, a hypothetical merger between the MPAA and the RIAA, the industry associations for films and music respectively. Both have been accused of exhibiting racketeering behavior.
take up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up with
form: taking up with
form: took up with
form: taken up with
Senses: examples: text: I hear that John has taken up with Jane.
text: Frank is an older, middle-class Englishman who has taken up with Johnny, the youngish, married son of his cleaning woman. It is unclear if money changes hands, but Frank is always ready to help out Johnny when he needs it.
ref: 1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “...And They Called It Puppy Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:
glosses: To form a close relationship with (someone).
examples: text: For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:
text: It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile
ref: 2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:
glosses: To become interested in (something).
glosses: To begin living together with; to lodge with.
glosses: To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with
examples: text: He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.
text: He took up painting with his wife.
text: He took up the overpayment with his supplier.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, up, take up, with.
aminopeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminopeptidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of the peptide bond of the terminal amino acid at the amino end of a polypeptide or protein
Derived terms: aminopeptidasic
arginyl aminopeptidase
metalloaminopeptidase
tripeptide aminopeptidase