cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sarcophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcophagic
form: most sarcophagic
Etymology: From sarco- + -phagic.
Senses: examples: text: At all events, the sarcophagic and stercophagic insects are attracted to their food chiefly, if not entirely, by odour.
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, “Sense of Olfaction in Lower Animals”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., pages 28–29:
glosses: Meat-eating.
Synonyms: carnivorous
stercophagic
-phagic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪd͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -φαγία (-phagía), combining form of φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”), infinitive aorist of ἐσθίω (esthíō, “I eat”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form adjectives from prefixes, to denote diet types
middling sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middling sorts
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary: ever since the decline of the music halls, theatre had been the purview of the middling sort—even when the subject matter was ostensibly proletarian.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Movement”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: The upper ranks thought the middling sort were greedy, obsessed with making money, virtuous enough, but lacking taste, elegance and culture.
ref: 2015, Keith Linley, ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in Context: The Politics of Passion, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: The rise of a middling sort of people is regarded as one of the most significant historical developments in early modern Britain, and an extensive historiography has been devoted to defining this social group.
ref: 2019, Tawny Paul, The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
synonyms: middling class
glosses: The middle class, especially in 18th-century Britain.
anniv.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annivs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anniv.
stercophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stercophagous
form: most stercophagous
Etymology: From sterco- + -phagous.
Senses: synonyms: coprophagic
stercophagic
glosses: Dung-eating.
non-technical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: It is therefore the more surprising that recent articles in the non-technical press have repeated some of these misleading statements and statistical comparisons.
ref: 1941 March, “Notes and News: Underestimating the Enemy's Strength”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:
text: So right away, even the simplest definition of capacity presents a non-technical trade off, between headway and journey time, not that that's much of a problem in practice.
ref: 2019 October, William Barter, “West Coast capacity study”, in Modern Railways, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of nontechnical.
int it
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnt‿ɪʔ/
/ˈɪnʔ ɪʔ/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of isn't it.
Finder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Finders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Finder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
tick a lock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticks a lock
form: ticking a lock
form: ticked a lock
form: ticked a lock
Senses: examples: text: “Tick-a-lock,” he pronounced; all the while twisting his fingers about his lips, and further all the while holding to his constant, dramatic, and overly-serious stare over me.
ref: 2012, C. David Murphy, A Diary's House:
text: When Lesnar comes back, either at WWE Survivor Series 2012 or on a future program, he just needs to tick a lock.
ref: 2012 November 15, Bill Atkinson, “Brock Lesnar: Why WWE Should Never Allow Him to Cut Long Promos”, in Bleacher Report:
text: Exaggerate the “tick a lock” symbol on your lips and press the palms of your hands down toward the floor as a reminder to Madame Celine if she babbles on incessantly in her thick, French Canadian accent, bickering to her beloved husband, Rene, about their trio of boys-will-be-boys sons and her recurrent professional fears that a) she only takes home one award at the Grammy's next year, and b) she contracts tonsillitis and suffers a bout of subsequent prolonged laryngitis.
ref: 2013, Kathleen Gerard, How to Become a Bodyguard for Celine Dion's Larynx:
glosses: To keep quiet or keep a secret.
ticks a lock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tick a lock
ticking a lock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tick a lock
ticked a lock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tick a lock
hot wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot washes
Senses: examples: text: Everyone is accustomed to taking time to do a "hot wash," which happens during the action, or a "cold wash," which is done immediately after the action is completed.
ref: 2000, John A. Woods, James W. Cortada, The 2001 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook, page 385:
text: A debrief (for facilitators or controllers/evaluators) and/or hot wash (for players) should occur following both discussion- and operations-based exercises.
ref: 2006, McCormick Taylor, Transportation Security:
text: In the “hot wash” meeting after the exercise the participants agreed that cellular phones would be excluded from all future exercises and actual responses to prevent this limitation of information (Edwards and Goodrich, 2006).
ref: 2007, Frances L. Edwards, Friedrich Steinhäusler, NATO And Terrorism, page 76:
text: Key postevent activities include debriefing, hot wash, and evaluation (USDHS, 2013).
ref: 2015, Sharon Stanley, Thola A. Bennecoff Wolanski, Designing and Integrating a Disaster Preparedness Curriculum:
glosses: Alternative form of hotwash.
glosses: The act of washing laundry in hot water, or the setting on a washing machine for such a wash.
hot washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot wash
Wrazen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wrazens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ozæna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozænas
Senses: examples: text: The fœtor, as we say, was subjective, not objective, in which respect it differed from that of another historical personage, Benjamin Disraeli to wit, who was the subject probably of the disease known as ozæna.
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, “Smell in Folk-Lore, Religion, and History”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., page 78:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of ozaena.
ozænas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozæna
beperfumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beperfumed
form: most beperfumed
Etymology: From be- + perfume + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I mean the natural atmosphere of the person, of course, not the artificial airs that surround and envelop the beperfumed modern lady.
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, “Smell and the Personality”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., page 87:
glosses: Wearing perfume, having had perfumed applied to
Related terms: perfumed
dihydrohydroxyfuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydrohydroxyfurans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical derivative of furan, with two extra hydrogen atoms and a hydroxy group.
kalen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalens
Senses: glosses: The second month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.
ipomeanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Ipomoea + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diketone derivative of furan, produced by Ceratostomella fimbriata, a mold that grows on sweet potato, 1-(furan-3-yl)pentane-1,4-dione
malonamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malonamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The conjugate base of malonamic acid, 3-amino-3-oxopropanoate. It can exist as an ion or a salt.
malonamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical derived from malonic acid, with a carboxylic acid group converted to an amide, 3-amino-3-oxopropanoic acid
Charwat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Charwats
Etymology: From Czech Charvát (“Croat”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
high on the totem pole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Derived from totem poles, traditional sculptures of wood made by American Indians, usually with several figures carved one above the other. The vertical order was mistakenly perceived by the non-Indians to correspond with the figures' rank of importance.
Senses: glosses: Accorded relatively high importance.
Harvat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harvats
Etymology: From Czech Charvát (“Croat”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ukrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ukrops
Etymology: From Russian укро́п (ukróp, “dill plant; Ukrainian person (pejorative)”), used in Russian slang due to the word's similarity to Украи́на (Ukraína, “Ukraine”).
Senses: examples: text: The troll wasted many hours calling other users "ukrops" simply because they were Ukrainians.
synonyms: khokhol
glosses: A Ukrainian person.
sodding off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sod off
sodded off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sod off
got busy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get busy
gotten busy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get busy
ultrainfiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ultrafiltration.
unadaptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + adaptability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unadaptable
undenominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + denominated.
Senses: glosses: Not denominated
unilimbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + limbate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single edge or border
unlumenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lumenized.
Senses: glosses: Not lumenized
gets busy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get busy
benzoquinolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzoquinolone
benzoquinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzoquinolones
Etymology: Formed as benzo- + quinoline + -one
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle containing a benzene ring fused to a quinolone, alternately it can be considered a ketone derived from a benzoquinoline
vanillotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanillotoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of peptide neurotoxins present in the venom of Psalmopoeus cambridgei
vanillotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanillotoxin
ventrocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventro- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: ventral and cephalic
videokymographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From video- + kymographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to videokymography
videokymographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From video- + kymographically.
Senses: glosses: In a videokymographic manner
viscerosensorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + sensorial.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of viscerosensory.
synonyms: word: viscerosensory
wavegram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavegrams
Senses: glosses: A visual representation of laryngographic analysis of the voice
wavegrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavegram
wollamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wollamides
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antimycobacterial cyclic hexapeptides present in a soil microorganism in Wollogorang, Australia
wollamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wollamide
wormiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vermiform.
xyloglucosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a xyloglucoside
zoliflodacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea
zonulopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonulopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease or other condition associated with a zonule
borazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borazole
borazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: borazine (a six-membered ring of alternating NH and BH) or a compound derived from it.
mannonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic acid derived from oxidation of carbohydrate, D- enantiomer: (2S,3S,4R,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid
Derived terms: mannonate
halitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halitoxins
Etymology: From the genus name Haliclona.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic mixture of 3-alkylpyridinium polymeric salts found in Haliclona sponges.
approvee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approvees
Etymology: From approve + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: I am convinced that later comparisons of cost to budgets are most effective when there is an abiding trust between the approver and the approvee.
ref: 1987, John Richard Hoskins, Mineral Industry Costs, Northwest Mining Association, page 16:
text: Approval depends on the approver, not on anything the approvee does.
ref: 1993, Robert Farrar Capon, The Mystery of Christ, page 115:
text: The request will only be honored by the approver (person approving the request), if he or she has the public key of the approvee (person requesting the approval).
ref: 2004, Jesudoss Venkatraman, Vijay Raghavan, Debabrata Das, Asoke K. Talukder, “Trust and Security Realization for Mobile Users in GSM Cellular Networks”, in Proceedings of the Second Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC 2004), Springer, page 307:
glosses: One who is requesting approval from an approver; one who receives approval.
Related terms: requester
approvees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approvee
Zebulon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Pike County, Georgia, United States, named after Zebulon Pike.
glosses: A town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States, named after Zebulon Baird Vance.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
-anine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ane + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Chemical suffix denoting a substance (usually an alkaloid or amine) derived from a particular base, often a plant or amino acid.
siffilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: siffilates
form: siffilating
form: siffilated
form: siffilated
Senses: examples: text: But before Smallbones was summoned, he had time to whisper to one or two of the conspirators "He's gone." It was enough; in less than a minute the whisper was passed throughout the cutter. "He's gone!' was siffilated above and below, until it met the ears of even Corporal Van Spitter, who had it from a marine.
ref: 1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow; Or, The Dog Fiend:
glosses: To whisper or to hiss softly.
Amharism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amharisms
Senses: examples: text: There is an Amharism here, due to confusion. The first word ought to be awreočči.
ref: 1977, Robert Hetzron, The Gunnän-Gurage Languages:
synonyms: Amharicism
glosses: An expression or characteristic peculiar to the Amharic language.
Amharisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amharism
booking office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booking offices
Senses: examples: text: The NYMR [North Yorkshire Moors Railway] runs the booking office in Whitby, selling national rail tickets alongside those for the steam services.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
text: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
synonyms: ticket office
glosses: A place where tickets are sold, e.g. at a railway station or theatre.
Related terms: english: for cinema and theatre
translation: for cinema and theatre
word: box office
booking offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booking office
cliff face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff faces
Senses: examples: text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
text: Commencing next summer, 30,000 tonnes of cliff face will be removed, and mesh-and-bolt caging installed on a three-mile section to stabilise the surface and prevent rock falls.
ref: 2021 October 20, “Network News: £25m to reduce Newport landslips”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8:
glosses: The very steep, vertical, or overhanging section of rock, earth, or ice slope usually free of any vegetation or loose material.
ala mode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a la mode.
tooth and tong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tooth and tong
form: most tooth and tong
Etymology: Blend of tooth and nail + hammer and tongs
Senses: examples: text: In 1935, I think it was, when a number of Senators and Congressmen introduced grain alcohol bills similar to the one Senator Mundt and I have introduced—but we are told those bills were fought tooth and tong by the oil interests, hence never became law.
ref: 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Situation and Farm Programs:
text: Mrs. Meier, wife of the under sheriff at the jail, turned against me. And Duane West is one of my bitterest enemies. And they were sort of working tooth and tong.
ref: 1973, Denis Brian, Murderers and Other Friendly People:
text: The old guard is fighting his economic reforms tooth and tong.
ref: 1991, Richard Herman, Firebreak, page 71:
glosses: Presenting a vigorous and unified opposition.
crunchy-gravel drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crunchy-gravel dramas
Etymology: A reference to the graveled drives and paths on old estates
Senses: examples: text: PBS Masterpiece's acclaimed crunchy gravel drama series Downton Abbey now has a final season premiere date.
ref: 2015 August 1, James Hibberd, “'Downton Abbey' final season gets US premiere date”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.
ref: 2015 October 1, Hank Stuever, “In the hunt for a new favorite show, 'when' might be as crucial as 'what'”, in Washington Post:
text: Victoria is a co-production with Mammoth Screen, producer of crunchy gravel drama Poldark, and Endeavour, for ITV and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
ref: 2016 January 18, Lisa de Moraes, “Queen 'Victoria' Inherits 'Downton Abbey' Timeslot On PBS – TCA”, in Deadline:
text: Maggie and his sister discovered a shared love of British television, and what Maggie referred to as “crunchy-gravel dramas.”
ref: 2018, Holly Rayner, The Prince's Secret Baby:
glosses: A genre of drama that is set in a grand manor or estate during the 18th, 19th, or early 20th century.
crunchy-gravel dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunchy-gravel drama
pass the mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes the mantle
form: passing the mantle
form: passed the mantle
form: passed the mantle
Etymology: A reference to a mantle worn as a symbol of office or authority.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, there are a few noteworthy examples of intentional multigenerational projects, in which the senior ethnographers pass the mantle, as it were, to new researchers who then take responsibility to sustain the project into the future.
ref: 2002, Robert V. Kemper, Anya Peterson Royce, Chronicling Cultures: Long-term Field Research in Anthropology:
text: The young girls who came of age during the Progressive era were reaping the benefits of a century of struggle waged by their mothers and grandmothers — the clubwomen had negotiated an entrance into public life, and they now hoped to pass the mantle on to the next generation.
ref: 2014, Gwen Tarbox, The Clubwomen's Daughters:
text: Then, for unknown reasons, the last Lung king didn't pass the mantle to a son or daughter, but to the chieftain of the Wonambi.
ref: 2015, Caitlyn McFarland, Shadow of Flame:
glosses: To transfer authority to the next in line; pass the torch.
passed the mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass the mantle
passes the mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass the mantle
passing the mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass the mantle
Janite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Janites
Senses: examples: text: And in the sect—fairly large and yet unusually choice—of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.
ref: 1894, George Saintsbury, Pride and Prejudice, London: George Allen, Preface, page ix:
text: The process of "straightening Austen out" thus transpired within an institutional framework determined to discredit the authority of Janite reception by repositioning her novels within heteronormative cultural codes.
ref: 2001, James L. Machor, Philip Goldstein, Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, page 77:
text: “So you are a Janite, too! But how fortunate. Right over there,” he so forgot manners as to use his fork for a pointer, “lies Northanger Abbey.”
ref: 2014, Andre Norton, Snow Shadow:
glosses: Alternative form of Janeite.
Janites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Janite
put a bug in someone's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts a bug in someone's ear
form: putting a bug in someone's ear
form: put a bug in someone's ear
form: put a bug in someone's ear
Senses: examples: text: All in all, the preparation of Seuils had put a nasty bug in my ear that was to bear all its fruit only ten years later—if bugs can bear fruit—and not without intermediate phases.
ref: 2005, Gärard Genette, Essays in Aesthetics, page 13:
text: Ginger Rogers had definitely put a bug in Pan's ear about the movies for, after he was fired from Top Speed, Hermes decided to try his luck earning a living on the West Coast.
ref: 2012, John Franceschina, Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire, page 33:
text: You've been putting a nasty bug in Sheriff Doogie's ear, haven't you? Or maybe he put a bug in your ear. I understand the two of you are thick as thieves.
ref: 2014, Laura Childs, Scorched Eggs:
text: He was so insistent on this point that a friend she mentioned it to put a bug in her ear. Why not head home without calling, just to see what was really going on.
ref: 2014, Charles Lachman, Footsteps in the Snow, page 246:
glosses: To make a small suggestion or give a hint that causes the listener to act.
puts a bug in someone's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put a bug in someone's ear
putting a bug in someone's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put a bug in someone's ear
camphrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more camphrous
form: most camphrous
Etymology: From camphor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: …aromatic, including as sub-classes camphrous, herbaceous, anisic and thymic, citronous, and the bitter almond group…
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, “Sense of Olfaction in Lower Animals”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., page 102:
synonyms: camphoraceous
glosses: Of, relating to, similar to, or containing camphor.
vanillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪlə(ɹ)/
homophone: vanilla (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more vanillar
form: most vanillar
Senses: examples: text: But here, also, the coupling of vanillar with ethereal odours seems a little inappropriate.
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, “Sense of Olfaction in Lower Animals”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., page 103:
synonyms: vanilla
glosses: Of vanilla.
raw_tags: of flavor
race feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race feelings
form: race-feeling
Etymology: Calque of German Rassengefühl, from Rasse (“race”) + Gefühl (“feeling”).
Senses: examples: text: there is what is called the race feeling, by which is meant the natural antipathy between races of different coloured skins—a feeling which, however manifestly unreasonable, is difficult to overcome.
ref: 1879, Monier Williams, Modern Indian and the Indians, Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and Essays, 3rd edition, London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, page 176:
text: We cannot help fearing that the opportunity is being taken to make capital out of race feeling by nursing it into race antipathies.
ref: 1885 August 10, “Race Differences”, in The Montreal Daily Witness, page 4:
text: His race feeling is so strong that he seems to prefer Islam when taught by blacks to Christianity when brought by whites
ref: 1888 September, George Lansing Taylor, “The New Africa:—III. Its Destiny”, in Methodist Review, page 704:
synonyms: racial feeling
glosses: Love of one's own race, or hatred of other races.
actinobacteriophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinobacteriophages
Senses: glosses: The bacteriophage of an actinobacterium
actinobacteriophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinobacteriophage
adipocytolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of adipocyte + cytolysis
Senses: glosses: The cytolysis of adipocytes
agrohabitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrohabitats
Etymology: From agro- + habitat.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An agricultural habitat
agrohabitats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrohabitat
akentrogonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akentrogonids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Akentrogonida
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic barnacle of the order Akentrogonida
akentrogonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akentrogonid
algesiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That produces algesia
alphaflexivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphaflexiviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the family Alphaflexiviridae
alphaflexiviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphaflexivirus
aminochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminochrome
light o' love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lights o' love
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light-o'-love.
soyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪl
Senses: examples: text: But if that countrey of Ireland, whence you lately came, he of so goodly and commodious a soyl
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
text: the manurement of Wits is like that of Soyls, where before either the pains of Tilling, or the charge of Sowing, Men uſe to consider what the mould will bear, Heath or Grain.
ref: 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of soil.
bakfiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakfiets
Etymology: Rebracketing of bakfiets, misinterpreting the final -s as a plural marker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bakfiets.
ground frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground frames
form: groundframe
Senses: examples: text: Before long, this box will be installed nearer Grosmont (NYM) level crossing to permit control of the crossing gates (presently hand-worked) and to replace the eight-lever ground frame which currently operates the pointwork.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
text: At the western [actually eastern] end of the line, operation of the ground frames at Grosmont and Whitby for NYMR [North Yorkshire Moors Railway] services is time-consuming: if we could speed that up, we'd improve track occupancy. Motorising points is quite easy to do.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbot, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A lever frame controlling the operation of points and/or signals which is installed at ground level.
wikipedia: Ffestiniog Railway
ground frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground frame
anisochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + isochronic.
Senses: glosses: Not isochronic
anthropedoturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthro- + pedoturbation.
Senses: glosses: Any pedoturbation due to human activity.
anthroponotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an anthroponotic manner
antileishmanicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antileishmanial.
glosses: Misspelling of leishmanicidal.
apoenzymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + enzymatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to apoenzymes
apohemoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apohemoproteins
Etymology: From apo- + hemoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The apoprotein of a hemoprotein
apohemoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apohemoprotein
apotransaminase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apotransaminases
Etymology: From apo- + transaminase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The apoenzyme of a transaminase
archaeobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archaeo- + biology.
Senses: topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The biological aspects of archaeology
Related terms: archaeobiological
archaeobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to archaeobiology.
Hutzel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hutzels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hutzel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
archaeopalynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From archaeo- + palynology.
Senses: glosses: archaeological palynology
Related terms: archaeopalynological
archaeopalynological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + palynological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeopalynology
archaeophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeophages
Etymology: From archaeo- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: An archaeal phage
archaeophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeophage
argilluviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: The downward movement of clay in a soil profile by water.
azidopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azidopeptides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide that has an azide protecting group on the terminal amine
azidopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azidopeptide
euplantula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euplantulae
Etymology: From eu- + plantula.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A broadened variant of the plantula found on the lower surface of the middle tarsomere of an insect's leg which acts as a tarsal attachment point.
robo-debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robodebt
Etymology: From robo- + debt.
Senses: examples: text: Despite, or perhaps because of, the problems that emerged with the first iteration of robo-debt, the government has stepped up its reliance on data matching.
ref: 2019 September 17, Helen Hodgson, Robo-debt is only one way government stigmatises claimants, in The Conversation:
text: 2017 January 13, Justin Warren, “The atmospherics of the Centrelink robo-debt debacle”, in EigenMagic
If DHS actually paid people the money it owes them, the savings from this robo-debt fiasco would be reduced down to under $1 billion.
glosses: An automated process of debt recovery, especially that employed by Centrelink.
waiver wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiver wires
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: waivers
glosses: The mechanism by which players who have been released (waived) by teams are eligible to be hired by other teams.
waiver wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiver wire
Anusims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anusim
four-o'clock flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-o'clock flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four-o'clock.
four-o'clock flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-o'clock flower
four o'clock flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four o'clock flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four-o'clock flower.
four o'clock flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four o'clock flower
ohnolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ohnologs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ohnologue.
ohnologs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ohnolog
pyridinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyridinoline
bertam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bertams
Senses: glosses: bertam palm
bertams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bertam
for name's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in name only
erniettomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erniettomorph
vile vortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vile vortexes
form: vile vortices
Etymology: Coined by Ivan T. Sanderson.
Senses: examples: text: The Bermuda Triangle is the best-known vile vortex.
glosses: Any of a number of geographic areas, arranged in a pattern around the Earth, that are held to be the sites of unexplained disappearances and other mysterious phenomena.
wikipedia: Ivan T. Sanderson
vile vortexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vile vortex
vile vortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vile vortex
TMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trimethylamine N-oxide.
get one's load on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's load on
form: getting one's load on
form: got one's load on
form: got one's load on
form: gotten one's load on
Senses: examples: text: Everyone learned to stay away from him the morning after, as well as in the evening after he got his load on. But stone cold sober, he was still a mean son-of-a-bitch.
ref: 2007, John Maberry, Waiting for Westmoreland, page 89:
glosses: To get drunk.
give someone the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the air
form: giving someone the air
form: gave someone the air
form: given someone the air
Senses: examples: text: “The slick-haired dame's give him the air!” he says.
ref: 1927, Sunset, volume 59, page 64:
text: Mrs. Mac turned back toward downtown and I said, "What do you mean my girl gave me the air? […]
ref: 1946, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, page 24:
text: Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: To jilt or ditch a lover.
Hollywoodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hollywoodization.
synonyms: word: Hollywoodization
Hollywoodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hollywoodified
form: most Hollywoodified
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Hollywoodized; adapted to the norms and ideals of Hollywood.
Related terms: Hollywoodification
Popoviciu's inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Romanian mathematician Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975).
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular inequality about convex functions, similar to Jensen's inequality.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: An upper bound on the variance of any bounded probability distribution.
Jensen's inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Johan Jensen, the Danish mathematician who proved it in 1906.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An inequality that relates the value of a convex function of an integral to the integral of the convex function.
wikipedia: Johan Jensen
HCIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HCI
purpuromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin purpura (“purple”) + -mycin.
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic isolated from Actinoplanes ianthinogenes.
ohmic resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ohmic resistances
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That portion of the apparent resistance or impedance of a circuit which depends only upon the dimensions of the conductors, their temperature, and the materials of which they are composed.
cytophyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + phyletic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the genealogy of a cell.
cytophysiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cytophysiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of cytophysiology.
cytophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytophysiologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies cytophysiology.
cytophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytophysiologist
'Arryism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From 'Arry + -ism.
Senses: glosses: raucous cheerfulness
Porthmadog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Portmadoc
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5638)
placefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placeful
holidayism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holiday + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The tide of holidayism which came into Christianity with the Sunday has never been checked, even temporarily, by any other authority. Divine authority alone can make a Sabbath; whatever is less than that, cannot rise above holidayism.
ref: 1890, Annual Baptist Autumnal Conference for the Discussion of Current Questions, volumes 8-10:
text: And now, slain by their folly and error, these same Christian leaders sink willingly into holidayism, or wail in wondering weakness over the fact that they must reap what they and their ancestors have sown.
ref: 1922, The Sabbath Recorder, volumes 90-92, page 10:
topics: Christianity
antonyms: Sabbathism
glosses: The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a day off rather than a solemn religious occasion.
examples: text: We will now suppose it Wednesday, all sunshine and holidayism. The town overflowed with the human tide, but it was somewhat muddy: the million is the better of being filtered.
ref: 1847, Sporting Magazine, volume 10, page 241:
glosses: Holiday spirits; holiday cheer.
set one's watch by someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets one's watch by someone
form: setting one's watch by someone
form: set one's watch by someone
form: set one's watch by someone
Senses: glosses: To know the current time by observing a very punctual and reliable person going about their regular routine.
Related terms: like clockwork
wooden overcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden overcoats
Senses: examples: text: She had no religious education, had never seen the inside of a church until Granny put on the wooden overcoat.
ref: 1999, David Ireland, The chosen, page 176:
text: Instead we gathered, the five of us, around your wooden overcoat to cry and weep remembering how in childhood we made you promise not to die.
ref: 2009, Joanne Cucinello, The Moon is Still Yellow:
glosses: Alternative form of wooden coat.
wooden overcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden overcoat
heteronormalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of heteronormalizing.
Sabbathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sabbath + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.
ref: 1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, volumes 3-6, page 325:
text: As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.
ref: 1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity:
topics: Christianity
antonyms: holidayism
glosses: The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.
Bess bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bess bugs
Senses: synonyms: Bess beetle
Betsey bug
Betsy beetle
Betsy bug
glosses: Any of various beetles of the family Passalidae.
Bess beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bess beetles
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Passalidae of beetles.
Synonyms: Bess bug
Betsy bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betsy bugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bess bug.
synonyms: word: Bess bug
Betsy beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betsy beetles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bess bug.
synonyms: word: Bess bug
Bess bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bess bug
Bess beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bess beetle
Betsy bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betsy bug
Betsy beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betsy beetle
Rhymney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rhymni
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Caerphilly borough county borough, South Wales (OS grid ref SO1107).
glosses: A river, the Rhymney River in Caerphilly borough county borough, which has its source near the town and which flows through the Rhymney Valley to the Bristol Channel at Cardiff.
Derived terms: Rhymney Bridge
biportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + portal.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, bilateral biportal access is necessary for anterior column stabilization when a minimally invasive posterolateral approach is employed (see Chapter 5).
ref: 2007, Parviz Kambin, Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spinal Surgery: Text and Atlas, page 55:
text: The introduction of a biportal approach allowed for direct visualization of instruments introduced through a cannula inserted into the disc from the opposite posterolateral portal.
ref: 2011, Harry N. Herkowitz, Steven R. Garfin, Frank J. Eismont, Rothman-Simeone The Spine E-Book: Expert Consult, page 1042:
glosses: Having or using two portals.
bipotentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bipotential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bipotential manner.
bipositionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + position + -ality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bipositional.
Fröhlich effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fröhlich effects
Etymology: Described by Friedrich W. Fröhlich.
Senses: glosses: A visual illusion wherein the first position of a moving object entering a window is misperceived.
Fröhlich effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fröhlich effect
flash-lag illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash-lag illusions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flash-lag effect.
synonyms: word: flash-lag effect
flash-lag illusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash-lag illusion
flash-lag effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash-lag effects
Senses: synonyms: flash-lag illusion
glosses: A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.
flash-lag effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash-lag effect
flash-fries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flash-fry
flash-frying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flash-fry
flash-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flash-fry
flash tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash test