cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overtense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtense
form: most overtense
Etymology: From over- + tense.
Senses: glosses: Excessively tense.
overtense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtenses
form: overtensing
form: overtensed
form: overtensed
Etymology: From over- + tense.
Senses: glosses: To make too tense.
overtension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + tension.
Senses: glosses: Excessive tension.
overtension
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtensions
form: overtensioning
form: overtensioned
form: overtensioned
Etymology: From over- + tension.
Senses: glosses: To make too tense.
overtensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtension
overtensioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtension
overtenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtense
overtensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtense
overtensions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtension
overtensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtense
overetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overetches
form: overetching
form: overetched
form: overetched
Etymology: From over- + etch.
Senses: glosses: To etch too deeply.
overetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + etch.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being etched too deeply.
underetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underetches
form: underetching
form: underetched
form: underetched
Etymology: From under- + etch.
Senses: glosses: To etch too shallowly.
underetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + etch.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being etched too shallowly.
overetches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overetch
overetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overetch
underetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underetch
underetches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underetch
underetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underetch
overetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overetch
Whit Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whit Sunday
nakhes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naches.
CQAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CQA
CPFTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CPFT
guroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guroos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of guru.
guroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guroo
pentones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentone
cosmochronometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmo- + chronometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cosmochronometer or cosmochronometry.
cosmochronometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmo- + chronometry.
Senses: glosses: The use of a cosmochronometer to determine the age of an astronomical object.
kazanskyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kazansky + -ite; named in honour of Professor Vadim Ivanovich Kazansky (1926–2013), a prominent Russian ore geologist and expert on the topic of Precambrian metallogeny.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic mineral containing barium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, sodium, silicon and titanium.
lazaridisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Stathis Lazaridis (1953-2010), mineral collector who significantly contributed to the understanding of the mineral deposits around Laviron
Lazaridis + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless monoclinic mineral containing cadmium, sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Somervillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Somerville + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The project was also awarded Oxford City Council's David Steel Sustainable Building Award, being commended for its balancing of Somervillian collegiate heritage with the need for energy efficiency to be a consideration for the new building.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Somerville College, Oxford.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Somerville.
Somervillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somervillians
Etymology: From Somerville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who attends, or formerly attended, Somerville College, Oxford.
glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Somerville.
Somervillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Somervillian
nizamoffite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of James W. Nizamoff (born 1971), researcher of the mineralogy of the Palermo pegmatites at North Groton, New Hampshire, who discovered the mineral.
Nizamoff + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless orthorhombic mineral containing hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.
buttock mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttock mails
Senses: glosses: A fine imposed by the church for sexual intercourse out of wedlock.
Related terms: silver mail
shimazakiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Dr. Hidehiko Shimazaki (born 1939), professor emeritus of Tokyo University, in recognition of his contributions to skarn mineralogy
Shimazaki + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.
The Ville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Somerville. Compare The House for Christ Church and The Hall for St Edmund Hall.
Senses: qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: Somerville College, Oxford.
wikipedia: Christ Church, Oxford
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
vymazalováite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Anna Vymazalová, the Head of the Department of Rock Geochemistry at the Czech Geological Survey, Prague.
Vymazalová + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric mineral containing bismuth, sulphur, and palladium.
żabińskiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Professor Witold Żabiński (1929-2007), an eminent Polish mineralogist and co-founder and later President of the Mineralogical Society of Poland.
Żabiński + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brownish triclinic mineral containing aluminium, calcium, niobium, oxygen, silicon, and tantalum.
zaccariniite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Dr. Frederica Zaccarini of the University of Leoben, Austria for her work on chromitites and ultrabasic rocks.
Zaccarini + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey tetragonal mineral containing rhodium, nickel, and astatine.
zadovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Alexandr Efimovich Zadov (1958-2012), Russian mineralogist and mineral collecter.
Zadov + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless trigonal mineral containing barium, calcium, flourine, oxygen, phosphorus and silicon.
setting-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setting-poles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of setting pole.
zagamiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the meteorite in which it was found: Zagami Martian meteorite, Katsina State, Nigeria.
Zagami + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral of previously unknown structure containing aluminium, silicon, calcium, and oxygen.
zangboite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Yarlong Zangbo River, which flows near the type locality.
Zangbo + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey orthorhombic mineral containing silicon, titanium, and iron.
zavalíaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of María Florencia de Fátima Márquez-Zavalía (born 1955), researcher and Head of the Department of Mineralogy at the National Research Council of Argentina, for her contributions to Argentinian mineralogy.
Zavalía + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless monoclinic mineral containing oxygen, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, and iron.
reesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rank grass.
glosses: The waste land where rank grass grows.
Shetland wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thin but strong undyed worsted, spun from the wool of the sheep in the Shetland Islands, used for knitting fine shawls, etc.
Saracenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Saracen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The habits or beliefs of the Saracen people.
porrenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porrengers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of porringer.
porrengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porrenger
squat effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squat effect
rostroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rostroid
form: most rostroid
Etymology: From rostrum + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a rostrum.
pick oakum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks oakum
form: picking oakum
form: picked oakum
form: picked oakum
Senses: glosses: To make oakum by untwisting old ropes.
dog-violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-violets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dog's tooth violet.
synonyms: word: dog's tooth violet
dog-violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-violet
certificatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificatory
TTFB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of time to first byte: the time that elapses between the client making an HTTP request and receiving the first byte of the response.
Related terms: TTI
suberisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suberisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suberization.
suberisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suberisation
persiflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: persiflates
form: persiflating
form: persiflated
form: persiflated
form: persifflate
Etymology: Borrowed from French persifler, persiffler, or formed from persiflage + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Coined by British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1850 (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.
ref: 1850 August 21, William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Gordon N[orton] Ray, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume IV, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, published 1946, page 425:
text: In later school stories you get Marriott and Jimmy Silver putting their feet up and simply persiflating.
ref: 1961, Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End, London: Barrie & Jenkins, published 1976, →ISBN, page 81:
text: We shall later see, that he used the Bible (Samson series) for his fight against his Philistine in-laws, and, according to Coppier, to persiflate Rabbi Saul Levi Mortiera, who had cursed Spinoza out of the temple.
ref: 1962, Leo Balet, Rembrandt and Spinoza, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 174:
glosses: To engage in persiflage; to banter.
Related terms: persiflage
persiflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of persiflate
persiflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of persiflate
persiflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of persiflate
overbodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbody
overbodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbody
rhizotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhizotaxis.
niffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: niffers
form: niffering
form: niffered
form: niffered
Senses: examples: text: Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
glosses: To barter.
niffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niffers
Senses: glosses: An exchange.
niffers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of niffer
niffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niffer
niffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of niffer
niffered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of niffer
diathermance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diathermancy.
phonautographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the phonautograph.
crescentade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crescentades
Etymology: From crescent, a symbol of Islam; by analogy with crusade.
Senses: glosses: A religious war for Islam.
Derived terms: crescentader
crescentades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crescentade
drap de Berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drap-de-Berry
Etymology: Borrowed from French drap de Berry.
Senses: glosses: A kind of woollen cloth imported from Berry in France.
pass round the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes round the hat
form: passing round the hat
form: passed round the hat
form: passed round the hat
Senses: examples: text: If he declined to help, could she pass round the hat among staff members? Maggie on her part would try to get some help from her mother.
ref: 2012, Catherine Lim, Miss Seetoh in the World, page 105:
glosses: To beg for contributions; to take up a collection.
INTERCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of International Code of Signals.
Remonstrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Remonstrants
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.
Senses: topics: Christianity
Protestantism
glosses: A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.
Derived terms: anti-Remonstrant
Remonstrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Remonstrant
Remonstrantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Remonstrant + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religious beliefs of the Remonstrants.
diapnoics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diapnoic
pompelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompelos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pomelo (“grapefruit”).
pluffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluffy
form: most pluffy
Etymology: From pluff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Madame Navarre came bustling through the rear door, a pluffy, busy woman in a large white apron, […]
ref: 1954, Margaret Cooper Gay, Hatchet in the Sky, page 166:
glosses: puffy; blown out
Derived terms: pluffily
pluffiness
strigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strig
strigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strig
neolactoseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neolacto-series.
molluseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mollu-series.
sociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociations
Senses: examples: text: While the lowest units of phytocoenoses, the sociations, are founded upon a relative homogeneity in all layers, most consociations are homogeneous only in one layer, and the higher units in no layer at all, being founded mainly upon the sociological affinity of the dominants of the layer arbitrarily chosen as the base for the classification (most of the highest of the layers represented).
ref: 1930, Fifth International Botanical Congress, page 73:
text: In the classification, sociations are first distinguished by the dominant or constant species, or by a combination of them.
ref: 1980, Selected Water Resources Abstracts:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant community.
examples: text: But as I chose to classify sociations, or rather associations in topographical terms, it was obviously necessary to separate the C. Bigelowii myri from the dry-ground sociations in which it is a dominant species.
ref: 1975, Steindór Steindórsson frá Hlöðum, Studies on the mire-vegetation of Iceland, page 99:
text: Therefore a comparative analysis and a classification of bog plant communities must be undertaken on the basis of sociations.
ref: 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, →ISBN, page 124:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stable interactions and influences among the species within a coenose.
examples: text: Risk cultures lie in non-institutional and anti-institutional sociations.
ref: 2000, Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, Joost Van Loon, The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Sociation is neither the cause nor the consequence of society; it is society.
ref: 2010, Alex Law -, Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory, →ISBN:
text: Basically, this entailed the formal study of human interaction, including the ways in which this interaction generates institutions, hierarchies, and structures of subjectivity, in a word, various forms of sociation.
ref: 2013, Stefan Jonsson, Crowds and Democracy, →ISBN:
text: However, all of them – from the simplest to the most meticulously regulated forms of social interaction – can be assessed as modalities of sociation.
ref: 2018, Gregor Fitzi, The Challenge of Modernity: Simmel’s Sociological Theory, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Interactions and relationships among people.
sociations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociation
lacto-series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lactoseries.
lacto series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lactoseries.
alingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Using no language.
archists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archist
aniconist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aniconists
Etymology: From an- + icon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As can be legitimately surmised the aniconists must have rejected those texts which to them appeared to support Iconolatory, but from the point of view of the evolution of Jaina thought the texts rejected by them deserve as serious notice as those accepted by them.
ref: 1971, Krishna Kumar Dixit, Jaina Ontology, page 2:
text: But idolatry means more than iconism. It is a polemical term which expresses a strong cultural/religious abomination and anxiety. With the term "idolatry," the "aniconists" refer to the "iconists" as the group where the strongest menace resides.
ref: 2009, Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian, →ISBN, page 42:
text: According to the aniconists, images idolize the world and blind the eyes from being able to look beyond the world and focus on the creator.
ref: 2011, Josh Ellenbogen, Aaron Tugendhaft, Idol Anxiety, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A proponent of aniconism.
aniconist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aniconist
form: most aniconist
Etymology: From an- + icon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Islam was as fanatically monotheist and aniconist as any Jew could desire, and the sensational successes of its devotees in the military — and soon also in the missionary — field gave Christendom something new to think about.
ref: 1946, Arnold Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell, A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols I-VI:
text: Needless to say, figural expression about, and emerging from, a Muslim cultural context do not necessarily address, negotiate, or react to, aniconist claims.
ref: 2008, Lars Eckstein, Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker, Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+:, →ISBN:
text: However, given the attempts to enshrine the Holocaust in the shroud of aniconism (as is evident from the ferocity of the debates surrounding Adorno), it also suggests the potential of Zionis cultural outputs to liberate Holocaust representation from the restrictive framework of aniconist tendencies.
ref: 2015, Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling, Visualizing Jews Through the Ages, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to aniconism.
aniconists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aniconist
galaseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gala-series.
arthroseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arthro-series.
limerod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limerods
Etymology: From Middle English lymrod, equivalent to lime + rod.
Senses: glosses: A twig or stick smeared with birdlime
Synonyms: limetwig
limeyard
limerods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limerod
limetwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limetwigs
Etymology: From Middle English lime-twig, equivalent to lime + twig.
Senses: glosses: A twig smeared with birdlime, used to catch or snare birds
glosses: A snare; a trick or device
Synonyms: limerod
limetwig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: limetwigs
form: limetwigging
form: limetwigged
form: limetwigged
Etymology: From Middle English lime-twig, equivalent to lime + twig.
Senses: glosses: To beset with limetwigs or snares; to entangle or impede
limetwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limetwig
limetwigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limetwig
limetwigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limetwig
limeyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limeyards
Etymology: From Middle English limȝerd, equivalent to lime + yard (“rod, stick”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of limerod.
synonyms: word: limerod
limeyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limeyards
Etymology: From lime + yard (“area, space, enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: An area where lime is mined, processed, or kept
limeyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limeyard
somniates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of somniate
somniating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of somniate
somniated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of somniate
ladder beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladder beam
ladderbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladderbeam
whistleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From whistle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a whistle.
attaca
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of attacca.
premiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of premiate
premiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of premiate
dandyess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandyesses
Etymology: From dandy + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Here should the laced, straitened and waisted dandy or dandyess, whose beau-ideal of figure rests within the narrow span of slimness, and to whom any other view of the body is out of taste, out of conception, impossible -- here should they learn, while studying the flow and superfluity of a more polished age than their own, to doubt, at least, their sovereign and exclusive right to rack, and wrench, and torture poor human nature.
ref: 1824, John Banim, Revelations of the dead-alive [by J. Banim]., pages 56–57:
text: It would seem that a compromise has been made between the dandys and dandyesses, and that bustles are undergoing a sensible reduction.
ref: 1852, Joseph Jones, Major Jones's Courtship:
text: Some of the young dandies and dandyesses allow the hair to grow long, and when thickly anointed and brushed straight in all directions, the expression of the face becomes singularly wild and savage: such a head would make a capital sign for the Sun Fire and Life Office.
ref: 1869, William Henry Harvey, Memoir of W. H. Harvey:
synonyms: word: dandizette
word: quaintrelle
antonyms: word: puritan
word: untidy person
glosses: A female dandy.
Synonyms: word: dandizette
word: dandyess
word: dudelet
word: quaintrelle
Hypernyms: word: woman
word: fashionable person
Hyponyms: word: hijabista
Coordinate terms: word: dandy
Related terms: word: coquette
word: flirt
word: vamp
dandyesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandyess
dandizettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandizette
dandizette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandizettes
Etymology: From dandy + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The accompanying cut is from a rather broadly caricatured print of a dandizette of the year 1819.
ref: 1849, Thomas II Wright, England Under the House of Hanover:
text: A witch, be it understood, Funny and fair and good, Tiny and pretty and jolly; A love, a sweet, a prize, a pet, An airy, fairy dandizette, A maid of honor to Cupid god, A fairy girl of the period, A wee little lady of delicate breeding, Foreign to horror and melancholy, and guiltless of any uncanny proceeding.
ref: 1871, The Atlantic - Volume 27, page 162:
text: Men are, perhaps, slower in following new modes than women, and more averse to making themselves ridiculous ; but a dandy is an inferior specimen of human nature to a dandizette — as some old song calls the female of the species.
ref: 1871, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 33, page 98:
text: His pantomimic colloquies with the other sex, too, were inimitable - his mincing affectation, when addressing a dandizette; his broad bold style, when making love to a fisherwoman - were all true to Nature.
ref: 1969, John Russell Brown, Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, page 111:
synonyms: word: dandyess
word: quaintrelle
word: dandizette
word: dandyess
word: dudelet
word: quaintrelle
antonyms: word: puritan
word: untidy person
glosses: A female dandy.
ulwaluko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Xhosa ritual of circumcision and initiation into manhood.
invigorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invigorants
Etymology: From in- + vigor + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: CONCENTRATED PHOSOGEN, absolutely pure, the most perfect nervous invigorant in the world, for physicians' and druggists' use, in pound flasks; $5 each, per dozen $40.
ref: 1869, Love and its hidden history:
text: Recreation is a soul invigorant, and reinforces and accentuates the best form of rest.
ref: 1898, The Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner - Volume 5:
text: Religion serves as a guide, as nourishment, as invigorant to good education.
ref: 2000, Corona S. Romera, Julita R. Sta. Romana, Lourdes Y. Santos, Rizal & the Dev. Of National Consciousness, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Our men had set out suddenly and without preparation, and thus the large ration of the enemy, crackers and bacon, was a real invigorant for them.
ref: 2009, Justus Scheibert, William Stanley Hoole, Robert K. Krick, Seven Months in the Rebel States During the North American War, 1863, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that invigorates.
invigorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invigorant
form: most invigorant
Etymology: From in- + vigor + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Such was the case with some moralist in the Putnam Patriot, who said : " Equestrians and bicvclists are multiplying in this town, and either are a pleasant sight and is verv invigorant, healthful exercise."
ref: 1888, The Writer - Volume 1, page 25:
text: Cases requiring invigorant, tonic treatment will respond gratefull to the use of Elixir Kola Comp.
ref: 1894, Therapeutic Notes - Volumes 1-11, page 16:
text: The very air is invigorant; fragrant from the harvest, spiced with wood smoke, bracing from the first frosts, scintillant with the glorious sunshine that fills the shortening autumn days with splendor and makes thin and luminous the attending shadow.
ref: 1928, W.E. Blackburn, “October in Kansas”, in Kansas Facts; a Year Book of the State, page 277:
glosses: Synonym of invigorating.
synonyms: word: invigorating
invigorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invigorant
Spanevello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spanevellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Spanevello.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Spanevellos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanevello
brunaille
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French brunaille, from brun (“brown”). Compare grisaille.
Senses: examples: text: A corporate desire for identity and recognition also helps to explain the unusual coincidence of a traditional brunaille exterior in conjunction with a crowded, lively, visually striking interior painted in the most novel, fashionable, local style.
ref: 1984, Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys, page 48:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Consisting of shades of brown, painted or executed with shades of brown, brown monochrome.
brunaille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brunailles
Etymology: From French brunaille, from brun (“brown”). Compare grisaille.
Senses: examples: text: Genre paintings in grisaille (grey monochrome) or brunaille (brown monochrome) by Adriaen van de Venne represent a special chapter in Dutch art history.
ref: 1986, Görel Cavalli-Björkman, Dutch and Flemish Paintings, volume 2, page 483:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A method of painting or other work that uses shades of brown primarily or exclusively.
examples: text: Paintings of this kind are known as brunailles – by analogy with grisailles, which are paintings done mainly in grey.
ref: 1996, Jeroen Giltaij, Jan Kelch, Praise of Ships and the Sea: The Dutch Marine Painters of the 17th Century, page 370:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artwork or study executed in this style.
canticoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantico
pactioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paction
pactioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paction
peedie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peedie
form: most peedie
form: peedy
Etymology: Scots peedie, alteration of peerie.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny, I just can't resist them peedie white socks with the blue ring round the tops.
ref: 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 66:
glosses: Small, little.
gunate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuneɪt/
Forms: form: gunates
form: gunating
form: gunated
form: gunated
Etymology: From guna + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To lengthen the simple vowel a, i, u, or ṛ by prefixing an a element through gunating.
Derived terms: gunation
Burtonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Burtonizes
form: Burtonizing
form: Burtonized
form: Burtonized
Etymology: From the English town of Burton upon Trent, known for pale ales brewed from water rich in mineral salts, + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: ... of many thousand gallons of Burtonized water being daily pumped up from the beds, and allowed to run off without being applied to any special purpose.
ref: 1897, The Mining Engineer, page 112:
text: [...] producing a more acid beer; adding hydrochloric or sulphuric or lactic acid simultaneously removes carbonates and "Burtonizes" the water. Acidifying wort by adding acidic malt and acidic malt extract to the copper changes buffering only [...]
ref: 1952, Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Great Britain:
text: It has a pale chestnut colour with a herbal, spicy and fresh tobacco aroma with rye bread malt and a powerful sulphur note: the brewing water is Burtonized. The palate is bittersweet with rich biscuit malt, [...]
ref: 2018, Roger Protz, IPA: A legend in our time, →ISBN:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: To enrich (water) with mineral salts, especially for brewing alcohol.
wikipedia: Burton upon Trent
Burtonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Burtonize
Burtonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Burtonize
Burtonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Burtonize
play the man and not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the man and not the ball
form: playing the man and not the ball
form: played the man and not the ball
form: played the man and not the ball
form: play the man
form: play the man, not the ball
form: play the man not the ball
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.
examples: text: ""What we are seeing is an orchestrated campaign from the Labor Party to try to play the man and not the ball," he said... "[And] this is the kind of personal attack that we are going to see from the Labor Party right up until polling day.""
ref: 2010 April 1, “Abbott denies trying to soften his image”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, retrieved 27 Aug 2018:
text: "“Claims that the words meant anything other than the “ultimate solution” to any political question is always a popular vote are simply ridiculous,” Anning said... “As I called for a plebiscite on the immigration mix, this baseless and ridiculous criticism is simply an effort to play the man and not the ball”."
ref: 2018 August 14, Katharine Murphy, Amy Remeikis, “Australian senator calls for 'final solution to immigration problem'”, in The Guardian, retrieved 27 Aug 2018:
glosses: To object to someone's argument by attacking them or a facet of their personality instead of the argument itself; to make an ad hominem attack.
Related terms: don't hate the player, hate the game
play the ball and not the man
bet the jockey, not the horse
plays the man and not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the man and not the ball
playing the man and not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the man and not the ball
played the man and not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the man and not the ball
play the man, not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the man, not the ball
form: playing the man, not the ball
form: played the man, not the ball
form: played the man, not the ball
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the man and not the ball.
plays the man, not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the man, not the ball
playing the man, not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the man, not the ball
played the man, not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the man, not the ball
play the man not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the man not the ball
form: playing the man not the ball
form: played the man not the ball
form: played the man not the ball
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the man and not the ball.
plays the man not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the man not the ball
playing the man not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the man not the ball
played the man not the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the man not the ball
play the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the man
form: playing the man
form: played the man
form: played the man
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the man and not the ball.
plays the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the man
playing the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the man
played the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the man
norad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of noradrenaline.
Related terms: norepi
pneumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pneumothorax.
Derived terms: tension pneumo
Related terms: Strep pneumo
aortic regurg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Aortic regurgitation.
tension pneumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tension pneumothorax.
mitral regurg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Mitral regurgitation.
orthogeris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Orthogeriatrics.
T-spine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-spines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The thoracic spine.
L-spine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: L-spines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The lumbar spine.
circumvoluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumvolute
circumvoluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumvolute
circumvolutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumvolute
vas cath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vascath
form: vas-cath
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: “Vascular access catheter”, a specialised central venous catheter used in dialysis.
permacath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permacaths
form: permcath
Etymology: Blend of permanent + catheter.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A long-term haemodialysis catheter which achieves venous access most commonly through the internal jugular vein.
hormogonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hormogonium.
neorectums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neorectum
play the ball and not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the ball and not the man
form: playing the ball and not the man
form: played the ball and not the man
form: played the ball and not the man
form: play the ball
form: play the ball, not the man
form: play the ball not the man
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To attack the ball instead of an opponent who is usually controlling the ball. Often considered a positive action, and sometimes a requirement not to concede a penalty.
examples: text: 2016 Gareth van Zyl, "Stop lying about me, Johann Rupert tells Julius Malema" fin24, 10 November 2016. Accessed 27 August 2018.
"Billionaire Johann Rupert has called on politicians to play the ball and not the man in his acceptance of the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Lifetime Achievement Award... “Why attack people instead of debating the issue? Our issues are unemployment and a terrible educational system. It is a disaster,” said Rupert."
text: "‘I would always try and play the ball and not the man when it comes to these things... I think to get personal about it is not helpful at all.’"
ref: 2018 April 9, Tom Herbert, “Boris Johnson calling Corbyn Russia’s ‘useful idiot’ was ‘not helpful at all’”, in Metro, retrieved 27 Aug 2018:
glosses: To object to someone's argument by attacking the argument itself instead of them or a facet of their personality; to avoid or make the opposite of an ad hominem attack. Usually considered a positive action, and an avoidance of a fallacious argumentative technique. Often used in comparison to play the man and not the ball.
Related terms: play the man and not the ball
uroseptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or suffering from urosepsis.
urosepticemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urosepticaemia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Septicemia of urological origin.
hepatotoxicosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Hepatic dysfunction caused by hepatotoxins.
neurotoxicosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Neurological dysfunction caused by neurotoxins.
plays the ball and not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the ball and not the man
pes excavatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of pectus excavatum.
pes carinatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of pectus carinatum.
playing the ball and not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the ball and not the man
played the ball and not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the ball and not the man
ascitic tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascitic taps
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Peritoneocentesis.
peritoneocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritoneocenteses
Etymology: From peritoneo- + -centesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abdominal paracentesis.
pleural tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleural taps
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Thoracentesis; thoracocentesis.
pericardial tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericardial taps
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pericardiocentesis.
play the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the ball
form: playing the ball
form: played the ball
form: played the ball
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the ball and not the man.
play the ball, not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the ball, not the man
form: playing the ball, not the man
form: played the ball, not the man
form: played the ball, not the man
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the ball and not the man.
play the ball not the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the ball not the man
form: playing the ball not the man
form: played the ball not the man
form: played the ball not the man
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play the ball and not the man.
panniculosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A noninflammatory condition characterised by broad, flat thickening of the subcutaneous tissue.
Related terms: panniculitis
coroner's clot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coroner's clots
Etymology: Often discovered on post mortems.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An occult blood clot in the nasopharynx formed after surgery or trauma that has the potential to cause fatal airway obstruction following extubation or removal of the laryngeal mask airway.
prostitute's pupil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostitute's pupils
Etymology: From the notional similarity in behaviour: both (the pupil and prostitute) accommodate but do not react. In the case of the pupil, it is reacting to light; and in the case of the latter, it is to the client.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Argyll Robertson pupil, a characteristic sign in syphilitic eye disease.
bisepoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisepoxides
Etymology: From bis- + epoxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of diepoxide.
synonyms: word: diepoxide
bradoriid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bradoriids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct marine arthropod of the order Bradoriida
bradoriids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bradoriid
bronchoconstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broncho- + constricted.
Senses: glosses: Affected by bronchoconstriction
calviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of claviform.
carbapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbapatites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbonated form of apatite
carbinolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbinolamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-carbonyl derivative of a hemiaminal R-CH(OH)-NH-CO-R'
Related terms: carbinolamine
carboplatinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carboplatin.
carboxylbenzoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carboxyl derivative of a benzoyl group
cerebellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cerebella.
chemoresponses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoresponse
authority figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authority figures
Senses: glosses: Someone who is in a position of authority.
Related terms: father figure
role model