cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutters
Etymology: From tut + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Unable to risk a desired visit to the sugar station in case of reprisals from the pre-caffeinated mob of tutters, my lack of sugar will be compensated by the sweetness of paying 50p less than the tutters for my latte.
ref: 2017, Richard O. Smith, Oxford Examined: Town & Clown:
synonyms: tutster
glosses: One who tuts (makes a tut sound in disapproval).
glosses: One who tuts (practices the dance style known as tutting).
sheathbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheathbill
cuke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cukes
Etymology: Clipping of cucumber.
Senses: examples: text: I finally figured out what is mating on my cukes: squash bugs.
ref: 2007 August 2, Anne Raver, “Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace”, in New York Times:
text: By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers[…]
ref: 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy:
glosses: A cucumber.
cuke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cukes
Etymology: Clipping of cucoloris.
Senses: glosses: A cucoloris.
cukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuke
muscadet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mʊskəˈdeɪ/
Forms: form: muscadets
form: Muscadet
Etymology: Borrowed from French muscadet.
Senses: examples: text: Unconventionally, he recommends a Loire red with fresh oysters, a dish the French customarily consume with muscadet, a piercing Loire white.
ref: 2007 July 22, Howard G. Goldberg, “Loire to Order: Offbeat Choice”, in New York Times:
glosses: A white grape grown chiefly in the Loire valley of France, or a dry white wine made from this grape.
muscadets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscadet
multitrack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭlʹtē-trăk′
ipa: /ˈmʌl.tiˌtɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: From multi- + track.
Senses: examples: text: Lush is the only word for Ulrich Schnauss’s “Goodbye” (Domino), an album that makes most multitrack pop confections sound spartan.
ref: 2007 July 15, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having or involving more than one track.
Recorded on multiple tracks.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: Having or involving more than one track.
Of a railway line: having multiple, parallel tracks.
Synonyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: multitracked
multitrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭlʹtē-trăk′
ipa: /ˈmʌl.tiˌtɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: multitracks
form: multitracking
form: multitracked
form: multitracked
Etymology: From multi- + track.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To record on multiple tracks simultaneously (typically with each performer or instrument having its own track)
adzebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adzebills
Etymology: From adze + bill.
Senses: examples: text: But other large birds were slaughtered – the flightless goose, an enormous rail now known as the adzebill, swans and pelicans, all of them, like the moa, exploited to the point of extinction after little more than 100 years.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 51:
glosses: Either of two bird species of the extinct family †Aptornithidae, once endemic to New Zealand.
Derived terms: North Island adzebill
South Island adzebill
adzebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adzebill
integrationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrationists
Etymology: From integration + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Instead the legal confrontation took place in the 1950s, when the Southern allegation “that integrationists were Communists” carried far greater resonance than it would have a decade earlier, and when “the power of the left to implement desegregation” — as Ms. Gilmore imagines it — no longer existed.
ref: 2008 January 4, David J. Garrow, “Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality”, in New York Times:
glosses: An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for greater equality.
Synonyms: desegregationist
egalitarian
Related terms: integrationism
multisectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + sectoral.
Senses: examples: text: As such, the triage process must take into account multisectoral (ie, water, food, sanitation, shelter, fuel, security) factors in making triage decisions.
ref: 2006, Frederick M. Burkle Jr., “Triage”, in Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Involving multiple sectors
Derived terms: multisectorally
megastores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastore
barebones
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then, as now, a mere 35 words – the barebones oath of the presidency – is all the U. S. Constitution actually requires.
ref: 2009 January 16, Mitch Potter, “U.S.A.'s ritual of democracy”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of bare-bones.
barebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barebone
ballclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballclubs
form: ball club
form: ball-club
Etymology: From ball + club.
Senses: examples: text: “I got hurt trying to help the ballclub win ballgames.”
ref: 2007 July 4, Todd Jones, “The Links Between Bonds and Griffey End When the Fans React”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball team.
bronchoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchoscopies
Etymology: From broncho- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: The center reported in May that its tests showed that Mr. Speaker had XDR-TB, based on cultures from a lung procedure, a bronchoscopy, at a hospital in Atlanta.
ref: 2007 July 4, Lawrence K. Altman, “Traveler’s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique for viewing the bronchi using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope.
Derived terms: bronchoscopical
bronchoscopist
fibrobronchoscopy
laryngobronchoscopy
laryngotracheobronchoscopy
tracheobronchoscopy
videobronchoscopy
Related terms: bronchoscope
bronchoscopic
ballclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballclub
blinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blinged
form: most blinged
Etymology: From bling + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.
ref: 2009 January 24, RICHARD OUZOUNIAN, “A winning Bette”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Showing a great deal of shiny jewelry.
Derived terms: blinged out
barrelhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrelheads
form: barrel head
form: barrel-head
Etymology: From barrel + head.
Senses: glosses: The head of a barrel, especially when the barrel has been stood vertically and its head thus serves horizontally like a tabletop.
Derived terms: cash on the barrelhead
barrelheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrelhead
beanbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanbrains
Etymology: From bean + brain.
Senses: examples: text: Food doesn't cease to exist merely because somebody swallowed it, beanbrain.
ref: 1988 August 12, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A stupid person; an idiot
beanbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanbrain
Navarino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Pylos, Greece.
glosses: A town and census-designated place in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
merlots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merlot
hok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoks
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans hok, from Dutch hok.
Senses: glosses: A kind of small hut.
hoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hok
phonosemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: phono-semantic
Etymology: From phono- + semantic.
Senses: glosses: Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese characters. (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to phonosemantics
Synonyms: determinative-phonetic
pictophonetic
semasio-phonetic
Derived terms: word: phonosemantically
word: phono-semantic compound
word: phonosemantic matching
alt: PSM
word: phono-semantic matching
Related terms: ideogrammic
mTOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mammalian target of rapamycin.
macroflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: macroflorae
Etymology: From macro- + flora.
Senses: glosses: plants that can be seen with the naked eye
Related terms: macrofloral
microflora
madtsoiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madtsoiids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct snake of the family Madtsoiidae
madtsoiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madtsoiid
Cass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Cais (“descendant of the curly-haired one”), from cas (“curly”).
Senses: examples: text: Most of the time, Anne Marie and Kathleen got along as well as any sisters six years apart would: Kathleen called Anne Annie, and Anne Marie called Kathleen Cass or Kate.
ref: 1999, Ann Rule, And Never let Her Go, Warner Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Cassandra of medieval origin, later also used for Cassidy, and Catherine with its variant forms.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Cassius.
glosses: A number of places:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
A census-designated place in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Cass Township.
glosses: A number of places:
A locality in Selwyn District, Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Thomas Cass.
Derived terms: Cass County
Cassopolis
Cassville
Related terms: Cassie
malhamensilipin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of chlorosulfolipids (such as hexachloro-14-hydroxy-tetracos-1-enol-1-sulfate) that inhibit protein tyrosine kinase.
maltopyranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltopyranosides
Etymology: From malto- + pyranoside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside formed from the pyranose form of maltose
Cassian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæsi.ən/
rhymes: -æsiən
Etymology: From Latin Cassianus, derivative of Cassius. Name of early saints.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
maltoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltosides
Etymology: From maltose + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside of maltose, but especially any of a class of such alkyl glycosides that are used as specialized detergents
Derived terms: decylmaltoside
isomaltoside
mangabey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangabeys
Etymology: So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them to be native.
Senses: glosses: Any of several large, arboreal Old World monkeys in the genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus.
wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Sharlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The name Sharlene sounds like a chemical, she thought. Aunt Gwen has no taste.
ref: 1968, Myron S. Kaufmann, Thy Daughter's Nakedness, Lippincott, published 1968, page 39:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Charlene.
mechanokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mechanical and kinetic
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Of or pertaining to mechanokinetics
mechanokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechano- + kinetics.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: The ability to cause movement (of artificial limbs etc) by means of the mind
Darla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːlə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English, a back-formation from Darlene.
tumpline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌmplaɪn/
Forms: form: tumplines
form: tump line
Etymology: From tump + line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.
ref: 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 2, in The Winds of Chance:
glosses: A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just above the forehead.
mechanosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From mechano- + sensory.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sensing of mechanical stimuli.
mechanotransducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanotransducers
Etymology: From mechano- + transducer.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any cell, etc. that generates a measurable response to mechanical stimulation.
mediational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediational
form: most mediational
Etymology: From mediation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mediation
Derived terms: mediationally
mediolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From medio- + lateral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both the medial plane and the side.
Synonyms: lateromedial
Derived terms: mediolaterally
mercaptoethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptoethanols
Etymology: From mercapto- + ethanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of ethanol with a thiol group, often specifically 2-mercaptoethanol, which is used in various organic chemistry applications including protein denaturation
mercaptoethanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptoethanol
megabreccia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabreccias
Etymology: From mega- + breccia.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very large breccia
metatheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛt.ə.θi.əˈɹɛt.ɪkl̩/
Etymology: From meta- + theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: OK – I can hear you objecting – I can see how this 'no crossing branches'
 constraint can be made to work mechanically, but what on earth is the point
 of it? Why should it matter whether branches can or cannot cross? A good
 question (if you asked it for the right reasons, and not just because you're be-
 ginning to get exasperated with Syntax!) Well, the motivation behind this con-
 straint is essentially as follows: on general metatheoretical grounds (the desire
 to develop a maximally constrained theory which provides a plausible basis
 for developing a model of language acquisition), we want to restrict the class
 of P-markers which qualify as 'possible natural language sentence-structures'
 as narrowly as possible, and rule out as many 'impossible' structures as we can.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 122:
text: In conclusion I will evaluate the gains achieved by formalising ITT from a metatheoretical point of view.
ref: 2008, Frieder Lempp, “The Logical Structure of International Trade Theory”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to metatheory, the theory of theories
Synonyms: theory-external
Derived terms: metatheoretically
Related terms: metatheory
mezuzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezuzah
megakaryocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From megakaryocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes
Derived terms: amegakaryocytic
erythromegakaryocytic
mitzvahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitzvah
megascale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megascale
form: most megascale
form: mega-scale
Etymology: From mega- + scale.
Senses: glosses: Extremely large-scale
megascale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-scale
Etymology: From mega- + scale.
Senses: glosses: A very large scale used, for example, in astronomy
megatechnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + technics.
Senses: glosses: Very large-scale technology.
melanocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanocytoses
Etymology: From melanocyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an excessive number of melanocytes.
melanogaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanogasters
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
merrillite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merrillites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium phosphate mineral found in some meteorites
mesoeucrocodylians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoeucrocodylian
mesoeucrocodylian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoeucrocodylians
Etymology: Mesoeucrocodylia + -an
Senses: examples: text: The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history.
ref: 2002 September 24, Ronald S. Tykoski, “Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 22, number 3, page 593:
text: For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001).
ref: 2005 June 24, James O. Farlow, “Femoral dimenstions and body size of Alligator mississippiensis: Estimating the size of extinct mesoeucrocodylians”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, number 2, page 354:
text: The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia.
ref: 2015, Gordon Grigg, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, page 43:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.
altitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altitudinous
form: most altitudinous
Etymology: From altitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: STIFFLY If you’re a Brahmin-caste member of the American aristocracy (or six degrees of separation away and want to look like one), Thom Browne delivers excruciatingly high-quality apparel at equally altitudinous prices.
ref: 2009 February 12, Cintra Wilson, “An Uneasy Hug From Thom Browne”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lofty; very high.
Derived terms: altitudinousness
crocodylomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocodylomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any crocodilian or extinct relative in the superorder Crocodylomorpha.
Derived terms: paracrocodylomorph
backcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backchecks
form: backchecking
form: backchecked
form: backchecked
Etymology: From back + check.
Senses: examples: text: Any time you've got a guy who can score 63 goals, let him, and find someone else to backcheck.
ref: 1984, Walter Gretzky, Charles Taylor, Jim Taylor, Gretzky : from the Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup, page 128:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
examples: text: 2004, Bruce Driver, Clare Wharton, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey, page 81:
A smart defensive player knows when to backcheck the puck carrier and when to backcheck to cover an open player.
Hockey has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to backcheck, particularly at the end of a sustained attack when the other team has suddenly come up with the puck and you are feeling exhausted.
ref: 1994, Jack Falla, Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way, page 134:
text: It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody.
ref: 2007 March 26, Lynn Zinser, “Rangers Stay Cool in Another Pressure-Filled Win”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
qualifier: quality control
glosses: To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).
Derived terms: backchecker
backcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backchecks
Etymology: From back + check.
Senses: examples: text: That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
text: Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.
glosses: The act of backchecking.
greenmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We know them as farmers and skilled craftspeople, with high standards and an unfussy sensibility that they bring to the barns they raise, the baked goods they sell at greenmarkets and the quilts and furniture they produce.
ref: 2009 February 12, Steven Kurutz, “Amish Space Heater: Is That an Oxymoron?”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of greenmarket
mesolimbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + limbic.
Senses: examples: text: “The mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal dopamine pathways are what the call the reward pathways, all right? They’re the ones that activate when we’re expecting or receiving a reward.”
ref: 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 154:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
Derived terms: corticomesolimbic
mesolimbic pathway
backchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backcheck
backchecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backcheck
backchecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backcheck
mesopallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesopallia
Etymology: From meso- + pallium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle part of the pallium
Hypernyms: pallium
Derived terms: caudomesopallium
mesopallial
Related terms: hyperpallium
nidopallium
pallium
subpallium
prunings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹuːnɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: Here lie the secrets of keeping African lilies blooming on the terrace from June to frost, how to grow primroses from seed, and how to build a fence out of willow prunings over a trench planted with petits pois, those tiny peas Marie Antoinette cooked herself, we are told, “in a silver saucepan with her own butter.”
ref: 2009 February 12, Anne Raver, “More Magic From an Enchanting Garden”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of pruning
mesostructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + structured.
Senses: glosses: Having a structure with dimensions intermediate between micro- and macro- levels
bisteeya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisteeyas
Senses: examples: text: When the recipe for the Moroccan pigeon pie bisteeya came out, it also entered my repertory for entertaining.
ref: 2007 April 8, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sweet and savory pie common in Moroccan cuisine, made with an outer layer of phyllo dough around a filling made of poultry, spices, and ground almonds
bisteeyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisteeya
beltline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beltlines
Etymology: From belt + line.
Senses: examples: text: He also envisioned a car with a high beltline and exaggerated forms that visually suggested power, and at the same time promised solidity and security.
ref: 2007 May 27, Phil Patton, “From a Bad Marriage, Pretty Babies”, in New York Times:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The imaginary line marking the upper end of the lower body of an automobile, running just below the bottoms of the windows
glosses: A beltway: a circular expressway around a city
Gervase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Name of an early saint, Latin Gervasius, of unknown meaning, possibly Latinized from some Germanic name: Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”), second element of uncertain meaning, possibly vallis (“valley”), Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”), or the Brythonic name for the river Isara.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, common in the Middle Ages but rare today.
Derived terms: Jarvis
Jervis
Jarvis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑːvɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑɹvɪs/
Forms: form: Jervis
Etymology: A surname derived from a Middle English form of Gervase.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A village in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
seersuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I appreciated a batch of candy-colored men’s seersuckers and linens, a semiwild flight of a remote-controlled fancy.
ref: 2009 February 12, Cintra Wilson, “An Uneasy Hug From Thom Browne”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of seersucker
Gervais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʒəˈveɪz/
/dʒəˈveɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gervais, from Latin Gervasius.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Pré-Saint-Gervais
metalacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metalacyclic
form: most metalacyclic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a cyclic compound that has one or more metal atom in the ring
metallacyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallacyclobutanes
Etymology: From metallo- + cyclobutane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of cyclobutane (or of a derivative) in which a methylene group has been replaced by a metal atom
Paterson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpætəɹ.sən/
Etymology: From a Middle English short form of Patrick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Benton County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A town in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A settlement in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
glosses: An electoral division in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Patterson
jasey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaseys
Etymology: Probably a corruption of jersey, itself named after the island of Jersey.
Senses: examples: text: Jaseys may be cheaper and more practical, but a real hair wig has more class.
glosses: A wig, originally made of worsted wool.
blockfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockfronts
Etymology: From block + front.
Senses: examples: text: The second stop is the 22-story Lucida, which fills the blockfront on Lexington Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets […].
ref: 2007 August 19, Suzanne Slesin, “Small or Large, Uptown or Down?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The buildings facing the street along an entire city block
blockfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockfront
beltlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beltline
turcas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turca
masas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masa
tralala
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tra-la-la.
infelicitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infelicitous + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed
Related terms: infelicity
hard science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard sciences
Senses: glosses: Any of the natural and physical sciences that use the scientific method and experiments to test theories. Examples include mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry and geology.
Coordinate terms: soft science
quasiscience
Derived terms: hard science fiction
Related terms: pure science versus applied science
natural science versus social science
hard sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard science
preemptive right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preemptive rights
form: pre-emptive right
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of shareholders to maintain a constant percentage of a company's shares by receiving a proportionate fraction of any new shares issued, thus preempting any dilution
inside jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside joke
V.O.F.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of void of fraction.
V.O.F.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of volume of fluid: used to model free-surface flows in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
transfer agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer agents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An entity designated by a publicly-traded corporation to keep track of the ownership of the corporation's stocks and bonds
transfer agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfer agent
briefers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːfəz/
ipa: /ˈbɹifɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of briefer
brickyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: brickyards
form: brick yard
form: brick-yard
Etymology: From brick + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Since Vanita was a child, the family has roamed the country in search of work — in construction and road-building, and finally, here to this brickyard.
ref: 2007 June 3, Somini Sengupta, “In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants”, in New York Times:
glosses: A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.
Synonyms: sense: place where bricks are made
word: brickworks
Coordinate terms: sense: commodity depots
word: coalyard
word: lumberyard
word: railyard
brickyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickyard
blousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblaʊsi/
/ˈblaʊzi/
Forms: form: blousier
form: blousiest
form: blousey
Etymology: From blouse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Here's the store where the women on televangelism programs must buy their dresses, simple, blousy, with padded shoulders, three-quarter-length sleeves, and lace collars.
ref: 1988 June 3, Bryan Miller, “Elsewhere: Jim and Tammy's Heritage”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Blousy tops thanks to a shipment of maternity gear from Addison's shoots help hide my faux belly from the rest of the staff, who sadly, must think I've just put on the pounds.
ref: 2016, Meghann Foye, Meternity, page 60:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blouse; loose, flowing.
blousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblaʊsi/
/ˈblaʊzi/
Forms: form: blousier
form: blousiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blowsy.
Derived terms: blousily
blouson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːzɔ̃ː/
ipa: /ˈbluːsɔ̃ː/
ipa: /ˈblaʊ̯zən/
ipa: /ˈblaʊ̯sən/
Forms: form: blousons
Etymology: Borrowed from French blouson.
Senses: examples: text: The mom, getting ready to leave, kisses the annoying woman goodbye, deliberately smearing the back of her snow-white blouson with orange Cheetos crumbs.
ref: 2009 February 9, Alessandra Stanley, “TV ads adjust to the recession”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waistband; a blouse jacket.
blueliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueliners
Etymology: From blue + liner, after blue line in hockey.
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday, hard-luck blueliner Mike Van Ryn was blasted into the end boards by Montreal forward Max Pacioretty and isn't expected to be available for a week or perhaps longer with a lower body injury.
ref: 2009 February 9, Damien Cox, “Leafs struggle to patch up blue line”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A defenceman
blurbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blurb
blousons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blouson
blurbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blurb
blueliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueliner
botanicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botanical
bootprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootprints
Etymology: From boot + print.
Senses: examples: text: Their bootprints turned to face the thicket of briar and bramble in exactly the same place mine had.
ref: 2009 February 11, Paul Evans, “Country diary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The impression left by a boot while walking
Related terms: footprint
shoeprint
boogieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boogie
boinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boing
boinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boing
boulevardier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdjeɪ/
ipa: /ˌbu-/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boulevardiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20:
text: The 19th century was the age of the flaneur and the boulevardier, figures who made strolling down Fifth Avenue or Broadway, often vividly attired, a fashionable activity worthy of their counterparts in Paris or London.
ref: 2007 August 19, Alex Marshall, “The Extreme Boulevardier”, in New York Times:
glosses: A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
examples: text: The boulevardier is a fun drink. Similar to the negroni, the boulevardier features bourbon as the spirit instead of gin for the negroni. To be clear, they are different drinks but at the same time similar.[…]
ref: 2018 September 1, Albert W. A. Schmid, How to Drink Like a Mobster: Prohibition-Style Cocktails, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:
text: Make no bones about it, if you were drinking a Boulevardier at Harry's in 1920, you were also drinking in a few hundred litres of smoke-filled air alongside it.[…]
ref: 2018 December 6, Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender Volume II: The New Testament of Cocktails, Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN:
text: On the revival menu: boulevardiers, martinis, Manhattans, negronis, old fashioneds and more.
ref: 2021 October 4, Patrick Evans-Hylton, Virginia Distilled: Four Centuries of Drinking in the Old Dominion, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 176:
text: "We're drinking Boulevardiers."
ref: 2022 June 28, Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise, Bywater Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An alcoholic drink similar to a negroni but made with bourbon instead of gin.
Synonyms: man about town
flaneur
Coordinate terms: mall rat
Related terms: bon vivant
dandy
boulevardier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdjeɪ/
ipa: /ˌbu-/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boulevardiers
form: boulevardiering
form: boulevardiered
form: boulevardiered
Etymology: Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....
ref: 1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739
text: It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.
ref: 1999 May 1, Bruce Dundore, “The Eagle Has Landed”, in Advertising Age:
text: For that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.
ref: 2010, Chris Moss, 1000 Great Holiday Ideas (Time Out Books) p. 110
glosses: To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
bootprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootprint
boulevardiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulevardier
bolter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒltə/
ipa: /ˈbəʊltə/
ipa: /ˈboltəɹ/
ipa: /ˈboʊltɚ/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bolters
Etymology: From bolt + -er.
Senses: examples: 1992 June, Bill Tarrant, Gun Dogs: Problems with a Hunting Pattern, Field & Stream, page 104,
Bolting can be one of the worst problems in dogdom to solve. We′ve all seen a bolter — or rather, we haven't seen him. We released him to hunt, and he was gone for the day, the week, the month. I′ve known of bolters to be gone for years.
glosses: A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
examples: text: Evidence is accumulating that bolters are plants which have changed their long-day habit to that of short-day.
ref: 1949, Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, published 2000, page 68:
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
examples: text: The bolter was basically a sheet or roll of wire mesh or cloth (most often canvas or linen, but sometimes silk or another fabric). The flour produced by the mill was fed through or over the device, which was shaken by a mechanism (several were possible) taking power from the drive train leading from the water wheel to the millstones.
ref: 1983, Terry S. Reynolds, Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel, page 138:
qualifier: flour milling
glosses: A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
glosses: A person who sifts flour or meal.
examples: text: This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale.
ref: 1920, Henry Palmer Westcott, Hand Book of Natural Gas, page 634:
qualifier: petroleum refining
glosses: A filter mechanism.
examples: text: Last year he was eliminated by the bolter Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and this time he was beaten by the shining star, Fernando Verdasco.
ref: 2009 February 2, Todd Woodbridge, “Only a few stars head home happy”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
topics: hobbies
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A horse that wins at long odds.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
examples: text: The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: "Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country."
ref: 2007, William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, page 149:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
glosses: A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.
bolters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolter
bolters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bolter
untheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untheatrical
form: most untheatrical
Etymology: From un- + theatrical.
Senses: examples: text: Some people claim that Beckett's plays have grown more and more untheatrical. I believe the opposite is true
ref: 1983, Charles R. Lyons, Samuel Beckett, page 13:
text: Mr. Brown’s work is an odd mixture of theatrical and untheatrical — even antitheatrical — elements in other aspects too.
ref: 2009 February 12, Alastair Macaulay, “Out of West Africa (via Brooklyn), From the Ground Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not theatrical; mundane; not staged.
catechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatɪt͡ʃɪn/
ipa: /ˈkæt.ə.t͡ʃɪn/
rhymes: -ætətʃɪn
Forms: form: catechins
Etymology: From catech(u) + -in. Compare catechol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavanol derived from catechol (2R,3S)-2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene-3,5,7-triol
Derived terms: epicatechin
isocatechin
flying squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying squads
Senses: glosses: A rapid-response unit of a police force.
awayday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awaydays
form: away day
Etymology: Originally a railway day-return ticket at a special price.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike one location of the 2019 comedy series Down from London, in which Kingsman and Graham Dickson starred as an odd couple trying to fix their relationship with awaydays, her home is not by the sea.
ref: 2022 November 27, Claire Armitstead, “Liz Kingsman: ‘Who is this woman who feels she can go on stage and make people laugh?’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
banjolele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæn.d͡ʒəˈleɪ.li/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: banjoleles
Etymology: Blend of banjo + ukulele
Senses: glosses: A four-stringed musical instrument with a small membrane-covered body like a banjo, with a neck fretted like a ukulele.
Synonyms: banjo uke
banjo ukelele
banjo ukulele
banjo ukelele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjo ukeleles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of banjo ukulele.
compensatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compensatable
form: most compensatable
Etymology: From compensate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of compensable.
synonyms: word: compensable
iroko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irokos
Etymology: From Yoruba ìrókò.
Senses: glosses: A hardwood obtained from several African trees, especially of the species Milicia excelsa.
examples: text: I was stuck high in the giant iroko tree that grew in the center of town.
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 15:
glosses: The tree itself.
nightbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightbirds
Senses: glosses: A bird of the clade Strisores.
examples: text: This bar was practically in my quartier and I had many times had breakfast in the nearby working man’s cafe to which all the nightbirds of the neighborhood retired when the bars closed.
ref: 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin Classics (2001), page 30:
glosses: Alternative spelling of night bird.
wretcheder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wretched: more wretched
wretchedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wretched: most wretched
overexcitement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overexcitements
Etymology: From over- + excitement.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being excessively excited.
vapourises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vapourise
paratroop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratroops
Etymology: From para- + troop.
Senses: glosses: A company of paratroopers.
paratroop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paratroops
form: paratrooping
form: paratrooped
form: paratrooped
Etymology: Back-formation from paratrooper.
Senses: glosses: To serve as a paratrooper.
peridomestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + domestic.
Senses: examples: text: The rat is a peridomestic animal.
glosses: Living in and around human habitations.
tiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiddlers
Senses: glosses: A small person.
glosses: A small fish, especially a stickleback.
Related terms: tiddly
lilliputian
munchkin
vapourising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vapourise
vapourised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vapourise
pipeworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipeworkers
Etymology: From pipe + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person who installs pipework (in factories, power stations etc)
vulgarer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of vulgar: more vulgar
ontosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onto- + -sophy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A comprehensive explanation for being (in contrast to merely a description of being, or a reason for being).
Our Lady of Sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Latin Māter Dolōrōsa (“Sorrowful Mother”) under influence from Domina Nostra (“Our Lady”) and their descendants in other languages.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
synonyms: word: Our Lady of Dolours
word: Sorrowful Mother
word: Mother of Sorrows
word: Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows
word: Our Lady of the Seven Dolours
word: Mary
word: mother of Jesus
word: in particular reference to her grief at the Christ's crucifixion
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her grief at the Christ's crucifixion.