cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese phin (“filter”). Doublet of filter.
Senses: glosses: A type of coffee filter.
phin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of lute with a pear-shaped body, originating in Thailand and played mostly by ethnic Laotians in Thailand and Laos.
CONCACAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.kə.kæf/
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football — the governing body for the sport in the aforementioned region, also including the South American countries of French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.
Related terms: FIFA
AFC
CAF
UEFA
unevennesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unevenness
bijectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bijective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bijective manner.
shit just got real
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the movie Bad Boys II (2003), where it was spoken by Martin Lawrence.
Senses: glosses: The situation suddenly became much more dangerous or serious.
ultraweakly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ultraweakly
form: most ultraweakly
Etymology: From ultra- + weakly.
Senses: examples: 2010 Biswarup Das, "Hudson-Parthasarathy dilation for a class of symmetric quantum dynamical semigroups" arxiv
Note that Dom(L2) becomes a *-subalgebra which is ultraweakly dense in B(H) as well as dense in L²(trᴴ) (i.e. in the norm || · ||²).
glosses: In an ultraweak manner
canavanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canavanines
Etymology: From translingual Canavalia (“genus of jack beans”) + -anine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic, non-proteinogenic amino acid found in certain leguminous plants.
combfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combfishes
form: combfish
Etymology: From comb + fish.
Senses: glosses: A comb wrasse, an Australasian wrasse (Coris picta), having a comb-like stripe.
-o-rama
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -orama.
alarm bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarm bells
Senses: examples: text: The specter of women in factories, women in schoolrooms, and women attending — a lot less addressing — public meetings set off alarm bells in the South.
ref: 1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking off the white gloves: Southern women and women historians:
text: I only got a glimpse of him, but alarm bells went off. He wasn't rushing over to give me a pat on the back for stopping to help.
ref: 2010, John M Findley, Just Lucky:
text: England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
text: The December 11 Telegraph story, which accused the Treasury of blocking plans for £30 billion worth of electrification across the rail network [...], has rung alarm bells over who is the real source of power concerning rail's development - the Department of Transport or the Treasury?
ref: 2022 January 12, Tom Allett, “MPs concerned at Treasury's influence on rail industry”, in RAIL, number 948, page 13:
text: That an arch-election denier who has been at the forefront of attempts to overturn Biden’s victory should refuse to state openly whether she will abide by the outcome of her own election has set alarm bells ringing.
ref: 2022 November 2, Ed Pilkington, “‘The Trump playbook’: Republicans hint they will deny election results”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A sudden awareness of danger.
examples: text: He put his foot on a concealed button under his desk and rang an alarm bell. He always had two strongarm men lolling around in an office down the passage.
ref: 2000, James Hadley Chase, An Ear to the Ground:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alarm, bell.
strongarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strongarm
strongarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strongarm
strongarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongarm
strongarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strongarm
croustade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croustades
Etymology: Borrowed from French croustade.
Senses: glosses: An edible container (often of pastry) filled with a savoury food
strongbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongback
crowbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowbaits
Etymology: From crow + bait.
Senses: glosses: An old, emaciated horse.
frontless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frontless
form: most frontless
Etymology: From front + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a front
glosses: shameless, impudent
Derived terms: frontlessly
Bowden cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bowden cables
Etymology: Uncertain; its invention is popularly attributed to Sir Frank Bowden, but also associated with Ernest Monnington Bowden.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, designers apparently forgot that the laws of sliding friction apply inside a Bowden cable just as they do at braking surfaces. The force transmitted by the inner cable is continuously reduced, particularly around bends, according to the formula […].
ref: 2004, David Gordon Wilson, Bicycling Science, third edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: A flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force by the movement of an inner cable (most commonly of steel) relative to a hollow outer housing.
wikipedia: Ernest Monnington Bowden
Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet
bluenosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bluenosed
form: most bluenosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue-nosed.
organofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + functional.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a function in organisms.
raw_tags: of a substance
alkoxysilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkoxysilanes
Etymology: From alkoxy + silane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkoxy derivative of a silane.
alkoxysilanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxysilane
alkoxylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxylate
bladderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bladder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a bladder.
unbordered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bordered.
Senses: glosses: Without a border; borderless.
unbordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unborder
bladderwrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladderwracks
form: bladder wrack
Etymology: From bladder + wrack.
Senses: examples: text: Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.
ref: 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:
glosses: Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
Synonyms: black tang
rockweed
bladder fucus
sea oak
black tany
cut weed
dyers fucus
red fucus
rock wrack
bladderwracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bladderwrack
Bowden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊdən/
rhymes: -aʊdən
Etymology: * As an English surname, from several places in England, derived from Old English boga (“bow”) + dun (“hill”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English būfan dun (“above the hill”).
* As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from Old English bōthl (“dwelling house”) + denu (“valley”).
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Buadáin (literally “descendant of Buadán”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bawden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8448).
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Kington Magna parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7723).
glosses: A place name:
A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5530).
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Bowden cable
Great Bowden
Little Bowden
Bowden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊdən/
rhymes: -aʊdən
ipa: /ˈboʊdən/
ipa: /ˈbaʊdən/
rhymes: -aʊdən
Etymology: Uncertain, but the most accepted theory is that it originated from the maiden name of the wife of a surveyor named Williamson, who named the settlement along the Edmonton–Calgary Trail. Another theory states it originated from the
village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.
Senses: glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada.
Related terms: Bowdon
unhunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hunted.
Senses: examples: text: While there is no difference between encounter rates in the two unhunted sites, the macaques are significantly less common in the hunted areas […]
ref: 2007, Dustin J. Penn, Iver Mysterud, Evolutionary perspectives on environmental problems:
glosses: In which hunting does not take place.
examples: text: Hunted big game avoided roadways more than unhunted species.
ref: 1985, Stanley H. Anderson, Managing our wildlife resources:
glosses: Not hunted.
Synonyms: nonhunted
aulos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auloi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
Derived terms: aulochrome
diaulos
auloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aulos
intraschool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + school.
Senses: examples: text: This policy served to decrease intraschool competition, encourage realistic choices and level the playing field (applications cost a lot of money).
ref: 2007 April 11, “Ivy League or Bust? For Some, Anyway (3 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within a single school.
megawealthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + wealthy.
Senses: examples: text: Americans who amass new fortunes today race to cover their walls with art that proclaims their status, but the status symbols of ancient North Africa’s megawealthy lay literally at their feet.
ref: 2007 April 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “Imperial Nights in Tunisia, With Mythology Underfoot”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely wealthy.
Synonyms: megarich
megarich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + rich.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Paris didn't ask to be a megarich human doughnut (glazed on the outside, empty in the middle).
ref: 2004, Patrick Regan, Steven Chorney, Paris the Heiress - An Unauthorized Parody:
glosses: Extremely rich; having a lot of money.
Synonyms: megawealthy
misos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miso
skyful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyfuls
form: skiesful
Etymology: From sky + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: From this chaotic skyful of crowding flakes the mead and moor momentarily received additional clothing, only to appear momentarily more naked thereby.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd:
text: The Queen of the Night is backlighted by a skyful of starry dots.
ref: 2007 April 11, Bernard Holland, “The Flute Is Awfully Nice, Tamino, but Check Out That Astral Sketchbook”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a sky will hold.
skyfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyful
skiesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyful
ultrarightist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrarightists
Etymology: From ultra- + rightist.
Senses: examples: text: It was standard diplo-speak, but it enraged Miami's ultrarightists.
ref: 2016, Reese Erlich, Stephen Kinzer, Dateline Havana:
glosses: A person of ultraright politics.
ultraleftist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraleftists
Etymology: From ultra- + leftist.
Senses: glosses: A person of ultraleft politics.
ultraleftists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultraleftist
ultrarightists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrarightist
ultraliberals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultraliberal
unpalatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpalatably
form: most unpalatably
Etymology: From unpalatable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpalatable manner.
unpalatabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpalatability
unpalatableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpalatable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: unpalatability
sicilicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭsĭʹlĭkəs
ipa: /sɪˈsɪlɪkəs/
Forms: form: sicilici
Etymology: From the Latin sicilicus, the diminutive form of sicilis (“sickle”), so named because of its falciformity.
Senses: examples: text: It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted Ⅽ, Ↄ, was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.
ref: 1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 743:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ⟨ᵓ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
examples: text: Both the pounds were therefore divided alike into 15 ores, that is, ounces; the ores into 4 skyllings, the sicilici of the Romans, and the skyllings into 4 pence by the Saxons, while the Danes used the mark of 20 skyllings, and the skylling of 2 mancuses.
ref: 1830, Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume 1, page 182:
text: UNCIA (ὀγκία, οὐγκία, οὐγγία), the twelfth part of the As or Libra, is derived by Varro from unus, as being the unit of the divisions of the as (L. L. v. 171, Müller). It was subdivided into 2 semunciae, 3 duellae, 4 sicilici, 6 sextulae, 24 scrupula, and 144 siliquae.
ref: 1859, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1213:
qualifier: Roman measurements
glosses: An unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
Synonyms: sense: Roman measurement
word: siclus
sicilici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sicilicus
groundhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundhoppers
Etymology: From ground + hopper.
Senses: glosses: A small insect, of the genus Tetrix, similar to a grasshopper.
glosses: One who engages in groundhopping, the hobby of attending sports matches at as many different stadiums or grounds as possible.
hemicylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of half a cylinder (divided down its axis)
hopsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopsacks
Etymology: From hop + sack.
Senses: glosses: A hemp sack used for holding hops.
glosses: A coarse, loosely-woven clothing fabric.
hyperinstrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperinstruments
Etymology: From hyper- + instrument.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument whose output is transformed by computer control
groundhoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundhopper
immaterialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immaterialisms
Etymology: From immaterial + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world
infeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infeeds
Etymology: From in- + feed.
Senses: glosses: The material fed into a machine to be processed.
Bernankean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bernanke + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to American economist Ben Bernanke (born 1953) or his policies, work or theories.
investible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From invest + -ible.
Senses: synonyms: investable
glosses: That can be invested.
Derived terms: uninvestible
mechanicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechanical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To conclude the ceremony, Raghu Agashe immerses the Lord of Wisdom in a brass bucket near the anthuriums. He does so with a manly mechanicalness, his discourse with God too personal for display.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 315:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being mechanical.
glosses: A mechanical action.
Synonyms: sense: state of being mechanical
word: mechanicality
mediumism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medium + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The actions of a medium (person claiming to contact the dead).
mediumistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediumistic
form: most mediumistic
Etymology: From medium + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: 1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88,
Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.
text: Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […]
ref: 1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, London: Hodder and Stoughton, pages 199–200:
text: Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:
text: I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts?
ref: 1959, Shirley Jackson, chapter 7, in The Haunting of Hill House, London: Michael Joseph, published 1960:
glosses: Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
Derived terms: mediumistically
unmediumistic
Related terms: mediumism
falciformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fălsĭfôrʹmĭtĭ
ipa: /fælsɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ/
Etymology: From falciform + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The surface of sheet metals should not have any bracks, cracks, non-metallic inclusions. As far as bias and falciformity are concerned, they should not exceed the value of permissible aberrations of width and length of the sheet.
ref: 2002: Metal 2002: 11th International Metallurgical & Material Conference, 14th–16th of May in 2002, Červený zámek, Hradec nad Moravicí, Česká republika – Czech Republic, paper 120: Marta Migalska and Stanisław Borkowski, “Analysis of Factors Influencing the Quality of Sheet Metals”, page 2 of 4
glosses: The quality of being falciform; sickle-shapedness.
orchestrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestrinas
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: orchestrion
overissue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overissues
form: overissuing
form: overissued
form: overissued
Etymology: From over- + issue.
Senses: examples: text: The government is accused of overissuing food stamps.
glosses: To issue too much or too many of.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To issue shares or banknotes to an extent beyond the ability to pay, or in excess of authorization
overissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overissues
Etymology: From over- + issue.
Senses: examples: text: An overissue of government paper.
ref: 1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:
glosses: The act of so overissuing.
packcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packcloths
Etymology: From pack + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A strong, coarse cloth used for packaging.
pursuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pursuable
form: most pursuable
Etymology: From pursue + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be pursued or followed.
pursy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pursier
form: pursiest
form: pursive
Etymology: From Middle English pursyf (“short of breath, asthmatic”), probably from Old French pousser (“to push; to breathe with difficulty”); see French poussif (“wheezy”).
Senses: examples: text: now breathless wrong
Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
And pursy insolence shall break his wind
With fear and horrid flight.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: We now set off in pursuit of her, all but the farmer, who, being pretty fat and pursy, was not for running a race […]
ref: 1796, Hannah More, The History of Mary Wood, London: J. Marshall & R. White, page 6:
text: ‘[…] People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking […]
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: The chief of the Tramps had a wonderful calculating eye in the observation of distances and the nature of the land, as he proved by his discovery of untried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers.
ref: 1904, George Meredith, “Leslie Stephen”, in Miscellaneous Prose, London: Constable, published 1910, page 189:
glosses: Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.
examples: text: Now I will give you a Picture of this Wretch: She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat Thing, quite ugly, if any thing human can be so called […]
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXI”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 146:
text: […] the vicar […] was particularly fond of boys in general. Not so the doctor, a pursy little man with a terrific frown, who hated boys, especially little ones, with a very powerful hatred.
ref: 1858, R. M. Ballantyne, chapter 1, in Martin Rattler, London: T. Nelson & Sons, published 1893, page 10:
glosses: Fat and short.
pursy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pursier
form: pursiest
Etymology: From purse (“pucker”) + -y and purse (“small bag for carrying money”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So Aunt Bell sat down to table—a bony frame, with an anxious green eye, a pursy mouth, and a sweating sickness of bitter words, seeking to break forth at the earliest opportunity.
ref: 1861, W. G. Wills, chapter 23, in Notice to Quit, volume 1, London: Hurst & Blackett, pages 242–243:
text: The laundress has bangs
And pursy lips
And thin hips
ref: 1954, Jack Kerouac, “51st Chorus”, in San Francisco Blues: The Book of Blues, Penguin, published 1995, page 52:
text: “Ah,” she pronounced, and took in Enoch with pursy violated eyes.
ref: 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: New American Library, Part Four, 2, p. 413:
glosses: Puckered.
glosses: Purse-proud; vain about one's wealth.
Derived terms: pursily
pursiness
scopula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopulas
form: scopulae
Etymology: From Latin scopula (“little broom”).
Senses: glosses: A dense tuft of hair, as on the legs of certain insects.
semicylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicylinders
Etymology: From semi- + cylinder.
Senses: glosses: Half of a cylinder (cut along its axis)
Synonyms: hemicylinder
second name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Forms: form: second names
Senses: glosses: surname
glosses: middle name, second forename
Related terms: first name
tailpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlˌpis/
Forms: form: tailpieces
Etymology: From tail + piece.
Senses: glosses: An appendage or appendix.
topics: arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
glosses: An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.
topics: architecture
glosses: A short joist between a header and a wall.
glosses: The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
glosses: The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: headpiece
glosses: An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
trihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -hedral.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having three plane faces that meet at a common point
undercapitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercapitalizes
form: undercapitalizing
form: undercapitalized
form: undercapitalized
Etymology: From under- + capitalize.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To supply with insufficient capital
viewgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewgraphs
Etymology: From view + graph.
Senses: glosses: A graph (or similar chart) produced as a transparency for use with an overhead projector.
rattle snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattle snakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rattlesnake.
G20
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛnti
Forms: form: G-20
Etymology: Abbreviation of Group of Twenty.
Senses: examples: text: If the police at the G20 protests were pumped-up, testerical, itching for a fight, it was partly because their commanding officers have spent years blurring the distinction between peaceful campaigners and terrorists.
ref: 2009 April 21, George Monbiot, “G20 videos won't change the Met”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 countries plus the European Union.
Coordinate terms: G2
G5
G6
G7
G7+1
G77
G8
e-card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-cards
form: ecard
Etymology: From e- + card.
Senses: glosses: A computerized greeting card, typically hosted on a website to which the recipient is directed by an e-mail message.
e-cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-card
e-billing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + billing.
Senses: examples: text: My telephone company now offers e-billing: it saves paper and allows me to check my bill on the Internet at any time.
glosses: electronic billing
Related terms: e-bill
warblefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warbleflies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warble fly.
warbleflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warblefly
warble fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warble flies
form: warblefly
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Hypoderma of large flies, parasitic on cattle and deer.
Catalanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalanophobia
Etymology: From Catalano- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.
ref: 1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15:
text: Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes.
ref: 1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.
ref: 2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
Synonyms: anti-Catalanism
trigeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + generation.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous production of mechanical power (often converted to electricity), heat, and cooling from a single heat source such as fuel or solar energy.
Coordinate terms: CCHP
Related terms: cogeneration
generation
Christadelphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christadelphian
shapedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shāp(t)ʹnəs
ipa: /ˈʃeɪptnəs/
Etymology: First attested in 1812: shaped + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant”
The Elephant…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.
glosses: The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
raw_tags: in parasynthetic derivatives
Derived terms: U-shapedness
midstance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + stance.
Senses: examples: text: A camera installed at foot level captured my gait, frame by frame, as I jogged, so the staff could gauge my midstance — when all the weight is on one foot — and determine how much support I needed. Mr. Bergland suggested the Saucony Omni shoe ($100), which is designed for V-shaped feet.
ref: 2007 April 12, Mike Albo, “Because a Logo Is Not Enough”, in New York Times:
glosses: The point in walking at which the raised leg passes the grounded leg that is supporting the body's weight.
new up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: news up
form: newing up
form: newed up
form: newed up
Etymology: The keyword new creates an object in C++ and derived languages.
Senses: examples: text: If an exception occurs trying to new up bar1 or bar2, the TFoo part of the object won't have changed […]
ref: 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems:
text: So you just new up the object you want and once its internal reference count drops to 0, the language deletes it (during a free time as a background thread).
ref: 2003, Jonathan Hoyle, “Pointers?”, in comp.lang.basic.realbasic (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: new
glosses: To create (an object) by calling its constructor.
ministudio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministudios
Etymology: From mini- + studio.
Senses: examples: text: Direct outputs can be found on many independent mixers designed for multi-track use, though virtually none of the ministudios have true direct outputs.
ref: 1988, Brent Hurtig, Multi-track recording for musicians:
text: Yet Mr. Weinstein was also markedly buoyant, insisting that the ministudio had not so much failed in its aims as succeeded in ways not widely understood.
ref: 2007 April 12, Michael Cieply, “Films From the Weinsteins Falter, but the Brothers Stay Focused”, in New York Times:
text: ...this well-managed domatia features self-catering ministudios, along with a well-equipped communal kitchen and terrace, all about 30m from the water.
ref: 2008, Paul Hellander, Greece:
glosses: A small studio (in various senses).
ministudios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministudio
minisuperspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisuperspace
multisports
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + sports.
Senses: examples: text: The Alumni Stadium, a 1400-seat multisports complex featuring synthetic turf, was completed in 2001.
ref: 2006, Peterson's Four Year Colleges:
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple sports
overcompetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcompetitive
form: most overcompetitive
Etymology: From over- + competitive.
Senses: examples: text: Regardless, the store provided a moment of healing for my PECS. JackRabbit’s message is what our P.E. teachers should have told us from the very beginning: being athletic doesn’t mean you have to be an overcompetitive jerk.
ref: 2007 April 12, Mike Albo, “Because a Logo Is Not Enough”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively competitive.
Derived terms: overcompetitiveness
overcompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overcompetitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Willie Dick has all the usual bad qualities of very small, very intelligent men: vanity, arrogance, overcompetitiveness, a long memory for injuries and slights.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 274:
glosses: The quality of being overcompetitive.
Socinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /soʊˈsɪn.iː.ən/
Forms: form: Socinians
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin Sociniānus.
Senses: examples: text: He was a Polish Socinian.
glosses: A member of a particular nontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the late 16th century.
Socinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /soʊˈsɪn.iː.ən/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin Sociniānus.
Senses: examples: a Socinian catechism
glosses: Pertaining to the Socinians.
falciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fălsĭʹfərəs
ipa: /fælˈsɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin falx (“sickle”) + -i- + -ferous (“-bearing”).
Senses: examples: text: The stinted growth of the stationary Conchifera forms a striking contrast with the size and number of the Cephalopoda interred with them in the same bed; in fact the dawning existence of these Conchifera appears to have been a struggle for life, whilst the conditions of the closing scene of the Belemnites, Nautili, and falciferous Ammonites, were favourable to their continuance in time, but abruptly brought to a termination by some great physical change which took place about the commencement of the deposition of the oolitic formations.
ref: 1856, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 12, page 306:
text: The third group is continued into the sands which cap the upper lias, and into strata a little above them, which constitute the lower part of the inferior oolite of Dundry. Even in the Stonesfield slate we find falciferous ammonites.
ref: 1871, John Phillips, Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, Clarendon Press, page 132:
text: More or less falciferous — that is, united to t’ shaft by an arched web-like expansion. Separate or webbed together umbrella-like.
ref: 1875, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 33:
text: This form of suture is seen even in the falciferous Ammonites of the Cretaceous, which can scarcely perhaps, be genetically connected with […]
ref: 1895, Geologists’ Association, Proceedings, volume 13, page 37:
text: […] (oblong scale), abundant throughout the south and especially in the Gironde region; Pulvinaria vitis (red scale) and Pseudococcus (Dactylopius) vitis (white scale) foung throughout the Mediterranean basin; Eulecanium (Lecanium) corni, found only in the north; Aulacaspis (Diaspis) pentagona; and the falciferous scale [Rhizoecus falcifer, Künek.] which lives on the roots.
ref: 1920: Imperial Bureau of Entomology, The Review of Applied Entomology: Agricultural, volume VIII, page 212 (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux)
text: A[stragalus] falciferous Hult.
ref: 1946: Iowa State College Journal of Science, volume 21, page 400 (Iowa State College Press)
text: Internal morphology: Dental lamellae short, slightly recurved and close to the valve sides. Teeth broad with crenulation or notch denticle developed. Cardinal plates broad, ventrally convex, merging in inner socket ridges. Crural bases have long dorsal and short ventral ends. Crura broad, falciferous. Low dorsal euseptum developed (Fig. 2).
ref: 1975: Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Geologiczny, Acta Geologica Polonica, volume 25, page 118 (Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe)
glosses: Sickle-bearing.
double-plus-good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: doubleplusgood
form: double-plus good
form: double plus good
form: ++good
Etymology: Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!
ref: 1992, Norman Spiney, “Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative (Usenet):
text: I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.
ref: 1999 March 12, "BAM", “Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet):
text: We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.
ref: 1999, Alan A. Grometstein, “Bells Thunderbolt 1964”, in The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN, page 511:
text: Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting.
ref: 2005, Rand Clifford, Timing, →ISBN, page 384:
glosses: Excellent; very good.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
++good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: replace ungood 'liable' with ++good 'reliable'
ref: 1997 July 25, rikard, “Configuration is IMPORTANT”, in demon.service (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of double-plus-good.
double plus good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double-plus-good.
double-plus good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double-plus-good.
cum towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cum towels
Etymology: Compound of cum + towel.
Senses: synonyms: jizzrag
glosses: A rag, towel or cloth used to clean up semen.
nature's scythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nature's scythes
Senses: examples: text: Love's meadow happy Dick with nature's scythe was mowing.
ref: 1766, “Dick and Kate”, in The Rattle:
glosses: The penis.
thede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thedes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theed.
time and again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: For successful and efficient operation, mechanical stokers must be fed with suitable coal. This has been proved time and again in all countries where stoker-fired engines are used.
ref: 1959 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Clas "9" 2-10-0s: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 556:
text: Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Often; repeatedly.
Synonyms: time and time again
time after time
again and again
over and over
over and over again
repeatedly
Related terms: now and again
time and time again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: time in time again
Senses: examples: text: Time and time again I said I'd leave you / Time and time again I went away / But then would come the time when I would need you
ref: 1951, “I'm a Fool to Want You”, performed by Frank Sinatra:
text: I long to see the sunlight in your hair / And tell you time and time again how much I care
ref: 1983, Lionel Richie, “Hello”, in Can't Slow Down:
text: I've been married to Wim for more than 32 years, and for 17 of those years he was also my IT rock at Accent Jobs. I really won the lottery with him: A role in a woman's shadow is not for every man. Wim is the one who helped me be daring enough to take a leap, time and time again.
ref: 2022, Conny Vandendriessche, Dream, Dare, Do:
text: NR claims that its renewal has been "postponed time and time again" over the last ten to 20 years and is now inevitable.
ref: 2023 May 31, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Crewe-Carlisle marked urgent to meet HS2 demands”, in RAIL, number 984, page 8:
synonyms: word: time and again
word: time after time
word: again and again
word: once and again
word: over and over
word: over and over again
word: repeatedly
word: time after time
word: time and again
word: time and time again
glosses: Often; repeatedly.
sweese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːs
Senses: glosses: plural of swoose
swooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swoose
ungood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/
Forms: form: ungooder
form: more ungood
form: ungoodest
form: most ungood
Etymology: From Middle English ungod, from Old English ungōd, equivalent to un- (“not”) + good (adjective). Popularised by its appearance in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.
Senses: examples: text: An unjust judge, as one well observes, is a cold fire, a dark sun, a dry sea, a mare mortuum, an ungood god, contradictio in adjecto, monsters, not men, much less gods.
ref: 1660, George Swinnock, “The Beauty of Magistracy: An Exposition of Psalm LXXXII.”, in Works, volume IV, published 1868, The Beauty of Magistracy, page 236:
text: Now to make a short story shorter, we all know this is very ungood for a new motor and I do not want to thank the person or persons who unwittingly left their fingerprints, of which I have photostatic copies, so that might detect the presence of graphite before staring the motor.
ref: 1947 March 8, “Dirty Work at the X-Roads?”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 11, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., published 15 March 1947, →ISSN, page 50:
text: What I was before wasn't good for me. But it was from that ungood that I put together something better: I had put together hope. From my own ungood I had created a future good.
ref: 1988, Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H., →ISBN, page 5:
text: “Way ungood guys, way ungood.”
ref: 2008, Rodney Davis, The Revelation Voyage, →ISBN, page 14:
text: And remember! Islam is ungood; atheism, file sharing, civil liberties and homosexuality are doubleplusungood.
ref: 2010 June 6, "Tim", “Re:McDonald's Ad Promotes Teenage Homosexuality”, in alt.socieity.liberalism (Usenet):
text: This man is very, very ungood.
ref: 2010, Timothy M. Dale, Joseph J. Foy, Kate Mulgrew, quoting Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show and the Politics of Truth”, in Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent Through American Popular Culture, →ISBN, Popular Culture as Public Space, page 48:
glosses: Not good; bad.
examples: text: The authorities desire to deceive humankind, because they perceived him being in a kinship to the truly good. So they took the word 'good', they applied it to the ungood so that thru words they might deceive and bind him within the ungood.
ref: 2009, Andra Chambers, The Book of Wisdom, page 88:
glosses: Those who are not good; the wicked, evil, or bad.
Synonyms: bad
Derived terms: english: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
translation: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
word: double-plus-ungood
ungood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/
ipa: /ˈʌnˌɡʊd/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/
Etymology: From Middle English ungod (“evil”), equivalent to un- (“lack of”) + good (noun). Cognate with German Low German Ungood (“bad, evil”), German Ungüte (“ungood”).
Senses: examples: text: Here we can see that electricity is merely a manifestation of the fundamental dichotomy of the dualistic universe, the struggle between Good and Ungood, between Yin and Yang.
ref: 1953, Tech Engineering News, volume 35, page 34:
text: This government has bought the myths and is determined to foist this 'ungood' on every Australian citizen. I say 'ungood' deliberately.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Parliamentary Debates Australia: Senate, page 5982:
text: “[…] In some, however, the ungood has turned inside out. It tortures only the spirit within.”
ref: 2013, Shana Abé, The Truelove Bride:
glosses: Lack or absence of good; goodlessness; bad
overanxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overanxieties
Etymology: From over- + anxiety.
Senses: glosses: Excessive anxiety.
overanxieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overanxiety
semolinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semolina
taxingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more taxingly
form: most taxingly
Etymology: From taxing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a taxing manner.
replug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: replugs
form: replugging
form: replugged
form: replugged
Etymology: From re- + plug.
Senses: glosses: To plug again or anew.
replugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replug
replugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replug
replugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replug
nasalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nasal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nasality.
synonyms: word: nasality
calculary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to calculus (stony concretions).
overpronate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpronates
form: overpronating
form: overpronated
form: overpronated
Etymology: From over- + pronate.
Senses: glosses: To pronate to an excessive degree.
Derived terms: overpronator
overpronating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpronate
overpronates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpronate
overpronated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpronate
overseed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overseeds
form: overseeding
form: overseeded
form: overseeded
Etymology: From over- + seed.
Senses: examples: text: Plant or overseed with the right grass for the spot.
ref: 2007 April 12, “Another Path to Splendor in the Grass”, in New York Times:
synonyms: oversow
hypernyms: replant
reseed
resow
glosses: To replenish (a pasture, lawn, or field) by adding more seeds over top of the existing vegetation (as opposed to tilling and replanting the land).
synonyms: oversow
hypernyms: overplant
glosses: To sow excessively, at overdensity of seeds per unit area.
overseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overseed
overseeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overseed
overseeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overseed