cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kabayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ibaloi kaba-ayan (“place where root crop vines grow”).
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Adaoay, Anchukey, Ballay, Bashoy, Batan, Duacan, Eddet, Gusaran, Kabayan Barrio, Lusod, Pacso, Poblacion, Tawangan — barangays of Kabayan
glosses: A municipality of Benguet, Philippines.
mildewcidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mildew + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: That serves to kill mildew.
chatelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatelain
avantgardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of avant-gardism.
avant-gardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avant-garde + -ism, or French avant-gardisme.
Senses: glosses: the novel, experimental approach of the avant-garde
dead against
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: dead set against
form: death against
Senses: examples: text: We had hauled up here to the S.W., in order to go sharp round the southern extreme of the Maldiva Archipelago, and, if possible, proceed by the northern, or short route, and run our westing down in 4° or 5° south latitude ; but, as we got to the westward, we found the wind more dead against us, so that we were obliged to steer south again.
ref: 1828, James Silk Buckingham, The Oriental Herald, page 410:
text: “The person who was most dead against playing the game was Stuart,” says Mick. “But he’s definitely a lot more relaxed about it these days.”
ref: 2005, Paul Whitelaw, Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story, page 260:
glosses: Unequivocally and intransigently opposed to.
slap-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slap-up
form: most slap-up
Senses: examples: text: "Isn't she a slap-up woman, eh, now?" pursued he; and began enumerating her attractions, as a horse-jockey would the points of a favourite animal.
ref: 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
text: "You take me somewhere where we can get a regular slap-up lunch. All this is the very worst thing for my nerves." -- "Lavenue's is about the best place round here," answered Philip.
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
text: 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: If you add the cost of occasional chartered taxis, souvenirs, a splurge every now and then on a slap-up meal or a mid-range hotel[…]
ref: 2003, Anthony Ham, Paul Greenway, Damien Simonis, Jordan:
glosses: Excellent, first-class.
S-A node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S-A nodes
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sinoatrial node.
pelagically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pelagic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pelagic way; in or of the open sea.
Derived terms: epipelagically
mesopelagically
homocercal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + cercal.
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: homocerc
glosses: Describing the symmetric tail of a fish that has two lobes extending from the end of the vertebral column.
Coordinate terms: diphycercal
heterocercal
protocercal
methylmercuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylmercury
homokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homokinetic
form: most homokinetic
Etymology: From homo- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: homokinetic joint
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of constant velocity.
synonyms: word: constant velocity
Derived terms: homokinetically
farnesols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farnesol
homochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + -chromy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The use, by an organism, of the same colour as its background as a means of protection
Synonyms: word: homochromia
transesterify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transesterifies
form: transesterifying
form: transesterified
form: transesterified
Etymology: From trans- + ester + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To subject to transesterification.
transesterifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transesterify
transesterifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transesterify
transesterified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transesterify
homodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: heterodont
glosses: Having teeth that are all of the same type.
Derived terms: homodontism
homodonty
homodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homodonts
Etymology: From homo- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with teeth all of the same type.
ethacridine lactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic organic compound, 2-ethoxy-6,9-diaminoacridine monolactate monohydrate, based on acridine, used primarily in antiseptics.
phosphatidylinositols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphatidylinositol
monochloroethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + chloroethane.
Senses: glosses: Chloroethane.
isentropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more isentropically
form: most isentropically
Etymology: From isentropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isentropic way.
turboexpander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboexpanders
Etymology: From turbo- + expander.
Senses: glosses: A centrifugal or axial-flow turbine through which a high-pressure gas is expanded to produce work that is often used to drive a compressor.
Synonyms: expansion turbine
turboexpanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turboexpander
hydrohalogenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrohalogenations
Etymology: From hydro- + halogenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The electrophilic addition of hydrohalic acids to alkenes to yield the corresponding haloalkanes.
Related terms: hydrobromination
hydrochlorination
hydrofluorination
hydrohalic acid
hydrohalogenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrohalogenation
hydroformylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroformylation
pseudoephedrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoephedrine
endosulfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosulfan
organotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organotoxic
form: most organotoxic
Etymology: From organo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Toxic to an organ in living creatures.
Derived terms: organotoxicity
octocrylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As documented in a recent FDA study, chemical sunscreens, with active ingredients like oxybenzone, octocrylene, octinoxate, homosalate, and avobenzone, are applied to the skin and then can remain in the blood plasma at significant levels for days to weeks after application[.]
ref: 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, quoting Madhu Shetti, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester formed by the condensation of a diphenylcyanoacrylate with 2-ethylhexanol, used in sunscreens and cosmetics.
didecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Eicosane.
cytotoxically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cytotoxically
form: most cytotoxically
Etymology: From cytotoxic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cytotoxic way.
bed and board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bed and bord.
Senses: examples: text: For, alas, the Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there, often in a very sorry way. No beautifullest Poet is a Bird-of-Paradise, living on perfumes; sleeping in the aether with outspread wings. The Heroic, independent of bed and board, is found in Drury Lane Theatre only
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A place to sleep and eat; bed and breakfast; the services provided by an inn or similar establishment.
glosses: Full connubial relations.
Derived terms: divorce from bed and board
separation from bed and board
Related terms: food and board
cyberczar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberczars
Etymology: From cyber- + czar.
Senses: examples: text: The White House office will be run by a “cyberczar,” but because the position will not have direct access to the president, some experts said it was not high-level enough to end a series of bureaucratic wars that have broken out as billions of dollars have suddenly been allocated to protect against the computer threats.
ref: 2009 May 29, David E. Sanger, Thom Shanker, “Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A czar (political official) responsible for cyber issues.
Smyrna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: zmîrʹnä
ipa: /ˈzmɪənɑː/
enpr: smûrʹnə
ipa: /ˈsmɜɹnə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σμύρνα (Smúrna), a variant spelling of Σμύρνη (Smúrnē), the Ionic Greek form of the original Aeolic Greek name Μύρρᾱ (Múrrhā, “Smyrna”). Doublet of Izmir.
Senses: glosses: An ancient port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor founded in circa the 11ᵗʰ century BC on the site of the present-day Turkish city of İzmir.
glosses: A former settlement in Kern County, California.
glosses: A town in Kent County and New Castle County, Delaware.
examples: text: The Smyrna city government maintains Taylor Brawner Park through a partnership between its environmental department and a local organization called Keep Smyrna Beautiful that has the support of local government, businesses and residents.
ref: 2020 August 28, Skylar Mitchell, “This couple memorialized the names of those lost in racial violence. They hope other communities do the same”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Salt Creek Township, Decatur County, Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana, also called Creswell.
glosses: A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
glosses: A small town in Aroostook County, Maine.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Otisco Township, Ionia County, Michigan.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
glosses: A town and village in Chenango County, New York.
glosses: A locality in Carteret County, North Carolina.
glosses: A tiny town in York County and Cherokee County, South Carolina.
glosses: A sizable town in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
Meronyms: New Smyrna
Old Smyrna
Smyrna proper
Derived terms: Calimyrna
Smyrna fig
qubyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qubytes
Etymology: Blend of quantum + byte, generalizing the prefix qu-, after qubit.
Senses: qualifier: quantum computing
glosses: A quantum byte, one composed of eight qubits.
qubytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qubyte
bitflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitflips
Etymology: From bit + flip.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The switching of a bit's value (from 1 to 0, or vice versa).
bitflips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitflip
Ægean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ējēʹən
ipa: /iːˈdʒiːən/
Senses: examples: text: Greece and the Ægean Islands
ref: 1907, Philip Sanford Marden, Greece and the Ægean Islands, main title (Houghton, Mifflin, and Company)
text: The Ægean Civilization
ref: 1925, Gustave Glotz, Marryat Ross Dobie [tr.], and E. M. Riley [tr.], The Ægean Civilization, main title (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.)
glosses: Obsolete form of Aegean.
Ægean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ējēʹən
ipa: /iːˈdʒiːən/
Forms: form: the Ægean
Senses: examples: text: Tales from the Ægean
ref: 1894, Dēmētrios Vikelas and Leonard Eckstein Opdycke [tr.], Tales from the Ægean, main title (McClurg)
glosses: Obsolete form of Aegean.
Æolic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Aeolic.
Æolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Aeolic.
buy-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buydown.
buy-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buy-down
Prince Charlie jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prince Charlie jackets
Senses: glosses: A formal Scottish jacket, normally worn with a kilt
Synonyms: Argyll jacket
Prince Charlie jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prince Charlie jacket
Æolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ē.ōʹlĭə
ipa: /iːˈəʊlɪə/
Senses: examples: text: […] the rifling of continents, watched by unsexed guards, the last refinement of jealousy and the self‐irony of lust; their tables spread for fifteen thousand daily, though the king himself dined alone, and often frugally; their water brought in silver from the Choaspes, their salt from the Libyan desert, their wine from Syria, and their wheat from Æolia; a thousand pounds of incense came yearly from Arabia; from Armenia tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of sheep; from Assyria five hundred eunuch-boys to serve at feasts; where, too, they had large towns, all whose revenues went for breeding dogs, and royal stables on an enormous scale; and the daily tribute to the satrap amounted to a bushel of silver.
ref: 1885, Samuel Johnson, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, edited by Augustus Mellen Haskell, Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion, Houghton, Mifflin, and company, page 315:
text: […] Such fiery tumult in her mind,
She seeks the birthplace of the wind,
Æolia, realm for ever rife
With turbid elemental life :
Here Æolus in a cavern vast
With bolt and barrier fetters fast […]
ref: 1886, Virgil and John Conington (translator), The Æneid of Virgil, page 5 (Armstrong)
glosses: Archaic form of Aeolia.
Æolus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹələs
ipa: /ˈiː.ələs/
Senses: examples: text: […] Such fiery tumult in her mind,
She seeks the birthplace of the wind,
Æolia, realm for ever rife
With turbid elemental life :
Here Æolus in a cavern vast
With bolt and barrier fetters fast […]
ref: 1886, Virgil and John Conington (translator), The Æneid of Virgil, page 5 (Armstrong)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Aeolus.
porte-cochere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte-cocheres
form: portes-cocheres
Senses: examples: text: We had admirable Noſes to ſmell out proper Places, and your Houſes with Porte-Cocheres were ſure to have enough of our Company.
ref: 1708, Mateo Aleman, chapter III, in [anonymous], transl., The Life of Guzman d’Alfarache: Or, The Spanish Rogue. […], volume I, London: […] R. Bonwick, […], →OCLC, part I, book III, page 400:
text: [M]oſt of the Houſes having Porte-Cocheres, and Court-yards, for the Conveniency and the Uſe of the Families.
ref: 1724 April 17 (Gregorian calendar), [John Macky], “Letter I”, in A Journey through the Austrian Netherlands. […], London: […] J. Pemberton, […], and J. Hooke, […], published 1725, →OCLC, page 4:
text: I stopped the Packard under the porte-cochere and emptied my pockets out on the seat.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 8, in The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, published August 1992, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of porte cochère.
porte cochere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte cocheres
form: portes cocheres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porte cochère.
port city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: port cities
Senses: glosses: A city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.
port cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of port city
tzadik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzadiks
form: tzadikim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tzaddik.
tzadik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade (“Semitic letter”).
tzadiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzadik
godmotherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more godmotherly
form: most godmotherly
Etymology: From godmother + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of, or befitting, a godmother.
godfatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more godfatherly
form: most godfatherly
Etymology: From godfather + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of, or befitting, a godfather.
skaterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skaterly
form: most skaterly
Etymology: From skater + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...dipping in and out of a deep lunge, he abandoned a lot of skaterly control and really dropped the weight of his body and swung it up again loosely.
ref: 1985, Deborah Jowitt, The dance in mind: profiles and reviews 1976-83:
text: ...elegant, skaterly, bubble-chamber spirals of hair.
ref: 1986, Albert Goldbarth, Arts and sciences: poems:
text: If only he could stand on the ice for a moment or two he might manage to move cautiously forward in some reasonably skaterly manner.
ref: 1987, Iris Murdoch, The book and the brotherhood:
glosses: Of, or befitting, a skater.
bubble chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble chambers
Senses: examples: text: These discoveries, along with others produced by bubble chambers at Argonne, Brookhaven, and CERN, supported the SU(3) particle classification.
ref: 1998, Robert Bud, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, page 100:
glosses: A vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it.
bubble chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble chamber
vexillological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vexillology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vexillology.
Synonyms: vexillologic
electrophilically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more electrophilically
form: most electrophilically
Etymology: From electrophilic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an electrophilic way.
Philomena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪləˈmiːnə/
Etymology: From Latin Filumena, from Ancient Greek Φιλουμένη (Philouménē, literally “beloved”). Name of an alleged early martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in Rome.
Senses: examples: text: "Why did St Philomena get crossed off, I wonder?" asked Celia.
"I don't know, maybe they found her out," Tom grinned. "I know my sister Phil was very annoyed at the time, she felt it was an attack of some sort."
ref: 1984, Maeve Binchy, The Lilac Bus, Delacorte Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Greekness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being Greek.
foreland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forelands
Etymology: From Middle English foreland, equivalent to fore- + land.
Senses: glosses: A headland.
examples: text: Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone.
ref: 1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin, volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →DOI, page 684:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
Derived terms: South Foreland
forelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreland
anbury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anburies
form: anberry
Etymology: The first component may be the same as in hangnail.
Senses: glosses: A wen or spongy wart on the legs or flanks of a horse.
glosses: A disease in turnips, produced by one of the slime-fungi, and usually the result of improper cultivation.
Related terms: amper
unartistlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unartistlike
form: most unartistlike
Etymology: From un- + artistlike.
Senses: examples: text: […] the defects of the plates are owing to the engraver, WF Starling; who has executed them in a coarse, flimsy, unartistlike manner, as though cheapness rather than excellence had been aimed at.
ref: 1846, The Spectator: Volume 19, page 19:
glosses: Not artistlike; unartistic.
unbrotherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbrotherlike
form: most unbrotherlike
Etymology: From un- + brotherlike.
Senses: glosses: Not brotherlike.
unbusinesslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbusinesslike
form: most unbusinesslike
Etymology: From un- + businesslike.
Senses: glosses: Not businesslike.
unchristianlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchristianlike
form: most unchristianlike
form: unchristian-like
form: un-Christianlike
form: un-Christian-like
Etymology: From un- + Christianlike or un- + Christian + -like.
Senses: antonyms: Christian-like
glosses: Not Christian-like.
ungentlemanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungentlemanlike
form: most ungentlemanlike
Etymology: From un- + gentlemanlike.
Senses: glosses: Not gentlemanlike.
ungodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungodlike
form: most ungodlike
Etymology: From un- + godlike.
Senses: glosses: Not godlike.
unhomelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhomelike
form: most unhomelike
Etymology: From un- + homelike.
Senses: glosses: Not homelike.
unkinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unkinglike
form: most unkinglike
Etymology: From un- + kinglike.
Senses: glosses: Not kinglike.
unlifelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlifelike
form: most unlifelike
Etymology: From un- + lifelike.
Senses: glosses: Not lifelike.
unloverlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloverlike
form: most unloverlike
form: unlover-like
Etymology: From un- + loverlike.
Senses: glosses: Not loverlike.
unmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmanlike
form: most unmanlike
Etymology: From un- + manlike.
Senses: examples: text: Her body—soft and quite unmanlike—pressed against him.
ref: 2011, Kenneth Bulmer, The Demons:
glosses: Not manlike.
unqueenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unqueenlike
form: most unqueenlike
Etymology: From un- + queenlike.
Senses: glosses: Not queenlike.
unsailorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsailorlike
form: most unsailorlike
Etymology: From un- + sailorlike.
Senses: glosses: Not sailorlike.
unscholarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscholarlike
form: most unscholarlike
Etymology: From un- + scholarlike.
Senses: glosses: Not scholarlike.
unsoldierlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsoldierlike
form: most unsoldierlike
Etymology: From un- + soldierlike.
Senses: glosses: Not soldierlike.
unstatesmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstatesmanlike
form: most unstatesmanlike
Etymology: From un- + statesmanlike.
Senses: glosses: Not statesmanlike.
Synonyms: unstatesmanly
unwifelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwifelike
form: most unwifelike
Etymology: From un- + wifelike.
Senses: glosses: Not wifelike.
unwarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwarlike
form: most unwarlike
Etymology: From un- + warlike.
Senses: glosses: Not warlike.
unworkmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworkmanlike
form: most unworkmanlike
Etymology: From un- + workmanlike.
Senses: glosses: Not workmanlike.
sell past the close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells past the close
form: selling past the close
form: sold past the close
form: sold past the close
Senses: antonyms: undersell
hypernyms: oversell
glosses: To oversell by trying to further convince a customer of the benefits of making a purchase after the customer has already decided to make that purchase.
screechingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more screechingly
form: most screechingly
Etymology: From screeching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a screeching way; with screeching noises.
sells past the close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sell past the close
selling past the close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sell past the close
sold past the close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sell past the close
Ivoirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French Ivoirien, ivoirien.
Senses: glosses: Ivorian
Ivoirian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ivoirians
Etymology: From French Ivoirien, ivoirien.
Senses: glosses: Ivorian
graecismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin graecismus. Doublet of Grecism.
Senses: glosses: Use of Greek words and examples.
glosses: Affectation of erudition.
virtual sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From virtual + sex.
Senses: examples: "Virtual sex is just phone sex, it ain't cheating but it does raise eyebrows." https://web.archive.org/web/20090607012152/http://io9.com/5276414/virtual-sex-cheating-or-not
glosses: Sexual activity where two or more people stimulate each other transmitting erotic material using the Internet, telephones or other electronic communication equipment.
unclubbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclubbable
form: most unclubbable
Etymology: From un- + clubbable.
Senses: examples: text: ‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’
ref: 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95:
text: It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, page 212:
text: I have to conclude that I am unclubbable. Unlike John O'Hara, who kept embossed seals of his various clubs on his gold cigarette case, I apparently take no continuing pleasure in clubs nor any real satisfaction in the thought that I have been asked to join a few of them.
ref: 2003, Joseph Epstein, Snobbery: The American Version, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 141:
text: For much of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom deemed women intractably unclubbable. The standard arguments in circulation at the time often began by pointing to women's “natural” inclination not to be social.
ref: 2012, Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
antonyms: clubbable
glosses: Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.
Cathar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæθɑɹ/
Forms: form: Cathari
form: Cathars
Etymology: Recorded since the 16th century; from the masculine plural of Medieval Latin Catharī (“Pure (ones)”), from the masculine plural of Byzantine Greek καθαροί (katharoí, “Pure (ones)”), from the masculine singular of Byzantine Greek καθαρός (katharós, “Pure (one)”), from Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”).
Senses: examples: text: The Albigenses, famous Cathars in and around Albi (southern France), were eradicated in a bloody ‘crusade’.
glosses: A member of certain so self-styled Novatian and other medieval Christian sects embracing a form of dualism and extraordinary practices purportedly adhering to Mary Magdalene's teachings, persecuted by Roman Catholics as heretics.
Derived terms: Catharism
Catharist
Catharistic
Related terms: catharsis
cathartic
Albigenses
Bogomil
Bogomile
pataria
bad influence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad influences
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that teaches others to do wrong or encourages wrong actions and thoughts by example.
Catharist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Catharist
form: most Catharist
Etymology: From Cathar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Cathari or Catharism.
Synonyms: Catharistic
bad influences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad influence
homologously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homologously
form: most homologously
Etymology: From homologous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a homologous manner
glosses: With regard to homology
Derived terms: nonhomologously
Novatian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Novatius (plausibly via French Novatien).
Senses: glosses: A Roman priest, who became an antipope against St. Cornelius in 251 AD, considered by the Catholic Church to be a schismatic heresiarch as founder of a Christian sect known as Novatianism.
Derived terms: Novatianist
Novatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Novatians
Etymology: From Latin Novatius (plausibly via French Novatien).
Senses: glosses: A follower of Novatianism.
Novatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Novatian
form: most Novatian
Etymology: From Latin Novatius (plausibly via French Novatien).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the heresiarch Novatian or his schismatic sect, Novatianism.
staio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staios
form: staia
Etymology: From Italian staio.
Senses: glosses: fanega (various units of dry capacity and land area)
staia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staio
rosados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosado
châtelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of châtelain
châtelaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of châtelaine
châtelaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: châtelaines
Senses: examples: text: Courts of love, hawking, hunting, cavalcades, were the pastime of the châtelaines of the middle ages.
ref: 1864, “The “Courts of Love” in Provence”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LVI, London: Chapman and Hall, translation of Les Cours d’Amour, les Comtesses et Châtelaines de Provence by [Jean-Baptiste] Capefigue, page 392:
text: They could not tell me where it was, or who the châtelaines, / But they knew it was a château, in the heart of the Ardennes.
ref: 1895, G[eorge] F[orrest] Browne, “The Château in the Ardennes”, in Off the Mill: Some Occasional Papers, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 161:
text: Mrs. Raymond Prince vaguely pronounced their house “amusing.” It had, like Adele McComas herself, a provocative dash which fell in with her present mood, and it pleased her that its châtelaine was inclined to dress up to its wayward sofas and hangings.
ref: 1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 145:
text: Townsmen, imitating the lords, possessed some fine hunters on the perch, and girls of modest upbringing even equalled the châtelaines in dressing a fine crested bird on the glove.
ref: 2011, “The Great Old Hunter”, in Gareth Knight, transl., The Romance of the Faery Melusine, Skylight Press, translation of original by André Lebey, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of chatelaine.
texture map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: texture maps
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A matrix of data, representing texture, added to a polygon or polyhedron in the process of texture mapping
texture map
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: texture maps
form: texture mapping
form: texture mapped
form: texture mapped
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To map a texture to a three-dimensional model.
texture maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of texture map
texture maps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of texture map
texture mapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of texture map
texture mapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of texture map
Shiba Inu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃiːbə ˈiːnuː/
Forms: form: Shiba Inus
form: shiba inu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柴犬 (shibainu).
Senses: examples: text: Doge has taken the standard twists and turns, and it’s increasingly common to see images which have the format of a Doge picture but don’t actually contain any Shiba Inus at all.
ref: 2014 February 18, Alex Hern, “What is Doge?”, in The Guardian:
text: Even Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke with a perpetually surprised Shiba Inu dog for its symbol, has soared almost 1,000 percent over the last week to set a record.
ref: 2021 February 8, Nathaniel Popper, “Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg Push Cryptocurrencies to Record Highs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2021:
text: Shiba Inus Rosie, Riot and Dennis, Merseyside police therapy dogs, with handler Karen.
ref: 2023 December 4, “Calming anxiety and detecting allergies: a celebration of UK service dogs – in pictures”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A dog of a small, agile Japanese breed originally used for hunting.
Synonyms: word: Shiba
word: shiba
word: shibe
homopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homopters
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Homoptera.
Synonyms: homopteran
balata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balatas
Etymology: From Spanish balatá.
Senses: examples: text: ‘She tall like a balata tree, her skin black like midnight.’
ref: 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 215:
glosses: Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
glosses: The latex obtained from this tree.
Synonyms: ausubo
bulletwood
bully tree
cow-tree
massaranduba
shoulder bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder bones
Etymology: From Middle English schuldre bon; equivalent to shoulder + bone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: shoulder blade
Synonyms: scapula
shoulder blade
xeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It arranges for settlement of collective debts, discusses xeer dealings with central authorities, maintains the group wells, and protects grazing areas.
ref: 1977, David D Laitin, Politics, language, and thought: the Somali experience:
text: In rural areas, there is still confusion between xeer and shari'a.
ref: 2005, Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus, Shattering tradition: custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean:
text: The key feature of the xeer is its common law character...
ref: 2007, Lars Buur, Helene Maria Kyed, State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa:
glosses: The traditional legal system of Somalia, believed to predate Islam, in which elders serve as mediators and people are responsible for the actions of their families.
search warrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search warrants
Senses: examples: text: Evidence found without a valid search warrant may be discarded by the courts as null and void
topics: law
glosses: A court order in the form of a warrant, authorizing the search of a home and/or other privacy-protected place(s), notably to seek unlawful possessions, evidence etc. as part of a judicial inquiry
Coordinate terms: alt: information-to-obtain
word: ITO
Andras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andrases
Senses: glosses: A surname.
boglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boglets
Etymology: From bog + -let.
Senses: examples: text: In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet.
ref: 1919, Israel Zangwill, “Bundock on His Beat”, in Jinny the Carrier, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, section III, page 12:
glosses: A small patch of boggy ground.
boglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boglets
Etymology: From Scots boglet.
Senses: examples: text: Goodfellow and the vampire had dropped us off in the limo at the park's south entrance. […] I was again smacking the claws of the boglet above me. […] They ate muggers and joggers. […] "Don't make me shoot off the end of your tail."
ref: 2011, Rob Thurman, Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel:
glosses: A kind of supernatural being.
American mink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American minks
form: American mink
Senses: glosses: An animal of that species Neogale vison, that lives near water..
Related terms: Neogale vison
in aid of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: - What's that coaster in aid of?
- This table gets stained by cups very easily.
glosses: for the sake of, for (usually placed at the end of a question when quizzing a person about why they have done something)
Related terms: what for
booze jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze jockeys
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic.
heterocarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The production of two or more distinct fruit types by an individual, i.e. heterocarpy, is considered as a mixed dispersal strategy in which a proportion of the offspring is able to colonize new sites, whilst others remain near the maternal location.
ref: 2013, Rubén Torices, Alicia Agudo, Inés Alvarez Fernández, Not only size matters: achene morphology affects time of seedling emergence in three heterocarpic species of "Anacyclus" (Anthemideae, Asteraceae):
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: heterocarpism
glosses: The production of multiple kinds of fruit on the same plant.
heterocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterocarpous
form: most heterocarpous
Etymology: From hetero- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting heterocarpy
caliginosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caliginosities
Etymology: From Latin cālīginōsus (“misty, dark”), from cālīgō (“fog; darkness”).
Senses: glosses: darkness; obscurity.
Synonyms: caliginousness
Related terms: caliginous
breaktime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaktimes
form: break time
Etymology: From break + time.
Senses: examples: 2007, National Labor Relations Board (U.S.) (editor), Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 346: November 28, 2005—May 8, 2006, page 39,
Supervisor Laws asserts that when the incident occurred it was not the breaktime of either Tingler or Parnell. (4:760,789.)
glosses: A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
examples: text: It tends to evaluate the liking for, and the acceptance of, the pupils in their class as peers, rather than asking children to specifically select their friends, breaktime and home companions.
ref: 1992, David Freer, Towards Open Schools: Possibilities and Realities for Non-Racial Education in South Africa, page 130:
text: The significance of breaktimes as a mechanism for children to develop social competence is highlighted in much of Peter Blatchford's work.
ref: 2006, Brigette Bishop, Promoting Friendships in the Playground: A Peer Befriending Programme for Primary Schools, page 4:
text: Designed by architects working for Norman Foster, it had no playground and no morning breaktime.
ref: 2010, Karen Littleton, Clare Wood, Judith Kleine Staarman, International Handbook of Psychology in Education, page 231:
glosses: A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
Synonyms: sense: break during school
word: lunchtime
sense: break during school
word: playtime
sense: break during school
word: recess
matje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matjes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maatje.
legend in one's own lunchtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A playful variation of legend in one's own lifetime.
Senses: examples: text: A legend in his own lunchtime, Bulwer-Lytton became renowned for penning exceptionally bad prose...
ref: 2003, Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, →ISBN, page 1:
text: At the company's end-of-season party last week, East Sr, a legend in his own lunchtime, grabbed the mic from the house band and regaled guests—including Setanta pundits Steve McManaman and Les Ferdinand—with a Beatles medley.
ref: 2008 May 19, Media Monkey, “Media Diary from the Observer”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 15 Jun 2014:
text: By way of a change, the Star assistant editor, another legend in his own lunchtime, would regularly fall asleep during the morning conference and we would simply tiptoe past him and leave him to it.
ref: 2012, Jeff Connor, Field of Fire, →ISBN:
glosses: One whose fame is insignificant, fleeting or imaginary.
Related terms: 15 minutes of fame
hunk of junk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunks of junk
Senses: synonyms: word: piece of junk
word: rustbucket
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: A worthless or malfunctioning piece of mechanical or electrical equipment.
Related terms: junkman
junkyard
piece of shit
pile of shit
scrapheap
scrapyard
school trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school trips
Senses: glosses: an event in which schoolchildren travel to a location separate from their normal learning environment under the authority of the staff of their school and with the purpose of learning by experience.
sabadilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæbəˈdɪlə/
ipa: /ˌsæbəˈdiːjə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: sabadillas
form: cebadilla
form: cevadilla
Etymology: From Spanish cebadilla, diminutive of cebada (“barley”).
Senses: synonyms: caustic barley
Indian caustic barley
glosses: A Mexican and Central American plant of the family Melanthiaceae (Schoenocaulon officinale, syn. Sabadilla officinalis).
glosses: The seeds of this plant, used in medicine and insecticides.
Sabaean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Sabean
form: Sabæan
Etymology: From Saba + -ean.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Semitic language spoken in Sheba (Saba).
Synonyms: Sheban
Sabaeic
Sabaic
Hypernyms: Old South Arabian
Sabaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Sabaeans
form: Sabean
form: Sabæan
Etymology: From Saba + -ean.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of the ancient Sabaean people.
Synonyms: Sheban
Sabaeic
Sabaic
Sabaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbiː.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: more Sabaean
form: most Sabaean
form: Sabean
form: Sabæan
Etymology: From Saba + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sabaean people or their culture.
Synonyms: Sheban
Sabaeic
Sabaic
Sabaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The religion of the Sabians; Sabianism
glosses: worship of the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry; astrolatry
cottonfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonfields
Etymology: From cotton + field.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: a field in which the cotton plant is grown and harvested.
riverboat queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverboat queens
Senses: examples: text: I never saw the good side of a city until I hitched a ride on a riverboat queen.
ref: 1968, John Fogerty, “Proud Mary”:
glosses: A large paddle steamer operating on the Mississippi river.
sabal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪˌbæl/
Forms: form: sabals
Etymology: From the genus name Sabal, of uncertain origin.
it might be from Arabic “sabal” سبل سنبلة سنابل meaning “wheat plant”
Senses: glosses: Any palm of the genus Sabal of American dwarf fan palms; usually called palmetto.
sabalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabalos
Senses: glosses: Milkfish (Chanos chanos).
glosses: A common fish of southeastern South America, Prochilodus lineatus.
glosses: Fish of various species in the genus Brycon, native to northern South America.
bills of attainder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill of attainder
pæans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pæan
wakes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wake up
woke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of wake up
waked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wake up
woken up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wake up
military attachés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military attaché
heterocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocentrisms
Etymology: From hetero- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: heterosexism; a focus on heterosexual issues
heteroclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc
frisé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frisée (“curly endive”).
sand niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand nigger
moose knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moose knuckle
foot lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot lifters
Senses: glosses: A small object placed under another, vertical object to lift it temporarily.
foot lifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot lifter
tussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tussive
form: most tussive
Etymology: From Latin tussis + -ive.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough
Derived terms: antitussive
hypertussive
Related terms: tussal