cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
folkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folkly
form: most folkly
Etymology: From folk + -ly. Compare Old English folclīċ (“concerning the whole people; public; national”).
Senses: glosses: Of or belonging to the folk.
Synonyms: popular
notifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From notify + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being notifiable
featously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more featously
form: most featously
Etymology: From featous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
text: Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.
ref: c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001:
glosses: Attractively, beautifully.
forespell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forespells
form: forespelling
form: forespelled
form: forespelled
form: forespelt
form: forespelt
Etymology: From fore- + spell. Compare Dutch voorspellen (“to predict”).
Senses: examples: text: The single boat, locus of misunderstanding about the loaves by a single group, is developed in two directions: Jesus' boat forespells the ability to understand the feeding sign, while the Tiberias boats forespell the opposite.
ref: 2004, Ian D. Mackay, John's Relationship with Mark:
text: The wind seemed to forespell my doom as it gusted into the room, blowing out half the candles in the circle, and sending the spray of rose petals around us dancing into the far corners of the room.
ref: 2010, Katie MacAlister, A Girl's Guide to Vampires - Page 19:
text: [...] in the idea and the practical ideal of Europe, that of a harmonious unity of the life of nations with its sources in the rational spirit, has been undermined," did Husserl not forespell what was to befall Europe from 1939-1945 and afterwards?
ref: 2012, R.P. Buckley, Husserl, Heidegger and the Crisis of Philosophical Responsibility - Page 4:
text: We cannot easily forespell the precise cost effects of this delay of substitution possibilities. It depends not only on the estimated consumption volumes of new drugs and the price differentials between branded original drugs and generic drugs, [...]
ref: 2013, H.W. de Jong, Progress in Intercalation Research - Page 254:
glosses: To spell in advance; foretell; make a warning about something upcoming; tell or indicate beforehand; predict
Synonyms: presage
Enbilulugugal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: One of the three aspects of the god Enbilulu, as the power presiding over growth and abundance.
nocturlabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nocturlabes
Senses: glosses: An instrument for navigation, or telling the time, at night, by measuring the position of stars relative to the pole star
sudden deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sudden death
Ghengis Khan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Genghis Khan.
Ebbs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A municipality in Kufstein district, Tyrol, Austria.
Doren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dören.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
antiprogressivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antiprogressive + -ism or anti- + progressivism.
Senses: glosses: antiprogressive attitudes generally
ephelcystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐφελκυστικός (ephelkustikós), from its use in νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν (nû ephelkustikón, “movable nu”, literally “dragged-in nu”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to the movable nu.
Derived terms: ephelcystic nu
movable nus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of movable nu
seedlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedline
seedline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedlines
Etymology: From seed + line.
Senses: glosses: A familial line of descent that can be traced to a certain seed.
chronoamperometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chronoamperometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, chronoamperometry.
elephant gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant guns
Senses: examples: text: Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A large-calibre firearm capable of killing an elephant or other big game.
Related terms: Nitro Express
elephant guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant gun
Paropamisus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paropanisus
form: Paropamisadae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Paropamīsus, from Ancient Greek Παροπάμισος (Paropámisos).
Senses: glosses: An ancient region and satrapy in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan, ruled by the Greeks around the time of Alexander the Great and later ceded to Chandragupta Maurya.
glosses: A mountain range in Afghanistan.
Synonyms: Paropamisadae
Paropanisadae
Paropamisadae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paropanisadae
Etymology: From Latin Paropamisadae, from Ancient Greek Παροπαμισάδαι (Paropamisádai).
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
historical-demography
glosses: The people of Paropamisus in ancient Afghanistan.
Paropamisadae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paropanisadae
Etymology: From Latin Paropamisadae, from Ancient Greek Παροπαμισάδαι (Paropamisádai).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Paropamisus.
synonyms: word: Paropamisus
bicolours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicolour
novendial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin novendiālis.
Senses: glosses: Lasting nine days, especially in relation to the period of mourning for a Pope.
raw_tags: of a religious ceremony
novendial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novendials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin novendiālis.
Senses: glosses: A religious ceremony that lasts nine days, especially the period of mourning for a Pope.
glosses: A funeral ceremony held by the Ancient Romans nine days after the burial.
talk shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk show
lighthanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lighthanded
form: most lighthanded
Senses: examples: text: Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose,all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.
ref: 2013, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf, →ISBN:
text: The trip was to be a short one this time, and he was going lighthanded, leaving behind him the necessities of life as represented by American articles of diet.
ref: 1909, Annie Laurie Adams Baird, Daybreak in Korea: A Tale of Transformation in the Far East, page 113:
text: The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods lighthanded.
ref: 1860, William Peter Strickland, Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, page 351:
glosses: Alternative form of light-handed.
Carrying very little.
examples: text: See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair
Is, hair of the head, numbered.
Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould
Will have waked and have waxed and have walked in the wind what while we slept, […]
ref: 1882, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Golden Echo”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 57:
text: He must go lighthanded to whatever it was that impended.
ref: 1919, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 191, Issues 49-52, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of light-handed.
In a light-handed manner.
Strathspey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹæθˈspeɪ/
ipa: /stɹaθˈspeː/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: An adaptation of Scottish Gaelic Srath Spè.
Senses: glosses: The area encompassing the upper part of the strath (valley) of Scotland’s River Spey in Highland council area, from its source in Loch Spey to the strath’s capital, Grantown-on-Spey.
Synonyms: Speyside
Derived terms: strathspey
Related terms: Speyside
urbarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɝˈbɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: urbaria
Etymology: Borrowed from German Urbarium, from Urbar.
Senses: glosses: A medieval register of the land ownership of an area.
urbaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urbarium
potter's clays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potter's clay
FCVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FCV
butterfly valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly valve
gate valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate valves
Senses: glosses: A valve that is opened by lifting a round or rectangular gate or wedge out of the path of the fluid.
gate valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate valve
chemotaxonomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + taxonomical.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chemotaxonomic.
synonyms: word: chemotaxonomic
space dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dyeing technique that uses a mordant to produce multicolored yarn.
Related terms: space-dyed
rastrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rastrum
infracostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: extracostal
intercostal
intracostal
subcostal
supracostal
glosses: Below (inferior to) a rib or the ribs.
infraduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraductions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
infraductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infraduction
ingluvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ingluvies + -in.
Senses: glosses: A digestive substance resembling pepsin, obtained from the gizzards of fowls, employed as a digestant and to relieve vomiting in pregnancy.
iniad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inion + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: While the vaulted crania, as has been already noticed, sink iniad, the crania of Bovines, which are flattened over the palate, rise to an inial elevation of one half the basilar length.
ref: 1855, The transactions of the Linnean Society of London:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the inion.
inspirometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inspirometers
Etymology: From inspire + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the force, frequency, or volume of the inspirations in breathing.
inspirometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspirometer
intercadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + cadence.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The occurrence of an extra beat between the two regular pulse beats; extreme dicrotism, interpolated extra-systole
Related terms: intercadent
intercanalicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + canalicular.
Senses: glosses: Between canaliculi.
hypermineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermineralized
form: most hypermineralized
Etymology: From hyper- + mineralized.
Senses: glosses: Highly mineralized.
Related terms: hypermineralization
hypermineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hyper- + mineralized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypermineralize
intercerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From inter- + cerebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the two cerebral hemispheres.
interchondral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + chondral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between cartilages.
intercristal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cristal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between two crests, as for example between the crests of the ilia, designating one of the pelvic measurements.
interhemicerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːbɹəl
Etymology: From inter- + hemicerebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the cerebral hemispheres.
hemicerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From hemi- + cerebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a cerebral hemisphere.
Derived terms: interhemicerebral
hypermineralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mineralization.
Senses: glosses: The state of being, or process of becoming, hypermineralized.
haxx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nobody is that good! He must have been using haxx!
glosses: Alternative spelling of hax.
Related terms: doxx
-maxx
palaeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From palaeographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleographically.
paleoichthyological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + ichthyological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeoichthyological.
Palaeo-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Palaeo- + Indian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Paleo-Indian.
palaeolimnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleolimnological.
paleoichthyologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoichthyologists
Etymology: From paleo- + ichthyologist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeoichthyologist.
paleoichthyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + ichthyology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeoichthyology.
paleoichthyologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoichthyologist
rassclaat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rassclaats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raasclaat.
participational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more participational
form: most participational
Etymology: From participation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to participation.
pee pee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee pees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pee-pee.
pee pees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee pee; alternative form of peepees
MILFdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From MILF + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Our inner feminist tells us that MILFdom is not a solution but rather a self-destructive form of female-chauvinist piggery, to borrow Ariel Levy's term: Are today's mothers really so afraid of seeming past their prime that they accept objectification as a compliment?
ref: 2007, Em & Lo, "Of MILF and Men", New York, Volume 40, page 193
text: After all, there must be more than MILFdom to aspire to for women who see no contradiction between their roles as mothers and as sexual beings — something with more life, juice, verve, variety, possibility, and power in it.
ref: 2008, Ellen Sussman, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 176:
text: With the help of some MILFs who've “been there, done that,” I've pulled together some tips, advice and strategies to help you on your way to total MILFdom.
ref: 2011, Sarah Maizes, Got Milf?: The Modern Mom's Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great, and Rocking A Minivan, Berkley Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The status or quality of being a MILF.
Related terms: DILFdom
gastroplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroplasties
Etymology: From gastro- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical operation to correct any kind of defect in the stomach
gastroplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroplasty
gastrorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrorrhaphies
Etymology: From gastro- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: glosses: The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
glosses: gastroplication
gastrocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: a gastrocutaneous fistula
glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the stomach and skin.
Derived terms: gastrocutaneous syndrome
gigantoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigantoblasts
Etymology: From giganto- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: A large erythroblast, or nucleated red blood corpuscle.
gigantoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigantoblast
come in use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes in use
form: coming in use
form: came in use
form: come in use
Senses: glosses: To enter usage; to begin being used.
germiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cultivation of microbes.
gitalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A glucoside obtained from digitalis.
erythrochromia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + chromia.
Senses: glosses: Redness in the eyeballs.
gayle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Puerperal septicemia in sheep.
glosses: A skin lesion, accompanied by swelling, occurring in those who have handled the bodies of sheep that have died from gayle.
gelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gelate
gelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gelate
gelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gelate
genetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In process of time, by studying the symptoms in life and the lesions after death, we may be able to resolve genetous idiocy into some new or old classes.
ref: 1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On idiocy and imbecility, page 43:
glosses: Congenital.
gliomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glioma + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive development of the neuroglia, especially of the spinal cord, in certain cases of syringomyelia
Derived terms: gliomatosis cerebri
Related terms: gliomastoma
gliomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gliomatous
form: most gliomatous
Senses: glosses: Affected with, or of the nature of, glioma.
nucleus globosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: A mass of grey matter between the fastigatum and the embolus in the cerebellum.
Synonyms: globulus
bloodvessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodvessels
Senses: examples: text: But there can be very little doubt, I conceive, of a bloodvessel having burst in the head, which caused a gradual effusion of blood, and proved fatal; since in this case there was not time for inflammation causing fatal effusion to have taken place.
ref: 1837, Alexander Watson, A medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence, etc, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of blood vessel.
bloodvessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodvessel
glossocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glosso- + -cele.
Senses: examples: text: Inflammatory glossocele must be combated by antiphlogistics.
ref: 1845, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, page 338:
glosses: Swelling or edema of the tongue, with consequent extrusion of the organ.
glossograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossographs
Etymology: From glosso- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for recording the movements of the tongue during speech.
glossographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossograph
guttatim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɡʌˈteɪtɪm/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin guttātim.
Senses: examples: text: It used to come on in a gush also guttatim.
ref: 1882 January 2, Brojendro Nath Banerjee, “Two cases of hydrorrhoea gravidorum”, in The Indian Medical Gazette, page 15:
text: Boil a few c.c. of the solution gently in a test-tube, add guttatim 6–8 drops of the urine, boil gently for a moment only.
ref: 1910, Charles Lyman Greene, Medical diagnosis, page 355:
synonyms: dropmeal
dropwise
glosses: Drop by drop; one drop at a time.
Related terms: guttate
gut-tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: ileus occurring in horses or cattle
gummose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gummose
form: most gummose
Etymology: From gum + -ose.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: gummy; yielding or consisting of gum
guaiacolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaiacolates
Etymology: From guaiacol + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A combination of guaiacol with a base.
gum resins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gum resin
guaiacolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guaiacolate
glossoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glosso- + -plegia.
Senses: examples: text: If so, how can it be admitted that a lingual paralysis, or rather a glossoplegia, in cases of brain disease, depends on the destruction or alteration of conductors or cells employed in the production of voluntary movements in the tongue?
ref: 1878 February 2, C. E. Brown-Séquard, “The Psysiological Pathology of the Brain”, in The Lancet, volume 1, page 154:
glosses: Paralysis of the tongue.
glucase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucases
Etymology: From glucose + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that converts starch into glucose.
Derived terms: endoglucase
overballast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overballasts
form: overballasting
form: overballasted
form: overballasted
Etymology: From over- + ballast.
Senses: glosses: To load with too much ballast.
overballasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overballast
overballasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overballast
overballasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overballast
glycerose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyceroses
Etymology: From glycero- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: triose
glyceroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerose
gnathion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathions
form: gnathia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνᾰ́θος (gnắthos) + -ion.
Senses: synonyms: menton
glosses: A craniometric point, being the lowest part of the middle line of the mandible.
Derived terms: endognathion
Related terms: gnatho-
goitrigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From goitre + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Causing goitre.
gonaduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonaducts
Etymology: From gonado- + duct.
Senses: glosses: The excretory duct of a reproductive gland; an oviduct or a seminal duct.
gonaducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonaduct
multifannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fannish.
Senses: examples: text: Gotcha beat, my husband and I have 4. He's much more the Trek fan, while I'm multifannish. but SW is my first love.
ref: 2005 January 28, Angel, “Re: Is sex between Star Wars fans and Star Trek fans allowed?”, in rec.arts.startrek.current (Usenet):
text: Some fans enjoy the individualised discourse of blogs like LiveJournal that permit ‘multifannish [multifandom] interaction’ and more personal conversation; others dislike it for the same reasons (Busse & Hellekson 2006, p. 15)
ref: 2010, Nicola Santilli, “Online Publishing: (Anime) Fan fiction and identity”, in Journal of Digital Research & Publishing, volume 3, number 1, page 43:
text: It is multifannish and built on open-source archiving software designed and built by and for fans.
ref: 2011, Lynn Zubernis & Katherine Larsen (quoting an Archive of Our Own policy page), Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012), page 19
glosses: Encompassing or participating in multiple fandoms.
Synonyms: multifandom
gonagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γονάγρα (gonágra, “gout in the knee”). Compare gon-.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: gout in the knee
Related terms: podagra
grainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grainages
Etymology: French grainage.
Senses: glosses: The selection and storage of cocoons in sericulture.
gt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gtt
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin gutta (“drop”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: drop (as a measurement in medical prescriptions)
overrotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrotates
form: overrotating
form: overrotated
form: overrotated
Etymology: From over- + rotate.
Senses: glosses: To rotate too far.
Related terms: overrotation
overrotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + rotation.
Senses: glosses: excessive rotation
Related terms: overrotate
overrotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrotate
overrotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrotate
overrotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrotate
gentleman's C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman's Cs
form: gentlemen's Cs
Senses: examples: text: As a scholar, he was content to squeak by, passing his courses with a "gentleman's C" and an occasional B.
ref: 1992, Russell Freedman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 20:
text: I always got the same grade: a C. It was not a "gentleman's C," it was just a C.
ref: 2007, Thomas F. Bayard, No Cats in Vietnam: The Memoir of a Straightleg Engineer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: An academic pass grade unfairly awarded to an otherwise failing student because of social advantages, such as a privileged family background.
orphanotrophium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanotrophia
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin orphanō̆trophīum, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανοτροφεῖον (orphanotropheîon).
Senses: glosses: A kind of orphanage in ancient times.
Related terms: orphanotrophism
orphanotrophy
morotrophium
orphanotrophia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphanotrophium
orthogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to orthogenesis.
glosses: Relating to a school or education system for children with emotional or mental disorders.
oroclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orocline + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an orocline.
cosmovision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmovisions
Etymology: From cosmo- + vision.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: cosmology
glosses: The cosmic worldview of a society or civilization.
Related terms: cosmos
cosmovisional
cosmovisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmovision
Joe Citizen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical average or generic citizen; the man on the street.
overrecover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrecovers
form: overrecovering
form: overrecovered
form: overrecovered
Etymology: From over- + recover.
Senses: examples: text: Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]
ref: 1997, Federal income tax issues arising in connection with proposals to restructure the electric power industry, page 36:
glosses: To recover more money than was actually owed.
Related terms: overrecovery
overrecovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrecover
overrecovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrecover
overrecovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrecover
overrecovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrecoveries
Etymology: From over- + recovery.
Senses: examples: text: Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]
ref: 1997, Federal income tax issues arising in connection with proposals to restructure the electric power industry, page 36:
glosses: The recovery of more money than was actually owed.
Related terms: overrecover
overrecoveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrecovery
overbeaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + beam + -ing.
Senses: topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: The extension of the radiographic beam beyond the detectors, so as to avoid penumbral effects at the outer edges.
Related terms: overranging
overscanning
cavolo nero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkavələʊ ˈnɛːɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌkɑvəloʊ ˈnɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɛɹəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cavolo nero (literally “black cabbage”).
Senses: synonyms: black kale
dinosaur kale
Italian kale
lacinato
palm tree kale
Tuscan kale
glosses: A cultivar of kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) with dark blue-green leaves, traditionally used in Tuscan cuisine.
outwandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwander
outwandering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outwanderings
Senses: examples: text: Like Rindfleisch, he was able to produce the outwandering of the nucleus by the addition of physiologic salt solution to fresh blood, and he considers that at least in the embryonal blood the outwandering of the nucleus occurs only artificially.
ref: 1905, Hermann Nothnagel, Nothnagel's encyclopedia of practical medicine, volume 9, page 55:
glosses: A wandering outward.
outwanderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outwandering
ounging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Burmese [Term?].
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: The process of assisting logs in their downstream motion by pushing them through the water.
moundsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moundsmen
Etymology: From mound + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).
ref: 2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A man employed to dig pits and erect mounds as reference markers for surveys.
moundsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moundsman
multistratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Divided into multiple layers.
Related terms: bistratified
monostratified
tristratified
unistratified
unistratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monostratified.
synonyms: word: monostratified
maître d' butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of herbed butter made with parsley and served with steaks, etc.
mundowie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mʌnˈdəʊ.i/
Forms: form: mundowies
Etymology: Perhaps from Dharug manuwi, or Awabakal manduwaŋ.
Senses: qualifier: hunting and tracking
glosses: A footprint.
scar tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scar tissues
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of tissue found in animals containing a higher than normal amount of the protein collagen formed in a place where an injury has healed.
examples: text: So many people's lives have many broken relationships that have left behind psychological scar tissue.
ref: 2010, Kevin Leman, Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage, page 32:
glosses: The long-term psychological consequences of a negative event.
museumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: museumizes
form: museumizing
form: museumized
form: museumized
Etymology: From museum + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To preserve or memorialize, as if in a museum.
Synonyms: museumify
museify
Related terms: museumization
museumization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From museum + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of museumizing.
Synonyms: museumification
museification
museumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of museumize
museumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of museumize
museumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of museumize
Musqueam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌskwiəm/
Senses: examples: text: The xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Indian Band has gifted a new name to a street in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood — Musqueamview Street in English and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm in the Nation's hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language. […] yəχʷyaχʷələq (Wayne Sparrow), chief of the Musqueam First Nation, spoke at a ceremony that saw Trutch Street renamed to Musqueamview Street in Vancouver on Sept. 30.
ref: 2022 September 30, Akshay Kulkarni, “Musqueam Nation gives gift of new name for Vancouver's former Trutch Street”, in CBC News:
glosses: A First Nations group in the Canadian province of British Columbia that speaks the Salishan language known as Halkomelem.
Petzval lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petzval lens
light-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹhăn'd(ĭ)d-nĕs
Forms: form: lighthandedness
Etymology: From light-handed (adjective) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being light-handed.
Related terms: word: light-handedly
lighthandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lighthanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light-handedness.
light-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: ē
enpr: lītʹhăn'd(ĭ)d-l
Forms: form: more light-handedly
form: most light-handedly
form: lighthandedly
Etymology: From light-handed (adjective) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: glosses: In a light-handed manner.
Related terms: word: light-handedness
lighthandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lighthandedly
form: most lighthandedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light-handedly.
peat pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peat pots
Senses: glosses: A plant pot made of compressed peat moss and other materials, capable of being planted in its entirety without the need to transplant the contents.
peat pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peat pot
peat mosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peat moss
spheronisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spheronization.
spheronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of pellets into spheroids
Related terms: spheronize
pedunculated oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedunculated oaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedunculate oak.
pectinibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of pectinibranchiate.
synonyms: word: pectinibranchiate
pectinibranchous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of pectinibranchiate.
synonyms: word: pectinibranchiate
porosimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porosimetry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to porosimetry.
Derived terms: porosimetrically
porosimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From porosimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of porosimetry.
danwei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɑːnˈweɪ/
Forms: form: danweis
form: danwei
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 單位／单位 (dānwèi).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese state-run socialist work cooperative, institution, organisation or government department
Synonyms: work unit
danweis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danwei
posthippie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hippie.
Senses: examples: text: And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
ref: 2010, Andy Bradley, Roger Wood, House of Hits, page 206:
glosses: After the era of the hippies.
posteriad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From posterio- + -ad.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In a direction toward the posterior.
big game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears. It comes two years after the government pledged to introduce a ban.
ref: 2021 December 10, Jamie Grierson, “British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Any large animal(s) hunted for sport.
Related terms: elephant gun
Nitro Express
trophy hunting
plantation mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantation mentalities
Etymology: Referring to US plantations historically tended by teams of slaves.
Senses: glosses: A mentality according to which an organization or society is divided into a ruling elite and a class of workers treated as inferior, especially along racial lines.
plantation mentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantation mentality
Aida cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aida cloths
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: aida
Aida
Java canvas
qualifier: embroidery
glosses: An open-weave, even-weave fabric with a natural mesh, traditionally used for cross-stitch embroidery.
Aida cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aida cloth
playshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playshops
Etymology: Blend of play + workshop, from the contrasting meanings of "work" and "play".
Senses: glosses: An informal workshop (interactive group session).
playshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playshop
tetrachloropalladates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrachloropalladate
platoon system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platoon systems
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A method of sharing playing time, whereby two players are selected to play a single defensive position.
play-play
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Reduplication of play, influenced by Malay grammar (Malay main-main), or a calque of Mandarin 玩玩 (wánwan).
Senses: examples: text: Don't play-play hor.
translation: Don't play around, alright?
english: Don't play around, alright?
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text: […] Don’t play play... This is not your basic luxury condo. […]
ref: 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene iv:
glosses: To mess around, to play around; to take things lightly.
play-play
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more play-play
form: most play-play
Etymology: Reduplication of play, possibly influenced by Afrikaans speel-speel.
Senses: examples: text: They’re at the age when they want more than just a play-play watch.
ref: 1989 December, Edgars Christmas Catalogue:
glosses: Fake, toy, make-believe
phyllodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyllodium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a phyllodium.
phosphorylative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phosphorylation.
algesiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algesiometers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of algometer.
synonyms: word: algometer
algesiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algesiometer
molluscacide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molluscacides
Etymology: From Mollusca + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of molluscicide.
molluscacidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of molluscicidal.
molluscacides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molluscacide
Eurogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eurogenic
form: most Eurogenic
Etymology: From Euro- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Originating in Europe.
Mongolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mongolizes
form: Mongolizing
form: Mongolized
form: Mongolized
Etymology: From Mongol + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Mongolian.
Related terms: Mongolization
Mongolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mongol + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of Mongolizing.
Mongolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Mongolize
Mongolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mongolize
Mongolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Mongolize
money clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money clip
epideixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: epideictic rhetoric
lilyhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lilyhanded
form: most lilyhanded
Senses: examples: text: A postscript artfully tells of Tristram's marriage to Iseult the Lilyhanded.
ref: 1954, Nathan Comfort Starr, King Arthur today: the Arthurian legend in english and American Literatur 1901-1953, page 112:
text: "Don't treat me as if I took your Robert Edmond Jones for a lilyhanded idler breathing mists," writes Virginia Tracy
ref: 1957, The theatrical immage, page 175:
text: He is a moochy cove, a maundering bard: he does not like to be in all these business deals, but she does most of the work and the money keeps him lilyhanded while he "creates"
ref: 1974, Christina Stead, The Salzburg tales, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of lily-handed.
fawn lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fawn lily
trout lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trout lily
blackjack oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackjack oak
crunk&B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of crunk + R & B.
Senses: glosses: A music genre combining elements of crunk and R & B.
dog's tooth violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog's tooth violets
Senses: glosses: Erythronium dens-canis.
dog's tooth violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog's tooth violet
monimostyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνιμος (mónimos, “fixed in place”) + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: union of the quadrate and squamosal, not permitting movement
Derived terms: monimostylic
Related terms: bistylic
amphistylic
hyostylic
autostyly
Mongolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mongolists
Etymology: From Mongol + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Mongolia, the Mongolic languages or Mongolian culture.
Derived terms: Mongolistics
Mongolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongolist
archconfraternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archconfraternity
archsodalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archsodality
momsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momsies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mumsy (“mother; mom”).
momsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momsy
Monache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Mono people of California.
pickupable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pick up + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being picked up.
jackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jack + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being lifted with a jack.
molybdoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molybdoprotein
McOndo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A combination of Mc- (from the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain) and Macondo, name of a fictional town in the novels of Gabriel García Márquez. Coined as the title of a 1996 short-story anthology by Chilean writers Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez.
Senses: glosses: A Latin American literary movement that breaks from magical realism and counters it with the strong, ideological associations of the cultural and narrative languages of the mass media, and with the modernity of urban living.
Absurdistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From absurd + -stan, originally to refer deprecatingly to countries in the former Eastern Bloc, alluding to names such as Turkmenistan, Afghanistan etc.
Senses: glosses: Any country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.
rentier state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentier states
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: A state that derives all or much of its national revenue from the rent of indigenous resources to external clients.
rentier states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rentier state
mob stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Intensive grazing by a large group of animals intentionally confined to one portion of land.
Moloney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moloneys
Etymology: Variant of Maloney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: Moloney's mimic bat
Moloney's mimic bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moloney's mimic bats
Etymology: Named after British colonial administrator Cornelius Alfred Moloney.
Senses: glosses: Mimetillus moloneyi, a species of vesper bat found in Africa.