cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stop dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops dead
form: stopping dead
form: stopped dead
form: stopped dead
Senses: examples: text: At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.
ref: 1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575:
glosses: To stop suddenly.
dirty old man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty old men
Senses: examples: text: Always shouts out something obscene / Such a dirty old man
ref: 1969, John Lennon, “Mean Mr Mustard”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:
text: You're nothing but a dirty, dirty old man / You do your thinking with a one-track mind
ref: 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
text: Moving her arm up and down between them, she said in a still louder voice, "Admiral indeed! Dirty old man, if you ask me! He drove his wife to an early grave with his woman chasing. Now he's spending Nancy's money on the likes of her, that slut—that—that naked hooker.
ref: 1974, Henry M. Dupree, The Dirty Old Man, →ISBN, page 14:
text: If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
ref: 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
glosses: An adult male who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner, especially towards people younger than him.
girlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlies
form: girly
Etymology: From girl + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.
synonyms: girlie magazine
girlie mag
dirty magazine
fuck book
glosses: A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl
text: And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A young girl.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl
text: K-pop girlie
text: the girlies are fighting
glosses: A woman or person with feminine traits.
Derived terms: girlie girl
girlie mag
girlie magazine
Related terms: babygirl
baby girl
girlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: girlier
form: girliest
form: girly
Etymology: From girl + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.
ref: 1979 December 1, Jil Clark, Holly Near, “Holly Near Sings for a Nuclear-Free Future”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 9:
glosses: Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.
examples: text: He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.
ref: 2005, Victoria Pade, Tales From Elk Creek, page 76:
glosses: Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.
chowderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚhɛd/
Forms: form: chowderheads
form: chowder head
form: chowder-head
Etymology: Probably from a variant of jolterhead.
Senses: examples: text: Did you seriously think that was gonna work? You magnificent chowderhead! I saw that coming miles away!
text: Now when you run the program, you should get output similar to the following: Attempt to access array out of bounds, chowderhead!
ref: 2003, Thomas Petchel, Java 2 Game Programming:
glosses: An idiot; a dummy.
Synonyms: dunce
dumbo
pea brain
numskull
chowder-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowder-heads
Senses: examples: text: Something has happened to Squadron Air Mail-none has come in for the last two weeks. Some chowder-head sent it to the wrong island.
ref: 1943, (published 1990) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Paul Fussell ed.), The Norton Book of Modern War:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chowderhead.
drive the porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪv ðə ˈpɔːsəlɪn ˈbʌs/
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪv ðə ˈpɔɹsəlɪn ˈbʌs/
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪv ðə ˈpɔɹslɪn ˈbʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: drives the porcelain bus
form: driving the porcelain bus
form: drove the porcelain bus
form: driven the porcelain bus
Etymology: Humorous euphemism associating the position of the hands on a toilet seat while vomiting with holding the steering wheel of a bus.
Senses: synonyms: word: bait
word: barf
word: be sick
word: blow chunks
word: boak
word: boke
word: boot
word: bork
word: bow down before the porcelain god
word: cast
word: cast up one's accounts
word: chuck
word: chuck up
word: chunder
word: disgorge
word: drive the porcelain bus
word: erupt
word: gag
word: get sick
word: heave
word: honk
word: hurl
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: puke
word: puke up
word: purge
word: ralph
word: regurge
word: regurgitate
word: retch
word: shoot the cat
word: sick
word: sick up
word: spew
word: talk to God on the big white telephone
word: talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
word: throw up
word: toss
word: toss one's cookies
word: upchuck
word: vomit
word: woof one's cookies
word: whoops
word: worship the porcelain god
word: worship the porcelain goddess
word: yak
word: worship the porcelain god
extra: to vomit into a toilet bowl, especially while drunk or hungover
glosses: Synonym of worship the porcelain god (“to vomit into a toilet bowl, especially while drunk or hungover”).
ylang-ylang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ylang-ylangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ylang ylang.
ilang-ilang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilang-ilangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ylang ylang.
pizza parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza parlors
form: pizza parlour
Senses: examples: text: The gang and I went to the pizza parlor to order some pizza and kill a little time.
glosses: A restaurant or other business establishment whose primary menu item is pizza.
Synonyms: pizzeria
concert T-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert T-shirts
form: concert t-shirt
form: concert tee
Senses: examples: text: Many bands make more money from selling concert T-shirts than from the sale of tickets.
glosses: A T-shirt, often sold as a souvenir at musical concerts featuring rock groups, containing images and information about the performing artist or band, the tour the performer(s) may be on, and tour dates and venues.
tenements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenement
jets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of jet
jets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jet
Jets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An NFL franchise located in New York City.
Jets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jet
chowderheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowderhead
inoperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + operable.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
antonyms: operable
glosses: Incapable of being successfully operated on.
examples: text: MPower Kernow will clear and repair the currently inoperable turntable - allowing steam locomotives to be turned in Cornwall again and opening up the potential for new charter operations.
ref: 2021 August 11, Ben Jones, “Network News: Main line steam servicing facility for Cornwall”, in RAIL, number 937, page 27, photo caption:
glosses: Incapable of operation or function; inoperative.
Derived terms: inoperability
inoperably
chowder head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowder heads
Senses: examples: text: "And she called me a chowder head!" The boy's eyes flashed with anger.
Mr. Mays held Elizabeth at arm's length. "Is that true? Did you call your brother a chowder head?"
ref: 2003, Kay Rizzo, Bells and Whistles:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chowderhead.
moment of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moments of silence
Senses: examples: text: The pastor always opened his Sunday service with a moment of silence.
glosses: A period of silence for quiet meditation, prayer or reflection.
examples: text: The principal requested a moment of silence in memory of the two girls who died in a car accident over the weekend.
text: The custom of observing a moment of silence before an athletic event to honor dead people strikes me as meaningless. And arbitrary. Because, if you'll notice, only certain people get this special treatment. It's highly selective. Therefore I've decided that someday, when the time comes that every single person in the world who dies receives a moment of silence, I will begin paying attention. Until then, count me out. It's ridiculous.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174:
glosses: A period of silence conducted to honor or provide a gesture of respect to a recently deceased person, as part of the mourning process. May also be conducted following a tragic event or on the anniversary thereof.
neuroscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosciences
Etymology: From neuro- + science.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: brain science
text: Near-synonym: neurobiology
text: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
hypernyms: science
coordinate_terms: neurology
neuropsychology
psychology
psychiatry
glosses: The scientific study of the nervous system.
Derived terms: computational neuroscience
Related terms: word: bioscience
english: largely hypernymous
translation: largely hypernymous
word: biology
word: neuroimaging
word: neuroimplant
word: neuromyths
word: neurorights
word: neuroscientist
word: neurosurgery
word: neurotechnology
Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝ˞l ˈhɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˌpɜːl ˈhɑːbə/
Forms: form: Pearl Harbour
Etymology: Calque of Hawaiian Wai Momi (“pearl water”). The extended senses allude to the surprise attack executed by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the harbor on December 7, 1941.
Senses: glosses: A placename
A deep water harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, United States in the Pacific.
examples: text: Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
ref: 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Bluto (John Belushi), Universal Pictures:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A placename
A naval base in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States: a US Navy base
glosses: A placename
Alternative form of Pearl Harbour.
examples: text: Pearl Harbor happened in 1941 and was the direct cause of the United States' entry into World War II.
text: “Casablanca” was completed in 1942, but it’s set in December, 1941, the time of Pearl Harbor.
ref: 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2016:
glosses: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝ˞l ˈhɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˌpɜːl ˈhɑːbə/
Forms: form: Pearl Harbors
form: Pearl Harbour
Etymology: Calque of Hawaiian Wai Momi (“pearl water”). The extended senses allude to the surprise attack executed by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the harbor on December 7, 1941.
Senses: examples: text: Most Americans wanted no more Pearl Harbors, but they now expected Germany to attempt one.
ref: 2002, Richard F. Hill, Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany, page 85:
glosses: A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures.
examples: text: For all practical purposes, the United States is undergoing an electronic Pearl Harbor, and the target is one of the most crucial segments of our way of life: Information.
ref: 1991, Winn Schwartau, Terminal Compromise:
text: Still, instead of thinking in terms of the industry's repeated warnings of a "digital Pearl Harbor," McPherson said, "I think cyberwarfare will be far more subtle," in that "certain parts of the system won't work, or it will be that we can't trust information we're looking at."
ref: 2007 June 24, John Schwartz, quoting Danny McPherson, “Preparing for a digital Pearl Harbor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2021:
text: We certainly don’t want a GPS Pearl Harbor, but probably it’s gonna take a GPS Mogadishu to get people’s attention.
ref: 2012 July 6, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, quoting Milton Clary, “Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles”, in Wired, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2013:
text: IDF says fighting is ongoing in south, saying it ‘could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one’ as Supernova festival-goers describe attack[.]
ref: 2023 October 9, Ben Doherty, “Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023:
glosses: A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy.
Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝ˞l ˈhɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˌpɜːl ˈhɑːbə/
Forms: form: Pearl Harbors
form: Pearl Harboring
form: Pearl Harbored
form: Pearl Harbored
form: Pearl Harbour
Etymology: Calque of Hawaiian Wai Momi (“pearl water”). The extended senses allude to the surprise attack executed by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the harbor on December 7, 1941.
Senses: examples: text: The first and second ships had been successfully Pearl Harbored. The third was not to be surprised. As we approached, she dropped her net and fled. We pursued.
ref: 2000, James P. Sterba, Earth Ethics: Introductory Readings on Animal Rights, page 345:
text: Pearl Harbor had seared itself into the American consciousness, but even at the times of greatest tension American Presidents never believed that they were about to be Pearl Harbored again.
ref: 2013, Heiner Timmermann, The Future a Memory: The Cold War and Intelligence, page 127:
qualifier: often passive voice
glosses: To attack by surprise; to subject to a sneak attack.
examples: text: Of course, with the Soviets' launch of Sputnik, the Americans had been Pearl Harbored in space.
ref: 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students (2004, page 143
text: If I had quit two houses sooner than I did all would have been well but since I didn't, I got Pearl Harbored by some big kid dressed up in a Ben Cooper Howdy Doody plastic outfit and a goofily grinning mask […]
ref: 2015, Halloween Shrieks, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: To take rudely by surprise.
Related terms: Pearl
Pearl Harbour
chowder-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chowder-headed
form: most chowder-headed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chowderheaded.
copatain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of captain.
Senses: examples: text: O fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copatain hat! O, I am undone! I am undone! While I play the good husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at the university.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Being a kind of hat with a high pointed crown.
heighths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The main body of the brigade followed the advanced party, and having ascended the heighths, halted there during the night.
ref: 1864, Walter Scott Seton-Karr, Selections from Calcutta Gazettes:
glosses: plural of heighth
oviparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈvɪpəɹəs/
ipa: /oʊˈvɪpəɹəs/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin oviparus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
text: And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.
ref: 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend:
text: Until fairly recently, no female Somniosus had been observed to be carrying embryos, so it was assumed that this was an oviparous species.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 138:
synonyms: egglaying
glosses: Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
Derived terms: oviparously
oviparousness
semioviparous
Related terms: ovoviviparous
viviparous
Hyndluljóð
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Völuspá in skamma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Poetic Edda.
Svipdagsmál
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a section of the Poetic Edda, encompassing two books : the Grógaldr and the Fjölsvinnsmál.
Grógaldr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Related terms: galdr
Fjölsvinnsmál
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Pullman car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pullman cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of Pullman.
synonyms: word: Pullman
passenger car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passenger cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: passenger carriage
word: passenger coach
word: passenger bogie
hyponyms: sleeper
coordinate_terms: freight car
goods wagon
glosses: A railroad car designed to carry passengers.
topics: transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: pickup truck
van
glosses: A motor vehicle designed to carry (a few) passengers; a motorcar.
Related terms: Pullman car
knotholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knothole
CH4
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Channel 4.
intranet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɹəˌnɛt/
Forms: form: intranets
Etymology: From intra- + net.
Senses: examples: text: The operator uses a variety of methods to maximise engagement, including a new and improved intranet that's designed to encourage honest two-way communication between staff and management.
ref: 2020 January 2, Paul Stephen, “A great place to work”, in Rail, page 29:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A private computer network, typically one that uses the protocols of the Internet.
Related terms: extranet
Internet
rocking horse shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocking-horse shit
Etymology: From the expression rare as rocking horse shit, with the joke being that rocking horses do not produce feces.
Senses: synonyms: word: hen's tooth
word: black swan
word: hen's tooth
word: lightning in a bottle
word: one in a million
word: rara avis
word: rare bird
word: rarity
word: rocking horse shit
word: unicorn
glosses: Something exceedingly rare or, more likely, nonexistent.
Related terms: english: nonsense
translation: nonsense
word: horseshit
english: illusory thing
translation: illusory thing
word: mare's nest
word: blinker fluid
word: muffler bearing
english: illusory things, horseshit pretenses
translation: illusory things, horseshit pretenses
word: snark
rocking-horse shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rocking horse shit.
rocking-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocking-horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rocking horse.
orad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orad
form: most orad
Etymology: From oro- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: The sutures of four septa are exposed; the most orad of these can be traced with a fair degree of accuracy throughout almost its entire course.
ref: 1931, William Arthur Parks, Collected Papers, volume 3, page 86:
text: The frequency of segmenting contractions is higher in the descending and sigmoid colon than in more orad areas.
ref: 2001, Leonard R. Johnson, Gastrointestinal Physiology, page 63:
text: The endoscope is advanced to its most orad (toward the mouth) limit and then slowly withdrawn so that the mucosa can be thoroughly examined.
ref: 2006, Sara J. Busch, Small Animal Surgical Nursing: Skills and Concepts, page 270:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located towards the oral opening (the mouth).
Coordinate terms: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
location
word: caudad
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
location
word: ventral
orad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oro- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: The most common symptom of GERD is heartburn, which is described as substernal burning that moves orad from the xiphoid.
ref: 1998, Tadataka Yamada et al., Handbook of Gastroenterology, page 228:
text: Beginning 8 to 10 sec prior to egestion, the pellet is moved orad by esophageal antiperistalsis.
ref: 1999, D. Michael Denbow, “12: Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Physiology”, in G. Causey Whittow, editor, Sturkie's Avian Physiology, page 307:
text: This is due to the UES moving completely off the sensor as it moves orad with the swallow.
ref: 2012, Neeraj Sharma, Janice Freeman, “8: Esophageal Manometry”, in Joel E. Richter, Donald O. Castell, editors, The Esophagus, page 179:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Towards the oral opening (the mouth).
aborad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈbɔɹˌæd/
Forms: form: more aborad
form: most aborad
Etymology: From ab- (“away from”) + orad (“toward the mouth”), from Latin ōris (“mouth”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
Synonyms: aboral
stop list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop lists
form: stoplist
Senses: examples: text: If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as "a", "the", and "and", you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
topics: media
glosses: A list of people who subscribed to a publication (e.g. newspaper) but no longer wish to receive it.
examples: text: The history of the small organ is poorly documented; the earliest known stop list, written by the Lübeck organ builder Theodore Vogt, dates from about 1845.
ref: 1987, Kerala J. Snyder, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck, page 81:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A list of the stops found on a particular organ.
Related terms: blacklist
ineligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ineligible
form: most ineligible
Etymology: From French inéligible.
Senses: examples: text: Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.
glosses: Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
Synonyms: unqualified
Derived terms: ineligibleness
Related terms: ineligibility
ineligibly
unlicensed
ineligible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ineligibles
Etymology: From French inéligible.
Senses: examples: text: However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.
ref: 2002, Martin Feldstein, A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics, page 1227:
glosses: One who is not eligible.
diviner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaɪnə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪnɚ/
ipa: /dɪˈvɑɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: diviners
form: devynour
form: divinour
form: divinor
Etymology: From Middle English divinour, from Latin dīvīnātor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from dīvīnāre (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Saw my future with a death diviner / My reflection in her eyes drew up / My twisted past / Oh, I came unmasked
ref: 2020, Soilwork, “Death Diviner”, in A Whisp of the Atlantic:
glosses: One who foretells the future.
glosses: One who divines or conjectures.
glosses: One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
Synonyms: sense: one who foretells the future
word: foreteller
sense: one who foretells the future
word: fortune-teller
sense: one who foretells the future
word: prophet
sense: one who foretells the future
word: seer
sense: one who foretells the future
word: soothsayer
sense: one who searches for underground water
word: water diviner
sense: one who searches for underground water
word: dowser
Derived terms: divineress
diviner's sage
water diviner
Related terms: divine
diviner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaɪnə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪnɚ/
ipa: /dɪˈvɑɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: devynour
form: divinour
form: divinor
Etymology: From Middle English divinour, from Latin dīvīnātor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from dīvīnāre (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of divine: more divine
maintains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maintain
moored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moor
ominously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmɪnəsli/
ipa: /ˈɑmənəsli/
Forms: form: more ominously
form: most ominously
Etymology: From ominous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From first to last he was ominously polite, and ominously silent.
ref: 1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Second Period. The Discovery of the Truth. (1848–1849.) […] [Fourth Narrative. Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, →OCLC, page 195:
text: His nostrils flared ominously and his fists opened and closed at his sides.
ref: 1983, Patricia Hagan, Golden Roses:
text: However, the next day dawned ominously with an overcast sky and we postponed our start till 8 o'clock.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Accident and Rescue in the Nanda Devi Sanctuary”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Just as the Census Bureau forecasts growing racial diversity under any future level of immigration, it likewise projects ominously slow growth in America’s working-age population without more immigration.
ref: 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:
glosses: In an ominous manner; with sinister foreboding.
operates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of operate
discoverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoverers
Etymology: From Middle English discoverour, dyscowerer, partly from Middle French descouvreur and partly equivalent to discover + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the flowꝛes there haue been ſufficiently wꝛought, they [bees] ſend abꝛoade their diſcouerers to finde out moꝛe foode.
ref: 1577, Conradus Heresbachius [i.e., Konrad Heresbach], translated by Barnabe Googe, “The fourth Booke, entreatyng of Poultry, Foule, Fishe, and Bees”, in Foure Bookes of Husbandry, […], London: […] Richard Watkins, folio 175, verso:
text: The ſpecies of elaſtic fluid, which its great diſcoverer, Dr. Prieſtley, denominated the dephlogiſticated nitrous air, and others have ſince called gazeous oxyd of azot, is in general not unknown to chemiſts, though they are unacquainted with its compoſition, its moſt extraordinary effects, and probably with its perfect preparation.
ref: 1799, Robert John Thornton, chapter XXIII, in The Philosophy of Medicine: Or, Medical Extracts on the Nature of Health and Disease, Including the Laws of the Animal Œconomy, and the Doctrines of Pneumatic Medicine, 4th edition, volume 1, page 450:
text: [M]any of the most successful discoverers of metallic wealth have been entirely ignorant of the methods by which a great mine should be opened, developed, and worked.
ref: 1898, Charles A. Bramble, “Prospecting”, in The A B C of Mining[:] A Handbook for Prospectors […] , Chicago; New York: Rand, McNally & Company, page 7:
text: But this was subterfuge to defeat the curiosity of a chance discoverer.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.
Synonyms: word: finder
word: repertor
Derived terms: codiscoverer
Discoverers' Day
pricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of prick
pricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prick
unresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresolved
form: most unresolved
Etymology: From un- + resolved.
Senses: examples: text: If the Chairman has been convinced of all this why is the matter still unresolved?
ref: 1961 July 24, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 386:
text: Ultimately, Furst suggests that each generation is condemned to live out its parents’ unresolved stories, over and over, fuguelike.
ref: 2007 October 21, Field Maloney, “Here in Dinkytown”, in The New York Times:
glosses: For which no solution has been found.
examples: text: unresolved trauma
text: The psychotherapist encouraged patients to describe their unresolved emotional problems.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Not yet processed or resolved.
glosses: Not determined; unfixed in one's purpose.
unresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unresolve
shadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shadow
shadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [...] 2d and 3d Gules, a Man's Heart proper, Shadowed Or, betwixt three Cinquefoils Ermine, for Hamilton […]
ref: 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 394:
text: The supporters have rede collares about there nekes "bordered with gold, and are vert" shadowed gules and blew, proper, like parates.
ref: 1862, Thomas Tonge, Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, page 27:
text: Consequently, a month later, by the Maid's desire, the King gave to Guy de Cailly a grant of new arms on a field azure, three heads of cherubim, winged, bearded in flame-colour, which is or shadowed with gules.
ref: 1895, The Nineteenth Century, page 872:
text: Armorial bearings (L.O., 1678-9) Quarterly 1 and 4, gules a mullet argent between three cinquefoils ermine; 2 and 3 gules, a man's heart proper shadowed or, between three cinquefoils ermine, all within a bordure argent[…]
ref: 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 116:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Depicted with shading, as if showing areas in shadow.
forfeited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forfeit
sells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
homophone: cells
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sell
sells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
homophone: cells
Senses: glosses: plural of sell
tethered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles.
examples: text: Many mobile phones are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem)
Derived terms: tethered aerostat
Related terms: tethering
tethered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tether
embossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emboss
embossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Forms: form: more embossed
form: most embossed
Senses: synonyms: empaestic
glosses: With raised letters or images on the surface.
examples: text: Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;/Broch Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd;/And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
ref: c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, scene 1:
glosses: Foaming at the mouth.
glosses: Synonym of umbonate.
synonyms: word: umbonate
Derived terms: unembossed
embellished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embellish
embellished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embellished
form: most embellished
Senses: glosses: Having been made more attractive, compelling or interesting.
Derived terms: nonembellished
unembellished
retires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retire
streaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streaked
form: most streaked
Senses: glosses: Bearing streaks.
glosses: Marred with streaks.
glosses: uncomfortable; out of sorts.
Derived terms: streaked fantail warbler
streaked scrub warbler
streaked weever
streaked wren-babbler
streaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streak
engineered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engineered
form: most engineered
Senses: examples: text: One sense in which buildings were more engineered was that old bulk masonry forms were often replaced by calculated frame construction and light wall cladding. Buildings also were more engineered in the sense that thermal, ventilating and lighting provision were the subject of calculation and mechanical plant rather than hit-or-miss guesswork.
ref: 1996, Christopher G. Powell, The British Building Industry Since 1800: An Economic History, page 205:
text: The situation with grouting has begun to change in recent times, however, and several groups around the world have begun to take a more engineered approach. "More engineered" means more quantified, less subjective, less dependent on experience (or, more often, opinion, if one is honest) and something that can be explained to other engineers without the need for them to have 20 years' prior grouting experience.
ref: 2004, James Warner, Practical Handbook of Grouting: Soil, Rock, and Structures, page 531:
glosses: Produced by engineering; designed and manufactured according to an engineering methodology.
Derived terms: engelang
engineered spaceship
gene-engineered
genetically engineered
gengineered
geoengineered
glycoengineered
nanoengineered
nonengineered
unengineered
engineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engineer
toned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊnd/
ipa: /toʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
rhymes: -oʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tone
toned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊnd/
ipa: /toʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
rhymes: -oʊnd
Forms: form: more toned
form: most toned
Senses: examples: text: high-toned
text: sweet-toned
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) tone.
examples: text: a toned body
text: a toned man
glosses: Physically fit, with somewhat defined and firm muscles and limited bodyfat.
Derived terms: high-toned
low-toned
toned paper
tritoned
alienated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alienate
alienated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alienated
form: most alienated
Senses: glosses: Isolated; excluded; estranged.
Synonyms: on the outside, looking in
Derived terms: alienatedly
nonalienated
unalienated
tolerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tolerated
form: most tolerated
Senses: glosses: endured
glosses: permitted
Derived terms: tolerated use
tolerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tolerate
tipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tip
settles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of settle
settles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of settle
remembers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remember
purchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purchase
purchases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of purchase
progressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of progress
orange juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange juices
form: orange-juice
Senses: glosses: The juice of squeezed oranges; used as a beverage or in cocktails. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Derived terms: OJ
orange juice concentrate
Quintilis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Quīntīlis (“Fifth Month”).
Senses: glosses: The month of the ancient Roman calendar which became July, the fifth month when the year began with March and the seventh after it began with January.
Synonyms: word: July
word: Julius
word: Quintile
basketry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketries
Etymology: From basket + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.
ref: 2010 February 12, Roberta Smith, “Visual Culture Out of Africa”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
glosses: Baskets collectively.
Synonyms: basketmaking
basket weaving
basketwork
Related terms: basketmaker
basketmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketmakers
Etymology: From basket + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who weaves baskets.
Related terms: basketry
humaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humaniform
form: most humaniform
Etymology: From human + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The meaning of the word God or its equivalent in any other word, has been developed first from man's physical nature and wants, then from his intellectual. And has been all the time changing from the definite, visible, tangible, audible and humaniform, and plural, to the solitary, invisible, intangible, inaudible, and to the too indefinite for exact expression....
ref: 1910, Lockhart Brooks Farrar, The Eternity of Matter: A Series of Discussions:
text: Darcy frowned slightly as he studied the robot. It was a new model, a little more humaniform than the older models were.
ref: 1983, Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn:
text: We did our best with the humaniform medical equipment that was available.
ref: 1988, Vernor Vinge, The Blabber:
glosses: Like a human or that of a human in form or appearance.
humaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humaniforms
Etymology: From human + -iform.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
literature
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
robotics
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: A robot resembling a human.
Synonyms: humanoid
irreprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreprehensible
form: most irreprehensible
Etymology: From Latin irreprehēnsibilis. Compare French irrépréhensible. See reprehensible.
Senses: glosses: not reprehensible, blameless, without blame; innocent
Synonyms: blameless
innocent
Derived terms: irreprehensibleness
irreprehensibly
pomposity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomposities
Etymology: From Middle English pomposite (“solemnity”), from Latin pompōsitās.
Senses: examples: text: With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity.
glosses: The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
Synonyms: word: bombast
word: ostentatiousness
word: pompousness
Related terms: pompous
hoopty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoopties
form: hooptie
form: hoopdi
form: hooptee
Senses: examples: text: “And Vi, this car has touched your life in ways you don't even know.” “Mother! Do not stop for a Quiznos! this baby is coming!” “You got this cute little divot in your head 'cause you shot out into the parking brake.” “I was born... in a CRX.” “It's settled. Too many memories!” “We're saving this memory hoopty.”
ref: 2021 May 2, Janine Brito & Jeremy Rowley, “The Drincan Temple” (6:53 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
qualifier: African-American
glosses: Alternative spelling of hooptie.
gannin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of gan
nutbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutbag
reeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Forms: form: reekin
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reek
reeking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Forms: form: reekin
Senses: examples: text: The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
glosses: Totally stinking.
reekin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reeking
Senses: glosses: present participle of reek
reekin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: reeking
Senses: examples: text: Your hyem is reekin man!
glosses: Totally stinking.
reeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reek
pishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pish
pished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pish
godliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒd.li.nəs/
ipa: /ˈɡɑd.li.nəs/
Forms: form: godlinesses
Etymology: From godly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.
ref: 1562, The Thirty-Nine Articles, Point 32
text: Nay, but he prated,
And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
Against your honour
That, with the little godliness I have,
I did full hard forbear him.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: But godlinesse with contentment is great gaine.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:6:
glosses: The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teachings of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
Derived terms: cleanliness is next to godliness
Related terms: deity
chart datum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: the level below which depths are indicated and above which heights of the tides are expressed; usually mean level of low water at a spring tide
chase gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chase guns
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A gun moved temporarily from its normal broadside position to fire through the chase ports in the bow or stern of a ship.
Synonyms: bow chaser
stern chaser
putos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puto
chase port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chase ports
Etymology: Compound of chase + port (“porthole”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hole cut in the bow of a ship through which a chase gun could fire directly ahead.
cheese down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheeses down
form: cheesing down
form: cheesed down
form: cheesed down
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.
carena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... (theophylline dissolved in ethylendiamine; corresponding to the brands of aminophylline and carena), by intravenous or intragluteal injections for from 3-10 days, according to the severity of the symptoms.
ref: 1945, League of Nations, Bulletin of the Health Organisation, page 591:
glosses: Aminophylline.
CATIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application.
Related terms: CADAM
CAEDS
bastardswords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardsword
G string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G strings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of G-string.
G-strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G-string
crooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of crook
crooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crook
crooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crook