cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
genderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də.ləs/
Etymology: From gender + -less (“without, lacking”).
Senses: examples: text: A genderless noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.
text: Should retailers promote genderless shopping?... Through its Agender concept store, Selfridges is selling clothing, accessories and beauty supplies that, it says, "transcend notions of 'his' and 'hers'."
ref: 2015 August 10, Aimee Picchi, Moneywatch
glosses: Without a gender, in its various senses.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: genderfree
sense: all senses
word: gender-free
sense: all senses
word: neuter
sense: not part of a cultural gender
word: agender
sense: not part of a cultural gender
word: agendered
sense: not part of a cultural gender
word: gender-free
sense: not part of a cultural gender
word: neutrois
sense: having had one's sexual distinction removed
word: neutered
Derived terms: genderlessly
genderlessness
Related terms: sexless
sex-free
sexfree
genuflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genuflexions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of genuflection.
dejunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dejunks
form: dejunking
form: dejunked
form: dejunked
Etymology: From de- + junk.
Senses: glosses: To remove junk from; declutter.
Derived terms: dejunker
cleft grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: cleft + grafting
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manner that its bark evenly joins that of the stock.
globin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊ.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊ.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈɡləʉ.bɪn/
rhymes: -əʊbɪn
Forms: form: globins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Globin, from Latin globus.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.
examples: text: Injuries and conditions that cause an acid pH environment cause the globin (protein) molecule to separate from the ferrihemate (iron-containing) component of the myoglobin molecule.
ref: 2005, Sharon G. Childs, “Rhabdomyolysis”, in Orthopaedic Nursing, volume 24, number 6, →PMID, page 445:
text: Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells [title of article]
ref: 2008 February 8, Caihong Qiu, Emmanuel N. Olivier, Michelle Velho, Eric E. Bouhassira, “Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells”, in Blood, volume 111, number 4, →DOI:
text: The results showed that the globin expression in the erythroid cells in individual clones changed in a time-dependent manner.
ref: 2008 October 2, Feng Ma et al., “Generation of functional erythrocytes from human embryonic stem cell-derived definitive hematopoiesis”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 105, number 35, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several polypeptides that are the protein components of haemoglobin or myoglobin.
Derived terms: alpha globin
androglobin
apoglobin
beta globin
choleglobin
cytoglobin
flavoglobin
haptoglobin
hemoglobin
microglobin
myoglobin
neuroglobin
protoglobin
thyroglobin
crème de cassis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creme de cassis
form: cream de cassis
Etymology: Borrowed from French crème de cassis.
Senses: glosses: A blood red, sweet, blackcurrant-flavored liqueur, which is an ingredient of kir, an apéritif.
Synonyms: cassis liqueur
cassis
hematophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtɒf.ə.dʒɪ/
ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtɒf.ə.ɡɪ/
ipa: /ˌhi.məˈtɑf.ə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: hematophagia
form: haematophagy
Etymology: From hemato- + -phagy.
Senses: examples: text: Most Lower brachyceran taxa also have nectarivorous or related fluid diets..., although a few basal clades have shifted to predominantly hematophagy; particularly the Spaniidae, Anthericidae, Xylophagidae, and certain lineages within the Tabanidae.
ref: 2005, Conrad C. Labandeira, “Fossil History and Evolutionary Ecology of Diptera and Their Associations with Plants”, in David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, editors, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 239:
glosses: The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
Synonyms: hematophagia
Derived terms: kleptohematophagy
Related terms: hematophagic
hematophagous
hemovore
crown grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: crown + grafting
Senses: glosses: A method of grafting in which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the scion cut slantwise.
ploughman's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughman's
Senses: examples: text: I ordered a ploughman's, and Rich had the scampi and chips.
glosses: A ploughman's lunch.
side grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mode of grafting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the cut side of the scion being next the wood of the stock.
splice grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A method of grafting by cutting the ends of the scion and stock completely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise.
femdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɑm/
rhymes: -ɛmdɒm
Forms: form: femdoms
form: femdomme
Etymology: From fem- + -dom (“domination”).
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
holonyms: lezdom
glosses: Female domination; a sexual practice in which women dominate men or other people.
examples: text: I'm acutely aware that I'm on my knees in front of a gorgeous femdom.
ref: 2017, D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink:
text: She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.
ref: 2018, Kallypso Masters, Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: dominatrix
domme
holonyms: lezdom
glosses: A female dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
Coordinate terms: word: maledom
word: femboydom
topics: pornography
media
sexuality
lifestyle
word: futadom
femdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɑm/
rhymes: -ɛmdɒm
ipa: /ˈfɛm.dəm/
rhymes: -ɛmdəm
ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈfɛmˌdɑm/
rhymes: -ɛmdɒm
Etymology: From fem- + -dom (“group”).
Senses: synonyms: femaledom
glosses: Females considered as a group; womankind.
Coordinate terms: boydom
fandom
girldom
maledom
mandom
Related terms: femidom
whip grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A process similar to splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grain and in the middle of the sloping surface, forming a kind of tongue, so that when put together, the tongue of each is inserted in the slit of the other.
Related terms: whip graft
grafting scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: grafting + scissors
Senses: glosses: a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operations, etc.
grievingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grievingly
form: most grievingly
Etymology: From grieving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grieving manner.
grafting tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grafting tools
Etymology: grafting + tool
Senses: glosses: Any tool used in grafting.
grafting tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grafting tools
Etymology: From graft (Etymology 2), graff (“canal”).
Senses: glosses: A very strong curved spade used in digging canals
domme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒm/
ipa: /dɑm/
ipa: /dɔm/
ipa: /dɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
homophone: Domme
homophone: dom
homophone: Dom
homophone: dom/me
homophone: Dom/me
Forms: form: dommes
form: Domme
Etymology: Alteration of dom with the pseudo-French feminine inflection.
Senses: examples: text: No amount of fetish wear or powerful looking garments can make a domme out of a woman who hasn't worked on her power and grace within.
ref: 2005, Midori, Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Something dommes know is that fear can be controlled — and even used to your advantage.
ref: 2006, Emily Dubberley, Whip Your Life into Shape, Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Leather and rubber fetish has always been popular but there’s a massive need for dommes who specialise in foot and shoe worship; there are just not enough of us to go around.
ref: 2011, Rebecca, “Rebecca”, in Julian Davies, Hookers: Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls, Milo Books, page 179:
synonyms: dominatrix
glosses: A female dominant in a sadomasochistic relationship.
Derived terms: findomme
hyperdomme
hypnodomme
lezdomme
grafting wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grafting waxes
Etymology: grafting + wax
Senses: glosses: a composition of rosin, beeswax, tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.
arthroplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthroplasty
huer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huers
Etymology: From hue + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cries out or gives an alarm.
glosses: A balker or conder; one who watches shoals of fish so that they can be caught.
halliard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halliards
Senses: examples: text: Figure 5 shows a sheaveless masthead with simply a hole through the mast to take the main halliard.
ref: 1941, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, volume 57, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of halyard.
congruities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congruity
jollities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jollity
hedge sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge sparrows
Senses: glosses: Former name for the bird Prunella modularis, the dunnock.
divinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɪnətɹi/
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to divination.
unphotogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unphotogenic
form: most unphotogenic
Etymology: From un- + photogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not photogenic.
renal corpuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal corpuscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the blood-filtering structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and a Bowman's capsule.
Synonyms: kidney corpuscle
Malpighian corpuscle
Malpighian body
under the knife
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə ðə ˈnaɪf/
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹ ðə ˈnaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Etymology: A reference to the situation of a patient lying on an operating table while a surgeon stands over them and operates using a surgical cutting tool (typically a scalpel).
Senses: examples: text: Rumor that De Gaulle [i.e., Charles de Gaulle] was under the knife sped through Paris and the world the next morning. The staff at the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's official residence, refused for hours either to confirm or deny the story; […] Finally, at 7:15 p.m., a bulletin signed by three doctors said that De Gaulle had been operated on that morning for "a disease of the prostate"— […]
ref: 1964 April 24, “France: Operation Royal”, in Roy Alexander, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2009:
text: "I don't want to go under the knife again. I had 10 surgeries as a player and many more since," [Lenny] Dykstra said, speaking as though he still had his trademark wad of tobacco in his mouth.
ref: 2006 August 19, Michael S. Schmidt, “After Shea, life diverges for two Mets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: Chiefly preceded by a form of go: undergoing a surgical procedure; into surgery.
wikipedia: Puerto Cortés
United States Army
Malpighian corpuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malpighian corpuscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: renal corpuscle
glosses: a mass of lymphoid tissue surrounding an arteriole of the spleen
kidney corpuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney corpuscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: renal corpuscle
gas turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas turbines
form: gas-turbine
Senses: glosses: An internal combustion engine consisting of a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine, where the turbine mechanically powers the compressor.
Synonyms: gas turbine engine
Coordinate terms: gas engine
jet engine
piston engine
steam turbine
turbojet
lay up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays up
form: laying up
form: laid up
form: laid up
Senses: examples: text: We must lay up enough stores to get us through the winter.
text: I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose[…]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: lay away
lay by
lay in
put aside
put away
put by
save
store
store away
store up
glosses: To store; to put by.
examples: text: He was laid up for six weeks with pneumonia.
glosses: To disable or incapacitate; to confine to bed.
examples: text: He laid up until recovering from his illness.
text: She's been laid up in Reno for weeks.
glosses: To recuperate or rest; to remain in a place.
examples: text: The battleship is presently laid up in Portsmouth Harbour.
glosses: To take out of active service.
examples: text: The cruise ship lays up in November for the winter.
text: The Cinderella of the present trio is the Freshwater, which is laid up in the winter months, when one or other of her ugly sisters is sufficient to cope with the service.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: To go out of active service.
examples: text: He takes the pass, he drives, he lays it up and in.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a layup with (a basketball)
examples: text: Rather than try to reach the green, he chose to lay up.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure an easier succeeding shot.
glosses: To have sex; to have a sexual relationship.
lay about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays about
form: laying about
form: laid about
form: laid about
Senses: examples: text: [...] At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage; / And laid about in fight more busily / Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthesile.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
text: Alone he could have sprung into the midst of that close-packed mob, and, laying about him after the fashion of Numa, the lion, have struck the Arabs with such consternation that escape would have been easy.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 63:
glosses: To strike blows in all directions.
glosses: To set about, with infinitive or gerund.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, about.
lay into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays into
form: laying into
form: laid into
form: laid into
Senses: examples: text: A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:
text: The U.S. ships did the nautical version of someone stuck in a pub when the chairs and glass starts flying, who just looked around, shrugged their shoulders, and immediately lays into the nearest combatant.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 11:26 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
glosses: To beat up or launch an attack against; to strike forcefully.
glosses: To berate; to scold.
examples: text: I'm gonna lay into that ice cream later tonight.
glosses: To start eating voraciously.
waddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waddlers
Etymology: From waddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who waddles.
Derived terms: deaf waddler
press the flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses the flesh
form: pressing the flesh
form: pressed the flesh
form: pressed the flesh
Senses: examples: text: Bill Clinton was in full campaign form Tuesday. Hours behind schedule, he stopped to press the flesh with everyone in sight.
ref: 2008 January 23, “The Clintons Double-Team Obama”, in Time:
text: I’ve followed candidates campaigning in the past, been to countless political-party and interest-group functions, and seen plenty of politicians press the flesh while I stand on the side with my notepad or sit at a rickety table with my laptop.
ref: 2021, Eric Garcia, We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, Boston: Mariner Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: To shake hands and socialize, especially in a political gathering.
lacet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacets
Senses: examples: 1868, Henry L. Hinton, Select Historical Costumes
[…] the crimson velvet sleeve […] shows the shirt beneath, and is brought together by red lacets.
glosses: A small lace.
bumtrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumtraps
Etymology: From bum + trap.
Senses: examples: text: The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 215:
glosses: A bailiff.
thof
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Though.
ehm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: əm
ipa: /əm/
ipa: /em/
Senses: examples: text: […]ehm but if you’re happy then that’s what it comes up to at the end of the day if you’re happy doing what you are. ehm (..) if you’re not then it’s up to you to change it ehm I don’t think there’s a – (.) an age thing it’s ehm a personal one.
ref: 2004, Dariusz Galasiński, “‘There is a Concern’: Strategies of Emotion Talk”, in Men and the Language of Emotions, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 59:
text: 01 C: ehm hiya / 02 S: hi how can I help / 03 C: ((laughing)) ehm well I’ve just been informed I can’t get on (.) my plane[…]
ref: 2007, Ronald Geluykens, “Investigating complaints in business English: an evalutation of data collection methods”, in Katja Pelsmaekers, Craig Rollo, editors, Economically Speaking: Essays in Honour of Chris Braecke, Garant, →ISBN, page 38:
text: So ehm, I agreed that I would look at, ehm, ways of, ehm, of reducing the amount I was spending on my personal development,[…]
ref: 2008, Erik de Haan, “Verbatim Transcript: Ken”, in Relational Coaching: Journeys Towards Mastering One-to-One Learning, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 309:
glosses: um, er expressing hesitation
greecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greecious
form: most greecious
Senses: examples: text: Mistress Lucking, that foire were in our greecious Queen's service, zo 'twould be treason to speak ill o't...
ref: 1884, Theo Gift (Dorothy Henrietta Boulger), A matter-of-fact girl, page 283:
text: "Gudeness greecious!" ejaculated the mate again, blinking bewilderedly, like an owl unexpectedly exposed to daylight; but Captain Billings did not waste time in any further explanations or unnecessary words.
ref: 1885, John Conroy Hutcheson, On Board the Esmeralda: Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story:
text: ...we would 'umbly ask and crave thy greecious blessing, O Lard, upon this 'ousehold one and all gathered 'ere together at thy footstool.
ref: 1929, Gerald William Bullett, The Pandervils: Egg & Nicky, Heinemann, page 393:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gracious.
brontosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tribulations of a celluloid cutie are minor items when two brontosauri begin to muss up a whole forest in mortal combat.
ref: 1925 February 21, “Moving Pictures”, in The New Yorker, volume 1, number 1, New York City, New York, United States: F-R Pub. Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: The problem now is not “Why have we found no small brontosauri?” but “What happened to the big ones?”[…]
ref: 1962, Analog Science Fact & Science Fiction, volume 69, page 165:
text: I, for example, don't miss the brontosaurus very much and get along very well in a world that doesn't have brontosauri, since I've never known one.
ref: 1969, Growth of Population: Consequences and Controls: Proceedings, page 355:
text: But a little post mortem first may provide information useful to other people who keep brontosauri or other large beasts and who are solicitous or apprehensive about their health.
ref: 1977, Nuclear Power Costs: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, Part 2, page 1064:
text: Other museums throughout the country have also noted the strange heads on their brontosauri and have made the change accordingly.
ref: 1982, Fossils Quarterly:
text: Brontosauri are inconceivable apart from chipmunks, if necessary features follow from every adequate concept.
ref: 1987, The Main Debate: Communism Versus Capitalism, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
text: […], then galloped around the corner and down the stairs like a herd of brontosauri.
ref: 2006, Marc Estrin, Golem Song, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: plural of brontosaurus
urbicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl/
Etymology: Latin urb(s) (“city”) + English -icidal (literally, “city-killing”).
Senses: examples: text: Hence the ‘urbicidal’ aspect of the war, destruction of the cities as places of mixing and of centuries-old civilisation, places of openness and of tolerance, destruction of bridges as witnesses of historical exchange and physical bonds between groups presently at war and which the warring élites try to present as historicaly,^([sic]) traditionally enemies.
ref: 1998, Nickie Charles, Helen M. Hintjens, Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN:
text: The urbicidal acts included the attempted “murder” of the city virtually and symbolically; its physical destruction by random bombing, shelling, grenading, and the like; its strangling through denial of food, water, and energy; its terrorizing through sniper fire from surrounding hills and bombing of public places;…
ref: 2002, Joan Ockman of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention, page 141:
text: ^({1}) In contrast to Martin Shaw, he stresses that urbicidal acts were a distinct feature of that war.
^({2}) In contrast to Shaw, therefore, Coward argues that urbicidal warfare deserves stronger consideration in legal definitions of war crimes.
ref: 2004, Stephen Graham, Cities, War, and Terrorism, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 138, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.
examples: text: The urbicidal effect of the staggering local property tax rates is aggravated by the large amount of property that, for one reason or another, is tax exempt…
ref: 1967: Urban America (Organization), City — volumes 3–4, page 17 (Urban America)
text: The method of this urbicidal ignorance is described step by step.
ref: 1981, Lawrence Wodehouse, Ada Louise Huxtable, an Annotated Bibliography, Garland Pub., →ISBN, page 67, →ISBN:
text: This man knows the void; he shows how urban emptiness can be an active, malevolent, urbicidal force.
ref: 2006, Marshall Berman, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square, Random House, →ISBN, page xxxiv, →ISBN:
glosses: Inimical to the vitality of a city.
GWAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GWAPs
Senses: examples: text: The first and perhaps best known GWAP is the ESP game, which cloaks the task of labeling images under the guise of a game.
ref: 2013, Pietro Michelucci, editor, Handbook of Human Computation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 729:
glosses: Acronym of game with a purpose.
game with a purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: games with a purpose
Etymology: Coined by Luis von Ahn in 2008, see citations.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: GWAP
glosses: A computer game that serves some purpose for the people setting up the game by harnessing human abilities in an entertaining setting.
Related terms: gamification
skull caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skull cap
perpendicular recording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpendicular recordings
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: perpendicular magnetic recording
PMR
glosses: A technique of creating magnetic data storage using vertical as opposed to longitudinal magnetization.
Related terms: longitudinal recording
longitudinal recording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longitudinal recordings
Senses: glosses: A technique of creating magnetic data storage using horizontal as opposed to vertical magnetization of a hard disk drive.
Related terms: perpendicular recording
split antigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split antigens
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In the testing of cell surface antigens, an antigen that has a more refined or specific cell surface reaction relative to a broad antigen.(Example: HLA-B51 and HLA-B52 are split antigens of HLA-B5)
broad antigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad antigens
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In the testing of cell surface antigens, a serological specificity that is poor or broad relative to other specificities and can be defined as 2 or more split antigens.(Example: HLA-B51 and HLA-B52 are split antigens of the HLA-B5 broad antigen)
Rosen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊzən
Etymology: Jewish, German, Swedish, and English surname, all related to the noun rose and the name Rose. Compare Rosén, Roseen, Rosene.
Senses: examples: text: “The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on birthright,” Rosen says.
ref: 2018 October 31, AJ Willingham, “Understanding the 14th Amendment”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone
jam tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jam tarts
Senses: glosses: An open tartlet filled with jam
glosses: Heart
tartlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːt.lət/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹt.lət/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tlət
Forms: form: tartlets
form: tartelette
form: tartlette
Etymology: From Middle English tartelet, from Old French tartelette; equivalent to tart + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.
ref: 1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51:
glosses: A small tart (pastry).
examples: text: The only excitement I had was watching a tartlet in a teeny-weeny bikini that barely contained her truly mammoth assets light a cigarette and suck on it with puckered, painted, Lolita lips.
ref: 1992, Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: "She's a whore. A tartlet. Junia, he bought her for a hundred and fifty guineas, and then had the nerve to ask me to marry him!"
ref: 2010, Jo Beverley, Emily and the Dark Angel, Signet Eclipse, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: She hated that a large chunk of Jerry's income supported his little tartlets instead of being directed into their household as it should have been..
ref: 2010, Pastor Shirley, S.E.C.R.E.T.S. of the First Ladies, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, page 77:
text: 'Be gone tartlets! Your feminine charms hold no power over me,' he said, […]
ref: 2011, A. K. Wrox, Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy Thing to End All Questy Things, Clan Destine Press, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: I have yet to see a Hollywood tartlet apologize for weighing 95 pounds, or for playing dumb to stay popular, or for always being the sidekick when there's action.
ref: 2012 July 29, Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: A promiscuous young woman.
conscient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conscient
form: most conscient
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.
Senses: examples: text: As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
text: In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.
ref: 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography (page 552)
glosses: conscious; aware
Derived terms: conscientious
conscientize
unconscient
Related terms: sentient
finlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finlet
cabezons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabezon
bowfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowfin
bullheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullhead
braizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braize
breams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bream
callops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callop
yellowbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowbelly
flatfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatfish
clownfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clownfish
ciscos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cisco
gapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaper
capelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capelin
pomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomis
Etymology: Initialism of the phrase "physically out, mentally in".
Senses: glosses: A person who has been disfellowshipped from the Jehovah's Witnesses, but who still believes in the religion and would like to be reinstated in the congregation.
pomis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomi
webtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webtops
Etymology: Blend of Web + desktop
Senses: examples: text: Web services are on the rise, favoring the "webtop" over the desktop in much new development.
ref: 2007, Paul J. Deitel, C++ How to Program, page 34:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Integration of desktop office-productivity applications with Web-based information and application delivery.
Related terms: ASP
woolgatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolgatherers
Etymology: From woolgather + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in woolgathering.
woolgather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: woolgathers
form: woolgathering
form: woolgathered
form: woolgathered
form: gather wool
form: wool-gather
Etymology: Back-formation from woolgathering.
Senses: examples: text: I had bad times after that—crying at night and woolgathering by day. For two terms I slackened and had bad reports.
ref: 1911, H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall:
glosses: To daydream.
wool-gather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wool-gathers
form: wool-gathering
form: wool-gathered
form: wool-gathered
form: woolgather
Etymology: Back-formation from wool-gathering.
Senses: glosses: To daydream.
witch ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch balls
form: witchball
form: witch-ball
Senses: examples: text: To prevent the possibility of over-looking, it was only necessary to direct the glance elsewhere. This intention lay behind the coloured glass "witch-balls" hung in cottage windows; the garlands of flowers or bright berried branches nailed above the stable and cowshed doors or placed around the necks of cattle. [...] All were in the nature of red herrings to attract this important first glance.
ref: 1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 156:
glosses: A hollow sphere of plain or stained glass hung in windows in 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches' spells or ill fortune.
witchball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of witch ball.
turbo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From turbine, from Latin turbo (“spinning top”).
Senses: glosses: Turbine-related.
glosses: Accelerated, more robust, souped-up.
malpaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malpais
grinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grinners
Etymology: From Middle English grennare; equivalent to grin + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of grin; one who grins.
grinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grinner
full-court press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-court presses
form: full court press
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: all-court press
glosses: A coordinated maneuver, involving all team members, to block or interfere with the opposing team's attempt to advance the ball down the playing court, so as to force a turnover or backcourt violation.
examples: text: The White House has been engaged in a full court press to prevent other Republican senators from voting for any one of these amendments.
ref: 2007 July 10, Jay Newton-Small, “Can Bush Save the Surge?”, in Time:
synonyms: all-court press
glosses: A thorough, collaborative effort to overcome or constrain another person or group, especially a rival or opponent.
Related terms: forty minutes of hell
full court press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full court presses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of full-court press.
huntswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huntswomen
Etymology: From hunt + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female huntsman.
hydraulicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulicons
Senses: glosses: An ancient musical instrument, the water organ.
hydriad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydriads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑδριάς (νύμφη) (hudriás (númphē), “(nymph) of the water”).
Senses: glosses: A water nymph.
hydrocast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocasts
Etymology: From hydro- + cast.
Senses: glosses: A form of scientific water measurement in which several connected bottles are lowered into the water to collect samples.
hydrogenator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogenators
Etymology: From hydrogenate + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that hydrogenates.
piss-weak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This lager is piss-weak.
text: He felt exposed. Sprung by his own carefully hidden deficiencies. Weak. No. He thought he was piss-weak.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 442:
glosses: Extremely weak.
hydromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A morbid craving for water.
examples: text: Here, then, are two very different expressions of hydromania, sea-bathing and endurance swimming – the one associated with the pursuit of health, the other with athletic accomplishment; […]
ref: 2018, Margaret Cohen, Killian Quigley, The Aesthetics of the Undersea:
glosses: An intense attraction to water.
glosses: A morbid attraction to suicide by drowning.
hydromedusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromedusas
form: hydromedusae
Senses: glosses: The South American snake-necked turtle (Hydromedusa tectifera).
Derived terms: hydromedusan
hydrophobous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hydrophobic.
citeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citeable
form: most citeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of citable.
switching on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of switch on
push-up bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-up bras
form: pushup bra
Senses: glosses: A brassiere designed to elevate one's breasts and enhance one's cleavage.
acid rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: psychedelic rock
glosses: A rock music genre originating from the late 1960s, heavily inspired by drug-induced experiences.
Related terms: heavy metal
Hungryalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The word was derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "In The Sowre Hungry Tyme".
Senses: glosses: An experimental movement in arts and literature in West Bengal, India, during the period 1961-1965, claiming that India was in the grip of sarvagrass, meaning that its culture fed on all the morsels available to it from all over the world.
elephantfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephantfish
cohos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coho
coalfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalfish
coelacanths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelacanth
brotulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brotula
conners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conner
cunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunners
Senses: glosses: A marine European fish (Symphodus melops).
synonyms: burgall
glosses: A related American conner (Tautogolabrus adspersus).
Related terms: conner
cunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunner
daces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dace
cyclostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclostome
jawless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jaw + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Jawless fishes, such as lampreys, often have large and sharp teeth.
glosses: Lacking a jaw.
Derived terms: jawlessness
barbels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbel
aholeholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aholehole
flagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagtail
blowfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowfish
barfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barfish
flatheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flathead
handfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handfish
gobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goby
barramundis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barramundi
goldfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldfish
grilses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grilse
goldeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldeye
bichirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bichir
bathydemersals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathydemersal
blennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blenny
groupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grouper
eelpouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelpout
gurnards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurnard
bluefins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluefin
bocaccios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bocaccio
bonefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonefish
bonitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonito
hagfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagfish
hapukus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hapuku
hawkfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawkfish
hepatopancreases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatopancreas
hepatopancreata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatopancreas
jewfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewfish
cœlacanths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cœlacanth
fanne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: fan
homophone: faan
Forms: form: fannes
form: fenne
Etymology: Pseudo-French feminine form of fan
Senses: examples: text: Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fannes, page 31:
text: A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
ref: 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:
text: Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A female science fiction fan.
Synonyms: fangirl
femfan
femme fan
dermoid cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermoid cysts
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A type of teratoma or tumour, usually benign. It is in the form of a cyst or sac, and contains skin and sometimes hair, nails, teeth or other tissue.
Calvario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Isabela, Basilan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines.
lowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊɹi/
rhymes: -aʊɹi
Forms: form: more lowery
form: most lowery
form: loury
Etymology: From lower (“to frown”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Dark and gloomy; threatening; lowering.
loury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loury
form: most loury
form: lowery
Senses: glosses: dark and gloomy; threatening; lowering
wet through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wetter through
form: wettest through
Senses: examples: text: If you stay out in the rain, you will get wet through.
glosses: soaked, very wet (such that water gets through the clothes to reach the skin)
Synonyms: soaked to the skin
wet through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wets through
form: wetting through
form: wet through
form: wet through
form: wetted through
form: wetted through
Senses: glosses: To soak or drench thoroughly
pancreaticoduodenectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pancreaticoduodenectomies
Etymology: From pancreatico- + duoden- + -ectomy or pancreatico- + duodenectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure for the removal of part of the pancreas, part of the stomach and the duodenum.
Synonyms: pancreatoduodenectomy
Whipple procedure
pancreatoduodenectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pancreatoduodenectomies
Etymology: From pancreas + duodenum + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure for the removal of part of the pancreas and part of the stomach including the duodenum.
Synonyms: pancreaticoduodenectomy
Whipple procedure
Derived terms: hepatopancreatoduodenectomy
postpancreatoduodenectomy
pervo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervos
Etymology: From pervert + -o.
Senses: examples: text: The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition:
glosses: pervert
Whipple procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whipple procedures
Etymology: Named after the surgeon Dr. Allen Whipple, who devised the procedure in 1935.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Synonyms: Whipple
oesophagectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: oesophagectomies
form: esophagectomy
Etymology: From oesophag- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
Derived terms: pharyngoesophagectomy
Related terms: oesophago-gastrectomy
esophagectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: esophagectomies
Etymology: From esophag- + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oesophagectomy.
gastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrostomies
Etymology: From gastro- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure for making an opening in the stomach as part of an operation
Derived terms: cholecystogastrostomy
cystogastrostomy
gastrogastrostomy
hepatogastrostomy
pancreaticogastrostomy
pancreatogastrostomy
Related terms: gastrostomal
sexyer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sexier.
sexdactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of polydactyly. A genetic variation leading to a person having six digits on hands or feet.
Synonyms: hexadactyly
hexadactylism