cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Holy Rood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒli ˈɹuːd/
Forms: form: holy rood
form: Holyrood
Etymology: From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of True Cross: the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.
synonyms: word: True Cross
extra: the cross upon which Jesus was crucified
glosses: Alternative form of Holyrood: the Scottish Parliament, its chambers, or the surrounding neighborhood.
bioblitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioblitzes
Etymology: From bio- + blitz.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intense biological survey that attempts to record all the living species within a designated area
bioblitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioblitz
Meisinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meisingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Meisinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
biospeckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biospeckles
Etymology: From bio- + speckle.
Senses: glosses: The speckled appearance of a biological surface, due to interference, when illuminated with a laser
biospeckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biospeckle
Mengistu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mengistus
Etymology: Borrowed from the Amharic personal name መንግስቱ (Mengistu).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Amharic.
Mengistus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mengistu
Meisingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Meisinger
Gretz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gretzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gretz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gretzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gretz
Gerritsens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerritsen
Gopaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gopauls
Etymology: Variant of Gopal. This surname is typical of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Hankel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hankels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hankel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hankels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hankel
Gopauls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gopaul
Holewinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holewinskis
Etymology: Variant of Polish Cholewiński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Hirwaun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh hir gwaun.
Senses: glosses: A village and community (served by Hirwaun and Penderyn Community Council) in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN9605).
Hovermale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hovermales
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Habermehl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hovermales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hovermale
Holewinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holewinski
radio-active
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radio-active
form: most radio-active
Senses: examples: text: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
glosses: Dated spelling of radioactive.
Haberkorns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haberkorn
Penderyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh pen aderyn.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hirwaun community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN9408).
Llwydcoed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN9904).
Holy Sepulchre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holy Sepulcher
Etymology: From Middle English Holy Sepulcre, holi sepulcre, equivalent to proprialization of holy + sepulchre.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion.
Related terms: empty as the tomb on Easter
Rhigos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN9205).
balneologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balneological.
lexicologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: lexicological
Papaleo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Papaleos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Papaleo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
closed order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed orders
Senses: glosses: A religious order whose members have little or no contact or involvement with the outside world.
Papandrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Papandreas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Papandrea.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
enclosed order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enclosed orders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of closed order (religious group).
synonyms: word: closed order
extra: religious group
terminologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, terminology + -ic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terminological.
Uffculme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST0612).
Brau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Braus
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from South German Bräu, an occupational surname from a shortened form of an agent noun denoting a brewer;
* Borrowed from Catalan and southern French Brau, a nickname from Catalan brau (“brave, fierce”) or Occitan brau (“wild”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bimetalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bimetallic.
citogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cytogenetic.
Butterknowle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lynesack and Softley parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1025).
Lynesack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lynesack and Softley parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0925).
Softley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Lynesack and Softley parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0926).
cover one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers one's back
form: covering one's back
form: covered one's back
form: covered one's back
Senses: synonyms: cover one's backside
cover one's behind
cover one's rear
cover one's ass
cover one's arse
glosses: To protect or look out for oneself.
switch teams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches teams
form: switching teams
form: switched teams
form: switched teams
Senses: glosses: To change one's sexual orientation.
Related terms: bat for the other team
neoromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neo-romantic.
idiopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiopaths
Etymology: From idio- + -path.
Senses: examples: text: One has to wonder whether these nutrient minimalists would have us believe that all of us idiopaths, whose neuropathy causations are by definition unknown, were idiotic in taking nutrients, and that if the supplements happened to work […]
ref: 2002, John A. Senneff, Nutrients for Neuropathy (Numb Toes Series; 3), San Antonio, TX: MedPress, →ISBN, page 19:
text: It may also explain why INS appears apparently idiopathically in some Down's infants (Lawson et al., 1996), who as a group also demonstrate delayed acuity development (Iohn et al., 2004). Thus, sensory delay may be the common antecedent event to INS development, although the cause of delay in idiopaths remains a mystery.
ref: 2011, Chris Harris, “Oculomotor developmental pathology: an ‘evo-devo’ perspective”, in Simon Liversedge, Iain Gilchrist, Stefan Everling, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 678:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A person who suffers from an idiopathic disease.
Related terms: idiopathic
idiopathy
idiopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiopath
estoppal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of estoppel.
pindaric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pindarics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pindaric.
tracklifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track lifting
form: track-lifting
Etymology: From track + lifting.
Senses: examples: text: Track-lifting began from Kirkby Stephen towards Stainmore at the beginning of May, writes A. G. S. Davies, and Class Q6 0-8-0s returned to the line to haul the demolition trains.
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: Barnard Castle trains withdrawn”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The process of removal of railway track, in particular from a railway line permanently closed to traffic.
talmudic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An example of the talmudic reasoning in this regard is the case where the defendant sold an ox to the claimant, and the ox was found to be a gorer. The claimant now wants his money back on the ground that his purchase was a “mistaken transaction”. Most people, it can be allowed, acquire an ox for purposes of ploughing, and a gorer is not satisfactory for that purpose.
ref: 1992, Roman A. Ohrenstein, Barry Gordon, Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, E. J. Brill, page 12:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Talmudic
hand cannons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand cannon
Shan-hsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 山西 (Shānxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Shan¹-hsi¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Plain extends from the Yang-tzŭ River to the mountains which divide Chih-li and Shan-hsi and Manchuria, and supports a population estimated at more than a hundred millions, reminding one in denstiy of inhabitants of the province of Bengal.
ref: 1907, Arthur Henderson Smith, The Uplift of China, The Eddy Press, page 8:
text: Farmers husking corn at the Ming Chien People’s Commune in T’ai-yuan, Shan-hsi, are using their new electrical machine.
[...]A mechanical cotton picker has not yet appeared in the Ming Chien People’s Commune in Shan-hsi, so slow hand picking goes on.
ref: 1966, Theodore Herman, China (Around the World Program), American Geographical Society, Nelson Doubleday, Inc., →OCLC, page 54:
text: Apparently the Russians had complained that tea tasted different when it was shipped in by train, having gotten used to tea saturated with the sweat of camels carrying merchants across the Gobi Desert from Shan-hsi.
ref: 2015, Xiao Bai, translated by Chenxin Jiang, French Concession, Harper Collins Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of Shanxi.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Landewednack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cornwall, England, which includes the village of Lizard.
punches down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punch down
punching down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punch down
punched down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punch down
factchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factcheck
factchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of factcheck
Porthleven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6225).
superhungry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superhungry
form: most superhungry
Etymology: From super- + hungry.
Senses: examples: text: Says Risbell, “I could smell the decomposition in my hair and clothes. I had to buy another shirt in between classes.” ¶ She says it was past lunchtime. And despite being in all that smell, “I thought it’s weird, but I’m superhungry.”
ref: 2014 December 29, Erik Lacitis, “We will bury you: Students learn basics at funeral-service school”, in The Seattle Times:
text: “They can be the hero for an entire region,” said Chris Greeley, the commissioner of League of Legends’ North American region, called the League Championship Series. “They can be onstage and lift that trophy and deliver that to a region that’s superhungry for it.”
ref: 2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Very hungry.
hones in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊnz ɪn/
ipa: /həʊnz ɪn/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hone in
honing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊnɪŋ ɪn/
ipa: /həʊnɪŋ ɪn/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hone in
honed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊnd ɪn/
ipa: /həʊnd ɪn/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hone in
homes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)əʊm ɪn/
ipa: /hoʊm ɪn/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of home in
homing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)əʊmɪŋ ɪn/
ipa: /hoʊmɪŋ ɪn/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of home in
homed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊmd ɪn/
ipa: /həʊmd ɪn/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of home in
War and Peace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the title of the novel War and Peace by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, noted for its considerable length.
Senses: examples: text: You get an exhaustive, War and Peace-style description of your system.
ref: 1998, Bill Camarda, Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide:
text: She proceeded to launch into this War and Peace–length speech about honesty and community and respect and all those other topics that seriously get on my nerves.
ref: 2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber, Random House Australia:
text: I will refer to this as the War and Peace e-mail—a painfully long e-mail that many will not read. You remember Tolstoy's War and Peace, a very, very long and thick book. The consumer response to the initial e-mail was less than 1 percent.
ref: 2012, J. M. Barry, L. C. Coats, Selling in Today's Economy: Applying Laws of Physics and Performance Art to Gain the Cutting Edge, iUniverse:
glosses: A text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
wikipedia: War and Peace
heterocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterocentric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently many concepts suitable for the camera loose their sharpness when applied to the eye. For example, because of heterocentricity, the eye has no optical axis as traditionally defined; at best one has to be satisfied with an approximate optical axis.^(1,2,16)
ref: 2011, William F. Harris, “Aperture referral in heterocentric astigmatic systems”, in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, volume 31, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 603–604:
glosses: The state or quality of being heterocentric.
jumps in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒʌmps ɪn/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump in
jumping in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒʌmpɪŋ ɪn/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump in
jumped in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒʌmpt ɪn/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump in
commits to memory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪt/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commit to memory
committing to memory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪtiŋ tu ˈmɛm(ə)ɹi/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commit to memory
committed to memory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪtɪd tu ˈmɛm(ə)ɹi/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commit to memory
attagirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attagirl
chookas
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊkəz/
rhymes: -ʊkəz
Forms: form: chookers
Senses: examples: text: You'll be great on stage tonight, chookas!
glosses: Expression of encouragement given to performers before a theatrical or musical performance.
Synonyms: sense: theatre
word: break a leg
Qingyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ch'ing-yüan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清苑 (Qīngyuàn).
Senses: examples: text: The same point of view was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶
ref: [1967, Howard S. Levy, “Introductory Remarks”, in Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom, New York: Bell Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30, 301:
text: The political and legal affairs committee of Qingyuan district in Baoding, Hebei province, announced on Friday that it would look into the allegation after a report by The Beijing News that day.
According to the report, the police officer, identified only by his family name Yang, was being tried for dereliction of duty in Qingyuan District People’s Court last month when he submitted a recording of a conversation in which the boss allegedly tells Yang and an auxiliary officer to take full responsibility for the death of a suspected criminal.
ref: 2019 December 9, Zhuang Pinghui, “Communist Party to reopen death in custody case after police officer claims he was scapegoat”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2019, China society:
glosses: A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
Qingyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ch'ing-yüan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清遠 /清远 (Qīngyuǎn).
Senses: examples: text: Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the braves ? Answer. The braves, in general. . . .
ref: [1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 655:
text: 1945
January[…]
19. China: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.
ref: [2004, “Chronicle September 1939–August 1945”, in World War II: Day by Day, DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 599, column 1:
text: “I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city.
The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.
ref: 2020 March 24, Brenda Goh, Ryan Woo, Se Young Lee, Stella Qiu, Yawen Chen, Samuel Shen Liangping Gao, Roxanne Liu, Huizhong Wu, Min Zhang, Shivani Singh, “Locked-down no longer, China's Hubei begins return to normal”, in Michael Perry, Christian Schmollinger, Giles Elgood, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2022, World News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
helek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪlɪk/
/ˈxeɪlɪk/
Forms: form: halakim
form: chelek
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חֵלֶק (ḥēleq).
Senses: examples: text: For calendrical calculations, the day begins at 6 P.M., which is designated 0 hours. Hours are divided into 1080 halakim; thus one helek is 3 1/3 seconds.
ref: 1992, L.E. Doggett, “Calendars”, in P. Kenneth Seidelman, editor, Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, page 585:
text: By some estimates the mean lunation was actually 29.5 days and 793 halakim somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era.
ref: 2004, Sheldon Epstein, Bernard Dickman, Yonah Wilamowsky, “A 5765 Anomaly”, in Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, volume 38, number 3, page 585:
glosses: A unit of time equal to an eighteenth of a minute (3⅓ seconds)
cochlear duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochlear ducts
form: ductus cochlearis
form: scala media
form: cochlear canal
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The spirally arranged canal in the bony canal of the cochlea that contains the organ of Corti, is triangular in cross section, and is bounded by the vestibular membrane above, by the periosteum-lined wall of the cochlea laterally, and by the basilar membrane below.
carbamoylamino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamoylaminos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbamoyl derivative of an amino radical NH₂CO-NH-
digestory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a digestor
glosses: Synonym of digestive.
synonyms: word: digestive
dripwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dripwaters
Senses: glosses: water that drips from the roof of a cave, typically forming a stalactite
epimetamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + metamorphic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Above a metamorphic stratum
hyperpolypharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + polypharmacy.
Senses: glosses: Excessive polypharmacy (typically the prescription of more than about ten different medications)
magmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of magmatic
magmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: The study of magma
microdischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdischarges
Etymology: From micro- + discharge.
Senses: glosses: A very small discharge (typically of a plasma)
recuperability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being recuperable
thrombophylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrombophilic (possibly a misspelling)
user-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Created or defined by the user of a system, rather than being included in the original package.
Derived terms: user-defined function
user-defined graphic
chymoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A combining form of mesenchyme + plasm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of an egg that becomes mesenchyme
chytrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chytra
chytrai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chytra
cilery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cileres
form: cillery
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The ornament carved at the capital of a column
ciliolum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciliola
Senses: glosses: A small or secondary cilium
ciliola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciliolum
tumpty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumpties
Senses: glosses: A small, solid or padded stool, footstool or pouf.
Related terms: rumpty-tumpty
tumpties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumpty
unvociferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvociferous
form: most unvociferous
Etymology: From un- + vociferous.
Senses: glosses: Not vociferous.
sharp as a bowling ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Not at all sharp-witted; very stupid.
multibaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multibagger
multibanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multibanded
form: most multibanded
Etymology: From multi- + banded.
Senses: glosses: Having or employing multiple bands.
disallower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disallowers
Etymology: From disallow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disallows or forbids.
disallowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disallower
autoimmunologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoimmunological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of autoimmunology.
neuroimmunopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroimmunopathology.
Elliot's short-tailed shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elliot's short-tailed shrews
Etymology: Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.
Senses: glosses: A shrew of species Blarina hylophaga.
wikipedia: Daniel Giraud Elliot
laugh and grow fat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A cheerful attitude leads to success in life.
Related terms: laugh before breakfast, cry before supper
wawas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wawa
processuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processualities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being processual.
processualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processuality
rocket surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket surgeons
Etymology: Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon, as both are commonly used in such phrases as "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it".
Senses: examples: text: At this point you may be thinking, “I know all about goals. I know to make them S.M.A.R.T.” What's S.M.A.R.T? Some rocket surgeon a while back came up with the notion that goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and time-based.
ref: 2012, Chris Vander Mey, “How to measure greatness”, in Shipping Greatness, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”).
synonyms: word: rocket scientist
extra: someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing
Related terms: rocket surgery
rocket surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocket surgeon
Aldeburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːlbrə/
Etymology: From Old English eald (“old”) + Old English burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Aldborough, Aldbrough, and Oldbury. Compare Oldenburg.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4656).
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: Alde
many-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: manycoloured
form: manicoloured
form: many-colored
form: manycolored
form: manicolored
Etymology: From many + colour + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the hollow, a large mezerian bush gave life to the green expanse; the anemones opened their many-coloured petals to the sun; the tulips were just opening; and there seemed scarcely any need of greater variety, or of sweeter smells, than those which the hyacinths afforded.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:
text: On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Composed of a great number of different colours; multicoloured; variegated.
optical delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical delusions
Senses: examples: text: I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.
optical delusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optical delusion
cimblin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimblins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cymling.
cimblins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimblin
dead as ditch-water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Do you go in if you like." But I merely shook my head, my excitement was as dead as ditch-water, and my distaste for the prolongation of my mortal span had come back upon me more strongly than ever.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Unquestionably dead.
Related terms: dead as a doornail
dead as a dodo
dull as ditchwater
medico-legal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medicolegal.
the wrong side of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: She looked to be the wrong side of forty.
text: Two weary, worn-out men, one of them on the wrong side of forty, a rocking-stone to take off from, a trembling point of rock some few feet across to land upon, and a bottomless gulf to be cleared in a raging gale!
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Older than (the stated age, typically a decade).
examples: the wrong side of the tracks, the wrong side of the law, the wrong side of history
glosses: Used in various other expressions to refer to an inimical or disfavoured condition.
Related terms: get out of bed on the wrong side
on the wrong foot
early closing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The index to stations does not show early closing days or stations with car parks.
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
glosses: The practice of business premises in a town closing for one afternoon each week.
spiroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiroidal
form: most spiroidal
Etymology: From spiroid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a spiroid.
swear to God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swears to God
form: swearing to God
form: swore to God
form: sworn to God
Senses: synonyms: swear on a stack of Bibles
swear on the Bible
swear on one's life
glosses: To vigorously affirm the truth of a statement, knowing that the failure to do so may result in a punishment from God.
Hypernyms: to swear
Derived terms: to God
swear to God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker is swearing to God.
glosses: Used to indicate a high level of seriousness.
Related terms: honest to God
to God
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I hope to God that ...
text: I wish to God that ...
glosses: Used as an intensifier: very much.
praise be to God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: praise be to God !
Etymology: A present subjunctive clause inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of them.
Senses: synonyms: praise the Lord
praise be
glosses: May God be praised; expressing thankful happiness.
Related terms: by the Grace of God
thank God
plague spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plague spots
Senses: examples: text: But no plague-spot appeared, and when Steb woke up in the afternoon and demanded something to eat, it was pretty evicent that he was merely suffering from a feverish cold.
ref: 1881, Edward Newenham Hoare, The Brave Men of Eyam, Or, A Tale of the Great Plague Year, page 193:
text: The first victim died 6 September after three days of illness when he developed swellings in the groin and neck and the fatal token, the plague spot.
ref: 2011, Ole Benedictow, What Disease was Plague?, page 286:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: God's token
glosses: A spot on the skin that is characteristic of the plague or of a similar disease.
examples: text: He notes that South Elmham deanery 'appears to have been a plague spot', but regrettably he supplies no reason for its unenviable condition.
ref: 2005, J. F. D. Shrewsbury, A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles, page 98:
text: However, with the growth of young animals, the gerbils visit neighboring burrows and the plague spot therefore expands.
ref: 2016, Ruifu Yang, Andrey Anisimov, Yersinia pestis: Retrospective and Perspective, page 111:
glosses: A location where plague is active.
examples: text: Suffice it that all that is most worthless in Europe may be seen gathered round the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo. The artist who did these drawings has been there. Well, I thank Heaven we have no such plague-spot in this fair England of ours.
ref: 1899, The Butterfly - Volumes 1-2:
text: He turned the worst plague spot in Oxford, with its plague pit where lay 'filth, rotten corpses, and intestines of corpses', the dump of the refuse of the town, 'where thieves and malefactors used to lie in wait for opportunities of thieving, homicide, and other intolerable evils', into a splendid home for classical learning in which good Churchmen were to be trained.
ref: 1937, Robert Theodore Gunther, Early science in Oxford, page 135:
text: He is the human hyena and moral leper who runs the scurrilous, venal, unspeakable rag around on Fifth Avenue, a creature whose base, degraded nature has made him a portable plague spot wherever he goes.
ref: 1956, John D. Bright, Kansas: The First Century - Volume 2, page 440:
glosses: A location that is a plague or scourge; a place of corruption and degeneracy.
pirogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Auster makes clear that while the father comprehends his Jewish identity, taking his son to Jewish restaurants, eating borscht, pirogen, the boy is lost: […]
ref: 1995, George Eisen, David Kenneth Wiggins, Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture, page 94:
glosses: plural of pirog
destination board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: destination boards
Senses: examples: text: At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.
ref: 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:
text: [...] why not show in the train columns and notes the four-character code numbers, which are so useful, amongst other purposes, in helping the passenger identify his train at stations, now that fewer coaches bear destination boards?
ref: 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A board attached to the side of a railway carriage which indicates where the train is going to. More modern variants can be a dot-matrix display panel.
glosses: A departure board or indicator at a railway station.
teleconventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleconvention
destination boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destination board
siderurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to siderurgy.
plague spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plague spot
forcefall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcefalls
Etymology: From Middle English *forsfal, from Old Norse forsfall (“waterfall, torrent”), equivalent to force (“waterfall”) + fall. Compare Icelandic fossfall (“waterfall, torrent”).
Senses: examples: text: For down from His heights, marking the descent by "forcefalls" as a river marks declivities in its bed by cataracts, comes this supreme power; […]
ref: 1924, Frederick Spencer Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets, page 64:
text: Tops of sweet birch snap strong and stiff like bones busting against bats or the sides of heads slapping concrete through the forcefall that takes a score more limbs before piercing top soil like carelessly falling arrows.
ref: 1990, Gladys Goring Johnson, December, volume 33, page 82:
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: A waterfall or cascading torrent.
Synonyms: waterfall
forcefalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcefall
Carbis Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large seaside village in St Ives parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5238).
Corkran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corkrans
Etymology: Variant of Corcoran.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Carmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carmers
Etymology: Unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Corkrans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Corkran
Carmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carmer
Cuartas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cuartases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cuartas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Crumby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crumbys
Etymology: English spelling of Crombie.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Crumbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crumby
Cuartases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuartas
cimborio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimborios
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A lantern (typically octagonal) built over the crossing of a Gothic cathedral
Courtwright
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Courtwrights
Etymology: Variant of Cartwright.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cinerolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketoalcohol 2-(2-butenyl)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one
Hockenbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hockenburys
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Hackenberger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
ketoalcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoalcohols
Etymology: From keto- + alcohol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol that also contains a ketonic carbonyl group
ketoalcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketoalcohol
Hockenburys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hockenbury
Courtwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Courtwright
cinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinesis.
cinnamal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of cinnamaldehyde.
Jaudon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaudons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Jaudon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Hinnenkamp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinnenkamps
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hinnenkamp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hinnenkamps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hinnenkamp
Jaudons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jaudon
cinnamenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of styryl.
synonyms: word: styryl
cinnamylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinnamylidenes
Etymology: From cinnamyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical C₆H₅-CH=CH-CH=
Hendee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hendees
Etymology: Variant of Hendy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Frable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frables
Etymology: Variant of Frabel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cinquepace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinquepaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinque-pace.
cinquepaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinquepace
Frables
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frable
Hendees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hendee
cinquepas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinquepases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinque-pace.
Marulanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marulandas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Marulanda.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
circensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Circensian.
circumambiences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumambience
circumcrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows around something
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of epibolic.
synonyms: word: epibolic
Related terms: circumcrescence
Marulandas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marulanda
circumcrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being circumcrescent
glosses: Synonym of epiboly.
synonyms: word: epiboly
circumerosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumerosions
Etymology: From circum- + erosion.
Senses: glosses: erosion around something so as to leave it exposed
Related terms: circumdenudation
Albericos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alberico
cirrhosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That is affected with cirrhosis
military hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military hospitals
Senses: glosses: a hospital for the care and treatment of sick and wounded military personnel.
glosses: a hospital owned and operated by the armed forces.
Related terms: military prison
overexpresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overexpressers
Etymology: From over- + expresser.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that experiences (or produces) overexpression
orgiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: orgiastic
Christianophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christianophiles
Etymology: From Christiano- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who loves or admires Christians, Christianity or Christian culture.
Related terms: Christianophilia
Christianophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christianophile
Christianophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christiano- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: The love or admiration of the values of Christianity or of Christian civilization.
closed question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed questions
Senses: synonyms: closed-ended question
antonyms: open question
open-ended question
glosses: A question that can only be responded to with a set number of answers (typically yes and no).
Related terms: multiple-choice question
polar question
yes-no question
pluripartyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluri- + party + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multipartyism.
synonyms: word: multipartyism
unipartyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uni- + party + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Unipartyism, it has been argued, is at once stabilizing and integrative; it reflects the legacy of government by consensus characteristic of most traditional political systems and prevents the dissipation of energy in desultory political strife.
ref: 1967, Claude Ake, A Theory of Political Integration, page 82:
text: This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place.
ref: 2006, Ibrahim John Werrema, Tanzanians to the Promised Land: After Forty Years, page 34:
text: First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition.
ref: 2013, Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics, page 52:
text: Like most political ideologies, it serves primarily to rationalize and legitimate a particular political state of affairs, which in this instance is postcolonial unipartyism.
ref: 2021, James S. Coleman, Carl G. Rosberg, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, page 668:
synonyms: monopartyism
one-party system
coordinate_terms: multipartyism
pluripartyism
glosses: A political system that has only one political party.
Related terms: uniparty
the last I heard
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: last I heard
Senses: glosses: Used to introduce one's most recent information on a subject, while acknowledging that things may have changed since the speaker was informed.
last I heard
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of the last I heard.
trieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of trying.
manual reversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈman.j(ʊ).əl ɹɪˈvəː.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈmæn.j(əw).əl ɹɪˈvɚ.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈmæn.j(əw).əl ɹəˈvɚ.ʒən/
Senses: examples: text: In the event of a failure of both hydraulic systems A and B, the ailerons and elevators can be operated manually without hydraulic power (referred to as manual reversion). The rudder has no manual reversion capability but can be operated with the standby hydraulic system.
ref: 1999, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.6.2 Boeing 737 Hydraulic System Information”, in Uncontrolled Descent And Collision With Terrain, USAir Flight 427, Boeing 737-300, N513AU, Near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1994, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021, page 16:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The actuation via purely mechanical means (using cables and/or pushrods) of one or more control surfaces that are usually controlled by hydraulics.
unsandaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unsandalled.
schemingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scheming + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being scheming.
permitteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permit
permittest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of permit