cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
retransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːtɹænsˈfɜː(ɹ)/
/ɹiːtɹɑːnsˈfɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: retransfers
form: retransferring
form: retransferred
form: retransferred
Etymology: From re- + transfer.
Senses: glosses: To transfer back, or again.
retransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈtɹænsfə(ɹ)/
/ɹiːˈtɹɑːnsfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: retransfers
Etymology: From re- + transfer.
Senses: glosses: A transfer again or back.
somatotopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From somatotopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a somatotopic manner
glosses: With regard to somatotopy
sublibrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublibraries
form: sub-library
Etymology: From sub- + library.
Senses: examples: text: A library of skeleton descriptions is composed of skeleton descriptions with a sublibrary of words and phrases that can be used to fill the gaps in the skeleton descriptions.
ref: 1976, R. J. Alvey, Computers in Quantity Surveying, page 73:
glosses: A library forming part of a larger library.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A subset of a combinatorial library (collection of compounds generated using combinatorial chemistry)
sublibraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublibrary
targeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targeters
Etymology: From target + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who selects targets (typically for a remote weapons system).
thermostabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermostabilizations
Etymology: From thermo- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of something to a thermostable form
ventrocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventro- + caudal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Both ventral and caudal
voxelwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From voxel + -wise.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One voxel at a time.
enserfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enserf
enserfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: During the early Reconquista, the military functions of castle lords were paramount, and favoured the growth of a powerful landed aristocracy supported by the toil of an enserfed peasantry.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173:
glosses: Bound as a serf; having the condition of a serf.
comtal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comtal
form: most comtal
Etymology: From French comtal. Doublet of comital, both ultimately from Latin comes.
Senses: examples: text: The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls, acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe.
ref: 1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London, page 320:
text: In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173:
glosses: Pertaining to a count.
befoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befoes
form: befoeing
form: befoed
form: befoed
Etymology: From be- + foe, modelled after befriend.
Senses: examples: text: Take it from me; it is helpful to remain buoyant when identifying fish to befriend or "befoe."
ref: 2008, John Tarolli, Road Warriors:
glosses: To make or become a foe.
examples: text: What will the great coming Russian revolution do? Will it destroy the aristocracy, as in France, or will it leave it standing? Will it befriend or befoe the large non-Russian element of the western provinces?
ref: 1874, Andrew Archibald Paton, Henry Beyle (otherwise de Stendahl):
text: M. C. Witherspoon in the presence of each other Witnessed the due execution thereof. J. J. McMullan Sworn to befoe me this 21st day of Jan. 1842.
ref: 1953, Charlotte Ida McDow Rodman, The McDow family in America:
glosses: To treat or behave as a foe; be hostile towards.
selfship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self + -ship. Compare Danish selvskab, Swedish självskap, Norwegian selvskap.
Senses: examples: text: [...] separate from God, or so long as God is only found in the heavens, and man is trying with the wrong key to unlock the sanctuary of this divine selfship.
ref: 1882, Sarah A. Ramsdell, The lessons of the ages:
text: Our selfship of the past must develop into citizenship. We must remember that each individual in the community is an asset to us — that no nation can be strong if its citizens are weak and diseased.
ref: 1918, International journal of surgery:
text: The time-honored way was to use self as though it were a little man-inside-the-man who ordered all activities so that they pretty well suited his imperial selfship.
ref: 1973, Melvin Herman Marx, William Allen Hillix, Systems and theories in psychology:
text: Having learned so much about family relationships, friendships, and, more important, the selfship, Luanne documented how to develop and nurture all relationships with the vigilant employment of loving principles.
ref: 1999, Iyanla Vanzant, In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want:
glosses: The state, essence, or quality of self; identity; individuality.
selfship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfships
form: self-ship
Etymology: From self- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: the one year anniversary of my selfship with rayman is coming up tomorrow and I really wanted to get some art done, but I've been so exhausted and burnt out lately that I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it...
ref: 2023 November 5, @lexintothenex, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A situation where a person ships themselves with a character.
selfship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: selfships
form: selfshipping
form: selfshipped
form: selfshipped
form: self-ship
Etymology: From self- + ship.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To ship oneself with a fictional character.
Related terms: selfshipper
selfshipping
pannhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pannhas.
Senses: glosses: scrapple (meat dish)
dislikings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disliking
destash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destashes
form: destashing
form: destashed
form: destashed
Etymology: From de- + stash.
Senses: examples: text: She destashed some needles that I ended up taking off her hands last summer.
ref: 2004, JJMolvik, “A question about selling”, in rec.crafts.textiles.yarn (Usenet):
text: I'm doing some destashing to feed my coffee addiction (and to free up some space!). Nothing is "for sale" as such[…]
ref: 2007, WoolyGooly, “Destashing”, in rec.crafts.textiles.yarn (Usenet):
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To remove (a yarn, fabric, equipment, etc.) from one's collection.
destashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destash
destashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destash
destashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destash
pub quiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub quizzes
Senses: examples: text: His team came second in the pub quiz and won a bottle of wine.
text: No other nation on earth could have come up with the phenomenon that is the pub quiz. The Italians could never have invented the pub quiz, as they keep changing teams and it plays havoc with the scoring. The Spanish definitely didn't invent it as they don't go out until 11.30 at night and the pubs are shut by then, and anyway you can't think straight when you've had a late dinner.
ref: 2010, Al Murray, The Pub Landlord's Great British Pub Quiz Book, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A trivia quiz held in a public house.
Derived terms: pub quiz question
superevident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superevident
form: most superevident
Etymology: From super- + evident.
Senses: glosses: Very evident; extremely obvious.
superintendencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superintendency
rubrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubricians
Etymology: From rubric + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in, or strictly adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.
Synonyms: rubricist
Related terms: rubricism
rubricist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rubric + -ist.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to rubricism
rubricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubricists
Etymology: From rubric + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A rubrician.
rubricists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubricist
rubricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubrician
heat paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Thermal grease.
humblebrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmbl̩ˌbɹæɡ/
Forms: form: humblebrags
Etymology: From humble + brag; coined by writer and comedian Harris Wittels (1984–2015), posted on Twitter in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: I am as guilty as the next wannabe Overachieving Mom when it comes to the humblebrag Christmas letter. I can’t help it. It’s in my genes.
ref: 2015, Jen Mann, Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges, Random House, page 130:
text: Henry Alford, a commentator for The New York Times, has observed that “social media status updates are basically selfies, humblebrags, and rants.” “Most humblebrags,” Alford observes, “are attempts to convey one of three messages: ‘I have too much work;’ ‘I am an idiot/impostor;’ or ‘I have firsthand knowledge of the gritty gilt to be found inside the gilded cage.’” The latter seems by far the most common.
ref: 2018, James D. Wright, Lost Souls: Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society, Taylor & Francis, page 230:
text: I phrase my brag in humble or self-deprecating terms because social norms demand that such self-deprecating remarks be countered by denials by my guests and compliments on the perfection of the risotto. My humblebrag is thus met with the positive affirmation I was seeking but could not successfully achieve through outright bragging.
ref: 2019, Karen Stohr, Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement, Oxford University Press, page 180:
text: You're the king/queen of the humblebrag on your best days, but you really need to remember your strengths and talents on your worst days to shake off your impostor syndrome and remember the badass you are.
ref: 2021, Brianne Hogan, BuzzFeed: Joy in the Stars: Self-Care Astrology for Your Mind, Body, and Soul, Running Press, page 69:
text: Ditch the humblebrag. Live with sincerity beneath the shadow of God.
ref: 2023, David R. Denny, Meditations from the Classics: Ancient Voices for Modern Listeners, Collective Ink, page 157:
glosses: An ostensibly self-deprecating statement made to show off.
humblebrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmbl̩ˌbɹæɡ/
Forms: form: humblebrags
form: humblebragging
form: humblebragged
form: humblebragged
Etymology: From humble + brag; coined by writer and comedian Harris Wittels (1984–2015), posted on Twitter in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: After all, she writes, she was surrounded by “people who humblebragged about how little sleep they’d gotten the night before and used the phrases ‘lean and scrappy’ to describe not only our company culture, but themselves.”
ref: 2018, Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine, Beacon Press, page 66:
text: The Four Seasons even humblebragged about its failure to accommodate Buffett’s special request on its Facebook page.
ref: 2019, Adam Chandler, Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom, Flatiron Books, page 25:
text: Fan quickly humblebragged through her journey from reluctant computer science major to discovering a love of animation, which she studied at night in community college, despite the protestations of her Chinese “tiger parents” that she would “be poor and destitute if I followed my dreams.”
ref: 2020, David Sax, The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth, PublicAffairs, page 24:
text: John the Baptist lived in the shadow of Tiberius. Many people thought John was the Messiah. After all, he commanded great crowds and had a dynamic personality. But John didn’t humblebrag. His dreams were all cradled in the heart of Jesus. No fakery or false pretensions existed on John’s stage.
ref: 2023, David R. Denny, Meditations from the Classics: Ancient Voices for Modern Listeners, Collective Ink, page 157:
glosses: To make such a statement.
Derived terms: humblebragger
humblebragging
Related terms: false modesty
humblebrags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humblebrag
Hevellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hevellians
Etymology: From Hevelli + -an.
Senses: glosses: One of the Hevelli.
Hevellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hevellian
Hevelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe of the Polabian Slavs, who settled around the middle Havel river in the present-day Havelland region of Brandenburg in eastern Germany from the 8th century onwards.
Related terms: Hevellian
honeynet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeynets
Etymology: From honey + net. See net (“computer network”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An entire computer network that serves as a honeypot, or trap for potential attackers.
honeynets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeynet
hallucinatory realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of magic realism dealing with the content of dreams or fantasies.
hexit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪt
Forms: form: hexits
Etymology: Blend of hexadecimal + digit. Compare bit (“binary digit”).
Senses: examples: text: There are sixteen hexits: the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hexadecimal digit.
hexits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexit
supersessionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersessionism
iconograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconographs
Senses: examples: text: An iconograph can take the form of irregularly shaped letters or (especially in the case of poems) irregularly aligned text.
glosses: A picture formed by a word or words.
glosses: An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.
Related terms: iconography
iconographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconograph
Inglewood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Engla, genitive plural of Engle (“the English, the Angles”) + wudu (“woods, forest”).
Senses: examples: text: But today they’re Darrell and Devante Caldwell, co-defendants in royal blue prison garb. Along with six others, the Caldwells are alleged to have botched a hit on the rapper RJ, leaving one alleged Inglewood Family Bloods member, Davion Gregory, dead and two other people injured.
ref: 2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Dodge County, Nebraska.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rockingham County, Virginia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A village in the town of Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in central Calgary, Alberta.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in north-west Edmonton, Alberta.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A rural town and former shire in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A small town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A town in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Perth in the City of Stirling, Western Australia.
glosses: A town in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
glosses: A town in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Inglewooder
wordgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordgames
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of word game.
wordgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordgame
inbetwixt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From in + betwixt.
Senses: glosses: Between; in between.
holocaustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holocaustic
form: most holocaustic
Etymology: From holocaust + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a holocaust.
introspectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more introspectional
form: most introspectional
Etymology: From introspection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to introspection.
introspectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From introspective + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being introspective.
oversteam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversteams
form: oversteaming
form: oversteamed
form: oversteamed
Etymology: From over- + steam.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful not to oversteam as food will become soft and mushy, and remember to keep your pot covered throughout the process.
ref: 1999, Judy Mazel, John E. Monaco, Sheila Sobell, Slim and Fit Kids: Raising Healthy Children in a Fast-Food World, page 132:
glosses: To steam too much.
protose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor, and used as a brand name by the Sanitas Nut Food Company, Battle Creek Foods, and Worthington Foods. Apparently from protein + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: Cut a can of protose lengthwise in two; put in a pan, fill one-fourth full with hot water, and bake one hour.
ref: 1914, Jacob Arnbrecht, Hygienic Cook Book, International Publishing Association, page 72
text: From the viewpoint of our low protein diet, gluten flour and protose are positively dangerous.
ref: 1917, Anna Lindlahr, The Nature Cure Cook Book, 5th edition, The Nature Cure Publishing Co., page 273
text: I see Prichard occasionally for lunch in a vegetarian restaurant…. The dishes have strange names, like those of some unknown religion; initiates think nothing at all of ordering ‘a protose of peppers’ [?] or ‘a nuttalene’ [?]. These names, smacking of organic chemistry, correspond to substances which pretend to be meat without being so […]
ref: 1988, John Weightman (tr.), translation of Jean Verdenal's letter to T. S. Eliot dated 1912 February 5, in The Letters of T. S. Eliot, volume I (Valerie Eliot, ed.), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 31
glosses: A meat substitute made chiefly of wheat gluten and peanuts, popular in the early twentieth century.
oversteamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversteam
oversteams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversteam
oversteaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversteam
kindest regards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used as a polite closing of a letter
kind regards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used as a polite closing of a letter.
kaurenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaurene
karyochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyochrome
karyocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyocyte
karyomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyomere
kiloflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiloflops
Etymology: From kilo- + flop.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of computing power equal to 1,000 floating point operations per second
loudnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loudness
look at you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: lookatcha
form: lookatchu
Senses: examples: text: Ooh, look at you in your new suit!
glosses: Sarcastically drawing attention to somebody's appearance or behaviour.
gunbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunbelts
Etymology: From gun + belt.
Senses: glosses: A belt incorporating a holster for a gun.
gunbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunbelt
unwrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wrenched.
Senses: glosses: That has not been wrenched.
unwrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwrench
unhammered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hammered.
Senses: glosses: That has not been hammered.
lightscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightscapes
Etymology: From light + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The theater house can encourage the lighting designer to imagine extraordinary lightscapes or it can limit the placement of lights, resulting in constant frustration that is stimulating to no one.
ref: 2000, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Theaters:
text: The Service will preserve, to the greatest extent possible, the natural lightscapes of parks, which are natural resources and values that exist in the absence of human-caused light.
ref: 2006, United States, Management Policies 2006, National Park Service, page 57:
glosses: An illuminated environment; a lighting arrangement that picks out some details and obscures others.
lightscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightscape
logicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logickers
Etymology: From logic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But from such logic, such logicking, and such logickers, I pray to be delivered.
ref: 1852, John Lord, The Christian philosopher and metaphysician: volume 2, page 16:
glosses: A logician.
logickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logicker
outpaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpaints
form: outpainting
form: outpainted
form: outpainted
Etymology: From out- + paint.
Senses: examples: text: to outpaint Picasso
glosses: To paint more or better than; to surpass in painting.
examples: text: Our system treats this challenge using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep learning technique that outpaints the cropped image.
ref: 2022, Karim Yasser et al., “Egyart classify: an approach to classify outpainted Egyptian monuments images using GAN and ResNet”, in 2022 2nd International Mobile, Intelligent, and Ubiquitous Computing Conference, →DOI, page 166:
glosses: To extend an image by guessing how it might look beyond its borders; to perform the inverse of a crop (chiefly in the context of AI image models).
Related terms: inpaint
outpaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpaint
outpainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpaint
outpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpaint
neuroesthesioblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroesthesioblastomas
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A malignant tumor of the first cranial nerve area, frequently extending through the ethmoid cribriform plate of the mid anterior skull base, to enter the nasal cavity, where it can sometimes be seen through the nare, the external nasal opening.
neuroesthesioblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroesthesioblastoma
merycism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηρυκάζω (mērukázō, “to chew the cud”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: rumination syndrome
moneyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money-back
Etymology: From money + back.
Senses: examples: text: The real reason other call accounting companies won't offer you a moneyback satisfaction guarantee. Fear.
ref: 1991, Account-a-Call Corporation, advertisement in Network World (volume 8, number 18, page 24)
text: 30-day moneyback guarantee does not include shipping costs to or from the customer and applies to direct sales only.
ref: 1997 September, Popular Science, volume 251, number 3, page 47:
glosses: The return of the money paid for something; a refund.
Moscovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Moscovian
form: most Moscovian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muscovian.
Moscovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moscovians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muscovian.
Moscovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moscovians
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Moscovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the Moscovian stage.
Moscovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moscovian
neustonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuston + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysan Albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) [...] appear to be particularly vulnerable to plastic ingestion. This is likely due to their feeding strategy, selecting floating items from the ocean surface. In the time before the abundance of plastics, these items would have been dominated by organic matter and neustonic (floating) organisms.
ref: 2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 22:
glosses: Relating to neuston.
nitrocarburizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nitrocarburize
nitrocarburizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nitrocarburize
nitrocarburized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitrocarburize
nitrocarburization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of nitrocarburizing.
osseo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osteo-.
riverboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverboards
Etymology: From river + board.
Senses: glosses: The board used in the sport of riverboarding.
riverboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverboard
riverboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverboarders
Etymology: From river + boarder.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of riverboarding.
riverboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverboarder
rumination syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chronic condition characterized by effortless regurgitation of most meals following consumption, without retching or nausea.
Synonyms: merycism
refoveate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refoveates
form: refoveating
form: refoveated
form: refoveated
Etymology: From re- + foveate.
Senses: glosses: To foveate again or anew; to reangle one's eyes such that the foveae are directed at a different object.
Derived terms: refoveation
refoveating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refoveate
refoveates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refoveate
refoveated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refoveate
on-prem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of on premises.
Senses: examples: text: on-prem resources
text: A maintenance window for an on-prem system can look like a service problem from the hosting provider. Security can be difficult in this scenario, especially for multi-tenant arrangements, but there are models that work for this.
ref: 2012, Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, page 301:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: off-prem
glosses: Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud).
raw_tags: of software
retrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + -genesis, coined by Dr. Barry Reisberg.
Senses: glosses: The degeneration of faculties in Alzheimer's disease in the reverse order of that in which they were developed as a child.
Related terms: once a man, twice a child
sanitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sanitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sanitation.
Synonyms: sanitary
tetanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tetanises
form: tetanising
form: tetanised
form: tetanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetanize.
thermal grease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal greases
Senses: glosses: A viscous fluid substance, originally with properties akin to grease, which increases the thermal conductivity of a thermal interface by filling microscopic air-gaps present due to the imperfectly flat and smooth surfaces of the components.
Synonyms: heat paste
thermal compound
thermal gel
thermal paste
thermal greases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermal grease
teleocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teleocratic
form: most teleocratic
Senses: glosses: Relating to teleocracy.
thermal gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal gels
Senses: examples: text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
glosses: Thermal grease.
thermal compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal compounds
Senses: glosses: thermal grease
undecorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undecorates
form: undecorating
form: undecorated
form: undecorated
Etymology: From un- + decorate.
Senses: examples: text: Undecorate the Christmas tree before taking it outside.
glosses: To remove the decorations from.
undecorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undecorate
undecorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undecorate
unweds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unwed
unpersist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpersists
form: unpersisting
form: unpersisted
form: unpersisted
Etymology: From un- + persist.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove from permanent storage; to make temporary again.
unpersisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpersist
unpersists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpersist
unpersisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpersist
unwedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unweddings
Etymology: From un- + wedding.
Senses: glosses: A gathering or ceremony that marks or celebrates the end of a marriage.
Related terms: unbirthday
unweddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unwedding
unturkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unturkeys
Etymology: From un- + turkey, originally the trademark for a seitan-based turkey substitute produced until 2006 by a company called Now & Zen.
Senses: examples: text: Tracy, for being there at crunch time, making unturkey sandwiches, and lending an ear throughout the process.
ref: 2000, Jamie Goddard, Kurt Brungardt, Lesbian sex secrets for men, page x:
text: When you think of Thanksgiving, you may often think of a huge turkey with all the delicious side dishes (unless you are a vegetarian and think of a huge "unturkey" made with tofu)[…]
ref: 2002, Fran Lenzo, Halo My Dear Angel, page 149:
text: Does special Thanksgiving (unturkey, chestnut stuffing, sweet potatoes and dessert), Christmas and New Years^([sic]) feasts.
ref: 2002, John Howley, Vegetarian Restaurants and Natural Food Stores in the US, page 437:
text: You don't need to invite a turkey to dinner the way we do, but you can celebrate the holiday with meatless Tofurky or unturkey, both widely available in health food stores, in some supermarkets, or through the Internet.
ref: 2008, Gene Baur, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, page 225:
text: From Thanksgiving unturkey to Fourth of July veggie dogs, there are products for every occasion.
ref: 2011, Reed Mangels, The Everything Vegan Pregnancy Book, page 91:
glosses: A vegetarian turkey substitute.
Related terms: tofurkey
foot race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot races
Senses: examples: text: Critics said that it would be in poor taste to hold a foot race through the five boroughs while so many people in the area were still suffering from the storm’s damage, and that city services should focus on storm relief, not the marathon.
ref: 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012:
glosses: Alternative form of footrace.
underdecided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdecided
form: most underdecided
Etymology: From under- + decided.
Senses: examples: text: For New Historicism, words are so saturated with cultural weight and hence ideology that they block hermeneutic freedom, whereas for deconstruction they are so underdecided that they resist reading.
ref: 2005, Stanley Cavell, Russell B. Goodman, Contending with Stanley Cavell, page 142:
text: If you are undecided or underdecided, realize that you have a great advantage over students "who know for sure" what they want to do.
ref: 2007, John A. Beck, Marmy A. Clason, Light on the Path: A Christian Perspective on College Success, page 199:
glosses: Insufficiently decided; too undecided.
ablatio placentae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ pləˈsɛnˌti/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ablatio (“carrying away”) + placentae (“flat cake”).
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of placental abruption.
synonyms: word: placental abruption
up-to-dateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up-to-datenesses
Etymology: From up-to-date + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.
ref: 1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, https://web.archive.org/web/20130817190039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715222,00.html
text: […] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, w:Nineteen Eighty-Four:
text: Of all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.
ref: 2003, Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others, London: Verso, page 144:
glosses: The quality or degree of being up to date.
ablatio retinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ ˈɹɜt.n̩.i/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ablatio (“carrying away”) + Middle English rethina, from Medieval Latin retina, from Latin rete (“net”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Detachment of the retina.
stand behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands behind
form: standing behind
form: stood behind
form: stood behind
Senses: examples: text: Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Wittenberg had repeatedly stood behind the plan, insisting it was best for the city.
ref: 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012:
glosses: To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, behind.
Jinny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.
Synonyms: Ginny
remasterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remasterers
Etymology: From remaster + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who remasters an audio recording.
remasterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remasterer
Germanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Germanly
form: most Germanly
Etymology: From German + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a German manner; in a way characteristic of Germans.
Spanishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Spanishly
form: most Spanishly
Etymology: From Spanish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Spanish manner; in a way characteristic of Spaniards.
Britishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Britishly
form: most Britishly
Etymology: From British + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a British manner; in a way characteristic of the British.
Japanesely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Japanesely
form: most Japanesely
Etymology: From Japanese + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Japanese manner; in a way characteristic of Japan.
Americanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Americanly
form: most Americanly
Etymology: From American + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.
ref: 1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels:
text: Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images, and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself in the privacy of his very own home and skull, then TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cojones will be broken.!!!
ref: 1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: In an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.
Tilley lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tilley lamps
Etymology: Named after John Tilley.
Senses: examples: text: The lighting used for the work in the tunnel was ordinary Tilley lamps, which were found to be efficient.
ref: 1957 June 24, “Relining Dove Holes Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 424:
glosses: A kind of kerosene-powered lamp dating from the nineteenth century.
Tilley lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tilley lamp
caders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cader
back scratcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back scratchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backscratcher.
semiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiography
stike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stikes
Etymology: See stich.
Senses: examples: text: I had no sooner spoken of a stike,
But that the storm so rumbled in her breast,
As Æölus could never roar the like
ref: 1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction:
glosses: A stanza.
stikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stike
spurling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurlings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sperling.
Related terms: spurling pipe
spurlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurling
approximateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From approximate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being approximate.
sea onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea onions
form: sea-onion
Etymology: Referring to its coastal habitat and onion-like bulb.
Senses: glosses: A sea squill (Drimia maritima), a plant native to Mediterranean and adjoining coasts.
glosses: A spring squill (Scilla verna), a plant of Atlantic Europe.
Synonyms: sense: Drimia maritima
word: squill
sense: Drimia maritima
word: maritime squill
sense: Drimia maritima
word: red squill
Hyponyms: sense: Drimia maritima
english: color form
translation: color form
word: red squill
sea onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea onion
set-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from set off.
Senses: examples: D. Jerrold
I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.
glosses: That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
glosses: That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
topics: law
glosses: A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An offset.
Related terms: standoff
step-off
set-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set-off
paciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pacy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pacey.
pacily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pacily
form: most pacily
Etymology: From pacy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pacey manner.
pacifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pacifyingly
form: most pacifyingly
Etymology: From pacifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to pacify or calm.
scrimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrimer
picine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more picine
form: most picine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of or relating to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
sparsedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparsedly
form: most sparsedly
Etymology: From sparsed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: sparsely
smilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: smilts
form: smilting
form: smilted
form: smilted
Senses: examples: text: having imbibed too much, many Corns will smilt, or have their Pulp turn'd into a substance like thick Cream
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To melt.
chelifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlɪfəɹ/
Forms: form: chelifers
Etymology: From Latin chēlē (“claw”) (from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “claw”)) + -fer.
Senses: glosses: pseudoscorpion
chelifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chelifer
snathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪð
Forms: form: snathes
form: snathing
form: snathed
form: snathed
Etymology: From Old English snǣdan (“to slice”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną.
Senses: glosses: To lop; to prune.
examples: text: Meleager's mother mad at his offence In that death by his hand had summon'd thence Her Brothers: snathes up the fatall brand which she , which did his life command, And on a flagrant altar it she layes, The which consuming her sons life betray's.
ref: 1924, John Milton, Some Newly Discovered Stanzas, page 149:
text: The fair dame was able to snathe the best candidates— She pathed good souls to the noble way and educates.
ref: 2013, Percarus, Percarus:
text: To be out, ready to snathe a salmon or to blind a pheasant on his perch, and all the time to know that there was a certain element of risk, that unless you remained all the time conscious of this risk you might be jumped on by one of the Finnertys, made your blood course faster through your veins and made your heart thump heavily, so that when you did reach home you sank into a heavy exhausted sleep immediately, and woke in the morning wondering what the hell you wanted to be doing things like that for.
ref: 2016, Walter Macken, Quench the Moon:
glosses: To snatch.
snathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪð
Forms: form: snathes
Etymology: From Old English snǣdan (“to slice”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną.
Senses: examples: text: Before the patent of Peirce, the nibs of scythes had been clumsily fastened to the snathe by means of an iron ring, tightened by wedges.
ref: 1841, The Law Reporter - Volume 3, page 384:
text: Mine is an old ridge-backed twenty-eight-inch blade that I inherited with the place and set on a new snathe.
ref: 2011, Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Measure of the Year:
text: The resulting scythe is heavier and more difficult to use than a bent snathe.
ref: 2022, Michael Brown, Guide to Medieval Gardens: Gardens in the Age of Chivalry:
glosses: Alternative form of snath (“shaft of a scythe”).
Chinesely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Chinesely
form: most Chinesely
Etymology: From Chinese + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A Chinese sun above our heads,
And Chinese waves below,
And Chinese breezes all around,
How Chinesely they blow!
ref: 1836, The American Monthly Magazine, volume VII, page 287:
glosses: In a Chinese manner, in a way characteristic of China.
kissies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissy
kissier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kissy: more kissy
praecipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praecipe
lesbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbie
lesby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lesbie.
condescendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condescendencies
Senses: glosses: condescendence
isocheimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: isochimal
Etymology: From isocheim + -al.
Senses: examples: an isocheimal line; an isocheimal chart
synonyms: isocheimonal
isochimenal
glosses: Of or relating to isocheims.
isochimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isocheimal.
lezzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛzɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɛzə/
rhymes: -ɛzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lezzers
form: lezza
Etymology: Shortening of lesbian with -er.
Senses: synonyms: lezzie
glosses: lesbian
dastarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dastard