cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
geck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: gecks
form: gecking
form: gecked
form: gecked
Etymology: From Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian/North Germanic meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka).
Senses: examples: text: To say that ye was geck'd ye'se hae nae need.
ref: 1812 [1768?], Ross Alexander, Helenore : or the fortunate shepherdess, a pastoral tale, page 92:
text: And Jenny geck'd at Roger, […]
ref: 1815, Robert Tannahill, Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 59:
text: I brought her frae England, and, during our whole journey, she gecked and scorned at my northern speech and habit
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: She ... gecks at me , and says I smell o' tar.
ref: 1828, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy. With Notes, and an Original Memoir of the Author, page 21:
text: Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey, Jean Linn! Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey!
ref: 1893, Robert Ford, The Harp of Perthshire: A Collection of Songs, Ballads, and Other Poetical Pieces Chiefly by Local Authors, page 163:
glosses: To jeer or mock; to show contempt for.
examples: text: ... The like o ' me they'll har'ly own , But geck their head , an ' gester on , An ' fou'd they speak , Set up their beek . They wi ' a jeer , or crabit frown , But yet the day or lang may light , Whan matters will be judged right ; We've[…]
ref: 1793, Thomas Scott (of Paisley.), Poems, with Edwin and Catherine, or The distressed lovers, a tragedy, page 339:
text: Out-throw the rest my aunty gecket, / To see which way she was dissecket;
ref: 1801, William Beattie, Fruits of Time Parings: Being a Small Collection of Original Poems, Scotch and English: Composed to Fill Up a Few of the Author's Blank Hours - and Respectfully Offered to the Public, page 9:
text: ... he was saying that to geck you're free, If now he sings upon the primrose […]
ref: 1806, John Black, The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary Dissertations, page 135:
text: ... Adieu , my Liege ! may Freedom geck Beneath your high protection;[…]
ref: 1878, Robert Burns, The poetical works of Robert Burns, ed. by C. Kent, page 124:
text: ... it set oor auld gossips a-geckin' Whan' the news o't cam' hame to auld Robbie Macmeeken.
ref: 1880, James E. Watt, Poetical Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, page 34:
glosses: To toss (one's head) scornfully; to look (at) derisively or disdainfully.
gecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geck
motmots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motmot
unremittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + remittable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be remitted.
emigrés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emigré
parlaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlament
arranged marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arranged marriages
Senses: glosses: A marriage (union of people) planned by someone other than the people who are united by it.
pit vipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit viper
arranged marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arranged marriage
western diamondback rattlesnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western diamondback rattlesnakes
Etymology: From western + diamondback rattlesnake.
Senses: examples: text: At the furthest point west, I recalled having seen during a previous visit a western diamondback rattlesnake a bit further to the west, so I continued to the spot hoping to see another.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: Crotalus atrox, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico
western diamondback rattlesnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western diamondback rattlesnake
patis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fish sauce, a byproduct of making bagoong, used as an ingredient or condiment in the Philippines.
chasseing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chasse
chassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chasséd.
fortread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortreads
form: fortreading
form: fortrod
form: fortrodden
Etymology: From Middle English fortreden, from Old English fortredan (“to tread down, trample on”), from Proto-Germanic *fratredaną, *fratrudaną (“to trample”), equivalent to for- + tread. Compare Saterland Frisian fertreede, Dutch vertreden (“to trample”), German Low German vertreden, German vertreten ("to represent"; < Old High German firtretan (“to trample”)).
Senses: glosses: To tread down; tread underfoot; trample upon; crush; destroy by trampling.
neuroelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + electronic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any electronic device that interfaces with, (or was otherwise designed for use with), nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
fortravel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortravels
form: fortraveling
form: fortravelling
form: fortraveled
form: fortraveled
form: fortravelled
form: fortravelled
form: fortravail
Etymology: From Middle English fortravailen, equivalent to for- + travel.
Senses: glosses: To exhaust with labour; forwork; forswink.
glosses: To tire by travel.
forswollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forswollen
form: most forswollen
Etymology: From Middle English forswollen, for-swollen, forswellen, equivalent to for- + swollen.
Senses: examples: text: mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315,
“Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”
text: Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground,
The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide
So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide.
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1:
text: Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake
His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie
In his owne filth:
ref: 1595, Barnabe Barnes, Sonnet 57 in A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London, John Windet, […] then I wreake My wrath on Sathan, and vpon his head Mee thinkes (like Michaell or Saint George) I treade
glosses: Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
fizzle out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fizzles out
form: fizzling out
form: fizzled out
form: fizzled out
Senses: examples: text: Tottenham had hoped to make a statement of real intent against the title pace-setters and while manager Harry Redknapp did not secure the victory he craved, he at least saw his side match United every stride of the way in a game that fizzled out after a bristling start.
ref: 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: That would see the disputes fizzle out into an industrial relations zombie - neither living nor dead.
ref: 2023 March 8, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Give rail staff a pay vote”, in RAIL, number 978, page 3:
glosses: To lose excitement, to become less exciting; to end, fail or die out in a weak or disappointing way.
glosses: To kill or end (someone or something).
forswink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forswinks
form: forswinking
form: forswank
form: forswonk
form: forswonck
form: forswunken
form: forswunk
form: forswonk
form: forswonck
Etymology: From Middle English forswinken, equivalent to for- + swink.
Senses: examples: text: She is my goddess plain,
And I her shepherd's swain,
Albe[it] forswonk and forswat I am.
ref: 1810, original 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheard's Calender:
text: If indeed he had so turned from Latin texts to garden-tools, he would certainly have been forswunk.
ref: 1943, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Just Another Word: Comprising A Word in Your Ear & Just Another Word, page 112:
text: Much of what Ms Sorkin performed was forswunk, and on the heavier side of angst as in Kaddish (in memory of Anna Frank) by Sokolow, which walked hand in hand with Messiaen's score into the deep blue sea where they solemnly sank, as did my spirits.
ref: 1980, Artscribe - Issues 21-26, page 116:
text: And they dried him out and hung him up. My, he swung.
Blowing his nose for the lovers; forswunken, forswot.
ref: 1995, Frank O'Hara, Donald Merriam Allen, Donald Allen, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, page 121:
text: At which point, Don said: "Sod this. If they don't bloody well want to be arrested for murder, then they can suit themselves. I'm buggered if I'm going to forswink myself."
ref: 2004, Mat Coward, Over and Under: A Don Packham and Frank Mitchell Mystery, page 116:
glosses: To exhaust by labour; overwork.
swunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌŋk
Senses: glosses: past participle of swink
forswelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forswelts
form: forswelting
form: forswelted
form: forswelted
Etymology: From Middle English forswelten, from Old English forsweltan (“to die, disappear”), equivalent to for- + swelt.
Senses: glosses: To die.
glosses: To cause to die; kill; slay.
forswornness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English forsworenesse, equivalent to forsworn + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being forsworn.
tobruised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tobruise
forswing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forswings
form: forswinging
form: forswang
form: forswung
form: forswungen
form: forswung
Etymology: From Middle English forswingen, equivalent to for- + swing (“to swing, beat”).
Senses: glosses: To beat; whip.
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: 1670s, figuratively using goose/gander for women and men, and literally meaning that the same sauce applies equally well to cooked goose, regardless of sex. Early forms include “as deep drinketh the goose as the gander” (1562) and similar “As well for the coowe calfe as for the bull” (1549). The expression appears in Dickens when a spy attempting to evade culpability insists, “For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.”
Senses: examples: text: […] sawce which is good for the Goose, I hope will be good for the Gander […]
ref: [1674, Richard Head, The English Rogue, Part 3, page 4:
text: That that's good sauce for a goose, is good for a gander.
ref: [1678, John Ray, Collection of English Proverbs, 2nd edition, Cambridge, page 48:
text: [I]t is, as I may ſo ſay, a ſavvcy Plot: and vve all knovv, moſt Reverend Fathers, that vvhat is ſavvce for a Gooſe is ſavvce for a Gander: Therefore, I ſay, as thoſe bloud-thirſty Ganders of the conſpiracy vvould have deſtroyed us Geeſe of the Senate, let us make haſte to deſtroy them, ſo I humbly move for hanging— […]
ref: 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act V, scene [ii], page 61:
text: What is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose and the arguments that he produces against my suggestion apply with double force to his.
ref: 1945, Herbert Walter Fairman, “An Introduction to the Study of Ptolemaic Signs and Their Values”, in Le Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, volume 43, page 80:
glosses: If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another (often of the opposite gender).
glosses: One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.
Synonyms: turnabout is fair play
Derived terms: what's good for the goose is good for the gander
sauce for the goose
sauce for the goose
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
synonyms: word: what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
laughter is the best medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Laughing will improve one's mood or temperament.
Related terms: time spent laughing is time spent with the gods
if you lie with dogs you will get fleas
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
they're only after one thing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Men are only interested in sex.
Related terms: one-track mind
wrap it before you tap it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It is wise to wear a condom before sexual intercourse.
Related terms: no glove, no love
impugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impugnable
form: most impugnable
Etymology: From impugn + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be impugned; open to (verbal) attack, open to question.
Derived terms: unimpugnable
diaphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈfɒnɪk/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to diaphony.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to diaphones.
Derived terms: diaphonically
diaphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphonies
Etymology: From dia- + -phony or from Ancient Greek διαψωνία (diapsōnía, “discordance”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
Related terms: diaphonic
fuets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuet
aventres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aventre
aventring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aventre
aventred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aventre
cybervulnerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybervulnerabilities
Etymology: From cyber- + vulnerability.
Senses: glosses: A vulnerability which may be exploited via a network, such as the Internet, allowing remote attacks.
keesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kish (“graphite”).
fortax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortaxes
form: fortaxing
form: fortaxed
form: fortaxed
Etymology: From Middle English fortaxen. By surface analysis, for- + tax.
Senses: glosses: To tax heavily; burden.
fortatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortatters
form: fortattering
form: fortattered
form: fortattered
Etymology: From Middle English fortateren, equivalent to for- + tatter.
Senses: glosses: To tear to tatters; tatter.
forswearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forswearers
Etymology: From Middle English forswerer, forswerere, equivalent to forswear + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who forswears.
glosses: One who swears a false oath; perjurer.
Related terms: forswear
forswat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forswat
form: most forswat
Etymology: From Middle English forswat, from Old English *forswǣtt, *forswǣted, past participle of Old English *forswǣtan (“to sweat excessively”), equivalent to for- + sweat.
Senses: examples: text: She is my Goddess plain, And I her Shepherd's Swain, Albe forswonk and forswat I am.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender Conteyning twelve Æglogues
proportionable to the twelve monethes, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton:
glosses: Overheated; covered with sweat.
forswallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forswallows
form: forswallowing
form: forswallowed
form: forswallowed
Etymology: From Middle English forswolewen, forswoluwen, forswolȝen, forswalȝen, forswelȝen, from Old English forswelgan, forswilgan (“to swallow up, devour, consume, absorb”), from Proto-Germanic *farswelganą, *fraswelganą (“to devour”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *swelganą (“to swallow”), equivalent to for- + swallow. Cognate with Dutch verzwelgen (“to engulf, swallow up”), Middle Low German vorswelgen (“to swallow up”), Middle High German verswelgen (“to swallow up”). More at for-, swallow.
Senses: glosses: To swallow up; devour utterly; engulf.
wasp spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasp spiders
Senses: glosses: An orb-weaver spider, Argiope bruennichi, that has striking yellow and black markings on its abdomen.
Late Antiquity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: late antiquity
form: late Antiquity
form: Late antiquity
Etymology: A calque of German Spätantike. Popularised in English by American historian Peter Brown with his influential 1971 book The World of Late Antiquity.
Senses: examples: text: The production of coins for jewelry, on the other hand, was prosecuted as high treason or a crimen maiestatis: counterfeiting coin always constituted a major offense, and in Late Antiquity it became a sacrilege.
ref: 1993, Jutta-Annette Bruhn, Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, page 1:
text: Unlike Jews and Manichaeans, who could be found in most parts of the Roman empire during Late Antiquity, Zoroastrians were a geographically and numerically restricted religious group, confined to certain eastern provinces, especially in Asia Minor.
ref: 2000, A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 169:
text: Yuhanna b. Mansur b. Sargun (ca. 655–ca. 749 C.E.), better known as John of Damascus, lived through the cultural transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam and thus offers an important window into the practice of Late Antique Christian faith in a changing cultural milieu.
ref: 2000, David Vila, “38: Texts on Iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia”, in Richard Valantasis, editor, Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, Princeton University Press, page 454:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
wikipedia: Peter Brown (historian)
The World of Late Antiquity (1971)
Related terms: late antique
Early Islam
Early Middle Ages
Pentecostalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pentecostalist
Pentecostalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pentecostalism
onest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: onest upon a time
glosses: Obsolete form of oncet.
Müller-Lyer illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Müller-Lyer illusions
Etymology: Devised by Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857–1916), a German sociologist, in 1889.
Senses: glosses: An optical illusion consisting of a stylized arrow whose midpoint appears to be closer to the tail end.
multipathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multipath + -ing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static "test" IP address for diagnostic purposes.
nonphenomenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonphenomenological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not phenomenological.
unformidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unformidable
form: most unformidable
Etymology: From un- + formidable.
Senses: glosses: Not formidable.
noncut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: The imaginary cut surface is set off from other noncut surfaces by section lines drawn at an angle on the cut surfaces.
ref: 2011, Larry Jeffus, Welding and Metal Fabrication, page 72:
glosses: Not having been cut.
cutpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtˌpɔɪnt/
ipa: /ˈkʊtˌpɔɪnt/
ipa: /ˈkɐtˌpoɪnt/
Forms: form: cutpoints
Etymology: From cut + point.
Senses: examples: text: Every point of a line is a cutpoint, but no point of a circle is a cutpoint.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
hyponyms: articulation point
glosses: A point of a connected space whose removal causes the resulting space to be disconnected.
examples: text: In 2007 the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed single blood pressure (BP) cutpoints (systolic: ≥130 mm Hg and diastolic: ≥85 mm Hg) for the diagnosis of high blood pressure (HBP) in adolescents. Before this proposal, HBP had been defined as BP at or above the 95th percentile for age, sex, and height percentile (reference standard). In this study, we evaluated the risk for misclassification when using the IDF single-cutpoints criteria.
ref: 2017, P Brambilla, A Andreano, L Antolini, et al., “How Accurate Is a Single Cutpoint to Identify High Blood Pressure in Adolescents?”, in Am J Epidemiol, volume 185, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, pages 295–303:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cutoff point; a threshold value.
cutpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutpoint
connectances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connectance
noncarbonaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carbonaceous.
Senses: glosses: Not carbonaceous.
noncarboniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carboniferous.
Senses: glosses: Not carboniferous.
noncarbonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carbonized.
Senses: glosses: Not carbonized.
definitionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From definitionless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Diabetes mellitus, as a paradigm of metabolic disorders, continues to ail from definitionlessness and is comprehended the less and less the more and more we know about it.
ref: 1977, Ashvin J. Patel, In search of diagnosis: analysis of present system of health care:
glosses: Lack of definition.
nondefinitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + definitional.
Senses: glosses: Not definitional.
inswung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + swung.
Senses: examples: text: As he passed through the opening, the front sight of the rifle caught upon the edge of the inswung door with sufficient force to close it tightly after the fleeing ape.
ref: 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes:
text: The straight and inswung feet are the most prevalent types, and no difficulty should be found in procuring shoes of either type.
ref: 1922, Nursing World: Volumes 68-69:
glosses: Swung or bent inward.
Related terms: inswinging
forstraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forstraught
form: most forstraught
Etymology: From Middle English forstraught, equivalent to for- + straught (“stretched”). Compare bestraught, distraught, etc. More at for-, straught.
Senses: examples: text: My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight
ref: a. 1770, Thomas Chatterton, “The storie of William Canynge”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, published 1890:
text: It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.
ref: 2009, My Lord John, page 37:
glosses: Distracted.
bestraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bestraught
form: most bestraught
form: bestrought
Etymology: From be- + straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.
Senses: examples: text: For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Distracted; mad, distraught.
Derived terms: bestraughted
beat a retreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats a retreat
form: beating a retreat
form: beat a retreat
form: beaten a retreat
form: beat retreat
Etymology: See beat (“to signal beating a drum”).
Senses: glosses: To leave hastily in the face of opposition.
Related terms: beat to quarters
straught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stretched.
straught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: straughts
form: straughting
form: straughted
form: straughted
form: straucht
Etymology: From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Senses: glosses: To stretch; make straight.
straught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: more straught
form: most straught
form: straucht
Etymology: From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Senses: glosses: straight
straught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: more straught
form: most straught
Etymology: From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.
Senses: examples: text: My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
text: Therewith ran Goldry upon the King as one straught of his wits, bellowing as he ran, and gripped him by the right arm with both his hands, one at the wrist and one near the shoulder.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Insane, mad, distraught.
done and doner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Done: past participle of do, indicating a passive voice.
strimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strimmer
noncinematographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cinematographic.
Senses: glosses: Not cinematographic.
nonwaterborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + waterborne.
Senses: glosses: Not waterborne.
noneconometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + econometric.
Senses: glosses: Not econometric.
nonill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ill.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the classic suggestions to handle this dilemma include divorce, with the nonill spouse taking as much of the assets as possible, trusts, private long-term-care insurance, and asset transfers to friends or family.
ref: 1997, Lawrence David Weiss, Private medicine and public health:
glosses: Not ill.
pathetisad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pathetisad
form: most pathetisad
Etymology: Blend of pathetic + sad.
Senses: synonyms: word: pitiful
word: scornful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Pathetic: arousing scornful pity or contempt.
NIOSH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (a US federal agency).
RTECS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances.
eponychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eponychium
walllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more walllike
form: most walllike
Etymology: From wall + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wall.
hoaxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoaxlike
form: most hoaxlike
Etymology: From hoax + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hoax.
acrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of across
hall of mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halls of mirrors
Senses: examples: text: The hall of mirrors was her favorite attraction at the fair.
glosses: A carnival attraction with curved mirrors (funhouse mirrors) that distort the viewer's appearance.
examples: text: The lies had become a hall of mirrors by the time the scam was exposed.
text: It was clever and funny but insular: a hall of mirrors about authors and the publishing industry.
ref: 2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A situation confusing for its false appearances, especially when they are compounded upon one another.
examples: text: Does anyone know about the Hall of Mirrors effect in the game of DOOM? I have recently been making my own levels of doom and in some places the hall of mirrors effect is in full effect. It happens especially in my biggest rooms that are very complex.
ref: 1994, Josh Pearson, “DOOM hall of mirrors effect”, in bit.listserv.games-l (Usenet):
text: Quake 1, on the other hand, wouldn't run properly. Quake 1 1.09 3dfx failed to load, and Quake 1 1.09 RAVE was just ... wierd^([sic]). Video adjustment was almost non-existent, and no matter what settings I chose (trashing Prefs and the texture cache between attempts) I either got a lock-up, or the screen wouldn't change resolution, or if I called up the Options from the main menu I would see nothing, and when the startup demo was running, it was all 'hall of mirrors' stuff. Completely unusable.
ref: 2000, Brains, “3dfx 1.0.1 + Voodoo3/2k + Quake 1 = blergh”, in comp.sys.mac.games.action (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.
halls of mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hall of mirrors
hallans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallan
dox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: doxx
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.
Senses: glosses: plural of doc
dox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: doxx
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.
Senses: examples: text: Why is it that, even after DECADES of carping from Jerry Pournelle, software companies STILL don't hire competent professionals to write their dox?
ref: 1995, J Eric Chard, “Will Vinton's Playmation”, in comp.graphics.animation (Usenet):
text: its ok, someone emailed me his address, phone #, ss#, the works. seems theres^([sic]) someone out there that dislikes him more than i do. i cant wait to hear how many people have his dox now. this should be really interesting...
ref: 2002, X, “this is getting old”, in houston.general (Usenet):
text: judging by the lack of the 6 it would appear we have our spammer here, LETS^([sic]) PULL HIS DOX!
ref: 2004, Andrew D Kirch, “Here is something that will work for the rest of us”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet):
glosses: Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
dox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: doxes
form: doxing
form: doxed
form: doxed
form: doxx
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.
Senses: examples: text: “Nick Fuentes has been fully doxed and it’s being shared to millions of women across every social media platform,” an account associated with the hacker collective Anonymous posted over the weekend.
ref: 2024 November 11, Brian Niemietz, “Nick Fuentes doxxed following ‘your body, my choice’ comments: report”, in New York Daily News:
text: According to reports, a doxing site has been launched with names and addresses of Tesla owners.
ref: 2025 March 18, Michael Gauthier, “Tesla Owners’ Personal Info Leaked On DOGEQuest Site, Musk Calls It Domestic Terrorism”, in Carscoops:
text: But acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, has said it's a necessary response to what he describes as efforts to dox and threaten these agents and their families. ICE has said there has been a dramatic increase in the doxing of agents but has not said how many cases there have been or provided any details. The agency has not provided any information to support their assertion of an increase in agent doxxing.
ref: 2025 September 5, Jaclyn Diaz, “What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests”, in NPR:
glosses: Alternative spelling of doxx (“publish the personal information of (an individual) without their consent”).
Related terms: hax
vax
paradichlorobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradichlorobenzenes
Etymology: From para- + dichlorobenzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,4-dichlorobenzene, an organic compound used as a pesticide (i.e., mothballs) and a deodorant.
paradichlorobenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradichlorobenzene
Devonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Devonian
diagramless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diagram + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I hope the addition of KenKen to the puzzles page is an accommodation to the new size, not preliminary to discontinuation of the cryptic, acrostic, diagramless, etc.
ref: 2009 June 28, “The Redesign”, in New York Times:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: Having a blank grid, so that the solver must determine the positions of the black (non-lettered) squares as well as the answers to the clues.
diagramless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagramlesses
Etymology: From diagram + -less.
Senses: qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A puzzle of this kind.
nonlogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonlogical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without logic.
nonblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑnˈblɑkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Etymology: From non- + blocking.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That does not block; allowing other tasks to proceed immediately rather than having to wait for completion.
Derived terms: nonblockingness
nonblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blocked.
Senses: glosses: Not blocked (in various senses).
Related terms: unblocked
nonlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + locked.
Senses: glosses: Not locked (in various senses).
pseudographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + graphics.
Senses: examples: text: Pseudographics is an inexpensive way to convey simple graphical information and should probably be used more widely in batch applications.
ref: 1991, Marvin D. Dunnette, Leaetta M. Hough, Harry Charalambos Triandis, Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: semigraphics
glosses: An approximation of graphics achieved through the use of text characters.
unpanicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpanicked
form: most unpanicked
Etymology: From un- + panicked.
Senses: glosses: Not panicked; calm.
DRCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRCSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dynamically redefined character set, a videotex technology by which the standard set of text characters can be modified (for e.g. foreign scripts and pseudographics).
nickelodeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickelodeon
Aaronites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aaronite
pseudographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + graphical.
Senses: examples: text: CompuServe, for example, offers members a pseudographical FTP facility for Internet access.
ref: 1996, Rand Dixon, Client/server and open systems:
text: Surprise your recipients by adding some pseudographical glitz to your email signature.
ref: 2008, Philipp Lenssen, Google Apps Hacks, page 126:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based.
glosses: written in the name of another person by an anonymous author
guaranteeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guarantee + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being guaranteed.
Derived terms: guaranteeability
guaranteeably
unguaranteeable
assertability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assert + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being assertable.
antiitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-itch
Etymology: From anti- + itch.
Senses: examples: text: Tar preparations, possessing both antiitch and antiinflammatory properties, have long been employed in the treatment of psoriasis.
ref: 2000, Nelson Lee Novick, Baby Skin:
topics: dermatology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or countering itching.
Related terms: antipruritic
bodywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From body + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout the body.
Synonyms: corporal
systemic
bodyliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyliners
Etymology: From bodyline + -er.
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of bodysuit.
synonyms: word: bodysuit
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who uses bodyline tactics.
bodyliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyliner
bodyworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodywork
superfamilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + familial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a superfamily.
antidog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidog
form: most antidog
Etymology: From anti- + dog.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or disliking dogs.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing an antibody, resident in a human or other animal, that reacts with the immunoglobins found in dogs.
Related terms: antimouse
antirabbit
antideer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + deer.
Senses: examples: an antideer fence
glosses: Opposing deer.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing an antibody, resident in a human or other animal, that reacts with the immunoglobins found in deer.
Related terms: antidog
antimouse
antirabbit
nondyadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dyadic.
Senses: glosses: Not dyadic.
anoestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anestrus.
recreateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: recreate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recreate
mainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnɚ/
Forms: form: mainers
Etymology: From main + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Heroin, be the death of me / Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life / Because a mainer to my vein / Leads to a center in my head / And then I'm better off than dead
ref: 1967, “Heroin”, in Lou Reed (music), The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:
glosses: A needle for (illicit) drug administration.
topics: video-games
glosses: One who mainly plays as a specific character or on a specific side.
dictionary attacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictionary attackers
Senses: glosses: A person or bot that carries out a dictionary attack
dictionary attackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionary attacker
segars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of segar
sea spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea spiders
form: sea-spider
form: seaspider
Senses: glosses: Any arthropod in the taxonomic class Pycnogonida.
glosses: Any marine animal whose appearance suggests a spider.
glosses: Any marine animal whose appearance suggests a spider.
A spider crab.
sea spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea spider
umgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌmɡaŋ/
Forms: form: umgangs
form: umgong
Etymology: From Middle English umgang, umbegang (“circumference, circuit”), from Old English ymbgang, ymbegang (“going about, going round, circuit, circumference, surrounding belt, a winding course, bend, a going about a business”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbigang, from Proto-Germanic *umbigangaz, equivalent to um- + gang. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Uumgong, West Frisian omgong, Dutch omgang (“dealing, handling”), German Umgang (“dealings, handling”), Danish omgang (“game”). More at um-, gang.
Senses: glosses: A round about; a way around; detour.
glosses: An instance of going or passing around; a trip.
glosses: A circuit; circumference.
umgangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umgang
Bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: Campbelltown
glosses: A town in Southland, New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.
19
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 19s
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Clipping of 1980 (“1980° spin”).
Related terms: 19-gon
bedroom community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedroom communities
Senses: qualifier: urban studies
glosses: A suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential, as due to zoning, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
Synonyms: bedtown
commuter town
bedroom suburb
bedroom town
dormitory town
Hindi-Urdu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language which constitutes the Hindi and Urdu registers.
Synonyms: Hindustani
MIPSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Defense Acquisition Executive (DAE) does not approve “MIPSs,” “MAPPS,” or “SAMPs.”
ref: 1999, Defense Systems Management College, Acquisition Strategy Guide, 1999 (Fourth Edition), Government Printing Office (2000), page 3-1
text: Among the eukaryotic MIPS sequences, the fungal MIPSs are also tetrameric in nature.
ref: 2006, Krishnarup Ghosh Dastidar et al., “Evolutionary Divergence of L-myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase: Significance of a ‘Core Catalytic Structure’”, in Arun Lahiri Majumder, B.B. Biswas, editors, Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides, Springer, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Let 𝒯 be an incoherent TBox. A TBox 𝒯′⊆𝒯 is a minimal incoherence-preserving sub-TBox (MIPS) of 𝒯 if 𝒯′ is incoherent, and every sub-TBox 𝒯′′⊆𝒯′ is coherent. The set of all MIPSs of 𝒯 is denoted as MI(𝒯).
ref: 2007, Guilin Qi and Anthony Hunter, “Measuring Incoherence in Description Logic-Based Ontologies”, in Karl Aberer et al. (editors), The Semantic Web: 6th International Semantic Web Conference, 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007, Springer, page 384
text: These platforms typically utilize high-performance MCUs having tens of MIPSs processing performance and hundreds of kilobytes program and data memories.
ref: 2007, Mauri Kuorilehto et al., Ultra-Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks in Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: plural of MIPS
droveway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droveways
Etymology: From drove + way.
Senses: examples: text: In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures: […]
ref: 2015, Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart, Ben Pears, The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 160:
synonyms: drove
drove road
drovers' road
drovers' way
;
driftway
driveway
coordinate_terms: cowpath
glosses: A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
hyponychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyponychium
arboraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arboraceous
form: most arboraceous
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to trees.
glosses: Abounding in trees.
dictionary attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪkʃənəɹi əˈtæk/
ipa: /ˌdɪkʃənɹi-/
ipa: /ˌdɪkʃnəɹi-/
ipa: /ˌdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi əˈtæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: dictionary attacks
Etymology: From dictionary + attack.
Senses: examples: text: Experts warn against using ordinary words as passwords as they are vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: cyberattack
glosses: An attempt to illegally access a computer network, website, etc., that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try to guess decryption keys or passwords.
Derived terms: dictionary attacker
Related terms: brute force
necrocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrocracy
bouffages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouffage
green screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green screens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greenscreen.
green screen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: green screens
form: green screening
form: green screened
form: green screened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greenscreen.
jows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jow
jows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jow
dictionary attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionary attack
partially defatted pork fatty tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The standard of identity is from the Code of Federal Regulations, title 9, section 319.29.
Senses: qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: Fresh pork fatty tissue, excluding skin, that has been rendered at a temperature not more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit and is pinkish, fresh-looking, and fresh-smelling.
leaf lard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Worst of any [were] who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,—for [these] men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam[,] their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,—sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!
ref: 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:
glosses: The internal fat of a pig, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.
Related terms: leaf fat