cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neuroprosthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroprostheses
Etymology: From neuro- + prosthesis.
Senses: glosses: A prosthesis (such as a cochlear implant) used to improve the function of an impaired nervous system.
glosses: Any prosthesis that directly interfaces with the nervous system.
Related terms: electroneuroprosthesis
neuroprosthetics
unmeltability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + meltability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unmeltable.
neuroserpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroserpins
Etymology: From neuro- + serpin.
Senses: glosses: A serine proteinase inhibitor that is expressed in neurons during embryogenesis and in the adult nervous system
protistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From protist + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of protists.
Synonyms: protozoology
serpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpins
Etymology: Short for serine protease + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that inhibit serine proteases (especially trypsin)
serpinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpinopathies
Etymology: From serpin + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a type of disorders characterized by abnormal accumulation of serpins
visuomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visuo- + motor.
Senses: glosses: Relating to those motor activities that are dependent on visual coordination.
glosses: Relating to the movement of the eye.
mouth wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouth washes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mouthwash.
aftercataract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercataracts
Etymology: From after- + cataract.
Senses: glosses: A medical condition of clouding of the posterior lens capsule implanted in the eye in cataract surgery.
aftercataracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercataract
yapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: now less common than "yaupon"
glosses: Alternative form of yaupon.
don't do anything I wouldn't do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Behave properly; be well; said on parting
come to papa
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌm tə ˈpɑːpə/
ipa: /-pəˈpɑː/
ipa: /ˌkʌm tə ˈpɑːpə/
rhymes: -ɑːpə
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: come to Papa
Etymology: PIE word
 *ph₂tḗr
From come + to + papa (“familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father”), originally an invitation by a father for his child to come to him; later called out by gamblers when throwing dice to “invite” winning numbers.
Senses: examples: text: Cut loose, let your hair down, honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on, let's go
ref: 1962 August 30 and September 22 (dates recorded), Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper, “Relax”, in It Happened at the World’s Fair (soundtrack), performed by Elvis Presley, New York, N.Y.: RCA Victor, published 10 April 1963, →OCLC:
synonyms: come to daddy
come to mamma
glosses: Used to encourage someone or something to approach, or an event to occur.
stare someone in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stares someone in the face
form: staring someone in the face
form: stared someone in the face
form: stared someone in the face
Senses: examples: text: Then, one night you wake up with a start at 3 o'clock in the morning with the answer staring you in the face. Or maybe it hits you in the bath, like Archimedes, or while you're on the loo.
text: , Book I
The law […] stares them in the face whilst they are breaking it.
glosses: To be extremely visible and obvious to someone.
satiné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satinay
Etymology: From French satiné.
Senses: glosses: A hard reddish wood of French Guiana, a kind of satinwood.
outside back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside backs
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: a back whose primary job it is to exploit space created by the inside backs, i.e. the outside centre, both wingers, and the full back
openside flanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: openside flankers
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: a forward position in rugby union, usually number 7.
Synonyms: openside wing forward
Coordinate terms: blindside flanker
femme incomprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fam ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pʁiz/
ipa: /fam aŋkɒmˈpɹiːz/
Forms: form: femmes incomprises
Etymology: Borrowed from French femme incomprise (literally “misunderstood woman”).
Senses: examples: text: Strong laughed. “Oh, Miss Amory is a muse—Miss Amory is a mystery—Miss Amory is a femme incomprise.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXIII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: He posed as the horror of horrors—a misunderstood man. Heaven knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough—but the other thing!
ref: [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 63:
text: “That two-anna basket-hanger governed India, I swear I’d become a naturalised Muscovite tomorrow. I’m a femme incomprise. This thing’s broken my heart.“
ref: 1898 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Slaves of the Lamp II”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: A misunderstood or unappreciated woman.
backline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backlines
Etymology: From back + line.
Senses: examples: text: Havertz oozed class on the ball, looking every inch the high-end addition, while City knew that they had to find a way past N’Golo Kanté before they got at Chelsea’s miserly backline, which absorbed the loss of Thiago Silva to injury on 38 minutes.
ref: 2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of back line.
scrummager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrummagers
Etymology: From scrummage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their tighthead is a great scrummager, but is not very good in the loose.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: One who scrummages; usually used in reference to the qualities of front row forwards.
spasmogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spasmogens
Etymology: From spasm + -o- + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: When tested on rats, the compound was found to be a spasmogen.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A substance which induces spasms.
Derived terms: spasmogenic
Related terms: spasmolytic
spasmogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spasmogen
musculotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musculotropic
form: most musculotropic
Etymology: From musculo- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting on muscle tissue, particularly with a stimulating effect.
Derived terms: musculotropically
Related terms: neurotropic
osteotropic
psychotropic
musculotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musculotropics
Etymology: From musculo- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antispasmodic drug which acts upon muscle.
razorblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razorblades
Senses: examples: text: She was thinking now that it must be an elaborate plot: the president of the razorblade company had possessed a miraculous razorblade which had been in his family for generations and which not only renewed its sharpness every time it was used but also granted the shaver anything he wished for after every thirteenth shave...
ref: 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman:
text: The razorblade is screwed flat to a small block of wood.
ref: 1999, The Voice of the Crystal: How to Build Working Radio Receiver Components Entirely from Scratch, page 61:
text: Once the cut is made, it is helpful to leave the razorblade where it is and simply remove the dorsal portion of brain from the razorblade, leaving the ventral portion still touching the razorblade.
ref: 2001, Adam J. Rechs, Effects of Norepinephrine and Amino Acids on the Electrophysiology of the Anterior Piriform Cortex, page 83:
glosses: Alternative spelling of razor blade.
razorblade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: razorblades
form: razorblading
form: razorbladed
form: razorbladed
Senses: examples: text: Vandals, who couldn't get a Journal any other way, razorbladed Little Princesses sections out of reserved drugstore copies to the great indignation of the ultimate purchasers.
ref: 1968, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmar Gould, American Story, page 243:
text: Magazines found on tables at the end of the day might have articles neatly razorbladed out of them, or perhaps the editorialistic reader had written comments next to the text , expressing his or her opinion of the author's contentions.
ref: 1984, Bruce A. Shuman, River Bend Revisited: The Problem Patron in the Library, page 122:
text: "I knew a guy once who died that way," said Reid. "A Dorito razorbladed through the roof of his mouth and into his brain.
ref: 1997, Tim W. Brown, Deconstruction Acres, page 112:
text: The main character is a disturbed young man who roams Pittsburgh by night, chemically sedating his victims with a syringe before razorblading their wrists and drinking their blood.
ref: 2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:
glosses: Alternative spelling of razor-blade.
filabuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filabusters
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of filibuster.
aleatoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪliːəˈtɔəɹɪk/
enpr: ālēətôəʹrĭk
Forms: form: more aleatoric
form: most aleatoric
Etymology: From Latin āleātōrius (see aleatory) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having an element of chance.
examples: text: aleatoric music
text: Some artists, like John Cage, have adopted aleatoric methods of composition in order to remove any trace of authorial expression from their work.
ref: 2005, Noël Carroll, “Formalism”, in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (Master e-book IBSN 0203991923), page 89
topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to works that have been produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).
Derived terms: aleatorically
Related terms: aleatoricism
aleatory
cutover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cut-over
Etymology: From cut + over.
Senses: glosses: Having been cleared of valuable timber.
cutover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutovers
form: cut-over
Etymology: From cut + over.
Senses: glosses: An area of cutover land.
glosses: The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
examples: text: After the heat coils were pulled on the old main frame, the remaining step was merely to pull the wooden plugs on the new switchboard by the strings attached to them (which are bunched together) upon a signal given from the old terminal room, indicating the removal of the heat coils above mentioned. By this means the cut-over was accomplished almost momentarily, the process occupying not over two seconds’ time.
ref: 1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 2, number 7, page 18:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
glosses: Any process of quickly replacing a machine or system so as to minimize downtime.
murabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muraba
muraba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murabas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of murabba.
Conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conservatives
Senses: examples: text: "Avanti has literally broken records over the last six months for delays and cancellations, and the Conservatives' answer is to reward failure with millions more in taxpayer cash," said Labour Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of "rewarding Avanti's failure"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
A member of the Conservative party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
glosses: pertaining to Conservative Judaism
Synonyms: sense: member of the UK Conservative Party
word: Tory
sense: member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada
word: Blue
Derived terms: word: Progressive Conservative
word: Liberal-Conservative
word: small-c conservative
word: big-C Conservative
Related terms: Liberal
kaolinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kaolinizes
form: kaolinizing
form: kaolinized
form: kaolinized
Etymology: From kaolin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into kaolin.
flamant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flambant
form: flammant
Senses: examples: text: Sr Andrew Flamocke. [...] Crest -- A tree ragulée Vert flamant Gules.
ref: 1885, Walter Charles Metcalfe, A Book of Knights … 1566 [to] 1698, page 81:
text: 75th Air Depot Wing 750 AIR / On a shield Or, a stylized aircraft Azure, throughout, in pale, thereon a sword Argent, flamant Gules, fimbriated Or,[…]
ref: 2001, Judy G. Endicott, The USAF in Korea: Campaigns, Units, and Stations, 1950-1953, Department of the Air Force, page 105:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Flaming (typically gules unless another color is specified).
Related terms: inflamed
fileteado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish fileteado, ultimately from Latin filum (“thread”), referring to fine painted lines.
Senses: glosses: A type of artistic drawing and lettering, incorporating brightly coloured stylised lines, flowers and climbing plants, particularly associated with the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
guayabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guayaba
gelatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelato
geles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gele
penalty goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty goals
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
rugby
skating
soccer
sports
glosses: A goal scored from a penalty.
reconstructivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconstructivist
redemptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemption
realisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more realisable
form: most realisable
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of realizable.
subnuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub + nuclear.
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Smaller than or occurring in an atomic nucleus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Smaller than or occurring in a cell nucleus.
other days, other ways
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: People of the past thought and acted differently.
Related terms: other times, other manners
when in Rome, do as the Romans
green around the gills
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green about the gills.
green at the gills
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green about the gills.
green in the gills
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green about the gills.
nuchal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnu.kəl/
ipa: /ˈnju.kəl/
Forms: form: nuchals
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin nuchālis, from nucha + -ālis, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ, “spinal cord”).
Senses: glosses: The back of the neck.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of nuchal translucency scan.
examples: text: Dunn gives a key to a part of this group of Eumeces, based upon the number of nuchals, placing the two American species (he does not consider Eumeces altamirani Dugès) in a group having 14-17 pairs of nuchals;[…].
ref: 1935, The Kansas University Science Bulletin, volume 23, page 105:
text: Growth patterns of clavicles, cleithra, opercles, medial nuchals, dorsal scutes, and pectoral fin ray sections have been compared in white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus.
ref: 2004, B.G. Kapoor, Bhavna Khanna, Ichthyology Handbook, page 248:
text: Scales are weakly differentiated, with head scales flat and smooth, nuchals small and smooth, dorsal scales small and keeled, and tail scales larger ventrally than laterally, without wings.
ref: 2004, Hans-Georg Horn, “6.19: Varanus salvadorii”, in Eric R. Pianka, Dennis R. King, Ruth Allen King, editors, Varanoid Lizards of the World, Indiana University Press, page 236:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A neck scale, especially of a lizard.
Synonyms: sense: back of the neck
word: nape
sense: back of the neck
word: nucha
nuchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnu.kəl/
ipa: /ˈnju.kəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin nuchālis, from nucha + -ālis, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ, “spinal cord”).
Senses: examples: text: What is the differential diagnosis of increased nuchal thickness? Although most fetuses with increased nuchal thickness are normal, the differential diagnosis of increased nuchal thickness includes an increased risk of fetal aneuploidy, particularly trisomy 21.
ref: 2004, Vikram Dogra, Deborah J. Rubens, Ultrasound Secrets, Hanley & Belfus, page 58:
text: Nuchal thickness was the first sonographic marker associated with an increased risk of trisomy 21 in the fetus and is now accepted as the single most sensitive and specific marker for the detection of DS in the second trimester, in high- and low-risk pregnancies.
ref: 2006, A. Antsaklis, “Ultrasonographic soft markers for chromosomal abnormalities”, in Asim Kurjak, Frank A. Chervenak, editors, Textbook of Perinatal Medicine, 2nd edition, Informa Healthcare, page 1192:
text: Many particulars of the nuchal torus region and nuchal plane are preserved (see Caspari, 1991 for further details, our description replies heavily on Caspari's work).
ref: 2006, David W. Frayer, Jan Jelinek, Martin Oliva, Milford H. Wolpoff, “Chapter 9: Aurignacian male crania, jaws and teeth from the Mladeč Caves, Moravia, Czech Republic”, in Maria Teschler-Nicola, editor, Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate: The Mladec Caves and their Remains, Springer, page 220:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the back or nape of the neck.
Derived terms: centronuchal
dorsonuchal
nuchal cord
nuchal scan
occipitonuchal
paranuchal
postnuchal
retronuchal
supranuchal
accosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accost
accosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accostings
Senses: glosses: The act of physically confronting a person.
fuero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfwɛəɹəʊ/
Forms: form: fueros
Etymology: From Spanish fuero, from Latin forum. Doublet of forum.
Senses: glosses: A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
glosses: A custom having the force of law.
glosses: A declaration by a magistrate.
glosses: A place where justice is administered.
glosses: The jurisdiction of a tribunal
palmares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmares
Etymology: From French palmarès.
Senses: examples: text: Tour de France race leader Tadej Pogačar's latest devastating climbing performance on the road to Isola 2000 both put the yellow jersey out of reach for his rivals and simultaneously confirmed that come Sunday evening, barring total disaster, a historic Giro d'Italia-Tour 'double' will be forming part of his palmares.
ref: 2024 July 19, Alasdair Fotheringham, Cycling News:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The record of someone's sporting achievements.
cryosurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosurgeons
Etymology: From cryo- + surgeon.
Senses: glosses: One who performs cryosurgery.
Related terms: cryosurgery
mantou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantou
form: mantous
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 饅頭／馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manju, and manti.
Senses: examples: text: “You sit down and eat mantous and soy milk,” she ordered.
ref: 2010 May, Blossom Kan, Michelle Yu, chapter 16, in Young, Restless, and Broke, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 249:
text: On nous apporta du thé, du riz et des mantous – des petits pains de farine de blé.
ref: 2011, Marc Levy, translated by Sarah Black, “Province of Shaanxi”, in The First Day: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 461:
text: He wished he had more of the mantous that they’d been given in Shanghai. His younger sister couldn’t stop remarking how delicious the Chinese breads were. The mantous had been a welcome change from the muei (Chinese porridge) on which they had been subsisting for so long.
ref: 2017, Julia Lin, “Leaving Manchuria”, in Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man’s Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America, Toronto, Ont.: Mawenzi House, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Chinese steamed bun (without any filling)
Related terms: baozi
durwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durwans
Etymology: From Hindustani دروان (drvān) / दरवान (darvān), from Classical Persian دروان (darwān), from دربان (darbān, “doorkeeper”), from در (dar, “door”) + ـبان (-bān, “keeper, guardian”).
Senses: examples: text: Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days:
text: Outside my retreat, our house was full of relatives and other people. […] Mukundalal the durwan is outside rolling on the ground with the one-eyed wrestler, trying out a new wrestling fall.
ref: 1940, Rabindranath Tagore, “My Boyhood Days”, in Amiya Chakravarty, editor, A Tagore Reader, Boston: Beacon Press, published 1966, page 94:
glosses: A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building.
cottabus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattabus
form: kottabos
Etymology: From Latin cottabus, from Ancient Greek κότταβος (kóttabos).
Senses: glosses: An ancient game played by throwing wine at metal disks or pans, trying to knock them down or make them sink in a basin of water.
chitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪti/
Forms: form: more chitty
form: most chitty
Etymology: From chit (“sprout”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of chits or sprouts.
glosses: Afflicted with warts or pimples.
chitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪti/
Forms: form: more chitty
form: most chitty
Etymology: From chit (“young animal, whelp”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Childish; like a baby.
glosses: Like a pert young girl; impudent.
Derived terms: chitty-face
chitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪti/
Forms: form: chitties
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.
Senses: glosses: A small note, such as a pass or voucher slip; any scrip; a company chit.
chitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪti/
Forms: form: chitties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chetty (“Indian merchant”).
katharobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katharobes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”) + -obe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives in pure water, or water of very low organic content.
Derived terms: katharobic
Related terms: katharometer
Roy G. Biv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹɔɪ d͡ʒiː bɪv/
Forms: form: ROYGBIV
Senses: glosses: An acronym used to remember the color sequence of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
Related terms: Richard of York gave battle in vain
VIBGYOR
Espiritu Santo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪsˈpɪɹɪtu ˈsɑːntəʊ/
Senses: glosses: The largest island of Vanuatu.
galing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gale
digicam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdʒiːkæm/
Forms: form: digicams
Etymology: Originally a trade name, shortening of digital camera, equivalent to digi- + cam.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A digital camera
Assisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the province of Perugia in the Central-Italian region of Umbria.
Derived terms: Assisan
Assisi embroidery
sorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sorites
synonyms: word: sorites
Francfort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Via French Francfort.
Senses: examples: text: FRANCFORT, a city of Germany, ſituated on the confines of Heſſe and Franconia, on both ſides of the river Maine: E. lon. 7° 20′, N. lat. 50° 10′.
Francfort on the Oder, a city of Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and marquiſate of Brandenburgh, ſituated in E. long. 15°, N. lat. 52° 22′.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Frankfurt, either of two major German cities.
Kodimunai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fishing hamlet at the southern tip of India, in Kanyakumari districts, Tamil Nadu, India.
curran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of currant.
surla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surlas
Etymology: A variant of Turkish zurna (“woodwind instrument”), from Classical Persian سرنا (surnā); see there for more. Cognate with English horn, Latin cornu (“horn”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of zurna.
ketone body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketone bodies
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several compounds that are intermediates in the metabolism of fatty acids; principally acetoacetate and acetone (together with hydroxybutyrate which is not a ketone)
flipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipe
flipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flype (“a fold or flap”).
flipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flipes
form: fliping
form: fliped
form: fliped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flype.
sepharose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sepharose.
Baer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
geo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡjəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: geos
Etymology: Borrowed from Norn gjo, from Old Norse gjá.
Senses: glosses: An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.
Related terms: chine
neo-geo
arch-criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-criminals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archcriminal.
ostrobogulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ostrobogulous.
quiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quiff
waus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wau
rasgado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasgados
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of rasgueado.
hand-written
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hand-written
form: most hand-written
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handwritten.
Gordius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Gordius, from Ancient Greek Γόρδιος (Górdios).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gordias.
nematoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nematoid
form: most nematoid
Etymology: From nematode + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a nematode.
nematoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematoids
Etymology: From nematode + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Nematoida clade, that is Nematoda or Nematomorpha
cassapanca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassapancas
form: cassepanche
Etymology: From Italian cassapanca.
Senses: glosses: A cassone with a high panelled back and sometimes a footrest; a kind of Italian settle.
cassone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassones
form: cassoni
Etymology: From Italian cassone. Doublet of caisson and cajón.
Senses: examples: text: There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 107:
text: On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.
ref: 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 45:
glosses: A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
castellani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castellanus
consensually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consensually
form: most consensually
Etymology: From consensual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a consensual manner.
Derived terms: nonconsensually
penny wise and pound foolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penny wise and pound foolish
form: most penny wise and pound foolish
form: penny-wise and pound-foolish
form: penny wise, pound foolish
Etymology: From the British currency (one penny being one hundredth of a pound or, prior to decimalisation, one 240th of a pound).
Senses: examples: text: In the past our government has nowhere been more penny wise and pound foolish than in connection with its expenditures for conservation.
ref: 1942, Harry Elmer Barnes, Society in Transition: Problems of a Changing Age, page 122:
glosses: Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful with large amounts.
Related terms: chase pennies with dollars
false economy
penny-wise
pound-foolish
take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
peccant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛk(ə)nt/
Forms: form: peccants
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Middle French peccant (“unhealthy”) (modern French peccant), and from its etymon Late Latin peccantis, the genitive singular of peccāns (“offending; sinning, transgressing”, adjective), from Latin peccāns (“wrongdoer”), a noun use of the active present participle of peccō (“to offend; to sin, transgress”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to fall; to stumble; to step; to walk”).
As regards sense 3 (“diseased, unhealthy”) as used in peccant humours, compare Middle French l'umeur peccante, humeurs peccantes, Old French humeurs pechantes, and Late Latin humores peccantes.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Yet this conceitedneſſe and Itch of being taken for a Counſellour, maketh more Reprovers, than Peccants in the vvorld.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Ζωοτομία [Zōotomía], or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, page 388:
glosses: An offender; also, a sinner.
partners in crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partner in crime
partner in crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partners in crime
form: partner-in-crime
Senses: glosses: A criminal accomplice.
glosses: A close associate.
parking disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking discs
Senses: glosses: A device placed inside a parked vehicle, indicating either the time of its arrival, or its eligibility to park in a specified place
Related terms: blue badge
parfleche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːflɛʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹflɛʃ/
Forms: form: parfleches
Etymology: French parer + flèche
Senses: examples: text: The boots had pointed toes like buskins and they had parfleche soles and high tops that were rolled down about the knees and tied.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IX, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
glosses: A form of stiff leather made from rawhide.
glosses: A shield, bag or other item made from this material.
parapineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + pineal.
Senses: glosses: Beside the pineal
Derived terms: parapineal organ
parapinopsin
paraphyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: The condition of being paraphyletic
paraphenylenediamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraphenylenediamines
Etymology: From para- + phenylenediamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PPD
glosses: The para- isomer of phenylenediamine.
parking discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking disc
pangene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pangenes
Etymology: Coined by Dutch geneticist Hugo de Vries in 1889, from pangenesis. By surface analysis, pan- + -gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A supposed particle with which heritable character was transmitted during cell division.
Derived terms: gene
Related terms: pangenesis
pangenetic
pangene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: … fargo, craps, draw poker, studhorse poker, pangeni or pangene, twenty-one …
ref: The Butte Miner, 18 April 1925, page 2
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Alternative spelling of panguingue.
archcriminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archcriminal
pancaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpænkeɪkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pancake
paleobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobiologists
Etymology: From paleo- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist whose speciality is paleobiology
nitwittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitwitted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nitwitted.
paleobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobiology
Etymology: From paleo- + biology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals
Derived terms: neuropaleobiology
near-sightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From near-sighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nearsightedness.
noselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noseless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of lacking a nose; being noseless.
cat in the meal-tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cats in the meal-tub
form: cats in meal-tubs
form: cat in the meal tub
Senses: glosses: Something concealed; a hidden danger.
noseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English noseles, equivalent to nose + -less. Compare Dutch neusloos (“noseless”), German nasenlos (“noseless”), Danish næseløs (“noseless”), Swedish näslös (“noseless”).
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, adding a smiley with a nose to a dating profile will win more replies, while adding a noseless smiley will get you less; […]
ref: 2020, Aries Hellen, How to Analyze People:
synonyms: unnosed
antonyms: nosed
glosses: Lacking a nose.
Derived terms: noselessly
noselessness
cat in the meal tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cats in the meal tub
form: cats in meal tubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cat in the meal-tub.
paddywhack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddywhacks
form: paddy-whack
Etymology: Unknown; compare Paddy from Patrick.
Senses: glosses: An Irishman.
glosses: A blow; a slap.
Derived terms: paddywhackery
paddywhack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paddywhacks
form: paddywhacking
form: paddywhacked
form: paddywhacked
form: paddy-whack
Etymology: Unknown; compare Paddy from Patrick.
Senses: glosses: To slap.
paddywhack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddywhacks
form: paddy-whack
Etymology: Deliberate corruption of paxwax.
Senses: glosses: The paxwax (ligament of the neck in quadrupeds).
archmurderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archmurderers
form: arch-murderer
Etymology: From arch- + murderer.
Senses: glosses: One who kills many people; a murderer who surpasses the profile of a normal serial killer.
cross my heart
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Shortened form of cross my heart and hope to die
Senses: glosses: A declaration that the speaker is telling the truth.
Related terms: word: cross one's heart
bean curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean curves
Etymology: So called because the curve has a bean shape.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve with formula x⁴+x²ʸ²+y⁴=x(x²+y²),.
prolamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolamins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of plant storage proteins that have a high proline content, found in cereals.
concentual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Harmonious, in harmony.
consentual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As if consent + -ual
Senses: qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: Alternative spelling of consensual.
Derived terms: consentually
retaliator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retaliators
Etymology: From retaliate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who retaliates.
retaliators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retaliator
reconaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reconnaissance.
rice congee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice congees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of congee.
synonyms: word: congee
overgave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overgive
tea and toaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea and toasters
form: tea-and-toaster
Etymology: From tea and toast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Again, if Father San Browne, tea and toaster to that quaintesttest of yarnspinners is Padre Don Bruno, […]
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 50:
text: The patients with inadequate diet admitted to ingesting a diet usually devoid of folate-rich food such as liver, kidney, and vegetables other than potatoes. Several probably were "tea and toasters."
ref: 1964, B. A. Cooper, L. Lowenstein, “Relative Folate Deficiency of Erythrocytes in Pernicious Anemia and its Correction with Cyanocobalamin,”, in Blood, volume 24, page 505:
text: Older people with poor dietary habits ("tea and toasters") may develop iron deficiency.
ref: 2003, Robert K. Murray et al., Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 586:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person, usually elderly and frail, with a diet lacking in nutrition.
Related terms: tea and toast syndrome
ham-and-egger
tea-and-toaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-and-toasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tea and toaster.
replanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replant
replanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replantings
Senses: glosses: The planting of new plants to replace those that have been harvested.
replants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replant
reinvigoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinvigorations
Etymology: From re- + invigoration.
Senses: glosses: The act or action of reinvigorating.
rowing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowing machines
Senses: glosses: An exercise machine whose action resembles that of rowing a boat.
Synonyms: indoor rower
ergometer
erg
ergo
rowing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowing machine
tight five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight fives
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The five forwards who form the front row and the second row in the scrum.
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A five-minute set of jokes performed by a stand-up comedian, usually made up of only their best material.
Synonyms: front five
elenchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛŋ.kəs/
Forms: form: elenchi
Etymology: From Latin elenchus, from Ancient Greek ἔλεγχος (élenkhos, “refutation, scrutiny, control”). Doublet of elench.
Senses: examples: text: The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that Socrates wishes to examine. The argument then proceeds from premisses that express certain of the interlocutor’s other beliefs to a conclusion that contradicts the original moral claim under scrutiny.
ref: 1991, Thomas c. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, “Socrates’ Elenctic Mission”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume IX, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 131–132:
glosses: A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
Synonyms: Socratic method
Derived terms: elenchize
Related terms: elenctic
dry spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry spells
Etymology: Originated around 1885–1890, from dry + spell (“a period of time”). Compare cold spell.
Senses: examples: text: Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell / Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
ref: 1989, Christopher Ward, David Tyson, “Black Velvet”, performed by Alannah Myles:
text: The rains, it seemed, were over, and a dry spell was upon them […]
ref: 1996, M.G. Vassangi, The Book Of Secrets, page 74:
text: The only place unaffected by the persistent dry spell was the city of Milwaukee […]
ref: 2003, Denise Gess, William Lutz, Firestorm at Peshtigo, page 42:
glosses: A drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time; shorter and not as severe as a drought.
examples: text: The first type is of course the dry spell when you can't think of any ideas. The second type is when kids just have a dry spell in writing.
ref: 1970, Gabriel H. L. Jacobs, When children think, page 31:
glosses: A period or time where there is little activity, productivity, low income etc.
examples: text: There's no telling when the serial dating bug can strike. You may be just getting out of a serious relationship, marriage, or long dry spell. But one thing's for certain: when it does it can become a really hard habit to break.
ref: 2007, Elina Furman, Kiss and Run, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A period of time without sexual intercourse.
Related terms: english: the scent of rain on earth after a dry spell
translation: the scent of rain on earth after a dry spell
word: petrichor
netas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neta
cet. par.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ceteris paribus.
purulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purulencies
Senses: glosses: purulence
protoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoforms
Etymology: From proto- + form.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urform (“basic or original form”).
synonyms: word: urform
extra: basic or original form
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical form of a word, reconstructed from derived words.
postbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postbases
Etymology: From post- + base.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A morpheme used as a suffix following either a base or another postbase.
pogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊɡ/
ipa: /pəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: pogues
Etymology: From Irish póg, from Latin pāx. Doublet of peace.
Senses: examples: text: 'Sure, sure' sayes Nees, 'she does but jeast, It's not de nature of de beast; Praise dee here, mee joly rogue, And gave de [me] one litle Poge For old acquaintance, for it's dee Dat is mee only gra-ma-cree.' 'Kiss mee? Poo! Fart upon dee, Nees!'
ref: c1670, anonymous author, “Purgatorium Hibernicum”, in Andrew Carpenter, editor, Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland, Cork University Press, published 2003, page 416:
text: […] He ask'd for one Pogue, she call'd him a Rogue, And struck him with her Brogue, […]
ref: c1707, Henry Playford, Wit and Mirth: Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to All Humours, Having Each Their Proper Tune for Either Voice, Or Instrument: Most of the Songs Being New Set., volume 4, London: W. Pearson for J. Tonson, page 278:
glosses: A kiss.
pogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊɡ/
ipa: /pəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: pogues
Senses: examples: text: Dicky […] made his best pace to a recess in a back street, there to examine his pogues; for though the uxter was gone from them, they might yet bring a few coppers from Mr Weech, if they were of good quality.
ref: 1896, Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago:
glosses: A purse; hence, money.
glosses: A young, male, passive homosexual.
pogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊɡ/
ipa: /pəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: pogues
Senses: examples: 2002, Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Although he is noteworthy for the staff jobs he does for the commander in chief, Agamemnon, he's no rear-echelon pogue.
topics: government
military
politics
war
related: word: POGUE
antonyms: grunt
glosses: Alternative form of POG (“non-infantry member of the military”).