cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lap pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap pools
form: lap-pool
Senses: examples: text: If you like working out, you'll appreciate its 15000-square-foot fitness center and two-lane lap pool.
ref: 2002 May 28, Marci Alboher Nusbaum, “Travel: On the Ground in Philadelphia”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
glosses: A swimming pool in the shape of a rectangle with narrow width and extended length, designed for swimming back and forth along the length in order to practice laps.
lap-pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap-pools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lap pool.
C`num`
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: C#
Etymology: Inspired by the sharp symbol in musical notation. Also chosen because this symbol resembles four connected + symbols; see the etymology for C++.
Senses: examples: text: VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.
ref: 2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: C sharp
glosses: An object-oriented programming language, resembling Java in some respects, developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET Framework initiative.
lace into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laces into
form: lacing into
form: laced into
form: laced into
Senses: examples: text: Then he laced into the Kennedy Administration, saying that the New Frontier has produced "1,026 days of wasted spending, wishful thinking, unwarranted intervention, wistful theories and waning confidence."
ref: 1963 November 22, “Nation: The Sound of Footsteps”, in Time:
text: A bulldozer does its dirty work Tuesday lacing into the first of several Beach Street buildings that will be rendered rubble.
ref: 1981 Feb. 25, "Courting Destruction" (photo caption), Daytona Beach Morning Journal, p. 1B (retrieved 24 July 2011)
text: Rider, a renowned malcontent, laced into teammates after a loss to the Pacers on Wednesday, using an expletive-filled diatribe to vent his frustration.
ref: 2000 January 2, Mike Wise, “An N.B.A. Power Broker Who Lost His Power”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
glosses: To vigorously attack, either physically or verbally.
examples: text: Now, that doesn't mean we should all lace into the fries and gravy.
ref: 1988 November 28, Frank Jones, “Oprah made size 10 error backing diet”, in Toronto Star, Canada, page C1:
text: [G]uests laced into the feast, the star of which was communal dishes of braised pigs’ feet.
ref: 2006 November 26, David Shaftel, “Pork Chops He Has Known”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
glosses: To consume with gusto.
raw_tags: of food or beverages
Synonyms: sense: attack physically
word: assail
sense: attack physically
word: assault
sense: attack physically
word: light into
sense: attack physically
word: rip into
sense: attack physically
word: tear into
sense: attack verbally
word: criticize
sense: attack verbally
word: dress down
sense: attack verbally
word: excoriate
sense: attack verbally
word: light into
sense: attack verbally
word: rebuke
sense: attack verbally
word: reprimand
sense: attack verbally
word: rip into
sense: attack verbally
word: scold
sense: attack verbally
word: tear into
sense: consume with gusto
word: dig into
sense: consume with gusto
word: tuck into
misdoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdooms
form: misdooming
form: misdoomed
form: misdoomed
Etymology: From mis- + doom. Compare misdeem.
Senses: glosses: To misjudge.
social safety net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social safety nets
Senses: examples: text: CBS News used emotion-charged tales to make the case that some of the nation's truly needy are falling through the social safety net.
ref: 1982 May 3, “The White House vs. CBS”, in Time:
text: We can have a social safety net that protects our retired citizens from poverty and makes sure they can afford adequate health care.
ref: 2005 February 10, “Editorial: When Math Is Worse Than Fuzzy”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
text: Canadians are happy to tell anyone who will listen what makes this country great is our safe streets, health care and social safety net.
ref: 2007 January 26, Murray Waldman, “Rights are a gift from the good guys”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: every man for himself
law of the jungle
qualifier: social policy
glosses: A set of governmental programs, entitlements, or benefits providing citizens and residents with a minimum level of financial protection, food, access to public infrastructure, or medical services.
Related terms: social contract
social security
social services
let them eat cake
nasty, brutish, and short
landed immigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landed immigrants
Senses: examples: text: The immigration department said today that Ivor Hughes, 35-year-old wartime Royal Navy deserter, has been granted permission to live in Canada as a landed immigrant.
ref: 1953 December 18, “Allow Navy Deserter To Stay as Immigrant”, in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2011, page 4:
text: Canada granted landed-immigrant status to 222876 persons last year, the highest total since 1957.
ref: 1968 February 16, “Immigration in 1967 highest for decade”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2011, page 13:
text: Jeff Goldfeder, an American who has been a landed immigrant in Canada for more than 20 years, said he couldn't think of a more enjoyable way to celebrate the day with his family.
ref: 2011 July 2, Jana G. Pruden, Andrea Sands, “Parades, pancakes mark Canada Day in Edmonton”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2011:
glosses: A person who is not a citizen of Canada but who has been legally admitted to Canada as a permanent resident.
red bandfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red bandfish
Senses: glosses: A species of bandfish found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from Senegal to Norway, Cepola macrophthalma (syn. Cepola rubescens).
Shion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shions
Etymology: * (given name): Transliteration of Japanese しおん.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: Shion Takeuchi, b. 1988
glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
nervines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervine
boominess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boomy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being boomy
cephal-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cephalo- (before a vowel)
nauseæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nausea
fertilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝːtə(l).li/
Forms: form: more fertilely
form: most fertilely
Etymology: From fertile + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fertile manner.
œstruate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: œstruates
form: œstruating
form: œstruated
form: œstruated
Senses: examples: text: In animals, the periodicities of œstruation are little known, particularly in the wild state, but it is asserted that the larger animals do not œstruate sufficiently often to render it posble that in their case the duration of gestation can be a multiple of an œstrual period.
ref: 1858, William Tyler Smith, A Course of Lectures on Obstetrics (Robert M. De Witt), Lecture XIII, page 216
glosses: Obsolete form of oestruate.
oestruate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oestruates
form: oestruating
form: oestruated
form: oestruated
form: estruate
form: œstruate
Senses: glosses: To be in heat (state of sexual receptivity).
oestruates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oestruate
œstruates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of œstruate
man is a wolf to man
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Latin homō hominī lupus est.
Senses: glosses: Humans are often cruel, predatory, and inhumane towards each other.
Hetz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hetzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hetz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
radar image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radar images
Senses: examples: text: The Magellan probe produced a vast number of radar images of Venus.
glosses: An image produced using a radar.
radar images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radar image
prædicament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædicaments
Senses: examples: text: She began hostilities by accusing her son of the same solicitations, which she had made herself, and which he had rejected; that being almost the only step which remains for an abandoned woman to take, who has placed herself in such a desperate prædicament.
ref: 1828, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume I, chapter V, page 376:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of predicament.
Cæsarea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Caesarea.
prædicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædicates
Senses: examples: text: By help of such probable reasoning we are enabled to make syllogisms out of propositions with the sign “most” or “many,” instead of “all” or “some;” and we can take into account the force of such words as “probably,” without (as in strict Logic) thrusting them into the subject or prædicate.
ref: 1875, Alfred James Swinbourne, chapter 22, in Picture Logic, 2nd edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 142:
glosses: Archaic form of predicate.
prædicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prædicates
form: prædicating
form: prædicated
form: prædicated
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of predicate.
prædicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Upon no other principle can length be prædicated of broad measure.
ref: 1828, Algernon Herbert, chapter IV, in Nimrod, volume I, page 280:
glosses: simple past and past participle of prædicate
whizz-bang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whizz-bangs
form: whiz-bang
Etymology: From the noise made.
Senses: examples: text: Some other new chaps started blazing away, too. Fritz retaliated with machine-guns and whizz-bangs. No casualties.
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 139:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small calibre shell from World War I.
whiz-bang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiz-bangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whizz-bang.
whiz-bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiz-bang
prædicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prædicate
prædicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prædicate
whizz-bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whizz-bang
Maxim gun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maxim
form: maxim
form: maxim gun
Etymology: After the inventor, Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A machine gun which derives after some manner from the patented gun mechanism of Sir Hiram Maxim
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A machine gun
Coordinate terms: base-stabilized machine gun
heavy machine gun
water-cooled machine gun
water-jacketed machine gun
Shigeru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
limousine liberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limousine liberals
Etymology: First appeared c. 1969. Coined by Mario Procaccino in reference to New York mayor John Lindsay.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the word comes out of your mouth […] your own servant is going to size you up as one of those limousine liberals, or whatever epithet they use, who are busy pouring white soul all over the black movement, and would you do as much for the white lower class, for the domestics of the East Side, for example, fat chance, sahib.
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
synonyms: champagne socialist
chardonnay socialist
latte liberal
glosses: A wealthy person, liberal in politics but insulated from any adverse consequences of the policies they support.
wikipedia: John Lindsay
Mario Procaccino
Shinobu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːˈnəʊ.buː/
ipa: /ʃiˈnoʊ.bu/
rhymes: -əʊbuː
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese しのぶ (Shinobu).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
hop to it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops to it
form: hopping to it
form: hopped to it
form: hopped to it
Senses: examples: text: You'd best hop to it if you want to arrive on time.
glosses: To hurry up; to get moving.
l'istesso tempo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Italian l'istesso tempo (“the same tempo”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Indicates that the following movement should be played at the same tempo as the last, often employed when switching from simple to compound metres or vice versa, to clarify that the tempo stays the same in reference to the beats felt, not the time signature.
craphouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craphouses
Etymology: From crap + house.
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: word: shithouse
word: crapper
word: boghouse
word: shouse
word: outhouse
dickass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickasses
Etymology: From dick + ass.
Senses: examples: text: What kind of a dickass line is this: "Jeez, I, like, slopped coffee over my blouse"?
ref: 1995, Craig Brown, The Private Eye: Craig Brown Parodies:
glosses: A contemptible person.
examples: text: It [the Picktree brag] came also like a galloway, but more often like a coach horse, and went trotting along the “lonin, afore folks, settin up a great nicker and a whinney every now and then;" and it came frequently like a “dickass,” and it always stopped at the pond [...]
ref: 1842, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book:
glosses: An ass (donkey), a jackass, especially a male ass.
focusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: focussable
Etymology: From focus + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being focused.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to receive the input focus.
Derived terms: unfocusable
sgd.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: (at the bottom of a transcribed letter) - Sgd. John Smith
glosses: Abbreviation of signed.
polysperm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + sperm.
Senses: glosses: polyspermous
polysperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysperms
Etymology: From poly- + sperm.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tree whose fruit contains many seeds.
polyspermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing many seeds
polyspermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + sperm + -al.
Senses: glosses: polyspermous
polyspermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + spermato- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: polyspermous
polyspermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to polyspermy
polyspermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + sperm + -ia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: polyspermy
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally profuse production of semen
polyommatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many eyes or eye-like organs.
polygeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polygenous.
polygenesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: polygenetic
laryngorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of laryngorrhea.
laryngorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngorrhœa
form: laryngorrhea
Etymology: From laryngo- + -rrhoea.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An excessive secretion from a larynx; abnormal mucous discharge of a larynx.
Achæmenes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: As Son of Ormuzd we find the name Dshemshid : apparently the same as he whom the Greeks call Achæmenes, whose descendants are called Pishdadians — a race to which Cyrus was reported to belong.
ref: 1857, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. Sibree, edited by Henry G. Bohn, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, part 1, section 3, chapter I, page 188:
glosses: Obsolete form of Achaemenes.
hedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdɒn/
/ˈhiːdən/
Forms: form: hedons
Etymology: Back-formation from hedonism, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”). Doublet of Edoni.
Senses: examples: text: Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress[…]
ref: 1986, Rosemarie Tong, Ethics in policy analysis, →ISBN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
Synonyms: utile
util
Derived terms: hypohedonia
æquations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æquation
north-seeking pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: north-seeking poles
Senses: glosses: The positive pole of a magnetic dipole, which is attracted towards geographic north.
Synonyms: north pole
N-pole
positive pole
south-seeking pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south-seeking poles
Senses: glosses: The negative pole of a magnetic dipole, which seeks geographic south.
Synonyms: south pole
S-pole
negative pole
bedoubt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedoubts
form: bedoubting
form: bedoubted
form: bedoubted
form: bedoute
Etymology: From be- + doubt.
Senses: examples: text: Above all men he was there moste bedoute.
ref: 1470, Hardyng, Chronicle:
glosses: To dread; respect; renown.
Vismin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of VisMin (“Visayas and Mindanao region of the Philippines”)
Vismin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vismin
form: vizmin
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of visible minority.
one-uped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of one-up
elbow chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbow chairs
form: elbowchair
form: elbow-chair
Senses: examples: text: she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II:
text: […] Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her, […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 293:
text: The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.
ref: 2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
glosses: A chair with long armrests for the elbows.
teiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teiid
cumballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumball
tee lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tee line
task-forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of task-force
pred-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /pɹɛd/
Forms: form: -pred-
Etymology: From prednisone, prednisolone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prednisone and prednisolone derivatives.
tactical call signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactical call sign
takeout doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takeout double
sacrifice bunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrifice bunt
sac bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sac bunts
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sacrifice bunt.
Related terms: sac fly
sac bunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sac bunt
school classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school class
eduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈdʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: eductions
Etymology: From Latin eductio. Equivalent to educe + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of educing, of deducing: deduction.
glosses: The result of educing; something which has been educed; inference, deduction.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A process by which the Earth's crust spreads sideways and exposes deep-seated rocks.
Derived terms: eduction pipe
Masaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masarus
Etymology: From Japanese Masaru (Masaru), from まさる, from various (優/勝/将/將/賢/真申).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
bedark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedarks
form: bedarking
form: bedarked
form: bedarked
Etymology: From Middle English bederken, equivalent to be- + dark.
Senses: glosses: To darken.
Related terms: bedarken
month to date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: months to date
form: month-to-date
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: The period from the beginning of a calendar month to the end of a reporting period.
Synonyms: MTD
Related terms: year to date
bedeen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English bedene, bidene, of uncertain origin. Believed to be a formation of bid-, alteration (perhaps through conflation with Middle English mid (“with”) or with) of bi (“by”) + ene (“once”), from Old English ǣne (“once, at once”), related to Old English ān (“one”), equivalent to be- + one.
Senses: examples: all bedeen
glosses: As a single unit or body; together.
glosses: In order; one after another; in single file.
glosses: Immediately; forthwith; quickly; straightway; anon; soon; early on; by and by.
Shinpei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese しんぺい (Shinpei).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
boarding schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boarding school
northern firmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern firmosses
Senses: glosses: A firmoss of species Huperzia selago of temperate and boreal environments in the Northern Hemisphere.
Synonyms: Lycopodium selago
fir clubmoss
perinæal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of perinaeal.
fir clubmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fir clubmosses
Senses: glosses: northern firmoss, Huperzia selago.
fir clubmosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fir clubmoss
northern firmosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern firmoss
firmosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firmoss
Sena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sena terms
lake quillwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lake quillworts
Senses: glosses: A boreal quillwort, Isoetes lacustris, native on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Synonyms: Merlin's grass
lake quillworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lake quillwort
Merlin's grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Merlin's grasses
Senses: glosses: lake quillwort, Isoetes lacustris
glosses: Isoetes tegetiformans
Merlin's grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Merlin's grass
Oireachtas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹəktəs/
Etymology: From Irish Oireachtas.
Senses: examples: text: The Oireachtas, Ireland’s legislature, was put into a virtual lockdown for hours on Wednesday by a small but abusive group of about 200 people.
ref: 2023 September 21, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Alarm over ‘fascist-like’ protest at Ireland’s seat of government”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The parliament of Ireland.
champagne taste on a beer budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne tastes on a beer budget
form: champagne tastes on beer budgets
form: champagne taste on a beer billfold
form: champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
form: champagne taste on a beer salary
form: champagne taste on a beer wallet
Senses: examples: text: The traveller who expects to satisfy a champagne taste on a beer budget in this food-conscious city may be in for a disappointment.
ref: 1970 May 2, “SP Travel: Parisians enjoy eating-out but it becomes costly”, in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada, retrieved 26 Jul 2011, page 8:
text: The fact is the school system has spent itself into debt, at least partly by exhibiting a champagne taste on a beer budget.
ref: 1994 September 12, “Editorial: School board has used up taxes, excuses”, in Kentucky New Era, USA, retrieved 26 Jul 2011, page 4A:
text: We would all like to live in a palatial estate with a dozen bedrooms and as many bathrooms. Having champagne taste on a beer budget is nothing new. However, be realistic.
ref: 2002, Robert Irwin, How to Buy a Home When You Can't Afford It, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Expensive desires or preferences which one lacks the finances to fulfill satisfactorily.
Related terms: live beyond one's means
champagne taste on a beer billfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne tastes on a beer billfold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of champagne taste on a beer budget.
champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of champagne taste on a beer budget.
champagne taste on a beer salary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne tastes on a beer salary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of champagne taste on a beer budget.
champagne taste on a beer wallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne tastes on a beer wallet
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of champagne taste on a beer budget.
champagne tastes on a beer salary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne taste on a beer salary
champagne tastes on a beer budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne taste on a beer budget
gwyddbwyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fidchell.
synonyms: word: fidchell
champagne tastes on a beer billfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne taste on a beer billfold
champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
sies
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Afrikaans.
Senses: examples: text: 'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'
ref: 2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch, page 316:
text: “Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”
ref: 2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears, page 13:
glosses: Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
sies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sie
sies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sie
champagne tastes on a beer wallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne taste on a beer wallet
occæcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus the sceptic, “speaking evil of the things which he knows not,” and which, while he labours under his present state of mental occæcation, he cannot know, either in the garb of a mild and specious eloquence strives to sap the foundations of the gospel, or with his pen dipped in gall and venom, proceeds in his bold career, beguiling the hearts of the simple, and exulting in his fancied victory.
ref: 1825, “An Occasional Reader” quoted in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper; Volume XX., №. CCXXXIX., page 663
glosses: Obsolete form of occaecation.
wherenot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɛə(ɹ)nɒt/
ipa: /ˈwɛə(ɹ)nɒt/
Etymology: From where + not; compare whatnot.
Senses: examples: text: […] and that now, as then, a morning with the hunt does not always repay the hunting man for getting up in the night and driving in the dark to Dumdum or Cox's Bungalow, or wherenot.
ref: October 1893, Edward Braddon, “Thirty Years of Shikar”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500:
text: The deed roundly asserted that the island of Antigua (or wherenot) lay in the parish of St Mary, […]
ref: 1895, Francis Watt, The Law's Lumber Room, pages 32–33:
text: We have thus, instead of a monument erected on the hearth of Russian tradition and feeling, numberless single stones, some of which, beautifully carved, — but in crooked lines, — lead us to Bagdad, China, and wherenot.
ref: 1916 January 1, The Musical Times, page 16:
glosses: Other related places; wherever.
polysomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysomies
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polysomic.
polyoncosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + oncosis?
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The formation of multiple tumours
polygenesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygenesists
Senses: glosses: polygenist
polysporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysporangia
Etymology: From poly- + sporangium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sporangium that contains many spores
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sporangium that contains polyspores
polyonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyonymy.
polyonychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + onych- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of extra nails on the fingers or toes
polyose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyoses
Etymology: From poly- + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: polysaccharide
pys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of py
reliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relique
aureolæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Medical Officers should clearly understand that only those re‐vaccinations are to be regarded as successful in which either vesicles, normal of modified, or papules surrounded by aureolæ, have resulted.
ref: 1904, H. M. Swaine, Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Ireland, Alexander Thom & Co., page 57:
glosses: plural of aureola
telephoto lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephoto lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).
Synonyms: long lens
narrow-angle lens
telephotographic lens
Related terms: normal lens
long-focus lens
wide-angle lens
long lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A telephoto lens.
telephotographic lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephotographic lenses
Senses: glosses: A telephoto lens.
undersee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undersees
form: underseeing
form: undersaw
form: underseen
Etymology: From under- + see. Cognate with Dutch onderzien (“to see below”), German untersehen (“to see below”).
Senses: examples: text: Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
ref: 1938, Saturday review of literature, volume 18:
glosses: To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
examples: text: At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing" civilian ministers.
ref: 1978, Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia:
glosses: To look intently into; examine; inspect.
examples: text: But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw, the niggling details of their mass production.
ref: 2002, Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me:
text: Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee) the execution of his dirty work.
ref: 2010, Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion:
text: Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]
ref: 2011, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One:
glosses: To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
Related terms: oversee
harddrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harddrives
Etymology: From hard + drive.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard drive.
harddisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harddisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard disk.
dust cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust cloths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dustcloth.
misbeliever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsbɪˈlivɚ/
ipa: /mɪsbɪˈliːvə/
Forms: form: misbelievers
Etymology: From Middle English misbilevere, equivalent to misbelieve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We are placed in the country […] where we feare the menaces wherewith she threatneth all mis-beleevers, or follow her promises.
ref: , II.12
glosses: Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
misbehaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsbəˈheɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misbehavers
Etymology: From misbehave + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misbehaves.
performance anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performance anxieties
Senses: glosses: Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.
glosses: A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.
examples: text: If someone can hear you, they can hear that you're not doing anything. It's a sort of performance anxiety that builds and feeds on itself.
ref: 1999 May 21, Mary Roach, “Bashful Bladders”, in salon.com:
glosses: A similar anxiety about one's ability to urinate in the presence of others; paruresis.
land poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more land poor
form: most land poor
form: land-poor
Senses: examples: text: "I was offered a thousand acres, the other day, at twenty-five cents an acre," remarked the doctor. "The owner is so land-poor that he can't pay the taxes."
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter XV, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: [A]ll the rest of the surrounding land was owned by a Frenchman. . . . He was a land-miser. With no business capacity, old and opinionated, he was land poor, and it was an open question which would arrive first, his death or bankruptcy.
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 18, in The Valley of the Moon:
text: Altho' most of the planters were "land poor" and burdened by the heavy taxes of "Reconstruction," and altho' many Negroes, having abandoned hope of "forty acres and a mule" from the Federal Government, were now ready to buy ten acres and an ox, the sale of land to Negroes was generally reprobated.
ref: 1924, Ambrose Elliott Gonzales, "The Quest of the Land" in The Captain: Stories of the Black Border (1972 reprint edition by Ayer Publishing), p. 111
text: Most ranchers are land poor—lots of land, but not much money.
ref: 2011, Irene Brand, chapter 9, in Song of her Heart, →ISBN:
glosses: In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.
Related terms: house poor
land-poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more land-poor
form: most land-poor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of land poor.
MCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCAs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Mars-crossing asteroid.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of minimum crossing altitude.
glosses: A master in computer science and application.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of middle cerebral artery.
glosses: Initialism of multiple congenital anomalies
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of Maritime and Coastguard Agency
MCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Micro Channel architecture (“a computer bus standard for connecting internal components”)
Coordinate terms: AGP
AT bus
PC bus
EISA
ISA
PCI
PCIe
VLB
Related terms: AT Attachment
local bus
MCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Malaysian politics
glosses: Initialism of Malaysian Chinese Association, a political party for Malaysian Chinese.
aftersee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aftersees
form: afterseeing
form: aftersaw
form: afterseen
Etymology: From after- + see.
Senses: examples: text: [...] of Durham if he will come, or send his brother to enter as one authorized for such a matter, and so to carry it away without delay; and cannot Mr. Cox see, or foresee, or aftersee what cause or colour might work such alteration?
ref: 1847, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Memoirs of the life and times of Sir Christopher Hatton:
text: It is very different to foresee and aftersee.
ref: 1849, Neil Walker, Thomas Craddock, The history of Wisbech, and the fens:
glosses: To see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.
Derived terms: afterseen
afterseeing
normal lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lens which produces an image similar in detail and angular perspective to the view produced by the human eye, as distinct from a wide-angle lens or a telephoto lens.
Related terms: close-up lens
fisheye lens
macro lens
telephoto lens
wide-angle lens
zoom lens
afterseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afterseen
form: most afterseen
Etymology: From after- + seen.
Senses: examples: text: But this is not a foreseen design; it is an afterseen design.
ref: 1971, Harold Fisch, Hamlet and the Word: the covenant pattern in Shakespeare:
text: All inventions, once achieved, are obvious after one understands the field, and such "afterseen" obviousness does not blight patentability if inventor really has something new.
ref: 2001, United States, West Publishing Company, Edward Thompson Company, United States code annotated:
glosses: Seen after the fact.
afterseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From aftersee.
Senses: glosses: past participle of aftersee
Sōma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Daisuke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese だいすけ (Daisuke).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Derived terms: Dice-K
broas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broa
guilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guilter
spring quillwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring quillworts
Senses: synonyms: spiny quillwort
spiny-spored quillwort
glosses: A quillwort of species Isoetes echinospora, widespread in cooler North America and found also in the Black Forest in Germany.
glacier buttercup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacier buttercups
Senses: glosses: An arctic-alpine flowering plant, Ranunculus glacialis
Synonyms: glacier crowfoot
tundra wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tundra wolves
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of grey wolf, Canis lupus albus.
Derived terms: Alaskan tundra wolf
tundra wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tundra wolf
swottier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swotty: more swotty
swottiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of swotty: most swotty
sympathetic detonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathetic detonation
synovial membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synovial membrane
sweet ciders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet cider
sustained yields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustained yield
switch horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch horn
swimming costumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimming costume
under one's own steam
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə ˈwʌnz əʊn ˈstiːm/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚ ˈwʌnz oʊn ˈstim/
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: A reference to the operation of a steam engine: see sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: Now the tug no longer moved under her own steam, nor had it been since coming alongside the wall of the central pier. For all vessels must be towed through the lock basins, and towed not by other craft, but by electric locomotives that run alongside, on top of the concrete walls.
ref: 1915, Victor Appleton [pseudonym], “Almost an Accident”, in The Moving Picture Boys at Panama: Or Stirring Adventures along the Grand Canal, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 106:
text: By Tuesday evening the track had been cleared to the three snowbound engines, and the following day, under their own steam, they were moved away; the business of relighting their fires and raising steam in such conditions is better imagined than described.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 178:
topics: nautical
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of the movement of a locomotive or a watercraft: by means of the power of its own engines (originally steam engines), rather than pulled or pushed by another vehicle.
examples: text: "People come at their own risk, at their own expense, under their own steam," said Mhairi McKenzie-Robinson, chief administrator of the Fringe [Edinburgh Fringe Festival].
ref: 1987 August 18, “At the Fringe in Edinburgh, theater in crypt and streets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021, section C, page 17, columns 1–2:
text: After the event, [Steve] Jobs even briefly joined the media where Apple's new product line was being shown. He walked under his own steam, of course, easily and without any apparent discomfort. […] Whether Jobs's health is in decline or not, it's undeniable that the past five years have been the most fertile of his magnificent career.
ref: 2008 September 9, Josh Quittner, “Steve Jobs: Not Dead Yet”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2008:
glosses: Using one's own resources; independently, unaided.
examples: text: I'd been wanting her to go for a long, long time, hoping she'd get up the gumption to do it under her own steam so I wouldn't have to make a scene about it.
ref: 1980, Charlotte Vale Allen, Promises, Norwalk, Conn.: Island Nation Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 265:
glosses: At one's own initiative; of one's own accord, unbidden, unprompted.
Quintation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Pedal Quintaton and Great Nason Flute are brothers under the skin, as are also the Pedal Rohrquinte and Great Nasat; nobody else in the organ is related to any other body. Quintation is metal but Nason Flute has a wooden head.
ref: 1939, Thomas Scott Godfrey Burhrman [ed.], American Organist (American Guild of Organists), volumes 22–23, page 113
glosses: Misspelling of Quintaton.
psychological injury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychological injuries
Senses: examples: text: If a soldier suffers a psychological injury as a result of combat he or she may be eligible for compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
text: With the requisite education, knowledge, and experience, forensic psychologists have a great deal to contribute to the understanding of psychological injuries and the resolution of litigation that may result when those injuries occur.
ref: 2008, Andrew W. Kane, Ph.D., Psychological Injury and Law, Springer, page 36:
topics: law
glosses: Damage to the psyche caused by an event that may lead to a tort action (lawsuit) or other compensation claim.
Related terms: personal injury
Taira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tairas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or Japanese 平良 (Taira).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Takaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高木 (Takaki) or たかき (Takaki).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Aix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aix-en-Provence.
synonyms: word: Aix-en-Provence
Related terms: Aix-les-Bains
Aix-la-Chapelle
close-up lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close-up lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Synonym of macro lens.
synonyms: word: macro lens
bemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemasters
form: bemastering
form: bemastered
form: bemastered
Etymology: From be- + master.
Senses: glosses: To master throughly; dominate.
unstabler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unstable: more unstable
unclinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclinging
form: most unclinging
Etymology: From un- + clinging.
Senses: glosses: Not clinging
unclinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uncling + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncling
uphiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uphillers
Etymology: From uphill + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person traveling uphill.