cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonbaryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + baryonic.
Senses: examples: nonbaryonic dark matter
topics: astrophysics
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Not containing or consisting of baryons
neurospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosphere
purinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From purine + -ergic.
Senses: glosses: Containing or releasing purines
Derived terms: antipurinergic
hyperpurinergic
purinergic receptor
purinergically
reactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈæk.tɪv.li/
Forms: form: more reactively
form: most reactively
Etymology: From reactive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The infant responds reactively to stimuli.
glosses: In a reactive fashion.
examples: text: The films were reactively bonded.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In relation to or by means of a reaction.
reannotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reannotate
distractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more distractive
form: most distractive
Etymology: From distract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: causing distraction
reannotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reannotates
form: reannotating
form: reannotated
form: reannotated
Etymology: From re- + annotate.
Senses: glosses: To annotate again or differently.
examples: text: To alleviate the problem of naming genes, reannotation of genes and proteins using a set of common, controlled vocabulary to describe a gene or protein is necessary.
ref: 2006, Jin Xiong, Essential Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To revise a previous annotation of a gene or protein
Derived terms: reannotation
reannotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reannotate
reannotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reannotate
pyrophosphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophosphatases
Etymology: From pyrophosphate + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid anhydride hydrolase that acts upon diphosphate bonds
pyrophosphatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrophosphatase
nonheart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heart.
Senses: examples: nonheart surgery
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not pertaining to the heart
come to hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to hand
form: coming to hand
form: came to hand
form: come to hand
Senses: examples: text: She fought off the intruder with whatever came to hand.
text: Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: To become available, often unexpectedly, or randomly.
examples: The horse came to hand, and won first prize.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To perform well, to come under control.
nongrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + graft + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Fibronectin adsorbed onto both the grafted and nongrafted regions, while albumin adsorbed more onto the nongrafted regions than the grafted regions.
ref: 1998, Guoping Chen et al., “Effect of protein and cell behavior on pattern-grafted thermoresponsive polymer”, in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A:
glosses: Not having been grafted, or not bearing a graft
acqua alta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækwə ˈæltə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian acqua alta (literally “high water”).
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon that regularly occurs in the city of Venice, Italy, typically during high and spring tide, involving the flooding of the most low-lying areas of Venice.
wikipedia: Piazza San Marco
nondriving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-driving
Etymology: From non- + driving.
Senses: examples: text: We compared driving and nondriving adults.
glosses: Not driving
nondistorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondistorters
Etymology: From non- + distorter.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An allele that does not distort segregation ratios in its favor
Related terms: nondistorted
noncolliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + colliding.
Senses: examples: noncolliding Brownian motion
glosses: Not colliding, or not involving collision
Camun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Camuns
Etymology: From Camunni, the ancient population of Val Camonica, located in the Italian Alps.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Val Camonica.
Camun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Camunni, the ancient population of Val Camonica, located in the Italian Alps.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Val Camonica.
Camun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Camun
form: most Camun
Etymology: From Camunni, the ancient population of Val Camonica, located in the Italian Alps.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Val Camonica, or its people.
Synonyms: Camunian
Ealing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: A London borough of Greater London, England.
glosses: A town in West London, Greater London, England.
glosses: A rural locality in south Canterbury, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Ealing comedy
Ealing Common
West Ealing
give two hoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives two hoots
form: giving two hoots
form: gave two hoots
form: given two hoots
Etymology: See give a hoot.
Senses: synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care about; to place value on something.
underfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfucked
form: most underfucked
Etymology: From under- + fucked.
Senses: examples: text: Among these middle-of-the-road materialists, all under forty and many, as one of them put it, "underfucked," […]
ref: 1972, Natalie Gittelson, The Erotic Life of the American Wife:
text: During World War II we used to speak of the Navy syndrome: overworked, underpaid and underfucked.
ref: 1987, Reuben Fine, The Forgotten Man: Understanding the Male Psyche:
text: “You're right. He's an underfucked loser. He's an anti-cock. He's a no-balls,” says Vincent, and it seems to him that Julie's presence removes him from his defeat, because the real victory, the only one that counts, is the conquest of a woman picked up fast in the grimly unerotic milieu of the entomologists.
ref: 1996, Linda Asher, transl., Slowness, translation of La Lenteur by Milan Kundera, page 86:
text: […] a world where, taking a stroll with Miranda in a Denver mall, we pass a sweet-faced teenage girl whose T-shirt reads OVERWORKED AND UNDERFUCKED, […]
ref: 2007, Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days:
glosses: Not receiving enough sex.
Edythe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.
foot-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-falls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of footfall.
uncoördinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌənkəʊˈɔːdɪneɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Only three instances of the slightest approach to it were found. These were in naturalistic plays. On the other hand, the descriptions by no means leave the impression of mere catalogues of uncoördinated details, the chief object of which is the so-called scientific accu- […]
ref: 1919, The German American Historical Society (Philadelphia), the National German–American Alliance, the Union of Old German Students in America (New York), and Deutscher Pionier–Verein (Phildadelphia), German American Annals, volume 17, page 106 (Macmillan)
text: […] Angst before the still uncoördinated sectors of what had already transpired, that interwove Paris boulevards and the mythical interiors of […]
ref: 1939, Robert Herndon Fife, Frederick William Justus Heuser, and Arthur Frank Joseph Remy of the Columbia University Deptartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Germanic Review…, page 187 (Columbia University Press)
text: The documents give only isolated particulars, which fall into a chronological order; the academic historian is obliged to invent for himself an ‘action’ into which as a framework he may dispose the uncoördinated elements provided by antecedent inquiry.
ref: 1983, Uppsala universitet Historiska institutionen, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, № 131–133, page 163 (Esselte studium; →ISBN, 9789155413989)
glosses: Alternative spelling of uncoordinated.
gipsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gipsy
glosses: plural of gipsie
coördinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coördinate
gonadectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonadectomy
uncoördinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌənkəʊˈɔːdɪnət/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uncoordinate.
goodygoodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goodygoody
hardasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardass
unevidenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evidenced.
Senses: glosses: Lacking supporting evidence.
badmashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badmash
carless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ləs
Etymology: From car + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Getting back could be harder; something about one-way streets and disappearing exits and maybe late hours and a drink or two. Going there carless was a different story, you didn't have to worry about staying oriented or parking then; but there was either the subway or a ride home to negotiate.
ref: 1980 December 20, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “A Personal Remembrance Of The Saints”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 13:
text: Forty five per cent of carless households had a retired head […]
ref: 2002, Anne M Findlay, Leigh Sparks, The Environments for Retailing, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Without a car.
Derived terms: carlessness
Klingons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klingon
dmisteinbergite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Dmitri Steinberg + -ite
Senses: examples: text: Chesnokov et al. also reported from the same locality dmisteinbergite, a natural hexagonal polymorph of anorthite.
ref: 2001, William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars, volume 4A, page 654:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless mineral, a hexagonal polymorph of anorthite, with the chemical formula CaAl₂Si₂O₈.
derivednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whole organism anatomical data are usually examined with specific hypotheses in mind; specifically that they are testing ideas about functional adaptations, convergences and parallels, or about primitivenesses, derivednesses and phylogeny.
ref: 1997: Charles E Oxnard, Human Adaptability: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past — The Interface of Function, Genes, Development and Evolution: Insights from Primate Morphometrics, Abstract, page 85 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 978-9810233563)
glosses: plural of derivedness
decimole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɛsɪməʊɫ]
Forms: form: decimoles
Etymology: From deci- + mole.
Senses: glosses: An SI unit (symbol dmol) of amount of substance, equal to 10⁻¹ moles.
decimoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decimole
doughball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doughballs
Etymology: From dough + ball.
Senses: glosses: A ball of dough, prepared as food or as fishing bait.
doughballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doughball
combis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combi
derivedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪvədnəs/
ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪvdnəs/
ipa: /dɛˈɹaɪvdnəs/
Forms: form: derivednesses
Etymology: From derived + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being derived; derivativity.
glosses: A derived characteristic; a derivation.
trampette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trampettes
Etymology: From trampoline + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: When using trampettes the introductory stages are particularly important, especially with trampettes where the bed is at an angle to the floor.
ref: 2014, E. Mauldon, Teaching Gymnastics, page 240:
glosses: A small trampoline.
trampettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trampette
trampolinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trampolinists
Etymology: From trampoline + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: rebound tumbler
trampoliner
coordinate_terms: gymnast
acrobat
glosses: A person who takes part in trampolining.
trampolinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trampolinist
derivativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derivative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being derivative; derivative nature.
fillingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filling + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The stew’s fillingness was legendary: no one had ever managed to finish a second bowl.
text: [S]eeing that Gods all-fillingneſs cannot be halv'd, but is vvhat is is vvholly, and this is vvhat it is halfly, it follovvs, That becauſe this Being cannot reach half of it, or all of it, it can reach none at all of it.
ref: 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter VI, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: The property of being filling, of making full.
armsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armful
armsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armsfuls
Senses: examples: text: They may know that they were in God’s hand from eternity, and out of God’s hand they were put as a compliment into Chriſt’s hand, if I may ſo expreſs it; and indeed he is infinitely well-pleaſed with the compliment; he takes an armsful of them, as it were, out of God’s everlaſting arms; and he hugs them in his boſom; for his delights were with the ſons of men; and whenever he ſees the travail of his ſoul, he is ſatisfied: and when he hath hugged them in his redeeming arms, till he hath juſtified, ſanctified, and completely ſaved them, then he will give them back to the Father’s hand again, preſenting them blameleſs to him, ſaying, “Behold I, and the children which thou haſt given me.” There muſt then be a gathering of the people to him, becauſe there was a giving of the people to him.
ref: 1795, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works, Of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Ralph Erskine, Minister of the Gospel in Dunfermline., volume IV, Falkirk: Mair, Patrick, page 137:
text: The Swiss were falling fast before the bristling wall of iron, when Arnold of Winkelried, in Unterwalden, grasping an armsful of the projecting spears, buried them in his body, and sank with them to the earth; through the breach thus made his companions burst, and the Austrian host was almost annihilated, Leopold himself being in the number of the slain.
ref: 1872, “William Tell and Switzerland.”, in Chambers’s Supplementary Reader, number 5, London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, page 15:
text: To grow it [a Maréchal Niel rose] in all its magnificence it must be planted out in a greenhouse or conservatory, and the branches be allowed to grow to their fullest extent. It is then that armsfuls of splendid golden blooms are produced and their great loveliness is fully displayed.
ref: 1878–9, Theo S. Case, editor, Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, volume II, Kansas City, Missouri: Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, Agriculture and Horticulture.: Marechal Niel Rose., page 186:
text: As it is customary with the Indians to accompany their word with a present proportioned to the affair treated of, he gave them fifty pounds of powder, as many balls, six guns, ten axes, twelve armsfuls of tobacco and a hatchet pipe.
ref: 1901, Thomas Hughes, “Chapter III. French Explorers—Le Sueur and His Copper Discovery—Indian Wars.”, in History of Blue Earth County and Biographies of Its Leading Citizens, Chicago: Middle West Publishing Company, page 23:
text: When Vernon came in from work, he always brought me wildflowers he had found, an armsful of tiger lilies, bluebells, and white daisies.
ref: 1986 December, Adele Sarkissian, editor, Something About the Author (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought; Autobiography Series; 1), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., →ISBN, page 66:
text: Naomi Levine made a movie wherein little kids swatted each other with armsfuls of huge white flowers.
ref: 1992, Film Culture, New York, N.Y.: Film Culture, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of armful.
hemorrhoidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemorrhoidectomy
kotukutuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotukutukus
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kōtukutuku.
Senses: glosses: A tree of New Zealand, Fuchsia excorticata, bearing edible purple berries.
Synonyms: kohutuhutu
kohutuhutu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kōhutuhutu.
Senses: glosses: A tree of New Zealand, Fuchsia excorticata, bearing edible purple berries.
Synonyms: kotukutuku
countryfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countryfies
form: countryfying
form: countryfied
form: countryfied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countrify.
countryfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countryfy
countryfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countryfy
countryfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countryfy
hibernations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hibernation
snorkelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snorkeling
Senses: glosses: The act of swimming using a snorkel.
Derived terms: bog snorkelling
snorkelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snorkeling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snorkel
snorkelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snorkel
vade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: vades
form: vading
form: vaded
form: vaded
Etymology: Alteration of fade.
Senses: examples: text: Summer leaves all vaded.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: They into dust shall vade.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
glosses: To fade; to vanish.
Related terms: vade mecum
anteprandial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anteprandial
form: most anteprandial
Etymology: From ante- + prandial.
Senses: glosses: Before a meal, especially before dinner.
Related terms: preprandial
postprandial
prandial
bottomries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottomry
droshkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droshky
deepfelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deepfelt
form: most deepfelt
form: deep-felt
Etymology: From deep + felt.
Senses: glosses: Felt deeply; heartfelt.
ecofriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecofriendly
form: most ecofriendly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eco-friendly.
farmwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmwives
Etymology: From farm + wife.
Senses: examples: text: Farm life is beautiful, my friends, when well and rightly lived. And the very word Farmwife has grown sweeter with the years. Long ago I resented the imputation implied. Today, I say "yes" to the charge, and add that "of the distinction I'm proud." Are not you?
ref: 1895, Nellie Hawks, “Farm-life, farm-wife, and fancier”, in S.C. Bassett, editor, Annual Report of the Nebraska Dairymen's Association, published 1896, page 155:
glosses: The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.
glosses: A farmer's wife.
Related terms: housewife
farmwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmwife
fatawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfætɑːwɑː/
ipa: /ˈfætɑwɑ/
ipa: /ˈfɑt-/
ipa: /ˈfət-/
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَتَاوَى (fatāwā).
Senses: glosses: plural of fatwa
fatwahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatwah
lynxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lynxlike
form: most lynxlike
Etymology: From lynx + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a lynx.
scoopsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoopful
unjaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jaded.
Senses: glosses: Not jaded.
unenriched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enriched.
Senses: glosses: Not enriched.
warmups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmup
unmyelinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + myelinated.
Senses: glosses: Not myelinated.
unwiped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wiped.
Senses: glosses: Not wiped.
unwaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + waxed.
Senses: glosses: Not waxed.
unwaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwax
unsnuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + snuffed.
Senses: examples: text: The unsnuffed candlewick was crowned with a tuft of sooty ash, the fire had died down into a few dull red and white embers […]
ref: 1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
glosses: Not snuffed.
unwatchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwatchably
form: most unwatchably
Etymology: From unwatchable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The images it captures may be blurred, unintelligible or unwatchably tedious.
ref: 1999, Peter Conrad, Modern Times, Modern Places:
glosses: In an unwatchable fashion.
watchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watchable
form: most watchable
Etymology: From watch + -able.
Senses: examples: ref: 1999, Mary Taylor Gray, Mary Taylor Young, Herbert Clarke, Watchable Birds of California:
glosses: That can be watched.
examples: text: Six months old, a half-season project, they are already more watchable and more coherent than the second phase of the title-winning team of two years ago; but not at the level of the luminous, steamrollering Mourinho Mk1 team, a rare concurrence of prime-cut talent and a manager in the sweet spot of his own powers.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
text: Interminable hocus pocus with a plethora of talk, seldom exciting but watchable because of its remarkable cast...
ref: 1992, Leslie Halliwell, John Walker, Halliwell's Film Guide:
glosses: That is worth watching; interesting or thrilling to watch
Related terms: binge-watchable
hate-watchable
watchable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchables
Etymology: From watch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp and James Mason are the watchables in 1975's The Golden Heist […]
ref: 1978, TV Guide:
text: Each January, San Diego Magazine announces its list of San Diegans worth watching — and watching out for — in the coming year with its "People To Watch" cover story. The magazine fetes its 50 watchables with a VIP bash […]
ref: 2007, San Diego Magazine, volume 59, number 9, page 132:
glosses: Something to be watched, or worth watching.
icewines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icewine
television programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of television program
suspenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: suspensers
Etymology: From suspense + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: glosses: A film, television program, etc. that offers an atmosphere of suspense.
suspensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspenser
idolatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolatress
marsquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsquakes
Etymology: From Mars + quake, after the pattern of earthquake.
Senses: examples: text: It recorded several impulsive signals that might have been marsquakes...
ref: 2003, Cliff Frohlich, Scott D Davis, Texas Earthquakes:
text: After more than four years, 1,300 marsquakes, and countless scientific discoveries, our @NASAInSight lander has reached the end of its mission.
ref: 2022 December 21, @NASA, twitter, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:
glosses: A quake on the planet Mars, perhaps caused by land tides, volcanic eruptions, or meteorite strikes.
Hypernyms: planetquake
marsquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsquake
iconographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconography
tublike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tublike
form: most tublike
Etymology: From tub + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a tub.
misrhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɹaɪm/
ipa: /mɪsˈɹaɪm/
Forms: form: misrhymes
Etymology: From mis- + rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy; 'lanes' rhymes with 'sardines', 'bucket' with 'like it', 'toad-like' with 'hard luck' and 'blarney' with 'money' […]
ref: 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, page 190:
glosses: A false rhyme.
misrhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɹaɪm/
ipa: /mɪsˈɹaɪm/
Forms: form: misrhymes
form: misrhyming
form: misrhymed
form: misrhymed
Etymology: From mis- + rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: It is an open question whether or not Blake misrhymed deliberately.
ref: 1965, Alicia Ostriker, Vision and Verse in William Blake:
glosses: To rhyme incorrectly.
misrhyming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrhyme
misrhymed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrhyme
misrhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrhyme
misrhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrhyme
Meyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
homophone: Mayer
homophone: mire
Forms: form: Meyers
Etymology: * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Meier (“leaseholder of a manor”). Compare Maier, Mayer, Meier, Myer.
* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish מאיר (mir). Compare Majer, Major, Mayor, Meir.
* As a Dutch/West Flemish surname, variant of Meijer.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Middle High German meier (“bailiff”).
glosses: A surname.
An Ashkenazi surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
glosses: A surname.
An English surname originating as an occupation, an alternative form of Mayer.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Danish.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Iowa.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Illinois.
Derived terms: Say-Meyer syndrome
Urban-Rogers-Meyer syndrome
misgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From misget, equivalent to mis- + gotten.
Senses: glosses: ill-gotten
infirmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of infirm: more infirm
infirmest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of infirm: most infirm
A positive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a blood type within the ABO and Rh blood grouping system. Blood type A positive has a phenotype of "A" and a Rhesus system classification of positive.
those ones
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: plural of that one
these ones
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: plural of this one
thoughtography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Blend of thought + photography.
Senses: examples: text: […] thoughtography might be regarded merely as an unusual means of registration of a still-mysterious phenomenon […]
ref: 1974, Edgar D Mitchell, John Warren White, Psychic Exploration:
text: Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?
ref: 1982, Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal:
glosses: The supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.
Derived terms: thoughtographic
Related terms: thoughtograph
thoughtographer
atheises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of atheise
atheising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atheise
atheised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atheise
atheizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of atheize
atheizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atheize
atheized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atheize
Ingushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ingush
nefasti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nefasti.
Senses: glosses: In the calendar of Ancient Rome, those days on which business could not be transacted and assemblies and courts could not convene.
Coordinate terms: fasti
Discman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A trademark from disc + man, modelled on the earlier Walkman.
Senses: glosses: A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line
Derived terms: alt: genericization
word: discman
Discman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discmans
form: Discmen
Etymology: A trademark from disc + man, modelled on the earlier Walkman.
Senses: examples: text: And the car has always been the arena for the best battles because controlling the dial resulted in complete aural dominance: If you chose Aerosmith, everyone had to listen to Aerosmith. This is why today, when every member of the family could be plugged in, Jetson-like, to individual Discmen, they often are not.
ref: 1999 October 27, Mary McNamara, “She Who Tunes the Radio Rules the Drive”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
text: But it took a decade to make any impression on the mainstream – people stuck with cassettes for recording, and Walkmen and Discmen for portability – and almost as soon as it did, it was killed by the MP3 player.
ref: 2012 September 25, Joey Faulkner, “MiniDisc, the forgotten format”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2013:
text: I use Sennheiser headphones when I want to listen to music closely, and those little Sony over-ear headphones (the ones that came with Discmen) for listening to music on the go.
ref: 2018 April 11, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “How to Stay on Top of Breaking News”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2018:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of discman.
Related terms: walkman
Discmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Discman
suspensefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suspensefully
form: most suspensefully
Etymology: From suspenseful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a suspenseful manner.
gutterball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutterballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gutter ball.
gutterballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gutterball
gutter ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutter balls
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that rolls into the gutter without striking any pins.
misthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪsθɹəʊ/
Forms: form: misthrows
form: misthrowing
form: misthrew
form: misthrown
Etymology: From mis- + throw.
Senses: hypernyms: misfield
coordinate_terms: miscatch
glosses: To throw incorrectly.
misthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈθɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪsθɹəʊ/
Forms: form: misthrows
Etymology: From mis- + throw.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect throw.
misthrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misthrow
misthrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misthrow
misthrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misthrow
misthrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misthrow
misthrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misthrow
K9s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of K9
avertress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɜːtɹɪs/
Forms: form: avertresses
Etymology: From averter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: When ‛neath him yawned th’ expectant grave,
Nor either parent dar’d to save,
Tho’ hoary both, the life they gave,
‛Twas thine in youth to seek the tomb,
ref: 1838: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, “The Beacon — from The Agamemnon”, chorus (lines 35–39), page 259
roman: Avertress of thy husband’s doom !
text: O Son! Let Ambikâ Devî protect your front; Padmalochanâ protect your back; Pârvatî, your two sides; S’ivâ Devî, all around you; Vârâhî, in dreadful paths; Durgâ, in royal forts, Kâlikâ, in terrible fights; Parames’varî, in the platform hall; Mâtamgî, in the Svayamvara hall; Bhavanî, the Avertress of world, amidst the kings; Girijâ, in mountain passes; Chamundâ, in the sacrificial ground, and let the eternal Kâmagâ, protect you in the forests.
ref: 1923: Swami Vijnanananda, The S’rimad Devi Bhagawatam, volume 1, chapter XIX: “On the going to the Svayamvara assembly of Sudars’ana”, verses 34–37 (links: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9WKxHqkVUUUC&pg=PA255&dq=avertress&lr=#PPA255,M1, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uBEkOqvqSMkC&pg=PA268&dq=avertress&lr=, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kt02ZSt2Q8AC&pg=PA242&dq=avertress&lr=, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KwlHAYJR5KcC&pg=PA197&dq=avertress&lr=#PPA198,M1)
glosses: A woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts.
do-rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-rags
form: durag
Etymology: From do (“hairdo”) + rag.
Senses: examples: text: It's your business if you want to run around in spandex, sporting a do-rag or a moussed pompadour with ponytail...
ref: 2003, Teri S O'Brien, The Personal Trainer's Handbook:
text: "I can pay for my own damn beer," the man in the flame do-rag says.
ref: 2007, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Book of the Dead:
glosses: A piece of cloth used to cover the head.
wikipedia: Slim Thug
do-rags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-rag
elastane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elastic + -ane.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, W. Schindler, E. Finnimore, 8: Chemical analysis of damage to textiles, Qinguo Fan (editor), Chemical Testing of Textiles, CRC Press, Woodhead Publishing, page 212,
The resistance to ageing of elastane fibres is much better than that of the rubber threads previously used, which were particularly susceptible to oxidation.
text: The source of elastane is polyurethane. Elastane is always use in addition to a major fibre to incorporate stretch into the fabric. Although most elastane fibres are produced to stretch to three times their length, they can be extended further.
ref: 2013, Winifred Aldrich, Fabrics and Pattern Cutting, Wiley, page 48:
text: Elastane holds an irreplaceable place in today's textile market as it is being used in all ranges of products from high-functional sportswear to leisurewear to improve comfort properties.
ref: 2022, R. Rathinamoorthy, S. Raja Balasaraswathi, Microfiber Pollution, Springer, page 76:
glosses: Spandex, lycra.
cybraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybrary
cybercafés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercafé
Internet cafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Internet cafe
Internet cafés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Internet café
cyberattacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberattackers
Etymology: From cyber- + attacker.
Senses: glosses: The perpetrator of a cyberattack.
cyberattackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberattacker
cyberizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyberize
cyberizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyberize
cyberized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyberize
cyberise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cyberises
form: cyberising
form: cyberised
form: cyberised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cyberize.
cyberised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyberise
cyberising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyberise
cyberises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyberise
infrasounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infrasound
gauzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gauzily
form: most gauzily
Etymology: From gauzy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gauzy manner.
joylessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more joylessly
form: most joylessly
Etymology: From joyless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a joyless manner.
inspirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspirer
instructresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructress
intentionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intentionalist
interlocutresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlocutress
undamageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + damageable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be damaged.
non-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonstick.
cyberculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercultures
Etymology: From cyber- + culture.
Senses: glosses: Internet culture; attitudes and behaviours in cyberspace.
Related terms: cybersubculture
pluralisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluralise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pluralizable.
pluralizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluralize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be pluralized.
pluralisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluralise + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pluralizability.
pluralizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluralize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being pluralizable.
hot seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot seat
hyperfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperfictions
Etymology: From hyper- + fiction.
Senses: glosses: Fiction written in a hypertext medium, usually allowing the reader to make decisions that affect the storyline
Related terms: hyperauthor
cyberfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfictions
Etymology: From cyber- + fiction.
Senses: examples: text: ...cyberfiction by women authors tends to place more positive value on embodiment...
ref: 1998, Hank Bromley, Michael W Apple, Education, Technology, Power:
text: Nadia Crandall draws some illuminating parallels between nineteenth-century versions of gothic fiction and juvenile cyberfiction.
ref: 2007, Kimberley Reynolds, Radical Children's Literature:
glosses: Fiction in a cyber genre, such as cyberpunk.
sniffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sniffy: more sniffy
sniffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sniffy: most sniffy
police dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police dog
verye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: verier
form: veriest
Senses: examples: 1562: The Verye Trueth of the Conference Betvvixt the Queene Mother, and the Prince of Conde, Iulye, 1562, main title (W. Seres)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of very.
sniffer dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniffer dogs
Senses: examples: text: Network Rail has introduced sniffer dogs to try to reduce the theft of signalling cables in the North West.
ref: 2022 March 9, “Network News: Sniffer dogs hired in fight to combat metal thefts in North West”, in RAIL, number 952, page 18:
synonyms: detection dog
glosses: A police dog trained to sniff out illegal goods such as drugs or explosives.
sniffer dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniffer dog
graviperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gravi- + perception.
Senses: examples: text: And I am glad to note that both Pfeffer and Czapek are not disinclined to believe in the possibility of various forms of graviperception.
ref: 1904, Nature Publishing Group, Nature:
text: The take-home message from these observations is open to interpretation, but may be that although amyloplasts play a pivotal role in graviperception,...
ref: 1992, Cees M Karssen, Leendert C Loon, Dick Vreugdenhil, Progress in Plant Growth Regulation:
glosses: perception of gravity
Related terms: graviperceptor
statolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statoliths
Etymology: From stato- + -lith.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of otolith.
synonyms: word: otolith
examples: text: The statolith is either acquired from the animal's surroundings or secreted by the epithelial cells of the statocyst.
ref: 2002, David Randall, Eckert Animal Physiology, page 242:
text: When the squid (or other cephalopod) accelerates, the statolith is pressed back in its “seat” like a person in a car.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: A specialized form of amyloplast involved in graviperception by plant roots and most invertebrates.
statoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statolith
agony aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agony aunt
agony uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agony uncles
Senses: examples: text: The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.
ref: 2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male agony aunt.
agony uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agony uncle
wallopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wallop
wallopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wallop
gravireaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gravi- + reaction.
Senses: glosses: reaction to gravity, such as gravitropism in a plant
qawwalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qawwali
cyberfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: […] discussion of prostitution on the Internet (which also includes consideration of pornography from a cyberfeminist perspective) […]
ref: 2001, David Wall, Crime and the Internet:
text: Some cyberfeminist activists, in particular radical feminists on Tumblr, have been labeled “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) and are often scrutinized by mainstream feminist movements and popular culture.
ref: 2015, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Theory and Pop Culture, page 125:
glosses: Pertaining to cyberfeminism.
cyberfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfeminists
Etymology: From cyber- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: If I'd rather be a cyberfeminist than a goddess, I'd damned well better know why, and be willing to say so.
ref: 2001, Hilary Robinson, Feminism-art-theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000:
glosses: An exponent of cyberfeminism.
cyberfeminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberfeminist
oögone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oögones
Senses: examples: text: […] basally papillate, hyaline, 18–25 x 12–15μi; oöspores surrounded by periplasm at maturity, 25–35μ; oögone persistent, wrinkled, yellowish-brown […]
ref: 1907, New York Botanical Garden, Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden, volume 4, page 400 (New Era Printing Company)
glosses: Alternative spelling of oogone
cyberfeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfeminisms
Etymology: From cyber- + feminism.
Senses: examples: text: Because of its similarity to what is often referred to as "liberal feminism" in the non-virtual world, I identify this perspective as liberal cyberfeminism.
ref: 1996, Susan C Herring, Computer-mediated Communication:
text: At the opening to On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations, Plant says that cyber-feminism—and/or the complex systems and virtual worlds upon which it is based—has the capacity to undermine the ‘world view and material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control’.
ref: 1997, Caroline Bassett, quoting Sadie Plant, “With a Little Help from Our (New) Friends”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN:
text: Cyberfeminism is an attempt by feminists to own a part of the computer revolution, where the field of computer science has established a resistant, male center of power.
ref: 2008, Sue Vilhauer Rosser, Women, Science, and Myth:
glosses: A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.