cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ideal-seeking behavior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Behavior that is characterized by both the desire and the ability to progress towards an ideal by choosing a new goal when a previous one has been met or the effort to meet it has failed.
viatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viaticum
athlete's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fungal infection of the skin of the foot, usually between the toes, caused by pathogen fungi, such as Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton interdigitale, syn. Trichophyton mentagrophytes, or Epidermophyton floccosum
Synonyms: sense: fungal infection of the foot
word: tinea pedis
sense: fungal infection of the foot
word: Hong Kong foot
Related terms: dermatophytosis
ringworm
tinea
fabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabbers
Etymology: From fab + -er, from fabricate.
Senses: glosses: A small manufacturing plant able to make solid three-dimensional objects based on digital data.
hypogonadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + gonadal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a defect of the reproductive system which results in lack of function of the gonads (ovaries or testes).
Related terms: hypogonadism
supraphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supraphysiological
form: most supraphysiological
Etymology: From supra- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to amounts greater than normally found in the body.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a dose of a medicine that is larger than that of an equivalent hormone or other compound normally present in the body
Synonyms: supraphysiologic
anemious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anemious
form: most anemious
Etymology: From anemia + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It was anemious in two cases where the patients died early, and on two other occasions when death took place long subsequent to febrile action.
ref: 1845, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 63, page 440:
text: The cause of this convulsion is the anemious condition, not of the brain, but of the spinal marrow; this is ascertained in the sheep in the following manner […]
ref: 1846, Marshall Hall, Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine:
glosses: Pertaining to anemia.
alcohology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælkəˈhɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From alcohol + -ology, by haplology.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The study of the effects of alcohol; on living organisms, people or social environments.
extra-solar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Systems Alliance is an independent supranational government representing the interests of humanity as a whole. The Alliance is responsible for the governance and defense of all extra-solar colonies and stations.
The Alliance grew out of the various nation space programs as a matter of practicality. Sol's planets had been explored and exploited through piecemeal nation efforts. The expense of colonizing entire new solar systems could not be met by any one country. With humans knowing that alien contact was inevitable, there was enough political will to jointly fund an international effort.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Systems Alliance Codex entry:
glosses: Alternative spelling of extrasolar.
sideman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidemen
Etymology: From side + -man.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A soloist playing with a band or group of which he is not a regular member.
examples: text: I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud
ref: 2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:
text: She told me she loved me, I was like when?
Treated me like a sideman back then
ref: 2019, “Love Me Not” (track 8), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:
glosses: Somebody who is unimportant or irrelevant.
sidewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sidewise
form: most sidewise
Etymology: From side + -wise.
Senses: glosses: sideways
signalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalizations
Etymology: From signal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of signalizing; characterization or differentiation
signor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːnjɔr/
ipa: /ˈsiːnjɔː/
Forms: form: signors
form: signori
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian signor, apocopic form of signore. Doublet of senior and señor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of signore, a courtesy title used towards an Italian man.
signori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signor
signorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signorina
siree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)ˈiː/
ipa: /səˈɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: sirees
form: sirree
Senses: examples: text: "Are you coming?"
"Yes, siree."
glosses: Sir.
raw_tags: after yes or no
used as an intensifier
Derived terms: no siree Bob
jackhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækˌhæmɚ/
Forms: form: jackhammers
Etymology: From jack + hammer.
Senses: synonyms: pneumatic drill
coordinate_terms: air hammer
glosses: A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
examples: text: A new skiercross pro tour is on the docket, as well as freeskiing. Just like racing, both require strong but supple legs rather than jackhammer quads.
ref: 2006 September 24, Skiing:
glosses: Something that is very strong but also very rigid.
butt pirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt pirate
prepetition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + petition.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of a claim, event, or condition existing prior to a bankruptcy petition.
sortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːtəb(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
Forms: form: more sortable
form: most sortable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sortable; equivalent to sort + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Text is searchable, sortable, copyable, pastable, printable and forwardable.
ref: 2007 February 15, David Pogue, “Freedom for Prisoners of Voice Mail”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That can be sorted.
examples: text: If we must needs study, let us study something sorteable to our condition[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Suitable; proper, appropriate.
sortable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːtəb(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
Forms: form: sortables
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sortable; equivalent to sort + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A component that allows a sequence of items to be reordered via drag and drop.
stag film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag films
Senses: synonyms: smoker
glosses: A kind of pornographic film produced clandestinely in the early to mid-20th century, typically short and without sound. Usually intended for a male audience.
ultra lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra lounges
form: ultralounge
form: ultra-lounge
Senses: glosses: A nightclub that has a subdued atmosphere and facilities for social intercourse
ultra-lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra-lounges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ultra lounge.
ultralounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultralounges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ultra lounge.
azoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From azoospermia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Stringent exclusion criteria were employed to exclude regular alcohol drinkers, heavy smokers, the men with chronic diseases, urogenital infections, varicocele and other diseases which might lead to dysspermia, azoospermic men, and the men with 100% of immotile sperm, 100% teratospermia and incomplete data.
ref: 2016 January 5, “Relationship between Lipids Levels of Serum and Seminal Plasma and Semen Parameters in 631 Chinese Subfertile Men”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected by azoospermia.
azoospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoospermias
Etymology: From a- + zoospermia.
Senses: examples: text: Infertility was caused by fallopian tube dysfunction and/or male-related factors (a diagnosis of asthenozoospermia and/or asthenoteratozoospermia or azoospermia according to the WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination and Processing of Human Semen).
ref: 2015 July 25, “Clinical Outcomes of In Vitro Fertilization among Chinese Infertile Couples Treated for Syphilis Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The absence of live sperm in the semen.
Derived terms: azoospermic
non-obstructive azoospermia
obstructive azoospermia
captative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function
Related terms: capture
captative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captatives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
columnated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more columnated
form: most columnated
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having columns; columnar
disorientate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disorientates
form: disorientating
form: disorientated
form: disorientated
Etymology: From dis- + orientate. Not a back-formation from disorientation, which is attested much later and is perhaps from disorientate.
Senses: examples: text: Ideas often disorientate a system which has been formed on a particular pattern and make it inapplicable; so ideas may lead to the readjustment of groups and sometimes of political boundaries.
ref: 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254:
glosses: Alternative form of disorient.
Derived terms: disorientation
Delphin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Delphin
form: most Delphin
form: Delphine
Etymology: See dauphin.
Senses: examples: text: The Delphin classics was an edition of the Latin classics prepared in the reign of Louis XIV for the use of the dauphin.
glosses: Relating to the dauphin of France; delphinal
structural research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A field of research and analysis in architecture that uses studies and details from nature or other sources to produce or create a new structure. It is used in design and architecture to imitate structures and improve them giving them a certain amount of art feeling. Structural research can be also called structural art or structural design.
water butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water butts
form: water-butt
Senses: examples: text: It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts.
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Rainbow, New York: The Modern Library, page 72:
text: Trumpkin went to a flat stone about the size of the top of a water-butt, and stamped on it with his foot.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
westering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wester + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:
qualifier: particularly the sun
glosses: Moving westward, near the west.
raw_tags: of heavenly bodies
westering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wester + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wester
westering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: westerings
Etymology: From wester + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Passover sacrifice had to be offered between the two evenings, or westerings of the sun.
ref: 1872, Benjamin Street, The Restoration of Paths to Dwell in, page 366:
text: The "westerings" of their families are part of the frontier saga, different in detail but not in purpose. They all wanted land, better land from which to make a better living. For over a century the pioneer movement had flowed west, […]
ref: 2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, page 20:
glosses: A movement to the west.
wide-awake hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide-awake hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wideawake hat.
wideawake hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wideawake hats
Senses: glosses: wideawake (type of hat)
take a shine to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a shine to
form: taking a shine to
form: took a shine to
form: taken a shine to
Senses: examples: text: He took a shine to jazz.
text: Meanwhile handsome ex-cavalryman Captain Henry Ossory (Theo James) seems to have taken a shine to Selina as well; he is so tight-trousered his fly button will surely have someone’s eye out.
ref: 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To become fond of something or someone.
Synonyms: take a cotton to
take a fancy to
take a liking to
take a shining to
tongue-and-groove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Employing tongue and groove joints.
nugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nugations
Etymology: From Latin nugatio (“chatter”).
Senses: examples: text: As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction […]
ref: 1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, page 13:
glosses: The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
Related terms: nugatory
quays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kēz
ipa: /kiːz/
ipa: /keɪz/
ipa: /kiːz/
ipa: /keɪz/
ipa: /kweɪz/
rhymes: -iːz
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: keys
homophone: Caius (based on the pronunciation /kiːz/)
Senses: glosses: plural of quay
whippit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whippits
Senses: examples: text: 2004, M. A. Miller et al, "Nitrous oxide 'whippit' abuse presenting as clinical B12 deficiency and ataxia", in American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Elsevier, Volume 2, Issue 2, Page 124.
text: 2006, Nitin K. Sethi et al, "Nitrous Oxide 'Whippit' Abuse Presenting with Cobalamin Responsive Psychosis", in Journal of Medical Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania Press, Volume 2, Number 2, Page 71.
text: Galaxy Gas is an Atlanta-based brand of nitrous oxide, an odorless, colorless, non-flammable gas also known as “laughing gas” or “whippits,” typically associated with recreational drug use.
ref: 2024 September 14, Zachary Pottle, “Galaxy Gas: Flavored Whipped Cream Charger Or Dangerous Drug?”, in AddictionCenter:
glosses: Alternative form of whippet (“nitrous oxide cartridge”).
factitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more factitiously
form: most factitiously
Etymology: From factitious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, darling, how are you? I am glad you have come in to see me,' said Miss Aldclyffe. 'You can unlock the bag this morning, child, if you like,' she continued, yawning factitiously.
ref: 1871, Hardy, Desperate remedies, part 11 chapter 6
text: A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years.
ref: 1878, Hardy, The Return of the Native, book 1 chapter 7
glosses: In a factitious manner.
age standardized rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age standardized rates
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ASR
glosses: The incidence rate of a particular disease in a population if that population had a standard age structure.
teff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Forms: form: teffs
form: tef
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Senses: glosses: A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
examples: text: She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 23:
glosses: The fine grain of this plant.
Related terms: injera
babycare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-care
form: baby care
Etymology: From baby + care.
Senses: glosses: The act of supervising and taking care of babies.
Related terms: childcare
hole-and-corner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 90:
glosses: Conducted in secret; clandestine.
Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger
ruddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: ruddles
Etymology: From rud + -le. Compare German Rötel (“track”), Post-Classical Latin rudellum. Compare to reddle and raddle.
Senses: glosses: A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep.
glosses: Ruddiness; red coloration.
Synonyms: raddle
reddle
Derived terms: Lemnian ruddle
ruddleman
ruddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: ruddles
form: ruddling
form: ruddled
form: ruddled
Etymology: From rud + -le. Compare German Rötel (“track”), Post-Classical Latin rudellum. Compare to reddle and raddle.
Senses: glosses: To mark something with red ochre.
glosses: To raddle or twist.
Synonyms: raddle
reddle
ruddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: ruddles
Senses: examples: text: They will not passe thorough the holes of the sieve, ruddle or trie, if they be narrow.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: A riddle or sieve.
ruddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: ruddles
form: ruddling
form: ruddled
form: ruddled
Senses: glosses: To sift together; to mix, as through a sieve.
alkoxyalcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkoxyalcohols
Etymology: From alkoxy + alcohol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound of general formula R'-O-ROH, where R and R' represent alkyl or aryl groups.
beremeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪɚmil/
/ˈbɪəmiːl/
Etymology: From bere + meal.
Senses: hypernyms: barleymeal
<
meal
glosses: A wholegrain flour made from bere, a variety of barley grown in northern Scotland, Orkney, and the Shetland Islands. It is commonly used in making bannocks and ale.
Goldilocks economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goldilocks economies
Etymology: After the girl in the fairy tale who found one bowl of porridge too hot, one too cold, and one just right. The first use of this phrase is credited to David Shulman of Salomon Brothers, who wrote The Goldilocks Economy: Keeping the Bears at Bay in March 1992.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A not "too hot" or "too cold" economy, sustaining moderate economic growth and a low inflation allowing for a market-friendly monetary policy.
wikipedia: David Shulman
JNTSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: DVD
media
video-games
glosses: The Japanese version of NTSC, which differs from NTSC only in using the black level and blanking level of PAL rather than the differing ones of North American NTSC.
Synonyms: NTSC-J
raddleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raddlemen
Etymology: From raddle + -man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ruddleman.
reddleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reddlemen
Etymology: From reddle + -man.
Senses: examples: text: You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
glosses: A ruddleman.
examples: text: A child’s first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life. That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrible dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began. ‘The reddleman is coming for you!’ had been the formulated threat of Wessex mothers for many generations.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 89:
glosses: A bogeyman
reddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reddles
Etymology: Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
Senses: examples: text: All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see those bags at the back of my cart? They are […] only full of red stuff.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 87:
glosses: Red ochre, historically used to mark sheep
Synonyms: raddle
ruddle
reddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reddles
form: reddling
form: reddled
form: reddled
Etymology: Apparently a variation of ruddle, though not certainly.
Senses: examples: text: Reddled and waxed, the room's stone floor was set perhaps two feet below the outside ground.
ref: 1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna::
glosses: To redden.
Synonyms: raddle
ruddle
brag sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brag sheets
Senses: glosses: (Navy) A list of achievements maintained by a serving sailor, used as a means of performance evaluation
glosses: A resumé or curriculum vitae consisting of a standard form with a list of questions to be answered
unplayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplayable
form: most unplayable
Etymology: From un- + playable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
That cannot be played, that is too hard too play.
raw_tags: of a musical work
examples: text: Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing.
ref: 1988, Lazer Tag (game review in Your Sinclair issue 32, August 1988)
glosses: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
That cannot be played, or is so tedious, complicated, buggy, etc., as to discourage or preclude playing.
raw_tags: of a video game
examples: text: Apparently the Edison company failed to consider, or chose to ignore, the fact that their records were made using the “hill and dale” vertical-cut recording groove and therefore unplayable on standard (and much cheaper) gramophones […]
ref: 2010, Mark Berresford, That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman, page 143:
glosses: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all.
raw_tags: of an audio or visual recording
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
Impossible to play or to defend against.
raw_tags: of a ball or shuttlecock
solubilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solubilizations
Etymology: From solubilize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of solubilizing something, of rendering it soluble.
in-situ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in situ.
stope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [stoʊp]
Forms: form: stopes
Etymology: Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.
Senses: examples: text: The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 318:
glosses: A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
Derived terms: stope assay plan
stope board
stope fillings
stope hoist
stope pillar
stope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [stoʊp]
Forms: form: stopes
form: stoping
form: stoped
form: stoped
Etymology: Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To excavate in the form of stopes.
topics: business
mining
glosses: To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
stope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [stoʊp]
Senses: glosses: simple past of step
stormy petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormy petrels
Senses: glosses: A storm petrel.
glosses: One who brings trouble or whose appearance is a sign of coming trouble.
Mother Carey's chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mother Carey's chickens
Senses: examples: text: A few blue petrels, black sheer-waters and Mather Caries chickens are all the birds we see.
ref: 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December
text: Ten or fifteen dark little birds […] these are "Mother Carey's chickens," the "water-witches," Stormy Petrels, which are so familiar to the eye of the sailor, and the sight of which he dreads so much; […]
ref: 1874, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Bird-life, tr. by H.M. Labouchere and W. Jesse, page 866:
text: There is no doubt that the stormy petrel has learned to imitate the motion of the waves, flying with motions not unlike those of certain fish. […] These strange little "water-witches" or Mother Carey's chickens are familiar to all sea-travellers.
ref: c. 1917, Royal Dixon, The human side of birds, page 215:
text: Kemp watched sperm whales and green turtles and hundreds of gulls and petrels – known as “Mother Carey's chickens” – that flew around the ship with piercing screams.
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, page 36
glosses: The storm petrel.
Carey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛəɹi/
enpr: kârʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɚ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkeː.ɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈkeəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈkiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkeɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈkeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈkɜːɹɪ/
homophone: carry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
homophone: Kerry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: Careys
form: Cary
Etymology: * As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring.
* As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew.
* As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”).
* As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”).
* Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States, including:
A minor city in Blaine County, Idaho.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States, including:
A village in Crawford Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States, including:
An unincorporated community in Childress County, Texas.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States, including:
A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
An island of Nunavut, Canada, in James Bay off the coast of Quebec; in full, Carey Island.
glosses: A surname.
An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha.
glosses: A surname.
A Celtic surname from Welsh, derived from Carew.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name, variant of Cary.
Derived terms: Carey Fineman Ziter syndrome
Carey Formation
Carey Glacier
Carey Group
Carey Gully
Carey Island
Carey Island Group
Carey Islands
Carey Lake
Related terms: Care
Cari
Carie
Carre
Carrey
Carri
Carrie
Carry
Cary
stage direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage directions
Senses: examples: text: The stage direction given in the script said to walk forward and speak the line loudly.
text: In a few spots, where we've felt it was particularly important, we added stage directions indicating things like quick glances between Helene and Erik.
ref: 2015, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Jacuzzi, London: Samuel French, →ISBN, page Production note:
glosses: An instruction given to an actor that tells the actor what should be done and in what manner to do it.
Related terms: director
stage business
stage manager
stage whisper
d.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: b.
glosses: Abbreviation of died.
Synonyms: ob.
d.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Alderman Johnson condemns the Reform Act, and is for going backward, in all things, to the good times. Punch humbly suggests that every man who votes for the Crab Alderman should be punished as follows:— The said voter never to be permitted to travel by rail, but to journey to York or elsewhere by the very slowest coach. Never to go to Margate by steamboat, but to take three days to the voyage, per hoy. Never to send a letter by penny-post, but to pay 10d. or 13d., as the case may be—the good old price of the good old times.
ref: 1847, “Vote for Alderman Johnson”, in Punch, volume XIII, page 40:
coordinate_terms: word: s.
english: [[shilling]]
translation: [[shilling]]
word: l.
english: [[pound sterling]]
translation: [[pound sterling]]
qualifier: often italicized
glosses: Abbreviation of denarius, used for English penny and English pence.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: d-man
glosses: Abbreviation of defence/defense.
Mediterranean diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean diets
Senses: glosses: Any variant of a diet (food intake) traditionally typical of that eaten by people in the Mediterranean region (with olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals, fruits and vegetables, etc. and limited meat other than fish); thought to increase life expectancy and protect against heart disease and cancer.
examples: text: In one study, published in 2018, researchers assessed nearly 26,000 women and found that those who followed the Mediterranean diet most closely for up to 12 years had about a 25 percent reduced risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
ref: 2023 January 6, Dani Blum, “The Mediterranean Diet Really Is That Good for You. Here’s Why.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any variant of a diet (controlled regimen) based on that principle.
Derived terms: green Mediterranean diet
love grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love grasses
form: lovegrass
Etymology: Calque of translingual Eragrostis.
Senses: synonyms: eragrostis
glosses: Any of several grasses, of the genus Eragrostis, grown as a forage crop or to protect against erosion.
Hyponyms: plains lovegrass
Related terms: teff
lovegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovegrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love grass.
coliphage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coliphages
Etymology: From coli + -phage.
Senses: glosses: Any of several bacteriophages that can infect strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli
collenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛŋkəmə/
Forms: form: collenchymas
form: collenchymata
Etymology: Ancient Greek κολλα (kolla, “glue”) + -enchyma (“tissue”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A living, elongated, mechanical and flexible ground tissue with angular pectin depositions; present just under leaves, tendrils and stems of climbers; formed before vascular differentiation.
Coordinate terms: chlorenchyma
parenchyma
merenchyma
sclerenchyma
columbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columbites
Etymology: From columbium (“niobium”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black mineral that is a mixed iron and manganese niobate and tantalate, and is the main ore of niobium and tantalum.
Derived terms: bismutocolumbite
coltan
columbite-tantalite
manganocolumbite
stibiocolumbite
yttrocolumbite
combinatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑm.bɪn.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or involving combinations.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets.
Derived terms: biocombinatorial
combinatorial analysis
combinatorial auction
combinatorial chemistry
combinatorial class
combinatorial commutative algebra
combinatorial composition
combinatorial control
combinatorial design
combinatorial dual graph
combinatorial enumeration
combinatorial explosion
combinatorial game theory
combinatorial geometry
combinatorialism
combinatorialist
combinatoriality
combinatorialize
combinatorial logic
combinatorially
combinatorial meta analysis
combinatorial method
combinatorial number
combinatorial optimization
combinatorial principle
combinatorial proof
combinatorial species
combinatorial synthesis
combinatorial theory
combinatorial topology
noncombinatorial
conne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: connes
form: conning
form: conned
form: conned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of con.
hysterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysterologies
Etymology: From hystero- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A scientific study, or treatise on the uterus
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: hysteron proteron
hysteron proteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteron proterons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, from ὕστερον (hústeron, “latter, arriving late”) + πρότερον (próteron, “former, before”).
Senses: examples: text: "He is well and lives" is a hysteron proteron.
glosses: A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology.
glosses: An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.
Derived terms: hystero-proterize
Related terms: put the cart before the horse
cloning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clone
cloning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: clonings
Senses: glosses: The production of an exact copy of an object.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum.
Derived terms: anticloning
multicloning
polycloning
reproductive cloning
shotgun cloning
telecloning
zoocloning
stander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstændɚ/
ipa: /ˈstændə/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: standers
Etymology: From stand + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who stands.
examples: text: the fairest standers of all, were rooted vp
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: A standel.
Derived terms: stander by
under-stander
stateroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staterooms
form: state room
form: state-room
Etymology: From state + room.
Senses: glosses: An apartment in a palace or great house for use on ceremonial occasions.
examples: text: It was not a nice cabin compared with the stateroom I had left.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A superior cabin for a ship's officer or captain.
examples: text: The King's coach includes His Majesty's suite comprising a study and stateroom with adjoining bathroom having inter-leading door. […] In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. […] Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are accommodated in one coach, and each of the two suites comprises a stateroom with its adjoining bathroom.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47:
glosses: A private cabin in a ship or train.
wubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wubbers
Senses: examples: text: Bring Fritzy sled, new wubber boots, caraway kuchen — evrysing fwat Fritzy like.
ref: 1912, Fanny Lee McKinney, Nora-Square-Accounts, page 145:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of rubber, used in representing baby talk or impedimented speech.
bitchslap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchslaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitch slap.
bitchslap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitchslaps
form: bitchslapping
form: bitchslapped
form: bitchslapped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitch slap.
waste tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waste trays
Etymology: From waste + tray.
Senses: glosses: A tray placed in such a way as to collect waste (garbage) as it is produced.
busy body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busy bodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of busybody.
yobbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yobbish
form: most yobbish
Etymology: From yob + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Yobbish behaviour can get you an ASBO.
synonyms: loutish
yobby
glosses: Characteristic of a yob, lout or hooligan.
Related terms: twattish
step-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from step down.
Senses: glosses: That decreases in stages
glosses: That reduces a voltage
raw_tags: of a transformer etc
Related terms: step-off
step down
stepped-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stepped-up
form: most stepped-up
Etymology: From step up.
Senses: examples: text: Austria is a prime destination for smuggled people heading for the heart of the EU via Hungary from the Balkans. For many migrants, the Hungarian route remains an option despite stepped-up border patrols and a steel fence built by Hungary after the EU’s 2015 migration crisis.
ref: 2023 May 23, Lisa O'Carroll, “Austria tightens border controls as Hungary frees convicted people smugglers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Increased; heightened.
Derived terms: stepped-up separation
step-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from step up.
Senses: glosses: That increases in stages.
glosses: That increases a voltage.
raw_tags: of a transformer etc
Derived terms: step-up transformer
step-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from step up.
Senses: topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
examples: text: Elsewhere in this issue, for example, an article on the new pattern of freight train operation in the N.E.R. consequent upon the opening this summer of its three mechanised marshalling yards shows that one effect will be a further step-up in the speed of the East Coast main line freight traffic.
ref: 1963 July, “News and Comment: Roller bearings for freight stock”, in Modern Railways, pages 5–6:
glosses: An increase.
stiff-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Straight-arm.
stiff-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stiff-arms
form: stiff-arming
form: stiff-armed
form: stiff-armed
Senses: examples: text: You can either have a wild, exciting life stiff-arming God or a dull, boring one doing the go-to-church-God-thing.
ref: 2003, Robert S. McGee, Jack Crabtree, The Search for Significance, page 127:
glosses: To straight-arm.
straight-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straight-arms
form: straight-arming
form: straight-armed
form: straight-armed
form: straight arm
Senses: synonyms: stiff-arm
glosses: To ward off by holding the arms out straight.
straight-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight arm
Senses: synonyms: stiff-arm
glosses: An instance of warding off by holding the arms out straight.
stolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊlɒn/
ipa: /ˈstəʊlən/
rhymes: -əʊlɒn
Forms: form: stolons
Etymology: From Latin stolō. Doublet of stole.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
Derived terms: stoloniferous
pleisiomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleisiomorphs
Etymology: From plesio- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A characteristic of an organism that has been acquired from its ancestors.
Derived terms: plesiomorphic
plesiomorphism
plesiomorphy
haricot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
Forms: form: haricots
Etymology: Borrowed from French haricot (“bean”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of common bean.
synonyms: word: common bean
Derived terms: haricot bean
haricot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.koʊ/
Forms: form: haricots
Etymology: From French haricot, from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to tear up, shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”), Old English herġian (“to lay waste, ravage, plunder”). More at harry.
Senses: glosses: A stew of lamb and vegetables.
Vitré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pre-medieval city in Brittany, France.
patte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattes
Etymology: Borrowed from French patte.
Senses: glosses: A narrow band keeping a belt or sash in its place.
threes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three
threes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The boy in his threes is just learning to talk.
glosses: The age of three; three years old.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of threes.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Three point shots.
coordinate_terms: ones
twos
fours
fives
glosses: The cells located on the second floor.
Related terms: 3s
3's
sevens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 7s
form: 7's
Senses: glosses: plural of seven
sevens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 7s
form: 7's
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Rugby sevens.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of sevens.
Derived terms: at sixes and sevens
eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eight
eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of eights.
elevens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eleven
twelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twelve
twelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: duodecimo format
Related terms: 12s
12's
thirteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirteen
fourteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourteen
Related terms: 14s
14's
fifteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fifteen
fifteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medieval tax on movable property.
sixteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixteen
seventeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seventeen
eighteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eighteen
nineteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nineteen
billions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪljənz/
rhymes: -ɪljənz
Senses: glosses: plural of billion
trillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: (hyperbolic) There were trillions of people at the concert.
glosses: plural of trillion
mutual masturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutual masturbations
Senses: examples: text: And because you have to let your guard down to let your lover see you pleasuring yourself, mutual masturbation requires trust and caring.
ref: 2004, Cynthia W. Gentry, The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: A sexual activity in which two or more persons simultaneously masturbate themselves, usually while observing or otherwise communicating with one another.
examples: text: This reasoning was used only months later in a decision that further extended common law concepts by holding mutual masturbation between two males criminal. The judge reasoned that "there can be no distinction between the case where sexual gratification is obtained by friction between the legs of another person, and the case where it is obtained by friction against another's hand."
ref: 1997, Donald James West, Richard Green, Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A sexual activity in which two or more persons simultaneously masturbate one another.
Related terms: masturbation
virtual sex
outercourse
circle jerk
kajillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kajillion
age before beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It is recorded that Mrs. Parker and a snooty debutante were both going in to supper at a party: the debutante made elaborate way, saying sweetly "Age before beauty, Mrs. Parker." "And pearls before swine," said Mrs. Parker, sweeping in.
ref: 1938 September 16, John Carter, “Best Sellers and the Atlantic”, in The Spectator, page 448:
glosses: A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones.