cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bangel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪnd͡ʒəl/
Etymology: Blend of Buffy + Angel.
Senses: examples: text: My only hope at this point is that SMG refuses to appear on Angel in the future, thus saving us from the inevitable Bangel ending for that series.
ref: 2003 May 14, Chris Zabel, “Re: How Does Joss Whedon Feel...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: She never seemed to have any trouble writing Bangel or Spuffy scenes.
ref: 2004 November 1, EBailey140 [username], “Re: What is it about Riley...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: And we get Andrew's definitive judgement on the Bangel versus Spuffy controversy, […]
ref: 2009 March 13, Stephen Tempest, “Review of BtVS 8.23 'Predators and Prey”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Buffy Summers and Angel from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Related terms: Spangel
puttie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puttee.
spudless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spud + -less.
Senses: examples: text: During the acute national potato shortage, the lowly spud was missed so much that it began to rank with truffles and goose livers as a delicacy. This restaurant in New Hampshire obtained a bag of potatoes after several spudless weeks […]
ref: 1945, The World Book Encyclopedia: Annual Supplement:
glosses: Without potatoes.
lazaret fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: typhus
lion dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion dogs
Senses: examples: text: Her awards of best in the show to Mrs. Mrs. Arthur Holland's Peke, "Cairnwhin Tinto of Hydegree" of the highest value to those whose fancy is for the staunch little Lion Dogs.
ref: 1966, Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair, volume 5, page 124:
glosses: A fancy dog with a flowing mane, usually clipped to resemble a lion's mane.
lion dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion dog
Steroline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Stefan + Caroline
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The romantic pairing of the characters Stefan Salvatore and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.
locoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loco
London tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant sweet william.
lumpy jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: actinomycosis
chlorohexidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chlorhexidine.
lavalliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavallieres
Senses: examples: text: "This earring," he said, "is perhaps the gem of the whole collection. It is Byzantine, and is of wonderfully delicate workmanship." The filigree gold ornament, was a long and slender pendant, of intricate gold work and studded with tiny jewels. It was one of a pair of earrings, and they wondered where its mate might be, if indeed, it was yet in existence.
"It would make a fine lavalliere," said Dolly, holding it up against her chest, and glancing in a nearby mirror.
ref: 1917, Carolyn Wells, Two Little Women on a Holiday:
glosses: Alternative form of lavaliere.
lavallieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavalliere
lavalieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavaliere
Dexters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dexter
dictagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictagraphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dictograph.
dictagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictagraph
dictograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictographs
form: dictagraph
Senses: glosses: A telephonic instrument for office or similar use, having a sound-magnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. It was sometimes used for covertly recording conversations.
Related terms: diction
dictographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictograph
diplograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplographs
Etymology: From diplo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for double writing, such as one for producing embossed writing for the blind and ordinary writing at the same time.
Related terms: diplographic
diplographical
diplography
diplographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplograph
diplography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diplo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: double writing; the writing of something twice or in two forms
diplographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to diplography or the diplograph.
diplographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to diplography or the diplograph.
San Jose scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: San Jose scales
Senses: synonyms: pernicious scale
glosses: A hemipterous insect (Quadraspidiotus perniciosus) that damages many fruit crops.
San Jose scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of San Jose scale
mindlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mind + lock.
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
faeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faelings
Etymology: From fae + -ling.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A young fairy creature.
faelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faeling
schappes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schappe
schnorrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnorrer
sclaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sclaff
sclaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sclaff
sclaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclaff
sclaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sclaff
euchronia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euchronias
Senses: examples: text: The shift in utopian approaches from a future ideal place to a future ideal time—euchronia—marked a major departure from the traditions begun by Thomas More and prepared the way for the revolutionary era ahead.
ref: 2005, Ivana Milojević, Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:
text: It was Louis-Sébastien Mercier, according to Alkon, who first introduced the notion of connecting utopian relations to the lives of a contemporary audience in a futuristic euchronia.
ref: 2008, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN:
text: Contrasting approaches to Marx's “Preface,” neither one deterministic, by Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming, as we will see, grew from differing orientations toward historical time but shared a common euchronia.
ref: 2011, Catherine Lynch, “Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming”, in Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: A time of perfect social, technological, and ecological harmony; a utopian era.
Related terms: golden age
community of practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communities of practice
Senses: examples: text: In the classroom, disciplinary literacy entails seeing each subject area as a community of practice in which the teacher facilitates entry for students by helping them understand how to use language to access its conceptual knowledge and discourse practices.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:
glosses: A group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.
Related terms: relational community
communities of practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community of practice
self-excite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-excites
form: self-exciting
form: self-excited
form: self-excited
Etymology: From self- + excite.
Senses: examples: text: Using metal rollers to simulate the earth's cylindrical eddy currents, the team found some interesting results after beginning with a few viscosity problems. "...a more efficient geometry was found, so efficient that the dynamo would self-excite in a completely homogeneous state (i.e. with no insulation ) at a much lower rotor speed than was believed possible" [12] .
ref: 1994, The Free-energy Device Handbook, page 116:
text: The induction generator can self-excite using the external capacitor only if the rotor has an adequate remnant magnetic field.
ref: 2005, Mukund R. Patel, Wind and Solar Power Systems, page 98:
text: This so-called "field flashing" reestablishes the residual magnetism to allow the generator to self-excite.
ref: 2016, Bikash Pandey, Ajoy Karki, Hydroelectric Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, page 342:
glosses: To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.
examples: text: Thus warning systems can self-excite when they go on alert: When a decision maker thinks that an attack is likely, he will place more credence in reports indicating that a war is imminent than he would if the same information were received in a period of calm, and actions of the other side that usually would be missed or seen as innocent will be perceived as evincing hostile intentions.
ref: 1998, Robert Jervis, System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, page 150:
text: In a subsequent revision of the RI hypothesis, mutually excitatory interactions between cholinergic and glutamatergic neurons underlie the rapidly escalating firing of pontine reticular REM-on neurons during REM sleep and cholinergic REM-on cells both self-excite and self-inhibit via cholinergic autoreceptors.
ref: 2013, Larry Squire, Fundamental Neuroscience, page 858:
text: When both neurons self-excite themselves and have the same mutual interaction pattern, the mechanism of creation of a new attractive fixed point is shown to be that of saddle node bifurcation.
ref: 2019, Peter Tiňo, Bill G. Home, C. Lee Giles, “Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of Fixed Points in Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks with Two Neurons”, in Joseph T. DeWitte, editor, Proceedings of the 1995 World Congress on Neural Networks, page 62:
glosses: To self-generate a state of excitation.
semasiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semasiology
semasiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semasiologists
Etymology: From semasiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies semasiology.
semasiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semasiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of semasiology.
semasiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semasiologist
pseudandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- (“false”) + -andry (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: It is a case of pseudandry when a woman adopts a man's name; for instance, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterward Dudevant, signed herself George Sand, […]
ref: 1873, The National Teacher, volume 3, page 253:
text: […] and ends with Michael Strange, an example of pseudandry, or the use by a woman of a masculine pen name […]
ref: 1930, The New York Times Book Review, volume 2, page 35:
text: A reprinting from the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung of a list of 279 examples of pseudandry (use of masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym) of chiefly German female writers.
ref: 1951, Archer Taylor, Fredric John Mosher, The Bibliographical History of Anonyma and Pseudonyma, page 275:
glosses: The use by a female writer of a male pseudonym.
pseudogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + gyn- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a pseudogyne.
semitontine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + tontine.
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A form of tontine insurance in which the surplus is divided among the holders of policies in force at the termination of the tontine period, but the reverse for the paid-up value is paid on lapsed policies, and on the policies of those that have died the face value is paid.
serotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serotherapy
serotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to serotherapy.
set chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set chisels
Senses: glosses: A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.
shicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shicer
ship railways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ship railway
cradleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cradle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cradle.
shoddy fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Twenty or thirty years ago, it was a common practice for the weavers and spinners to be called from their proper occupations to assist in "blending," as the term is, and this without any remuneration, excepting a largess of beer to allay their thirst, and fortify them against the shoddy fever; thus these men had not such a direct interest in the work as to induce, or such an aptitude for it, as to enable them to do it well.
ref: 1860, The history of the shoddy-trade: its rise, progress, and present position, page 61:
glosses: A febrile disease characterized by dyspnea and bronchitis, caused by inhaling dust or mold.
hafnates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hafnate
side chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side chain
hair pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair pins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hairpin.
hair pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair pin
happenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more happenable
form: most happenable
Etymology: From happen + -able.
Senses: examples: text: through a confluence of all events happenable to Man
ref: a. 1659, Francis Osborne, Paradoxes:
glosses: Capable of happening.
Synonyms: occurable
occurrable
possible
silundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of silicon + corundum. Originally a trade name, in imitation of carborundum.
Senses: glosses: A hard form of silicon carbide with high electrical resistance.
have one foot in the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one foot in the grave
form: having one foot in the grave
form: had one foot in the grave
form: had one foot in the grave
Senses: glosses: To be close to death, to be dying.
Related terms: at death's door
Sindi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sindis
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Sindhi.
Sindis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sindi
hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawksbeards
Etymology: From hawk + -s- + beard.
Senses: glosses: Any of various annual and perennial flowering plants of the genus Crepis, superficially resembling the dandelion.
glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Youngia, of Asia.
Derived terms: alpine hawksbeard
Baker's hawksbeard
beaked hawksbeard
bearded hawksbeard
bristly hawksbeard
dandelion hawksbeard
dark hawksbeard
dwarf alpine hawksbeard
elegant hawksbeard
fiddleleaf hawksbeard
French hawksbeard
golden hawksbeard
gray hawksbeard
grey hawksbeard
Italian hawksbeard
largeflower hawksbeard
leafless hawksbeard
limestone hawksbeard
marsh hawksbeard
Modoc hawksbeard
mountain hawksbeard
naked hawksbeard
nakedstem hawksbeard
narrow-leaved hawksbeard
northern hawksbeard
pasture hawksbeard
pink hawksbeard
red hawksbeard
roadside hawksbeard
rough hawksbeard
Siskiyou hawksbeard
smooth hawksbeard
stinking hawksbeard
striped hawksbeard
tapertip hawksbeard
Turkish hawksbeard
weedy hawksbeard
western hawksbeard
Related terms: hawkweed
hawksbeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawksbeard
Sioux State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sioux State
Senses: glosses: Nickname for North Dakota: a state of the United States.
Related terms: Peace Garden State
Flickertail State
Auntie Beeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: affectionate nickname
glosses: The BBC.
Synonyms: sense: BBC
word: Beeb
sense: BBC
word: Auntie
skidway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skidways
Etymology: From skid + way.
Senses: glosses: A skid road.
skidways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skidway
stinking hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A roadside hawk's-beard (Crepis foetida).
naked hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Crepis pleurocarpa.
weedy hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: beaked crepis, beaked hawk's-beard, crepis-dandelion, dandelion crepis, dandelion hawk's-beard, weedy hawk's-beard
glosses: A plant of species Crepis vesicaria.
bearded hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Crepis barbigera.
sloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sloyd.
sludger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sludgers
Etymology: From sludge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A shovel for sludging out drains, etc.
Derived terms: sand sludger
sludgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sludger
sludge acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Impure dark-coloured sulphuric acid that has been used in the refining of petroleum.
slumgum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumgums
Senses: glosses: The impure residue, consisting of cocoons, propolis, etc., remaining after the wax is extracted from honeycombs.
Landsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Landsbergs
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from German Landsberg.
Senses: examples: text: Inside the booth was Zaq Landsberg, a Brooklyn artist and the 30-year-old founder of the Republic of Zaqistan.
ref: 2015 October 29, Mike Abu, “A Trip to Zaqistan, One Man’s ‘Sovereign Nation’ in the Middle of the Utah Desert”, in VICE:
glosses: A surname from German.
Landsbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Landsberg
rough hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant pf species Crepis biennis.
bristly hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Crepis setosa.
health insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health insurances
Etymology: From health + insurance.
Senses: coordinate_terms: dental insurance
health fund
health plan
life insurance
glosses: Insurance against incurring medical expenses among individuals.
golden hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Crepis aurea.
sneak current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneak currents
Senses: glosses: An electric current which, though too weak to blow a fuse or cause immediate damage to equipment, will in time burn out the equipment.
sneak currents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneak current
marsh hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Crepis paludosa.
limestone hawksbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant pf species Crepis intermedia.
snow banner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow banners
Senses: glosses: A banner-like stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish colour and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.
snow banners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow banner
honey catches more flies than vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
synonyms: word: you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
spark coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spark coils
Senses: glosses: An induction coil used for producing sparks, as in an internal combustion engine.
glosses: A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.
spark coils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spark coil
spectrographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spectrographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, spectrography.
inselberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsəlˌbɜːɡ/
ipa: /-zəl-/
ipa: /ˈɪnsəlˌbɝɡ/
ipa: /-zəl-/
Forms: form: inselbergs
form: inselberge
Etymology: From German Inselberg, from Insel (“island”) + Berg (“mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: Click: forest elephant, stern and alert. Click: humpback whale, breaching skyward like a frisky trout. Click: Gaboon viper, its big coppery head so close to the lens you could almost feel the flick of its tongue. Click: granite inselberg, like a great igneous gumdrop, protruding above forest canopy. Click: bulge-eyed hippopotamus, almost unrecognizably strange and serene, riding a wave along the Atlantic coast.
ref: 2003, David Quammen, “Saving Africa's Eden”, in National Geographic, volume 204, number 3:
text: From the north, the road into Nigeria’s purpose-built capital is strewn with inselbergs, vast monolithic stone outcrops that rise abruptly out of the lush savannah. At the centre of the country, the city became the seat of government in 1991 after Lagos had become too crowded and chaotic.
ref: 2015 July 24, William Wallis, “What is next for Nigeria?”, in Financial Times:
text: Ground penetrating radar can map the foundation of Gulem menhir and establish its identity either as a natural geological oddity, a natural inselberg or a manmade menhir.
ref: 2016 December 4, “Archaeological Mystery of Gulem Menhir”, in The Navhind Times:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A monadnock (isolated mountain).
inselbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inselberg
spectroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spectro- + electric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to any form of spark tube whose internal electric discharge is used in spectroscopic observations.
intaglioed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intaglio
intaglioing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intaglio
irreproachability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the state or condition of being irreproachable
spectrobolometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrobolometers
Etymology: From spectro- + bolometer.
Senses: glosses: A combined spectroscope and bolometer for determining the distribution of energy in a spectrum.
Related terms: spectrobolograph
spectrobolographic
spectrobolometric
spectrobolometrically
spectrobolometry
spectrobolometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrobolometer
spectrobolometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a spectrobolometer.
spectrobolometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to spectrobolometry.
spectrobolometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spectrobolometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of spectrobolometry.
joint ventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint venture
jugo bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugo beans
Senses: glosses: Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea)
bolometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a bolometer.
luminometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From luminometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of luminometry.
kindling point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: kindling points
Senses: glosses: the lowest temperature at which a substance will spontaneously combust in a normal atmosphere without an external source of ignition
Synonyms: ignition temperature
kneeboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kneeboard
kneeboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kneeboard
knuckle sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckle sandwich
komodos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komodo
koulibiak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koulibiaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coulibiac.
koulibiaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koulibiak
labradoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labradoodles
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Labradoodle.
laudest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: laud + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of laud
lavishest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: lavish + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lavish: most lavish
lavishest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lavish + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lavish
leasest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lease + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lease
interrogatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: interrogate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of interrogate
introducest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: introduce + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of introduce
inundatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inundate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inundate
investigatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: investigate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of investigate
jokest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: joke + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of joke
microkinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microkini
milk shake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk shakes
Senses: examples: text: At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.
ref: 2003, Alston Chase, “Ah, Wilderness!”, in Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 1 (The Unabomber: Crimes and Questions), pages 102–103:
glosses: Alternative form of milkshake.
spermatophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spermatophyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: When Doyle and Donoghue (1986a) compare spermatophytic "leaves," they do not account for the fundamental difference between conifero- and megaphylls.
ref: 1994, Muhammad Iqbal, Growth patterns in vascular plants, page 434:
synonyms: spermaphytic
glosses: Relating to spermatophytes.
octupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of octuple
octupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of octuple
odontometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontometers
Etymology: From odonto- + -meter.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An odontograph.
examples: text: The idea of an odontometer is due to Dr. Magnus—the very word, signifying literally a tooth-measurer, was laid down by him; and in Le Timbre-Poste, five years ago, the first odontometer was published by him in illustration of an article on perforations.
ref: 1872, “Reviews of Postal Publications”, in The Stamp-Collector's Magazine, volume 10, page 110:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A perforation gauge.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for measuring teeth, used in orthodontia and for creating crowns.
Related terms: odontometry
odontometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontometer
otterhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otterhounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Otterhound.
otterhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otterhound
spinescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinescence
acceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acceptible
form: most acceptible
Etymology: Morphologically accept + -ible. Equivalent forms are not attested in Middle English or any etymon of acceptable.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of acceptable.
Derived terms: acceptibly
Related terms: acceptibility
acceptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acceptibly
form: most acceptibly
Etymology: From acceptible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of acceptably.
squilgeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squilgee
squillgeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squillgee
squilgeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squilgee
squillgeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squillgee
uncommentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + commentable.
Senses: examples: text: When these gentlemen shall at length be so taught of God, as to see what Moses says in Gen i. 1, they will then throw away their theological sophistry, and understand God's eternal, powerful, uncommentable word, and become divinely wise.
ref: 1836, Wilhelm Koellner, translated by Samuel Jackson, The Return to Faith; Exemplified in the Life of W. Koellner, page 291:
text: 2005, Stuart Sim, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98, Chris Murray, Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, page 175,
Duchamp's work is held to resist critical analysis, having for Lyotard ‘something uncommentable’ about it that defeats the critic.
text: He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!
ref: 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:
glosses: That cannot productively or meaningfully be commented on.
Related terms: comment
commentable
uncomment
Pugwash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡ.wɒʃ/
rhymes: -ʌɡwɒʃ
Etymology: The toponym is derived from Mi'kmaq pagweak (“shallow water, shoal”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Nova Scotia, Canada.
stratocirrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratocirri
Etymology: From strato- + cirrus.
Senses: glosses: An altostratus cloud.
syntonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of syntonize
syntonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of syntonize
syntonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of syntonize
syntonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntonizers
Etymology: From syntonize + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which syntonizes.
glosses: A device consisting essentially of a variable inductance coil and condenser with a pair of adjustable spark balls, for attuning the time periods of antennae in wireless telegraphy.
syntonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syntonizer
Saxonness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Saxon + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Saxon.
Normanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Norman + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Norman (a member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples).
kill oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills oneself
form: killing oneself
form: killed oneself
form: killed oneself
Senses: examples: text: You were stupid to try climbing up there. You might have killed yourself.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kill, oneself.
examples: text: Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.
text: We just about killed ourselves laughing.
glosses: To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
Synonyms: sense: literally: cause one's own death
word: commit suicide
sense: exert oneself
word: bust one's ass
Related terms: knock oneself out
gynandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynandries
Etymology: From gyno- (“woman”) + -andry (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: On the whole therefore we may conclude that the preponderance of Linyphiidae in the records of gynandry fairly represents the actual state of things. And, briefly, the British figures stand thus—in 232 species of the Linyphiidae we have 7 ...
ref: 1963, Journal of Genetics:
text: An interpretation of this specimen is difficult, and the comprehensive paper by Roberts & Parker (1973) does not help in defining these anomalous examples from the solifugids; in fact we cannot relate them to gynandry, intersexuality or […]
ref: 1977, British Arachnological Society, Bulletin:
glosses: Hermaphroditism, intersexuality; androgyny; resemblance (by a member of one sex) of another sex.
Derived terms: gynandrous
Related terms: androgyny
gynandries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynandry
attract attention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attracts attention
form: attracting attention
form: attracted attention
form: attracted attention
Related terms: stand out
show off
brag
American alligator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American alligators
Senses: glosses: An alligator of a species native to the southeastern United States, Alligator mississippiensis.
Synonyms: gator
thunder-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder-sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thunderstick (referring to a firearm).
thunder stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thunderstick (referring to a firearm).
fire-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-sticks
Senses: examples: text: A troop of soldiers, armed with fire-sticks, entered the valley.
text: I knocked the man down, and he ran into the woods, leaving his fire-stick on the ground.
text: "Arna means by the fire-stick a gun," explained Sa'-zada.
ref: 1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, in Metropolitan, volume 20, number 11, pages 195–196:
glosses: A gun or cannon, especially a rifle. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
glosses: Alternative form of firestick.
Synonyms: thunderstick
thunder-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunder-stick
thunder sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunder stick
fire-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-stick
Krnov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Czech Krnov, first attested in 1240 as Kyrnow, from the personal name Krn + the archaic placename suffix -óv.
Senses: glosses: An Upper Silesian town on the River Opava in the northeastern Czech Republic, near the Polish border.
auspicatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auspicatory
form: most auspicatory
Senses: examples: text: The initial response to the new Howard Beale show was not auspicatory.
ref: 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, MGM:
glosses: Of or belonging to auspices or omens
Related terms: auspicate
expropriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expropriators
Etymology: From expropriate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: If the expropriators of today can subsequently purchase protection at a price that allows them to avoid further expropriation, the period of primitive accumulation could lead to an emerging capitalism.
ref: 2007, Susan Rose-Ackerman, International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, page 235:
glosses: Agent noun of expropriate; one who expropriates.
for a song and a dance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of for a song.
smell the roses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells the roses
form: smelling the roses
form: smelled the roses
form: smelled the roses
form: smelt the roses
form: smelt the roses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.
for a song and dance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of for a song.
Shuar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shuars
form: Shuar
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of Ecuador, one of the Jivaroan peoples.
Shuar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Jivaroan language spoken by the Shuar.
hard on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard ons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-on.
hard ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard on
cryogrind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryogrinds
form: cryogrinding
form: cryoground
form: cryoground
Etymology: From cryo- + grind.
Senses: examples: text: A more rapid technique is to cryogrind appropriate mixtures of polymer and salt and then subject the resulting powder to a modest heat treatment.
ref: 1993, PG Bruce, CA Vincent, “Polymer electrolytes”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, number 17:
glosses: To freeze organic materials to the point of brittleness and then grind them into a fine powder.
cryogrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cryogrind
cryoground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryogrind
cryogrinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cryogrind
cryogrinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryogrindings
Senses: glosses: The action of freezing organic materials to the point of brittleness and then grinding them into a powder.
cryogrindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryogrinding
cryopowder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryopowders
Etymology: From cryo- + powder.
Senses: examples: text: It is shown that addition of the red-beet cryopowder leads to the formation of water particles (3 nm in diameter) at the interfaces between monomolecular layers of the milkfat triglycerides.
ref: 2002, Elsevier, Materials Science & Engineering: Biomimetic and supramelecular systems:
glosses: A powder formed by cryogrinding organic material.
cryopowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryopowder
X-Filesy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more X-Filesy
form: most X-Filesy
Etymology: From X-Files + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That doesn't leave room for much X-Files'''y speculation about the nature of the universe — yet that doesn't stop Carter from trying to inject some intellectual spookiness.
ref: 1996, Television Guide, volume 44, unnumbered page:
text: Spooky posters on the walls of dragon sightings, werewolves in Hungary, and a black and white print of a dead sea monster in Canada. Back in the world of Wayne Phelps but nice and X-Filesy, if it came down to it.
ref: 2012, Graham Johnson, Hack: Sex, Drugs, and Scandal from Inside the Tabloid Jungle, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Maybe Williams really was in the FBI — some secret X-Filesy part of it.
ref: 2012, Becca Mills, Nolander, Recompense Press (2012), unnumbered page
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the paranormal investigation science fiction television series The X-Files.
wikipedia: X-Files
ranariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranarium
horrorfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horrorfests
Etymology: From horror + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A situation, event, film, etc. that is full of horror.
horrorfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horrorfest
quartilho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartilhos
Etymology: From Portuguese quartilho, from quarto (“fourth”) + -ilho (“-elle: forming diminutives”), in reference to its size being one-fourth the canada. Doublet of cuartillo and cuartilla.
Senses: qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume, varying in size between 350 and 530 mL.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese pint
word: Portuguese quart
english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: pint
Coordinate terms: sense: traditional unit of liquid volume
word: canada (4 quartilhos)
sense: traditional unit of liquid volume
word: pot (24 quartilhos)
sense: traditional unit of liquid volume
word: almude (48 quartilhos)
preventorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preventoriums
form: preventoria
Senses: examples: text: The preventorium, located on the west slope of the Tucson Mountains, began at a former Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Papago in 1934 and remained in operation until 1945. The preventorium served as a refuge for children in danger of contracting tuberculosis.
ref: 2010, William Ascarza, Tucson Mountains:
glosses: An institution or building for the isolation of patients infected with tuberculosis who did not yet have an active form of the disease.
Coordinate terms: sanatorium
Related terms: preventorial
preventoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preventorium
preventoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preventorium
nonmisogynistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + misogynistic.
Senses: glosses: Not misogynistic.
antimisogynistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimisogynistic
form: most antimisogynistic
Etymology: From anti- + misogynistic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering misogyny.
counterfeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + feminism.
Senses: glosses: antifeminism
Labovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Labovian
form: most Labovian
Etymology: From Labov + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Labov (1927–2024), American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of variationist sociolinguistics.
variationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variationist
variationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From variation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The sociolinguistic study of variation in usage among speakers of the same language.
percentwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From percent + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In percentage terms.
Synonyms: percentual
percentwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From percent + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In percentage terms.
Synonyms: percentually
Gaekwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaekwars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaekwad.
Gaekwars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaekwar
Gaikwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaikwads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaekwad.
Guicowar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guicowars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaekwad.
Gaikwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaikwad
Guicowars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guicowar
arpeggiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arpeggiation
antiadhesives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiadhesive
sid'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I know Aurelia if you don't," responded Miranda. "I 've seen her house, and I've seen that batch o' children, wearin' one another's clothes and never carin' whether they had 'em on right sid' out or not; I know what they've had to live and dress on, and so do you.
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of side.
frontstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From front + stage, by analogy to backstage.
Senses: examples: text: In the light of the 'new work order' requiring explicit accounting of knowledge and responsibility as in case talks, evaluation of professional practice may be a matter of how and where boundaries are drawn between frontstage and backstage activities.
ref: 1999, Srikant Sarangi, Celia Roberts, Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Goffman is alert to the situational variability of the roles we play, distinguishing "frontstage" from "backstage" performances.
ref: 2001, Daniel Rigney, The Metaphorical Society: An Invitation to Social Theory, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Open, occurring in full view of the public or in a public role.
frontstage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From front + stage, by analogy to backstage.
Senses: examples: text: There are many possible examples which you could use to answer this question: e.g. doctor–patient interactions where the doctor discusses the patient's problems backstage with a colleague or a nurse before meeting the patient frontstage.
ref: 2013, Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 403:
glosses: In full view of the public or in a public role.
frontstage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontstages
Etymology: From front + stage, by analogy to backstage.
Senses: examples: text: Another broad issue regarding the physical setting involves decisions about the setting's frontstage and backstage.
ref: 2013, Raymond Fisk, Stephen Grove, Joby John, Services Marketing Interactive Approach, →ISBN, page 73:
text: In the 1970s, MacCannell (1973) developed a six-stage frontstage/backstage model of authenticity that can be applied to theme parks as well as to other tourist sites.
ref: 2005, Sue Beeton, Film-induced Tourism, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: The public area of a business or enterprise.
frontstages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontstage
shikoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikoku
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shikoku (“type of dog”).
shawnee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum)