cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alienee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alienees
Etymology: From alien + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom a property is alienated.
aliener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alieners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alienor.
alienor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alienors
Senses: glosses: A person who alienates a property.
alienism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.lɪ.ən.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: alienisms
Etymology: From alien + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The fact or position of being an alien; alienage.
examples: text: The diction of the dialogue is essentially the same as that of the chorus, the slight difference being due to a little greater restriction in the use of alienisms in the former on account of the use of the iambic metre.
ref: 1904, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Tenney Frank, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell, American Journal of Philology, page 305:
text: Alienisms in Our Language.
By the present we shall know the past.
From the way European languages, notably English, are spreading among our people, we can imagine with what ease and eagerness our forefathers acclimatized the ...
ref: 1972, Inazō Nitobe, The Works of Inazo Nitobe: Editorial jottings, 1930-1933:
text: In most cases English words appear in novels either as alienisms, in domesticated forms or as loan-words. Interpolated alienisms usually point to imported objects, for example drinks such as Cocacola, brandy (Kizazi), [...]
ref: 1990, Rajmund Ohly, The Zanzibarian Challenge: Swahili Prose in the Years 1975-1981:
glosses: A foreignism, a word (or trait, etc) from another language (or country, etc).
Related terms: allogenism
alienism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.lɪ.ən.ɪz.əm/
Etymology: From French aliénisme, from aliéné in the meaning of "insane".
Senses: examples: 2016 Dr. Seward, Penny Dreadful s3e1, 32min
Since I'm sure you're not familiar with alienism I'll tell you how it works.
glosses: The study or treatment of mental disorders; psychiatry.
Related terms: alienist
aline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪn/
ipa: /æˈlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: alines
form: alining
form: alined
form: alined
Etymology: From a- + line, possibly from Middle English alinen (“copulate”), Middle French aligner.
Senses: examples: text: Nuclear Orientation. Studies made of the photoneutron cross section in the region of the giant resonance, using an alined holmium target, directly confirmed the theory that this cross section is associated with the two axes of the deformed nucleus.
ref: 1963, US National Bureau of Standards, (Please provide the book title or journal name), digitized edition (Science), US Govt. Printing Office, published 2005, page 69:
text: Field-alined electron intensities were not found in the low-altitude signature of the plasma sheet.
ref: 1975, Royal Society, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Mathematics), Royal Society of London, page 167:
text: The first item to be studied is the present status of the technical development of radio and television in the non-alined countries.
ref: 1977, Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of align.
Related terms: realine
aline
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪn/
ipa: /æˈlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English aline (“in line”).
Senses: examples: text: Nay looke you, I know twas true, For his father built a chimney in my fathers house, And the brickes are aline at this day to testifie.
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI - Part II:
text: The small stable with its accommodations for a horse and cow and two carriages is placed aline with the house.
ref: 1906, The Brickbuilder - Volume 15, page 169:
text: The two main masts are aline amidships, while the two mizzen masts are astern and placed in line with the rudder post.
ref: 1938, The China Journal - Volume 28, page 264:
text: dressing all aline.
ref: 2007, Anita Banerjee & B.K.Chakravarti, House-Keeping Management In Hotels, page 18:
glosses: In line.
Derived terms: alinement
alinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alinements
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alignment.
Related terms: realinement
alined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alined
form: most alined
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aligned.
aliquant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.kwɒnt/
Forms: form: aliquants
Etymology: From Latin aliquantus.
Senses: examples: text: If half the latitude of the firſt vvave be an aliquant part of the ſtring, after the motion has been propagated to the fartheſt extremity, there vvill be a nevv ſeries of leſs vvaves, recurring in a contrary direction.
ref: 1784, Matthew Young, “Sect[ion] I. Of the Motion of an Elastic Fibre.”, in An Enquiry into the Principal Phænomena of Sounds and Musical Strings, Dublin: […] Joseph Hill, […], →OCLC, part II (On Musical Strings), page 76:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integer that is less than another, but that does not divide the other integer into integral parts.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: aliquot
glosses: A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample/specimen thereof) that does not divide evenly into it, thus leaving a (nonzero) remainder.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of aliquot.
synonyms: word: aliquot
aliquant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.kwɒnt/
Etymology: From Latin aliquantus.
Senses: examples: 5 is an aliquant part of 16.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Less than another specified integer, but not dividing it into integral parts.
Related terms: aliquot
Yggdrasil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɡdɹəsɪl/
Forms: form: Yggdrasill
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Yggdrasill; commonly accepted as being composed Yggr (“terrible”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet it is not easy to pluck out the heart of its mystery; and the descriptions of certain ancient representatives of Yggdrasil do not lessen the difficulty.
ref: 1863, The London Quarterly Review, volumes 113-114, page 117:
text: With nostrils and legs akimbo, she towered over him like some human Yggdrasill, blotting out the sun.
ref: 1963, Spike Milligan, chapter 1, in Puckoon, page 1:
text: 1996, Carolyne Larrington (editor and translator), The Seeress's Prophecy, The Poetic Edda, page 6,
I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill,
a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
ever green, it stands over the well of fate.
text: In Norse mythology, for example, the World Tree, or Yggdrasil, connected the nine existences that straddled the worlds of gods and men with its mighty roots. Yggdrasil was reputedly a gigantic ash tree (and was the central feature of Norse cosmology), around the base of which the serpent Níôhöggr had twisted its body.
ref: 2007, Bob Curran, Ian Daniels, Walking with the Green Man: Father of the Forest, Spirit of Nature, page 66:
text: “Yggdrasil!” Gudbjartur's voice was filled with awe. “It is Yggdrasil, the world-tree!” He looked at Halfdan, his eyes wide. “The Sacred Grove is here in this land!”
ref: 2007, J. A. Hunsinger, The Settlers: An Axe of Iron Novel, page 333:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
aliter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.tɚ/
Etymology: From Latin aliter (“otherwise”), from alius (“other”).
Senses: glosses: otherwise
Valentina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Valentinas
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.
alizarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alizarines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alizarin.
mumu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumus
Senses: glosses: In Papua New Guinea, a feast where a pig is cooked.
mumu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumus
Senses: glosses: A fool.
glosses: A victim of an online scam.
Synonyms: mugu
alkalinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalinizations
form: alkalization
Etymology: From alkaline + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of something to an alkali.
glosses: The process of becoming more alkaline.
Derived terms: hyperalkalinization
realkalinization
alkalinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alkalinizes
form: alkalinizing
form: alkalinized
form: alkalinized
Etymology: From alkaline + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert, or be converted, to an alkali
Synonyms: word: alkalify
Derived terms: alkalinizer
Related terms: word: alkalify
word: basify
alkalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalizations
Etymology: From alkali + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alkalinization.
synonyms: word: alkalinization
Derived terms: realkalization
allayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allayments
Etymology: From allay + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Something that allays; mitigation.
allegator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: alligator
Forms: form: allegators
Etymology: From allegate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who alleges
allegement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegements
Etymology: From Middle English allegement, alleggement, from Old French alegement, alegemant, from the verb alegier, from Latin allego (“send for, to bring forth, name, produce in evidence”), from ad (“to”) + lego (“to depute, send”).
Senses: glosses: Allegation.
alleger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegers
Etymology: From allege + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who alleges, especially one who makes a formal allegation.
allegiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allegiant
form: most allegiant
Senses: examples: text: For your great graces / Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I / Can nothing render but allegiant thanks, / My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty, / Which ever has and ever shall be growing, / Till death, that winter, kill it.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: In another group, still allegiant to the gangsters, were men such as Shorty, Sorensen, Lars Jacobsen, and Larry.
ref: 1914, Jack London, chapter L, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore:
text: The fully allegiant group accepted the ultimate sovereignty of the British government.
ref: 1979, Paul Bew, Peter Gibbon, Henry Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland, 1921-72: Political Forces and Social Classes, page 84:
glosses: Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
Derived terms: allegiantly
allegiantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allegiantly
form: most allegiantly
Etymology: From allegiant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an allegiant manner
alleviative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alleviative
form: most alleviative
Etymology: From alleviate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That alleviates pain; palliative
alleviative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alleviatives
Etymology: From alleviate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That which alleviates; a drug or remedy.
alleviatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alleviatory
form: most alleviatory
Senses: glosses: alleviative
allocability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allocable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being allocable.
examples: text: Allocability can be achieved by time-sharing and by lottery, as well as by division.
glosses: The extent to which something is able to be allocated.
allocatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allocatees
Etymology: From allocate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom something is allocated
allogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæləˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
Etymology: From allo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Having an external cause, or source; exogenous.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed in another location and transported.
topics: biology
genetics
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of allogeneic: genetically distinct, but of the same species; nonself but intraspecies.
Derived terms: allogenically
allotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allotrophic
form: most allotrophic
Etymology: From allotroph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an allotroph.
glosses: Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.
allotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotrophs
Etymology: From allo- + -troph.
Senses: examples: text: The ecosystems of the extra-polar high mountains are described as anabolic-allotroph systems, but those of the Antarctic mountains are katabolic autotoph^([sic – meaning autotroph]) systems.
ref: 1968, M. S. Mani, Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects, →ISBN, page 406:
text: A living thing using only inorganic materials as food, as opposed to heterotrophs, allotrophs, parasites, or saprophytes, which depend on other organisms for nutrition.
ref: 1970, Stephen H. Dole, Habitable Planets for Man, page 142
text: [We see the] plants as synthesizing autotrophs, extracting energy from light and storing it in organic form, and the animals as predatory allotrophs, consuming organic material in order to secure energy, […]
ref: 1974, Roger Pearson, Introduction to Anthropology, page 39:
text: It is possible that at a young age these secondary host plants (allotrophs) have a similar chemistry to that of the primary hosts that is also attractant and palatable for the beetles. It is also possible that the allotrophs are actually phytochemically […]
ref: 1978, Israel Journal of Entomology, volumes 12-14, page 138:
glosses: Synonym of heterotroph.
synonyms: word: heterotroph
Derived terms: allotrophic
Albertine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Albertine. Variant of Albertina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
allotropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allotropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to allotropy
Albertina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A feminine diminutive form of Albert. Latinate variant of Albertine.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Ethelbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalaberht. Compound of Old English æþele (“noble”) + beorht (“bright”). Doublet of Albert.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English revived in the 19th century.
'Bodge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the 'Bodge
Etymology: From Cambodge, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: The country of Cambodia.
bodge job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodge jobs
Senses: glosses: A job that is completed quickly and carelessly, possibly with one's mind on other things, or without using the correct tools.
Synonyms: botch job
Elbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A cognate of the more common Albert.
Senses: glosses: An American surname.
glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: Elbert County
Mount Elbert
attrits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attrit
attrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attrit
attritting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attrit
attritted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attrit
attrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attrite
attriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attrite
attrited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attrite
air freshener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air fresheners
Senses: glosses: Any of many forms of device containing substances that neutralize or mask unpleasant odours.
Synonyms: air refresher
pedale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedalia
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A foot-cloth in front of an altar.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A collection of canons of general councils in the Greek Orthodox Church.
unio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unios
Etymology: From the genus name, Unio, from Latin ūniō (“large pearl”). Doublet of union.
Senses: examples: text: In June, 1850, a living pond mussel was sent to Dr. Gray from Australia which had been kept out of water more than a year, and instances of the survival of unios without moisture for long periods are not rare.
ref: 1894 May, “Sleep of mollusks”, in Popular Science, volume 45, number 1, page 99:
glosses: Any of the genus Unio of freshwater mussels
Related terms: unioid
analytical editing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A cut-in during a scene to highlight a closer view of some part of the same space.
concr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of concrete.
concr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of concrete.
evidentiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃiˌɛɹi/
Etymology: From Latin ēvidentia + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Evidentiary investigations are common in legal proceedings.
text: This issue led to an interim battle among the parties to exclude various expert witnesses regarding the aquifer's hydrogeology and a five-day evidentiary hearing before Special Master Eugene Siler in May 2019.
ref: 2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:
topics: law
synonyms: evidential
antonyms: nonevidentiary
glosses: Of or pertaining to evidence.
Derived terms: evidentiarily
evidentiary abuse affidavit
evidentiary phase
nonevidentiary
Related terms: evident
evidently
live blog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live blogs
form: liveblog
Etymology: live + blog
Senses: examples: text: They were covering the press conference on a live blog.
glosses: A blog that gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event.
live blog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: live blogs
form: live blogging
form: live blogged
form: live blogged
form: liveblog
Etymology: live + blog
Senses: examples: text: I am going to be live blogging the press conference and I will keep you updated on any big news.
glosses: To keep track of a current event in real-time online using a blog or other website.
allegers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleger
banyan days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banyan day
aphidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdiən
Etymology: From aphid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Like an aphid.
aphidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: aphidians
Etymology: From aphid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of genus Aphidoidea.
aphidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphidian
opisthographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthograph
athiest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The athiest^([sic]) is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance^([sic]) and oneness of Allaah.
ref: 2003, Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, quoting Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects, volume 8, MSA Publication Limited, →ISBN, page 89:
text: If you were an honest journelist^([sic]) you would admit that you were an athiest^([sic]) and love to see a birth canal baby die with with^([sic]) a shot of fermaldihide^([sic]) in the brain.
ref: 2004, Alan Colmes, quoting "Mr. S" (username), Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: Misspelling of atheist.
athiests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of atheists.
bring round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings round
form: bringing round
form: brought round
form: brought round
Senses: examples: text: Can you bring round some beer when you come tonight?
glosses: To bring something when coming.
examples: text: We thought he was going to die, but the doctors managed to bring him round.
glosses: To resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness.
examples: text: She was opposed to the new housing development, but we eventually brought her round.
glosses: To change someone's opinion or point of view.
Synonyms: sense: to change opinion
word: influence
sense: to change opinion
word: persuade
sense: to cause to regain consciousness
word: revive
word: wake up
word: awaken
relevent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of relevant.
workoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workoholics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of workaholic.
Gl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, for initial catalog
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: by extension, prefix for any catalogued in the Gliese star catalog and expansions
Synonyms: Gliese
GJ
Related terms: Wo
NN
twelth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of twelfth.
eleutheromaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: more eleutheromaniac
form: most eleutheromaniac
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, “freedom”) + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: Having a passionate mania for freedom.
eleutheromaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: eleutheromaniacs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, “freedom”) + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: A person that has such a mania.
Related terms: eleutheromania
fiddlestick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddlesticks
Etymology: From Middle English fydylstyk, ffidillstyke; equivalent to fiddle + stick.
Senses: glosses: One of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.
synonyms: fiddlebow
glosses: A bow used to play the fiddle.
examples: text: I don't care a fiddlestick!
glosses: A whit; a jot.
fiddlestick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Middle English fydylstyk, ffidillstyke; equivalent to fiddle + stick.
Senses: examples: text: "A—a most distinguished visitor has just arrived."
"Distinguished fiddlestick!" said Aunt Letty. "There hasn't been a ring at the bell for the last hour."
ref: 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
glosses: Dated form of fiddlesticks.
backsheesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsheeshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
backsheesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backsheeshes
form: backsheeshing
form: backsheeshed
form: backsheeshed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
arquebuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arquebuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arquebus.
arquebuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arquebuses
form: arquebusing
form: arquebused
form: arquebused
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arquebus.
betune
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: between
unslung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsling
unslung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unslung rifle
glosses: That has not been slung.
ghostlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghostlike
form: most ghostlike
Etymology: From ghost + -like.
Senses: glosses: Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
Derived terms: unghostlike
unpoetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpoetical
form: most unpoetical
Etymology: From un- + poetical.
Senses: glosses: not poetical
Related terms: unpoetic
piss artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss artists
Senses: examples: text: He pulled over to the roadside the policeman walked up to the door Goth had got the window wound down by now, all the copper said to him “get out the van Goth” he just fell out the van laughing, the policeman saying what’s funny Goth. He then said I am painter and decorator by trade and you said it get out the van Goth, Van Goth is a famous Dutch artist, so the policeman replied this you are a piss artist, he then said to Goth get the rear light sorted out, because next time I’ll charge you with a defective rear light.
ref: 2006, James T. Long, Knights of the Far East, page 144:
text: “Yeah, but I’m no drinker, I’m a drunk. A piss artist, a tosspot. I’m sloshed 24/7. Last week I had to use a rope to keep my trousers up, because I was trembling so hard each morning that I couldn’t be arsed with a belt.”
ref: 2014, T.M.Simmler, In Vino Veritas:Shaking Frenzy, page 73:
text: I despised people who got drunk, I referred to them as ‘piss artists, and I had nothing but contempt for them, nothing but contempt for these people, who fell around drunk, who were incoherent when they spoke.
ref: 2015, Mary Addenbrooke, Survivors of Addiction: Narratives of Recovery, page 77:
glosses: Someone who is frequently drunk (pissed).
examples: text: Just as aspirant poets are weighed down with the weight of prior aesthetic achievements and are driven by an Oedipal desire to supersede their literary forebears, so too todays band of offensive advertisers are beset by the saprogenic accomplishments of the promotional piss artists of times past, P.T.Barnum in particular.
ref: 2001 June 7, Stephen Brown, Marketing: The Retro Revolution, page 218:
text: Piss-artists all of them, charlatans who'd rather paint a cold fish than a ripe peach.
ref: 2009, Siriol Troup, Beneath the Rime, page 83:
text: […]the strap-line on the neon sign set over the entrance of the three-storey mock Art Deco building proclaims. Lit up there, in glowing red and yellow, is a cheese-ball that looks like a piss artist's impression of the HIV retrovirus.
ref: 2012, Chris Kerr, As Seen on TV:
text: And to create a diversion you have been suing Thomas Ferreira for torture and barbarous acts, on the simple grounds that he supposedly, I quote 'hung your client upside-down above a toilet bowl full of excrement, wrists and ankles bound with scotch tape, wrapped in high-tension electric cables corroded by acid?' Facts for which there is no proof, other than a photograph of the toilet bowl […]He logged in as administrator but couldn't identify Juliette's computer. Impossible to get his hands on it. And yet she had to be connected to the network? The junior piss-artist had managed, therefore, to set up her own firewall, she was undetectable, a regular submarine.
ref: 2015, Pascale Pujol, Little Culinary Triumphs:
glosses: Someone who frequently ridicules or shows contempt for others (takes the piss).
coastwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coastways
Etymology: From coast + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: coastwise shipping
text: Because of the drastic reduction in the use of petrol and tyres the railway is now called on to effect practically all the island's transport, with the exception of a small amount handled by one coastwise steamer.
ref: 1945 November and December, H. R. Fox, “The Jamaica Railway, 1845-1945”, in Railway Magazine, page 315:
text: Until the war of 1914-18 the largest proportion of coal was shipped for export or coastwise movement to U.K. ports, and even with the decline of the industry between the wars this trend continued until the Second World War.
ref: 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
glosses: Along the coast.
coastwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: coastways
Etymology: From coast + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The barley was shipped coastwise.
glosses: Along the coast.
eightpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eightpences
Etymology: From eight + pence.
Senses: examples: text: […] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.
Related terms: twopence
tuppence
threepence
fourpence
fivepence
sixpence
tenpence
dermatitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatitides
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatitis
dermatitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatitises
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatitis
vasculitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasculitis
scleralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scleralizations
Etymology: From scleral + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An opacity of the cornea that progresses inwards from the periphery of the cornea towards its center.
lordoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lordosis
nephritises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephritides
Senses: glosses: plural of nephritis
nephritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephritises
Senses: glosses: plural of nephritis
Mohism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊɪzəm/
Forms: form: Moism
Etymology: From Moh, former transliteration of the first syllable of Mozi, Chinese philosopher (c. 470-391 BC), Chinese 墨子 (Mòzǐ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrines of Mozi and his followers, especially the concept of universal love.
Vaishya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vaishyas
form: vaishya
Etymology: From Sanskrit वैश्य (vaiśya).
Senses: glosses: The third caste of traditional Indian society, comprising merchants and landowners.
examples: text: To perform successfully in the marketplace, vaishyas had to be ambitious, to want worldly goods, and to compete aggressively with their rivals, and this "desire" bound them inexorably to the cycle of death and rebirth.
ref: 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 307:
glosses: A member of this caste.
chamcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamchas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चम्चा (camcā, “sycophant, hanger-on, lackey”, literally “spoon”).
Senses: examples: text: 1989. Stuart Auerbach. Washington Post. (Mar. 26) “Nehru and His Nation”
M J Akbar has been called a chamcha to the Gandhi family, and some of that slavish devotion shows up in his uncritical acceptance of Nehru’s government-dominated economic program and the erosion of the country’s grass roots political structure as a result of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
text: Chamcha Sycophant (lit. ‘spoon’). 1997. Ghulam Nabi Azad. India Today (June 23) p. 13: I have my own standing in the party. I cannot be anybody’s chamcha (stooge).
ref: 1994. William Dalrymple City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Dec. 1) “Glossary” p. 340
text: 1997. Sudhir Vaishnav. Times of India. (Aug. 24) “A very political exercise”
Several hangers-on. They are available aplenty everywhere in the country and are often known in the local market as Chamcha.
text: No doubt, the United Kingdom also had their sycophants—toadys, bachhas, jholichuks and hukkabardars—but chamchas of the modern vintage they had none. Chamchas are a breed apart.
ref: 1998 January 17, “In Praise of Chamchagiri”, in P.S. Sharma Times of India:
text: Leaders’ chamchas get lucky”: All three have pulled strings in their respective parties to get Assembly poll tickets for their puppets and close confidants, better known in political parlance as chamchas.
ref: 2004. Krishnakumar. Midday (Mumbai, India) (Sept. 21)
glosses: A sycophant and hanger-on or lackey.
Related terms: english: meaning spooning or sycophancy
translation: meaning spooning or sycophancy
word: chamchagiri
almner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of almoner.
almonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almonries
Senses: glosses: A building in which alms were distributed.
Related terms: almoner
alphabeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alphabet + -ed.
Senses: examples: Latin-alphabeted Greek
glosses: Written using a specified alphabet
alphabeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From alphabet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alphabet
alphanumerics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphanumeric
altho
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: American English alteration of although.
Senses: examples: text: This is a pitiful defence, for ’tis certain there are people who are not judged to be praiſe-worthy altho they be praiſed by others: […]
ref: 1684, Jean Claude, translated by J. R. R., The Catholick Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages, R. Royston, page 261:
text: Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
ref: 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 43, page 9:
text: The Usefull, the mechanic Arts, are those which We have occasion for in a young Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury, altho perhaps much too far for her Age and Character.
ref: 1984, George Will, quoting John Adams, US President, 1780, (Please provide the book title or journal name) (Political Science), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of although.
althorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: althorns
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An alto or tenor saxhorn
saxhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saxhorns
Etymology: Invented by Adolphe Sax.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of a group of similar brass instruments, resembling a bugle in shape, but with valves
wikipedia: Adolphe Sax
Related terms: saxophone
alumine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:
glosses: alumina
alumroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumroots
Etymology: From alum + root.
Senses: glosses: Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Heuchera, native to North America.
glosses: Flowering plants of genus Geranium, also called wild geraniums or cranesbills.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tellima grandiflora
word: false alumroot
taxonomic: Heuchera cylindrica
word: poker alumroot
anaphylactogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaphylactogens
Etymology: From anaphylaxis (“adverse reaction”) + -gen (“producer”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance likely to or capable of producing an adverse reaction (anaphylaxis) in a person.
skip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skips out
form: skipping out
form: skipped out
form: skipped out
Senses: examples: text: He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week.
glosses: To shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.
premature antifascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premature antifascists
Senses: glosses: One who opposed fascism at a time when the United States government was still on relatively friendly terms with fascist Italy and (to a lesser extent) Nazi Germany; especially a supporter of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War.
Related terms: comsymp
fellow traveller
nephropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephropathy
antifascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifascist
form: most antifascist
form: anti-fascist
Etymology: From anti- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: Opposed to the tenets of fascism; antifa.
antifascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifascists
form: anti-fascist
Etymology: From anti- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: After the AA/BO split in 2001, Antifas continued to work locally and regionally as dedicated networks of antifascists opposing far-right demonstrations and gatherings, though many also take up other left-wing issues and causes.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: A person opposed to the tenets of fascism.
Derived terms: premature antifascist
iridologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridologists
Etymology: From iridology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of iridology; the practice of inspecting the iris in order to ascertain a persons health or to diagnose a health condition.
iridologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridologist
font name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: font names
Etymology: Because the name is (formally or archetypally) bestowed at the baptismal font.
Senses: glosses: A given name or baptismal name.
font name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: font names
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see font, name: the name of a font (typeface).
skip tracer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skip tracers
form: skiptracer
form: skip-tracer
Senses: glosses: A private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear.
Related terms: skiptrace
skip tracing
private dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private dicks
Senses: examples: text: ‘Private dick, eh?’ he said, not looking at me at all, but looking out of his window.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 130:
glosses: A private investigator; a private detective.
fmol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fmols
form: fmol
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of femtomole.
pmol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pmols
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of picomole.
electrical inductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical inductances
Senses: glosses: The ratio of the magnetic flux to the electric current flowing around an electrical circuit.
Related terms: henry
the SI unit of electrical inductance
antitheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitheists
Etymology: From anti- + theist.
Senses: glosses: An active opponent of the belief in the existence of a god or gods.
Related terms: antitheism
chit-chatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chit-chat
chit-chatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chit-chat
adiposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: adipo- + -oses
Senses: glosses: plural of adiposis
aerologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerologists
Etymology: From aero- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies, or is knowledgeable in, aerology.
Related terms: aerology
aerological
alimentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alimentative
form: most alimentative
Etymology: From aliment + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aliment
glosses: Nutritious, nourishing.
Derived terms: alimentativeness
kibbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibble
kibbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kibble
kibbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kibble
kibbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kibble
subnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnets
Etymology: From sub- + net.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The abstraction of a sequence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number.
subnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subnets
form: subnetting
form: subnetted
form: subnetted
Etymology: From sub- + net.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To break (a network) into subnets.
RIPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).
Synonyms: HREZ
HRZE
RHZE
IIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Internet Information Services.
Hyponyms: IIS6
IIS7
localise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: localises
form: localising
form: localised
form: localised
Etymology: From local + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of localize.
Derived terms: colocalise
delocalise
immunolocalise
localisable
mislocalise
relocalise
localises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of localise
localising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of localise
EN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The initials of either the Latin Ēthica Nicomachēa or the Ancient Greek Ἠθικὰ (Ēthikà) Νικομάχεια (Nikomákheia).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's best-known work on ethics.
Related terms: EE
EN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of erythema nodosum.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of enrolled nurse.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of empty net.
localised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of localise
localised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more localised
form: most localised
Senses: examples: text: On more than one other occasion, torrential rain has caused signal failures as well as localised flooding.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 215–216:
glosses: Alternative spelling of localized.
Derived terms: mislocalised
unlocalised
liveryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liverymen
Etymology: From livery + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone who works in a livery stable.
glosses: Someone who wears livery in the course of their employment.
glosses: A member of a livery company.
locatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From locate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being located.
Derived terms: geolocatable
unlocatable
lordliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lordlinesses
Etymology: From Middle English lordlines, lordlynes, lordlinesse, equivalent to lordly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord.
tag soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Poorly structured code in a markup language that uses tags (such as HTML), especially when it violates specifications.
Related terms: spaghetti code
leashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of leash
leashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leash
leashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈliːʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leash
leashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːʃt/
rhymes: -iːʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leash
leashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːʃt/
rhymes: -iːʃt
Senses: examples: text: In the registration for William, Earl of Dundonald, 1672-78, the same person, the boars' heads are armed and langued of the field, and the supporters are collared or and leashed gules.
ref: 1881, Robert Riddle Stodart, Scottish Arms: Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678, Reproduced in Fascimile from Contemporary Manuscripts, page 59:
text: [...] a sleuthhound proper, collared and leashed gules.
ref: 1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 783:
text: [...] on the dexter a greyhound proper collared and leashed gules, on the sinister an ostrich proper, in its beak a horse shoe azure.
ref: 1900, The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, page 169:
text: Supporters; Two greyhounds per fess argent and or, collared and leashed gules, suspended from the collar, a shield azure , charged with the Speaker's Mace in pale or; and each charged on the flank with a thistle proper.
ref: 1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 377:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a leash of a specified color.
liveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of livery
liveries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of livery
liverying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of livery
outthrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outthrust
outthrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outthrust
outthrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outthrust
outthrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outthrustings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of outthrust.
synonyms: word: outthrust
outthrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outthrust
postimpressionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postimpressionist