cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Webaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Webaholics
Etymology: From Web + -holic.
Senses: glosses: A person who is addicted to the World Wide Web.
Hypernyms: netaholic
Webaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Webaholic
netballing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛtbɔːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɛtˌbɔlɪŋ/
Etymology: From netball + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Playing or relating to the sport of netball.
underbritches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underbreeches.
trunkhose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trunk + hose.
Senses: glosses: Short, full and bag-like breeches covering the hips and thighs, sometimes stuffed with wool or other material, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Synonyms: trunk breeches
pumpkin pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of hose (clothing) with a layer of panes, or strips of fabric, running from the waistband to the leg band.
Taixuanjing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 太玄經／太玄经 (Tàixuánjīng, literally “Canon of Supreme Mystery”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese divinatory text composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE), similar to and inspired by the I Ching, and having 81 ternary tetragrams.
Related terms: word: divination
word: hexagram
word: I Ching
word: yang
word: yin
word: 𝌆
word: 𝌇
word: 𝌈
word: 𝌉
word: 𝌊
word: 𝌋
word: 𝌌
word: 𝌍
word: 𝌎
word: 𝌏
word: 𝌐
word: 𝌑
word: 𝌒
word: 𝌓
word: 𝌔
word: 𝌕
word: 𝌖
word: 𝌗
word: 𝌘
word: 𝌙
word: 𝌚
word: 𝌛
word: 𝌜
word: 𝌝
word: 𝌞
word: 𝌟
word: 𝌠
word: 𝌡
word: 𝌢
word: 𝌣
word: 𝌤
word: 𝌥
word: 𝌦
word: 𝌧
word: 𝌨
word: 𝌩
word: 𝌪
word: 𝌫
word: 𝌬
word: 𝌭
word: 𝌮
word: 𝌯
word: 𝌰
word: 𝌱
word: 𝌲
word: 𝌳
word: 𝌴
word: 𝌵
word: 𝌶
word: 𝌷
word: 𝌸
word: 𝌹
word: 𝌺
word: 𝌻
word: 𝌼
word: 𝌽
word: 𝌾
word: 𝌿
word: 𝍀
word: 𝍁
word: 𝍂
word: 𝍃
word: 𝍄
word: 𝍅
word: 𝍆
word: 𝍇
word: 𝍈
word: 𝍉
word: 𝍊
word: 𝍋
word: 𝍌
word: 𝍍
word: 𝍎
word: 𝍏
word: 𝍐
word: 𝍑
word: 𝍒
word: 𝍓
word: 𝍔
word: 𝍕
word: 𝍖
cosmopolicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cosmopolitanism
Bickford fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bickford fuses
Etymology: Named after its inventor, William Bickford.
Senses: glosses: An early safety fuse consisting of gunpowder enclosed in waterproofed jute thread.
wikipedia: William Bickford
Bickford fuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bickford fuse
macopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: wax apple
ludic fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the ludic fallacy
Etymology: Identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan (2007).
Senses: examples: text: I have explained the ludic fallacy with the casino story, and have insisted that the sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life.
ref: 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, page 286:
glosses: The misuse of game when modeling real-life situations.
Related terms: ludology
game theory
delusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delusionists
Etymology: From delusion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A delusional person; one who believes something that is false.
delusionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delusionist
delusionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delusion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in something false; the state of being delusional.
antifactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifactual
form: most antifactual
Etymology: From anti- + factual.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or going against the facts; false; delusional.
antifader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifaders
Etymology: From anti- + fade + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that counteracts fading.
antifaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifader
delusionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delusionistic
form: most delusionistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to delusion or delusionism; believing something that is false.
birthday book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthday books
Senses: glosses: A book, in diary form, in which one's friends enter their birthdates in their own handwriting.
birthday books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthday book
symbolry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.bəɫ.ɹi/
Etymology: From symbol + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The use of symbols, or systems of symbols; symbology.
partibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partibus
jostick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: josticks
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese josticks are of a similar composition, but contain no Tolu. Josticks are burned as incense in the temples of the Buddahs in the Celestial Empire, and to such an extent as to greatly enhance the value of Santal-wood.
ref: 1857, George William Septimus Piesse, The Art of Perfumery and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants:
glosses: Obsolete form of joss stick.
josticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jostick
peritonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peritonitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to peritonitis.
hitting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit off
hits off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit off
hernioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hernia + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a hernia.
sell by the candle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells by the candle
form: selling by the candle
form: sold by the candle
form: sold by the candle
Senses: glosses: To offer for sale by auction as long as a small piece of candle burns; the winning bid is the last one made before the flame goes out.
Related terms: candle auction
Vee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, short for names beginning with V.
Vee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vees
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of vee.
paronomastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paronomastical
form: most paronomastical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paronomastic.
guijo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Shorea guiso, a species of dipterocarp native to parts of Southeast Asia.
structurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From structure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be structured.
restructurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From restructure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be restructured.
structurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or degree of being structurable.
restructurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or degree of being restructurable.
double off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubles off
form: doubling off
form: doubled off
form: doubled off
Senses: examples: text: The fielder doubled the runner off for the second out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) was on at the time of the pitch, thereby causing them to be out for failure to tag up.
doubles off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double off
doubling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double off
doubled off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double off
hog plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog plums
form: hogplum
form: hog-plum
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of plants that produce plum-like fruit.
Spondias spp., especially Spondias mombin.
glosses: Any of several species of plants that produce plum-like fruit.
Colubrina spp.
glosses: Any of several species of plants that produce plum-like fruit.
Certain species of Prunus, particularly Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum), Prunus rivularis (wild-goose plum), and Prunus umbellata (Allegheny plum).
glosses: Any of several species of plants that produce plum-like fruit.
Ximenia americana (false sandalwood, yellow plum).
glosses: Any of several species of plants that produce plum-like fruit.
Metopium toxiferum (poisonwood).
disenviron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenvirons
form: disenvironing
form: disenvironed
form: disenvironed
Etymology: From dis- + environ.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of its environment.
disenvironed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenviron
disenvirons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenviron
disenvironing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenviron
be ashamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is ashamed
form: being ashamed
form: was ashamed
form: been ashamed
Senses: glosses: To feel ashamed. (This entry is a translation hub.)
underassertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underassertive
form: most underassertive
Etymology: From under- + assertive.
Senses: examples: text: This problem multiplies even more as Hart and Blackmon report: “Clinical experience shows that underassertive and excessively overassertive ministers are much more likely to suffer from depression, burnout, helplessness and especially problems with anger and resentment."
ref: 2011, H. B. Jr. London, Neil B. Wiseman, Married to a Pastor, →ISBN:
text: I once heard someone offer an underassertive friend a favor and the friend said no in such a roundabout fashion that the person actually thought she'd said yes, and did it anyway.
ref: 2013, Leigh Thompson, Richard Templar, Choose Your Own Outcome!, →ISBN:
text: Some people are underassertive in almost every kind of social situation, whereas others behave overassertively in social encounters.
ref: 2017, Martin Sundel, Sandra S. Sundel, Behavior Change in the Human Services, →ISBN:
glosses: Insufficiently assertive.
underassertively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underassertively
form: most underassertively
Etymology: From underassertive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most difficult situations for underassertive people involve requests and compliments: — making a request — refusing a request — giving a compliment — accepting a compliment. People who act underassertively may have difficulty asking others for what they want,
ref: 1984, William N. Tindall, Robert S. Beardsley, Frederic R. Curtiss, Communication in pharmacy practice:
text: Rather, like the medical institutions, and like many American parents around him, he was cautiously — "underassertively," he often says — feeling his way toward alternatives to the old-fashioned techniques.
ref: 1996, The New Yorker - Volume 72, page 84:
text: The assertiveness training sessions involved role-playing in a given situation in three ways, viz., underassertively (passively), overassertively (aggressively), and assertively.
ref: 2014, Dr. Jane Akponye, Children of Divorced Parents, →ISBN:
glosses: In an underassertive manner.
underassertiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + assertive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Underassertiveness is a unique type of tranquillity destroyer because we often think that if we just keep our mouths shut, “grin and bear it,” and “turn the other cheek,” we will be better off. True? Absolutely not.
ref: 2001, Archibald Hart, The Anxiety Cure, →ISBN, page 98:
text: While contact offenders had more cognitive distortions and victim empathy distortions, the internet offenders identified more with fictional characters and had increased scores on scales of fantasy and underassertiveness.
ref: 2011, Gráinne Kirwan, The Psychology of Cyber Crime: Concepts and Principles, →ISBN:
text: The Internet group had higher rates of socially desirable responding, emotional loneliness, and underassertiveness and lower scores on external locus of control, sexualized attitudes toward children, emotional congruence with children, and empathy distortions with regard to victims of abuse.
ref: 2015, Amy Phenix, Harry M. Hoberman, Sexual Offending: Predisposing Antecedents, Assessments and Management, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A tendency toward being underassertive; social timidity.
overassertively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overassertively
form: most overassertively
Etymology: From overassertive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some people are underassertive in almost every kind of social situation, whereas others behave overassertively in social encounters.
ref: 2017, Martin Sundel, Sandra S. Sundel, Behavior Change in the Human Services, →ISBN:
glosses: In an overassertive manner.
keeps one's options open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep one's options open
keeping one's options open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep one's options open
kept one's options open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep one's options open
enantiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiometers
Senses: examples: text: In other derivatization procedures, 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrophenyl-5-Lalanineamide (referred to in instrumentation manufacturers' advertisements as 'Marfey's reagent') enables the separation and determination of enantiometer ratios for amino acids by reversed-phase h.p.l.c., and the use of N-benzyloxycarbonylamino acids amidated with glycyl p-nitrophenyl-L-alanine methyl ester achieves the same objective.
ref: 2007, J H Jones, Amino Acids and Peptides, →ISBN, page 38:
text: An obvious limitation to the normal methods of resolution is that, if a specific enantiometer is required, then the maximum yield is only 50%.
ref: 2007, G T Young, Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, →ISBN:
text: The natural methods produce only one enantiometer, but the synthetic methods produce a mixture of all possible enantiometers.
ref: 2011, E. L. Cussler, G. D. Moggridge, Chemical Product Design, →ISBN, page 335:
glosses: Alternative form of enantiomer.
enantiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiometer
inkciyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Xhosa [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A beaded apron worn by the Xhosa people.
talanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talantons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton).
Senses: glosses: A talent (ancient unit of weight and money)
kamias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog kamyas.
Senses: glosses: bilimbi
conveyability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convey + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be conveyed.
Windsor soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Windsor soaps
Senses: glosses: A kind of perfumed brown toilet-soap.
Windsor soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Windsor soap
carriage and pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriages and pairs
Senses: glosses: A turn-out of a carriage and two horses.
ethnostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + statistics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The study of the social forces that influence the production of statistics.
ethnostatistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + statistical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnostatistics.
transafrican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transafrican
form: most transafrican
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Africa entirely
transamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transamerican
form: most transamerican
form: trans-American
form: trans-american
form: trans American
Etymology: From trans- + American.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to America entirely.
Synonyms: word: trans-am
Coordinate terms: panamerican
pan-Am
Derived terms: word: trans-am
curn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quern.
courseload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courseloads
Etymology: From course + load.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of course load.
course loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of course load
squidding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From squid + -ing. From pulsating like a squid (“cephalopod”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: An improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth. The action of "to squid".
squidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From squid + -ing. From pulsating like a squid (“cephalopod”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squid
squidded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of squid
Gorce Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Poland.
set theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set theory
Pherecrates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɪˈɹɛkɹətiːz/
Forms: form: Pherecr.
raw_tags: used in bibliography and lexicography
Etymology: Either from Latin Pherecratēs or directly from its etymon, Ancient Greek Φερεκρᾰ́της (Pherekrắtēs).
Senses: glosses: A celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.
Related terms: Pherecratean
Pherecratian
Pherecratic
copless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cop + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This park is not copless, so please don't go topless.
ref: 1991, Brian K. Roberts, "Brush with Greatness", The Simpsons, seen written on a sign
text: It was about two and a half miles from our house to the center of our little village, and by the time I'd finished sluicing across lawns and hydroplaning over the copless streets, I was a single, giant molecule of water as I stepped into the ice cream parlor with the famous name.
ref: 2008, Todd Komarnicki, War:
text: Back in Manhattan meatspace, what she ends up doing is somehow passing through the shadowy copless cross streets to Tenth Avenue and finding headed uptown a curb-to-curb abundance of lighted alphanumerics on cheerful yellow rooftops […].
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge:
glosses: Lacking cops; void of police.
Three Lions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Three Lions
form: 3 Lions
Etymology: A reference to the crest or badge of the team, which depicts three lions.
Senses: examples: text: The Three Lions are in the last four for only the third time. They went on to win their home tournament in 1966 but lost to West Germany on penalties in 1990.
ref: 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The England national football team.
Tio Tom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tio Toms
Etymology: Spanish translation of Uncle Tom.
Senses: hypernyms: vendido
glosses: A Latino or Hispanic person who is obsequious or apologetic to the white establishment.
pulls one over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull one over
greater plantain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater plantains
Senses: glosses: Plantago major
Synonyms: sense: Plantago major
word: broadleaf plantain
sense: Plantago major
word: common plantain
sense: Plantago major
word: white man's foot
freeer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: free-er
form: freer
form: freeër
Senses: examples: text: That in restoring again to Scotland the Lands of Huntington, Cumberland and Northumberland, and such other Lands as Scotland did of old possess in England, that Homage should be made for the saids Lands, but as for the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, they never held of England, and they had been freeer than England had been, who of late had paid St. Peter's Penny, which Scotland had never been brought to do...
ref: 1711, George Mackenzie, The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots, page 313:
text: They wanted to escape the tight framework of thinking imposed by the older rational approach in order to breathe a freeer air.
ref: 2005, David William Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, page 148:
text: It will be far easier for the child to produce a high number of correct determiners than in the case of a freeer conversation.
ref: 2008, Joke de Lange, Article Omission in Headlines and Child Language: A Processing Approach, page 203:
glosses: comparative form of free: more free
waaay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: White-throated Sparrow — heard, not seen; the lovely clear flute-like tones repeated over and over again: Ooooh, see me waaaay, waaay, waaay.
ref: 1948, Leon Augustus Hausman, Bird Hiking, page 49:
text: It is then that you realize you are waaay up there.
ref: 1975 Jan, Cycle World Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 50:
text: "When de lion whom she gots chosen and wid whom she lives be attacked by anoder," de Greek went on wid his narrative, "de lioness quietly lies waaay down and watches de battle."
ref: 2012, Asanti Mori-Palca, Fifty Shades of Green, page 182:
glosses: Elongated form of way.
gantang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantangs
form: gantan
form: ganton
form: gantong
Etymology: From Malay gantang. Doublet of ganta.
Senses: glosses: An imperial gallon.
Related terms: ganta
unatheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unatheist
form: most unatheist
Senses: examples: text: Tom Paine believed in God, specifically the Judeo-Christian God who created all and intervenes in his creation, life after death, direct revelation from God to men, and a whole bunch of other most unatheist beliefs.
ref: 2006 November 12, Tom P, “Thomas Jefferson on his own Christianity”, in alt.bible (Usenet):
text: That is very unatheist. We always question how we came about and have a arrived at some very good answers based on science and fact.
ref: 2010 April 12, bvallely, “I paint a picture”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Just then, the words of one Ehsān Narāghi, a man whose work I had once encountered in my father's library of unatheist books, cascaded down the walls of my void: What should be done to allow the Oriental countries, and Iran especially, ...
ref: 2018, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: Unatheistic; not atheist.
unatheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unatheistic
form: most unatheistic
Etymology: From un- + atheistic.
Senses: examples: text: They saw the slope of evolution sliding ignominiously towards an inhumane, unnatural and unatheistic abyss. The question was, therefore, how to wrench human consciousness from the thrall of technology, how to de-mechanize the soul, ...
ref: 2006, Brien Masters, Mozart: His Musical Style and His Role in the Development of Human Consciousness, Temple Lodge Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
text: ... like heresy, or apostasy, or a religious belief that someone does not approve of , (4) selfprofessed 'atheists' in the historical record whose views and behaviour veer into unatheistic places, and, (5) modern scholars who find atheism appalling ...
ref: 2013, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
text: Helvétius was in decidedly unatheistic company. The essential thesis of his discussion was that such questions could not be decided empirically, and there is no reason to assume that d'Holbach's Système de la nature would not have struck ...
ref: 2015, Alan Charles Kors, D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: And yes, I'm aware of Conrad's decidedly unatheistic afterthought, in the very next sentence from this quote: “Or else decoyed.” It's from The Shadow Line. You ought to read it. No need to see the Andrzej Wajda movie. 171 SILVER SCREEN ...
ref: 2015, Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Not atheistic.
Synonyms: unatheist
overboisterously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overboisterously
form: most overboisterously
Etymology: From overboisterous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The return bus trip is sometimes a rather depressing experience when a few soldiers imbibed too freely and overboisterously vent their spirits in lusty voices and loosely controlled movements.
ref: 2005, David Rothbart, A Soldier's Journal: With the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II, →ISBN:
text: When we were shown into his presence, John of Antwerp was his usual overboisterously hospitable self.
ref: 2014, D. K. Wilson, The Traitor's Mark, →ISBN:
text: He spoke rather overboisterously, as if to cover a real anxiety.
ref: 2014, Celia Fremlin, Seven Lean Years, →ISBN:
glosses: In an overboisterous manner.
one's turn in the barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Once a year, every year, it was his turn in the barrel. Like every other agent on the ninth floor of the Dirksen Federal Building, Buck hated complaint duty.
ref: 2002, T. W. Greensmith, Guardians of the Tomb, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Not to worry, we would get our turn in the barrel sooner rather than later.
ref: 2008, Sam Wellington, In the Beginning...There Was the Men's Room, →ISBN, page 40:
text: After their lunch, the directors continued their reviews with Olav's turn in the barrel.
ref: 2013, William H. Isely, The Snows of Summer, →ISBN, page 203:
text: It was then my turn in the barrel, and the Falcons asked that we convene in Bu Prang.
ref: 2014, Arthur G. Sharp, The Siege of LZ Kate: The Battle for an American Firebase in Vietnam, →ISBN:
glosses: One's turn for an unpleasant or difficult job.
abundantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abundant + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: To the line succeeded the creation of motion in the proportion of the number three, as is indicated by the name of the number in basque, i-r-u, which signifies literally of lineal movement abundance ; it is composed of the modulation i, before explained, of the note of motion r, and of the abundantial letter u.
ref: 1829, Juan Bautista de Erro y Azpiroz with George William Erving, The alphabet of the primitive language of Spain:
text: The -udo type first became rare in prose; but as a qualifier (referring especially to persons), it maintained a certain vitality, probably supported by the (denominal) abundantial -udo adjectives (e.g., barbudo 'heavily bearded").
ref: 1970, Emanuel S. Georges, Jerry Russell Craddock, Yakov Malkiel, Studies in Romance Nouns Extracted from Past Participles, →ISBN:
text: The latter meaning is by no means marginal and often edges itself into central position; thus, wordy seldom maans 'verbal, pertaining to or consistig of words', signifying normally 'verbose, characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words', an abundantial semantic streak even more clearly predominant in the abstract wordiness.
ref: 1977, Paul J. Hopper, Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing the idea of abundance.
tear-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear-throats
Etymology: From tear + throat.
Senses: examples: text: The majestical king of fishes, heroical most magnificent Herring, armed with white and red, keeps his court in all this hurly-burly, not like a tyrannical tear-throat in open arms, but like wise Diogenes in a barrel[…]
ref: 1630, John Taylor, Jack a Lent; republished in Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, 1876, page 15:
glosses: A blustering, boisterous person.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An overactor.
Related terms: tear-cat
tear-mouth
tear-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tear-throat
form: most tear-throat
Etymology: From tear + throat.
Senses: examples: text: […]upon which was erected the true picture of a most unmatchable Hangman[…]for this tear-throat termagant is a fellow in folio, a commander of such great command, and of such greatness to command, that I never saw any that in that respect could countermand him[…]
ref: 1617, John Taylor, Taylor's Travels; republished in Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, 1876, pages 8–9:
text: The cheap entertainment of the “tear-throat” Red Bull plays, with their battles, clowns, and fireworks, has been sharply contrasted with the innovative, “literary” dramatic styles of the hall-playhouses, which favored witplay over swordplay[…]
ref: 2013, Eleanor Collins, “Old Repertory, New Theatre”, in Martin Procházka, Andreas Höfele, Hanna Scolnicov, Michael Dobson, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Vociferous.
examples: text: Or was he just going to expose the tear-throat acting in the Rose?
ref: 2000, Robert M. Gorrell, Murder at the Rose, →ISBN:
glosses: Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
Synonyms: sense: characterized by overacting
word: hammy
tear-mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear-mouths
Etymology: From tear + mouth.
Senses: glosses: A blustering, boisterous person.
examples: text: You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 3, scene 1:
text: How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?
ref: 1819 April 24, Sir Walter Scott, [Letter to Robert Southey]:
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An overactor.
Related terms: tear-cat
tear-throat
tear-mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tear-mouth
form: most tear-mouth
Etymology: From tear + mouth.
Senses: glosses: Vociferous.
tear-mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear-mouth
tear-throats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear-throat
OKB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OKBs
Etymology: From Russian ОКБ (OKB). Initialism of Russian опытное конструкторское бюро (opytnoje konstruktorskoje bjuro) and Russian опытно-конструкторское бюро (opytno-konstruktorskoje bjuro, “expert design bureau”) (development bureau).
Senses: qualifier: Cold War
glosses: A special design bureau of the Soviet Union, that performed experimental research and development.
rootbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootbarks
Etymology: From root + bark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of root bark.
root barks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root bark
lugdor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lugdors
Etymology: Apparently derived from lock and door (compare lockchester) or perhaps dor (“dung beetle”). Attested from the 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: Comparing the terms lok-dore and loc-chester, it is evident that the first portion of the word is an independent element, lok; and this is still further confirmed by another synonyme^([sic]) for the wood-louse recorded by Halliwell with no indication of time or locality, viz. lug-dor.
ref: 1860, Ernest Adams, “On the names of the wood-louse”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 9:
text: In former times it was known as “Lugdor” and “Socchetre ;” and in common with the hoglouse it is familiar to rustics as “Churchlouse,” “Carpenter,” “Chinch,” or “Cheslip.”
ref: 1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, “Woodlouse”, page 524:
glosses: the woodlouse
Synonyms: woodlouse
spaghetti bologneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaghetti bolognese
histodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + dialysis.
Senses: glosses: The breakdown of cellular tissue
Synonyms: histolysis
refixational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refixation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to refixation
reservosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reservosomes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An endocytic compartment in the epimastigote forms of some trypanosomes
Related terms: reservosomal
reservosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reservosome
retrotranscriptionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retro- + transcriptionally.
Senses: glosses: By means of retrotranscription
retrotranscriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retrotranscription + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to retrotranscription.
rilmenidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The heterocycle N-(dicyclopropylmethyl)-4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-amine that is used in the treatment of hypertension
saccharidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of invertase.
synonyms: word: invertase
scleractiniamorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scleractiniamorphs
Senses: glosses: Any coral having the form of a scleractinian
scleractiniamorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleractiniamorph
crufts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cruft
crufting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cruft
Cruft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: cruft
semipermeabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + permeabilized.
Senses: glosses: Made semipermeable
semisaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + saturated.
Senses: glosses: Partially saturated
sphenisciform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenisciforms
Senses: glosses: Any penguin of the order Sphenisciformes
sphenisciforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenisciform
spondarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondarthrites
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of arthritis characterised by inflammation of joints, especially of the spine, and a tendency to inflammation at tendon attachments
symmetrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made symmetric
synergizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synergizers
Etymology: From synergize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Anything that synergizes
synergizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synergizer
tetraglutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraglutamates
Etymology: From tetra- + glutamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester that has four glutamate ions or groups
texanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: texanols
Etymology: From latex + -n- + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ester (3-hydroxy-2,2,4-trimethylpentyl) 2-methylpropanoate that is used in latex paints
texanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of texanol
latex paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latex paints
Senses: glosses: Paint that uses a synthetic polymer as a binder.
thescelosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thescelosaurs
Etymology: From translingual Thescelosaurinae.
Senses: examples: text: So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.
ref: 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:
glosses: Any dinosaur of the subfamily Thescelosaurinae.
thioaptamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioaptamers
Etymology: From thio- + aptamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aptamer that has sulfur atoms in its phosphodiester bonds
thioaptamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioaptamer
transaortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trans- + aortically.
Senses: glosses: In a transaortic manner
aortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aortic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With reference to, or by means of an aorta
Derived terms: periaortically
transaortically
transbullar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + bullar.
Senses: glosses: Through or across a bulla
transbullarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transbullar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Through or across a bulla
transubiquitinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + ubiquitinating.
Senses: glosses: That takes part in transubiquitination
transubiquitination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transubiquitinations
Etymology: From trans- + ubiquitination.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ubiquitination between proteins
inappropriacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inappropriacy
triosseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + osseal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or connecting three bones
Derived terms: triosseal canal
tubotympanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubotympana
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The auditory tube and tympanic cavity considered as a single entity
Related terms: tubotympanal
undercompensated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercompensate
undercompensated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently compensated
dorf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːf/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹf/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: dorfs
Etymology: In some cases from German Dorf and in others from the cognate Yiddish דאָרף (dorf). Doublet of dorp and thorp.
Senses: examples: text: This dorf contained some forty dwellings.
ref: 1845, Jeptha Root Simms, History of Schoharie County and Border Wars of New York: […] , Albany: Munsell & Tanner, printers, page 48:
text: So, all things considered, we were not very cheerful at first; but when the mist got higher and the day got brighter, and particularly after we left the first little dorf.
ref: 1853, Thomas Carlyle, Fraser's Magazine, page 280:
glosses: A village in a German-speaking area.
dorf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːf/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹf/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: dorfs
Etymology: Changed from dwarf.
Senses: examples: text: "So? What'a you want? That's stupid! You dorf! Yeah . . . okay. I'll see you when I get there. Get off my back, will you?" When you tell him that's no way to talk to a friend, he looks at you as though you're from another planet.
ref: 1989, Toni Sortor, Lord, don't you get frustrated with teenagers too?, Fleming H Revell Co, →ISBN:
text: He walked next to me on his knees, mimicking my gait. His face was down at my level, spit bubbling at the corner of his mouth. “I'm a dorf too!”
ref: 2010, Julie Genovese, Nothing Short of Joy, →ISBN, page 10:
text: "We only got one goddamn Tek chip, asshole," a teenage girl was saying in a thin nasal voice. “And you dorfs promised me first turn.”
ref: 2014, William Shatner, Tek Net, →ISBN:
qualifier: term of disparagement
glosses: freak.
glosses: A dwarf.
non-food
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + food.
Senses: examples: text: This pie chart includes the sales of non-food articles (such as health and beauty, pet care, clothing).
glosses: Not intended for consumption as a food.
non-food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-foods
form: nonfood
Etymology: From non- + food.
Senses: examples: text: We offer an extensive selection of high-quality non-foods at affordable prices.
glosses: A crop or product that is not intended for consumption as a food.
velimentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of velamentous.
virotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virotoxins
Etymology: From viro- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any toxin produced by a virus
virotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virotoxin
voltametry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voltammetry.
xenotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xeno- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xenotoxins
Related terms: xenotoxicity
zoanthinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoanthinarians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zoanthid.
synonyms: word: zoanthid
limbers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of limber up
limbering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limber up
limbered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limber up
in full fig
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Fig may be short for figure, or connected to feague.
Senses: glosses: Smartly or fancily dressed, especially in the uniform of a particular profession (soldier, royal servant, actor, etc).
Related terms: full fig
rekill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rekills
form: rekilling
form: rekilled
form: rekilled
Etymology: From re- + kill.
Senses: glosses: To kill again.
mooring ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooring rings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ring of metal attached to a dock to which boats may be attached by a rope.
rock formation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock formations
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An outcrop of rock that forms a distinctive shape.
wikipedia: Canyonlands
cystic duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystic ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A short duct that leads from the gallbladder and unites with the common hepatic duct to form the common bile duct.
cystic ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystic duct
meadow grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow grasses
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meadow, grass. Any grass that thrives in the moist conditions of meadows.
glosses: Any grass of the genus Poa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Poa annua
word: annual meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa pratensis
word: common meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa infirma
word: early meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa palustris
word: fowl meadow grass
taxonomic: Glyceria grandis
word: reed meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa trivialis
word: rough meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa trivialis
word: rough stalked meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa pratensis
word: smooth meadow grass
taxonomic: Arrhenatherum elatius
word: tall meadow grass
taxonomic: Poa nemoralis
word: wood meadow grass
Related terms: taxonomic: Distichlis spicata
word: salt-meadow grass
Wa State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This was the real Wabang, where the vast majority of Wa State's estimated 600,000 people live, although accurate population figures in Myanmar are impossible to come by and there are likely many more.
ref: 2014, David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China:
glosses: An officially unrecognised state in Myanmar, part of northern Shan State.
brutesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brutesome
form: most brutesome
Etymology: From brute + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Or if the pasha of that pashalik is a brutesome man, will not he cast those poor fellaheen into the prison and beseize their goods?
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib, page 230:
text: The bull, he is a brutesome beast;
For humankind he cares the least.
ref: 1989, Rangelands, volumes 11-12, page 257:
glosses: Characteristic of a brute, or marked by brutishness
Synonyms: brutish
actimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of azithromycin.
synonyms: word: azithromycin
allocolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + colonial.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: concolonial
glosses: Between members of different colonies.
amygdalofugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amygdalo- + -fugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Emanating from the amygdala
asporulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + sporulation.
Senses: glosses: A lack of sporulation
Related terms: asporulate
bioimmunoassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioimmunoassays
Etymology: From bio- + immunoassay.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: biochemical immunoassay (Immunoassay enhanced with hormones or enzymes)
butyrylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrylations
Etymology: From butyryl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of a substance with butyric acid or one of its derivatives; the introduction of one or more butyryl groups into a substance
temperedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tempered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being tempered
Related terms: bad-temperedness
good-temperedness
centropostzygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centro- + postzygapophyseal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the centre of a postzygapophysis
centroprezygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centro- + prezygapophyseal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: central and in front of the zygapophysis