cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carmel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹ.ml̩/
Forms: form: carmels
Etymology: Variant of caramel, influenced by two-syllable pronunciations of that word.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caramel.
Derived terms: carmelize
fantasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantast
trifluoromethylaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifluoromethylanilines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic amine, CF₃C₆H₄NH₂, used in the production of the herbicide fluometuron.
trifluoromethylanilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifluoromethylaniline
crepusculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crepusculous
form: most crepusculous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crepuscular.
vervels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vervel
callingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more callingly
form: most callingly
Etymology: From calling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Last night his car horn down at the head of the cove had sounded patiently, callingly, for most of an hour.
ref: 1957, Borden Deal, Dunbar's Cove:
glosses: So as to call or summon
lithotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lithotomical
Etymology: Compare French lithotomique.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or performed by, lithotomy.
deemsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deemster
roo bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roo bar
doomsayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomsaying
cimbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimbias
form: cimia
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A white band running across the ventral surface of the cerebral crus.
cimbias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimbia
benmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ben: most ben
innatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innatists
Etymology: From innate + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supporter of innatism.
innatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innatist
RDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Remote Desktop Connection.
RDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RDCs
Senses: examples: text: The virtue of the R.D.C. is that it can be used for short inter-city trips such as this, or for branch services, or even for commuting. It is a pity that its spartan accommodation makes it unsuitable for long runs; the introduction by the C.P.R. of an "improved" service between Medicine Hat and Vancouver (nearly 1,000 miles stopping at almost all stations), using an R.D.C., got the hostile press reception it deserved.
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A Budd Rail Diesel Car, a self-propelled railcar for passengers.
toilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toilingly
form: most toilingly
Etymology: From toiling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With hard labour.
panarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panarthritides
Etymology: From pan- + arthritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: arthritis in all of the joints
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of all the structures of a joint
Related terms: panarthritic
panarthritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panarthritis
Pelasgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pelasgic
form: most Pelasgic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγικός (Pelasgikós).
Senses: glosses: Pelasgian
diffluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffluences
form: diffluency
Senses: examples: text: The characteristics of the soils, vegetation, desert varnish, slope of the stream channel, and drainage texture are used to confirm the location of the primary diffluence.
ref: 1992, H. W. Hjalmarson, S. P. Kemna, Flood Hazards of Distributary-flow Areas in Southwestern Arizona:
text: Some of the sediment transported during runoff is deposited locally, and a lobe of deposited sediment is formed downstream from the diffluence.
ref: 1994, H. W. Hjalmarson, Potential Flood Hazards and Hydraulic Characteristics of Distributary-Flow Areas in Maricopa County, Arizona, page 2:
text: Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease. In the intermediate case, confluence is balanced by an increase in wind velocity and diffluence by a decrease in velocity.
ref: 2004, Roger Barry, Richard Chorley, Roger G. Barry, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, page 118:
text: This flow exhibits diffluence and stretching and hence divergence, but no curvature or shear and hence no vorticity.
ref: 2006, John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey, page 273:
glosses: A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
diffluences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffluence
overtraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtrade
overtrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtrade
overtrading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtradings
Senses: glosses: The buying of a greater amount of goods than one can sell or pay for.
overtrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrade
overtrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtraders
Etymology: From overtrade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overtrades.
overtraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtrader
hijabed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hijab + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a hijab.
rule of coss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian cosa (“thing”), the value to be determined.
Senses: glosses: Algebra.
Related terms: cossic
cossist
chaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chace
chacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chace
generables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generable
CPRM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Content Protection for Recordable Media.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists.
resuscitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resuscitant
urari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curare.
ladinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladino
Norian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From norite.
Senses: examples: text: The Norian rock is distinguished by the abundance of labradorite, a feldspar possessing iridescent tints, and is found in Essex County, New York, Labrador, extensively along the St. Lawrence, upon Lake Huron, while "bowlders of it are occasionally found along the eastern shores of Maine and Massachusetts, and also in northern New Jersey."
ref: 1881, Louis Pope Gratacap, The Primeval American Continent (written in Popular Science Monthly Volume 19)
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.
sharp-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sharp-set
form: most sharp-set
Senses: examples: text: an eagle or a lion sharp-set
text: December 7, 1711, Henry Cromwell, letter to Alexander Pope
The town is sharp-set on new plays.
text: "Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch."
ref: 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:
glosses: eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous
truanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of truant
truanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truantings
Senses: examples: text: At school he fared no better than at home; and unless he was consoled by his almost constant truantings in the woods and fields, his youth must have been one of unrelieved repining and despondency.
ref: 1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 88:
glosses: Truancy.
truanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of truant
trubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trub
trubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of troubles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of troubles.
synonyms: word: troubles
postfinalization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + finalization.
Senses: glosses: After the finalization of an adoption, at the point of legal transfer of parental rights and withdrawal of supervision.
refinalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + finalization.
Senses: glosses: legal finalization of an adoption again, as when moving to a new region that does not recognise the previous adoption
rancheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchero
onomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onomantic
form: most onomantic
form: onomantical
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to onomancy.
insidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insidely
form: most insidely
Etymology: From inside + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You say something outsidely rude and insidely civil about its being my choice to edit; […]
ref: 1843, John Warden Robberds, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:
text: That is mentally—outsidely, but not insidely. You have not relaxed down through your body at all.
ref: 1920, Willard Carver, Psycho-bio-physiology:
text: Five new members in the Connecticut club were taken on a selling campaign, over the hurdles of a couple of shrewd, hard boiled, insidely informed partners in a paint and wallpaper store — one of the roughest trips the quintet ever […]
ref: 1922, Painting & Decorating Contractors of America, National painters magazine:
text: And all it means: yet it begins "outsidely", like any other day; even "insidely" — oh, yes, deep inside one, it is different.
ref: 1986, Harley Granville-Barker, Eric Salmon, Granville Barker and his correspondents:
glosses: In an inside or internal manner; internally.
bicycle path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycle paths
form: bike path
form: cycle path
Senses: synonyms: bikeway
cycle lane
cycle track
cycleway
glosses: A path, segregated from other traffic, for the use of riders of bicycles
Hypernyms: cycleway
inner strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnɚ st̠͡ɹ̠ɛŋ(k)θ/
note: pre-/ŋ/ tensing
ipa: /ˈɪnɚ st̠͡ɹ̠eɪŋkθ/
ipa: /ˈɪnə stɹɛŋ(k)θ/
Forms: form: inner strengths
Senses: examples: text: In any trouble, such as was this about the necklace, there would come over his face a look of weakness which betrayed the want of real inner strength.
ref: 1871 July – 1873 February, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Dove in His Chambers”, in The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1872, →OCLC, page 126, column 2:
text: To do as your aunt and uncle in their kindness wish, would, I am sore afraid, end in depriving you of the inner strength and happiness which God only gives to those who do their duty and try courageously to repair their errors.
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 217:
text: First, it says the candidate has the inner strength or the wisdom or whatever it takes to address the unpredictable challenges he or she will face if elected.
ref: 2008 August 28, Michael Kinsley, “Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”, in Time:
synonyms: determination
fortitude
resolve
glosses: Integrity of character; resoluteness of will; mental resistance to doubt or discouragement.
Related terms: set of one's jaw
anhydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydrates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid anhydride
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anhydrous form of a normally hydrated compound
Related terms: anhydride
anhydrite
anhydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anhydrates
form: anhydrating
form: anhydrated
form: anhydrated
Senses: examples: text: The Tarim mummies, found in present-day China, were anhydrated naturally by searing desert conditions.
glosses: To dehydrate, especially in food processing.
below the salt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See above the salt.
Senses: examples: text: His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: Common, vulgar; of low standing.
light elves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light elf
fraenums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraenum
frenums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frenum
morefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From more + -fold. Compare manifold, West Frisian mearfâld (“plural”), Dutch meervoud (“plural”), German Low German mehrfolig (“multiple, plural, repeated”).
Senses: examples: text: The base-curves Br, Bs, Bt and Bu of the pencils are morefold curves of the surface L.
ref: 1907, Proceedings of the section of sciences:
text: In the case of a morefold coordinated complex a MOcrossing of occupied and unoccupied orbitals takes place, with the consequence that electrons enter molecular orbitals where antibonding 2n*—functions of the CO-molecule are […]
ref: 1981, Tetsurō Seiyama, Kōzō Tanabe, New Horizons in Catalysis:
text: The argument mentioned at 1166a35, that friendship with oneself is possible only so far as one is two or morefold (heesti duo epleid), has had its authenticity doubted.
ref: 1995, May Sim, The Crossroads of Norm and Nature:
text: The most important property of these continua for our present purpose, for whose sake alone they are here investigated, is that the relations of the twofold ones may be geometrically represented by surfaces, and of the morefold ones may be reduced to those of the surfaces included in them; which now requires a short further discussion.
ref: 2007, Stephen Hawking, God Created the Integers:
text: Besides morefold anionic domino processes with one pericyclic reaction, domino sequences combining two initiating anionic with two pericyclic steps have also been developed.
ref: 2007, Lutz F. Tietze, Gordon Brasche, Kersten Gericke, Domino Reactions in Organic Synthesis:
topics: mathematics
science
sciences
glosses: Being greater than one in number; plural; multiple; multiplex; manifold.
Synonyms: many
numerous
manifold
morefold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From more + -fold. Compare manifold, West Frisian mearfâld (“plural”), Dutch meervoud (“plural”), German Low German mehrfolig (“multiple, plural, repeated”).
Senses: examples: text: […] that means that any manipulation that massages the term of such an expression has to be done in morefold.
ref: 1990, A. J. M. Gasteren, On the Shape of Mathematical Arguments:
glosses: Plurality; multiplicity.
Synonyms: multipleness
numerousness
manyness
ordinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinator
negative verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative verb
historicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historicity
examinants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of examinant
dittying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ditty
englued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of englue
engluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of englue
mersnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mersnakes
Etymology: From mer- + snake. Compare Middle English mereneddre (“sea-snake, lamprey”), from Old English merenǣddra, merenǣddre, merenǣdre (“lamprey, sea snake”, literally “sea-adder”).
Senses: examples: text: I asked casually while we walked past a few buildings with split columns painted with a pit of mersnakes eating raw flesh.
ref: 1989, Arthur Byron Cover, Stationfall:
text: The first drowned in a cthulhoid's multitentacular clasp, the second was poisoned by multiple mersnake bites, and the third bled to death after his flesh was seared and scarified by a shoal of lumpreys.
ref: 2005, Brian M. Stableford, Donna Scott, Gabriel Strange, Curse of the Coral Bride:
glosses: A sea snake.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid snake.
mersnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mersnake
poltrooneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poltroonery
poltinniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poltinnik
polwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polwig
reservors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reservor
exsiccants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsiccant
pit adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit adders
form: pit-adder
Etymology: From pit + adder.
Senses: examples: text: The two chief poisonous families of the rest of the globe, the vipers (Viperidae) and the pit-adders (Crotalida;), are entirely absent, their place being supplied by the Elapidae, [...]
ref: 1893, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, Australasia:
text: The venom of some snakes, Rogers says, contains a mixture of the above-mentioned venoms (among such snakes are the Australian colubrines and the American pit-adders).
ref: 1910, John Chalmers Da Costa, Modern surgery, general and operative:
text: There is the pit adder called Habu. This kind is the worst of the three. These snakes are three inches thick and six feet long, and resemble our diamond back rattlers at home.
ref: 1947, Arthur Furr, Democracy's Negroes:
text: Goblins which surrounded you, crowding closer and closer with their eye stalks vibrating, goblins which hissed like pit adders, were perhaps something he had not reckoned with.
ref: 1973, The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction:
text: They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk.
ref: 1974, Edgar Berman, The politician primeval: from the amoeba to the White House:
text: "[...] I hope the events of the day haven't so unbalanced your sense of values that you're going to turn on your pilot like a maddened pit adder at the mere suggestion of something pleasurable."
ref: 2002, Raymond Hamel, Luftgangsters: a novel:
glosses: Any of various venomous snakes of the family Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or groove on either side of the head which enables them to detect prey by infrared sensing; a pit viper.
blind quotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind quote
pit adders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit adder
pit-adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit-adders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pit adder.
intrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intrap
intrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intrap
intraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intrap
counterresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + resistance.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: resistance to a patient's influence on his or her therapy by the therapist, such as changing the subject
Related terms: countertransference
hyperkyphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperkyphotic
form: most hyperkyphotic
Etymology: From hyper- + kyphotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting hyperkyphosis.
hyperkyphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + kyphosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive kyphotic curvature of the thoracic region of the spine.
Synonyms: dowager's hump
Macaulayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Macaulayan
form: most Macaulayan
Etymology: From Macaulay + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician.
miasmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miasmatical
form: most miasmatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miasmatic.
banshie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banshies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of banshee.
banshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banshie
repositionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repositioning
repositionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repositionable
form: most repositionable
Etymology: From reposition + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being repositioned.
positionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more positionable
form: most positionable
Etymology: From position + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being positioned.
Powellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Powellian
form: most Powellian
Etymology: From Powell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to John Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician, classical scholar, and writer who controversially opposed immigration.
lightgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light gun.
lightguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightgun
lightfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightface
whackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whack + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Claire's version of "nun" comes mostly from her mother: tales of habit-clad monsters with cruel eyes and implements of whackage — rulers, paddles, sticks, Bibles.
ref: 2009, Z Egloff, Verge:
glosses: whacking; beating
metagame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagames
Etymology: From meta- + game.
Senses: examples: text: Nomic is a metagame in which players can modify the rules as part of gameplay.
text: The textual chessboard at the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass (1871) makes this crystal clear, establishing the whole book as a game—or maybe a metagame—that unfolds through the act of reading, each chapter corresponding to a “move” by Alice’s profoundly overwhelmed pawn.
ref: 2016 March 12, Matt Margini, “How 'Alice in Wonderland' Influences Video Games”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A game about games.
examples: text: But usually when people refer to the metagame, they mean things such as unlockables or customizable features. The problem with metagames is that they almost always damage the games they surround. […] Metagames also often create motivations that conflict with the inherent motivations of the core game.
ref: 2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 98:
text: The “real-life” activities of EVE community members are a striking example of when a game begins to evolve into another type of simulation. In this instance, the metagame becomes a kind of political simulation that starts to manifest itself more off the screen than it does within the virtual society.
ref: 2015 March 10, Nicholas O'Brien, “The Real Politics of a Virtual Society”, in The Atlantic:
text: Even before the box is open, the metagame has begun. The metagame is the drama unfolding between the players. The metagame involves manipulating the emotions of your opponents. The metagame gives you the feeling of triumph that comes from collaborative problem-solving.
ref: 2019, Ellie Dix, Board Game Family: Reclaim your children from the screen, Crown House Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
text: But the thing with Elden Ring, as with all the Souls titles before it, is that the metagame – the stuff that goes on around the actual on-screen action – is as important as the game itself. This is an arcane, esoteric universe where players must work together on discord channels and message boards to figure out the best courses of action.
ref: 2022 March 8, Keith Stuart, “Pushing Buttons: Get lost in Elden Ring’s maddening, engaging world”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The exploitation of the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally; a game outside or peripheral to the actual gameplay.
metagame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metagames
form: metagaming
form: metagamed
form: metagamed
Etymology: From meta- + game.
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Of a roleplayer, to make use of knowledge while roleplaying that they learned out of character, which their character does not know; often considered a form of cheating.
Related terms: meta
metagaming
metagames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagame
metagames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metagame
herpetologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herpetologic
form: most herpetologic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herpetological.
foalings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foaling
calvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calving
Calvinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Calvinistic
form: most Calvinistic
Etymology: From Calvin + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Their Captain's announcement was listened to by the throng of standing sailors in a dumbness like that of a seated congregation of believers in hell listening to the clergyman's announcement of his Calvinistic text.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Alternative form of Calvinist.
Synonyms: Calvinistical
foamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foamable
form: most foamable
Etymology: From foam + -able.
Senses: examples: foamable resins
glosses: Capable of being converted into foam.
afterbear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterbears
Etymology: From after- + bear (“one who is”, literally “be-er”), modelled after forebear (literally “fore-be-er”).
Senses: examples: text: The first page of the Family Bible amplified and brought up to this irreverent date; sentimental, practical, witty, even scientific — yes, even psychological; a book for those who care about their forebears and their afterbears.
ref: 1935, The Spectator:
text: A teapot moulded in the form of Madonna, tastefully hand-coloured, named md dated (doubtless a century from now to be deemed to be some sort of religious vessel)? What else might we expect our afterbears to love and cherish in times to come?
ref: 1988, Punch:
text: Of the two lakes, the upper is the flood risk, the lower alder-overgrown, heterodox, once a clear expanse for winter village kids to frisk about, skating, sliding: the afterbears of silk throwsters.
ref: 2009, Michael Kilby, More from Mephistopheles:
text: And so, like all its forebears and afterbears, like everything but his present bear, the photo-exposé idea curled up and croaked.
ref: 2011, Michael Griffith, Trophy: A Novel:
glosses: A descendant; one who comes after another genealogically.
aparejoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aparejo
nonresins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonresin
Tebeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tevet, a month in the Jewish calendar.
Tebet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tevet.
afterbears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterbear
hilals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hilal
reigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reigner
bialtitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bialtitudes
Etymology: From bi- + altitude.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A perpendicular to two opposite edges of a tetrahedron.
bialtitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bialtitude
villagize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: villagizes
form: villagizing
form: villagized
form: villagized
Etymology: From village + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To subject to villagization.
villagized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of villagize
villagizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of villagize
villagizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of villagize
orthocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -centric.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having all three pairs of opposite edges perpendicular.
raw_tags: of a tetrahedron
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a set of four points in the plane, one of which is the orthocenter of the triangle formed by the other three.
skiffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
quarrying
glosses: Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
examples: text: Early reactions show that the time may be right for a heavy and profitable barrage of skiffling.
ref: 1957 May 20, Ren Grevati, “One The Beat”, in Billboard, page 151:
text: But soon to eclipse even his hearty singing and skiffling were the new groups; rhythm and blues bands which were fast metamorphosing into rock'n'roll bands.
ref: 2010, Derek Ansell, The Little House in Highbury, page 152:
text: You could say many of the lads were into skiffling, and the careers of evergreen Cliff Richard and many others incidentally started off from skiffle bands and eventually reached superstardom .
ref: 2014, W Smyth, Mama OM, page 105:
glosses: Playing skifflemusic.
skiffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skiffle
knaidels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knaidel
zeptobarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeptobarn
seamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaming
wisehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *wishode, wishede (“wisdom”), equivalent to wise + -hood. Cognate with Dutch wijsheid (“wisdom”), German Weisheit (“wisdom”).
Senses: examples: text: In two fliort words all wisehood's understood; […]
ref: 1783, A collection of the most esteemed farces and entertainments
text: "[…] Is counsel perished from the prudent ? — hath their wisehood vanished?"
ref: 1853, David Hoffman, Chronicles selected from the originals of Cartaphilus:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being wise; wisdom.
superiorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superiorships
Etymology: From superior + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The monastic role or position of superior.
superiorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superiorship
evacuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evacuator
tendrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tendriled
Etymology: From tendril + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having (a specified number or kind of) tendrils.
handmaidenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From handmaiden + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a handmaiden; also the role of a handmaiden.
inseparabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inseparability
Rennellese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rennellese
form: most Rennellese
Etymology: From Rennell + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Rennell Island.
Rennellese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rennell + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Polynesian language spoken in the Rennell and Bellona Province of the Solomon Islands.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Rennellese terms
saganaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɑɡəˈnɑki/
ipa: /ˌsæɡəˈnɑki/
ipa: /ˌsæɡəˈnɑːki/
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek σαγανάκι (saganáki, literally “little frying pan”), diminutive form of σαγάνι (sagáni, “double-handled pan”), from Turkish sahan (“dish, pan”), from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).
Senses: examples: text: We had discovered a mutual appreciation for saganaki, that artery busting, salt laden, fried goat's cheese.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1:
glosses: Any of various Greek dishes cooked in a small frying pan, especially an appetizer of pan-seared cheese.
anaglyphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaglyphic
woodchipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From woodchip + -ed.
Senses: examples: a woodchipped path
glosses: Covered with woodchip.
icedrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icedrakes
Etymology: From ice + drake.
Senses: examples: text: Rearing back its awesome spined and crested head, the icedrake roared — in challenge, maybe, or in scorn of the little scraps of humankind who cowered beneath the shadow of its wings […]
ref: 1987, Peter Morwood, The Dragon Lord, Daw Books, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A dragon which breathes ice or has a freezing body temperature.
icedrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icedrake
canicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canicide
pseudorecombinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudorecombination
pseudorandomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorandomizations
Etymology: From pseudo- + randomization.
Senses: glosses: The generation of pseudorandom values
scenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scenical
form: most scenical
Etymology: From scene + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically.
ref: 1837, Thomas De Quincey, “Revolt of the Tartars”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: Dated form of scenic.
outcropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcrop
outcouples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcouple
ralliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rallier
delistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delistable
form: most delistable
Etymology: From delist + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for being delisted.
nail varnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail varnishes
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic lacquer applied to the fingernails or toenails.
Synonyms: nail polish
nail varnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail varnish
gop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒp/
ipa: /ɡɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian го́п (góp).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gopnik.
synonyms: word: gopnik
good riddance to bad rubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪd(ə)ns tə ˌbæd ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdns tə ˌbæd ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
ipa: /-ˈɹəbɪʃ/
Forms: form: good riddance of bad rubbish
Etymology: Possibly an elaboration of good riddance, contrasting the word good with bad, and using the word rubbish to form an alliteration with riddance.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e should really look upon this author's [Samuel Jackson Pratt's] departure from the world of literature as a good riddance of bad rubbish; [...]
ref: [1805 June, [Tobias George Smollett], “Art. VII.—Harvest Home: Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings, Original Dramas, and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends, and Select Republications; including Sympathy, a Poem, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, from the Eighth Edition. By Mr. Pratt. 3 Vols. 8vo. 1l. 11s. 6d. Phillips 1805. [book review]”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (Series the Third), volume V, number II, London: […] J. Mawman, […]; and sold by J. Deighton, […]; Hanwell and Parker, and J. Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 199:
text: [W]e have simply emanations falling back again upon their source, and as in the Kabbalah and with the Buddhist, a longing for peace in rest and eternal sleep—a re-absorption, and in fact annihilation as the end most devoutly to be wished; in fact the getting quit of ourselves as a very good riddance to bad rubbish, and which is actually the sum and substance of the pervading idea of the Buddhist religion.
ref: [1866], Charles Bray, “Upon that which Underlies all Phenomena”, in On Force, Its Mental and Moral Correlates; and on That which is Supposed to Underlie All Phenomena: With Speculations of Spiritualism and Other Abnormal Conditions of Mind, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, →OCLC, page 60:
text: It was not seen as good riddance to bad rubbish, but it was welcome news in many quarters.
ref: 2009, Oliver Akamnonu, “Mungeruun at Birth and Maturity”, in Nation of Dead Patriots—An African Nation’s Dilemma, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: An act of getting rid of someone or something whose departure is welcomed.
lip liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip liners
Senses: glosses: Makeup used to outline the outer edge of the lips, generally to fill in uneven areas and create a smooth shape after applying lipstick.
Synonyms: lip pencil
lip liners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lip liner
intergluteal cleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intergluteal clefts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum.
intergluteal clefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intergluteal cleft
baggage check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggage checks
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: the part of a boarding pass, or a separate stub, that identifies the passenger's baggage and permits it to be collected at the destination.
intergluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intergluteal
form: most intergluteal
Etymology: From inter- + gluteal.
Senses: glosses: Between the buttocks.
Derived terms: intergluteal cleft
squailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squailers
Etymology: From squail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They [the boys] all had catapults and squailers […]. In summer they used to go fishing and bird-nesting.
ref: 1962 [1939], George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz, page 56 (in Penguin edition):
glosses: A weighted stick used to throw, usually at small animals.
Related terms: squail
too clever by half
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had a damnable suppleness and a gift of immediate response, a readiness to oblige, that made him seem to take up causes which he really left lying, enabled him to learn enough about them in an hour to have all the air of having converted them to his use. . . . He was at all events too clever by half, since this pernicious overflow had wrecked most of his attempts.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, chapter XLVII, in The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
text: The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius.
ref: 1914, E. W. Hornung, chapter 8, in The Crime Doctor:
text: Historians generally agree that Roosevelt was too clever by half, and that he miscalculated badly in assuming that he had the political muscle to alter the size of the Court.
ref: 1993 March 21, Robert Dallek, “Roosevelt Unbound”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Still, the thing about being just a little too clever by half is that it tends to catch up with you.
ref: 2011 April 28, David Prosser, “Did Barclays' own executives see the bank coming?”, in The Independent:
text: As Combet pointed out in 2009, that sort of too-clever-by-half politicking can get you into trouble. It can sink the boat you really want to sail.
ref: 2017 October 20, Katharine Murphy, “At least for once, don't let politicking kill off a workable energy policy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: plan; theory; plan; theory
glosses: Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful.
raw_tags: of a person
occupationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more occupationless
form: most occupationless
Etymology: From occupation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There are fewer occupationless Englishmen abroad, but there is a fair supply—half-pay officers, consumptives, and mysterious creatures, who have no good reason for being there.
ref: 1913, F. M. Mayor, chapter X, in The Third Miss Symons:
glosses: Having no occupation; jobless; idle.
negative space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative spaces
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The space around and between the subjects of an image.
negative spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative space
orchestrelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestrelles
Senses: examples: text: He had the orchestrelle moved to Dublin, although it was no small undertaking, for he needed the solace of its harmonies; […]
ref: 1912, Albert Bigelow Paine, chapter CCXXXV, in Mark Twain, A Biography: Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A player organ designed to mimic the sound of an orchestra, manufactured and used from the late 19th century to early 20th century.
orchestrelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchestrelle
vedder
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: […] Und I dink der drouble iss largely dot der modern, high-bressure cifilization makes for der abnormal, vedder a man iss a millionaire or vorks in der brewery, contentment iss a state off der mind—und if der mind vorks mit logic it vill content find in der simple dings."
ref: 1914, Bertrand W. Sinclair, chapter XXXIV, in North of Fifty-Three:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of whether.
vedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, sare," said the concierge, "the season end suddenly mit the bad vedder at the beginning of the veek. […]
ref: 1903, E. W. Hornung, chapter XII, in No Hero:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of weather.
tin bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin baths
Senses: glosses: A bathtub made from galvanised iron.
glosses: A bath filled with molten tin, used in the manufacture of glass.
glosses: A bath made of tin.
pewful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pewfuls
form: pewsful
Etymology: From pew + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: (On these two pewsful you will not wonder at me refraining from looking a second time.) Around and beneath sat many an aged, many an experienced saint, to give edification to whom seemed less becoming than to receive it from them; many a friend in whose converse I had delighted; many a companion of my youth; many an erring fellow man, to all of whom I in my weaknesss was now to speak—and on what subject?
ref: 1850, Thomas P[orteous] Callender, Memoir of the Late Rev. Thomas P. Callender, Missionary to Jamaica. With a Selection from His Pulpit Discourses., Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Sons; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; Glasgow: David Robertson, page 9:
text: At St. Ann’s, Soho, Canon Gregory was preaching for the schools, and I saw no decorations; but the fact was I had lost my bearings, and furtively opened a door which brought me suddenly face to face with whole pewsful of people; so I beat a quicker retreat than even from a suspicious pew-opener or supercilious beadle.
ref: 1871 December 25, “Christmastide at the Churches”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 5,159, London, page 2:
text: The scanty congregation, who had been sitting, stolidly immobile in their stiff, Sunday clothes, shuffled to their feet, and the pewful of school-children, in clamorous chorus, intoned the final hymn.
ref: 1896 July, Hubert Crackanthorpe, “Anthony Garstin's Courtship”, in The Savoy:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a pew.
pewfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewful
Urbaniste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Urbanistes
form: Urbanist
Etymology: The tree was found in the garden of the Urbanistes monastery in Mechelen, Belgium.
Senses: glosses: A variety of large pear.
Urbanistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urbaniste
ambrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambrette
guardants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardant
vedroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vedro
vedros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vedro
theosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:theosophist.
glosses: plural of theosopher
trenchful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenchfuls
form: trenchesful
Etymology: From trench + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.
ref: 1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, T. Fisher Unwin, page 490:
text: Whole trenchesful of victims have been found by the Bulgarians.
ref: 1912 November 18, “Severe Setback For Bulgarians By the Turks and Report Is Verified; Frightful Atrocities Are Being Committed By Servians and Greeks, and British Guarding American Ambassador”, in Owensboro Daily Inquirer, volume XXVIII, number 91, Owensboro, Ky., page one:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a trench.
trenchfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trenchful