cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fantastico
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantastico
form: most fantastico
Etymology: From Italian fantastico (“fantastic”), from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”). Doublet of fantastic and fantastique.
Senses: glosses: fantastic
downriver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downriver
form: most downriver
form: down-river
Etymology: From down- + river.
Senses: examples: text: My house is downriver to his.
glosses: Closer to the mouth of a river
downriver
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downriver
form: most downriver
form: down-river
Etymology: From down- + river.
Senses: examples: text: It is easier to paddle downriver.
glosses: Travelling in the direction of the river current.
Synonyms: downstream
decencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decency
glosses: The requirements for comfortable living.
separata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separatum
duplicando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplicandos
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Alternative form of duplicand.
decelerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛləɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decelerators
Etymology: From decelerate + -or.
Senses: glosses: someone or something that decelerates.
decelerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decelerator
draftsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draftsmanships
form: draughtsmanship
Etymology: From draftsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The art or craft of a draftsman.
glosses: The skill of drawing.
troubleshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to computer problems, his troubleshooting is first-rate.
glosses: The identification and resolution of problems, especially problems of a technical nature.
troubleshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troubleshoot
Related terms: fault-finding
draftswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draftswomen
form: draftwoman
form: draughtswoman
Etymology: From draft + -s- + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed in making drawings.
glosses: A woman exceptionally skilled in drawing.
draftswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draftswoman
disallowance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disallowances
Etymology: From dis- + allowance and disallow + -ance; may be analyzed as dis- + allow + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the 'disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric.
ref: 1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4:
glosses: The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
topics: government
law
politics
coordinate_terms: reservation
glosses: A power a higher level authority has to disallow particular legislation of the lower level jurisdiction; such as a federal government disallowing state/provincial legislation, or the British monarch disallowing colonial legislation.
Related terms: allow
allowance
-ance
dis-
disallow
disallowances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disallowance
pocket pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variation of the game of pool.
examples: text: ‘[…]I don't give a damn if your messengers end up giving fuck shows for horny old men snarfing nose candy and playing pocket pool.’
ref: 1986, Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test, page 70:
synonyms: word: pocket billiards
word: celebrating Palm Sunday
word: choking the chicken
word: ham shank
word: hand shandy
word: Hand Solo
word: ipsation
word: jacking off
word: jerking off
word: lone rangering
word: manustupration
word: mastupration
word: masturbation
word: milking the sausage
word: onanism
word: peeling the cucumber
word: pocket pool
word: polishing the jewels
word: romancing the bone
word: secret vice
word: self-abuse
word: self-defilement
word: self-love
word: self-pleasure
word: self-pollution
word: shaking hands with the milkman
word: shaking out the curtains
word: solitary vice
word: spanking the monkey
word: tossing off
word: wank
glosses: The act of manipulating one's genitalia through a trouser pocket; masturbation.
Related terms: dirty pool
pocket-pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before he could even begin to understand introductory algebra, he had to re-learn the fractions that he and Teddy and Vern had played pocket-pool through in the fifth grade.
ref: 1983, Stephen King, Different Seasons, page 431:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pocket pool.
fice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: fices
form: feist
form: fise
form: fist
Senses: examples: text: 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,
He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice, or cur dog, would rail behind my back.
text: a'''1849, James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States, Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,
Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice,’ on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.
text: 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country, W. G. Cheeney, page 260,
One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining and growling at each other on the sidewalk.
text: At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.
ref: 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114
text: 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship, University of Chicago Press (2004), →ISBN, page 57,
When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.
glosses: Alternative form of feist (“a feist dog”).
Derived terms: fice dog
believability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From believe + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being believable.
Synonyms: believableness
credibility
plausibility
comble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combles
Etymology: From French comble. Doublet of cumulus.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A band along the top part of the shield, half the height of the chief.
juke joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juke joints
form: jook joint
Senses: examples: text: "She's black as tar... nappy-headed... She got legs like baseball bats. Her own daddy won't have nothing to do with her. She's no more than a jook-joint Jezebel. She ain't even clean."
ref: 1985, The Color Purple, 00:56:00:
glosses: An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
Synonyms: jook house
juke house
jook joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jook joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of juke joint.
bell-ringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-ringers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bell ringer.
præclude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præcludes
form: præcluding
form: præcluded
form: præcluded
Senses: examples: text: Yeſterday I called ane counſell of warre, where we moſt ſeriouſlie weighed and fullie debated everie thinge relating to his majeſtie’s ſervice, and having found that the treacherie and deſertion of many of thoſe, who had joyned in it, and were eminently conſiderable, have reduced the buſines to ſuch a condition, that we were forced to conclude it impoſsible now to carie it on with the meaneſt hope of advantage; and withall finding it very improbable, if not altogether impoſsible, to gett the advice of yourſelfe, and all the noblemen and officers, which we moſt earneſtly wiſhed in this ſad exigent, that everie man’s judgment might have gone along with ours, without manifeſt prejudice in many reſpects: it was unanimouſly concluded neceſsarie to ſend for a paſse for ſome perſons, to treat for the laying doune of armes with Monke, and to deſire a ceſsation rather than fooliſhly to ſacrifice the lyves and fortunes of thoſe, who have moſt loyallie and noblie reſiſted and contemned all difficulties, temptations, and diſcouragements, and ar yet moſt willing to ſpend their laſt blood in this caus; and ſo in human appearance præclude as farre as in us lyes all future hopes of this kingdome’s libertie.
ref: 1654 (published in 1742), Lieutenant General Jo. Middletone, An intercepted letter of lieutenant general Middleton, to lieutenant col. Mac Gregour, in State Papers, 1654, December (3 of 4) from A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, volume 3: December 1654 – August 1655, page 42
glosses: Obsolete spelling of preclude.
dopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dopier
form: dopiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dopey.
Derived terms: dopily
dopiness
Related terms: dope
dorky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dorkier
form: dorkiest
Etymology: From dork + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
ref: 1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad, page 167:
text: Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...
ref: 1998, Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light, →ISBN:
synonyms: dorkish
glosses: Like a dork.
Derived terms: dorkily
dorkiness
dorkyness
semi-dorky
præ-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /pɹaɪ/
/pɹiː/
/pɹɛ/
Etymology: Ligatural form of Latin pre-.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
qualifier: or pedantic
glosses: Alternative form of pre-.
Derived terms: sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præcede
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præclude
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: prædecessor
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præfect
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præfer
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præmarital
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præmise
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præmiss
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præmium
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præmunire
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: prænomen
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præponderance
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præposition
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præsent
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: præ-Socratic(s)
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: prætentious
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: prætor
sense: Terms which feature præ-
word: prævent
dinnerware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnerwares
Etymology: From dinner + -ware.
Senses: glosses: The dishes used for serving dinner.
Synonyms: dineware
diningware
puellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puella
hæresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹəsi/
/ˈhaɪɹəsi/
Forms: form: hæresies
Senses: examples: text: And Epiphaniusᵉ reports it to be a hæresy of the Osseni, that they sayd it was no sin etiamsi simulachra ipsos adorare contingat persequutionis tempore instante, si solum in Conscientiâ non adorent; to adore with their bodyes though their soules detested it was Idolatry, and to deny it was hæresy.
ref: c. 1637, Jeremy Taylor, On the Reverence due to the Altar:
qualifier: archaic or pedantic
glosses: Alternative spelling of heresy.
hæresies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæresy
glosses: plural of hæresie
polyculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycultures
Etymology: From poly- + culture.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
examples: text: What we have here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a) discrete and complete in themselves; (b) that are not in any sense 'intrinsically' 'equal'; and (c) are active together and hence bound up with change.
ref: 2003, Roger Hewitt, edited by R. Harris and B. Rampton, Language, Youth and the Destabilisation of Ethnicity, page 190:
text: Marsdsen, R. (1993) 'Global Monoculture, Multiculture and Polyculture', Social Research 60 (3): 493–523.
ref: 2003, Angus Cameron, Ronen Palan, The Imagined Economies of Globalization, SAGE, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Finally, but equal in importance, this book aims to engage with the ongoing dialogue among scholars of race and ethnicity in America, specifically regarding conversations on the issues of multiculture, polyculture, and the persistence of race.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown, American Ethnic and Cultural S:
text: Europe/the EU's internal collective group identity is polycultural and not yet multicultural as per its “United in Diversity” motto. The concept of polyculture is a borrowed term from the discipline of agriculture. […] This paper adds a third definition to these two definitions by proposing to include the dominant culture within the fold of the polyculture to make it a multicultural society.
ref: 2014, Kenan Aksu, Turkey: A Regional Power in the Making, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 128:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating.
campane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campanes
Etymology: From French campane, ultimately from Late Latin campāna.
Senses: glosses: A bell, or bell-shaped thing.
Derived terms: campaned
coon cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coon cats
Senses: glosses: A Maine Coon
chromosomally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chromosomal + -ly.
Senses: examples: chromosomally abnormal
glosses: With reference to chromosomes.
nuked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nuke
liquid mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid mirrors
Senses: glosses: A mirror made from a layer of reflective liquid.
Derived terms: liquid mirror telescope
liquid mirror telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid mirror telescopes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of reflecting telescope employing a parabolic liquid mirror made by spinning a pool of reflective liquid.
decidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈsaɪdəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more decidable
form: most decidable
Etymology: From decide + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being decided.
examples: text: It is easy to show that the set of even numbers is decidable by creating the relevant Turing machine.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount of time.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P is decidable in a given theory if it can be proven from the theory that "either P or not P", i.e. in symbols: P∨¬P.
Synonyms: topics: science
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: recursive
topics: science
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: computable
Derived terms: semi-decidable
Related terms: decidability
falls by the wayside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall by the wayside
dimethylfuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylfurans
Etymology: From dimethyl + furan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomers of the heterocyclic compound formed by substituting two methyl groups for hydrogen in furan; but especially 2,5-dimethylfuran obtained by catalytic reduction of fructose from biomass for use as a biofuel
immunoblotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoblottings
Etymology: From immuno- + blotting.
Senses: glosses: The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
Synonyms: western blot analysis
immunoblot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoblots
Etymology: From immuno- + blot.
Senses: glosses: A blot used in western blot analysis.
immunoblot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunoblots
form: immunoblotting
form: immunoblotted
form: immunoblotted
Etymology: From immuno- + blot.
Senses: glosses: To perform such an analysis.
emboldens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embolden
emboldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embolden
emboldening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emboldenings
Senses: examples: text: They do not fear shameful fears, nor are they emboldened by shameful emboldenings.
ref: 2010, Laurence Lampert, How Philosophy Became Socratic, page 119:
text: Ruling in the immunity case, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to serenely arrogate to the Court an immense power to determine whether the president might ever face criminal consequence without worrying whether the emboldening of a rampaging executive might at some point place the authority of the judiciary in danger.
ref: 2025 April 9, Quinta Jurecic, “What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A making bold.
sea snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea snakes
form: seasnake
form: sea-snake
Senses: glosses: Any of several snakes, of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, that live in the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
hypernyms: snake
<
reptile
<
animal
<
creature#Noun
coordinate_terms: water snake
glosses: Any snake that lives in the sea.
glosses: A sea serpent.
Derived terms: yellow-bellied sea snake
blancos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blanco
French pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɹɛnt͡ʃ pɑks/
Etymology: From French + pox; attested from the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: syphilis
Related terms: morbus gallicus
fices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fice
decentralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛntɹəlaɪz/
ipa: /diˈsɛntɹəˌlaɪz/
ipa: /diːˈsentɹəlɑɪz/
ipa: /diːˈsentɹəlaɪz/
Forms: form: decentralizes
form: decentralizing
form: decentralized
form: decentralized
form: decentralise
Etymology: From de- + centralize.
Senses: examples: text: decentralize operations
glosses: To cause to change from being concentrated at one point or site to being distributed across several.
examples: text: decentralize authority
text: decentralize decision-making
text: The government planned to decentralize power to local councils.
glosses: To reduce the authority of (a governing body) by distributing that authority among several bodies.
glosses: To become decentralized.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To bring (a suspect) to the ground by use of directed force; to tackle.
Derived terms: decentralizable
decentralizer
Related terms: decentralization
decentralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decentralize
decentralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decentralize
decentralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛntɹəlaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decentralize
decentralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛntɹəlaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: not centralized; having no center or several centers
Derived terms: decentralized finance
decentralized planning
semidecentralized
undecentralized
decentralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛntɹəlaɪz/
Forms: form: decentralises
form: decentralising
form: decentralised
form: decentralised
form: decentralize
Etymology: From de- + centralise.
Senses: glosses: To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
glosses: To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
Derived terms: decentralisation
decentralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decentralise
decentralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decentralise
decentralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decentralise
point bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point bars
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ridge, formed from the accretion of sand or gravel, on the inside curve of a meander
hungriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hungry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being hungry; hunger.
immaculateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immaculate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
Synonyms: immaculacy
magnifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnifiers
Etymology: From magnify + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which magnifies.
One who extols.
glosses: That which magnifies.
A magnifying glass.
Derived terms: biomagnifier
Coddington magnifier
magnifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnifier
needlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlessnesses
Etymology: From needless + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: gratuitousness
unnecessariness
unnecessity
glosses: The state or characteristic of being needless.
haught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːt/
ipa: /hɔt/
ipa: /hɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
homophone: hot (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: more haught
form: most haught
form: haut
form: haute
form: hawt
Etymology: From Middle English haut, hault, from Old French haut.
Senses: glosses: Haughty.
Derived terms: haughten
haughtly
objectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectivenesses
Etymology: From objective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being objective; neutrality.
Synonyms: word: objectivity
Related terms: subjectiveness
bias
point of view
grassiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grassy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being grassy.
rubber ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber rings
Senses: glosses: A ring or tube made of rubber, in particular a circular air-filled tube used as an aid to swimming.
Related terms: life preserver
in terrorem clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in terrorem clauses
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: no-contest clause
glosses: A provision in a will that disinherits any beneficiary who raises a challenge against the will.
in terrorem clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of in terrorem clause
negativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛ.ɡəˈtɪ.vɪ.ti/
rhymes: -tɪvɪti
Forms: form: negativities
Etymology: From negative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being pessimistic or contrarian.
examples: text: Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
glosses: Negative sentiment.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The characteristic of having a negative charge.
Synonyms: negativeness
Derived terms: electronegativity
homonegativity
immunonegativity
negativity bias
negativity thinking
nonnegativity
seronegativity
sex negativity
sex-negativity
negativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negativity
Aquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /əˈkwɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Aquarius + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the astrological sign of Aquarius.
examples: text: The Boomers had been the ones who'd ushered in an era of inclusiveness, diversity, and Aquarian dreams for a more humane society.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:
glosses: Pertaining to the Age of Aquarius and its associations in New Age culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Aquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /əˈkwɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Aquarians
Etymology: From Aquarius + -an.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person born under the astrological sign of Aquarius.
examples: text: His [Walt Disney's] Fantasia was revived recently at a New York theater and, overnight, there they were, lined up outside, the beaded and bearded Aquarians, making such a box-office hit of the 30-year-old film that it is now being booked into cities and college towns all across the country.
ref: 1970 April 3, William Zinsser, “Walt Disney's secret freakout”, in LIFE, Time Inc, page 13:
glosses: Hippie, New Ager.
lost property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost properties
Senses: examples: text: Lockwood is the junction for the picturesque branch to Meltham, where an old lost-property book recorded the finding of a "bow with two arrows" in a train, in 1873.
ref: 1951 October, William B. Stocks, “A Few Miles from Huddersfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
text: So far this year, SWR's lost property team has been looking after 19 soft toys (and counting) at London Waterloo station. The operator shared images and details of the toys on social media.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 940, page 94:
glosses: A help desk or department in a store, mall, or other such facility where customers who have lost an item can inquire as to whether it has been found and turned in; a lost and found.
topics: law
glosses: Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner unintentionally ceased to be in possession of the property, and would be unable to locate the property.
Related terms: abandoned property
mislaid property
mislaid property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner intentionally placed it somewhere, but then forgot to retrieve it from that place, and would be able to locate the property.
Related terms: abandoned property
lost property
lost properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lost property
tremolando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremolandos
form: tremolandi
Etymology: From Italian tremolando (past participle of tremolare).
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Osorio offered Albéniz’s “Suite Española” No. 1 in a reading notable for its high-energy performances of “Granada,” with its lilting melody weaving through guitarlike figuration, and “Asturias,” in which a serpentine theme is wrapped in a hypnotic tremolando figure.
ref: 2007 January 24, Allan Kozinn, “Returning to New York, Forcefully”, in New York Times:
text: Wolf's own Wagner paraphrases (c. 1882) often presage the piano parts of his later songs, both in their part-writing and in their transcription of orchestral effects such as string runs or tremolandos.
ref: 2011, Eric Sams, The Songs of Hugo Wolf, →ISBN:
text: The characteristic surface element of the dense tremolandi is immediately projected into the ensemble and conditions all the different means of sound production available, including the unpitched sound of the tam-tam.
ref: 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tremolo section of a piece.
tremolando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian tremolando (past participle of tremolare).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played with a tremolo effect.
decimosexto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsɪməʊˈsɛkstəʊ/
Senses: examples: text: a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size
glosses: having sixteen leaves to a sheet
decimosexto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsɪməʊˈsɛkstəʊ/
Forms: form: decimosextos
Senses: synonyms: sextodecimo
sixteenmo
glosses: a book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves
shoulder to cry on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulders to cry on
Senses: examples: text: And when you need a shoulder to cry on / When you need a friend to rely on / When the whole world is gone / You won't be alone, 'cause I'll be there / I'll be your shoulder to cry on
ref: 1989, Tommy Page, “A Shoulder To Cry On”:
glosses: Someone offering emotional support to another in distress.
global cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some point out that global temperatures peaked in 1998 and have been falling since then. Indeed, several argue that a period of global cooling is on the way.
ref: 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
text: Many climate contrarians have seized upon these studies and magazine articles to argue that since climate scientists supposedly got their global cooling predictions wrong in the 1970s, they could be getting their global warming predictions wrong now.
ref: 2015, Dana Nuccitelli, Climatology Versus Pseudoscience […] , ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Global climate change in the form of declining average temperatures; which was conjectured in the 1970s.
start-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of start-up
tricoteuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
ref: 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:
glosses: plural of tricoteuse
tutorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutorship
eavesdroppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eavesdropping
reissues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reissue
reissues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reissue
reissuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the BBC was really in some doubt as to whether it was worth reissuing the programs. And I suppose to some extent my colonial interest swayed the decision a bit.
ref: 2011, Tim Bowden, No Tern Unstoned: Musings at Breakfast:
glosses: present participle and gerund of reissue
reissuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reissuings
Senses: examples: text: One reason may be that the original publication occurred before the paradigm of behaviorism and the reissuings have occurred again as the paradigm shifted from behaviorism to cognitivism and a renewed desire to study cognitive aspects of reading […]
ref: 2010, Anne McGill-Franzen, Handbook of Reading Disability Research:
glosses: The act of something being reissued; a new publication of something.
reissued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reissue
EPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of engineering, procurement, and construction.
glosses: Initialism of electron-phonon coupling.
glosses: Initialism of energy performance certificate.
EPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Political Community.
drug running
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The illegal drug trade.
Related terms: drug run
transnationals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transnational
particularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particularity
pinecones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinecone
pinecones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinecone
portal veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portal vein
prejudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prejudge
prejudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prejudge
prejudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prejudge
presoaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of presoak
presoaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presoak
presoaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of presoak
presoaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presoakings
Senses: examples: text: Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up.
ref: 2007, Benjamin W. Pearce, Senior Living Communities, page 118:
glosses: The soaking of something in advance.
presoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presoak
overachiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overachievers
form: over-achiever
Etymology: From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever.
Senses: examples: text: It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.
ref: 1980, Susan Sontag, “Mind as Passion”, in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, published 1981, pages 192–3:
text: But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist.
ref: 2009 April 19, Jesse Mckinley, “After the Silver Spoon, a Green Life”, in The New York Times:
text: The hyperfit athlete and the frail elderly woman are alike in that they are made in God's image. The lost rebellious teenager, the college overachiever, and the self-conscious middle schooler are all image bearers.
ref: 2021, Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?, Crossway, →ISBN:
antonyms: underachiever
glosses: One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
Related terms: overachieve
over-achiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-achievers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overachiever.
pronks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pronk
doggy-paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doggy paddle.
pronking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pronk
pronked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pronk
capos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capo
shoot one's mouth off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots one's mouth off
form: shooting one's mouth off
form: shot one's mouth off
form: shot one's mouth off
Senses: examples: text: George Jessel . . . is still shooting his mouth off as though nothing mattered except his own gift for wise-cracks.
ref: 1943 July 16, David Deutsch, “Heard in the Lobbies”, in The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
text: I never shot my mouth off, I was quiet and I listened.
ref: 2004 March 28, Alex Witchel, “The Salon Keeper”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2010:
glosses: To make reckless or exaggerated statements.
Synonyms: mouth off
shoot from the lip
shoot off at the mouth
shoot off one's mouth
Related terms: loudmouth
hemispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemispheric
form: most hemispheric
form: hemisphæric
Etymology: From hemisphere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or operating throughout a hemisphere.
glosses: Having the shape of half a sphere.
Synonyms: word: hemispherical
sense: shape
word: semiglobular
Derived terms: bihemispheric
hemispherics
interhemispheric
intrahemispheric
isohemispheric
nonhemispheric
transhemispheric
unihemispheric
the night is young
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The night is young, and full of possibilities / Well come on, and let yourself be free
ref: 1979, Frederick Knight, “Ring My Bell”, performed by Anita Ward:
glosses: It's not very late (at night) and there's plenty of time.
six-shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six-shooters
Senses: examples: text: He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-o’-pearl-handled six-shooters he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet—a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and the Cimarron.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 10:
text: Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.
ref: 1979, Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter, →ISBN, →OL:
synonyms: six-gun
hypernyms: revolver
wheelgun
<
pistol
<
handgun
<
firearm
glosses: A revolver which holds six cartridges.
triffid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪfɪd/
Forms: form: triffids
Etymology: Coined by John Wyndham for his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, by alteration of the botanical term trifid (“having three lobes”).
Senses: examples: text: But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
ref: 2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:
glosses: A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
examples: text: The plant is also very rare (related to triffids ... be wary) as it acts like a venus fly trap except it gives its catches to the fish, a truly symbiotic relationship
ref: 2000 February 8, Silvaa, “betta w/ plant”, in rec.aquaria.marine.misc (Usenet):
text: I too suffer from the dreaded Triffids !!! If you want a safer method of removal : I use boiling hot water and the syringe method.
ref: 2003 January 5, Jason, “What is this on my rock?”, in rec.aquaria.marine.misc (Usenet):
text: Ironically, these anemones are initially seen as a boon, the hobbyist having received "something for nothing" when the first few triffids appear in the nooks and crannies of the live rock.
ref: 2006, Tropical Fish Hobbyist:
glosses: Any of the sea anemones of the genus Aiptasia with poisonous tentacles, which are a pest in aquaria.
examples: text: Perhaps the BBC could get the Radio 2 King of the Tomatoes to come back and tell us what programmes to play to discourage rampant growth in minor forests of giant bindweed, monster nettles and apprentice triffids.
ref: 1975 March 6, Patrick Ryan, “Top Pop Tomato”, in New Scientist, page 584:
text: But some of them are multiplying fast, and those dismissed as trivial today, because they only infest a few road verges, may well turn into triffids tomorrow.
ref: 1999, Tim Low, Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
text: Sow them in late spring in the greenhouse or coldframe, but don't be tempted to sow any earlier otherwise they turn into triffids, hog all your greenhouse space and promote fungal diseases.
ref: 2012, Toby Buckland, Gardeners' World Practical Gardening Handbook: Traditional Techniques, Expert Skills, Innovative Ideas, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Any large, fast-growing and hard-to-remove weed, such as the flowering shrub Chromolaena odorata.
Derived terms: triffidian
triffidlike
sickbay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickbays
form: sick bay
Etymology: From sick + bay.
Senses: glosses: A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
examples: text: It was the piano lesson again—an orange-tiled floor, one high window, a new upright in a bare room close to the sickbay,
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 3:
glosses: A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.
Synonyms: infirmary
excrudescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excrudescences
Senses: examples: text: "His beard seemed to bristle like an excrudescence of pain."
ref: 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, 'The One Tree, page 29:
text: "To complicate the Apillonian allusion in this well-centered landscape, Apollo's relationship to water remains complex: to establish the oracle at Delphi, Apollo kills the Python, a giant (female) excrudescence raised from the mud of the flood, as it lies by a clear spring."
ref: 1994, Katherine Kearns, 'Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite, page 23:
text: "She's wallowing in the sloughed excrudescence of my earthly self; she's gumming the punctured and bruised dermis of the hand that feeds."
ref: 2006, Nancy K. Stade, 'The Desert Crop, page 354:
glosses: A symbolic abnormal outgrowth.
anele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aneles
form: aneling
form: aneled
form: aneled
Etymology: From Middle English anelen, anelien, from Middle English an- (“on”) + Middle English elen (“to anoint”), from Old English ēle (“oil”). Compare English anoil.
Senses: glosses: To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil.
Derived terms: unaneled
pariesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paresis.
indefeasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + defeasible.
Senses: glosses: Not liable to being annulled or declared void.
Derived terms: indefeasibility
indefeasibleness
indefeasibly
lornly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lornly
form: most lornly
Etymology: From lorn + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Ach, mein pauvre Genro," she said lornly. "Words there are not. You seek truly, but you know not what. You seek what I have found, but where I go, you cannot."
ref: 1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's tale, page 86:
text: My 25-year-old heart felt a happy pride in reflecting that I had been chosen to preside in one of the noblest traditions of the House in which, a humble assistant, I was wandering lornly among wealthy invalids.
ref: 2008, Amy A. Kass, Giving well, doing good: readings for thoughtful philanthropists, page 136:
text: He saw himself reflected in Mhoram's eyes, saw himself standing lornly with what he had lost written in his face.
ref: 2010, Kate Simons, The Leprous Man: A Psychoanalytical Investigation Into Stephen Donaldson's Fantasy Novels, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: In a forlorn manner.
deboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: deboards
form: deboarding
form: deboarded
form: deboarded
Etymology: From de- + board.
Senses: examples: text: President Ford fell as he deboarded Air Force One.
text: He was detained late Tuesday after deboarding a British Airways flight from London.
glosses: To exit a form of transportation such as a boat, ship, airplane, trolley, streetcar or spaceship.
Synonyms: disembark from
jerrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerrids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jereed.
condignly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more condignly
form: most condignly
Etymology: From condign + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Appropriately.
raw_tags: of a punishment
traceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹeɪsəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: traceabilities
Etymology: From trace + -ability, also analyzable as traceable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability to trace (identify and measure) all the stages that led to a particular point in a process that consists of a chain of interrelated events
visa versa
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vice versa.
outplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outplaces
form: outplacing
form: outplaced
form: outplaced
Etymology: From out- + place.
Senses: glosses: To terminate a person's employment, but help the former employee to obtain another post.
examples: text: At the same time, the District of Columbia and the Department of Health and Human Services are under the 1976 Federal court decision, Dixon versus Sullivan and Dixon to outplace patients residing in St. Elizabeths Hospital into community residential facilities.
ref: 1949, Congressional Record, page 14195:
text: Most will have to outplace the student to a private alternative school with more intensive special education than the public school can offer.
ref: 2014, Donna Mac, LCPC, Toddlers & ADHD: Relief for Parents, A Guide for Clinicians and Teachers
glosses: To move to a new location; displace; remove; oust.
Derived terms: outplacee
outplacement
outplacer
outpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpoints
form: outpointing
form: outpointed
form: outpointed
Etymology: From out- + point.
Senses: examples: text: It was clear that the Queen, if she indeed proved to be the target, would be outpointed for grooming and hauteur.
ref: 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 225:
text: Speaking from the Philippines, where he easily outpointed Argentine Angel Hugo Ramirez in front of a sellout crowd of almost 10,000 on Saturday night, Katsidis said he was ready to fight in front of Australian fans after an absence of two years.
ref: 2009 February 2, Bernie Pramberg, “Michael Katsidis chases return bout with Cuban great”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score more points than (especially, in boxing, to achieve victory by scoring more points that one's opponent).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail closer to the wind than (another ship).