cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
counted coup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of count coup
coup stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coup sticks
Senses: glosses: A stick for touching the enemy in battle in order to count coup.
coup sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup stick
nonmerger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + merger.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a commercial merger.
Amazighs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amazigh
butchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more butchly
form: most butchly
Etymology: From butch + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a butch manner.
butchness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butch + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being butch.
Coordinate terms: femmeness
microtapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtape
thesp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thesps
Etymology: Clipping of thespian.
Senses: examples: text: For this particular storytelling approach to work, however, audiences must also find themselves seduced by the figures in question — a tall order in a movie that’s overwritten, over-scored and wildly overacted by thesps who should all know better.
ref: 2016 February 16, Peter Debruge, “Film Review: ‘Genius’”, in Variety, retrieved 31 Mar 2021:
glosses: An actor.
thesp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thesps
form: thesping
form: thesped
form: thesped
Etymology: Clipping of thespian.
Senses: examples: text: The play is expertly thesped by a competent cast of actors […]
ref: 1947 April 5, Billboard:
glosses: To act (perform in a play etc.).
thesps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thesp
eyelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eyeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of eyes (organs of seeing).
Related terms: uneyed
blindness
sightlessness
mother sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of mother sauce
mother sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French sauces mères, coined by Marie-Antoine Carême, popularized by Auguste Escoffier.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The set of 5 sauces that are the basis of traditional French cuisine.
Hyponyms: béchamel
sauce béchamel
béchamel sauce
bechamel
sauce bechamel
bechamel sauce
white sauce
espagnole
sauce espagnole
espagnole sauce
hollandaise
sauce hollandaise
hollandaise sauce
tomat
sauce tomat
tomat sauce
velouté
velouté sauce
veloute
veloute sauce
Coordinate terms: alt: original base sauce replaced by allemande and hollandaise
word: mayonnaise
english: replaced by hollandaise
translation: replaced by hollandaise
word: allemande
english: replaced by hollandaise
translation: replaced by hollandaise
word: sauce allemande
english: replaced by hollandaise
translation: replaced by hollandaise
word: allemande sauce
english: a fundamental sauce
translation: a fundamental sauce
alt: roux + jus
word: brown sauce
english: a fundamental sauce
translation: a fundamental sauce
alt: roux + jus
word: sauce brune
english: a basis of sauce
translation: a basis of sauce
word: roux
chromeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrome + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The chromeless player is intended to be implemented by experienced web programmers who want to design a customized video player for their users.
ref: 2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without chrome (basic visual elements).
glosses: Lacking chromium plating.
nonfinished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + finished.
Senses: glosses: Unfinished; not completed.
glosses: Not given a finish (protective coating).
Lowland Scots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Germanic language variety traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, as distinct from Scottish Gaelic.
unspied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spied.
Senses: glosses: Not seen or spied upon.
soundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soundingly
form: most soundingly
Etymology: From sounding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a loud sound.
ungratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungratified
form: most ungratified
Etymology: From un- + gratified.
Senses: glosses: Not gratified.
unrefuted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrefuted
form: most unrefuted
Etymology: From un- + refuted.
Senses: glosses: Not refuted.
oestrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oestrums
Etymology: From Latin oestrum, variant of oestrus.
Senses: examples: text: In the œstrum or gadfly, the wimble draws out like the pieces of a spy-glass […].
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
glosses: A biting insect; a gadfly or botfly.
glosses: Something that stings or incites one to frenzy or action; an impulse or passion.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
zoology
glosses: Estrus.
retranslate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retranslates
form: retranslating
form: retranslated
form: retranslated
form: re-translate
Etymology: From re- + translate.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, after re-translating the society's transcription of the Coptic text, I have found that the actual meaning is vastly different. While National Geographic's translation supported the provocative interpretation of Judas as a hero, a more careful reading makes clear that Judas is not only no hero, he is a demon.
ref: 2007 December 2, April D. DeConick, “What the Gospel of Judas really says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2011, Essay:
glosses: To translate again or anew.
Related terms: retranslation
retranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retranslations
Etymology: From re- + translation.
Senses: glosses: Translation again or anew.
Related terms: retranslate
retranslates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retranslate
retranslating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retranslate
retranslated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retranslate
retranslations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retranslation
retranslator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retranslators
Etymology: From retranslate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, retranslates.
retranslators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retranslator
unventured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ventured.
Senses: glosses: Not ventured.
unindividualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + individualized.
Senses: glosses: Not individualized.
unfraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fraught.
Senses: glosses: Not fraught.
fraughted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fraught
fraughting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fraught
fraughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraught
fraughts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fraught
unfluctuating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fluctuating.
Senses: glosses: Not fluctuating.
undesponding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + desponding.
Senses: glosses: Not desponding.
untortured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tortured.
Senses: glosses: Not tortured.
untinctured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tinctured.
Senses: examples: text: It is no wonder that the heart of a female, unimproved by reason, and untinctured with natural good sense, should flutter at the sight of such a gaudy thing […]
ref: 1766, T[obias] Smollett, “Letter VII”, in Travels through France and Italy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC:
text: […] two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: Perhaps out of England such an intimacy could hardly have existed—an intimacy so utterly untinctured not only by passion itself but by the suspicion of it.
ref: 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter III”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: Not tinctured; not tainted or coloured (with or by something)
untaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English untaken; equivalent to un- + taken.
Senses: examples: text: The Army and the Navy and the War Production Board are constantly putting pressure on the manufacturers for more airplanes. The manufacturers feel that these agencies leave needed steps untaken, and take measures that are unnecessary […]
ref: 1943, American Machinist, volume 87, numbers 5-9, page 120:
glosses: Not taken.
unhistrionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + histrionic.
Senses: glosses: Not histrionic.
antistyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antistyle
antistyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistyles
Etymology: From anti- + style.
Senses: examples: text: Flashy in its photographic juxtapositioning, Reebok embraced poor taste as a sign for antistyle that might beckon skeptical viewers to enter the space of the ad.
ref: 1994, David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, Postmodernism and social inquiry:
text: Lesbian-feminist antistyle was an emblem of refusal, an attempt to strike a blow against the twin evils of capitalism and patriarchy...
ref: 1995, Corey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty, Out in culture: gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture:
glosses: Style or fashion that rejects the usual conventions of style.
merozoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merozoite
meront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meronts
Etymology: From mero- + -ont.
Senses: glosses: schizont
meronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meront
oocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊəsɪst/
Forms: form: oocysts
Etymology: From oo- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A reproductive cell in certain fungi.
examples: text: Ross had found in the stomach wall of an Anopheles mosquito the oocysts (eggs) which are the intermediate stage of the Plasmodium life cycle.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, page 453:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thick-walled spore in the lifecycle of some parasitic protozoans that develops into sporozoite.
Derived terms: oocystic
oocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oocyst
nonthixotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thixotropic.
Senses: glosses: Not thixotropic.
rheopectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more rheopectic
form: most rheopectic
Etymology: From rheopecty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting rheopexy.
illimitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illimitably
form: most illimitably
Etymology: From illimitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Over all these ascends, at the distance of twenty five miles, the round summit of Agamenticus. North-eastward, the Isles of Shoals appear, at the distance of eight leagues, like a cloud in the horizon. Eastward, the ocean spreads illimitably.
ref: 1823, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New-England and New York, William Baynes and Son, and Ogle, Duncan & Company; Edinburgh: H.S. Baynes and Company, page 402:
text: We are glad to perceive that premature efforts are not made to accomplish what cannot be done well for, though the art is illimitably long, yet a slow progress is the most sure, and will ultimately be found the most rapid. The taste of the public, too, cannot be forced; but must be carried gradually and easily along to the highest branches of the art, or it will fall back again to the rude and unformed state from which it is just emerging.
ref: 1836, Making of America Project, The North American Review, Volume 43, Charles Bowen, page 53:
text: The wind had scattered every cloud, and still howled through the clear gray morning sky, the sea was in violent commotion, and huge surges broke heavily and rapidly on the beach. The tide was flowing fast, and the bed of the river, we had crossed so safely the night before, was covered by the waves; in a little time the ford would be impassable, and this was another reason to hasten the arrival of the horses. To the east each crag and precipice, each vast mountain top, showed in dark relief against the golden eastern sky; seaward the horizon was misty from the gale, and the ocean stretched out illimitably; curlews and gulls screamed as they skimmed the crested waves, and breaker after breaker dashed furiously at my feet.
ref: 1837, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Falkner: A Novel, Saunders and Otley, page 273:
glosses: In an illimitable manner.
frangent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹænd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more frangent
form: most frangent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frangēns, present participle of frangō (“to break”). See fraction.
Senses: examples: December 9 1763, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Hertford
they hissed in the most murderous manner: broke Mr. Sheriff Harley's coach-glass in the most frangent manner
glosses: Causing fracture; breaking.
frangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of franga
nonrepulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repulsive.
Senses: glosses: Not repulsive; not causing repulsion.
pinchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinchlike
form: most pinchlike
Etymology: From pinch + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pinch.
bring to bear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to bear
form: bringing to bear
form: brought to bear
form: brought to bear
Senses: examples: text: The battleship brought her main guns to bear on the fort.
glosses: To aim a weapon at a target.
examples: text: to bring pressure to bear on someone, to bring influence to bear on someone
text: Every possible pressure was brought to bear on the minister to ensure the unjust law was not passed.
glosses: To apply; to employ something to achieve an intended effect.
sootily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sootily
form: most sootily
Etymology: From sooty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sooty manner.
rockstardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of rockstar + stardom.
Senses: examples: text: They gathered outside Macari's, the musical instrument shop that specializes in amps, guitars and dreams of head-banging rockstardom.
ref: 2002, Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Men's Wages, Picador, published 2003, →ISBN, page 197:
text: Radiohead 2.0 has taken a number of innovative approaches to rockstardom, from the one-off “set your own price” digital release of In Rainbows (which is excellent by the way) to turning down an appearance at the Glastonbury festival because of potential harm to the environment.
ref: 2010, Andrew Marx, Thank You Is Implied: The Annotated Smart Remarx, →ISBN, page 13:
text: When church let out, Colin and I would draw up plans for rockstardom while Mrs. Gawel and my mom talked about how great it was that we boys had found something we were so dedicated to.
ref: 2012, Joe Oestreich, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or quality of being a rockstar.
climate control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate controls
Senses: glosses: A device or system that controls the temperature and relative humidity in cars, buildings, etc, by way of a heating or air conditioning system.
Synonyms: HVAC
nonlitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + litigation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of litigation; failure to litigate.
nonlitigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlitigants
Etymology: From non- + litigant.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a litigant.
nonlitigants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlitigant
reigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reigners
Etymology: From reign + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reigns; a ruler.
e-dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + dating.
Senses: glosses: The Internet equivalent of a date; the process of getting to know someone, with a view to romance, via instant messages or other computerized communication.
Related terms: e-quaintance
sabermetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.
ref: 2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):
glosses: Of or pertaining to sabermetrics.
up oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up oneself
form: most up oneself
Senses: examples: text: I don't like her; she is really up herself.
text: Don't be so up yourself.
text: 2010, Deb Fitzpatrick, 90 Packets of Instant Noodles, Fremantle Press, page 151,
They′re older and taller and more up themselves.
text: There was a lot of yard bitching about Michelle, who was getting more and more up herself.
ref: 2010, Jilly Cooper, Jump!, page 235:
text: I had felt too that Putin was far grander than before, much more up himself, a bit peevish.
ref: 2012, Alastair Campbell, The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries, unnumbered page:
glosses: Smug; arrogant; self-important and self-satisfied.
ephus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eephus.
eephus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eephus pitch
form: ephus
Etymology: The naming of the pitch is generally credited to Maurice Van Robays in 1942, who said "it's a nothin' pitch, and eephus ain't nothing'". However, it is not clear what the source for the name is; possibly Hebrew אפס (“nothing, zero”).
Senses: examples: text: Sewell was determined to live or die by the eephus.
ref: 2003, Michael Seidel, Ted Williams: a baseball life:
text: He figured that, if it were another eephus, he'd have time to react.
ref: 2004, Fred Cicetti, Saltwater Taffy: A Summer at the Jersey Shore:
text: When, on his first pitch, Sewell served an eephus, Williams almost broke his back trying to get to it.
ref: 2005, Randy Roberts, The rock, the curse, and the hub: a random history of Boston sports:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off-speed pitch with unusually low velocity, intended to catch the hitter off guard.
wikipedia: Maurice Van Robays
cureall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curealls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cure-all.
curealls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cureall
plagiariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagiarisers
Etymology: From plagiarise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plagiarizer.
plagiarisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagiariser
cure-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cure-all
noncompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compressed.
Senses: glosses: Not compressed; uncompressed.
nonimpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + impressed.
Senses: glosses: Not impressed.
nonconsulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + consulted.
Senses: glosses: Not consulted.
nonfused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fused.
Senses: glosses: Not fused.
nonengaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + engaged.
Senses: glosses: Not engaged.
death growl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death growls
Senses: examples: text: Some black metal vocalists opt for incessant full-voiced or high-pitched screams over the death growl, and doom performers often combine growls […]
ref: 2004, Ian Buchanan, Marcel Swiboda, Deleuze and music:
text: Caninus Twin vocalists for this Brooklyn-based grindcore band really have the death growl down — because they're pit bulls […]
ref: 2009, Eric Danville, Cliff Mott, The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists:
synonyms: death grunt
glosses: A harsh, guttural, sometimes unintelligible vocal style associated with death metal music.
nonexcess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + excess.
Senses: glosses: Not excess.
kalsilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalsilite
kalsomining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kalsomine
kalsomined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kalsomine
noninfantile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + infantile.
Senses: glosses: Not infantile.
noninfant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noninfants
Etymology: From non- + infant.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an infant.
nondrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + drilling.
Senses: glosses: Not drilling.
noninfants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noninfant
paranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parandas
Senses: examples: text: This woman's hair-braid ornament variously called paranda, phundri, chotiu, or balchoti is used all over India.
ref: 1997, Oppi Untracht, Traditional jewelry of India, page 370:
glosses: A decoration for a braid tassel.
paranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish parranda (“merry-making or a group of serenaders”).
Senses: examples: text: Punta rock songs are usually composed by men and are most often based on the rhythm and/or text of existing punta and paranda songs. Paranda songs are Spanish-influenced songs composed and performed by men, with a duple-meter rhythm very similar to that of punta.
ref: 2005, John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2:
text: Despite the efforts of Andy Pand many others in the struggle for cultural sensitivity in Central America, and although paranda musician Aurelio Martinez, 31, was elected in 2005 along with two other Garifuna representatives to the National Congress of Honduras, making history as the first Garifuna congressmen in 75 years, a little anecdote shows how much more public education...
ref: 2008, The Beat - Volume 27, Issues 1-4, page 34:
text: Unlike punta rock, paranda music is totally unplugged, played on wooden Garifuna drums, acoustic guitars and primitive percussion instruments, such as shakers and turtle shells.
ref: 2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:
glosses: A style of acoustic Garifuna music that is influenced by Spanish music, and which consists primarily of ballads.
Synonyms: parang
parandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paranda
sound bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound bite
I'm cold
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker feels cold.
where can I find a hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Please direct me to a hotel.
superflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə(ɹ)flʌks/
Forms: form: superfluxes
Etymology: From Latin superfluxus, from superfluō (“overflow”).
Senses: examples: text: Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just.
ref: 1608, 1619, 1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 4:
text: There she lay,
With brow so pale,—who yester-morn breath'd forth
Through joyous smiles her superflux of bliss
Into the hearts of others.
ref: 1842, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Lost Sister, page 58:
text: Intense device, and superflux of pain
ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anactoria, line 28:
synonyms: word: superabundance
word: great deal
word: lots
word: abundance
word: acrasia
word: acrasy
word: excess
word: excessiveness
word: exuberance
word: copiousness
word: fecundity
word: fertileness
word: fertility
word: fruitfulness
word: fulth
word: glut
word: immoderation
word: incontinence
word: intemperance
word: mountain
word: nimiety
word: overabundance
word: overage
word: overflow
word: overplus
word: overquantity
word: oversum
word: plenteousness
word: plentifulness
word: plenty
word: plethora
word: productiveness
word: profusion
word: superabundance
word: superaddition
word: superfluity
word: superfluousness
word: superflux
word: superplus
word: surfeit
word: surplus
word: surplusage
word: uberty
word: ug
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: An overabundance; a great amount
Related terms: superfluous
tablebase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablebases
Etymology: Blend of table + database
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position, typically used by a computer chess engine during play.
tablebases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablebase
bitboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitboards
Etymology: From bit + board.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specialized data structure, a bitset with each bit representing a game position or state, commonly used in computer systems that play board games.
bitboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitboard
bitset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitsets
Etymology: From bit + set.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An array of bits.
bitsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitset
bullshittery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bullshit + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He liked to get to the point and cut out the bullshittery, as he called it.
ref: 2015, Mary Campisi, Secrets of You:
glosses: bullshit
bullshittiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bullshitty: most bullshitty
nonfluxional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fluxional.
Senses: glosses: Not fluxional.
planarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more planarly
form: most planarly
Etymology: From planar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a planar fashion.
planarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planarity
nonplanarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonplanarities
Etymology: From non- + planarity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being nonplanar.
nonplanarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonplanarity
cushat dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushat doves
form: cushat-dove
Senses: examples: text: When she spoke, it was with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it was hoping to borrow money.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
glosses: A cushat.
cushat-dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushat-doves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cushat dove.
cushat doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushat dove
cushat-doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushat-dove
what someone said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate agreement, as if one would have wanted to say what a previous speaker has said, without change or qualification
ignotum per ignotius
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin ignōtum per ignōtius, “[to explain] the unknown by the more unknown”.
Senses: glosses: An attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of fallacious argument in which one attempts to prove something unknown by relying upon an assumption that is also unknown.
Synonyms: obscurum per obscurius
legionellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legionelloses
Etymology: From Legionella + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Any disease caused by Legionella bacteria, such as Legionnaires' disease or Pontiac fever.
nonarcing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arcing.
Senses: glosses: Not arcing.
occultic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more occultic
form: most occultic
Etymology: From occult + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the occult.
Derived terms: occultically
automatic writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatic writings
Senses: examples: text: According to his automatic writings, Satan, a great god, created the human body and asked "Arbal-Jesus," his name for Adam, to project his being into it for a few moments.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 30:
glosses: A form of writing claimed not to come from the conscious thoughts of the writer, sometimes performed in a trance.
Synonyms: psychography
automatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatist
billet reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A magic trick or form of clairvoyance in which the performer reads a message sealed inside an envelope.
Related terms: one-ahead
clairsentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clairsentient
form: most clairsentient
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
clairsentient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairsentients
Senses: glosses: One who has the power of clairsentience.
sensitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensitive
odic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊdɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊdɪk/
Forms: form: more odic
form: most odic
Etymology: From ode + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.
ref: 1938, Mason Long, Poetry and its Forms:
text: 1964, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary,
Both the French odic stanza and the EO stanza are related to the sonnet.
text: Among all our Victorian poets none is or was so fitted for the writing of odic poems as Matthew Arnold.
ref: 1977, William Sharp, Studies and Appreciations, page 113:
text: In the odic tradition, the poet's visionary authority deriving from God or the muses would invariably be juxtaposed alongside the power of the emperor or empress, and the imperial state.
ref: 2003, Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire, page 54:
glosses: Of or pertaining to odes.
odic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊdɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊdɪk/
ipa: /ˈɒdɪk/
ipa: /ˈɑdɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
ipa: /ˈəʊdɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊdɪk/
Forms: form: more odic
form: most odic
Etymology: From od + -ic, modelled after German odisch.
Senses: examples: text: Reichenbach has detected, or fancies that he has detected a force, which he designates the odic force, distinct from magnetism and electricity, by which many of the more recondite phenomena of nature are apparently effected.
ref: 1853, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 19, page 389:
text: Such was the origin of the delusions of "animal magnetism," and "odic" and "psychic" force—claims that belong to cerebro-physiology, a department of science that is now but just passing out of the territorial into the organized stage.
ref: 1878 July, George Miller Beard, The Scientific Study of Human Testimony, Part III, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13
text: With his death, not only the odic theory but the whole conception of animal magnetism would appear to have been buried and forgotten, the only references, as this one from Garrison's History of Medicine, being of a disparaging nature: ‘The whole subject was exploited in various mystic forms ... by Baron von Reichenbach, whose concept of odic force still survives in ouija boards and odic telephones.’
ref: 1973, Aubrey T. Westlake, The Pattern of Health: A Search for a Greater Understanding of the Life Force in Health and Disease, page 32:
topics: pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of odylic (“of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”)”)
synonyms: word: odylic
extra: (“of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”)”)
Derived terms: odically
Related terms: od
odylic
odyllic
odylism
odylist
odism
pareidolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæɹ.aɪˈdəʊ.lɪk/
ipa: /pɛɹ.aɪˈdoʊ.lɪk/
rhymes: -əʊlɪk
Forms: form: more pareidolic
form: most pareidolic
Etymology: From pareidolia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pareidolia.
retrocognitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrocognition
retrocognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrocognitive
form: most retrocognitive
Etymology: From retro- + cognitive.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to retrocognition.
Summerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From summer + -land.
Senses: glosses: A pastoral afterlife in Wicca and similar religions.
glosses: Name of various towns and communities.
glosses: Name of various towns and communities.
A census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
Umbanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Umbanda.
Senses: glosses: An Afro-Brazilian religion that blends elements of African religions with Catholicism.
Coordinate terms: Candomblé
Quimbanda
macumba
third eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third eyes
Senses: synonyms: inner eye
glosses: A personal source of psychic visions and clairvoyance according to certain spiritual beliefs.
glosses: A parietal eye.
cross a bridge before one comes to it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses a bridge before one comes to it
form: crossing a bridge before one comes to it
form: crossed a bridge before one came to it
form: crossed a bridge before one came to it
Senses: glosses: To worry about a future situation despite being as yet unable to act on it.
Related terms: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
hang a leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs a leg
form: hanging a leg
form: hung a leg
form: hung a leg
Senses: examples: text: You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg! You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: To hesitate; to hang back.
defalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defalks
form: defalking
form: defalked
form: defalked
Etymology: From Middle French défalquer.
Senses: glosses: To reduce by deducting a part, especially when used in a financial sense.
glosses: To cut off, to deduct, to subtract (especially expenses or a sum of money).
à propos de bottes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpɹəˌpəʊ də ˈbɒt(s)/
ipa: /ˌæpɹəˌpoʊ də ˈbɑt(s)/
Forms: form: a propos de bottes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French à propos de bottes (literally “on the subject of boots”).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the renovated appearance of this monster—à propos de bottes, as one may say—had already excited considerable sensation among the population of Hazeldean.
ref: 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 62:
text: 'That is a strange remark,' said he; 'and à propos de bottes, I never continue a cigar when once the ash is fallen;[…]'
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, “Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady”, in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 86:
text: Suddenly jumped up; shook fist at back of ASQUITH's unoffending head, and, à propos de bottes, "wanted to know about the swindling companies and their shareholders?"
ref: 1892 May 14, “Essence of Parliament — Extracted from the Diary of Toby, M.P.”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 102, 2005 Gutenberg edition
text: Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude a fairy-tale from his curriculum.
ref: 1907, Porter Lander MacClintock, Literature in the Elementary School, Gutenberg, published 2011:
text: Moody, restless, and unhappy, he wandered like a ghost about the town, bursting into soliloquies in public places, or asking odd questions, suddenly, à propos de bottes.
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, “Marriage”, in Queen Victoria, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, section VI, page 138:
text: Suddenly, for no reason, in the middle of the night, or even in the middle of the jolliest party, she would remember an ancient floater—just like that, à propos de bottes—would remember and be overcome by a feeling of self-reproach and retrospective shame.
ref: 1925, Aldous Huxley, chapter I, in Those Barren Leaves […], London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle’s), page 9:
text: Analysis at that moment was in any case out of reach, because I realised that I had been left, at that moment, standing silently by Mrs Wentworth, to whom I now explained, à propos de bottes, that I knew Barnby.
ref: 1952, Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 2), Fontana Books, page 225
glosses: Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; by the way, unrelatedly.
unpeaceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpeaceful
form: most unpeaceful
Etymology: From un- + peaceful.
Senses: examples: text: Xiao Qian, Beijing's top envoy in Canberra, told ABC Australia's current affairs program 7.30 that China would prefer a peaceful political union with Taiwan in the future, but it reserves the option to use "unpeaceful means."
ref: 2022 September 7, John Feng, “Ambassador Hints at China's Own Special Military Operation for Taiwan”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2022:
glosses: Not peaceful, the opposite of peaceful.
Synonyms: nonpeaceful
indiscoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indiscoverable
form: most indiscoverable
Etymology: From in- + discoverable.
Senses: examples: text: His senses reeled amid the din and rattle of classes where discipline was unknown and intelligence almost indiscoverable.
ref: 1884, George Gissing, chapter 8, in Unclassed:
text: Even as he went into the lighted, public place he remained dark and magic, the living silence seemed the body of reality in him, subtle, potent, indiscoverable.
ref: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 23, in Women in Love:
glosses: Unable to be discovered, undiscoverable, not discoverable.
Synonyms: undiscoverable
defalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defalk
defalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defalk
defalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defalk
defamatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more defamatorily
form: most defamatorily
Etymology: From defamatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, Bailey’s tirade. I did not base any part of any of my rulings on it, as Bailey has outlandishly, mistakenly, and defamatorily claimed,” Engoron wrote.
ref: 2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from case”, in CNN:
glosses: In a defamatory manner.
Slavé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavey.
Slavé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slavés
form: Slavé
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavey.
antisymmetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisymmetry
yaw'll
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of y'all.
chrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrystals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of crystal.
chrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Conſider there how black and fowl your Sin / Is rendred by my Chryſtal innocence: […]
ref: c. 1635–39?, Richard Brome, The Queen and Concubine. A Comedie, London: […] A. Crook, and Hen. Brome, […], published 1659, act IV, scene III, page 81:
text: We had one heavy shower on leaving Sittingbourne, but afterwards the clouds cleared away, and we had a very bright chrystal afternoon.
ref: 1798 October 24, Jane Austen, “Letter VIII”, in Edward, Lord Brabourne, editor, Letters of Jane Austen, volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], published 1884, →OCLC, pages 155–156:
text: If we weep by Babel’s streams, the sparkle of our chrystal tears, touch the beam which kindles from above; […]
ref: 1848, The Dirge; or, A Voice in the Night. Originally Addressed to a Clergyman at Edinburgh, 1845., Edinburgh: […] Anderson and Bryce, […], →OCLC, page 575:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of crystal.
alisphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălĭsfēʹnoid
ipa: /alɪˈsfiːnɔɪd/
Forms: form: alisphenoids
Etymology: From ali- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The greater wing of the sphenoid bone
alisphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ălĭsfēʹnoid
ipa: /alɪˈsfiːnɔɪd/
Etymology: From ali- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or forming the wing of the sphenoid bone.
examples: alisphenoid bone
alisphenoid canal
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid.
anemograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemographs
Etymology: From anemo- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Other examples of the application of electricity, are the Anemograph of Dumoncel, an instrument for measuring the direction, elevation, and force of the winds; a heat regulator for hot-houses and drying chambers; and a system of electric communication between railroad trains.
ref: 1855, “Correspondence of M. Jerome Nicklès, dated Paris, Sept. 1, 1855”, in The American Journal of Science and Arts:
text: Two days later, Madigan's anemograph recorded winds of 100 miles per hour for the first time.
ref: 2014, David Day, Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson, page 81:
text: Almost as bad was the status of the wind data: of his six meteorographs, only one ("Hergesell 104") had a working anemometer, and that instrument lasted only five flights in summer 1907 before it was lost when a cable parted; it functioned principally to help him calibrate his procedure for estimating wind velocity aloft without an anemograph.
ref: 2015, Mott T. Greene, Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift:
glosses: An anemometer that makes a graphical recording.
Synonyms: anemometrograph
Derived terms: anemographic
Related terms: anemogram
anemography
anemometer
aparthotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɑːt.(h)əʊ(ˌ)tɛl/
ipa: /əˈpɑɹt.hoʊˌtɛl/
Forms: form: aparthotels
Etymology: Blend of apartment + hotel.
Senses: glosses: A form of hotel having self-catering apartments instead of bedrooms or suites.
aposematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpə(ʊ)sɪˈmætɪk/
ipa: /-sɛ-/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more aposematic
form: most aposematic
Etymology: From apo- + sematic.
Senses: examples: text: Episematic characters are far less common than aposematic, and these than cryptic; although, as regards the latter comparison, the opposite impression is generally produced from the fact that concealment is so successfully attained.
ref: 1911, “Colours of Animals”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume V, page 732:
text: Contrasting patterns of red and black are classic aposematic warnings that signal would-be predators to “back off, leave me alone … if you do not, you will regret the consequences.”
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
raw_tags: of a coloration or marking
Related terms: aposematism
aposematically
astatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astatic
form: most astatic
Etymology: From a- + static.
Senses: glosses: Not static or stable; unsteady, unstable.
glosses: Losing polarity, as a magnetic needle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to astasia.
Derived terms: astatically
astaticism