cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
posterolaterodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + laterodorsal.
Senses: examples: text: A, occipital region in posterolaterodorsal view.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior and laterodorsal
presacrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Janensch [5 ] identified them simply as being presacrals; he referred specifically to the vertebrae in block III as trunk vertebrae but did not identify their position more specifically.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of presacral
pseudogenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudogene + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Nucleotide sequences for coding genes were translated to check for pseudogenation in MEGA [24 ].
ref: 2015 September 10, “Uncovering Cryptic Parasitoid Diversity in Horismenus (Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The formation of pseudogenes
subadjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + adjacent.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, the iridophores, which are neurally controlled structural reflectors [21 ,22 ] that lie subadjacent to the chromatophore layer [3 ,23 ], do not bind any of the antibodies we used.
ref: 2015 September 10, “An Unexpected Diversity of Photoreceptor Classes in the Longfin Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: underneath and adjacent
Synonyms: subjacent
subcanopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcanopies
Etymology: From sub- + canopy.
Senses: examples: text: Arrows indicate separated values for the Fitzroya stand only and the Nothofagus dominated subcanopy forests in AA. FC: Fitzroya cupressoides, NN: Nothofagus nitida, DW: Drimys winteri, LP: Laureliopsis philippiana, MC: Myrceugenia chrysocarpa, SC: Saxegothaea conspicua.
ref: 2015 September 10, “The Oldest, Slowest Rainforests in the World? Massive Biomass and Slow Carbon Dynamics of Fitzroya cupressoides Temperate Forests in Southern Chile”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The section of a forest immediately beneath the canopy
subcapital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + capital.
Senses: examples: text: Main experiments were performed using bone marrow obtained from the femoral head at the time of surgery for total hip replacement of seven patients with osteoarthritis (six males and one female. Median age 77 years, range [59–82]) and six healthy donors suffering traumatic subcapital fracture (one male and five females. Median age 82 years, range [64–92]), OA diagnosis was established according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Altered Expression of Wnt Signaling Pathway Components in Osteogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Osteoarthritis Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the head of a long bone (especially the femur).
subcapital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcapitals
Etymology: From sub- + capital.
Senses: examples: text: In every district there is a “sudder station” or capital, […] In addition to these 224 official subcapitals, there are other large towns at which small European communities may be found, and also a few large military stations where a settlement of civilians is nearly always found in addition to the military residents.
ref: 1884, J. M. Thoburn, “The Anglo-Saxon Dispersion”, in My Missionary Apprenticeship, New York: Phillips & Hunt, page 408:
glosses: A secondary or regional capital; the capital of a subdivision.
subthecodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + thecodont.
Senses: examples: text: Tooth implantation is subthecodont as μCT images show that the teeth sit in shallow sockets (but see below).
ref: 2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Its Relevance for the Origin of Sauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located in shallow sockets
raw_tags: of teeth
thermoprogrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoprogrammers
Etymology: From thermo- + programmer.
Senses: examples: text: The measurements were performed for nine different concentrations of each sample in the concentration range of 10 −4 –10 -6 M. Melting curves were obtained using the UV melting method at 260 nm in the temperature range of 3–93°C with a heating rate of 1°C/min on a JASCO V-650 spectrophotometer equipped with a thermoprogrammer.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Hybridization Properties of RNA Containing 8-Methoxyguanosine and 8-Benzyloxyguanosine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A thermal programmer (device that programs the temperature over time).
tritrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌɪˈtɹəʊ.fɪk/
ipa: /tɹʌɪˈtɹɒf.ɪk/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈtɹoʊ.fɪk/
rhymes: -əʊfɪk
rhymes: -ɒfɪk
Etymology: From tri- (“three”) + -trophic (“relating to feeding and nutrition”), from Ancient Greek τροφικός (trophikós, “nursing, tending”), from τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment, food”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”).
Senses: examples: text: The spatial overlap between bean species and bruchine hosts, together with the great morphological similarity among the Horismenus species, has made the study of the ecology and population genetics of this tritrophic system difficult.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Uncovering Cryptic Parasitoid Diversity in Horismenus (Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite that feeds on a third parasite.
Related terms: bitrophic
ultrasonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrasonifications
Senses: examples: text: The pre-treatment of samples included suspension in sodium hexametaphosphate (5 g/L) for 12 hours and 60 seconds of ultrasonification in the micro-granulometer to achieve optimal dispersion.
ref: 2015 September 10, “Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: ultrasonication
who's on first
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: who's on firsts
form: Who's on First
form: who's-on-first
Etymology: From "Who's on First?", a comic routine from 1930s vaudeville made famous by Abbott and Costello, in which two people discussing a baseball team become confused by names such as "Who" and "What".
Senses: examples: text: This pride of sponsorship, rather than pride of rating, seems to have been lost in the welter of decimal points and who's-on-firsts.
ref: 1965, Saturday Review:
text: With that, you'll know she knows how you feel — which relieves you of the supposed-tos, the what-ifs, the what's-my-moves and the who's-on-firsts, and frees you just to see how it all turns out.
ref: 2009 October 11, Caroline Hax, “Dad's views threaten family peace”, in Times Union:
text: “Goddess, Mistress. I'm sorry, Mistress.” I felt a who's-on-first moment coming on.
ref: 2010, Antonia Everett, Cruel Beauty: Confessions of a Dominatrix, John Mendelsohn, →ISBN:
text: But Rose interprets the remark as a statement that the girl is having a party herself, which leads to a “Who's on first?” comedy of errors.
ref: 2013, Martha P. Nochimson, David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:
text: This 'who's on first' conversation continued, both of us getting more and more frustrated than the other, until it hit me.
ref: 2013, Simon Pont, Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
text: (The Japanese car model is a Sosumi, as we learn in a Who's on First? comic exchange; Gribble recently dealt with a case involving an Isuyu.)
ref: 2015, Steven Moore, William Gaddis: Expanded Edition, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: A situation in which confusion arises due to homophones and similar misunderstandings.
definitive agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: definitive agreements
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A document defining the final terms of an agreement between buyer and seller, typically of a company's assets or stock.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see definitive, agreement.
Synonyms: stock purchase agreement
definitive merger agreement
inconstructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + constructible.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be constructed.
lastminutitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From last minute + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Alastair Campbell described lastminutitis at conference, with Tony Blair storming around shouting “Where’s the fucking speech?”
ref: 2015 October 5, Simon Lancaster, “In need of a perfect conference speech, David Cameron? Here’s the recipe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The tendency to leave the completion of tasks to the last minute.
recentralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + centralisation.
Senses: examples: text: In 2012 a better financial agreement between Catalonia and Spain was also refused, and a recentralisation of previously devolved powers began in earnest.
ref: 2015 October 5, Artur Mas, “The Catalan people have spoken. Will the Spanish government listen?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of recentralization.
Kalamata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of the regional unit of Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Kalamatianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek καλαματιανός (kalamatianós).
Senses: examples: text: Her relative stood dumbfounded, cried out incredulously, wheeled about with his clenched fists raised in the air, performed three steps of a kalamatianos for sheer joy, and then rocked her in his arms exclaiming ‘Efkharisto, efkharisto,’ over and over again.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 82:
glosses: A Greek folk dance from the Peloponnese.
Related terms: Kalamata
antigame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigames
Etymology: From anti- + game.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, antigames such as Progress Quest and Achievement Unlocked don't appeal to players through high levels of playability. On the contrary: they are played by parodically minded users who don't mind sacrificing their usual gaming experience for various degrees of humorous self-reflexivity and self-criticism.
ref: 2014, Astrid Ensslin, Literary Gaming, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Just like in Arcangel's work, we are confronted with an antigame: all the interactivity and stress in the game are removed, and we experience a calm and meditative atmosphere.
ref: 2014, Mathias Jansson, Everything I Shoot Is Art, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: As one site explained: 'We were going to refer to Dungeon Keeper as a non-game, but that's not really accurate. It's an antigame. It is purposefully designed not to require thought[.]"
ref: 2015, Colin Cremin, Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari: Towards an Affective Theory of Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A game which cannot be played in the conventional sense.
examples: text: The principle is the same as in kicking the provocative boxer or using strategic weapons in response to a tactical nuclear challenge. A strategy designed for refusing to play a game might be called an antigame strategy.
ref: 1962, Klaus Eugen Knorr, Limited strategic war:
text: When capacity to respond to any aggression at a corresponding level of violence does not exist, the strategy of antigame is recommended.
ref: 1966, Y. Harkabi, Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Should either side adopt an uncooperative or "antigame" stance and attempt to destroy its opponent's high command, then the strategy defeats itself and the side that attempted to maintain communications and hold the door open for war termination is disadvantaged.
ref: 1988, Stephen J. Cimbala, Rethinking Nuclear Strategy, Scholarly Resources, Incorporated:
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A strategy in which a player refuses to participate in a game or replaces it with a game with different rules.
pee-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pee
child-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more child-like
form: most child-like
Senses: examples: text: When a child, with child-like apprehensions, that dived not below the surface of the matter, I read those Parables—not guessing at their involved wisdom—I had more yearnings towards that simple architect, that built his house upon the sand, than I entertained for his more cautious neighbour; […]
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “All Fools’ Day”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: There is no frightful guest in the house, but only a poor, gentle, child-like man, whom I believe to be Cousin Hepzibah’s brother.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon of To-day”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Alternative spelling of childlike.
sharpliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sharply: most sharply
sharplier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sharply: more sharply
rareliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rarely: most rarely
rarelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rarely: more rarely
wit'
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: I want da two of youse to stay here. Wit' me.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of with.
fo'ever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forever.
forevuh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forever.
ever'body
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everybody.
e'rybody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everybody.
every body
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Afraid of every body, ashamed of herself, and longing for the home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely speak to be heard, or without crying.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of everybody.
examples: text: 142.5 Disposition after dissection. The remains of every body received for scientific purposes under this chapter shall be decently buried or cremated after it has been used for said purposes, and a failure to do so shall be a misdemeanor.
ref: 1947, The Department of Health, compiler, Health Laws, Opinions and Court Decisions, Des Moines, Ia.: The State of Iowa, page 34:
text: Nevertheless – all William’s enquiries were channeled through the presidential office – the authorities were anxious to exhume every body buried since the coup and arrange them for inspection.
ref: 1990, Alan Judd, Tango, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 291:
text: “He wants to donate his body to science. Apparently they only take skinny bodies…something about it being hard to store human fat. It’s odd. I would have thought every body was of some use or interest to science.”
ref: 2017, Sulari Gentill, Crossing the Lines, Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body.
wahter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wahters
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of water.
wahtuh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wahtuhs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of water.
Abaré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Abaré.
Senses: examples: text: The Itapecerica Reservoir has 150 km dimension in east-west direction, from Jatobá and Petrolândia districts until Belém do São Francisco in Pernambuco State and Glória, Rodelas, Chorrochó and Abaré in Bahia State.
ref: 2007, Günter Gunkel, Reservoir and River Basin Management: Exchange and Experiences from Brazil, Portugal and Germany, Univerlagtuberlin, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Abaíra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Abaíra.
Senses: examples: text: Cleistes pluriflora is common in the Chapada Diamantina, and has been found in the municípios of Abaíra, Barra da Estiva, Mucugê and Rio de Contas […]
ref: 2005, Antonio Toscano de Brito, Phillip Cribb, Orquídeas da Chapada Diamantina, Editora Nova Fronteira, page 328:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Andorinha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Andorinha.
Senses: examples: text: Geographically, 89.7% of the reserves are located in the State of Bahia, in the municipalities of Campo Formoso, Andorinha, Cansanção, Monte Santo, Uauá and Santa Luz.
ref: 2007, International Business Publications, Brazil Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide, International Business Publications, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Araci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
FFB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of force feedback.
FFB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of frum from birth.
Barra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɹə/
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹə/
rhymes: -æɹə
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Barraigh.
Senses: glosses: An island of Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Barra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɹə/
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹə/
rhymes: -æɹə
Etymology: From Portuguese Barra.
Senses: glosses: A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.
Barra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɹə/
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹə/
rhymes: -æɹə
Etymology: From the creolized trade language of the river Gambia.
Senses: examples: text: I got used to seeing Lamin’s disembodied head in a corner, smiling at me, streaming at us live from, I presumed, the only internet café in Barra.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 300–301:
glosses: A place in the Gambia.
Barra da Estiva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Barra da Estiva.
Senses: examples: text: Cleistes pluriflora is common in the Chapada Diamantina, and has been found in the municípios of Abaíra, Barra da Estiva, Mucugê and Rio de Contas […]
ref: 2005, Antonio Toscano de Brito, Phillip Cribb, Orquídeas da Chapada Diamantina, Editora Nova Fronteira, page 328:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
connectology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connect + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: This system became the predominant peritoneal dialysis (PD) connectology over the next few years.
ref: 2012, Ing Todd S, Dialysis: History, Development And Promise, page 570:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The configuration according to which devices, tubes, etc. are connected.
Camacan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil
Campo Formoso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Campo Formoso.
Senses: examples: text: In Bahia, chromite was discovered near Santa Luzia in 1906, in the Cascabulhos range near Campo Formoso in 1907, and at Boa Vista in the vicinity of Satide during 1919.
ref: 1988, Michael H. Silk, World chromite resources and ferrochromium production, Council for Mineral Technology, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Geographically, 89.7% of the reserves are located in the State of Bahia, in the municipalities of Campo Formoso, Andorinha, Cansanção, Monte Santo, Uauá and Santa Luz.
ref: 2007, International Business Publications, Brazil Mineral & Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide, International Business Publications, →ISBN, page 82:
text: In May 1999 the Portuguese cement maker Cimpor announced plans to invest U.S.$130 million to expand output at its factory in Campo Formoso in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
ref: 2009, Thomas Andrew O'Keefe, Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements: Keys to a Prosperous Community of the Americas, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
graphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphist
stylewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From style + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: And then there was Jimmy Gourley, who admired Lester enormously and could play back all of Prez's solos; stylewise, he played exactly like Lester.
ref: 1993, Luc Delannoy, Pres: the story of Lester Young, page 204:
glosses: In terms of style.
berserkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From berserk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe the bingeable series will become television’s preferred mode of storytelling, and maybe it will simply get stranger and stranger until it goes away: The sheer berserkness of “Sense8,” the Wachowski siblings’ globe-trotting Netflix soap opera, suggests that a certain fin de siècle decadence may already be setting in.
ref: 2015 October 3, Terrence Rafferty, “New Twists for the TV Plot, as Viewer Habits Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being berserk.
bingeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bingeable
form: most bingeable
Etymology: From binge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe the bingeable series will become television’s preferred mode of storytelling, and maybe it will simply get stranger and stranger until it goes away: The sheer berserkness of “Sense8,” the Wachowski siblings’ globe-trotting Netflix soap opera, suggests that a certain fin de siècle decadence may already be setting in.
ref: 2015 October 3, Terrence Rafferty, “New Twists for the TV Plot, as Viewer Habits Change”, in New York Times:
text: As I tore through the 10 episodes of this (admittedly) very bingeable show, I had the dawning realization that it seems to hate not only Jewish women.
ref: 2024 October 5, Jessica Grose, “‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: On which one can binge.
make this world go around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes this world go around
form: making this world go around
form: made this world go around
form: made this world go around
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make the world go around.
make this world go round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes this world go round
form: making this world go round
form: made this world go round
form: made this world go round
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make the world go around.
e'rything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of everything.
ev'rything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
evrything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of everything.
everbody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of everybody.
some body
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of somebody.
examples: text: It made me think of my springer spaniel, Effie. I hadn’t thought that much about Effie, and I suddenly missed her. They’d brought her to see me one time at the hospital, to try to cheer me up, but Effie hadn’t recognized me. To her, I was just some body lying in a weird-smelling room who didn’t even scratch her.
ref: 1998, Travis Roy with E[dward] M[cKelvy] Swift, Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 88:
text: It is now clear that the death of a loved one is to be understood as a mobile internal theater, virtually unrelated to some body lying in a coffin, and that this process of leave-taking is dreadfully unruly.
ref: 2003, Arnold Weinstein, A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 316:
text: I looked at her lying there, so still and unmoving, her lovely face broken into pieces under the bandage. […] I was about to launch into the New Year’s Day annual Polar Bear Club Swim, a tradition clearly for lunatics, in the icy Atlantic waters of Coney Island, the freezing cold of Lake Michigan in Chicago and off the coast of Vancouver in the frigid Pacific, when suddenly I looked down and really saw her as Donna, not some body lying in a bed, designed to add to my general discomfort on earth.
ref: 2010, Diane Meier, The Season of Second Chances: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, body.
some-body
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of somebody.
sombody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of somebody.
sumbody
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
sumbuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
filmise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filmises
form: filmising
form: filmised
form: filmised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filmize.
Amram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Amram, from Ancient Greek Ἀμβράμ (Ambrám), from Biblical Hebrew עַמְרָם (ʕamrɔm).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the father of Moses
Central
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
examples: text: The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
ref: 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, In Transit:
text: Last month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central.[…]
British fashion brand Topshop will open a 14,000 sq ft store in Central in June, paying $516,000 a month in rent.
ref: 2013 May 20, Donny Kwok, Lavinia Mo, Yimou Lee, Twinnie Siu, “On fleeting Hong Kong trips, Chinese make frugal fashionable”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Miral Fahmy, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024, Business:
text: Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.
ref: 2015 October 2, Emily Rauhala, “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, one year later”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2015, World:
text: For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.
ref: 2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2016:
text: The sale of The Center, a 73-storey building in Hong Kong’s bustling Central district, surpassed a transaction earlier this year, where a prime commercial lot — occupied by a multi-storey car park also in Central — was sold off for HK$23.28 billion by the government to Henderson Land, which is owned by the city’s second richest man, Lee Shau-kee.
ref: 2017 November 1, “Li Ka-shing’s Central skyscraper The Center sold for record HK$40.2 bn”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2025, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
glosses: The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
glosses: A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
hackette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackettes
Etymology: From hack + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female hack (inferior journalist).
hackettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackette
haddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hadst.
hadjee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadjees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hajji.
hadjees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadjee
bushpig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushpigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bush pig.
bushpigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushpig
Chorrochó
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Chorrochó.
Senses: examples: text: The Itapecerica Reservoir has 150 km dimension in east-west direction, from Jatobá and Petrolândia districts until Belém do São Francisco in Pernambuco State and Glória, Rodelas, Chorrochó and Abaré in Bahia State.
ref: 2007, Günter Gunkel, Reservoir and River Basin Management: Exchange and Experiences from Brazil, Portugal and Germany, Univerlagtuberlin, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
haematins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematin
haemins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemin
hairdrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairdriers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hairdryer.
hairdriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairdrier
hajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haj
halalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halal
halalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halal
halations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halation
halfnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfness
hallal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halal.
hallal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hallals
form: hallalling
form: hallalled
form: hallalled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halal.
hallals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hallal
hallaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hallal
hallaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hallal
hallalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hallal
aviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Aviform symbols were inscribed on the wall of the cave.
glosses: Having the shape of a bird
hallalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hallal
halvahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halvah
halwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halwa
hamartias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamartia
pectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pectiform
form: most pectiform
Etymology: From Latin pecto + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Pectiform symbols were inscribed on the wall of the cave.
glosses: Comb-shaped.
Synonyms: cteniform
hamboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhæmboʊnəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hambone
hamboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhæmboʊnəd/
Forms: form: more hamboned
form: most hamboned
Senses: glosses: Extremely drunk
hamboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hambone
hamadryades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamadryad
hamperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamperers
Etymology: From hamper + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hampers or hinders.
hamperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamperer
handinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handiness
handjar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handjars
Senses: glosses: A Turkish dagger.
handjars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handjar
hanjar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanjars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handjar.
hanjars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanjar
haniwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haniwas
form: haniwa
Etymology: From Japanese 埴輪 (haniwa).
Senses: glosses: A terracotta clay figure made for ritual use and buried with the dead in ancient Japan.
haniwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haniwa
hard cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard case
hardcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardcases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard case.
hardcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardcase
gym-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gym-rats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gym rat.
harkener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harkeners
Etymology: From harken + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hearkener.
gym-rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gym-rat
harkeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harkener
harmalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harmaline.
harmlessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmlessness
harosets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haroset
sombuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
hartbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hartebeest.
hasteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hasteful
form: most hasteful
Etymology: From haste + -ful.
Senses: glosses: hasty; rapid; speedy
hatbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatbrushes
Etymology: From hat + brush.
Senses: glosses: A kind of clothesbrush for use on hats.
sombudy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
hatbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatbrush
somebudy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somebody.
Glória
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
hatpeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatpegs
Etymology: From hat + peg.
Senses: glosses: A peg for hanging a hat.
hatpegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatpeg
haughtinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haughtiness
nobudy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of nobody.
hawses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawse
unobtainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + obtain + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unobtainable.
hazardries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazardry
headages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headage
hazinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haziness
headachiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of headachy: most headachy
headachier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of headachy: more headachy
heartinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartiness
Mascote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mascotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Mascote.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
heartlessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartlessness
heartsicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartsickness
heathendoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heathendom
heathenries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heathenry
hebephrenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hebephrenia
Monte Santo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Mucugê
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
hecticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hecticly
form: most hecticly
Senses: examples: text: Then I went into the garden and as I was working hecticly, the garden door opened and I recognized in the distance this little brown-suited man.
ref: 1938, John Fothergill, Confessions of an innkeeper, page 280:
glosses: Alternative form of hectically.
hectorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectorers
Etymology: From hector + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hectors or bullies.
hectorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectorer
hedgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hedgy: most hedgy
hedgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hedgy: more hedgy
heedlessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heedlessness
heelballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelball
hedgehopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgehoppers
Etymology: From hedge + hopper.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft that hedgehops.
hedgehoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgehopper
heeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: heeders
Etymology: From heed + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who heeds or pays attention to something.
heeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heeder
Prado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prados
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Prado.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
heirdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heirdom
heinousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heinousness
Rio de Contas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
hejra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hejras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hijra.
Rodelas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
hejras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hejra
hektare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hektares
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hectare.
hektares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hektare
heleniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helenium
helibusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helibus
heliolatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliolatry
heliolatrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliolatry + -ous.
Senses: glosses: The worshipping of the Sun.
Related terms: heliolater
heliolatry
heliometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heliometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
helipilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helipilots
Etymology: From heli- + pilot.
Senses: glosses: A helicopter pilot.
helipilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helipilot
hellishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellishness
helotisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helotism
hemerythrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemerythrin
hematopoieses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematopoiesis
hemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemoglobinuric
form: most hemoglobinuric
Etymology: From hemoglobinuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to hemoglobinuria.
hemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoglobinurics
Etymology: From hemoglobinuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has hemoglobinuria.
haemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haemoglobinuric
form: most haemoglobinuric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobinuric.
haemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoglobinurics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobinuric.
hemoglobinurics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoglobinuric
haemoglobinurics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemoglobinuric
Uauá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
hemopoieses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemopoiesis
vulture-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulture-like
form: most vulture-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vulturelike.
herbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of herby: most herby
hermitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hermit + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We have not to examine into the earliest practice of ascetic life and hermitism; the gathering together of secluded societies of celibates and virgins; the superstitious veneration of the relics of holy men […]
ref: 1862, John Algernon Clarke, What the Prophets Foretold, page 156:
synonyms: eremitism
glosses: The habits of a hermit, living alone and in isolation.
heterogameties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogamety
heterogamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogamy
heterogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogeny
heterothallisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterothallism
heterotrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotrophy
heteroploidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroploidy
heteronomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteronomy
hexachlorethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hexachloroethane.
hexastyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexastyle
hexings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of hexing
hibernise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hibernises
form: hibernising
form: hibernised
form: hibernised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hibernize.
hibernised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hibernise
hibernises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hibernise
hibernising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hibernise
hijrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hijrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hijra.
hijrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijrah
Petrolândia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pernambuco, Brazil.
glosses: A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
hindsights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindsight
Belém do São Francisco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Belém do São Francisco.
glosses: A municipality of Pernambuco, Brazil.
hippiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈpaɪətɹɪ/
Etymology: From hipp- + -iatry.
Senses: glosses: The branch of veterinary medicine dealing with horses.
Related terms: hippiater
hippiatric
hippiatrics
hippiatrist
hoarinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoariness
hoarsenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoarseness
hobodom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hobo + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of hobos.
hoggishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoggishness
hoggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogg
holards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holard
holesom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holesom
form: most holesom
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wholesome.
holesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holesome
form: most holesome
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wholesome.
holking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of holk
holked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of holk
holks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holk
holks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holk
homemakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homemaking
homeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homework
hominizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hominization
homogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogeny
homozygosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homozygosity
honeyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honeyful
form: most honeyful
Etymology: From Middle English hunyful, equivalent to honey + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of honey.
honorabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honorability