cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outwalks
form: outwalking
form: outwalked
form: outwalked
Etymology: From out- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: In our charity fundraiser called "Walk for Wellness", Stacy outwalked all other participants, racking up 37 kilometers in 3 weeks.
text: Mr. Seeger has walked the walk for so long that he has outwalked most everybody who would ever want to beat him up, throw bricks at him or denounce him as a Red.
ref: 2009 May 5, Lawrence Downes, “Still Singing”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: outrun
glosses: To walk further than another.
examples: text: He runs so slowly that I can outwalk his running pace!
coordinate_terms: outrun
glosses: To walk faster than another.
paintier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of painty: more painty
paintiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of painty: most painty
pathname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathnames
Etymology: From path + name.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: filepath, filename, basename
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: filespec
coordinate_terms: basename
glosses: The full name of a computer file, including the names of any directories or subdirectories in the path needed to access it.
planetfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planet + fall, by analogy with landfall.
Senses: examples: text: “Listen up, grunts. We'll be making planetfall in T-minus three minutes. You'll be joining the war against the Scourge, an alien race of soulless, ruthless automatons.”
ref: 2024 August 12, Joe Saunders, “The Battle of Zab 9” (1:00 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Screaming Grunt (Nick Reczynski):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet.
prismoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prism + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a prism.
prismoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prismoids
Etymology: From prism + -oid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prismatoid that has planar sides, and the same number of vertices in both of its parallel planes.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An antiprism.
nonmarginalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marginalized.
Senses: glosses: Not marginalized.
nonpsychophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + psychophysical.
Senses: glosses: Not psychophysical.
SEAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SEATs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
firefighting
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: AT
glosses: Acronym of single-engine air tanker.
SEAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪæt/
rhymes: -eɪæt
Senses: glosses: Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, a Spanish automobile manufacturer.
SEAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪæt/
rhymes: -eɪæt
Forms: form: SEATs
Senses: glosses: An automobile from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
obstination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin obstinatio, obstinatione ,from obstinātus, past participle of obstinō (“set one's mind firmly upon, resolve”).
Senses: glosses: stubbornness
wordfinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: word-final
Etymology: From word + final.
Senses: examples: a wordfinal consonant cluster
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Occurring at the end of a word.
Coordinate terms: wordinitial
santurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santur
holloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hollo
holloing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holloings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hallooing.
holloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hollo
oflag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒflɑːɡ/
Forms: form: oflags
Etymology: German, from Offizierslager.
Senses: glosses: A German prisoner-of-war camp for officers only.
intromissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intromission
masonwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mason + -work.
Senses: glosses: Stonework done by a mason.
birdlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdlets
Etymology: From bird + -let.
Senses: examples: text: And if the Ichneumon, which is his mortall enemie approach to fight with him, the little birdlet, lest he might surprise him whilst he sleepeth, with his singing, and pecking him with his bill, awakens him, and gives him warning of the danger he is in.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small bird.
Related terms: birb
pullet
ungenerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ungenerous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ungenerous.
Synonyms: ungenerosity
ungenerosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ungenerosities
Etymology: From un- + generosity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ungenerous.
Synonyms: ungenerousness
birdseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsellers
Etymology: From bird + seller.
Senses: glosses: Someone who sells birds.
ungentleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdʒɛntlnəs/
Etymology: From ungentle + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Discourteousness, lack of proper breeding; unchivalrousness.
glosses: Harshness, roughness.
birdshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdshops
form: bird shop
Etymology: From bird + shop.
Senses: examples: text: "Rabani, the wonderful man we saw together in the birdshop. Oh, Aimee, I can't tell you what he is like... wonderful!"
ref: 1937, Aimée Crocker, Without Regrets, page 236:
glosses: A shop that sells live birds.
obedt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of obedient (in letter-closing formulas such as "your obedient servant").
birdshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdshop
birdman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdmen
Senses: glosses: A man who works with birds.
glosses: An aviator.
examples: text: The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
glosses: A mythological creature that is part man and part bird.
Related terms: birdwoman
birdwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdwomen
Etymology: From bird + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who works with birds.
glosses: A female aviator.
glosses: A mythological creature that is part woman and part bird.
Related terms: birdman
multibuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + buffering.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of more than one buffer.
Related terms: multibuffered
birdwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdwoman
birdcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdcatchers
form: bird-catcher
form: bird catcher
Etymology: From bird + catcher.
Senses: examples: text: They had therefore to make their way for Hedale, but it was only a slight path, so when the night set in they lost the track, and to make matters worse they could not find the bird catchers' hut either.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 20:
glosses: Someone who catches or ensnares birds; a fowler.
Related terms: birdcatcher tick
bird-catcher tree
birdcatching
birdmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdman
birdcatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdcatcher
fishcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishcatchers
Etymology: From fish + catcher.
Senses: glosses: a fisherman; someone who catches fish
birdlikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From birdlike + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The irreducible birdlikeness of the eagle in The House of Fame had a similar function, in preventing us from being able to take him too seriously as a figure of authority.
ref: 1976, A. C. Spearing, Medieval Dream-Poetry, page 98:
glosses: The quality of being birdlike.
birdliming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of birdlime
gamecatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamecatchers
Etymology: From game + catcher.
Senses: glosses: someone who catches game
birdlimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of birdlime
fishcatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishcatcher
eyecatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyecatchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eye-catcher.
birdcatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bird + catching.
Senses: glosses: The trapping of birds.
Related terms: birdcatcher
chiefless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chief + -less.
Senses: examples: text: No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed by small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call "chiefless folk," driven into the wild country about the springs of Forth and Teith by the advance of the Campbells.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “In Balquidder”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 250:
glosses: Without a chief; leaderless.
Derived terms: chieflessness
catcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catcatchers
Etymology: From cat + catcher.
Senses: glosses: a person who catches stray cats
pitifuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pitiful: more pitiful
pitifullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pitiful: most pitiful
pneum-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumo- before a vowel
townsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townsman
gownsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gownsman
nontracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tracked.
Senses: glosses: Not tracked or monitored.
Related terms: nontracking
shiverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shivering
feyest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fey: most fey
carbonadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonado
carbonadoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carbonado
carbonadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbonado
wheesht
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whisht.
drammach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfully renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach - oats mixed with cold water.
ref: 1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25, in Outlander, London: Random House:
glosses: A simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
dumbfoundedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dumbfoundedly
form: most dumbfoundedly
Etymology: From dumbfounded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dumbfounded manner.
dumbfoundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dumbfoundingly
form: most dumbfoundingly
Etymology: From dumbfounding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dumbfounding manner.
dumbfoundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dumbfounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being dumbfounded; amazement.
interester
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing reactions between esters.
interester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interesters
Etymology: From inter- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound formed by interesterification
Related terms: interesterification
beggarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beggarmen
Etymology: From beggar + man.
Senses: examples: text: “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice.
“That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: A male beggar.
beggarwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beggarwomen
Etymology: From beggar + woman.
Senses: examples: text: "Have you seen any horse and sledge on the road?" he said to the beggar-woman.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 112:
glosses: A female beggar.
beggarwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beggarwoman
beggarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beggarman
cupcakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupcakeries
form: cupcakerie
Etymology: From cupcake + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: This little hamlet of cute shops and cupcakeries is not like the rest of the country.
ref: 2009 May 28, Mike Albo, “Spend Some Time, if Nothing Else”, in New York Times:
glosses: A shop or cafe that sells cupcakes.
sealegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea legs.
village bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: village bikes
Etymology: From the joke that "everyone gets a ride" (i.e. sexual intercourse).
Senses: examples: text: He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […]
ref: 1983, Philip Howard, A word in your ear:
text: The local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known.
ref: 1988, David Cook, Crying out loud:
text: Dexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up.
You were the village bike then?
ref: 2003, Effervescing Elephant, “Re: Stealth aircraft over Lincs”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):
text: The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night.
ref: 2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever:
text: She has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails.
ref: 2009, Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It:
text: My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P
ref: 2012 May 15, Bob Milutinovic, “Re: Attn : TPG Techs”, in aus.computers (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 2014:
glosses: A local woman who is sexually promiscuous.
Synonyms: town bicycle
town bike
village bicycle
Related terms: village idiot
protanope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protanopes
Senses: glosses: A person who has protanopia
Ubud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Bali, Indonesia.
radiational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radiation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to radiation
Synonyms: radiative
radiationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radiational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a radiational manner
Lovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal area on the northwestern side of the island of Bali, Indonesia.
Brooklynese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brooklyn + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
glosses: The dialect of American English spoken in the borough of Brooklyn in New York.
reacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reachers
Etymology: From reach + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.
ref: 1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance, page 17:
glosses: A person who reaches.
glosses: A device used to reach something.
examples: text: Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.
ref: 2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
examples: text: I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright"
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: An exaggeration
Sanur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Palestinian village in Jenin Governorate, Palestine.
glosses: A village in Chahardangeh district, Sari county, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
glosses: A locality in Bali, Indonesia.
scintiscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintiscans
Senses: glosses: A scintigram.
scintiscan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scintiscans
form: scintiscanning
form: scintiscanned
form: scintiscanned
Senses: glosses: To produce a scintigram of.
Denpasar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Balinese Dénpasar.
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Bali, Indonesia.
Jimbaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Balinese Jimbaran.
Senses: glosses: A fishing village and tourist resort in Bali, Indonesia.
skunkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skunkweeds
Etymology: From skunk + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several American plants that have an offensive odour, but especially Croton texensis and Polemonium viscosum.
glosses: Strong-smelling cannabis.
Related terms: skunk cabbage
Kerobokan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Badung regency, Bali, Indonesia.
spheral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sphæral
Etymology: From Late Latin sphaerālis.
Senses: glosses: spherical
glosses: spherically symmetric
Singaraja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the regency seat of Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia.
spillikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪlɪkɪn/
Forms: form: spillikins
Etymology: From spill + -kin.
Senses: glosses: One of the straws (or small pieces of wood, ivory, etc.) used in the game of jackstraws or spillikins.
Synonyms: jackstraw
stressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stressless
form: most stressless
Etymology: From stress + -less.
Senses: examples: text: She knew some Dutch and spoke a high-pitched stressless English.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
glosses: Lacking stress.
suprematism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Suprematism.
thicknesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thicknessers
Etymology: From thickness + -er.
Senses: glosses: A thickness planer.
toucanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toucanets
Etymology: From toucan + -et?
Senses: glosses: Any of several small toucans, of the genera Aulacorhynchus and Selenidera.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis
word: blue-banded toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis
word: blue-throated toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus derbianus
word: chestnut-tipped toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus haematopygus
word: crimson-rumped toucanet
english: Selenidera
translation: Selenidera
word: dichromatic toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus prasinus
word: emerald toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera reinwardtii
word: golden-collared toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera gouldii
word: Gould's toucanet
english: Aulacorhynchus
translation: Aulacorhynchus
word: green toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus sulcatus
word: groove-billed toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera piperivora
word: Guianan toucanet
word: Nelson's toucanet Aulacorhynchus cognatus)
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus albivitta
word: Northern Andean toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus atrogularis
word: Peruvian toucanet
taxonomic: Pteroglossus bailloni
word: saffron toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus lautus
word: Santa Marta toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera maculirostris
word: spot-billed toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera nattereri
word: tawny-tufted toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus wagleri
word: Wagler's toucanet
taxonomic: Aulacorhynchus huallagae
word: yellow-browed toucanet
taxonomic: Selenidera spectabilis
word: yellow-eared toucanet
triboelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribo- + electricity.
Senses: glosses: Charge transfer due to sliding or contact
glosses: Static electricity produced by the triboelectric effect
truing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truings
Etymology: From true + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The wheel slides are purposely slightly under-compensated, causing the work to approach an oversize condition after several truings.
ref: 1956, Grits and Grinds, Norton Company, page 41:
text: As many as twenty titanium alloy test specimens can be ground between truings.
ref: 1969, Machinery, Volume 75, Industrial Press, page 78:
text: CBN^([cubic boron nitride (abrasive)]) wheel roundness to within .0001 inches (.0025mm) is considered satisfactory; however, roundess^([sic]) to 1 micron (.000040 inches) or less will extend the number of parts between truings.
ref: 1986, R. L. Mahar, “Grinding with Superabrasives”, in Robert I. King, Robert S. Hahn, editors, Handbook of Modern Grinding Technology, Chapman and Hall, page 106:
glosses: The alignment (and cutting) of a wheel (especially a grinding wheel) such that its surface is concentric with its axis.
truing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From true + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of true
cataphracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataphract
catenary bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catenary bridge
cat flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat flap
caustic curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caustic curve
caustic surfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caustic surface
surpriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: surprisers
Etymology: From surprise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In Exodus we undergo the first of a multitude of shocking surprises, issuing from the great surpriser, the primal shocker.
ref: 2008, Daniel Berrigan, Exodus: Let My People Go, page 27:
glosses: Someone who surprises.
connivant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more connivant
form: most connivant
form: connivent
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the ends inclined towards each other
cavitands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavitand
cavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavy
glosses: plural of cavie
celestial poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celestial pole
proxigean spring tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxigean spring tides
Senses: glosses: An unusually high high tide that occurs when the Moon is at its closest point in its orbit to the Earth and in its new or full moon phase
infoholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infoholic
ransacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ransackers
Etymology: From ransack + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ransacks.
Synonyms: looter
ransackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ransacker
pillagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillaging
unstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + struck.
Senses: glosses: Not having been struck.
Related terms: unstricken
unstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + struck.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstrike
messers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messer
nonhalal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + halal.
Senses: glosses: Not halal.
Synonyms: haram
unlooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + looted.
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptian tomb remained unlooted until its discovery in the early twentieth century.
glosses: Not having been looted.
winnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winability
Etymology: From win + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Commonweal was troubled that Bush and other strategists were "toying" not only with survival after nuclear war but with the "winnability" of such a war.
ref: 1993, Rodger Van Allen, Being Catholic: Commonweal from the Seventies to the Nineties, page 24:
text: The belief in winnability led to a Soviet Union intention to install missiles in Cuba.
ref: 2012, Allen R. Wells, The Winter Count, page 99:
text: Weak winnability says that every player has a chance to win. Strong winnability says that every player has a chance to win no matter which initial state the game starts from.
ref: 2018, Tanja Mitrovic, Bing Xue, Xiaodong Li, AI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, page 47:
glosses: The quality of being winnable; the possibility that one can win at all.
examples: text: Alinsky suggested that two closely related criteria, the winnability and the nondiviseness of an issue, should determine the focus of organizers' work.
ref: 2012, Marie Weil, Michael S. Reisch, Mary L. Ohmer, The Handbook of Community Practice, page 251:
text: Seats were becoming vacant, but boundaries had been redrawn, making it hard to assess the winnability of the new constituencies.
ref: 2014, John Campbell -, Roy Jenkins:
text: The perception that Gove had alienated the teaching profession to the extent that it was having an impact on the 'winnability' of marginal seats meant that he had become toxic to his party's election prospects; many who thought he should go admired his efforts to change schooling and also that his reforms were much needed and did not go far enought.
ref: 2015, M. Finn -, The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition:
glosses: The likelihood of winning (something).
examples: text: This is despite the fact that women candidates have greater winnability compared to the male candidates, as is evident from Table 3.
ref: 2000, Swarn Lata Sharma, Gender discrimination and human rights, page 201:
text: “Winnability is emphasized,” she said. “There's something to that. At the same time, if someone is completely against what the policies of the party are, in good conscience, you can't support someone like that.”
ref: 2010, Kate Zernike, Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America:
text: They awarded high marks for Williams' “winnability,” his communications, and his fiscal frameworks.
ref: 2014, Alex Marland, Matthew Kerby, First among Unequals:
glosses: The chance that (a political candidate) can win; electability.
Kendal mint cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kendal mint cakes
Etymology: From the English town of Kendal, where it originates.
Senses: glosses: A glucose-based confectionery flavored with peppermint, popular with climbers as a source of energy.
Related terms: mint cake
nongarrison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + garrison.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a garrison.
fieldcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From field + -craft.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
H&C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A home from home offering real food, comfortable bedrooms with facilities (TV, radio, kettle, H&C).
ref: 2005, Bed & Breakfast Stops England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland:
glosses: Initialism of hot and cold (water).
untaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untape
untaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + taped.
Senses: examples: an untaped interview
glosses: Not taped (recorded on tape).
glosses: Not taped (affixed with tape).
Synonyms: nontaped
storm match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm matches
Senses: glosses: A match coated with a combustible compound that can continue to burn even in a strong wind.
Synonyms: flare match
lifeboat match
uncatered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + catered.
Senses: glosses: Not catered.
gotras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gotra
Brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahmins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brahmin.
Brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brahman.
Derived terms: Brahmin moth
Brahmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brahmin
apyrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apyrase
chymases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chymase
argininosuccinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic amino acid, a precursor to fumarate in the citric acid cycle.
Related terms: argininosuccinate
dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that produces oxidized forms of benzophenanthridine alkaloids, such as sanguinarine from dihydrosanguinarine, chelirubine from dihydrochelirubine, and macarpine from dihydromacarpine.
fliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flyest
Etymology: fly + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fly: most fly
fliest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flyest
Etymology: fly + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of fly
centres of gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centre of gravity
centers of gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of center of gravity
kleenexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kleenex
certificate authorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate authority
cessionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cessionary
CFA francs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFA franc
CFP francs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFP franc
chain gangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain gang
chain reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain reaction
that's the spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I may have failed this job interview, but there will be many more opportunities in the future. ― That's the spirit!
text: Ibanez shook out her jumpsuit sleeves. "Delta, the guy, was no great shakes; he rolled around with Lil, tried to roll me, and I put one of his own bullets between his eyes. Sorry."
ref: 2022 October 4, HarryBlank, “Drilling Down”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
glosses: Used to encourage someone's positive attitude.
Synonyms: way to go
zoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: zoots
Etymology: Ellipsis of zoot suit.
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't wait for eight o'clock to get home to eat out of those soul-food pots of Ella's, then get dressed in my zoot and head for some of my friends' places in town, to lindy-hop and get high, […]
ref: 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published 2015, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A zoot suit.
examples: text: I also told him about a fur meet in which we 'squicked a bunch of mundanes' by running around in a shopping mall in zoots, etc.
ref: 1997, Alterskunk, “Spokesfur to appear on BBC Radio”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: It seems some Furries like zoots because they're the closest thing to a live anthro they can find.
ref: 1999, Boomer the Dog, “Fursuits appear in the strangest places...”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursuit.
Related terms: zoot pants
zoot shirt
zoot suit
zoot-suiter
zoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: zoots
Etymology: Of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: How many zoots you getting out of a 3.5? I’m hearing 4 is normal🥴
ref: 2020 October 13, @_OsoSandro11, Twitter:
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A marijuana cigarette.
glosses: A cigarette butt.
glosses: PCP; phencyclidine.
zoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: zoots
form: zooting
form: zooted
form: zooted
Etymology: Of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Lauren loves to zoot around the shopping mall. At top speed.
ref: 2011, Lauren Singer, Fred and I and a Dash of Pepper, page 51:
text: As well as allowing more and more people to zoot around the city in their cars, these roads also allowed for the improvement of public transport within Cardiff.
ref: 2015, David Collins, Gareth Bennett, The Little Book of Cardiff:
glosses: To rush around quickly; to scoot.
up a storm
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They cooked up a storm on the new cooking show.
text: They were dancing up a storm at the new night club.
text: They talked up a storm at the leader's debate.
text: But my Roxburgh could have sung up a storm too if he hadn't been distracted. He could have sung up a much greater storm with his power and volume then your mimsy little Rona managed.
ref: 2014, Lari Don, Storm Singing and other Tangled Tasks:
text: God, we were having a blast! Partying up a storm, flirting up a bigger storm...we ruled the resort.
ref: 2015, Joss Wood, Her Boss by Day...:
glosses: In a remarkable or excited manner.
raw_tags: used as an intensifier
lactivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lactivorous
form: most lactivorous
Etymology: From lact- + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: Feeding or subsisting upon milk.
halachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halacha
halachot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halacha
Arena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An extinct town in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A town and village therein, in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A former hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Frontier No. 19, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A comune in Vibo Valentia province, Calabria, Italy.
glosses: A village in Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran.
glosses: An ancient Roman city at Bou Saâda, Algeria.
Related terms: Point Arena
Punta Arena
ducture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare conduct.
Senses: examples: text: that is below an Angelical; but so far as the Ducture of Common Reason, Scripture, and Experience will direct our Enquiries
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: guidance, control
collegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collegium
explicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explicantia
Etymology: From Latin explicāns.
Senses: examples: text: Thus when a function statement gives the explicandum, e.g. alcohol consumption, privileged joking, witchcraft inheritance, as a sufficient condition of the explicans (anxiety reduction, friendly relations, agnatic confidence), a law statement can easily be framed on this basis.
ref: 1963, Robert Brown, Explanation in Social Science (The International Library of Sociology & Social Reconstruction), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1968, →ISBN, page 122:
text: The explicans in such an explanation is an event the occurrence of which possessing a certain property, in conjunction with other events with suitable properties, nomically determines the occurrence of the explicandum-event with a certain property.
ref: 1968, Richard Bevan Braithwaite, Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science, Cambridge: At the University Press, page 321:
text: The single pattern that came to have wide acceptance was that the explicandum must follow as a logical consequence of the explicans.
ref: 1992, John O’Shaughnessy, “Explanation”, in Explaining Buyer Behavior: Central Concepts and Philosophy of Science Issues, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: The underlying meaning of an explicandum.
barbastelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbastelles
Etymology: From French barbastelle, from Italian barbastrello.
Senses: examples: text: But while common and soprano pipistrelles are numerous, the barbastelle bat is dependent on ancient woodland.
ref: 2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:
glosses: A relatively rare European bat, Barbastella barbastellus.
baseborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: base-born
Etymology: From base + born.
Senses: examples: text: He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: bastard, illegitimate
examples: text: And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
You fighting more for honor than for gold:
Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
text: Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe.
ref: 2001, Bernard Lewis, Islam in history: ideas, people, and events in the Middle East, page 248:
glosses: Of lowly birth.
basehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseheads
Etymology: From (free)base + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Motherfucker, is you crazy?" I grilled Pimp. "Can't no basehead niggah be depended on to watch nothing!"
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Every basehead wake up and start do heroin instead?
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 518:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.
biotecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotectures
Etymology: Blend of bio- + architecture
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any of several types of architecture that use forms influenced by biological structures.
Derived terms: biotectural
blockwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockworks
Etymology: From block + work.
Senses: glosses: masonry that uses large blocks (of concrete etc.) rather than bricks
Related terms: brickwork
briefless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more briefless
form: most briefless
Etymology: From brief + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently a briefless barrister who is totally without connexion, as it is delicately phrased, which means who has no attorney blood in him, who has not married an attorney's daughter, and who has no rich relations who bring grist to the attorney mill, cannot hope by any change of administration to become a briefed barrister.
ref: 1849 November, “The Avatar of Attorneyism”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 40, page 572:
text: As an advocate he had no success, for after walking the floor of the Parliament House, as it is called in Edinburgh, along with other briefed and briefless advocates, and securing only one case, which brought him four guineas, he abandoned that practice and settled down seriously to his true life work of literature.
ref: 1899 June 10, H. B. Baildon, “Robert Louis Stevenson: Essayist, Novelist and Poet”, in The Living Age, volume 221, number 2866, page 683:
text: No one can accuse the Unionist Party of seeking to make indecent capital out of the folly, the misfortunes and the scandals which have become the chief stock-in-trade of latter-day Radicalism since the great historic Party fell under the auspices of barristers— briefed and briefless.
ref: 1913 June, L. J. Maxse, “The End of the Asquith Legend”, in The National Review, volume 61, number 364, page 684:
topics: law
glosses: Lacking briefs (clients)
glosses: Not wearing briefs
Derived terms: brieflessly
brieflessness
carboxyhaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxyhaemoglobins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carboxyhemoglobin.
cardphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardphones
form: card phone
Etymology: From card + phone.
Senses: glosses: A public telephone that accepts prepaid cards rather than coins.
cubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌbɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cub
cubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌbɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: The activities of Cub Scouts.
Related terms: scouting
cubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌbd/
rhymes: -ʌbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cub
labour camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour camps
form: labor camp
Senses: examples: text: The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
glosses: A type of prison where prisoners are obliged to do forced labour, usually outdoors.
Related terms: workcamp
labour camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labour camp
daughterhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughterhoods
Etymology: From daughter + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, “The Story Sisters,” for all its magic realism, is about a family navigating through motherhood, sisterhood, daughterhood.
ref: 2009 June 7, Chelsea Cain, “Fairest of Them All”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being a daughter.
derequisition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derequisitions
form: derequisitioning
form: derequisitioned
form: derequisitioned
Etymology: From de- + requisition.
Senses: glosses: To return or release (something previously requisitioned).
labor camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labor camps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of labour camp.
labor camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labor camp
entisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entisols
Etymology: Clipping of recent + -sol
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A young soil that is high in mineral content, and has no horizons.
euphrasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphrasias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of many flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia
Synonyms: eyebright
exclusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusionists
Etymology: From exclusion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who advocates the exclusion of someone or something
exclusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclusionist
form: most exclusionist
Etymology: From exclusion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an exclusionist, or to exclusionism
godship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godships
Etymology: From god + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.
ref: 1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v:
text: Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.
ref: 2003 August 4, New Yorker, page 79:
glosses: Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
synonyms: word: divinity
extra: the state, position, or fact of being a god
examples: text: Yf it please your gracyous godshyp.
ref: 1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii
text: The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’.
ref: 1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, page 86:
qualifier: 'her'; 'your'; 'her'; 'your'
glosses: A term of address to a deity.
raw_tags: with 'his'
Godward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Godward
form: most Godward
form: God-ward
form: godward
form: god-ward
Etymology: From Middle English Godward, Gode ward, God-ward, god-ward, godward; equivalent to God + -ward. Cognate with German gottwärts (“towards God”).
Senses: glosses: Directed to or tending toward God; toward God.
Godward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Godward
form: most Godward
form: God-ward
form: godward
form: god-ward
Etymology: From Middle English Godward, Gode ward, God-ward, god-ward, godward; equivalent to God + -ward. Cognate with German gottwärts (“towards God”).
Senses: glosses: In reference or relation to God; towards God.