cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blade servers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blade server
school nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school night
hydrothermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hydrothermally
form: most hydrothermally
Etymology: From hydrothermal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By hydrothermal means
hyperentanglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperentanglements
Etymology: From hyper- + entanglement.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: entanglement involving more than one degree of freedom
Related terms: hyperentangled
nonanticipative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anticipative.
Senses: glosses: Not anticipative
Related terms: nonanticipativity
enwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + wrought.
Senses: examples: text: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; […]
ref: W. B. Yeats Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet
glosses: Made; wrought.
syair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syairs
Etymology: From Malay syair, from Arabic شَاعِر (šāʕir, “poet”).
Senses: glosses: Malay poetry that is made up of four-line stanzas
toruffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹʌfəl/
Forms: form: toruffles
form: toruffling
form: toruffled
form: toruffled
Etymology: From to- + ruffle.
Senses: examples: text: She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings / That in the various bustle of resort / Were all toruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
ruffle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruffles up
form: ruffling up
form: ruffled up
form: ruffled up
Senses: glosses: To disturb the smoothness of.
glosses: To destroy or ruin the arrangement or order of; disarrange
Synonyms: rumple
mess up
toruffle
spacefilling curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacefilling curves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of space-filling curve.
spacefilling model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacefilling models
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of space-filling model.
space-filling model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space-filling models
form: spacefilling model
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of three-dimensional molecular model, where the atoms are represented by spheres whose radii are proportional to the radii of the atoms, and whose center-to-center distances are proportional to the distances between the atomic nuclei, all in the same scale.
Synonyms: calotte model
CPK model
calotte model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calotte models
Senses: glosses: space-filling model
CPK model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPK models
Etymology: Initials of chemists Robert Corey, Linus Pauling and Walter Koltun, who pioneered their use.
Senses: glosses: space-filling model
crossbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbirths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-birth.
crossbirths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbirth
secretoneurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A 33-amino acid neuropeptide derived from secretogranin II, found in a wide variety of peptidergic endocrine cells and involved in chemotaxis of monocytes and eosinophils.
secretogranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretogranins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of related neuroendocrine secretory proteins.
secretogranins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretogranin
nonpeptidergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + peptidergic.
Senses: glosses: Not peptidergic.
nonpensioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpensioner
crapflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crapfloods
form: crapflooding
form: crapflooded
form: crapflooded
Etymology: From crap + flood.
Senses: glosses: To flood a user's screen, mailbox, etc. with large amounts of worthless text.
Derived terms: crapflooder
crapfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crapflood
crapflooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crapflood
crapflooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crapflood
chatbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatboxes
Etymology: From chat + box.
Senses: examples: text: As you may know, in the third weekend of October, we will organise a JOTI (Jamboree On The Internet) weekend, instead of the JOTA. During that weekend we plan to open several chatboxes on IRC. On these boxes Scouts from all over the world can chat with each other.
ref: 1997, vdveen, “JOTI 1997 Chatboxes IMPORTANT INFORMATION”, in de.soc.jugendarbeit (Usenet):
text: How do you handle students who use the Internet for chatboxes and email?
ref: 1997, Billie Walker, “Chatboxes and email”, in bit.listserv.libref-l (Usenet):
glosses: A chat room.
examples: text: As the video streams, there's a chatbox by the side of it. All viewers are welcome to leave comments in the chatbox or simply watch the chat that is developing.
ref: 2016, Zoe Griffin, Get Rich Blogging, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A tagboard.
chatboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatbox
fishmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fishmonger + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The trade of a fishmonger, selling fish.
ironmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ironmonger + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The trade of an ironmonger.
supervisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supervise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Possible to supervise.
siftproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siftproof
form: most siftproof
Etymology: From sift + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Designed so that loose powder etc. cannot sift out during transit.
raw_tags: of a container
quack-salver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quack-salvers
Senses: examples: text: Wid[ow]. Why, Man's Life is but a Flower, Mr. Jolly, and the Flower withers, and Man withers, as Mr. Knock-down obſerv'd laſt Sabbath-day at Evening Exerciſe: But, Neighbour, you're paſt the Flower, you've grown old as well as I— / Jol[ly]. I'the very Flower; that damn'd Quack-ſalver—
ref: 1710, Abraham Cowley, “Cutter of Coleman-Street”, in The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: In Two Volumes. Consisting of Those which were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design’d for the Press; Publishd out of the Authors Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-Street, 11th edition, volume II, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson; and sold by D. Browne [et al.], →OCLC, act II, scene vii, page 832:
text: “I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, […] to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos— […]” […] [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver’s address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.
ref: 1910, Jeffrey Farnol, “Which Describes Sundry Happenings at the Fair, and Ends this First Book”, in The Broad Highway: A Romance of Kent, new and cheaper edition, London; Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, book I, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of quacksalver.
nonpropulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + propulsion.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to propulsion.
nonpropelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + propelled.
Senses: glosses: Not propelled.
nonpropellant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + propellant.
Senses: examples: the nonpropellant uses of chlorofluorocarbons
glosses: Not of or pertaining to propellant.
skyworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skyworthy
form: most skyworthy
Etymology: From sky + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: airworthy
mahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori mahi.
Senses: examples: text: It's^([sic]) spokesperson Leonie Howie did not want to be interviewed but said they "will do the mahi" when it comes to trying to both encourage vaccinations as well as managing any health risks to the community when visitors arrive.
ref: 2021 December 2, “Unvaccinated private boat owners a risk to Aotea's community - iwi”, in Radio NZ:
glosses: the work required to complete a task
Related terms: mahi-mahi
pitchside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pitch + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Most pitchside medical staff fortunately will never have to treat a life threatening injury on the field of play.
ref: 2005, Gregory P. Whyte, Mark Harries, Clyde Williams, ABC of sports and exercise medicine, page 4:
glosses: By the side of a sports pitch.
e-mailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mailer
opinionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opinionizes
form: opinionizing
form: opinionized
form: opinionized
Etymology: From opinion + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To express one's opinion in a strong or assertive manner.
glosses: To express opinions.
Derived terms: opinionizer
Related terms: opinionate
opinionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opinionize
opinionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opinionize
opinionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opinionize
quadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadlike
form: most quadlike
Etymology: From quad + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At Virginia, with its famous quadlike arrangement around a lawn as designed by Thomas Jefferson […]
ref: 2008, William Barksdale Maynard, Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the presidency, page 134:
glosses: Resembling a quad (quadrangular courtyard).
fourplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourplexes
Etymology: From four + -plex.
Senses: glosses: A quadplex.
fourplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourplex
dispensement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispensements
Etymology: From dispense + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: “How do you control manufacture, and how do you control dispensement?
ref: 2007 June 14, Danny Hakim, “Legislators Grapple Over How to Legalize Medical Marijuana Use”, in New York Times:
glosses: dispensation (handing out or distribution)
earcup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earcups
Etymology: From ear + cup.
Senses: examples: text: The pleasantly smushy-edged earcups on this new model do an excellent job of isolating your ears.
ref: 2007 June 14, David Pogue, “Headphones to Shut Out the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: The cup-shaped parts of headphones that contain speakers and fit on the ear.
earcups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earcup
junkballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkballers
form: junk baller
form: junk-baller
Etymology: From junkball + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A player that hits a lot of slow shots.
examples: text: From the beginning, Clemens was a fireballer, Wells more of a junkballer.
ref: 2007 June 14, Lee Jenkins, “At 44, Wells Is the Anti-Clemens”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher that relies heavily on off-speed pitches.
junkballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkballer
comburent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] the passage for comburent fluid, the opposite sides of the other diaphragm being exposed to the pressure of the combustible fluid on opposite sides of said resistance. 3. Apparatus for maintaining the proportional delivery of combustible fluid and comburent fluid supplied through separate passages to a gas-fired furnace, […]
ref: 1919, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks:
glosses: Undergoing or promoting combustion (for example, by reacting with fuel and promoting a reduction-oxidation reaction). (Contrast combustible.)
comburent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comburents
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:comburent.
glosses: A substance which is comburent.
miniburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibursts
Etymology: From mini- + burst.
Senses: examples: text: Then, just after the start of the Iraq war, “There was a miniburst of optimism” that capitalism was leading to democracy after all, Mr. Mandelbaum said, with three popular uprisings in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and elections in Gaza, Lebanon and Egypt in 2005.
ref: 2007 June 14, Patricia Cohen, “An Unexpected Odd Couple: Free Markets and Freedom”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small burst.
minibursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniburst
miswired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miswired
form: most miswired
Etymology: From mis- + wired.
Senses: examples: text: The astronauts removed all but one of the locks that had been placed on the mechanism to secure it for its trip to the station, leaving the last one until issues with one of the joint’s two drive locks — which apparently were miswired — could be resolved.
ref: 2007 June 14, John Schwartz, “Computer Flaw Could Imperil Space Station”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wired incorrectly; badly connected.
mousework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouse + work.
Senses: examples: text: TIP OF THE WEEK Keyboard shortcuts can save time and a lot of mousework for common computing chores, but sometimes it is hard to find them.
ref: 2007 June 14, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Fixing Silent Movies in Windows”, in New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Activities requiring the use of a mouse (input device).
outscorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outscorns
form: outscorning
form: outscorned
form: outscorned
Etymology: From out- + scorn.
Senses: examples: text: “That’s a bit like asking a man to subject himself to his own Freudian analysis,” he said, and then ventured this answer: “I guess I am Lear and the kitchen is my heath, wherein I strive to outscorn the to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.”
ref: 2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “Kitchen Tales”, in New York Times:
glosses: To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
outscorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outscorn
outscorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outscorn
mixed marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed marriage
phono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonos
Senses: examples: text: Each comes in a carrying case that keeps the devices together with their accessories: the miniplug cable for your music or DVD player, for example, and the adapters for quarter-inch phono jacks and dual-pronged airplane armrest jacks.
ref: 2007 June 14, David Pogue, “Headphones to Shut Out the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Clipping of phonograph.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of phonology.
Related terms: phono cartridge
stanazolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Toney, 38, tested positive for boldenone and stanazolol, and Batchelder tested positive for stanazolol and oxandolone^([sic]), Garcia said.
ref: 2007 June 14, The Associated Press, “Sports Briefing”, in New York Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A synthetic anabolic steroid derived from testosterone.
Big Nambas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the size of the nambas, or penis sheath, worn by the men.
Senses: glosses: A tribe of Vanuatu.
glosses: Their language, belonging to Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Big Nambas terms
tricoastal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + coastal.
Senses: examples: text: But then, I am not someone who can just order drink after drink at the Hotel Gansevoort with cavalier joy and talk about how fun it is to be tricoastal.
ref: 2007 June 14, Mike Albo, “If You Really Need the Big Price Tag”, in New York Times:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to three coasts.
tsimmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tzimmes.
ultradesirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradesirable
form: most ultradesirable
Etymology: From ultra- + desirable.
Senses: examples: text: Initiates know that beyond the wall of fluttering pant legs lies a trove of bluejeans produced by niche Japanese labels in the kind of ultradesirable limited editions that recall Richard Serra lithographs or Red Shoulder chardonnay.
ref: 2007 June 14, Guy Trebay, “Out-Levi-ing Levi Strauss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly desirable.
unassemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unassembles
form: unassembling
form: unassembled
form: unassembled
Etymology: From un- + assemble.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m constantly reassembling and unassembling it.”
ref: 2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “The Artist’s Kitchen, Recycled and Curated”, in New York Times:
glosses: To take apart; to disassemble.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To disassemble.
Derived terms: unassembler
unassembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unassemble
unassembles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unassemble
blort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔɹt
Forms: form: blorts
Etymology: Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also blend of blow + snort.
Senses: glosses: A snort of liquid from the mouth out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny.
glosses: The sound of blowing one's nose.
examples: text: B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT
ref: 1977, Barbara J. Burian, A Simplified Approach to S/370 Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 312:
text: In all programming languages in which strings are defined, the underlying set of characters contains not only the letters of the alphabet, but also nonalphabetic characters such as '7' and '+. We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example, we can write the strings 'AARDVARK' and '% *blort!!'.
ref: 1989, Rick Decker, Data Structures, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 34:
text: In either instance, if a matching password is found by the if command, control branches to the appropriate label, FARKLE or BLORT. (More passwords could be added here.)
ref: 1991, Van Wolverton, Dan Gookin, Supercharging MS-DOS, 3 edition, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 133:
text: This example declares an element with a generic identifier of blort. The two minus signs indicate that neither the start-tag nor the end-tag may be omitted (even if the omitted markup could be unambiguously inferred). The keyword ANY signifies that a blort can contain a mix of character data and any element declared in the DTD, in any sequence.
ref: 1995, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard, “The Design of the TEI Encoding Scheme”, in Computers and the Humanities, volume 29, number 1, Association for Computers and the Humanities, →JSTOR, page 24:
text: This command is exactly the same as running mkdir blort; svn add blort. That is, a new directory named blort is created and scheduled for addition.
ref: 2008, C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, edited by Mary E. Treseler, Version Control with Subversion, 2 edition, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 24:
text: So we create a vocabulary called foo, define a word called blort in it and then switch back to making word definitions in the default forth vocabulary. When you invoke foo it makes it so the foo vocabulary is searched first before the forth vocabulary.
ref: 2019 July 29, u/upofadown, “Forth words collisions problem - does it exists?”, in r/Forth, Reddit:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
topics: art
arts
comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Indicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.
blort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔɹt
Forms: form: blorts
form: blorting
form: blorted
form: blorted
Etymology: Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also blend of blow + snort.
Senses: glosses: To defecate, especially into a diaper.
Related terms: pamper packing
pushie
umbe-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of um-.
umbecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌʌmbəˈkæst/
/ˌʌmbəˈkɑːst/
Forms: form: umbecasts
form: umbecasting
form: umbecast
form: umbecast
Etymology: From Middle English umbecasten, equivalent to umbe- + cast or um- + becast.
Senses: glosses: To cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
glosses: To consider, ponder.
examples: text: […]and the dog came after, and umbecast about, for she had lost the very perfect feute of the hind.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: To hunt, search for the spoor, explore, seek, sniff around.
glosses: To surround, encircle, beset; umbeset, circle around.
glosses: To bind, tie up.
glosses: To cast a shadow, cover with a shadow, shade
umstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umstrokes
Etymology: From um- + stroke.
Senses: glosses: The circumference or periphery of a circle.
examples: text: Such towns as stand, as one may say, on tiptoes on the very umstroke, or on any part of the utmost line of a map […]
ref: 1608, Thomas Fuller, Pisgah Sight of Palestine:
glosses: A boundary line, especially one at the outermost limit; an extreme edge.
Synonyms: mere
umstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umstroke.
up-regulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: up-regulates
form: up-regulating
form: up-regulated
form: up-regulated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upregulate.
up-regulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up-regulate
up-regulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of up-regulate
up-regulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up-regulate
metacrawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacrawlers
Etymology: From meta- + crawler.
Senses: examples: […] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases.
glosses: An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.
comparandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒmpəˈɹændəm/
/ˌkɒmpəˈɹɑːndəm/
Forms: form: comparanda
Etymology: From Latin comparandum, gerundive (neuter singular) of comparō.
Senses: examples: text: This finding, together with the semantic content, allows us to identify a suitable comparandum, viz. the pronoun *etero-s 'other; one or the other of two'[…]
ref: 1985, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “Miscellaneous Problems in Indo-European Languages I-II”, in Lingua Posnaniensis, volume 28, page 125:
text: For the sake of evaluating the Uralic-Yukaghir comparisons in HDY, however, it is more illuminating to examine the frequency of various types of problems in the comparanda.
ref: 2014 October 18, Ante Aikio, “The Uralic-Yukaghir lexical correspondences: genetic inheritance, language contact or chance resemblance?”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, volume 14, →DOI, page 12:
text: The third task is to choose a suitable illustrated comparandum of the appropriate variety from a published Early Cycladic excavation which is both well preserved and substantially complete.
ref: 2017 April 1, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd, “26. Selected Sculptural Fragments from the Special Deposits south at Kavos on Keros”, in Marissa Marthari, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd, editors, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context, Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 380:
synonyms: comparand
glosses: Something that is compared; the subject of a comparison.
compinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: compinges
form: compinging
form: compinged
form: compinged
Etymology: From Latin compingere.
Senses: examples: text: Into what straits hath it been compinged
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: To compress; to shut up (confine).
compulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compulses
form: compulsing
form: compulsed
form: compulsed
Senses: examples: text: I didn't choose to. I was compulsed.
ref: 1987, John Patrick Shanley, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, →ISBN, page 14:
text: However, a person can be more or less compulsed as it is possible for the human person to become enlightened, face and work with the particular compulsive style one as adopted.
ref: 1987, Maureen Conroy, Growing in Love and Freedom, →ISBN, page 20:
text: I'm damned tired of being impressed into service, compulsed into doing things I hate to do.
ref: 2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, →ISBN:
text: We are compulsed to this place and put into information that is very twisted already.
ref: 2012, Julie Rupert, Corld, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: To force, constrain, or obligate.
examples: text: Fantasize about sex instead of obsessing and compulsing.
ref: 1997, Mary McClure Goulding, Robert L. Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Howard, stop talking! I asked a simple question. You gave me one of your more-than-I-will-ever- want-to-know answers. You are compulsing again.
ref: 2003, Howard C. Hoffman, Feasting with My King, →ISBN, page 139:
text: ...where if one is not compulsing, then she is in a state of withdrawal from all activities and social interactions, as even the smallest things can trigger the obsessive fixation.
ref: 2013, Vira Burmenko -, My Key to Immortality: Tuning Your Mind into the Life of Universal Love, →ISBN:
glosses: To behave in a compulsive manner.
Related terms: compel
compulsory
crypticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryptic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cryptic.
desynchronisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desynchronisable
form: most desynchronisable
Etymology: From desynchronise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be desynchronised.
desynchronised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desynchronised
form: most desynchronised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of desynchronized.
desynchronised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desynchronise
disambiguator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disambiguators
Etymology: From disambiguate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Those nouns, adjectives and verbs which only occurred with one of the senses were extracted from this list but only nouns were used as additional potential disambiguators in a differential list.
ref: 1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 257:
glosses: Anything that serves to disambiguate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used
nanolocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + localized.
Senses: glosses: localized within a nanosized region
neurodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neurodynamics
neurodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: The study of rhythmic or repetitive neural activity
porphycenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphycene
subcubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cubic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an order less than cubic
pre-hung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Seal out winter winds or enjoy summer breezes with this pre-hung extruded aluminum combination door.
ref: 1970, Montgomery Ward catalog, page 1152:
text: A wide variety of pre-hung door units are available from building material suppliers. The door usually arrives at the job with the hinges installed on the door and jamb, with the opening bored for the lock.
ref: 1974, T. W. Love, Construction manual: finish carpentry:
text: For about 30 years you have been able to purchase pre-hung doors and door jambs.
ref: 2006, Brian Hodge, Building Your Straw Bale Home: From Foundations to the Roof, page 217:
text: Once you've made an opening for a new door you have two options: cut, fit and assemble a 12-piece frame, then hang the door, - or slip in a pre-hung door-frame assembly, shim and nail it into place.
ref: 2007, Complete backyard & home improvement book - Page 467:
glosses: Alternative form of prehung.
Church Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Ecclesiastical Latin
hypernyms: Latin
<
natural language
<
language
coordinate_terms: word: see at Latin § Hyponyms
english: varieties of Latin
translation: varieties of Latin
word: ;
english: alternatives to Latin
translation: alternatives to Latin
word: vernacular#Noun
word: vulgate#Noun
glosses: The Latin language as spoken, written, and used in the Christian church and in church services.
Hemming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, and Swedish surname, from the Old Norse personal name Hemingr, variant of Hæmingr, itself of uncertain origin, possibly from hamr, hemingr (“form, shape; skin of an animal”). This word may have been borrowed into Old English as hemming (“a rawhide boot”).
* As a German surname, variant of Hemme.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
afterthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: afterthinks
form: afterthinking
form: afterthought
form: afterthought
Etymology: Compound of after- + think, probably a calque of Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia).
Senses: glosses: To think about after the fact, reflect on.
examples: text: Do not afterthink except for poetic or P.S. reasons. Never afterthink to "improve" or defray impressions, as the best writing is always the most painful personal wrung-out tossed from cradle warm protective mind – tap from yourself the song of yourself, blow! – now! [...]
ref: 2005, John Long, Drugs and the 'Beats': The Role of Drugs in the Lives and Writings:
text: Never fear," said her husband ; " there, sit you down and mend your stockings, and the less you heed us the less you'll have to afterthink."
ref: 1870, Theodore Percival Wilson, Frank Oldfield; or, Lost and found:
glosses: To repent, or feel remorse for; to regret.
rolls up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll up
rolling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll up
rolled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll up
roll ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roll up
tobruise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tobruises
form: tobruising
form: tobruised
form: tobruised
Etymology: From Middle English tobrusen, tobrisen, from Old English tōbrȳsan (“to bruise, crush, shatter”), equivalent to to- + bruise.
Senses: examples: text: Then he brought the monk all tobruised in a sack to S. Benedict, and anon S. Benedict made upon him the sign of the cross, and blessed him and raised him to life, and sent him to the work again.
ref: 1910, Edward Hutton, Siena and southern Tuscany:
text: Onely his shield and armour, which there lay, / Though nothing whole, but all tobrusd and broken, [...]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
glosses: To bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.
bruise up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bruises up
form: bruising up
form: bruised up
form: bruised up
Senses: glosses: To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering.
examples: text: Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.
ref: 2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: To show or get bruises.
pigwidgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigwidgeons
Senses: examples: text: "Yes," said the pigwidgeon who had spoken before. "We will do that, for we are very anxious to know how to divide five-sevenths by six. We have been working at it for four or five days, and there wont be anything worth dividing if we wait much longer." The pidwidgeons now began to descend the vine; […]
ref: 1884 (compiled edition), Frank R. Stockton, Prince Hassak's March, in St. Nicholas (in the December 1883 issue), page 144, with an illustration depicting a miniature goblin of sorts less than half the size of a human child
text: "What is a pigwidgeon?" you ask. "That's Mister Pigwidgeon to you," says the elf with a sniff, "and I'd like to know what gives you the right to interrupt my afternoon nap."
ref: 1995, Jay Leibold, Treasure Hunt, Skylark, →ISBN:
glosses: A small or petty person, creature or object, especially a fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf.
examples: text: PIGWIGGIN was this Faery Knight, One wondrous gracious in the sight Of fair Queene Mab ...
ref: 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC:
text: "Fie, then, naughty child" cried madame; […] But the great orator chuckled with laughter.
"Pigwidgeon, pigwidgeon!" he said, nodding his head at the culprit. "Not for youth and health are rouge and enamel, and all the vestments of vanity."
ref: 1899, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Our Lady of Darkness: A Novel, page 209:
glosses: A contemptible or stupid person or creature.
tonneaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonneau
tonnelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonnelet
legal names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal name
come out swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out swinging
form: coming out swinging
form: came out swinging
form: come out swinging
Etymology: An allusion to the behavior of a boxer who immediately begins a boxing match or a round of a match by aggressively throwing punches in an unrestrained manner.
Senses: examples: text: New York baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, rolling up his sleeves and coming out swinging for the first time Monday, bluntly told Pete Rozelle to quit "kidding the people" about football being the nation's no. 1 sport.
ref: 1972 February 1, “Kuhn Blasts Rozelle's Poll”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page C1:
text: So ingrained is the instinct for massive retaliation that Downing St. came out swinging before mastering the facts.
ref: 2002 February 25, J. F. O. McAllistair, “Blair the Bungee Jumper”, in Time:
glosses: To initiate an encounter or interaction by behaving in an unrestrainedly aggressive, confrontational, or accusatory manner.
examples: text: There's ferment is Philadelphia where the ad agency with the oldest name in the business after a very bad year is picking itself up and coming out swinging.
ref: 1967 February 26, Paul H. Dougherty, “Advertising: Oldest Agency Thinking Young”, in New York Times, page F16:
text: She'd endured cruelty and grief and still came out swinging.
ref: 2009, Julie Miller, chapter 9, in Out of Control, →ISBN:
glosses: To display spunk and strength of character, especially when rising above or when fighting back against trouble or adversity.
Related terms: come back swinging
besetten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English besetten, beseten, from Old English beseten, past participle of Old English besittan (“to sit around, beset”).
Senses: glosses: alternative past participle of beset
forthan
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: for-than
form: forthon
Etymology: From Middle English forthan, from Old English for þon, comprised of for (“because of”) + þon (“that”). More at for, than, that, for that.
Senses: glosses: For this reason; therefore.
glosses: For the reason that; because.
Derived terms: forthan that
stevvon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stevvons
form: stevvoning
form: stevvoned
form: stevvoned
Etymology: See steven (“voice”).
Senses: examples: text: Says he, whispering, — "Ah wunder'd what yer'd goan art for; keep it art o't' seet ur yer'll hev Somb'dy darn on yer pretty quick;" an' cocking up his head agean he stevvons art "Silernce!"
ref: 1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood, page 67:
text: Then sez Mattha: "Ah've felted a bottil Aback o' yon cam-dyke near-by, An Ah lay at a sup wad be welcome," An t'rist on us stevvoned oot: "Aye! " Seea Mattha e grobbed iv is jacket, Then let oot 20.
ref: 1963, Bill Cowley, A Cleveland anthology: dialect poems from Cleveland and the North Yorkshire Moors:
text: The amazon saw her and stevvon'd, “Get back upstairs!”
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The Reckoning:
glosses: To speak (especially loudly) or shout.
foremind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreminds
form: foreminding
form: foreminded
form: foreminded
Etymology: From Middle English foremynden, equivalent to fore- + mind.
Senses: glosses: To intend; predetermine.
foremind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreminds
Etymology: From Middle English foremynden, equivalent to fore- + mind.
Senses: glosses: intent, intention.
examples: text: […] I'm floundering at sloppy deliberation in the choice of every new word, and thus damned up in my soul is left to rot. The limit of my foremind to tap and drain onto paper any flow from my residue of self-saturated thoughts is usually half a page at any one sitting.
ref: 2007, Neal Cassady, “Letter to Allen Ginsberg, May 15, 1951”, in Anne Waldman, editor, The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation:
glosses: The forward or conscious part of the mind, easily accessible to memory and cognition.
frem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frem
form: most frem
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fremd.
foreminds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foremind
foreminds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foremind
foreminding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foremind
foreminded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foremind
think much of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks much of
form: thinking much of
form: thought much of
form: thought much of
Senses: examples: text: I don't think much of her new book.
antonyms: think little of
glosses: To like; to hold in high esteem; to look upon favourably.
examples: text: When he asked to have a look at my bank statements, I didn't think much of it, but now I'm certain he was up to something no good.
glosses: To consider deeply. (usually in the negative)
Synonyms: sense: to like
word: care for
atumble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: more atumble
form: most atumble
Etymology: From a- + tumble.
Senses: glosses: Set in a tumbling motion.
bimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimmers
form: Bimmer
form: Beemer
form: beemer
form: Beamer
form: beamer
Etymology: From Clipping of BMW + -er.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of BMW: a car manufactured by BMW.
Synonyms: sense: BMW
word: beamer
sense: BMW
word: Beamer
sense: BMW
word: beemer
sense: BMW
word: Beemer
sense: BMW
word: BMW
confiseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confiseurs
Senses: glosses: A French confectioner.
confiseurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confiseur
BGT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Britain's Got Talent.
revendication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revendications
Etymology: French revendication.
Senses: glosses: The act of revendicating.
minceur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French minceur.
Senses: glosses: slenderness
Kag-Fer-Jiir-Koor-Ror-Us-Zuksun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A compound of the names of seven of its eight principal dialects. (The omitted dialect is Kur, also called Keri-Ni, Keli-Ni or Kelinchi, and not to be confused with Koor.)
Senses: glosses: A Niger-Congo language spoken in Nigeria.
Synonyms: Fakkanci
paradentosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of periodentosis.
periodentosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradentosis
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of soft tissues around one's teeth such as the gums.
Related terms: gingivitis
single yellow line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single yellow lines
Senses: examples: text: She hugged the single yellow line, but she drove fast.
ref: 1989, Melvin Dixon, Trouble the Water:
text: He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines.
ref: 1999, Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes:
text: At half past eleven, Roy Grace parked his Alfa Romeo on a single yellow line outside the unlit shop window of a dealer specializing in retro twentieth-century furniture.
ref: 2006, Peter James, Looking Good Dead:
text: The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions.
ref: 2007, Barrie Segal, The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell:
glosses: A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times.
Related terms: double yellow line
red line
thin blue line
Thin Red Line
double yellow line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double yellow lines
Senses: examples: text: The person who parked their car on the double yellow line may be a doctor who has been called urgently to the house of a critically ill patient ...
ref: 1995, Nina Fletcher, Janet Holt, Ethics, law, and nursing:
text: I'm sorry, you were parking on a double yellow line, you've got a ticket.
ref: 1998, Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, True to life: English for adult learners.:
text: He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines.
ref: 1999, Ruth Rendell, A site for sore eyes:
text: When he reached the street Claber and the girl were crossing the road to a Mercedes coupé, parked on a double yellow line.
ref: 2001, Julian Symons, A Three-Pipe Problem:
glosses: A pair of yellow lines painted at the side of a road to show that parking is not permitted at any time.
examples: text: The photo on pages 22 and 23 of your February issue shows the driver of a Chevy Beretta topping a hill and rounding a curve on the wrong side of a double yellow line.
ref: 1987 May, Popular Science:
text: Police officer: Well, for one thing, you went over a double yellow line back there to pass a car.
ref: 1998, Jack C. Richards, Jonathan Hull, Susan Proctor, New interchange: English for international communication:
text: Hutchison observed the Buick cross the double yellow line to pass a car at the bottom of a dip.
ref: 2000, Bob Bondurant, Edwin J. Sanow, Bob Bondurant on police and pursuit driving:
glosses: A pair of yellow lines painted along the middle of a road to show that traffic should not cross into the oncoming lane
Related terms: double red line
single yellow line
Proto-Armenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Armenian.
Senses: glosses: The reconstructed ancestor of the Armenian language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Armenian terms
orotundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more orotundly
form: most orotundly
Etymology: From orotund + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an orotund manner.
unjudgmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjudgmentally
form: most unjudgmentally
Etymology: From unjudgmental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unjudgmental manner.
unjudgementally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjudgementally
form: most unjudgementally
Etymology: From unjudgemental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unjudgemental manner.
craniosacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + sacral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the cranium and sacrum, especially with regard to craniosacral therapy, a form of alternative medicine resembling massage.
Derived terms: craniosacral therapy
aggrupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrupations
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish agrupación.
Senses: glosses: A group, an organization.
aggrupations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggrupation
concursus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of interpleader.
synonyms: word: interpleader
risker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪskə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: riskers
Etymology: From risk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And hither came t'observe and smoke
What courses other riskers took
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: One who risks or hazards something.
conducti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conductus
confecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confectures
Senses: glosses: confiture
glosses: conjecture, hypothesis