cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
topoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From topo- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the effect of the topology of an insulator or conductor and its electrical properties
univascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or affecting a single blood vessel
vaborbactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The lactamase inhibitor {(3R,6S)-2-hydroxy-3-[2-(thiophen-2-yl)acetamido]-1,2-oxaborinan-6-yl}acetic acid
Puxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4063).
going viral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go viral
viralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viralizations
Senses: glosses: The act or the process of going viral
Barkul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: From Urumtsi we had decided to take the northern route to Hami, via Gutchen and Barkul, in order to avoid as much as possible the sands of the Tarim basin on the southern slope of the Tian Shan mountains.
ref: 1894, Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr.; William Lewis Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking, New York: The Century Co., page 175:
text: The autumn day was drawing in as we rounded an outlying spur of the T’ien Shan and drove into Mu-li Ho, a small walled district city, mostly in ruins, the streets a sea of snow, slush and mud, and full of strange-looking Kazaks, Turks and Tartars. As we arrived three Russian Amo trucks drove in from Barkul, crashing through the narrow crowded streets, their blond Slav drivers contrasting sharply with the Central Asian types.
ref: 1937, Eric Teichman, Journey to Turkistan, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, page 95:
text: The long-planned campaign against the Zunghars went badly. In 1732 General Yue Zhongqi, from his forward headquarters at Barkul, was able to raid the enemy in Urumchi but could not protect his own forces in Hami from enemy counterattacks.
ref: 1990, Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China, W. W. Norton & Company, page 82:
glosses: Dated form of Barkol.
Worle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3562).
Quintrell Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Newquay, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8460).
Quintrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quintrells
Etymology: Cornish surname derived from an anglicisation of Old French cointerel (“beau, dandy”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Related terms: Quintrell Downs
KRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kufor-Rakeb syndrome.
Radway Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Barthomley parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7754).
Repton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛp.tən/
rhymes: -ɛptən
Forms: form: Reptons
Etymology: From Old English Hreopadūn.
Senses: examples: text: A sense of timelessness prevails in the little Derbyshire village of Repton, which was once the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 332, photo caption:
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3026).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Conecuh County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in northern New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
neat-freakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neat freak + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Oskar's neat-freakery only made minuscule 'lapses' like that more noticeable. He had the assistance of a cleaner, of course. But how thorough was the cleaner? London was full of Eastern European women working as domestic cleaners, but I ...
ref: 2012, Will Wiles, Care of Wooden Floors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 17:
text: need him right now, and his neat-freakery. I definitely don't want to move in with him. The man keeps all his shoes in labelled boxes according to their Pantone shade!” Zoë and I laughed out loud; well aware that Lauren was exaggerating, but the ...
ref: 2014, Sarah Clark, Viva Voluptuous, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
text: He got up and grabbed his T-shirt from the neat pile on the chair beside the bed. When we first started dating, he'd toss his clothes onto the floor with abandon, but my neat-freakery has changed all that. "No." He held up a hand, one pant leg.
ref: 2016, C.L. Taylor, The Lie, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Obsessive tidiness or cleanliness; behavior characteristic of neat freaks.
air choke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊk
Forms: form: air chokes
Senses: glosses: A form of strangulation that compresses the upper airway (trachea, larynx or laryngopharynx), hence interfering with breathing and leading to asphyxia.
Related terms: blood choke
Notton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Maiden Newton, west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY6095).
glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3513).
glosses: A hamlet in Lacock parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9169).
blood choke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood chokes
Senses: glosses: A form of strangulation that compresses the carotid arteries, the jugular veins, or both without compressing the airway, hence leading to cerebral ischemia and a temporary hypoxic condition.
Related terms: air choke
alveolosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveolospheres
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A collection of alveolar stem cells
alveolospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveolosphere
exflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exflagellate
exflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by exflagellation
microattribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microattributions
Etymology: From micro- + attribution.
Senses: glosses: An attribution that references a micropublication
pangenomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pan- + genomically.
Senses: glosses: In a pangenomic manner
pregametic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gametic.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the formation of gametes
St Columb Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a railway station situated where the line crossed the road to St Columb Major. St Columb refers to Saint Columba of Cornwall.
Senses: glosses: A village in St Enoder parish, mid Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9159).
wikipedia: Columba of Cornwall
St Columb Major
Related terms: St Columb Major
St Columb Minor
skytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sky + time.
Senses: examples: text: Skytime to Lebanon or Israel is twelve minutes, add four more for Jordan.
ref: 1957, The Georgia Review - Volume 11, page 68:
text: Be aware: skytime has been granted so all drakes are coming out to play. Go ahead and test the upgrade a little more but don't push yourselves.
ref: 2016, James Barclay, Heart of Granite:
glosses: The time when a vehicle such as an airplane is in flight.
examples: text: But it's possible for an astronomer in say, England, or Hawaii, to book skytime here and scrutinize the results from his own laboratory via computer.
ref: 1995, Liz Rigbey, Total Eclipse, page 39:
glosses: Time that an astronomer has booked for use of a major telescope.
examples: text: Close to midnight part of the horizon was suffused with a pearly glow, and presently, on skytime, the great moon peered above the water, then seemed to bound free, eager to pace along its arching trail, throwing a path of molten silver on an ebon sea.
ref: 1914, Adventure - Volume 9, Issues 4-6, page 14:
text: At sunset, which was in a grey bank with moist gold dabs and racks, the whole round of skytime had level clouds naturally lead-colour but the upper parts ruddled, some more, some less rosy.
ref: 1972, Jerome Francis Anthony Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet of Nature - Volume 1, page 210:
text: Though not the temporal of clocks and watches, he has neither — he is acutely aware of skytime.
ref: 1985, Field - Issues 32-33, page 56:
glosses: Time as measured by looking at the sky.
sencelesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sencelesse
form: most sencelesse
Senses: examples: text: So now all three one sencelesse lumpe remaine, / Enwallow'd in his owne blacke bloudy gore […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: shall sensive things be so sencelesse as to resist sence?
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: And ſithence the very thunder-lightning of your admirable eloquence is ſufficiently available to ſtrike them with a lame palſie of tongue (if they be not already ſmitten with a ſenceleſſe apoplexy in head, which may eaſely enſue ſuch contagious catharres and reumes, as I am privy ſome of them have been grievouſly diſſeaſed withall), miſſe not, but hitt them ſuerly home, as they deſerve with Supererogation.
ref: 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], “To right worshipfull his especiall dear friend, M. Gabriell Harvey, Doctour of Law”, in Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of senseless.
in silhouette
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: But even in silhouette Nick thought that the figure seemed to hold some magical stature, as if a fairytale were being whispered into his ear and his mind creating the vision for it.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 292:
glosses: As a silhouette.
Saltmarshe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Laxton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the (Yorkshire) Ouse (OS grid ref SE7824).
misgrab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹæb/
ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹæb/
Forms: form: misgrabs
Etymology: From mis- + grab.
Senses: examples: text: He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear.
ref: 1903, Forest and Stream - Volume 61, page 215:
text: I made a misgrab and it touched the saw and flew up.
ref: 1916, Supreme Court Appellate Division Second Department, page 667:
text: All this helped, but nevertheless it was a hazardous undertaking. A slip or a misgrab and he would fall under his own engine.
ref: 1938, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, page 127:
text: All around was nothing but air, the endless abyss of Virga; a misgrab here would send you on a slow trip around the world, with the birds, bugs, and fish making a moving feast of you along the way.
ref: 2007, Karl Schroeder, Sun of Suns, page 141:
glosses: A failed attempt to grab something.
examples: text: It is easy for the American visitor to make a “misgrab” here because, blinded by the surface similarities, he fails to take the hidden differences into consideration.
ref: 1964, William J. Danker, Two Worlds Or None: Rediscovering Missions, page 91:
text: Unfortunately, notwithstanding all his wisdom, he had made a misgrab, for Noah, the chief of the saved, was soon unmasked as a drunken sot who disported with his own daughters.
ref: 2019, Chaz Bufe, Dan Arel, Godless: 150 Years of Disbelief:
glosses: A mistake.
misgrab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹæb/
ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹæb/
Forms: form: misgrabs
form: misgrabbing
form: misgrabbed
form: misgrabbed
Etymology: From mis- + grab.
Senses: examples: text: […] misgrabbing or catching an apparatus or opponent
ref: 2003, Aaron Rubin, Sports Injuries and Emergencies: A Quick Response Manual, page 130:
text: Schliemann misgrabbed his cup to toast the deal, and its toppled plastic cylinder rolled spillessly from side to side in the valley of his tray.
ref: 2007, Geoff Wyss, Tiny Clubs, page 116:
text: ... it's always some trusting young volunteer who misgrabs a burning wire with his tongs, misturns the thirsty steel and flies in a beautiful ten-metre red arc into the black air
ref: 2019, Jiří Pelán, Bohumil Hrabal. A Full-length Portrait, page 22:
glosses: To fail in an attempt to grab something
misgrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgrab
misgrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrab
misgrabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrab
misgrabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrab
beryllium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitride of beryllium, Be₃N₂.
micro bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bangs that are very short.
Laxton and Moorhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England.
misgrasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsɡɹæsp/
/ˈmɪsɡɹɑːsp/
/mɪsˈɡɹæsp/
/mɪsˈɡɹɑːsp/
Forms: form: misgrasps
Etymology: From mis- + grasp.
Senses: examples: text: They all reflect to a greater or lesser degree, in the language and explanatory material employed, the same misgrasp of biological theory mentioned before.
ref: 1984, Ethel M. Wheeler, How "Montessorian" are the Montessori Schools?, page 87:
text: To compound that problem by disseminating misinformation based on a woeful misgrasp of the facts to concerned citizens without first "checking the facts” with a knowledgeable biologist (of which you employ many at the hands-on level) is simply irresponsibility defined.
ref: 1992, Mark Jerome Walters, A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species, page 154:
text: Middle-aged Louisiana State University librarian Myrtle Rusk is tasked with patrolling the stacks to tell lustful students to take their hormones elsewhere. But she bends the rules for Seti, an Egyptian student worker with an amusing misgrasp of English who has fallen for the wiles of Lili, the library director's sensuous daughter.
ref: 2010, George M. Eberhart, The Librarian's Book of Lists, page 42:
glosses: A failure to grasp or understand; misapprehension.
misgrasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsɡɹæsp/
/ˈmɪsɡɹɑːsp/
/mɪsˈɡɹæsp/
/mɪsˈɡɹɑːsp/
Forms: form: misgrasps
form: misgrasping
form: misgrasped
form: misgrasped
Etymology: From mis- + grasp.
Senses: examples: text: When the waiter brought me a large white cup and saucer, I concluded that either he or I had misgrasped the situation.
ref: 1947, Hermon Ould, Shuttle: An Autobiographical Sequence, page 268:
text: Harding (1986) argues that a leap to relativism is not necessary and that it “misgrasps” feminist critiques.
ref: 1994, Donna L. Sollie, Leigh A. Leslie, Gender, Families and Close Relationships, page 228:
text: In the eyes of someone who holds either that a norm is valid, or indeed, that there is a rational validation for norms, treating a norm in terms of its function is to misgrasp the idea of norms.
ref: 2004, Sinkwan Cheng, Law, Justice, and Power: Between Reason and Will, page 194:
glosses: To fail to correctly understand; misunderstand.
misgrasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgrasp
misgrasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrasp
misgrasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrasp
misgrasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrasp
whore house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whore houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whorehouse.
Burgh by Sands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in City of Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY3259).
for all of someone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They can hang him for all of me!
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: So far as someone is concerned; in someone's view. (Often in hyperbolic constructions.)
Synonyms: for all someone cares
as far as someone is concerned
bitcoinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of bitcoin becoming accepted as a form of currency.
Derived terms: hyperbitcoinization
Related terms: euroization
hyperbitcoinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + bitcoinization.
Senses: glosses: A major or widespread bitcoinization (process of adopting bitcoin as a form of currency).
lukecold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lukecold
form: most lukecold
Etymology: Blend of lukewarm + cold, equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) + cold.
Senses: examples: text: A hot, more strictly speaking, a luke-cold, bath was welcome at this point, and in the dry clothes brought by the poste and a new pair of slippers, purchased on the spot for two and a half francs, I was perfectly comfortable, and, as usual, in that happy frame of mind that a hard day's tramp always brings.
ref: 1920, Earl Trumbull Williams, Diary of a trip abroad in the summer of 1910, →LCCN, page 185:
text: When Mrs. Whittle asked Billie if the water in the Rest Room was cold, Billie replied in the affirmative, but Mrs. Whittle, after taking a drink of it, said: “Billie, that water is not cold,” to which Billie replied: “Well, it is luke cold.”
ref: 1921, Pollyanna Wigginton, “Keyboard Klippings”, in Jeffry Service, volume VII, number IX, Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, page 12:
text: She put her hand on a luke-cold milk bottle and said, "Did Rudy come today?"
ref: 1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Art of Memory”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 459:
text: Jeff took a slug of his lukecold beer.
ref: 2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Edinburgh: Canongate, →ISBN, page 46:
topics: temperature
glosses: Between warm and cool, but cooler than lukewarm.
examples: text: In Texas, Conservative Price Daniel gave lukecold support to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket but had blazing hot support from the voters, who gave him a runaway third-term victory over Dallas Republican William Steger.
ref: 1960 November 16, “The Election: The States: The Governers”, in Time, volume LXXVI, number 20A, →ISSN, page 13:
text: Since industry is the principal supporter and indirectly financiers of the regulating bodies, the response by said group is veritably lukecold to those who fall in the human sub-set of sensitive reactions to pesticides.
ref: 1991 May 9, Robert G. Haines, “Pesticide consulting services, co.: expert witness testimony on SB-849”, in Issues Related to the Use and Application of Lawn Care Chemicals, 102nd United States Congress, page 230:
glosses: Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) (and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply).
norketobemidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nor- + ketobemidone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical with formal name 1-[4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidin-4-yl]propan-1-one, formed from ketobemidone by removing a methyl group from the nitrogen atom.
dequaternized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dequaternize
dequaternize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dequaternizes
form: dequaternizing
form: dequaternized
form: dequaternized
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove a group from (a quaternary ammonium compound) to yield a tertiary amine.
like strange bulldogs
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: strange is used with the sense of unfamiliar, unacquainted.
Senses: examples: text: When I think of those folks, living in one room and getting along like a couple of strange bulldogs, I feel like stringing with the man who says that we get our hell on this earth sometimes.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: "Some disagreement," admitted Harmon, grinning. "These up-State farmers and I love each other like a couple of strange bulldogs. Still—"
ref: 1918, Holworthy Hall, The Man Nobody Knew:
text: These three got along like strange bulldogs, due to the fact that they were all captains and no privates when the three of them were together.
ref: 1925, The First Yale Unit: A Story of Naval Aviation, 1916-1919:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Wary and unfriendly; on the verge of a fight.
raw_tags: of two or more people
string with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strings with
form: stringing with
form: strung with
form: strung with
form: string along with
Senses: examples: text: When I think of those folks, living in one room and getting along like a couple of strange bulldogs, I feel like stringing with the man who says that we get our hell on this earth sometimes.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: To agree with.
obstetrician-gynecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstetrician-gynecologists
form: OB-GYN
Etymology: From obstetrician + gynecologist.
Senses: examples: The town had only one obstetrician-gynecologist.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist.
Synonyms: word: OB-GYN
english: not Canada
translation: not Canada
word: obs and gynae
receiptholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receiptholders
Etymology: From receipt + holder.
Senses: glosses: The bearer of a receipt.
Bemidone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A brand name.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: hydroxypethidine
O&G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O&Gs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obs and gynae (British, Commonwealth, not Canada)
O&G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oil and gas.
receiptholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receiptholder
obs and gynae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obs and gynaes
Senses: glosses: the study or field of obstetrics and gynaecology
raw_tags: not Canada
glosses: a physician in obstetrics and gynaecology
raw_tags: not Canada
Synonyms: word: OB-GYN
word: obstetrician-gynecologist
Sampford Courtenay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6301).
kermesic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kermes + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red chemical pigment from the insect kermes dye named 1-methyl-2-carboxy-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinone.
Lawrance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lawrances
Etymology: Variant of the personal name Lawrence.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Southease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4205).
Lawrances
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lawrance
Mecklenburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mecklenburg
Lafavor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lafavors
Etymology: Americanized form of French Lefèvre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Kwasny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwasnys
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kwaśny.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kwasnys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kwasny
Lafavors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lafavor
Joffrion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Joffrions
Etymology: Variant form of French Geoffrion.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Kesselman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kesselmans
Etymology: Variant of German Kesselmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kesselmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kesselman
Rodmell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4105).
Joffrions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Joffrion
Fralin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fralins
Etymology: Borrowed from French Fralin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Gabehart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gabeharts
Etymology: Variant of Gebhardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gabeharts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gabehart
Fralins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fralin
Gaskey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaskeys
Etymology: Perhaps an altered spelling of French Gasquet or Gasqué.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Hedtke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hedtkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hedtke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hedtkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hedtke
Gaskeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaskey
Sparkford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6026).
Hesch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hesches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hesch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hesches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hesch
McFadyen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFadyens
Etymology: Variant of McFadden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hilligoss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hilligosses
Etymology: Variant of German Hillegass.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Speeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Reighton parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1574).
Masias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masiases
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Masias, a variant of Masies, from masia (“farmstead”). This surname is mostly found in Peru.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
Masiases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Masias
Hilligosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hilligoss
McFadyens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McFadyen
Kwiatkowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kwiatkowski
Czornys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Czorny
Reighton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Reighton and Speeton Parish Council) in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1375).
bearleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəˌliːdə/
ipa: /ˈbɛəɹˌlidəɹ/
Forms: form: bearleaders
form: bear-leader
form: bear leader
Etymology: From bear + leader.
Senses: synonyms: bearherd
bear warden
glosses: Someone who handles and keeps bears, especially for use in public entertainments such as bearbaiting or dancing displays; a bearward.
examples: text: So!—you have really undertaken the delightful office of bear-leader—becauſe the brother of your Geraldine cannot take care of himſelf— […]
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter II. To Mr. Desmond.”, in Desmond. […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: They pounced upon the stray nobility, and seized young lords travelling with their bear leaders.
ref: 1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “On Some Respectable Snobs”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, pages 29-30:
text: […] Nick, if you please, was pronounced delicate, and led a series of tutors a fine dance until his mother decided he was old enough for the Grand Tour and sent him off with a bear-leader like some young regency lordling.
ref: 1941, Ngaio Marsh, “Project”, in Death and the Dancing Footman, [London]: Fontana Books, William Collins Sons & Co, published September 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 17:
text: In 1775 Lord Herbert [George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke] toured Switzerland with his bearleader William Coxe (1747–1828).
ref: 1992, Jeremy Black, “Routes and Destinations”, in The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Someone acting as a chaperone and tutor to a wealthy young man travelling abroad, especially in Europe.
examples: text: My bear-leaders were considerably surprised with my firmness, but seemed to think it beneath them to contest with me the principles I delivered. […] They left me abruptly; having first ordered an old man, the father of the landlady, to stay in the room with me while they were absent.
ref: 1794, William Godwin, chapter VI, in Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams. […], volume III, London: […] B. Crosby, […], →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: A captor; also, a guard, a jailer.
Related terms: bearbaiter
bearleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear-leaders
form: bear leaders
Senses: glosses: plural of bearleader
Stanton Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Stanton by Dale parish, Erewash district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4838).
misophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misophones
Etymology: From miso- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: One teen couldn’t stand the sound of her mother sighing and, after going on anti-depressants, attempted suicide three times. Psychologists have begun to call them misophones—people with an acute reaction to specific, usually low-volume sounds. But because the condition is still poorly understood, sufferers struggle to convince their families, friends, and employers that their problem isn’t just a heightened form of neuroticism.
ref: 2013 July 19, Charles Bethea, “The Chewing Sound and the Fury”, in New Republic:
text: […] [Jane Gregory] likened misophones to meerkat super guards, “able to detect the slightest hint of danger while the others forage for food and entertain the kids”.
ref: 2025 October 11, Samantha Weinberg, “Do you have to breathe so loudly?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: A person who suffers from misophonia.
Related terms: phonophobe
Stanton by Dale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4637).
Sandiacre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Erewash borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4736).
Staple Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Staple is from Old English stapol.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Staple Hill and Mangotsfield parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6576).
Staverton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7964).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8925).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5461).
glosses: A village and civil parish north of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8560).
glosses: A rural locality in Kentish Council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Stoke Edith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish east of Hereford, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6040).
Cunsolo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cunsolos
form: Cunsoloes
form: Consoli
form: Consolo
form: Di Consolo
form: Di Consoli
Etymology: From the Sicilian Cùnzulu, a surname derived from cùnzulu (“consul”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
trihexosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihexosidases
Etymology: From trihexoside + -ase.
Senses: glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of a trihexoside, and often, more specifically, alpha-galactosidase (ceramide trihexosidase), a deficiency of which allows globotriaosylceramide (ceramide trihexoside) to accumulate in the tissues of people with Fabry disease.
Hyponyms: alpha-d-galactosidase
melibiase
Stoke Works
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality next to Stoke Prior in Stoke parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9466).
trihexosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between the A and B groups of these α-galactosidases (ceramide trihexosidases) has been investigated with regard to their sialic acid content.
ref: 1973, Carol A. Mapes, Charles C. Sweeley, “Interconversion of the A and B forms of ceramide trihexosidase from human plasma”, in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, volume 158, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 297–304:
glosses: plural of trihexosidase
Stoke Prior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south-east of Leominster, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5256).
glosses: A village in Stoke parish, Bromsgrove district, and partly in Dodderhill parish, Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9467).
misgrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misgrieves
form: misgrieving
form: misgrieved
form: misgrieved
Etymology: From mis- + grieve.
Senses: examples: text: Soul of Condorcet! — tell me that misgrieves My spirit, if unto thy thought profound Hope scintillates;
ref: 1853, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-rhyme, page 170:
text: and further hit is agreed by the said twelve men that hit shalbe lawfull for any Inhabytant that finds him selfe misgrieved shall impound the said sheepe and the same to retayne vntill the said offender be content to paye x.
ref: 1919, Frederick Christian Wellstood, Records of the Manor of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, page 91:
text: I respectfully state that if we defer till tomorrow it will create unnecessary misgrieving. We should be generous in giving safeguards and providing as much independence to the Judiciary as we can.
ref: 1973, Pakistan. National Assembly, Parliamentary Debates. Official Report, page 2067:
glosses: To injure in a way that creates grief.
examples: text: Screaming, pain filled, and yearning for more peace yet none comes. All swept away, little pieces scattered to the water. I am perplexed here trapped between the lost and misgrieved.
ref: 2008, Sheri Nicole Karstok, Harbingers of Innocence, page 19:
text: Yet in a wondrous variety of ways it is possible for a griever to misgrieve.
ref: 2012, Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, page 63:
glosses: To grieve improperly.
misgrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrieve
misgrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrieve
misgrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrieve
BMPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BMP
Ford and Stoke Prior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Humber, Ford and Stoke Prior Parish Council) south-east of Leominster, Herefordshire, England.
bacteremial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bacteremic
cervigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervigrams
Senses: glosses: A photographic image of the cervix
cervigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervigram
misgrind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹaɪnd/
Forms: form: misgrinds
form: misgrinding
form: misground
form: misground
Etymology: From mis- + grind.
Senses: examples: text: In many shops, a floor grinder is provided so that the men are perfectly free to misgrind their tools.
ref: 1923, Frederic Burnham Jacobs, Abrasives: Grinding, Polishing, Buffing, Finishing - Volume 4, page 89:
text: Overheating of the enamel slip during grinding, or misgrinding from other causes, brings out difficulties with respect to set of the enamel, dipping, draining, and spraying, as well as surface texture.
ref: 1937, James Edward Hansen, Monroe J. Bahnsen, A Manual of Porcelain Enameling, page 294:
text: As a saw doctor, I have spent many frustrating hours trying to level saws that were misground (thick and thin spots) .
ref: 1988, Northern Logger and Timber Processer - Volume 37, Issues 1-6, page 9:
text: Suddenly, we hear the rasping sound of a lens being misground and a shot of the chart shows production declining once again.
ref: 2003, Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen, page 420:
glosses: To grind improperly.
misgrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹaɪnd/
Forms: form: misgrinds
Etymology: From mis- + grind.
Senses: examples: text: Misgrinds are costly. I admit I've popped beans into the grinder and activated it only to realize it was set on coarse when I needed a drip.
ref: 1997, Fresh Cup: The Voice of the Specialty Coffee Industry, page 52:
text: Margins should be left everywhere after rough grinding so as to the “misgrind” can be avoided; thereby the fine grinding is needed.
ref: 2021, A. Luximon, Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture, page 231:
glosses: The act or result of misgrinding.
misgrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrind
misgrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgrind
cesticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesticides
Senses: glosses: cestocide
Related terms: cesticidal
misgrinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrind
cesticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills cestodes
Related terms: cesticide
detarget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detargets
form: detargeting
form: detargetting
form: detargeted
form: detargeted
form: detargetted
form: detargetted
Senses: glosses: To no longer target
detargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detarget
detargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: No longer targeted
dualband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: dual-band
misgrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹɪp/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹɪp/
Forms: form: misgrips
form: misgripping
form: misgripped
form: misgripped
Etymology: From mis- + grip.
Senses: examples: text: It was a revelation of sorts, those, of course, that could be read, for there were a few specimens of the hook-and-butt-joint variety which looked as though they'd been written with a spitsticker misgripped between two non-opposable toes.
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 90:
text: Slides that did not fit the Robot's requirements were misgripped and dropped.
ref: 1991, Angela Milham, Viviana Bastone, Wilhelm T . Lawrence, Eduardo Zappi, “Two Years Esperience with an Automatic Coverslipper : Problems and Solutions”, in Journal of Histotechnology, volume 14, page 245:
text: This idea would have to wait, for in the process of turning, the staff fell from his grasp. He scrambled to grab the weapon but he ineptly misgripped and accidentally activated the trigger.
ref: 2003, Jarod Espy, Wonder Journeys Part I: Rise of a New Age, page 69:
glosses: To grip improperly.
misgrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡɹɪp/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡɹɪp/
Forms: form: misgrips
Etymology: From mis- + grip.
Senses: examples: text: A very important factor in preventing slide misgrips and droppings was found to be steady cleaning the Robot's exposed parts from mountant or glass debris accumulated during the operation.
ref: 1991, Angela Milham, Viviana Bastone, Wilhelm T . Lawrence, Eduardo Zappi, “Two Years Esperience with an Automatic Coverslipper : Problems and Solutions”, in Journal of Histotechnology, volume 14, page 246:
text: A tool misgrip condition was intentionally created to verify sensor detection.
ref: 1998, Richard B. Correll, Autonomous Tool Monitoring System for a Horizontal Machining Center:
glosses: The act of misgripping.
misgrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrip
misgrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgrip
misgripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrip
misgripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrip
ecoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecoacoustics
Related terms: echoacoustic
Stonegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From stone + gate.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ticehurst parish, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6628).
glosses: A hamlet in Glaisdale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ7709).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Davis, Yolo County, California, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Irvine, Orange County, California.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Douglas County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
misguard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misguards
form: misguarding
form: misguarded
form: misguarded
Etymology: From mis- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: Modern tragedy has aimed at pointing out to men the consequences of their own misconduct, showing the direful effects which ambition, jealousy, love, resentment, and other strong emotions, when misguarded or left unrestrained, produce upon human life.
ref: 1852, The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, page 288:
text: God's life, death should be thy doom for so misguarding thy lord, the anointed of Jehovah!
ref: 1924, William Canton, The Bible Story, page 206:
text: six prime ministers i.e. six inner enemies misguard the king.
ref: 2006, Bi Virūpākṣappa, Aroma of Sarana Culture, page 347:
glosses: To fail to guard properly.
misguards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misguard
misguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misguard
misguarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misguard
lay at someone's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays at someone's door
form: laying at someone's door
form: laid at someone's door
form: laid at someone's door
Etymology: Alludes to someone laying incriminating evidence at the door of a guilty person, perhaps during the night. Compare lie at someone's door.
Senses: examples: text: Conviction of sin held him like a vice: he saw the lassie's death laid at his door; her face haunted him by day and night, and the word of the Lord dirled in his ears, telling of wrath and punishment.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Likewise, a flop will be laid at his door [James Gunn's door].
ref: 2025 July 12, Danny Leigh, “Hollywood's box office superhero returns”, in FT Weekend, page 9:
glosses: To blame (a problem) on someone; to hold someone responsible for (something).
Related terms: at someone's door
lay at someone's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Alludes to someone laying incriminating evidence at the door of a guilty person, perhaps during the night. Compare lie at someone's door.
Senses: glosses: simple past of lie at someone's door
Stoulton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9049).
hybrid learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A school or district that is truly committed to delivering hybrid learning will find a way to help bridge the gap for learners without Internet access.
ref: 2011 February, Michele Luhtala, “A Real World Example”, in Teacher Librarian, volume 38, number 3, pages 24–25:
text: Getting the optimum blend between face-to-face and online learning will remain the key and could be difficult, leading organisations to think differently. The evolution of the 'hybrid learning model is pertinent to building a sustainable learning and development model in the future.
ref: 2020 August 16, “More willingness to learn during Covid, says ACCA study”, in The Hindu BusinessLine on Campus:
glosses: Education involving both online or distance learning and in-person instruction.
Synonyms: blended learning
hybrid teaching
Related terms: distance learning
insurance fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurance fires
Senses: examples: text: The other fifty-four cases were insurance fires, that is the motive was that of burning to collect insurance.
ref: 1921, Office of the Fire Marshal of the State of Louisiana, Annual Report - Volumes 17-35, page 7:
text: A more likely theory is that it was an insurance fire, as the Bennett brothers were in financial trouble...
ref: 2009, Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, page 419:
text: Most of the people thought it was an insurance fire, that Aronez or someone hired by him had set it.
ref: 2012, David Holmberg, The Tinderbox, page 87:
text: They're even hinting that the loss of our Ingleside printing plant was an insurance fire, for God's sake!
ref: 2016, Stephen Birmingham, The Rothman Scandal, page 619:
topics: law
glosses: A form of arson in which a fire is intentionally started in order to enable collection from an insurance policy that protects against accidental fires.
Related terms: insurance fraud
insurance fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurance fire
epilarynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
-ɛəɹɪŋks
Forms: form: epilarynxes
form: epilarynges
Etymology: From epi- + larynx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the larynx next to the arytenoid muscles
epileptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epileptors
Etymology: From epilept(ic) + -or.
Senses: glosses: That part of the brain's systems that initiates an epileptic seizure.
esdepallethrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A biocide used against scabies